Emerging Nanomaterials for Catalysis and Sensor Applications

Anitha Varghese obtained her PhD from Mangalore University, Karnataka, India in 2007, under the supervision of Dr A.M.A. Khader. Her PhD work concerned the sensing of heavy metal ions in various alloy steels, minerals, biological, soil, and water samples. In 2008, she started her career in CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, where she is a professor. Her current research interests include electrocatalysis for organic transformations and developing electrochemical sensors for biomolecules, flavonoids, pollutants, and food adulterants. Gurumurthy Hegde obtained his PhD in liquid crystals in 2007 from the Centre for Nanomaterials and Soft Matter Science, Bengaluru. Expert in photoalignment and waste to wealth technologies, Dr Hegde has more than 18 years of R and D experience. His major research is in the field of liquid crystals, LCDs, nanoparticles, energy, water, and health. He has invented many concepts for aligning materials, waste to wealth technologies, and so forth. Presently he is working as the Director, Centre for Advanced Research and Development (CARD), CHRIST (Deemed to be University) and also as the Professor of Materials Science, Dept of Chemistry, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru. He has published more than 220 scientific publications and has more than 25 patents. He also has obtained more than 60 international awards and guided many PhD and MSc, MTech students.

Section I: Emerging Materials in Nanocatalysis

1. The Role of Nanomaterials in Sustainable Organic Synthesis. 2. Nanocatalysts in Oxidation and Sulfoxidation Reactions. 3. Correlation of Surface Properties and Catalytic Activity of Metal Aluminophosphates. 4. Carbon Supported Noble Metal Nanocatalysts for Liquid Phase Oxidation Reactions. 5. Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Visible Light Photocatalysis. 6. Progress in Photocatalysis for Hydrogen Evolution and Environmental Remediation.

Section II : Emerging Materials in Nanosensors

7. Nanostructured Materials for Sensors Applications. 8. Synthesis of Fluorescent Nanosensors for Biomedical Engineering. 9. Applications of Peptide Luminescent Nanosensors. 10. Graphene-Based Hybrid Nano Composites for Bio/Chemical Sensors. 11. Nanomaterial-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Vitamins and Hormones. 12. Economic Analysis, Environmental Impact, Future Prospects and Mechanistic Understandings of Nanosensors and Nanocatalysis.