Dates: December 7-11, 2020
A Virtual Event
Programme
Monday December 7, 2020
9:20am - 9:30am Inaugural Session
Session 1
Chair: S M Shivaprasad
9:30am - 10:30am Sir A K Cheetham
Hybrid Perovskite Halides and Related Materials
Session 2
Chair: N S Vidhyadhiraja
10:30am - 11:30am A K Sood
Probing Excitonic condensate in an Excitonic Insulator Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy
12:00am - 1:00pm John Wang
Single Atom Electrocatalysis for Energy Storage and Conversion, where “Singles are Actually Married”
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break
Session 3
Chair: S Balasubramanian
2:00 pm - 3:00pm S Sampath
Layered Ternary Chalcogenides: Electrocatalysis, Energy Systems and Sensors
3:30pm - 4:30pm J Paul Attfield
New Electronic and Magnetic Materials from High Pressure
4:30pm - 5:30pm Michael L Klein
Recent Advances in Modeling Materials Properties:Solid Argon Revisited After More Than a Half-Century
Session 4
Chair: Ranjani Viswanatha
7:30pm - 8:30pm Prashant V Kamat
Challenges in Photocatalysis. Why Seeing is Not Always Believing
Tuesday December 8, 2020
Session 5
Chair: Kanishka Biswas
9:30am - 10:30am Ram Seshadri
Screening the Space of Inorganic Materials for Function using data tabulation and computation
10:30am - 11:30am A Sundaresan
Magnetoelectric and Multiferroic Properties of Spinels
12:00noon- 1:00pm Subi J George
Axial Organic Heterostructures via Supramolecular Block Co-Polymerization
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break
Session 6
Chair: Subir K Das
2:00 pm - 3:00pm Shobhana Narasimhan
Doing the locomotion: diffusion and sintering of small supported nanoparticles
Session 7
Chair: M Eswaramoorthy
3:30pm - 4:30pm Sheikh Saqr Materials Lecture
Clare Grey
Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function
4:30pm - 6:00pm POSTER SESSION
Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Session 8
Chair: Jayanta Haldar
9:30am - 10:30am Yamuna Krishnan
Super-resolution electrophysiology
10:30am - 11:30am Ruchi Anand
Design of Selective Aromatic Biosensors for Pollution Monitoring
12:00noon–01:30pm POSTER SESSION
Session 9
Chair: Tapas K Maji
2:00 pm - 3:00pm Deepa Khushalani
Simultaneous Water Splitting and CO2 conversion in One Electrochemical Reaction
3:30pm - 4:30pm Matthew Rosseinsky
Digital Routes to Functional Materials4:30pm - 5:30pm Caroline Mellot-Draznieks
Implanting molecular catalysts into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Photocatalysis and molecular recognitionSession 10
Chair: Srikanth Sastry
7:30 pm - 8:30pm Richard Remsing
Lone Pairs and Halogen Bonding in Materials
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Session 11
Chair: T Govindaraju
9:30am - 10:30am G U Kulkarni
A brain-inspired intelligent device
10:30am - 11:30am Maria Forsyth
Next Generation Electrolytes to Enable advanced energy storage devices12:00noon - 1:00pm Urmimala Maitra
Anion-Redox for high voltage Na and Li ion cathodes: Storing energy with Oxygen
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch Break
Session 12
Chair: Swapan K Pati
2:00 pm - 3:00pm R Murugavel
Porous Materials: 250 Years and Still Counting
3:00pm - 4:00pm M Rosa Palacin
Post Li-ion batteries: promises and challenges4:00pm - 5:00pm Sir C R A Catlow
Structure, dynamics and reactivity in energy and catalytic systems
05:00pm – 06:30pm POSTER SESSION
Friday, December 11, 2020
Session 13
Chair: K S Narayan
9:30am - 10:30am D D Sarma
What is so interesting about MA1-yFAyPbX3
10:30am - 11:30am Ashok K Ganguli
Recent investigations on chalcogenide based superconductors: SnTaS2 and La3Se412:00noon- 1:00pm U Ramamurty
Structural integrity of 3D printed metals
01:30pm – 03:00pm POSTER SESSION
Session 14
Chair: Sridhar Rajaram
03:30 pm - 04:30pm Bettina V Lotsch
Bridging energy conversion and storage in two-dimensional molecular frameworks
04:30 pm Conclusion