Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, SDSOS
Specialization: Nanoporous materials, Photocatalytic water splitting, CO2photoreduction, Chemical sensing
Research experience:
Dr. Gurudas Mane, received his Ph.D. from Hokkaido University and National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. After Ph.D., he joined Max-Planck Institute, Germany as a post-doctoral fellow and worked on synthesis of tuneable Janus nanoparticles. He has also been awarded with INSPIRE Faculty award (in 2015-2016) by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India to conduct research in materials chemistry at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India. His research outcomes were published in several high impact factor international journals. [1-4] He has more than 6 years of work experience in the synthesis of novel mesoporous materials such as metal doped mesoporous silica, N doped mesoporous carbons, Mesoporous carbon nitrides (MCN), metal doped semiconductors etc., and studied their applications in chemical sensing, photocatalysis. He worked extensively in developing high surface area N doped meosporous carbons from biopolymers, MCNs with different C/N stoichiometry [1,2,4,5] via nanocasting approach, semiconducting metal oxides and Janus nanoparticles [3]. More recently, his research work demonstrated synthesis of novel MCN-8 material which exhibit 3D-porosity with unique chemical structure that offers a band gap of ca 2.2 eV which is significantly smaller than the melamine derived g-C3N4(ca 2.7 eV). The results are quite significant as it helps MCN-8 to achieve extended absorption in visible region and higher rate of H2evolution as compared with traditional g-C3N4. Further research is underway to improve the charge transport properties of MCN-8 and thereby to enhance the efficiency. At present, his group is working on developing highly stable single atom catalyst for CO2 photoreduction and water splitting applications.
Ongoing research activities:
The current research interests include photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to value added products and photocatalytic water splitting by using single atom catalyst materials. The group is also working on elucidating the CO2 adsorption pathways on the nanocatalyst surface and the real mechanism of CO2reduction under standard photocatalytic conditions.
Research areas where faculty is interested in collaboration:
Selected Publications:
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 1-6. [I.F. = 11.709]
2.I. Y. Kim, S. Kim, X. Jin, S. Premkumar, G. Chandra, N.‐S. Lee, G. P. Mane, S.‐J. Hwang, S. Umapathy, A. Vinu, Ordered Mesoporous C3N5 with a Combined Triazole and Triazine Framework and Its Graphene Hybrids for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR)
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 130(52), 17381-17386 (I.F. = 11.709)
Langmuir, 2017, 33, 10561-10567 (I.F. = 3.833)
4. G. P. Mane, S. Talapaneni, C. Anand, S. Varghese, H. Iwai, Q. Ji, K. Ariga, T. Mori and A. Vinu, Preparation of Highly Ordered Nitrogen-Containing Mesoporous Carbon from a Gelatin Biomoleculeand its Excellent Sensing of Acetic Acid.
Adv. Funct. Mater., 2012, 22, 3596-3604. [I.F. = 11.382]
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, 1, 2913-2920. (I.F. = 8.262)
Patents:
1.Preparation of nitrogen rich three dimensional mesoporous carbon nitride and its sensing and photocatalytic properties
Gurudas P. Mane, Ajayan Vinu, Ugo Ravon, Khalid Al-Bahily, US Patent, WO 2018/033829 Al WIPO (PCT), 22 February 2018.
2.Mesoporous carbon nitride material comprising monomeric units of 3-amimo-1,2,4, -triazole and urea
Ajayan Vinu, Gurudas P. Mane, Ugo Ravon, Khalid Al-Bahily, US Patent, WO2018037320A1 WIPO (PCT), 01 March, 2018.
PhD students:
1. Ms. Rashmi Nautiyal
Title of project:
Atomically dispersed active metal sites on highly porous carbon nitride catalyst for direct energy conversion.
2.Mrs. Anushree Chaturvedi
Title of the project:
Designing efficient [g-C3N5-cocatalyst] nano-composites for photocatalytic hydrogen generation