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Somdatta Rudra won the Best Oral Presentation award entitled as “ Glycopolymer-grafted-Silica Nanoparticles : Temperature Responsive Binding with Lectin” at CHEMFEST 2023.

Sourav Jana won the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) on February 2023.

Prof. Tushar Jana, elected as Vice-President of The Executive Committee of SPSI-2023-2024 on January 2023

Prof. Tushar jana, elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) on November 2022

Nilanjan Mukherjee won the best poster award entitled 'Tailor-made poly (N-vinyl triazole-b-N-vinyl imidazole) grafted MWCNT: Nanofiller for Proton Conducting Membranes’ at SPSI-MACRO held at NCL Pune on November 2022.

Ritu Saraswat won the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) on October 2022

Bantumelli Prasannatha won the best poster award entitled 'Biodegradable Polyhydroxyurethane as Electrocatalyst for Water Splitting' at SPACE symposium held at IICT Hyderabad on Sept 2022 .

Mr. Harilal got Post Doc position at DTU August 2022 onwards.

Ms. Somdatta Rudra got best poster entitled Fluorinated polymer brush grafted silica nanoparticles : a self-cleaning surfaceaward at at Chemfest 2022 which was held at University of Hyderabad, April, 2022.

Harilal submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated February, 2022) entitled Novel polybenzimidazoles for the development of proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

A patent (Patent No. 380856) has been granted by the Intellectual Property India, Gov. of India for our invention entitled Process for the Synthesis of 4-(dimethylsilane)-alkylferrocene. A big Congratulation to the Inventors: Bikash and Prof. Jana. Few press clips among several that have appeared on this work:

Prof. Tushar Jana has been selected as fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology (WAST) in December 2021.

Moumita Dhara submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated July, 2021) entitled Polymers with Pendant Ferrocenyl units as Burn Rate Catalyst and Redox Responsive Material.

Mr. Anupam Das got best Oral presentation award for his work entitled Proton Exchange Membrane of Polybenzimidazole Loaded with porous MOF & POP" at Chemfest 2021 which was held at University of Hyderabad, March 19-20th, 2021.

Rambabu Koyilapu submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated July, 2020) entitled Blends and Nanocomposites of Polybenzimidazole to Develop Proton Exchange Membranes.

A patent (Patent No. 333215) has been granted by the Intellectual Property India, Gov. of India for our invention entitled Hydroxyl Terminated Polybutadiene (HTPB) based Polyurethanes. A big Congratulation to the Inventors: Bikash, Moumita and Prof. Jana. Few press clips among several that have appeared on this work:

Billa Narasimha Rao submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated March, 2019) entitled Polyurethanes from functionalized polybutadienes and amino acids.

Prof. Tushar Jana has been awarded with the prestigious Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) for the year 2019.

Prof. Tushar Jana has been selected one among five faculty for the University of Hyderabad Chancellors Award for the year 2018

Sana Bala Konda Reddy submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated June, 2018) entitled Imidazole based polymers as ion exchange membranes.

Mr. Billa Narasimha Rao got first prize in Wisdom Contest at Advances in Polymer Science & Technology which was held at New Delhi, November 23-25th, 2017.

K. S. N. Raju submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated Dec, 2016) entitled Development of polymeric nanostructures using RAFT polymerisation.

Mr. Billa Narasimha Rao got best poster presentation award for his work entitled Role of electrostatic interactions in organizing phase & shape memory of ferrocene functionalized HTPB polyurethanes at Chemfest 2016 which was held at University of Hyderabad, March 18-19th, 2016.

Mr. K S N Raju got best Oral presentation award for his work entitled One pot method for the synthesis of glyconanoparticles with tunable core-shell morphology via RAFT polymerization at National Seminar on Advances in Polymeric Materials (NSAPM-2016) which was held at Srikrishnadevaraya University, Ananthapur, India from 05-06th February, 2016.

Mr. Kishor Raghunath Pawar got best poster presentation award for his work entitled Vesicular and micellar assembly: Thermo and pH responsive behaviour of amphiphilic diblock copolymers in aqueous solution at National Seminar on Advances in Polymeric Materials (NSAPM-2016) which was held at Srikrishnadevaraya University, Ananthapur, India from 05-06th February, 2016.

Kuruma Malkappa submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated 31st Dec, 2015) entitled Studies of polybutadiene diol based water dispersible polyurethanes and their nanocomposites.

Shuvra Singha submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated 31st Dec, 2015) entitled Polybenzimidazole based blends and nanocomposites for use in PEM and microbial fuel cells.

Mr. K S N Raju got best poster presentation award for his work entitled Glyconanoparticles with tunable core-shell morphology via RAFT polymerization at International conference on Advancements in polymer science and technology (APA 2015) which was held at Saurashtra University, Rajkot, India from 29-31st October, 2015.

Mr. K S N Raju got best poster presentation award for his work entitled Role of Ionic Co-monomer in Polystyrene-Graphene Oxide (PS/GO) Nanocomposites Synthesis Using RAFT Polymerization at National Symposium on Polymers and Coatings (NSPC-2014) which was held at IICT, Hyderabad, India from April 25-26, 2014.

Niranjan Yeole got placed in Dolcera, Hyderabad in June 2014.

Sudhangshu Maity got placed in TATA Group of Companies, Pune in May 2014.

Sudhangshu Maity submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated 30th Dec, 2013) entitled Synthesis and studies of Novel Polybenzimidazole with improved properties for proton exchange membrane.

Mousumi Hazarika submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated 11th Dec, 2012) entitled Blends and Nanocomposites of sulfonated Polystyrene and Polybenzimidazole.

Sandip Ghosh submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated 23rd June, 2011) entitled Studies of Aryl Ether Linked Polybenzimidazole for Use in Fuel Cell.

Dr. D. Arunbabu got post-doctoral position in University of McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Dr. Arindam Sannigrahi got post-doctoral position in Lund University, Sweden.

Arunbabu submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated 11th Nov., 2010) entitled Synthesis of Charged Polystyrene Colloids and Polymer Hydrogel Photonic Mercury Sensor.

Arindam submitted Ph.D. thesis (dated 5th July, 2010) entitled Copolymerization, Aggregation and Thermoreversible Gelation of Polybenzimidazoles.

Arunbabu received the Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Advances in Polymer Science & Technology (Poly - 2008) organized by the Asian Polymer Association during January 28-31 at IIT, New Delhi.