Dr. Ashok Ganguli to Lecture on the Applications of Nanostructures

Dr. Ashok Ganguli, Director, Institute of Nano Science & Technology; Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, will be visiting the Illinois Institute of Technology to give a special seminar for the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department. He will present his lecture Design of Nanostructures for Applications in Energy, Environment and Medicine.

Dr. Ganguli will report on recent work in nanostructured materials that his research his group has completed. He will speak about controlling the shape and size of nanostructures using microemulsions and related methods. His group has investigated the detailed mechanism of nanorod formation by studying the growth kinetics by light scattering, electron microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. The nanostructures have been chosen for applications in water splitting, control of organic pollutants through photocatalysis using nano-TiO2, niobates, and tantalates and 1-D core-shell structures of semiconductor materials like ZnO@Cds and ZnO@In2S3 nanorods. Synergistic effect of CulnS2 (CIS) and ZnO in nanostructured heterostructures of CuInS2/ZnO composites provides unique charge carrier separation giving efficient performance in visible light photocatalysis.

At the Institute of Nano Science & Technology there is a significant interest in problems related to bionanotechnology like cancer therapeutics, targeted drug delivery, online diagnostics and toxicology. Dr, Ganguli will present the different problems being pursued in these areas by different researchers at this institute.

There will be an opportunity to meet with the distinguished visitor between 11 AM – 2 PM.