1st July 2009-continued
Senior scientist
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune-411 008, India
4th April 2005- 30th June 2009
Scientist
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune-411 008, India
October 2002-March 2005
Post Doctoral Fellow (Collaborator: Prof. S. Hariharan)
Functional Materials Laboratory, Department of Physics
University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl
December 2000-September 2002
Post Doctoral Fellow (Collaborator: Prof. Gil Markovich)
Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry
Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Publications
Subha Sadhu And Pankaj Poddar, Growth of oriented single crystalline La-doped TiO2 nanorod arrays electrode and investigation of optoelectronic properties for enhanced photoelectrochemical activity, RSC Advances., 3, 10363 - 10369 (2013), DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3RA40746B.
Dheeraj K. Singh, Ramya Jagannathan, Puneet Khandelwal, Priya Abraham And Pankaj Poddar, In situ synthesis and surface functionalization of gold nanoparticles with curcumin and their antioxidant properties: an experimental and density functional theory investigation, Nanoscale., 5, 1882 - 1893 (2013), DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2nr33776b.
Ramya Jagannathan, Priya Abraham And Pankaj Poddar, Temperature-Dependent Spectroscopic Evidences of Curcumin in Aqueous Medium: A Mechanistic Study of Its Solubility and Stability, J. Phys. Chem. B., 116, 14533 - 14540 (2012), DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp3050516.
Raja Das, Pradip Pachfule, Rahul Banerjee And Pankaj Poddar, Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis from Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs): finding the border of Metal and Metal Oxides, Nanoscale., 4, 591 - 599 (2012), DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c1nr10944h.
Research Interest
Physical Chemistry
Materials Chemistry including Nanomaterials
Analytical Chemistry
Surface Science
Materials Chemistry
Nanoscience & Technology
Nanocatalysis
General Physical chemistry
Contact Details
Dr. Pankaj Poddar
Senior Scientist
Office:Room no-234 Main building, Physical &Materials Chemistry Division
Labs: 221 (wet chemistry and microbiology lab), 234 (Physical Property Measurement Setup etc.), 297 (Spectroscopic ellipsometry etc.) Main Building
National Chemical Laboratory
Dr. Homi Bhabha Road
Pune 411008, India
Phone +91-20-2590-2580 (office)
Fax +91-20-2590-2636
E-mail p.poddar@ncl.res.in