School of Natural Sciences
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Chemistry driven by delocalized molecular motions
Chemical reactions are often conceptualized by making and breaking one bond at a time. The idea of localized bond alterations inhibits intuitive thinking about the structure as a whole. The Dasgupta group is focusing on creating a theme using collective motions existing in the molecular structure to drive selective and efficient chemistry...
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Biocompatible Hydroxyapatite Nanotubes
Hydroxyapatite (HAp) Hollow Nanotubes – Electron Mapping and Electron Diffraction unequivocally confirm that each tube is in fact having the specific stoichiometry of HAp.…..
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Materials for Nanocatalysis
We have developed new kind of fibrous silica nanospheres. The material exhibits excellent physical properties, including a high surface area, a fibrous surface morphology, good thermal and mechanical stability. Material was found to be very useful as a support for development of nano-catalysts and sorbents, wherein accessibility of active sites was increased significantly.
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Turn-on Sensors for in vivo Imaging
The quest for unraveling fundamental biological pathways relies heavily upon the ability to precisely visualize strategic molecular players in vivo. Our group works at the interface of synthetic chemistry, molecular biology, and imaging, to develop molecular probes which give a specific ‘ON’ response only in presence of the bio-molecule of interest....
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Formation of Functional Inorganic Structures for Energy Capture, Storage, Conversion (and also for Drug Delivery)
The architecture of inorganic structures (specially on the nanoscale) has become an important parameter (in addition to the stoichiometry) that can be manipulated....
About the Department
Scientists at the DCS explore the link between living systems and the physical laws that govern nature. They study molecules ranging in size as small as water and as large as a virus. The laws that govern interaction in molecules are best studied in well-defined and isolated small molecules. This information becomes applicable to design novel materials with exotic properties, of value to chemical and solar energy industries and to medical applications. To understand working of biological systems, studies are made on structure, dynamics and function of biological molecules. TIFR is a leader in state-of-the-art experimental techniques such as high field NMR, ultrafast lasers and single molecule methodologies.
News & events
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Mr. Rohit won the 1st prize in Poster competition at 'Interdisciplinary conference in Materials Chemistry' held at BARC.
Mr. Rohit from Prof. Deepa Khushalani's group won 1st Prize for poster presentation at the "9th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Materials Chemistry" held at BARC Mumbai during December 7-10, 2022
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11TH "FUTURE OF CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM" on November 14, 2022 (2.30 - 7.30 pm on zoom platform)
For detailed schedule please click here
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Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for the year 2020 to Prof. Polshettiwar
Prof. Polshettiwar has been awarded Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for the year 2020 by Nano Mission, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He received the award during International Conference on Nano S&T (ICONSAT-2020) during 5-7 March, 2019 at Kolkata.
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Congratulations to Khushalani and her group members for recognition of their research efforts!
- Best Poster Prize to Dr. Ashish Nadar (PDF in Khushalani Group) at Nano 2020 held in Bangalore in March 2020
- Invited Review article exclusively detailing work from Khushalani lab was showcased in ACS Langmuir along with the Front Cover for the print issue: Langmuir 2019, 35, 9101-9114
Best Poster Prize to Ashish Nadar at Nano 2020 held in Bangalore
Calendar
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Seminar by Dr. Rikhia Ghosh, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, USA, on January 17, 2023 at 11.00 1m in AG-80
Title : Emergent Behavior of Living Matter: Different Pathways of Liquid Condensate Engulfment and Endocytosis by Membrane
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Seminar by Dr. Rikhia Ghosh, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, USA, on January 16, 2023 at 4.00 pm in AG-69
Title : Structural and Dynamical Organization of Biomolecules: What are the Molecular Rules?
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Seminar by Dr. Apoorva Badaya, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR Mumbai, on January 9, 2023 at 4.00 pm in AG-69
Title : Generating the charge transfer spectral profile of entire proteins
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Seminar by Ms. Rishika Aggrawal, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad on January 4, 2023 at 5.00 pm via Zoom Platform
Title : Steady-State and Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopic Studies to Probe Physicochemical Processes in Various Self-Assembled Molecular Systems
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Seminar by Dr. Sudarshan Vijay, Department of Materials Science, University of California Berkeley, USA on January 3, 2023 at 2.00 pm in AG-69
Title : Effect of the electrode-electrolyte interface on the activity of a heterogeneous catalyst: developing and applying new methods