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If you have a high GATE &/or NET-JRF rank (in Phys/Chem/Engg.), and are interested in doing a Ph. D. in computational chem/phys/bio (incl. ML), please send me your CV.
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Happy to share our new publication in @JPhysChem C on structural origin of mono & bisignate CD signals in chiral phenyleneethynylene assemblies!
doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6c0…
Kudos to @KarSabnam @Sujith83535752 & collaborators @jncbala @KawaiLab_NAIST
@tvmiiser @Chemie_iisertvm @jncasr
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Strip an industrial robot to its bones and you find seven technologies.
India has most of them in hand — the castings, the controller, the software. The one it lacks is a strange gear called the harmonic drive, which lets the arm bend with perfect repeatability, and which a handful of makers — mostly Japanese — supply to the entire planet. That single gap keeps the whole machine imported.
IndiaBUILD, a new Swarajya project, exists to map exactly these gaps — all of them.
WHAT IT IS
A living wiki of the hard technology India imports but could build. 18 sectors. 2,500+ capabilities mapped. 4,000+ sourced claims — growing daily. Every capability graded on an honest six-step ladder, from none to competitive — and built-under-licence sits on a lower rung than owned-design. Every claim tied to a checked source: AI-researched, machine-verified, human-published.
HOW IT THINKS
Products sit on trees of capabilities — a robot arm on seven, a jet on hundreds. Dependencies are drawn as edges: master one part and you unlock many machines (one precision ballscrew feeds CNC tools, robots and chip fabs alike). Builders are tracked with their claimed stage and our assessed stage, side by side. Statuses carry dates, so the map records movement.
ALREADY ON THE MAP
Why every MRI in India runs on 100% imported liquid helium. The three materials that decide chip sovereignty — polishing slurry, substrate film, photoresist — none made here. The Ukrainian plant that supplied Indian train wheels, until the war stopped it in 2022. The solar chain: modules assembled at world scale, every wafer beneath them imported.
You cannot build what you have not named. The map names 2,500. Each name has a page, and each page shows its sources.
Explore the most detailed public map of India's technology gaps ever assembled — indiabuild.wiki/
Work of @DishaBrahma1997 @avs_nikhil on Aqueous ZnCl2 solutions using a MACE MLIP we built. Varied Zn coordination geometries. 15-30% ⬆️ in hydration water dipole moments. Non-monotonic water residence times with # of Cl- in Zn shell. More in @JPhysChem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Our recent work in @JChemPhys @de1stmk @avs_nikhil
Unlike silica glass, the structure of B2O3 glass has no similarity to its crystalline forms. We develop an MLIP, perform slow-quench MD & study its intermediate-range order.
doi.org/10.1063/5.0321441
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Our group is looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers at IIT Gandhinagar—salary up to ₹1 lakh/month.
Areas: computational materials, photovoltaics, molecular simulations, ML-driven materials design.
CV → [email protected]
Details: anirban.people.iitgn.ac.in/r…
@iitgn @ChemistryIitgn
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FACULTY SPOTLIIT: Prof. Tarak Karmakar | Department of Chemistry, IIT D... youtu.be/7TuBdmgUu2M?si=xJJj…
Thanks to @outreachIITD office for the shoot.
@CCMB_IITD
@Chemistry_iitd @iitdelhi
Decades later, a Yale chemist’s water simulations continue to make waves | Yale News news.yale.edu/2025/11/18/dec…
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Check out our recent paper on bright and colour-tunable excimeric CPL using napthalenediimide cores...🥳
Extensive theoretical work done by @meghapareshar and @jncbala.
Grateful to the team @SubiJGeorge @SaikatMiraGhosh @Souvik332 @georgelabJNCASR
Bright and Color-Tunable Circularly Polarized Excimer Emission from Pre-Organized, Naphthalene Diimide Molecular Designs (Subi J. George and co-workers) @SubiJGeorge @darshanaworld • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Bright and Color-Tunable Circularly Polarized Excimer Emission from Pre-Organized, Naphthalene Diimide Molecular Designs (Subi J. George and co-workers) @SubiJGeorge @darshanaworld • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Happy to see this one out 🎉🎉 @SoberatsC @_sbaumert
Solvent Chain Length Directed Supramolecular Polymorphism (Gustavo Fernández and co-workers) #AngewandteVIP • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Circularly polarized luminescence in the visible range, from an assembly. Work of @darshanaworld @SubiJGeorge & Megha Parashar of my group. Extensive TDDFT calculations throw light on its origin, in this exciting Expt-Computation collab!
In @angew_chem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Collaboration with Prof. Gustavo Fernandez' group. Computations by Megha Parashar. Increasing chain length of n-alkane solvent pushes a BODIPY based chromophore from H-type aggregation to J-type!
"Solvent Chain Length Directed Supramolecular Polymorphism"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Axel Dieter Becke, one of the most prominent DFT pioneers, has passed away on October 23, aged 72. RIP
Utterly delighted!
#Plug I learnt much of MOFs from my colleague, Prof. Tapas Maji (postdoced with Prof. Kitagawa) @Molmat_JNCASR and his students. Since our early molecular modelling work in 2011, we have had many publications in this area.
Cc: @ANRFIndia #IYKYK
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel-pri…
#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry
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Is AI4Science stuck in a local minimum? 🤔
This question has been at the core of the discussions between @kmjablonka and me for months, and the highlights are reflected in our comment “Real AI advances require collaboration” in @NatRevChem 1/n
nature.com/articles/s41570-0…
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Dr. Klein has been elected to the Indian National Science Academy—one of the highest honors in the scientific community.
Full list: insaindia.res.in/recent-elec…
@insa_academy
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