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Prof. Chanchal Chakraborty 

Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry

Conjugated Polymer, Electrochrmic smart windows, Energy Conversion, Energy storage devices, Fuel cells, Metal-organic hybrid materials, electrocatalysis
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Sponsored Projects

Ongoing Projects

1. SERB-CRG Project
Title: Development of Metal-organic polymeric nanostructure-based indicative electrochromic supercapattery: An energy storage smart window
Research Grant: 37.23 L
Funded by: DST-SERB, Govt. of India
Duration: March 2024- March 2027 
Role: As PI 
 
2. ICMR Project
Title: Development of Self-Powered Electrochromic SmartDisplay for Visual Detection of Folate Receptor Overexpressed Cancer Cells
Research Grant: 40.07 L
Funded by: ICMR, Govt. of India
Duration: February 2024- January 2027 
Role: As PI 
 
3. SERB-SURE Project
Title: Development of covalent organic framework-based Vis-to-NIR electrochromic smart windows for solar heat modulation
Research Grant: 29.956 L
Funded by: DST-SERB, Govt. of India
Duration: October 2023- September 2026 
Role: As PI 
 
2. DST-Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence (PURSE) 
Title: Waste-to-Energy: Technology Integration  for Production of Clean Energy from Organic Waste (Theme 3 for BITS Pilani) 
Research Grant: 581.27 L for Theme 3
Funded by: DST, Govt. of India
Duration: March 2022- March 2026 
Role: As Co-PI 
 
3. DRDO-LSRB
Title: Testing on-spot food quatity mainly focusing with detection of biogenic amines for the defence personnel using simple fluorophores 
Research Grant: 28.89 L 
Funded by: DRDO-LSRB
Duration: 10/09/2021 - 09/09/2024 
Role: As Co-PI
 
4. DRDO-Contract for Acquisition of Research Services (CARS)
Title: Synthesis and characterisation of virantage VW10200RFP
Research Grant: 15.03 L 
Funded by: DRDO-CARS
Duration: 18/10/2022 - 17/04/2024 
Role: As Co-PI
 

Completed Projects

1. Industry Sponsored Project by Hyderabad Battery Limited 
Title: Developing the Conducting Cathode Materials for Li-ion Batteries. 
Research Grant: 7 Lakhs
Funded by: Hyderabad Battery Ltd.
Duration: Dec. 2018 to Nov. 2019
Role: As co-PI  

 2. Industry Sponsored Project by Hyderabad Battery Limited

Title: Developing the Zn-air battery
Research Grant: 13 Lakhs
Funded by: Hyderabad Battery Ltd.
Duration: May 2019 to Apr. 2021
Role: As co-PI  
 
3. DST-INSPIRE Faculty Project 
Title: Nanostructured metallo-supramolecular polymers for stable ultrafast electrochromic display device 
Research Grant: 35 Lakhs
Funded by: DST, Govt. of India
Duration: 13th Nov. 2017-12th Nov 2022 
Role: As PI 
 
4  Research Initiation Grant 
Title: Metallo-supramolecular polymer based self-powered electrochromic devices
Research Grant: 2 Lakhs
Funded by: BITS Pilani
Duration: 03.03.2021 to 02.03.2023
Role: As PI
 
5.  Additional Competitive Research Grant
Title: Metallopolymer based electrochromic supercapattery: A dual performance smart windows
Research Grant: 10 Lakhs
Funded by: BITS Pilani
Duration: August 2021-August 2023 
Role: As PI