Research Group - BITS Pilani

Prof. Jayanty Subbalakshmi

Head & Professor,
Department of Chemistry

Characterisation and study of new Molecular Materials for Optical, Conducting and Biological applications, Design, Synthesis

Research Interests: Design, Synthesis and Development of simple, small organic molecules for materials and biological applications.

Design, synthesis and development of simple, small organic molecules based on Tetracyanoquinodimethanes and Xanthenes for multifunctional molecular material characteristics: Optical and Non-linear Optical molecular materials, Solar-cells, Anticancer activity, Bio-imaging and Sensing applications.
Purification/separation of enantiomeric impurities by HPLC technique in recent API's (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) through "Quality by Design Approach (QbD)"
Design and development of organic small molecules based on Organic D-Pi-A frameworks as Solid-state recognition agents.
Design and Development of Biologically active molecules (with anticancer activity), molecular materials and doped Polymers for device applications such as Memristors and Solar cells.

Research Group:

Completed:

Dr. Anwarhussaini Syed

Was a Full Time Ph.D student, Completed in May 2022, Recruited under DST-EMR Project 2017-2020. B.Sc. (Biology, Physics and Chemistry), M.Sc. Organic Chemistry (Osmania University). Currently Employed in Sambi Pharma as Research Scientist.
Dr. Himabindu Battula
Was a Full Time Ph.D Student, Completed in July 2023, did B.Sc (M.P.C) and M.Sc. Organic Chemistry (Andhra University); M.Sc in Environmental Chemistry From Ambedkar Open University. Currently working as Scientist (R&D), FUZE division, HBL Engineering Limited.
Dr. SivaGanesh Bommi
Was a Part Time Ph.D Student, completed in June 2025 did B.Sc. (M.P.C); M.Sc. Chemistry (Bharathidasan University); Currently working as Deputy General Manager in Analytical research and development, PI Health Sciences.

Ongoing

Anuradha Sureshrao Mohitkar, (Full Time Ph.D Student since April 2021), M.Sc. Organic Chemistry (Savitribai Phule Pune University).
Pavan Varma Phenmatsa (Part Time Ph.D Student since 2022) B.Sc. (M.P.C); M.Sc. Analytical Chemistry (Andhra University), Currently, Associate Research Scientist, Sai Life Sciences Limited.
Gade Kirth Reddy (Full Time Ph.D Student since 1^st August 2024), M.Sc. Chemistry (NIT Surathkal, Karnataka).
Sneha Lata (Full Time Ph.D Student since 26^th July 2025), M.Sc. Chemistry (Central University Jharkhand).

Overall Our Group focuses on the:

Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Development of new simple, small organic molecules for biological activity and material properties.
Development and Fabrication of Molecular materials for optical, conducting, Non-linear optical and biological application (for anticancer activity)
Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Fabrication of novel Polymer templates/ Polymer blends for conducting and semiconducting applications.
Investigation on the Structure-property correlation
Investigation of Nano structures and tuning morphology for the miniatures
Purification/separation of impurities through fine tuning and control experiments by HPLC method.
Design and synthesis of solid-state recognition agents
To generate Supramolecular assemblies for optical and non-linear optical molecular materials by the optimization of non-covalent interactions/organization of molecular dipoles through crystallization.
Design and synthesize molecular probes as metal sensors.

Future Research Interests are to:

Design and synthesize molecular fluorescent probes as efficient sensors and for bioimaging.
Synthesize considerable/extended pi-conjugated systems for solid state optical responses/solid state sensors.
Design and synthesize simple and small biologically active molecules for anticancer activity.
Design and development of organic semiconductors with resistive switching memory characteristic and solar cell application.

Integrated first degree