Departmental Projects

1. Prof. Yogesh kumar Sharma

Title of Project: Nanostructured Materials for Next-generation Energy Conversion and Storage Device
Name of PI: Prof. Yogesh Kumar Sharma
Project No.: DST-1769-NTC
Project Sponsor Agency: DST New Delhi
Total Outlay: 55.64 Lakh
Project Start Date: 10.01.2022
Project End Date: 09.01.2027

2. Prof. Krishna Mohan Poluri

Title of Project: Nanoscale Investigations into the interactions of metal / metal oxides / ceramics / cermets with GAGs for functional application
Name of PI: Prof. Krishna Mohan Poluri
Project No.: EPL-1866-NTC
Project Sponsor Agency: Esyantra Pvt. Ltd, Channai
Total Outlay: 33.00 Lakh
Project Start Date: 01.04.2022
Project End Date: 31.03.2027

3. Prof. Davinder Kaur

Title of Project: Theory and Application of the transport properties of driven non-Hermitian topological systems
Name of PI: Dr. Debashree Chowdhury & Prof. Davinder Kaur (Mentor)
Project No.: DST-2347-NTC-CNA/23-24
Project Sponsor Agency: DST New Delhi
Total Outlay: 28.80 Lakh
Project Start Date: 27.02.2024
Project End Date: 26.02.2027

Title of Project: Development of Piezoelectric Acoustic Sensors for Defence Applications
Name of PI: Prof. Davinder Kaur
Name of Co-PI: Prof. Vivek Kumar Malik
Project No.: DRD-2428-NTC/24-25
Project Sponsor Agency: DRDO New Delhi
Total Outlay: 2.15 Cr.
Project Start Date: 04.06.2024
Project End Date: 03.06.2027

4. Prof. Kaushik Pal

Title of Project: Generating hydrogen fuel from anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer powered by renewable energy sources
Name of PI: Prof. Kaushik Pal
Project Sponsor Agency: DST New Delhi
Project No.: DST-2389-NTC-CNA/24-25
Total Outlay: 79.80 Lakh
Project Start Date: 24.05.2024
Project End Date: 23.05.2027

Title of Project: Photosensitive loaded metal selenides based nano drug conjugates NDCs for multimodal cancer therapy
Name of PI: Prof. Kaushik Pal
Project Sponsor Agency: DST New Delhi
Project No.: DST-2592-NTC-CNA/24-25
Total Outlay: 14.58 Lakh
Project Start Date: 11.03.2025
Project End Date: 10.03.2027

5. Prof. Gopinath Packirisamy

Title of Project: Biosensing Platform to overcome cardiovascular disease(CVD) by monitoring stress levels through the detection of multiple analytes present in sweat
Name of PI: Prof. Gopinath Pakirisamy
Name of Co-PI(Physics): Prof. Mayank Goswami
Name of Co-PI(BSBE): Prof. Krishna Mohan Poluri
Project No.: ANR-2416-NTC/24-25
Project Sponsor Agency: ANRF, New Delhi
Total Outlay: 51.29 Lakh
Project Start Date: 14.06.2024
Project End Date: 13.06.2027

Title of Project: Development of a wearable non-invasive micro needle skin patch for vitamins detection
Name of Mentor: Prof. Gopinath Pakirisamy
Women Scientist: Dr Damini Verma (DBT BioCARe Fellow)
Project No.: DBT-2752-NTC/25-26
Project Sponsor Agency: DBT, New Delhi
Total Outlay: 51.35 Lakh
Project Start Date: 04.09.2025
Project End Date: 03.09.2028

6. Prof. Debrupa Lahiri

Title of Project: Developing magnesium alloy based temporary orthopedic implants coated with hydroxyapatite by plasma spraying
Name of PI: Prof. Debrupa Lahiri
Name of Co-PI: Prof. Partha Roy
Project No.: DBT-2637-NTC-CNA/25-26
Project Sponsor Agency: DBT, New Delhi
Total Outlay: 46.87 Lakh
Project Start Date: 13.05.2025
Project End Date: 12.05.2028

7. Prof. Rajesh Kumar Ulaganathan

Title of Project: Cost-effective, scalable, and reproducible 2D Hybrid Perovskites for highly efficient Transistors and photodetector technologies
Name of PI: Prof. Rajesh Kumar Ulaganathan
Project No.: ANR-2670-NTC-CNA/25-26
Project Sponsor Agency: ANRF, New Delhi
Total Outlay: 67.57 Lakh
Project Start Date: 04.06.2025
Project End Date: 03.06.2028

Title of Project: Emerging vander woals Heterostructures for flexible light weight and efficient optoelectronic devices
Name of PI: Prof. Rajesh Kumar Ulaganathan
Project No.: ANR-2832-NTC-TSAH/25-26
Project Sponsor Agency: ANRF, New Delhi
Total Outlay: 67.88 Lakh
Project Start Date: 11.03.2026
Project End Date: 10.03.2029

8. Prof. M. Sankar

Title of Project: Porphyrin-based crystalline frameworks for green energy production and UV-Vis-NIR absorbing porphyrins for cancer therapy
Name of PI: Prof. M. Sankar
Project No.: ANR-2857-NTC-TSAH/25-26
Project Sponsor Agency: ANRF, New Delhi
Total Outlay: 98.77 Lakh
Project Start Date: 24.03.2026
Project End Date: 23.03.2031

9. Prof. Ankush Kumar

Title of Project: Intelligent Neuromorphic Multimodal Patch for Adaptive Pain Mapping. Management and Early Diagnostics of Diabetic Neuropathy towards Health 4.0
Name of PI: Prof. Ankush Kumar
Project No.: RES10106220260902145645
Project Sponsor Agency: CDR-3108-NTC/26-27
Total Outlay: 23.7 Lakh
Project Start Date: 01.09.2026
Project End Date: 31.08.2026