CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Faculty

Congratulations to Seena and Abhijith, work is accepted in NJC
Congratulations Nikhita !!! Best Poster presentation award at Somaiya Polymer Science Symposium (Oct 2024).
Heartiest congratulations to Tanuja for successfully defending her Ph.D. Thesis on 23rd Sept. 2024. Welcome to the DOCTOR's club Tanuja!!!

Congtratulations to Maulali and co-authors, J. Macromol. Sci. Part A, accepted.
Heartiest congratulations to Rajkumar for successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis on 18th Sept. 2024. Welcome to the DOCTOR's club Rajkumar!!!

Congratulations to Kishor Khopade and Nikhita, their work on waste polyethylene to olefins has been accepted in Green Chemistry
Congratualtions to Rohit on his Research Associate position at Bharat Petroleum corporation Limited (BPCL)!
Congratulations to Raghavendra on securing a post-doctoral fellowship at the university of Toronto!
Congaratulations to Rohit on succesfully defending his viva voce presentation and earning his doctorate!!!
Congratulations, Amol, on the acceptance of your manuscript in Chem. Eur. J.!!!
Congratulations to Rohit and Tanuja on having their review article accepted in ChemCatChem!
Congratulations Anirban, Tanuja and Rohit !!! Catalysis Science & Technology.
Congratulations POMCAT group for consecutive wins of the Best Safety Complaince Lab Award, bagging the recognition once again!!!
Congratulations Rohit for recieved best research scholar award in catalysis, CSIR-NCL Science day 2024.
Congratulations Amol !!! Best Poster presentation award at IFSC 2023, Hosted by IISER-TVM, Kerala.
Rohan recieved an appreciation award at SPSI-MACRO 2023 for his outstanding performance on the melodica. Congratulations to Rohan on this well-deserved recognition!!!
Congratulation Rajkumar, for best oral presentation award at SPSI-MACRO 2023 hosted by IIT-Guwahati, Assam.
Congratulations Rajkumar !!! One more Polymer Chemistry.
Heartiest congratulations Kishor!!! NCL-RF 2023 best oral presentation award.
Heartfelt congratulations on the acceptance of Rohit's paper in the Journal of Chemical Science!!
Congratulations Rajkumar and team on the successful review! Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A : Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Congratulations on the acceptance of Tanuja's paper in ChemCatChem:The european society journal for catalysis.
Congratulations Tanuja!!! Paper has been accepted in Catalysis Science & Technology.
Congratulations Uday!!! Paper has been accepted in ACS Applied Polymer Material.
Congratulations Rajkumar!!! Paper has been accepted in Polymer chemistry.
Congratulations Anirban and Rohit !!! Paper has been accepted in Chemistry A European Journal.
Congratulations Anirban!!! Successfully defended Ph.D. viva voce examination 29^th May 2023.
POMCAT group received first prize for the " Best Safety Compliance Lab Award" during national safety week 2023.
Kishor and Dr. Barsu's review entitled as "Metal Catalysed Plastic Depolymerization" has been accepted in Cell Reports Physical Science!!!
Congratulations Rohit for the best poster presentation award. National Science Day 2023 !!!
Tanuja and Rohit's paper has been accepted in ChemCatChem, congratulations Tanuja and Rohit!!!
Dr. Samir H. Chikkali has been invited to serve as an Associate Editor of "Bulletin of Materials Science", a Springer Nature Group journal run by Indian Academy of Science. Dr. Chikkali has accepted the invitation and will take charge from 1st Jan. 2023; Heartiest Congratulations!!
Heartiest congratulations Dnyaneshwar, Eur. Polym. J. has been accepted!!!
Pleased to announce that Dr. Nilesh Mote, former member of POMCAT has been appointed as "Asst. Manager Petrochemicals and Polymers" by HPCL Green R&D Centre, Bangaluru. Heartiest congratulations to Nilesh for this well deserved appointment.
Congratulations to Anirban for Eur. J. Org. Chem. article.
Heartiest congratulations to Rohit, J. Organomet. Chem. Accepted!!!
Anirban's paper as corresponding author has been accepted in "Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry", he is the first member of POMCAT to have this distinction. Congratulations Anirban!!!
Heartiest congratulations to Vijay, Amol and Nilesh, "J. Chem. Sci" accepted!!
Congratulations Swechchha and Bhausaheb, "Green Chem." accepted!!
Heartiest congratulations to Tanuja, Rohit and Amol for their review in "The Chemical Record".
