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About DST-PURSE:
“Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence (PURSE)” is one of the top infrastructure development programs of Department of Science and Technology (DST), India. This was started in 2009 exclusively for Indian Universities. The core objectives of this program is to strengthen the research capacity of the active R&D based Indian Universities and to provide financial support for nurturing the research ecosystem in the country. Department of Science & Technology, India has restructured and re-oriented PURSE in the year 2020. A dedicated Program Management Board comprising eminent academicians is involved in the process of evaluation of fresh proposals, reviews the technical progress, etc. A cumulative weightages of i10 index of faculty members, H index of the University along with NIRF Ranking are considered for selection of Universities under PURSE program. Department of Science and Technology, India has encouraged the Universities to carry out their research activities in Mission mode focusing on thrust areas closely aligned with national priorities such as start-up India, Make in India, Atmanirbhar India etc. Money was also allocated for developing startup and industry collaboration, to train manpower, internships, etc.

For more information’s please visit:
https://dst.gov.in/promotion-university-research-and-scientific-excellencepurse

Dibrugarh University PURSE details:

The Dibrugarh University, Assam has been awarded the DST-PURSE project
in the year 2023.
Title of the Project: Designing multifunctional nanostructured materials
for catalysis, energy and biological applications
Total amount: INR 10.76 Crore
Duration: 2023-2027.

In this DST-PURSE program Dibrugarh University has under taken several multi-disciplinary research objectives aligned to National Missions/ priorities. Under this program, the university is going to develop various instrumental infrastructures viz: High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (HRTEM), High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC), Electrochemical workstation, Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometer (GCMS), Liquid -Nitrogen plant.

Honourable Vice Chancellor of Dibrugarh University, Prof. Jiten Hazarika, receiving the DST PURSE award from Dr. Jitender Singh, Honourable Minister of Science and Technology, India

Project Implementation group (PIG)
S. No.	Name and Designation	Affiliation & Email IDs	DST-PURSE role
1	Prof. J. Hazarika,	Vice-Chancellor, Dibrugarh University (D.U.), Email: [email protected]	Chairperson
2	Prof. Pankaj Das, FRSC	Department ofChemistry, D.U., Email: [email protected]	PURSE COORDINATOR;
3	Prof. D. Chetia	Dean, R & D, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
4	Prof. L. R. Saikia	Professor & Dean, School of Biological Sciences, Dept.ofLife Sciences, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
5	Prof. K. Bhuyan	Professor & IQAC Director, Dept. ofPhysics, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
6	Prof. (Mrs) G. Borah	Professor & Head, Dept. ofChemistry, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
7	Prof. P. Saikia	Professor & Head, Dept ofPhysics, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
8	Prof. S. Borkotokey	Dean Student and Affairs, Dept ofMathematics, D.U., Email:[email protected]	Member
9	Prof. D. Sarma	Professor, Dept. ofChemistry, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
10	Prof.(Mrs) S. Borgohain Gogoi	Professor, Department ofPetroleum Technology D.U. Email ID : [email protected]	Member
11	Prof. M. Das	Professor & Head, Dept ofPharmaceutical Sciences, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
12	Prof. B. Mazumdar	Professor, Dept ofPharmaceutical Sciences, D.U. Email: [email protected]	Member
13	Prof. B. Kakoti	Director, Centre forBiotechnology and Bioinformatics, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
14	Dr. R. Kar	Associate Professor, Dept of Chemistry, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
15	Dr. P. Chetia	Associate Professor, Dept.ofLife Sciences, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
16	Dr. A. Baruah	Assistant Professor, Dept. ofChemistry, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member
17	Dr. A.T.T. Mostako	Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics, D.U., Email: [email protected]	Member

The Project Working Committee (PWC) is constituted with the following faculty members. The faculty members from various departments will actively participate to realize the research objectives of DST PURSE Project at the host institute/organization.

