Sajal Khatua

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

GITAM School of Science

Hyderabad

Education

Ph. D.

skhatua@gitam.edu

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Sajal Khatua is from West Bengal. He has a Ph. D from IISER Bhopal and Postdoc from IACS. He was a UGC-NET fellow. His research interests is on soft porous MOFs for trapping of pollutants and molecular gel for biomedical applications.

Research Publications

1.A flexible luminescent MOF: trapping of less stable conformation of rotational isomers, guest-responsive turn-off and turn-on luminescence and mechanistic study S. Khatua*, and P. Biswas, ACS Appl. Mater.& Interfaces, 2020, 12, 22335. Impact Factor (IF)- 10.383, Citation: 52. 2.1. Stable multi-responsive luminescent MOF for colorimetric detection of small molecules in selective and reversible manner S. Khatua, S. Goswami, S. Biswas, K. Tomar, H. S. Jena, and S. Konar, Chem.Mater., 2015, 27, 5349. IF-10.508, Citation: 262, selected as most read article and virtual issue paper. 3. 3 Tuning proton conductivity by interstitial guest change in size-adjustable nanopores of a CuI-MOF: a potential platform for versatile proton carriers S. Khatua, A. K. Bar, and S. Konar, Chem. Eur. J.,2016, 22, 16277. IF-5.02, Citation: 37. 4.4 Achieving amphibious superprotonic conductivity in a CuI-MOF via strategic pyrazinium salt impregnation S. Khatua, A. K. Bar, J. A. Sheikh, A. Clearfield, and S. Konar, Chem. Eur.J., 2018, 24, 872. IF-5.02, Citation-24.5.2 Flexible luminescent Non-Lanthanide Metal Organic framework as small Molecules sensors. S. Khatua,* C. Krishnaraj, D. C. Baruah, P. V. Voort, and H.S. Jena,* Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 14513. IF-4.569, Citation: 15.

Ongoing Research Projects

Development of Flexible MOFs as Sensor Materials for Pharmaceutical pollutants, Toxic PFAS and Toxin Ions Emerging in Water

Expertise

Inorganic chemistry, Organic-inorganic hybrid materials, Metal-organic Frame-works, molecular gel for biomedical applications