Welcome to the Functional Materials Lab. Research in our lab includes fabrication of porous organic materials (POPs, COFs, organic cages and macrocycles), nanomaterials (organic/ inorganic/hybrids), and small organic luminogens, their self-assembly and applications in biology, catalysis, water purification and energy storage.

(Ph.D. positions available)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Microporous organic ladder polymer with vertically aligned quinones for sodium-ion battery

Suprabhat Sarkar, Tapas Kumar Dutta, Krishnendu Jana, Balaji Prasad Mandal, and Abhijit Patra*

Small, 2024, 2407756. (Link)

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