Aqueous Geochemistry and Nanomaterials Lab
Funded projects
Funded Projects
2025
ISRO
INR 28,50,000
Integrating Remote Sensing and Experimental Studies to Assess Wildfire Impacts on Soil and Water Quality
PI: Prof. Nitin Khandelwal, Co-PI: Prof. Sumit Sen, PC: Dr. Tarik Mitran (NRSC)
ISRO-IITR STC
2025
ANRF/ECRG
INR 59,98,440
Targeting Antibiotics in the Ganga River Basin: Monitoring, Geochemical Fate, and Nano-Enabled Degradation Using Eco-Friendly Redox-Active Composites
PI: Prof. Nitin Khandelwal
ANRF/ECRG
2024
NPTEL
INR 4,00,000
Designing nano-enabled water-warriors and their optimization for complex environmental conditions
PI: Prof. Nitin Khandelwal
NPTEL Post Baccalaureate/Pre Doc Fellowships Grant
2024
IIT Roorkee
INR 20,00,000
Microwave synthesized eco-friendly nanomaterials for ultrafast water purification and resource recovery
PI: Prof. Nitin Khandelwal
Faculty Initiation Grant
2024
Imperial College London
Designing nanoscale water-warriors for continuous water purification
PI: Prof. Nitin Khandelwal, IIT Roorkee & Prof. Mary Ryan, Imperial college London
Co-PI- Prof. Xie Fang, Imperial College London
2022
The Royal Society
£133,823
Nucleating redox-active iron-based nanostructures on porous substrates for developing next-generation water-warriors
Host- Prof. Mary Ryan, Imperial College London
2022
McGill University
Redox-active nanocomposites for degradation of organohalides
PI- Prof. Subhasis Ghoshal, McGill University
2019
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
3 Lacs
Modified Hydroxyapatite based adsorbents for permanent removal of Cr(VI) and other toxicants from contaminated groundwater
Other members- Dr. Gopala K Darbha, Mr. Jai Kishan Rajak, IISER K
2019
RRCAT India
EXAFS study on crystal incorporation of toxic metal ions in engineered phosphate minerals
PI- Dr. Gopala K Darbha, IISER Kolkata
2018
BARC, Bombay, India
Engineering non-0stoichiometric nano-hydroxyapatite for Uranium sequestration
PI- Dr. Sabyasachi Rout, BARC