Hyderabad: NASI fellowships to two IICT scientists

The Fellowships recognizes for their pioneering contributions to environmental bioengineering, circular bioeconomy and excitonic solar cells particularly dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells respectively.

Hyderabad: Dr. S. Venkata Mohan, Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering, and Dr. L. Giribabu, Department of Polymers and Functional Materials, from Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), were conferred the Fellowship of The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) during NASI annual convention held recently at IISER Bhopal.

The Fellowships recognizes for their pioneering contributions to environmental bioengineering, circular bioeconomy and excitonic solar cells particularly dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells respectively.

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For over two decades, Dr. Mohan has focused on biotechnologies for bioenergy and resource recovery from waste and wastewater, microbial electrochemical systems, hybrid fermentation, renewable chemicals and fuels, algal-based products, decarbonization technologies and wastewater-based epidemiology.

Dr. Giribabu has focused on the development of low-cost, efficient and durable materials particularly sensitizers, redox couples, hole transporting materials, cathode materials for excitonic solar cells. Further, the sensitizers that developed for solar cells have successfully applied for photodynamic therapy of cancer, non-linear optical properties.