The Division pursues interdisciplinary R&D to convert industrial and different E-wastes into value-added materials and technologies for healthcare, strategic, and environmental applications. Key focus areas include transforming red mud into radiation shielding materials and fly ash into multiple functional materials under Waste to Wealth initiative, secured landfill and leachate studies, environmental pollution & monitoring studies and solar waste recycling. In environmental monitoring, the Division develops SODAR systems for air pollution management and SERS approaches for pollutants detection. Advanced materials research targets 2D nanomaterials for electrochemical biosensors, carbon-based microbial fuel cells for simultaneous wastewater treatment and energy generation, and electrocatalysts for HER, OER, ORR and CO2 bio-electro reduction to value-added products like formic acid and methane. In biomedical innovation, the Division works on electrochemical immunosensors for early diagnostics of breast, ovarian, oral cancers and infectious diseases; microfluidic platforms for antimicrobial susceptibility testing; and 3D bioprinting for biomedical patches.
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Through sustainable design, validation, and scalable deployment, the Division delivers indigenous, eco-friendly solutions with cost-effective impact across industrial, societal and healthcare sectors.
| शोध क्षेत्र /Research Area: |
- Development of advanced radiation shielding materials
- Flexible and transparent radiation shielding polymer composites
- Industrial waste utilization: Waste to Materials
- Coal ash (pond ash & flyash) aggregates and zeolites
- Development of advanced geopolymer/polymer based coating materials
- Synthesis of efficient electrocatalysts for energy generation\
- Design, development and upgradation of SODAR (Sound Detection and Ranging) system for air quality management
- Noise mapping, remote sensing, satellite data retrieval
- Building material design/development and acoustical characterization for noise mitigation
- Solar waste recycling
- Development of SERS sensors for Environmental monitoring
- Pollutants’ detection techniques
- Point-of-Care (POC) diagnostics & healthcare monitoring
- Microfluidics based devices for antimicrobial susceptibility testing in clinical samples
- Electrochemical characterization and analysis of nanomaterials and biosensors
- Fluorescence-based biosensors and biomedical applications
- 3D Bioprinter based Biomaterials for biomedical applications
- Development of low-cost soot-derived carbon nano-onion electrodes
- Waste-to-wealth technologies for clean energy and wastewater treatment
- CO₂ Bio-electroreduction to value-added products
- Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC/MEC)
- Electrocatalysis (HER, OER, ORR)
- Urea and Hydrazine oxidation
- Graphitic nanomaterials and MXenes
| लक्ष्य / उद्देश्य / Goals / Objectives: |
Develop indigenous, eco-friendly materials and sensors through sustainable design, validation and scalable deployment, targeting industrial, societal and biomedical applications with cost-effective impact.
| उल्लेखनीय उपलब्धियां / Notable Achievements: |
Know-How/ Technology:
- Lead free X-ray shielding red mud tiles
- Gamma and neutron shielding bricks.
- Indigenous SODAR (Sound Detection and Ranging) system
- Acoustical Lightweight Interior Dry Wall Panel for High Sound Insulation
| S. No. | Title | Inventors | Patent No. / Application No. | Country |
| 1. | A monostatic SODAR (Sound Detection and Ranging) System for air quality management and method thereof | Kirti Soni, M. Singh, N. Kumar, Md. Akram Khan | Application number: 202611033603 | India |
| 2. | Reduced Graphene Oxide/Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride-Co-Hexafluoropropylene) Sponge: Preparation And Application Thereof | Pradip Kumar, Shilpee Chauhan, Shiv Singh | Application number:
202511086178 |
India |
| 3. | Lead free red mud based X-ray shielding tiles | Shabi Thankaraj Salammal, Sanghi Sunil Kumar, Deepti Mishra, Rini Paulose, Varsha Agrawal, Rahul Arya, Akshay Singh Tomar, Rathore S K S, Avanish Kumar Srivastava | 428365 | India |
| 4. | High dense red mud shields for X and γ- rays attenuation | Shabi Thankaraj Salammal, Deepti Mishra, Sunil Kumar Sanghi, Rini Paulose, Varsha Agrawal, Rahul Arya, Sriram Sathaiah, Rathore S K S, Avanish Kumar Srivastava. | WO 2022/054094A1 | India, Australia, China, Brazil, Guinea, Europe and USA |
| 5. | Advanced Inorganic – Organic Geopolymeric Corrosion Protective Coating Material for Mild Steel | Deepti Mishra, Rainy Gupta, Akshay Singh Tomar, Sunil Kumar Sanghi, Thankaraj Salammal Shabi, Mohd.Akram Khan, Archana Singh, V. Sorna Gowri, S.K.S Rathore, Avanish Kumar Srivastava | 566172 | India |
| 6. | A Nano Phosphatic Hybrid Geopolymeric Corrosion Resistant Coating Material and a Method of Preparation thereof” | Sudhir Sitaram Amritphale, Deepti Mishra, Archana Singh, Avneesh Anshul, Satyabrata Das | US 9,938,414 B2 | USA |
| 7. | Process for the preparation of geopolymeric functional materials in a solid form | Sudhir Sitaram Amritphale, Manish Mudgal, Ramesh Kumar Chouhan, Deepti Mishra, Navin Chandra | US9266783B2 | USA |
| 8. | Composition for advanced hybrid geopolymeric functional materials and a process for the preparation thereof | S.S. Amritphale, Deepti Mishra, R.K. Chouhan, Manish Mudgal, Mohd. Akram Khan, Swati Lahiri, S.S. Amritphale, Navin Chandra, B.K. Mishra | US 9,120,701 B2 | USA |
| 9. | A Packed Bed Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) to Treat Wastewater in Continuous Mode” | Komal Pandey, Priyanka Gupta, Nishith Verma and Shiv Singh | 429748 | India |
| 10. | Nickel Oxide Anchored Graphitic Carbon Nanofiber for Embedded Sensing, Fabrication and Application Thereof | Shiv Singh, Smriti Mishra, Pradip Kumar, Sheelendra Pratap Singh, Baban Kumar Bansod, Dehi Pada Mondal, Mohammed Akram Khan | 202411053210 | India |
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