16th UIT Webinar on "Dynamic Crystals"

Abstract:

Generally “crystal” invokes images of minerals, gems, and rocks, all of which are solid, hard, and durable entities with well-defined smooth faces and straight edges. On the other hand Jumping, popping, twisting, bending, protraction and curling are all actions that are expected to be found in a cabaret show and not in a chemistry laboratory studying simple materials such as crystals. However, with the recent advances in solid-state chemistry, these are all dynamic effects that have not only been documented and recorded with crystals, but some have also been partially explained using state-of-the-art techniques. These dynamic effects and the study of mechanical effects has become cemented as an important new research direction in solid-state chemistry and crystal engineering. This talk will be focused on Dynamic crystals and their mechanical effects. Recent results on the applicability of some of these dynamic actuator crystals into devices will be shown.

Resource Person

Dr. DURGA PRASAD KAROTHU

Research Scientist

Prof. Panche Naumov’s Research Group

New York University Abu Dhabi

Experimental Research Building (C1)

Saadiyat Island

Abu Dhabi, UAE

E-mail: dpk3@nyu.edu

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fSBT5LEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

About Resource Person

Durga is a native of Godavari Districts, did bachelors from Andhra University. After his BSc, he worked in courier and garments companies to meet his family needs. He completed MSc in chemical sciences from central university Pondicherry in 2009. He qualified for CSIR-JRF in 2008 and GATE with 98 percentile in 2009 and subsequently joined for Ph.D. with Professor T. N. Guru Row in Solid-state and structural chemistry unit at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 2009. He was also selected for Ph.D. position in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore with full scholarship in 2009. He also qualified for Civil services prelims exams in 2010. He started and completed the work on Chemical and biological aspects of small molecule kinase inhibitors. He also worked on the crystallization of small molecule kinase inhibitors with c-JNK protein at InStem/NCBS. After the completion of PhD, he joined as a postdoc with Professor Pance Naumov at New York University Abu Dhabi in 2015 and currently working as a Research Scientist. He also worked for a brief period in SUNY at Buffalo and Max Planck Institute for Solid-state research, Stuttgart, Germany with Professor Philip Coppens and Professor Robert E. Dinnebier respectively. He is a trained synthesis chemist and organic solid state chemist. His research interest includes Materials, organic solid-state chemistry, and Photocrystallography. He was selected for Inspire faculty award in 2017 June session. He has successfully completed several individual and multinational projects and been an author of 54 journals which includes 31 papers of JACS/Angew/Nat. Commun/Adv. Mat. His hobbies are cooking food, playing cricket and discouraging young students from pursuing PhD (So watch out before reaching him for any advice on Ph.D.).

Our UIT team welcome you all to join our 16th UIT webinar on "Dynamic Crystals" scheduled on 28th August 2022 at 4 pm (IST).

Registration Link: www.uittrust.in/links