Research - Projects/Consultancy
Some of the major sponsored research projects of the department are as follows.
| S.No | Title | Sponsoring Agency | PI’s Name | Status |
| 1 | Scalable Strategies Towards Tough & Functional Hydrogels through Controlling of the Chain Conformation and Entanglement followed by Sequential Networking for Soft Electronics Applications | SERB | Dr. Umaprasana Ojha | On-going |
| 2 | Characterization of various scales generated in NALCO Alumina refinery, studies on scale formation and their removal | NALCO-IMMT | Prof. V R Pedireddi | On-going |
| 3 | Design and synthesis of cocrystals/satls of anticancer drugs to improve physicochemical and pharmacokinetic properties: crystal engineering approach | SERB-DST | Prof. V R Pedireddi | On-going |
| 4 | Development of Synthetic Strategies to Diverse N-Heterocyclic Fused ISOXAZOLES: Evaluation of Biological Activities And Photophysical Studies | CSIR-HRDG | Dr. Shantanu Pal | On-going |
| 5 | Identification, synthesis and validation of potential ATAD2 ligands as a therapeutic strategy for stomach cancer | ICMR | Dr. Anasuya Roychowdhury | Completed |
| 6 | C-H, C-O Activation and C1-Platform Chemicals: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies on Two-metal Synergy | SERB | Prof. Sujit Roy | On-going |
| 7 | Multiscale (QM/MM) modelling approach to understand the bacterial resistance towards beta-lactam based antibiotics | DST | Dr. Kousik Samanta | On-going |
| 8 | Metal Complexes of Macrocyclic/ Acyclic Ligands as T1 and ParaCEST-based Contract Agent for MRI | DST | Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh | On-going |
| 9 | Synthesis of Homo, Di and Tri (ABA type) Block Co-polymers of Less Activated Monomers by Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization | DST | Dr. Vijayakrishna Kari | On-going |
| 10 | Functional consequences of cancer testis antigen ATAD2 in pancreatic cancer | DBT | Dr. Anasuya Roychowdhury | On-going |
| 11 | Blending traditional and newer synthetic methods for regio-/stereoselective synthesis of functionalized carbo-/heterocycles: Application towards the asymmetric total synthesis of some complex bioactive terpenoid-alkaloids | DST | Dr. Tabrez Khan | On-going |
| 12 | Design, Preparation and Evaluation of S (Sulphur) and P (Phosphorous) Mediated Functional Solids in the Form of Co-crystals, Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Structures and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) | DST | Prof. V R Pedireddi | Completed |
| 13 | A Novel fluorescence-based assay for rapid detection and quantification of Exosomes | DST | Dr. Srikanta Patra | Completed |
| 14 | Development of heterodimetallic complexes and their theranostic and catalytic aspects | DST-IMPRINT II | Dr. Srikanta Patra | Completed |
| 15 | Development of dppz based mononuclear complexes of iridium and gold as potential luminescent probe and anticancer agent | CSIR | Dr. Srikanta Patra | Completed |
| 16 | Impact of lysine acetylation in Hsp16.3 on its structure, chaperone function and the growth, survival as well as pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis | DST | Dr. Ashish Biswas | Completed |
| 17 | Synthesis of some natural marine pyrrole alkaloids and molecules inspired from them for multi-drug resistance (MDR) Cancer Cells | CSIR | Dr. Tabrez Khan | Completed |
| 18 | Structural studies on the interaction of hc5a with the N-terminus peptides of C5aR and C5L2 receptor | DST | Dr. Soumendra Rana | Completed |
| 19 | Fabrication and characterisation of CVD diamond detectors for plasma diagnostics in nuclear fusion reactors | BRNS | Dr. Satchidananda Rath | Completed |
| 20 | A bound-state electronic structure theory approach to investigate the electron detachment initiated by light | DST | Dr. Kousik Samanta | Completed |
| 21 | Design and Development of heterodimetallic complex of ruthenium iridium and palladium and their chemical and biological aspects | DST | Dr. Srikanta Patra | Completed |
| 22 | Magnetic properties of self-assembled bivalent, trivalent and mixed-valent [2×2] transition metal grids | UGC-DAE | Dr. Akhilesh Ku Singh | Completed |
| 23 | Development of a general synthetic approach directed towards the total synthesis of bioactive iridoid class of terpenoids | DST | Dr. Tabrez Khan | Completed |
| 24 | Design, Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel Ftsz inhibitors a potential anti tubercular agents | DBT | Dr. S pal | Completed |
| 25 | Influence of osmolytes on the structure, dynamics and hydrogen bond properties of water in aquous solution and other aqueous binary mixtures at different thermodynamic conditions | DST | Dr. Snehasis Chowdhuri | Completed |
| 26 | Development of transition metal functionalized gold nanoparticles and their potential applications | CSIR | Dr. Srikanta Patra | Completed |
| 27 | Role of C-terminal Region of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis HSp 16.3 for its structure, stability and Chaperone Function-A Biophysical and site Directed Truncation Study | CSIR | Dr. Ashish Biswas | Completed |
| 28 | Asymmetric synthesis of embellished carbocycles from carbohydrates via intramolecular 1,3 Dipolar cyclloaddition reaction: studies towards total synthesis of naplanosine F. | DST | Dr. S Pal | Completed |
| 29 | Intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrile oxide to embellished bicyclo[2.2.2] octenones ant its derivatives: studies on the synthesis of isotwistane framework of pupukeananes | Utkal University | Dr. S pal | Completed |
| 30 | High-Dimentional (n x n) magnetic grids by polytopic ligand-directed self-assembly | DST | Dr. Akhilesh Ku Singh | Completed |
| 31 | Development of Metal-Heteroscorpionate Ligands Motif and their potential application | DST | Dr. Srikanta Patra | Completed |
| 32 | Catalytic activity of endothelial nitric synthase-a probe into the molecular basis of its electron transfer limitation | DST | Dr. Ashish Biswas | Completed |
| 33 | Structure and Dynamic if Ionic and Molecular solutes in Queous and Non Aqueous Solvents and in their Binary Mixture at Different thermodynamic conditions: A molecular Dynamics simulations study. | CSIR | Dr. S Choudhuri | Completed |