S. No	Name	Affiliation
1	Prof. Pankaj Das, FRSC	Dept. of Chemistry, DST-PURSE Coordinator
2	Prof. (Mrs) G. Borah	Head, Dept. of Chemistry
3	Prof. P. Saikia	Head, Dept of Physics
4	Prof. S. Borkotokey	Dept of Mathematics
5	Prof. D. Sarma	Dept. of Chemistry
6	Prof.(Mrs) S. Borgohain Gogoi	Head, Department of Petroleum Technology
7	Prof. B. Mazumdar	Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences
8	Prof. B. Kakoti	Director, Centre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
9	Prof. A. Bharali	Dept of Mathematics
10	Dr. R. Kar	Dept of Chemistry
11	Dr. P. Chetia	Dept. of Life Sciences
12	Dr. B. Chetia	Dept of Chemistry
13	Dr. S. Konwar	Dept of Chemistry
14	Dr. P Dutta	Dept of Physics
15	Dr. G. S. Das	Dept of Physics
16	Dr. P. Dutta	Dept of Mathematics
17	Dr (Mrs). B. Kalita	Dept of Physics
18	Dr. (Mrs) B. Pathak	Dept of Physics
19	Dr. J. Saikia	Dept of Chemistry
20	Dr. P. Khakhlary	Dept of Chemistry
21	Dr. K. Deori	Dept of Chemistry
22	Dr. A. Baruah	Dept of Chemistry
23	Dr. B. Mesh	Department of Petroleum Technology
24	Dr. P. Mudoi	Dept. of Chemistry
25	Dr. H. R. Bhat	Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences
26	Dr. B. Bhuyan	Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences
27	Dr. G. Sarmah	Dept of Chemistry, DUIET
28	Dr. R. Nath	Dept. of Life Sciences
29	Dr. S. Rajkhowa	Centre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
30	Dr. K.Goswami	Dept of Statistics
31	Dr. A.T.T. Mostako	Dept of Physics, Convener

Project Staff:

Name of Project Staff and Designation	Dept.	Objectives	Group leaders	Email id.
Jyotishma Boruah Project Associate 2 (SRF)	Chemistry	Nanomaterials for hydrogen evolution and dehydrogenative coupling reactions (P-04)	Prof. Pankaj Das Prof. G. Borah	[email protected]
Jyotismita Bora Project Associate 2 (SRF)	Chemistry	Transition metal oxides/sulphides based materials for water splitting, energy device and sensor application. (P-05)	Dr. Bolin Chetia Dr. Prithiviraj Khakhlary	[email protected]
Madhusmita Baruah Project Associate 2 (SRF)	Chemistry	Application of nanomaterials in biology/drug deliver/enhance oil recovery (P-06)	Dr. Jiban saikia Prof. Diganta Sarma	[email protected]
Sumon Boro Project Associate 1 (JRF)	Physics	Perovskite based materials for catalysis and solar cell application (P-01)	Dr. A.T.T. Mostako Dr. P. P. Mudoi	[email protected]
Masshuda Madni khatun Project Associate 1 (JRF)	Chemistry	Metal organic frameworks, layer double hydroxide or graphene based materials for catalysis, energy device and environmental application. (P-02)	Dr. Kalyanjyoti Deori Dr. Surajit Konwar	[email protected]
Ms. Rituparna Hazarica Project Associate 1 (JRF)	Physics	Computational Study (P-03)	Dr. Bulumoni Kalita Dr. Anupaul Baruah	[email protected]

Brief description about infrastructure to be created:

HRTEM (200KV) with STEM-HAADF, EDS.
High Performance Computer Cluster
GCMS
Liquid Nitrogen Generator
Electrochemical Work station

More details about the equipments will be updated soon.

Title of the Project: Designing multifunctional nanostructured materials for catalysis, energy and biological applications

The broad objectives of the project are as follows:

Synthesis of transition metal-organic frameworks (MOF), graphene or graphene like nanocomposites for energy efficient optoelectronic device applications, chemical sensors, water remediation, etc.
To synthesize tunable perovskite Quantum Dots (QDs) of transition Metal Oxide (TMO) for solar cell, LED, and gas sensor application.
To characterize nanostructure materials by various techniques such as FTIR, BET surface area, XRD, XPS, ICP, HRTEM, HAADF, FESEM, VSM, DTA-TGA, etc.
To explore catalytic potentials of nanophasic materials for evolution of H2 from alcohol (including biomass-based), photocatalytic water splitting , oxidation, hydrogenation, cross-coupling reaction, etc.
To investigate the synthesized nanomaterials as potentiel drug delivery candidates, and to study the interaction of loading and release of drug molecules using molecular docking and other computational methods.
To synthesize Layer Double Hydroxides (LDH) based nanocomposites for controlled delivery of soil relevant agrochemicals, etc.
Some of the nanostructured materials will also be explored for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) from depleted oil reservoirs of Upper Assam basins.

To be updated soon

Prof. Pankaj Das

PURSE COORDINATOR,

Department of Chemistry, Dibrugarh University,

Email: [email protected]