Highlights

Chinmoy gave an invited talk at the 19th Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics (ACSSI-2026), Bangkok.

Shivam: ACS Omega Best Poster Award, 13th Asian Conference on Electrochemical Power Sources (ACEPS-13), Bengaluru. Poster: CO₂ reduction in SOEC for flue gas compositions

Soham Raychowdhury: ACS Best Poster Award, 13th Asian Conference on Electrochemical Power Sources (ACEPS-13), Bengaluru. Poster: Theoretical studies of CO₂ reduction on doped ceria electrodes

Congratulations to Dr. Veenu on completing her PhD on adsorbed hydrogen in Pt-based electrocatalysis.

New ANRF core research grant (co-PI) on first-principles and data-driven multiscale modelling of CO₂ electroreduction catalysts, 2026–2029.

Paper on controlling CO selectivity and coking on doped-ceria electrodes with applied bias published in J. Mater. Chem. A.

Paper on the unusual redox behaviour of doped ceria in H₂ published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Congratulations to Dr. Bapuji Mohapatra on completing his PhD on mixed metal oxide electrodes for oxygen evolution. He has joined Thermax, Pune.

Sekhar Kumar Biswal: Dr J. C. Ghosh Medal, Best PhD Thesis in Physical Chemistry, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc (2024–25).

Soham Raychowdhury: Best Oral Presentation, SustainX – ACE 2025, IIT Madras.

New ISRO Space Technology Cell project: a compact electrolyser to make methane for space applications through in situ resource utilisation, 2025–2027.

Congratulations to Dr. Sekhar Kumar Biswal on completing his PhD on oxygen reduction at doped copper oxide electrodes.

Vipin Kamboj: Best Paper Award (1st prize, ₹50,000), International Conference on Carbon Capture and Utilisation (ICCCU-24), JNCASR, Bengaluru. For: Enabling pure CO₂ reduction on Ni{Cu}_x-YSZ electrode via an oxide-mediated mechanism (Appl. Catal. B 2024). Judged by an international panel over several rounds.

Vipin Kamboj: Best PhD Thesis in Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (1st prize, ₹25,000), Pan-India competition, CACEE 2024, TIFR Mumbai. For his thesis on CO₂ conversion to fuels using solid oxide electrolysis. Selected by an international panel.

Congratulations to Dr. Vipin Kamboj on successfully defending his PhD thesis.

Chinmoy gave an invited talk on CO₂ electrolysis on solid oxide electrodes at ACSSI-2024, Chennai. Vipin won the MRS Singapore best poster award there.

Vipin Kamboj: MRS Singapore Best Poster Award, 18th Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics (ACSSI-2024), Chennai. Operando studies on high temperature CO₂ electroreduction to fuel using mixed metal cathodes

Prof. Werner Weppner (University of Kiel) and Prof. V. Thangadurai (University of Calgary) visited the lab and spoke with our students.

Soham Raychowdhury: Best Oral Presentation, International Conference on Carbon Capture and Utilisation (ICCCU), JNCASR, Bengaluru.

Soham Raychowdhury: Best Poster Presentation, Conference on Advances in Chemistry for Energy and Environment (CACEE 2024), TIFR Mumbai.

New ANRF core research grant: development of solid oxide electrodes for CO₂ electrolysis with operando studies, 2024–2027.

Vipin's Ni{Cu}-YSZ paper accepted in Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy.

Vipin gave his PhD colloquium.

Chinmoy gave an invited talk on CO₂ electrolysis at the CEES conference, IIT Mandi.

Chinmoy presented at the 243rd ECS Meeting, 18th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XVIII), Boston.

Vipin Kamboj: Best Oral Presentation, Functional Oxide Materials and Devices (FOMAD-2023), Chikkamagaluru. Catalysts for solid-oxide electrolysers

Chinmoy demonstrated the group's CO2-to-fuels work to international delegates at a G20 event at IISc.

Chinmoy gave an invited talk at the SSCU–Royal Society of Chemistry joint symposium, IISc.

Sekhar Kumar Biswal: Best Poster Prize, Functional Oxide Materials and Devices (FOMAD-2023), Chikkamagaluru.

Sekhar Kumar Biswal: Best Oral Presentation, Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy and Catalysis (ANEC-2023), Guntur.

Soham Raychowdhury: Best Poster Presentation, IPC Day Symposium, IISc Bengaluru.

Chinmoy Ranjan: Elected Vice President, CO₂ India Network (Society for Carbon Dioxide Research and Innovation), In charge of scientific communication and activities.

Chinmoy elected Vice President of the CO₂ India Network, in charge of scientific communication and activities.

Chinmoy spoke on the role of chemistry in sustainability at the National Talent Search Examination symposium.

Bapuji Mohapatra: Best Poster Award, 11th Asian Conference on Electrochemical Power Sources (ACEPS-11), NUS, Singapore.

Group at ACEPS-11, Singapore: Bapuji won a best poster award and Vipin gave an oral presentation on CO₂ electroreduction on Ni-YSZ.

Sekhar Kumar Biswal: Best Poster Award, and selected for an oral presentation from 150 participants, CACEE 2022 and CO₂ India Network annual meet, TIFR Mumbai. Electrocatalysts for suppressing H₂O₂ production in oxygen reduction

Group at CACEE 2022, TIFR Mumbai: Chinmoy gave an invited talk; Sekhar won the best poster award and was selected for an oral presentation.

Sekhar Kumar Biswal: RSC Best Poster Prize and Student Digital Presentation Award, 7th Ertl Symposium on Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen Electrocatalysis, GIST, Gwangju, South Korea.

Sekhar won the RSC best poster prize and a digital presentation award at the 7th Ertl Symposium, Gwangju. Veenu presented at NANOMAT, Barcelona.

Chinmoy presented the group's CO₂ electrolysis work at the Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, California.

Vipin presented at the ACS Fall Meeting, Chicago.

Vipin Kamboj: ECS Student Travel Grant, 241st ECS Meeting, Vancouver, Canada. Mixed metal Ni(M)/YSZ for high-temperature CO₂ electroreduction to CO

Vipin presented his Ni-YSZ work at the 241st ECS Meeting, Vancouver, and won an ECS student travel award.

Vipin Kamboj: Best Performance in Coursework, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc.

Chinmoy Ranjan: T. L. Ramachar Lectureship, Electrochemical Society of India, awarded at ICONEST, IISc.