Director: Professor. P. Raveendran

Associated faculty members

1. Prof. N. K. Renuka
2. Dr. Suja T D

The center was established by the department to foster research in green and environmentally friendly chemistry for developing sustainable for society.  The imperative is to develop novel green innovations for the chemist’s tool kit. Research in GCRC presently focus on broad areas such as alternative solvents, microwave – assisted synthesis, green catalysis bio-inspired materials. Some of the recent additions to or green chemistry research works are given below:

1. Sizing of paper with sucrose octaacetate using liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide as a green alternative medium, A Antony, J. P. Ramachandran, RM Ramakrishnan, P Raveendran, Journal of CO₂ Utilization (218) 28, 306-312
2. Sizing and Desizing of Cotton and Polyester Yarns Using Liquid and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide with Nonfluorous CO₂-Philes as Size Compounds, A Antony, A Raj, JP Ramachandran, RM Ramakrishnan, SL Wallen, P. Raveendran, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2018), 6, 12275-12280
3. Table sugar derived carbon dot—A promising green reducing agent, VA Ansi, P Sreelakshmi, R Poovathinthodiyil, NK Renuka, Materials Research Bulletin 139, (2021)111284
4. Green processing: CO₂-induced glassification of sucrose octaacetate and its implications in the spontaneous release of drug from drug-excipient composites, (2021) J P Ramachandran, A P Kottammal, A Antony, R M Ramakrishnan, P. Raveendran, Journal of CO₂ Utilization (2021) 47, 101472
5. Microwave-assisted solid-state synthesis of Au nanoparticles, size-selective speciation, and their self-assembly into 2D-superlattice, V Madhavan, P K Gangadharan, A Ajayan, S Chandran, P Raveendran, Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects (2019), 17, 218-222
6. Table sugar derived carbon nanodots for the extraction of bulk silver, VA Ansi, NK Renuka, Materials Letters (2021), 284, 128985