Dr. Manoj B. Gawande awarded “Docent” degree after habilitation and nominated as “Associate Professor” by the Rector of Palacky University, Olomouc Czech Republic w.e.f. from 1st November 2017.
01.11.2017
Dr. Gawande, completed his habilitation thesis entitled “Synthesis of Advanced Nanomaterials: Catalytic and Sustainable Applications “from Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Faculty of Science, Department of Physical Chemistry, Palacky University, Šlechtitelů 27, 783 71, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Our Work on “Ag@CoxP Core-Shell Heterogeneous Nanoparticles as Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts” published in ACS Catalysis, 2017.
05.09.2017
Production of hydrogen and oxygen by electrocatalytic water splitting is considered as a promising and sustainable alternative to natural gas and fossil fuel energy source. IrO2 and RuO2 based catalyst used for hydrogen evolution reaction(HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) through multiple proton-coupled electron transfer reactions. These noble metals are most active for water oxidation reaction but due to the high cost, we motivate to investigate other catalysts. In this research work, we developed an abundant and low cost of noble metal electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction. RCPTM team lead by Prof. Manoj B. Gawande in collaboration with partners at Jilin University in China.
Published in ACS catalysis, 2017, 7, 7038–7042 (IF- 10.61)
Goswami et al. article entitled “In-situ Generation of Pd-Pt Core-Shell Nanoparticles on Reduced Graphene Oxide (Pd@Pt/rGO) using Microwaves: Applications in Dehalogenation Reactions and Reduction of Olefins” Published in ACS Applied Material and Interfaces, 2017.
05.01.2017
Core−shell nanocatalysts are a distinctive class of nanomaterials having various applications in diverse areas including energy conversion and storage, chemical engineering, biological applications, environmental technology, and catalysis due to their unique structure and composition-dependent physicochemical properties. In this research article Goswami et al. described the microwave-assisted, one-pot scalable synthesis of reduced graphene oxide embedded Pd@Pt core−shell nanoparticles and demonstrated their utility as nanocatalysts for the reduction of olefins and in aromatic dehalogenation reactions.
ACS Applied Material and Interfaces 2017, 9, 2815−2824
Bourlinos et al. article entitled “Fe(III)-functionalized carbon dots—Highly efficient photoluminescence redox catalyst for hydrogenations of olefins and decomposition of hydrogen peroxide” Published in Applied materials Today, 2017
21.03.2017
Carbon dots (CDs) represent one of the newest members of carbon-based materials having catalytic, biomedical, optoelectronic, biocatalytic applications and various chemical properties. In this article, we have reported Fe-bearing Carbon dots (CDs) synthesis by bottom-up method via oxidative coupling of xylene molecules by anhydrous FeCl3 under sonication. They successfully demonstrated that Fe CDs can be used as highly efficient catalysts for hydrogen peroxide decomposition as well as olefin hydrogenation reaction.
Applied Materials Today, 2017, 7, 179–184. (IF- 8.01)
Web: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352940717300264
Gawande and co-workers article entitled “Iron oxide-supported ultra-small ZnO Nanoparticles: Applications for Transesterification, Amidation and O-Acylation Reactions” published in ACS Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering, 2017
23.02.2017
Nanomaterials in the form of solid support have been widely used as sustainable nanocatalysts in which Magnetic nanoparticles (magnetite and maghemite) are good support for noble metals and organoligands. The active and versatile maghemite-ZnO catalyst was prepared from low-cost precursors by simple coprecipitation technique. In this research article Gade et al. reported the synthesis of maghemite-supported-ZnO nanocatalyst for various organic transformations such as transesterification, Amidation, and O-acylation reactions.
ACS Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering, 2017, 5, 3314-3320. (IF-6.97)
Web: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssuschemeng.6b03167
Prof. Manoj B. Gawande has been admitted as a “Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry“ – FRSC, London United Kingdom
Congratulations and Best wishes..... !!!
02.06.2017
Prof. Manoj B. Gawande has been admitted as a “Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry“ – FRSC. United Kingdom.
Congratulations and Best wishes…..!!!
