Our approach mostly depends on creating porosity in functional organic and inorganic materials by soft and hard templating approaches and their extensive characterization.

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Kamals group Advanced Functional Nanomaterials
Our approach mostly depends on creating porosity in functional organic and inorganic
materials by soft and hard templating approaches and their extensive characterization.
Especially we are interested in the synthesis of porous metal oxides and organic/ metal oxide
nanocomposites to obtain several heterostructures. In addition building the organic porous
network by reacting special tectonsthrough several C-C coupling reactions for eg.,Covalent
Organic Frameworks (COFs) and Conjugated Micro-/Meso-porous Polymers(CMPs) or
avoiding their packing in such a way that it opens up the porosity, for eg.,Polymers of
Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs).
Research Interest
Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications like water
splitting, CO2 conversion, gas storage, fine chemicals production, photovoltaics, fuel cells
and batteries. My approach mostly depends on creating porosity in functional organic and
inorganic materials by soft and hard templating approaches and their extensive
characterization.
Technology development/Initiation
“Development of prototype large scale hydrogen generation setup using mesoporous carbon
nitrides in natural sunlight”, TU Berlin, Germany. Energy Technology, 2015, 3, 1014.
CONTACT US
Dr. Kamalakannan Kailasam
Scientist E/ Associate Professor
Phone : +919501645711
Email : kamal@inst.ac.in
Address : Institute of Nano Science and Technology,
Habitat Centre, Phase- 10,
Sector- 64 Mohali, Punjab – 160062