Big cheers for Team India at the 57th International Chemistry Olympiad 2025 held in Dubai, UAE from July 5–14. India bags 2 Golds and 2 Silvers, securing 6th place in the overall medals tally among 90 countries and 354 participants! Congratulations to the entire team! 1/4

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Special Chemistry Seminar: Donald J. Leroy Graduate Prize in Physical Chemistry. Soumyajit Mitra will give an FOE Public Seminar on “Scaling Principles in Chemistry: Elucidating the Reaction Kernel,” July 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM. Learn more at uoft.me/ChemSeminars

Still waiting for a tennis player to hit a shot remotely close to this! Federer was an artist, ballerina and athlete all combined into one 🎾

Spectacular performance by the Indian team at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 held at Sunshine Coast, Australia from Jul 10-21, winning 3 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze! Congratulations Team India you make the nation proud!! #IMO2025, #Matholympiad.

🚀Skeletal editing of ketones using [1.1.1]propellane to access functionalized MCB-ketones and spirocyclic scaffolds is out ChemRxiv. A fantastic collaboration with Mykhailiuk Chem 🇺🇦. Thank you, Anusandhan National Research Foundation and IISc Bangalore, for the financial support. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

If anyone is interesting in learning about what's new in optical microscopy, I will be giving an India Bioimaging webinar this Friday the 25th of July at 3PM (link in the next post))

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Another one from the nanocage side we are excited about: Guest Exchange Amongst Distinct Water-Soluble Supramolecular Nanocages | ChemRxiv - go.shr.lc/3GKIu1g tremendous work by KISHAN K YADAV Tata Institute of Fundamental Research wonderful Collab with Daniel Huster and Albert!!

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Happy to see our work featured as the front cover of J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Cover art by Arpita (SiMS Lab ) Grateful to my supervisor Prof. Tapas K Maji, MolMat Lab (Prof. Tapas K Maji's Group) and Prof. Bhadra Kaliginedi,SiMS Lab for insightful guidance.

Why measuring solvent dynamics isn't as simple as it seems! Our study The Journal of Chemical Physics reveals that the "measuring stick" (vibrational probe) itself influences nanodomain localisation and observed dynamics in DESs. BagchiLab CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory doi.org/10.1063/5.0269… #2DIR #2DNMR

Check out our article on Structural origin of fracture-induced surface charges in piezoelectric pharmaceutical crystals..! All the credit to the students Kaustav Das and collaborators #Dinesh and #ArvindBansal rdcu.be/exXqJ

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