DR. GURUDAS P. MANE

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-C₃N_4. 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:

We are open for collaboration in the field of energy storage, solar fuels and chemical sensors.
We are also looking for collaborators working on CO₂ adsorption/separation process and Mechanistic aspect of CO₂ reduction by in-situ approach.
Research groups who are working in multifunctional nanoporous composite materials.

Selected Publications:

G. P. Mane, S. N. Talapaneni, K. S. Lakhi, H. Ilbeygi, U. Ravon, K. Al-Bahily, T. Mori, D.-H. Park, A. Vinu. Highly Ordered Nitrogen-Rich Mesoporous Carbon Nitrides and Their Superior Performance for Sensing and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation

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)

Gurudas Mane, Jeganathan Akilavasan, Emmanouil Passas-Lagos, and Frank Marlow, Site-selective TiO2 Coating on Asymmetric Patchy Particles,

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]

G. P. Mane, D. S. Dhawale, C. Anand, K. Ariga, Q. Ji, M. A. Wahab, T. Mori and A. Vinu, Selective sensing performance of mesoporous carbon nitride with a highly ordered porous structure prepared from 3-amino-1,2,4-triazine

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