RESEARCH

About the The Saha Group's Current Projects

INORGANIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

Assessing and monitoring the water quality of local water bodies to ensure environmental safety and health. We use several analytical techniques, ICP-MS, IC, HPLC, GCMS to detect and quantify the contaminants in surface water, waste water, and industrial waste.

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

Exploring adsorption & desorption study of nanomaterials and their use to reduce environmental contaminants from soil and water. We characterize the adsorbent by XRD, BET surface analysis, SEM images, FTIR & RAMAN Spectroscopy, and Elemental analyzer. We are currently exploring the removal of fire-retardant chemicals from water bodies. We analyze the adsorption mechanism by conducting several kinetic & thermodynamic studies.

COORDINATION CHEMISTRY

Investigating synthesis, characterization, and several applications of novel metal coordination complexes using 3d and lanthanide metals. Application of such coordination complexes includes smart magnetic materials, metal-based anti-cancer drugs, metal-DNA nanostructures, and mimicking biologically active sites. We synthesize metal complexes and characterize them using FTIR, Elemental Analyzer, Electrochemistry, 1H & 13C NMR, UV-Vis spectroscopy. Through our collaboration we perform single crystal X-ray crystallography, circular dichroism and magnetism analyses.