Nivedita Sikdar
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, GSS, HYD
Dr. Sikdar received her PhD degree in Materials Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India. She has received Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) postdoctoral fellowship from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2019-2020). She also worked as postdoctoral fellow in University of Limerick, Ireland prior to this (2018). Her research interest mainly involves in-depth understanding of materials for electrochemical energy conversion reactions.
Research Publications
- N. Sikdar, J. R. C. Junqueira, S. Dieckhöfer, T. Quast, M. Braun, Y. Song, H. B. Aiyappa, S. Seisel, J. Weidner, D. Öhl, C. Andronescu and W. Schuhmann, A metal-organic framework derived CuxOyCz catalyst for electrochemical CO2 reduction and impact of local pH change, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 23427–23434 (doi.org/10.1002/anie.202108313)
- N. Sikdar, S. Laha, R. Jena, A. Dey, F. A. Rahimi and T. K. Maji, An Adsorbate Biased Dynamic 3D Porous Framework for Inverse CO2 Sieving over C2H2, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 7698-7706, (doi.org/10.1039/D3SC06611H).
- N. Sikdar, A. Hazra, D. Samanta, R. Haldar and T. K. Maji, Guest-responsive reversible electron transfer in a crystalline porous framework supported by a dynamic building node, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 18479–18484 (doi.org/10.1002/anie.202008189)
- S. Mukherjee#, N. Sikdar# (#equal), D. O. Nolan, D. M. Franz, V. Gascón, A. Kumar, N. Kumar, H. S. Scott, D. G. Madden, P. E. Kruger, B. Space and M. J. Zaworotko, Trace CO2 capture by an ultramicroporous physisorbent with low water affinity, Sci. Adv., 2019, 5, eaax9171 (doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax9171).
- N. Sikdar, M. Bhogra, U. V. Waghmare and T. K. Maji, Oriented attachment growth of anisotropic meso/nanoscale MOFs: tunable surface area and CO2 separation, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 20959–20968 (doi.org/10.1039/C7TA02896B).
Ongoing Research Projects
- SERB-SRG; Topic: Electrochemical CO2 reduction