March 2023: Shivshankar's paper on Solvation structure and dynamics of a small ion in an organic electrolyte published in Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry as part of the VSI "Anunay Samanta Festschrift".

February 2023: Srijan's paper on Does Variation in Composition Affect Dynamics When Approaching the Eutectic Composition? published in The Journal of Chemical Physics as part of the VSI "Celebrating 25 Years of Two-dimensional Infrared (2D IR) Spectroscopy".

January 2023: Akhil Pathania joins the group as PhD student.

December 2022: Shivshankar's paper on Elucidation of pH-Induced Protein Structural Changes: A Combined 2D IR and Computational Approach published in Biochemistry. 

December 2022: Tapas's paper on Blue Fluorescence of Cyano-tryptophan Predicts Local Electrostatics and Hydrogen Bonding in Biomolecules published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B as part of the VSI "Steven Boxer Festschrift".

October 2022: Srijan's paper on Does Viscosity Drive the Dynamics in an Alcohol- Based Deep Eutectic Solvent? published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

March 2022: Samadhan's paper on Ligand Dynamics Timescales identify the Surface-Ligand interactions in Thiocyanate-capped Cadmium Sulfide nanocrystals published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

March 2022: Tubai Chowdhury joins the group as PhD student. 

Jan 2022: Deborin's paper on Association-Dissociation Dynamics of Ionic Electrolytes in Low Dielectric Medium published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B as part of the VSI "Kankan Bhattacharyya Festschrift".

Jan 2022: Sushil Sakpal successfully completes his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Sushil Sakpal! He will soon be joining the lab of Dr. Ralph Jimenez as a post Doctoral Fellow at JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder. All the best for future endeavors!

20^th Sep 2021: Tapas Haldar successfully completes his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Tapas Haldar! He will soon be joining the lab of Dr. Brian Dyer as a Post Doctoral Fellow at Emory University. All the best for future endeavors!

Sep 2021:  Sushil's paper on Transition of a Deep Eutectic Solution to Aqueous Solution: A Dynamical Perspective of the Dissolved Solute published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Mar 2021: Sushil's paper on The Curious Case of Aqueous Warfarin: Structural Isomers or Distinct Excited States? has been accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Jan 2021: Shivshankar M. Kore joins the group as PhD student.

Sep 2020: Somnath M. Kashid successfully completes his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Somnath Kashid! 

Apr 2020: Srijan's paper on Electrostatic Manifestation of Micro-Heterogeneous Solvation Structures in Deep-Eutectic Solvents: A Spectroscopic Approach has been accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Jan 2020: Arathi M B joins the group as M.Sc. project student.

Jan 2020: Srijan Chatterjee joins the group as PhD student.

Dec 2019: Pranab Deb successfully completes his PhD.

Oct 2019: Srijan's paper on Hydrocarbon Chain-Length Dependence of Solvation Dynamics in Alcohol-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents: A Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopic Investigation has been accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Sep 2019: The paper on Arresting an Unusual Amide Tautomer Using Divalent Cations has been accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 

Aug 2018: The paper on Interconverting Hydrogen-Bonding and Weak n → π* Interactions in Aqueous Solution: A Direct Spectroscopic Evidence has been accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Jul 2018: Samadhan H. Deshmukh joins the group as PhD student.

Nov 2017: Srijan Chatterjee joins the group as Project Assistant.

Jun 2017:  Saumya Satyarthy and Aman Agrawal join the group as a summer project student.

Mar 2017:  The paper on Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy Reveals Cosolvent-Composition-Dependent Crossover in Intermolecular Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Jul 2016:  Sushil S Sakpal joins the group as PhD student.

Jul 2016:  Tapas Haldar joins the group as PhD student.

Jun 2016:  Mohidh K M successfully completes his summer project.

Jun 2016:  The paper on Pick and Choose the Spectroscopic Method to Calibrate the Local Electric Field inside Proteins got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Jun 2016:  The paper on Electrostatic Interactions Are Key to C=O n-pi* Shifts: An Experimental Proof got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

May 2016:  Mohidh K M joins the group as a summer project student.

Apr 2016:  The paper on Correlating Nitrile IR Frequencies to Local Electrostatics Quantifies Noncovalent Interactions of Peptides and Proteins got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Dec 2015:  The paper on Co-Solvent’s Effect on Solute-Solvent Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics: Ultrafast 2D IR Investigations got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Aug 2015:  Somnath M. Kashid joins the group as PhD student.

Jul 2015:  Sandeep Kesh successfully completes his summer project.

May 2015:  Sandeep Kesh joins the group as a summer project student.

May 2015:  The paper on Measuring Equilibrium Ultrafast Structural and Conformational Dynamics in Bio-molecules: A Two Dimensional Infrared (2D-IR) Spectroscopic Approach got accepted in Science Letters.

Nov 2014:  The paper on Extreme Electric Fields Power Catalysis in the Active Site of Ketosteroid Isomerase got accepted in Science.

Nov 2014:  The paper on The non-uniform early structural response of globular proteins to cold denaturing conditions: A case study with Yfh1 got accepted in The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Sep 2014:  The paper on Experimental determination of the Electrostatic Nature of Carbonyl Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions Using IR-NMR Correlations got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

July 2014:  Partha Pratim Roy successfully completes his summer project.

May 2014:  Shamjitha C successfully completes her MSc research project. 

May  2014:  Partha Pratim Roy joins the group as a summer project student.

Mar 2014:   Anita Buge and Mousumi Mahato successfully complete their M.Sc. research projects. 

Jan 2014:  The paper on Simultaneous observation of multiple ultrafast dynamic processes for a dicarbonyl compound by two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy got accepted in Science Letters.

Jan  2014:  Tapas Haldar joins the group as Project Assistant.

Jan 2014:   Shamjitha C joins the group as a M.Sc. project student.

Dec 2013:   Pranab Deb joins the group as PhD student.

Sep 2013:   Anita Buge and Mousumi Mahato join the group as M.Sc. project students.

Jul  2013:   Somnath M. Kashid joins the group as Project Assistant.

May 2013:  Dinya Mathew successfully completes her M.Sc. research project. 

Jan 2013:   Dinya Mathew joins the group as a M.Sc. project student.

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