Dr. Samir H. Chikkali and team (Mr. Ravindra Gote, Dr. Dipa Mandal, Dr. Ketan Patel, Mr. Krishnaroop Chaudhuri, Dr. C. P. Vinod and Dr. Ashish K. Lele) has been has been confered with the “10th National Award for Technology Innovation” in the category of “Innovations in Polymeric Materials” for their work on disentangled ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene by Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizers. Heartiest congratulations to team!!!
Society of Polymer Science India, recongizes our research with Professor Kishore Memorial Award 2020. Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Chikkali.
Congratulations Nilesh, your paper has been accepted in Dalton Transactions!!!
Rajkumar's review has been accepted in Eur. Polym. J.; congratulations Rajkumar and keep up the good work.
A long awaited review by Ketan has been accepted in top polymer journal, Prog. Polym. Sci. Heartiest congratulations Ketan.
Congratulations Shahaji, your paper has been accepted in ChemPlusChem!
Bhausaheb's paper has bee accepted in Eur. Polym. J.; heartiest congratulations.
Nilesh leaves the group and joins HP Green R and D Bengaluru as a Research Associate.
Heartiest congratulations Kishor and co-authors, Cover page for Asian J. Org. Chem. accepted.
Satej leaves the group and joins TCGL Kolkata as a Research Scientist, All the best Dr. Satej.
Heartiest congratulations Kishor and co-authors, Asian J. Org. Chem. accepted!!!
Heartiest congratulations Satej, Chem. Asian J. accepted!!!
Satej successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on 14th Nov. 2019, Congratulations, now Dr. Satej!!!!!!!
Nilesh successfully defended Ph.D. viva voce examination, congratulations to Nilesh!!!!
Bhausaheb successfully defended viva voce, congratulations to Bhausaheb!!!!
Shahaji succesfully defended viva voce, heartiest congratulations Shahaji!!!!
Nilesh has given oral presentation in ICSIC-II, IISER Pune.
Satej and Shahaji's paper has been accepted in ACS Omega (invited), heartiest congratulations!!
Shailaja joins group as a PA-II, Welcome Shailaja.
Uday joins group as PA-II, Welcome Uday!!!
Nilesh has given oral talk in MACRO-2018 at IISER Pune, India.
Anirban bags a poster award at CSIR-NCL Sciecne Day celebration, heartiest congratulations Anirban!!!
NCL-RF Dr. Paul Ratnasamy & Dr. Ms. Suneeta B. Kulkarni best paper award goes to Swechchha; Congratulations to Swechchha.
Heartiest congratulations to Nilesh for recieving "Best Speaker" award in NCL-RF Annual Students Conference!!!
Nilesh gave an oral presentation in NCL-RF Annual Students Conference at NCL, Pune!!
Ravi leaves the group and joins Prof. Rastogi at Maastricht University, The Netherlands to pursue his Ph.D. All the best to Ravi.
Congratulations Nilesh, Focus Review has been selected as a Cover Feature in Chem. Asian J.
Swechchha bids adieu to the group, joins Prof. de Vries at LIKAT, Germany; All the best Swechchha!!!
Congratulations to Nilesh, Chem. Asian J. has been accepted.
Heartiest congratulations to Vijay and Ravi, Eur. J. Org. Chem. has been accepted.
Rajkumar joins group as INSPIRE Fellow, Welcome again rajkumar!!
Vijay moves on to join Prof. Titiana Besset in France, all the best Vijay!
Vijay's RSC book chapter received the ISBN, congratulations
Swechchha successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis, congratulations Swechchha!!!
Rajkumar Joins the group as a PA-II, welcome Rajkumar!!
Tanuja joins group as a JRF, welcome tanuja!
Vijay defends his thesis, congratulations Vijay!!!
Amol joins the group as a JRF, welcome Amol.
Our "guest editor" july 2018 issue in the J. Chem. Sci. is now available.
Dr. Sandip Pawal joins group as RA, Welcome Sandip!!!!
Heartiest congratulations to Ravi, Dipa and Ketan, Macromolecules has been accepted!
Congratulations to Bhausaheb, J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. has been accepted.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. has been accept, heartiest congratulations to Swechchha!!!!!
Kishor joins the group as a PA-II, welcome Kishor!!
Ravi wins the Science day "Best Poster" award in the category of Polymer Science and Engineering, Congratulations Ravi!!
