Advanced Materials Research Group
School for Advanced Research in Polymers-ARSTPS
Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology (CIPET)
Former: Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET)
Chennai, India
News & Notice:
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2025: Congratulations!!! to Ms. Shruti for the Best Presentation Award at the National Conference on “Advances in Polymer Technology and Sustainable Materials (APTSM 2025)” organized by B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai held on October 15, 2025
2025: Congratulations!!! to Ms. Shruti for the Best Poster Presentation Award (Suppored by RSC) at the International Conference on Nano Structured Materials and Nanocomposites (ICN 2025) organized by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala between September 12-14, 2025.
2025: Congratulations!!! to Mr. Vijay for the Wiley Best Oral Presentation Award at the 8th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN-2025) organized by the Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science & Technology (Kattankulathur Campus), Chennai between 24th & 26th March, 2025.
2025: Congratulations to Dr. Alekhika Tripathy for her successful Ph.D. defense and best wishes for her future assignments.
2025: Congratulations!!! to Ms. Shruti for the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 3rd International Conference on Hierarchically Structured Materials (ICHSM – 2025) organized by the Department of Physics, SRM Institute of Science & Technology (Ramapuram Campus), Chennai between 6th and 7th February, 2025.
2025: Congratulations!!! to Ms. Shruti for the Best Poster Award at the 13th International Symposium on Electrochemical Science and Technology (iSAEST-13) jointly organized by SAEST, CECRI, and NIIST held at Uday Samudra, Leisure Beach Hotel, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from January 8 to 10, 2025.
2024: Congratulations to Dr. Siva for the Corrosion Awareness Award-2024 during the CORCON-2024 conference (20th -23rd November 2024) organized by AMPP Chapter India (NACE, India) at Chennai Trader Center, Chennai.
2024: Congratulations to Dr. Ankita Mohanty for her successful Ph.D. defense and best wishes for her future assignments.
2023: Congratulations to Dr. Siva for the Best Paper Award at the 20th National Conference On Corrosion Control held at Jenneys Residency, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu from December 7-9th, 2023
2023: Congratulations to Dr. Siva for being the winner of Best Popular Science Stories under the Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) Category in DST AWSAR-2022 Competition.
2023: Congratulations to Dr. Siva for the Senior Research Associateship.
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2022: Current Recruitment notification: Project Associate-I (PA-1) & Project Assistant (PA)
Applications are invited for the position of Project Associate-I (PA-1) & Project Assistant (PA) for the DST-ICMAP-Storage project under the guidance of Dr. R. Ananthakumar, at SARP-LARPM, CIPET, Bhubaneswar.
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​Last Date to Apply: 28.03.2022 to Asst. Admin, CIPET: SARP-LARPM, Bhubaneswar (By Post).
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​For application form, essential qualification & other details visit: www.cipet.gov.in.
2022: Congratulations!!! to Ms. Ankita for the Best Flash Presentation Award at Virtual 13th International Conference on “Advancement in Polymeric Materials (APM-2022)” at CIPET: SARP: ARSTPS, Chennai, India.
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2022: Welcome to our group Ms. Marion, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Germany as a DAAD-HAW intern.
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2022: Our article titled “Engineering of Thermally Converted 3D-NiO-Co3O4/Ni//3D-ϒ-Fe4N-C@Ni/SS Porous Electrodes for High-performance Supercapatteries" has been accepted for publication in Electrochimica Acta.
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2021: Our Article titled “Design of Open-Porous Three-Dimensional Starfish-like Co3O4/Ni Forest Electrode for Efficient Energy Storage Devices" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
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2021: Our Review article titled “Surface Functionalized Bioceramics Coated on Metallic Implants for Biomedical and Anticorrosion Performance – A Review" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry B.
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2021: Our Review article titled “Recent Trends in Template Assisted 3D Porous Materials for Electrochemical Supercapacitors" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
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2021: Our Review article titled “Fiber-shaped electronic devices" has been accepted for publication in Advanced Energy Materials.
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2021: Our Article titled “Renewable Banana-Peel-derived Activated Carbon as an Inexpensive and Efficient Electrode Material Showing Fascinating Supercapacitive Performance" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering.
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2021: Our Article titled “Emerging Action of Corrosion Prevention Based on Sustained Self-healing Coatings" has been accepted for publication in Surfaces and Interfaces.
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2021: Our Review article titled “Comprehensive Review on Flexoelectric Energy Harvesting Technology: Mechanisms, Device Configurations, and Potential Applications" has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Electronics Material.
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2021: Congratulations!!! to Ms. Alekhika for the Best Flash Presentation Award at Virtual 12th International Conference on “Advancement in Polymeric Materials (APM-2021)” at CIPET: SARP: LARPM, Bhubaneswar, India.
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2021: Welcome to our group Dr. Siva as a National Post-doctoral Fellow.
2020: Our Review article titled “An Extensive Review on Three Dimension Architectural Metal-Organic Frameworks towards Supercapacitor Application" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Power Sources.
2020: Congratulations!!! to Ms. Nilima for the Best Flash Presentation Award at 4th International Conference on Soft Materials at MNIT, Jaipur, India (Online Mode).
