Members
Ph.D. Students
Paidi Hemanth Kumar
Hemanth Kumar pursued his M.Tech. degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal, India and B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Institute of Technology Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chattisgarh, India. His M.Tech. project was on “Effect of grain refiner and modifier on mechanical properties of A356 aluminium alloy” in CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, India. At NPML, he is working on the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthesis of 2-D materials like graphene, MoS2 and crystal growth of porous materials on these 2D materials. He is also interested in carrying out in-situ liquid cell TEM studies.
email: ms22resch01002@iith.ac.in
Aditya Yadav
Aditya is a PMRF student who is working on the synthesis of graphdiyne membranes for separation applications. He holds a Master's degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India and bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Shivaji University, Maharashtra, India. After his master's he worked on a project in the Polymer Science & Engineering department at CSIR - National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. He is enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. programme at IITH with Dr. Deepu J. Babu and Dr. Venkata Rao Kotagiri.
email: ms22resch01002@iith.ac.in
Rayapuram Shiva Ganesh
Ganesh completed his bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Calicut, Kerala. Later he joined IIT Hyderabad for his Master’s degree in Materials science and Metallurgical Engineering. Currently, he is pursuingPh.D. at Nanoporous lab in the Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering Department. His Ph.D. thesis is on Gas separation of Olefin/Paraffin using Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Membranes. Recently, he was awarded PMRF by the Ministry of Education (MOE).
email: ms22resch11004@iith.ac.in
Girada Narendrakumar
Girada Narendrakumar completed his Master's (M.Sc.) in chemistry with specialisation in organic chemistry from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh and Bachelor's degree (B.Sc.) from Andhra Pradesh Residential Degree College (APRDC), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. He is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. programme at IITH with Dr. Deepu J. Babu and Dr. Venkata Rao Kotagiri. He will be working on the development of porous organic polymers for CO2 capture.
email: id23resch11004@iith.ac.in
Asha Shende
Asha did her Master's in Environmental Science & Technology from NIT Durgapur, West Bengal and Bachelor's from Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra. Her master’s thesis topic was “Green synthesis of Ag/ZnO-coated Activated Carbon using Acacia Auriculiformis for removal of lead from aqueous medium”. She is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from IIT Hyderabad under the supervision of Dr Pritha Chatterjee and Dr Deepu J. Babu. She will be working on Carbon Capture using Electrochemical methods.
email:ce23resch11003@iith.ac.in
Master Students
Archit Wargantiwar
Archit completed his Bachelor’s (B.E) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering with Minors in Mechanical Engineering from G H Raisoni College of Engineering (Autonomous), Nagpur, Maharashtra and is currently pursuing Master’s (M.Tech.) in Semiconductor Materials and Devices at IIT Hyderabad. His research focuses on CVD Synthesis and Characterization of 2D Materials.
email: sd22mtech14005@iith.ac.in
B.Tech. Students
S. Shruthi
S Shruthi is an exchange student from the National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, currently in her final year pursuing B.Tech in Material Sciences and Engineering. She has previously worked on "Precise Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Copper Nanoclusters for Cell Culture Substrate" as a part of a mini project in 6th semester. Now at NPML, she is focused on optimising the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of MoS2 on glass substrates.
email: ms23btncl11004@iith.ac.in
Rishitha Mudunuri
Rishitha.M is currently in her pre-final year pursuing B.Tech. in Materials science and Metallurgical Engineering. She has previously worked on "the grain growth analysis of HPT processed AlCoCrNi with respect to temperature and time" as a part of her summer project. At NPML, she is working on CVD synthesis of 2D heterostructures
email: ms21btech11022@iith.ac.in
Interns
Gowri Babu
Gowri Babu pursued her Bachelor's degree (B.Sc) in Chemistry from Alphonsa College, Pala, Kerala. She is currently pursuing her Master's (M.Sc) in Inorganic Chemistry from School of Chemical Science,Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. At NPML, she is working on the development of nanoporous materials for water harvesting applications.
email: gowribabulal@gmail.com
Chandana Reghu
Chandana Reghu graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Union Christian College in Aluva, Kerala. She is currently enrolled at M.G. University in Kottayam, Kerala, to pursue a master's degree in inorganic chemistry. She is now working in the synthesis of graphynes.
email: chandanareghu172@gmail.com
Nila S.
Nila completed her Bachelor's (B.Sc.) in Chemistry from Providence women's college, Calicut, Kerala and is currently pursuing her Master's (M.Sc.) in Inorganic Chemistry at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. Currently she is working on Metal-Organic frameworks (MOFs) as a solid sorbents for carbon capture.
email: nilasalin01@gmail.com
Alumni
Name
- Neethu Varghese
- Shaz Ali Javed
- Anupama M. S.
- Adarsh
- Saumya More
- Ashkar Ali Bapputty
Role @ NPML
- Research Assistant
- M.Tech. project
- M.Sc. project
- Summer intern
- SURE intern
- M.Sc. project
Current position
- Ph.D. student at University of Genoa
- Takasago Fluidic systems, Japan
- MSc. at MG university
- B.Tech. at NIT, Calicut
- B.Tech. at VNIT, Nagpur
- MSc. at MG university