Since its inception in 2008, the Department of Chemistry at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus has earned a strong reputation in both national academia and the global research community. The department is devoted towards high-quality teaching and cutting-edge research in various fields of chemistry. Our ‘Vision’ as well as ‘Mission’ is to excel in teaching, innovative research and industry engagement and to disseminate the same in order to become a world leader in the field of chemistry and allied interdisciplinary areas. The Department offers the Integrated M.Sc. program at the first degree level (dual degree with engineering program). At higher degree level, the department offers M. Phil. and Ph. D. program. In recent years, the department has enhanced its industry-academia partnerships via offering Work Integrating Learning Program (WILP) courses. The primary research thrust areas of the department include, but not exclusive to, synthetic organic chemistry, green chemistry, medicinal chemistry, bio-inorganic chemistry, chemical biology, nanomaterials, polymers, molecular materials, self-assembly, environmental analytical chemistry, solid state chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, electrochemistry, laser spectroscopy, photochemistry and computational chemistry. Equipped with cutting-edge research facilities and extensive library resources, such as e-journals, the department is committed in maintaining its high standards of excellence in academic and research activities in the years ahead.
The Department of Chemistry at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus is devoted towards teaching and research. Some of our major research thrust areas include green chemistry, nano materials, polymers, bio-inorganic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, environmental analytical chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry and computational chemistry.
To excel in teaching/learning, innovative research and industry engagement and to disseminate the same in order to become a world leader in our department and allied interdisciplinary areas.
Our Mission is to excel in teaching/learning, innovative research and industry engagement and to disseminate the same in order to become a world leader in our department and allied interdisciplinary areas.
The Department offers M.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. programmes in Chemistry
The research in the Department of Chemistry, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus includes the following research areas.
Materials Chemistry, Solid State Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Computational Chemistry, Photocatalysis, Electrocatalysis, Laser Spectroscopy, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Crystal Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, and Nanochemistry.
Ph.D. Topic - Exploring materials for catalysis and sensing-based applications.
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Nilanjan Dey ,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. B.M. Reddy,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Organic synthesis
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. K V G Chandra Sekhar,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Implementation of Ionic Liquids in Crystallization Protocol and Mechanosynthesis of Cocrystals: Applications in Organic Crystal Engineering
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Arijit Mukherjee ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Development of inorganic-organic hybrid material for efficient energy storage applications.
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Chanchal Chakraborty ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Thorough physicochemical characterization of surfactant and polymer-based systems with potential pharmaceutical applications
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Subit Kumar Saha,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Subit Kumar Saha,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Development of solid acid catalysts and applications in organic synthesis
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Sounak Roy ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Computational Modelling of Excited State Properties of Molecules for OLED Applications
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Pralok Kumar Samanta,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Facile generation of vinylene-linked small and polymeric pie-conjugated material for real life application
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Manab Chakravarty,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Judiciously Designed Organic Fluorophores for Multiphase Detection of Biogenic Amines to Monitor the Freshness of Food
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Manab Chakravarty,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Design, In-Silico Studies, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Heterocyclic Compounds as SIRTuin Activators and Inhibitors.
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. K V G Chandra Sekhar,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Supramolecular Chemistry and Fluorescence Sensing
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Nilanjan Dey ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Synthesis of small Heterocyclic molecule and their application
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Anupam Bhattacharya,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Fluorescent Sensor for Real Life Application.
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Nilanjan Dey ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Development of fluorescent sensors for the detection of human serum albumin and other analytes of biological significance.
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Anupam Bhattacharya,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Study of Orthogonal Analytical Techniques for Assessing Physico-chemical Sameness and Quantative Analysis of Some Complex Activite Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. K V G Chandra Sekhar,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Development of Novel Fluoroalkylation Reactions for the Synthesis of New Classes of Medicinally Potential Fluoroalkylated Molecules
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Tanmay Chatterjee ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Nanoarchitectonics for Oxygen Reduction Reaction kinetics Impacting Proton Exchange membrane Fuel Cells.
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Chanchal Chakraborty ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Jayanty Subbalakshmi,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Ramakrishnan Ganesan,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Investigating heterogenous catalysis on bimetallic alloy nanostructures by in-situ SERS measurement
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Amit Nag ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Sensor Materials
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Chanchal Chakraborty ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Molecular Dynamics simulations of clay and its properties
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Durba Roy ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Anti-Tubercular and PCOS
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. K V G Chandra Sekhar,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Anti TB and Anti Cancer
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. K V G Chandra Sekhar,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - photocatalytic semiconductor heterojunctions exhibiting highly efficient photo disinfection charecteristics
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Ramakrishnan Ganesan,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Design and Synthesis of Photocatalytically Active Nanocomposites for Visible-light-driven Disinfection
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Ramakrishnan Ganesan,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Design and synthesis of photosensitizers including tetrapyrrolic poprphyrin, chlorin and AIE based organic molecules for biomedical applications
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Manab Chakravarty,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. D Ramaiah,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Designing sustainable and porous networked materials for Desulfurization of fuel
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. N Rajesh,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Himanshu Aggarwal ,
Ph.D. Status - Completed
Ph.D. Topic - Bulk and nanostructured metal chalcogenides : Synthesis and thermoelectric properties
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Satya Narayan Guin ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Valorization of CO2 to Fuel over MOFs derived SACs A Machine Learning Guided Experimental Approach
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Sounak Roy ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Synthesis and thermoelectric properties of metal chalcogenides-based semiconductors and topological materials.
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Satya Narayan Guin ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Cathodically Colouring Electrochromism
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Chanchal Chakraborty ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Designing Metal organic frameworks-based catalysts for renewable energy and sustainable environmental applications
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Himanshu Aggarwal ,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Sounak Roy ,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Synthesis Characterizations and Application of PD-RC and its metal complexes.
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Krishnan Rangan,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Oxidic Materials for Dry Reforming of Methane: A Correlation of Structure-Property Relationship
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Sounak Roy ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Water Splitting ,Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Sounak Roy ,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Chanchal Chakraborty ,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Synthetic Methdology
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Tanmay Chatterjee ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Exploring the Capabilities of Metal-Organic Frameworks as Versatile Sensors for Diverse Sensing Applications: From Design to Practical implementation
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Himanshu Aggarwal ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Completed
Ph.D. Topic - Novel Heterocyclic Compounds as Histone Deacetylase 6 Inhibitors and Anti-tubercular Agents
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. K V G Chandra Sekhar,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Completed
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Anupam Bhattacharya,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Aqueous Zinc metal batteries
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Sourav Bag,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Design and Simulation of Polysaccharide based Membranes
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Durba Roy ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Topic - Metal oxide nanoclusters
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Balaji Gopalan,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Himanshu Aggarwal ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Himanshu Aggarwal ,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing
Centrifuge Mechine-15 mL tube
Centrifuge Mechine-50 mL tube
Computational Lab
Cyclic Voltammetry
Cyclic Voltammetry 2
De-Ionized water system
Flash chromatography
Fluorimeter
FT-IR
Gas chromatography
Glove box
Instruments-18
Ion Exchange Chromatography
Microwave Synthesizer
Muffle Furnace
Plasma cleaner
Probe Sonicator
RAMAN
Rotary evaporator
Spin Coater
THF Purification System
Tubular Furnace
UV-Vis 2
UV-Vis
Vacuum Oven
International Conference on “Molecular Materials: Trails,Perspectives, and Reminiscences(MolMat:TPR 2025)” on 4th and 5th July 2025.
Head of the Department of Chemistry,
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Shameerpet Mandal Hyderabad-500078
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