CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Faculty

Dr.B L V Prasad
Physical and Materials Chemistry Division
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory

Welcome to Synthesis, Assembly and Application of Materials (SAAM) Group

The current SAAM Team

Synthesis of Silver Nano particles in Spiral Micro reactor:<br> Segmented flow synthesis of Ag NPs in spiral micro reactor was
studied in both, liquid–liquid and gas–liquid segmented flows. We demonstrated that
the slug size affects the nature of internal mixing in the reactant phase and hence
the nano particle size distribution.

Bend Them More to Make Vesicles....<br> We demonstrate the Linolenic acid sophorolipids with three cis double bonds self - assemble to form giant vesicle like structures unlike the ribbon like structures formed by Oleic acid sophorolipids that have only one cis double bond.<img width=

Tuning Nanoparticle Sizes: Temperature and Ligand Effects on the Digestive Ripening Process.<br> We demonstrated that a fine control over the size and size distribution of nanoparticles could be achieved using digestive ripening at different temperatures. Such variations in size and size distributions hugely influence the self-assembled processes in nanoparticles, and resulted in different superlattice structures.

Ultrathin sheets of metal or metal sulfide from molecularly thin sheets of metal thiolates in solution:<br> We demonstrate that metal thiolates, that exist as lamellar assemblies in the neat state, can be disassembled into individual molecular sheets simply by dilution in apolar organic solvents and, that these can form ultrathin metallic layers on substrates upon heat treatment.

Jayesh and Deepti's paper has been accepted in Langmuir. This article has also been selected to be featured in ACS Editor's Choice and it is an open access made by ACS. Many Congratulations to Jayesh and Deepti!!!