Mr. Mahak Dhiman, PhD student of NanoCat Lab, received best Oral Presentation in Nanomaterial session of 7th Asia-Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT7), on Jan 21, 2017.

He presented his recent results on "Organosilane Oxidation with a Half Million Turnover Number using Fibrous Nanosilica Supported Ultrasmall Nanoparticles and Pseudo-Single Atoms of Gold", now published in J. Mat. Chem. A. 2017, 5, in press, doi 10.1039/c6ta09434a.

Prof. Polshettiwar has been awarded prestigious “Bronze Medal” by Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) ​for 2017.

NanoCat groups work appeared in Indian Express News paper: Putting carbon dioxide back to work

Rustam Singh received best poster award in ICONSAT 2016 organized by IISER, Pune and DST, Nanomission. He presented his recent work on, “TiO2 coated KCC-1 for photocatalysis: Nanoparticle formation and quantum confinement effect”.
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ICONSAT is considered as India’s THE best conference in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. And this year organizers (IISER, Pune) took it to the next level.

Postdoc position is available to talented and highly motivated individuals,

Candidate should have expertise in some of the below topics;
1. Catalysis (supported/heterogeneous/nano etc)
2. Nano-material synthesis
3. Photo-catalysis
4. DSSC
5. CO2 capture-conversion

Interested candidates may send his/her CV with a covering letter (one single PDF) to Prof. Vivek Polshettiwar vivekpol@tifr.res.in 

​ Mr. Rustam Singh​ received best poster award in 4th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterial and Nanotechnology (ICANN-2015), one of the best nano-conference in India, organized by IIT, Guwahati during Dec 8-11, 2015.