Dr. Chikkali has been elected as "Young Associate" by Maharashtra Academy of Science, Congratulations!!!
CSIR-NCL honors Dr. Chikkali with "Scientist of the Year Award 2016-2017", heartiest congratulations!!!
Heartiest congratulations Nilesh, "Inorg. Chem." has been accepted.
Congratulations to Vijay and Anirban, manuscript to "Dalton Trans." has been just accepted.
We are pleased to announce release of "Metal Catalyzed Polymerization: Fundamentals to Applications" a book published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, and edited by Dr. Samir H. Chikkali. https://www.routledge.com/Metal-Catalyzed-Polymerization-Fundamentals-to-Applications/Chikkali-Ambade-Bruin-Shaver/p/book/9781498767576
Second paper this year for Satej; heartiest congratulations Satej for "J. Chem. Sci. (India)".
Shahaji gets "Macromolecules", heartiest congratulations!!!
Second ChemCatChem for Swechchha, heartiest congratulations!!!
Bhausaheb, congratulations once again, your "Green Materials" has been accepted!!!
Congratulation to Ketan, Satej and Dnyaneshwar, their work on "benoxazinones" has been accepted in J. Org. Chem.
Vijay presented a poster on "Enantioselective synthesis of P-stereogenic supramolecular phosphines and their implication in asymmetric hydrogenation", in The Netherlands' Catalysis and Chemistry Conference (NCCC) @ The Netherlands.
Heartiest congratulations to Satej for receiving the best poster award during Science day celebrations @ NCL.
Dr. Samir Chikkali delivers a talk on "Advances in Biochemistry" (ABC 2017) @ Sinhgad College of Science, Ambegaon, Pune, India.
Congratutations to Vijay for receiving travel grant from SERB-DST to present his work in NCCC (http://www.n3c.nl/), The Netherlands.
Satej presented a poster in MACRO 2017 @ Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Swechchha gave an oral presentation in MACRO 2017 @ Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Dr. Samir Chikkali delivers an invited talk on “ Engineering The Modus Operandi Of (Organo)metallic Transformations Through secondary Interactions” in SABIC 2017 @ Kolkata India.
Vijay presented a poster in ICOS 21 @ IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
Anirban presented a poster in ICOS 21 @ IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
We welcome Dr. Dipa Mandal, Research Associate in our group.
Welcome Ravi, once again, this time as Project Assitant.
Vijay's paper has been accepted in "CrystEngCommun" heartiest congratulations.
We welcome the new group member, Mr. Rohit Kumar.
Dr. Sandeep Netalkar Joins the group.
Heartiest Congratulations to Bhausaheb, his work on "Synthesis of renewable copolyacetals with tunable degradation" has been accepted in "Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics".
Dr. Samir Chikkali delivers an invited talk at Karnatak University, Dharwad, India (http://icddmap.ipleiria.pt/keynote-speakers/)
Vijay and Nilesh's paper has been accepted in "Organometallics", Heartiest Congratulations.
Dr. Samir Chikkali has been honored with "Outstanding Reviewer Award-2015" by Wiley-VCH.
Shahaji's paper has been accepted in "ACS Macro Lett.' Congratulations Shahaji.
POMCAT CONGRATULATES Ketan for the Independent "DST Young Scientist Fellowship".
Swechchha's paper has been accepted in ChemCatChem, Congratulations Swechchha.
We welcome the new group members, Anirban and Dnyaneshwar.
Dr.Samir Chikkali delivers invited lecture in MACRO-2015 in Kolkata: http://macro2015.org/main/.
Congratulation to Mr. Bhausaheb Rajput, a world patent has been granted to him WO 2014/181358 A2.
We welcome our new member Ravi, a master student from SP University of Pune!
Bhausaheb's paper about "Sustainable polyacetals from isohexides" is accepted by Green Chem.; Congratulations Bhausaheb!!!
Shahaji won the best poster award during NCL Science day celebrations; our heartiest congratulation.
Heartiest congratulations to Bhausaheb for the best poster award by NMU in a conference GOLD-CT-2014.
Vijay and Shahaji's paper is accepted in " Coord. Chem. Rev." our heartiest congratulations.
Our paper is accepted in " Coord. Chem. Rev."
Shahaji and Satej's paper is accepted in "J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem." our heartiest congratulations!
Heartiest congratulations to Mr. Bhausaheb Rajput for successfully defending his M. Tech. Thesis and 2nd rank in the University.
Our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Samir Chikkali for the "Ramanujan Fellowship".