Research interest:

Inorganic Chemistry, organic-inorganic nanoporous material for gas sorption and separation application.

Academic details:

Ph.D. (March 2012 till date) at IIT Roorkee

M.Phil at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla

MSc. (2009-2010) in Chemistry from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla

 

Current Research area: Inorganic- organic hybrid nanoporous materials

Nanoporous materials have been discussed as promising sorbents for carbon dioxide capture. Several classes of nanoporous materials are currently under investigation, predominantly metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), activated carbons, molecular organic solids, and amine-functionalized silicas, porous covalent organic frameworks and polymers.

CO₂ sorption by nanoporous material is affected by pore symmetry, size, structure, and chemistry of the material. In my research, we are making some nanoporous materials by using inorganic and organic moieties with well defined pore size and dimension with surface Lewis base functionalization. The Lewis acidic and Lewis basic interaction between the CO₂ and the functional group in the surface of the nanoporous materials will be explored to capture and separate CO₂ in the flue gas environment. By changing solvent and some other reaction condition different nanoporous material having different pore size can be generated. Hopefully these inorganic- organic hybrid materials have enhancing efficiency which will have the greater potential for lowering the overall cost of capture systems

Academic Background:

Ms. Pawan Rekha is presently carrying out her Ph.D. on “Organic-Inorganic Hybrid nanoporous Materials” in Department of Applied Science and Engineering at Saharanpur Campus, IIT Roorkee. She obtained her M.Phil Degree in 2011 in “Chemistry” and did M.Sc. in “Chemistry” from Himachal Pradesh University Shimla in 2010.

During her M.Phil, she carried out the project on “Synthesis and characterization of di and triorganotin (IV) complexes of 2,4 dimethylphenol”.

Publications:

In Journals

1.      Pawan Rekha, Usharani Sahoo, and Paritosh Mohanty*, “Click-based porous inorganic-organic hybrid materials (PHMs) containing cyclophosphazene units and its application in carbon dioxide capture” RSC Adv. 4 (2014) 34860. Impact factor: 3.84.

 

In conferences

2.     Pawan Rekha, Vivek Sharma and Paritosh Mohanty, “Nanoporous Materials for Renewable Energy and Sustainability” International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM 2015), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 15-20, 2015. (Accepted)

1.     Pawan Rekha, Neeraj Sharma “PMMA modified di and triorganotin (IV) complexes of 2,4 dimethylphenol ”  [Frontier In Polymer Science 2011 at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India, November 18-19, 2011]

Honours

UGC-JRF (NET) in Chemical Science, 2011

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