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 Materials

4:30pm - 5:30pm         Caroline Mellot-Draznieks
Implanting molecular catalysts into Metal-Organic Frameworks for Photocatalysis and molecular recognition

Session 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 devices

12:00noon - 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 challenges

4:00pm - 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 La3Se4

12:00noon- 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