Ongoing Research

Our group at IIT Gandhinagar is devoted to develop catalysts for sustainable solution in terms of mitigating carbon-di-oxide and valorization of biomass. We mainly use electrochemistry and photo- electrochemistry to carry out the transformations and understand the underlying mechanism. Several spectroscopic tools are also used to elucidate the mechanism; identify and characterize the catalyst and the transformed products. Currently, our research goals are following:

(i) Photoelectrochemical biomass oxidation
(ii) CO2 reduction beyond C1 products
(iii) Electrochemical N-N bond formation
(iv) Development of anodic catalysts for acidic water electrolysis
(v) Role of electron proton transfer mediators in catalysis

1. “Unraveling the Mechanisms of Electrocatalytic Oxygenation and Dehydrogenation of Organic Molecules to Value-Added Chemicals Over a Ni–Fe Oxide Catalyst”. Biswajit Mondal, Neeta Karjule, Chanderpratap Singh, Ran Shimoni, Michael Volokh, Idan Hod and Menny Shalom* .Advanced Energy Materials 11 (2021): 2101858.

2. “Elucidation of Factors That Govern the 2e- /2H+ vs. 4e- /4H+ Selectivity of Water Oxidation by a Cobalt Corrole”. Biswajit Mondal, Samir Chattopadhyay, Subal Dey, Atif Mahammed, Kaustuv Mittra, Atanu Rana, Zeev Gross, and Abhishek Dey*. Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (2020): 21040 – 21049.

3. “Intermediates Involved in the 2e–/2H+ Reduction of CO2 to CO by Iron(0) Porphyrin”. Biswajit Mondal, Atanu Rana, Pritha Sen and Abhishek Dey*. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (2015): 11214−11217.