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2020: Congratulations!!! to Ms. Alekhika for the Best Flash Presentation Award at 4th International Conference on Soft Materials at MNIT, Jaipur, India (Online Mode).
2020: Received Best Researcher Award on University Foundation Day 2020, from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, (TEQIP-III, BPUT, Odisha Sponsored), on 21st November 2020.
2020: Our Article titled “Role of Electrolytes on the Electrochemical Characteristics of Fe3O4/MXene/RGO Composites for Supercapacitor Applications" has been accepted for publication in Electrochimica Acta.
2020: Congratulations!!! to Mr. Arun for the Best Poster Award at International Virtual Conference on “Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology” (FMT 2020) at KIIT, Bhubaneswar, India.
2020: Our Article titled “Three-Dimensional Bi2O3/Ti Microspheres as an Advanced Negative Electrode for Hybrid Supercapacitors" has been accepted for publication in ChemComm.
2020: Our Article titled “Effect of multi-step processing on the structural, morphological and dielectric behaviour of PVDF films" has been accepted for publication in Ionics.
2020: Our Article titled “Fabrication of cellulose acetate-chitosan based flexible 3D scaffold-like porous membrane for supercapacitor applications with PVA gel electrolyte” has been accepted for publication in Cellulose.
2020: Our Article titled “An approach towards the fabrication of energy harvesting device using Ca-doped ZnO/ PVDF-TrFE composite film" has been accepted for publication in Polymers.
2020: Our Article titled “Temperature-dependent dielectric properties of metal-doped ZnO nanofiller reinforced PVDF nanocomposites" has been accepted for publication in Materials Research Bulletin.
2020: Our Article titled “Rapid Synthesis of Vertically Aligned α-MoO3 Nanostructures on Substrates" has been accepted for publication in RSC Advances.
2020: Current Recruitment notification: Junior Research Fellow (JRF)
Applications are invited for the position of Junior Research Fellow (JRF) for the DST-SEED sponsored project entitled “Rationally Designed Flexible Three-Dimensional Interconnected Piezoelectric Composites Foam for Highly Efficient Mechanical Energy Harvesting” [SP/YO/2019/1432] under the guidance of Dr. R. Ananthakumar, at SARP-LARPM, CIPET, Bhubaneswar.
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​Last Date: 15.06.2020 to Asst. Admin, CIPET: SARP-LARPM, Bhubaneswar (larpmadmin@larpm.in).
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​For application form, essential qualification & other details visit: www.cipet.gov.in.
2020: Our Article titled "Enhanced Dielectric and Piezoelectric Properties of Fe-doped ZnO/PVDF-TrFE Composite Films" has been accepted for publication in Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing.
2020: Our Article titled "Stacking-free porous graphene network for high capacitive performance” has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
2020: Our Article titled " Construction of Three-Dimensional MnO2/Ni Network as an Efficient Electrode Material for High Performance Supercapacitors" has been accepted for publication in Electrochimica Acta.
2020: Our Review Article titled " Comprehensive Insight into the Mechanism, Material Selection and Performance Evaluation of Supercapatteries and their Future Aspects" has been accepted for publication in Nano-Micro Letters.
2020: Congratulations!!! to Mr. Arun for the Best Poster Award at 11th International Conference on “Advancement in Polymeric Materials (APM-2020)” at CIPET: SARP: APDDRL, Bengaluru, India.
2019: Congratulations!!! Ms. Nilima availed TEEP@Asiaplus internship to NDHU, Taiwan.
2019: Congratulations!!! to Mr. Arun for the Best Poster Award at 64th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium at IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
2019: Our Article titled "Wire-Shaped 3D-Hybrid Supercapacitors as Substitutes for Batteries" has been accepted for publication in Nano-Micro Letters.
2019: Our Article titled "Investigation of the Electro-Active Phase Content and Dielectric Behaviour of Mechanically Stretched PVDF-GO and PVDF-rGO Composites" has been accepted for publication in Materials Research Bulletin.
2019: Congratulations!!! to Ms. Ankita for the Best Poster Award at 2nd International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICNAN'19) at VIT, Vellore, India.
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2019: Congratulations!!! Rasmi & Sanjit for Trash to Energy Presentation at Innovation Festival, 2019, Regional Science Centre, Bhubaneswar.
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2019: Congratulations!!! Best Poster Award at International Conference of Advanced Materials Science (ICAMS-2019).
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2019: Our Article titled "Nickel-Zinc Sulfide Nanocomposite Thin Film as an Efficient Cathode Material for High-Performance Hybrid Supercapacitors" has been accepted for publication in Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing.
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2019: Our Review Article titled "A review on inkjet printing of nanoparticle ink for flexible electronics" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
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2019: Dr. R. Ananthakumar nominated to CHINAPLAS 2019, Guangzhou, China.
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2019: Guest Editorial pages “Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies” has been accepted for publication in Nanomaterials.
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2018: Congratulations!!! Ms. Ankita availed TWAS internship to Taiwan.
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2018: Congratulations!!! Ms. Ankita received DST-Inspire fellowship for PhD programme.