R Boomi Shankar
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Professor of Chemistry at IISER Pune...Molecular ferroelectrics, self-assembled cages and energy applications. EAB member @inorgchem...Views are my own...
Pune, India
Joined May 2013
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Two faculty members from #IISERPune Dr. Gayathri Pananghat and Prof. S.G. Srivtasan are among those elected as #Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, India #NASI @nasi_academy! Congrats and best wishes to all NASI Fellows selected for the year 2025! https://t.co/Ljv89iMYwc
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A Great interview on CALF-20 by George...glad to see @RamanathanVaid1's contributions to this material. https://t.co/uX8Bsfrwkm
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Thank you Faculty of Science for this interview. The CALF-20 story also highlights the importance of collaboration and we've had/got fantastic ones. Just from the original Science paper: University...
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A Chiral Edge-Sharing Bioctahedral Chlorobismuthate(III) Hybrid Ferroelectric and Its Application in Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting | Inorganic Chemistry https://t.co/n5nzAxHxbt Great Stuff by Master's student, Subham & valuable contributions from @vikashashrey @Jan_K_Zareba
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Halogenobismuthate(III)-based organic–inorganic hybrid ferroelectrics integrate molecular dipoles arising from organic cations with intrinsic polarization originating from the inorganic backbones,...
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Great news for researchers in the field of coordination chemistry and materials science...
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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An excellent meeting for learning and networking
Vibrant participation in Indo-German Workshop 2025 at Goethe University Frankfurt. Amazing lectures in chemical biology, light mediated systems, advanced materials, organic synthesis, and computational approaches. Exciting meeting with excellent ideas germinating for
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Tradition of gourmet German dinners - Had absolute blast with colleagues from Germany and India at Waldtraut Freizeitrestaurant, Oberursel, Taunus ( https://t.co/jFKb1aZILm). Great food, great time with friends!
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Excellent meeting for Science and networking
Tradition of fun continues - Indo-German Workshop 2025 participants took a leisure trip to the Taunus, with drizzle and fog adding to the adventure and picturesque scenery. The Taunus Hills Nature Park is just outside Frankfurt and the second largest nature park in the Hessian
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Our recent work on 2D hybrid ferroelectric and sensors...great stuff from @I_m_Nilu @Supriya28736509 @vikashashrey @Jan_K_Zareba | ACS Materials Letters
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The quasi-spherical theory and ligand halogenation have emerged as effective strategies for promoting polar noncentrosymmetric structures with potential ferroelectric properties. Here, we report a...
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Late Post...Congratulations to Dr. Cavya Jose @Cavyajose for successfully completing her Ph.D. viva-voce on 24th June. Best wishes for her bright future ahead.
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It was a wonderful meeting and my first time. Loved the format. Nice to catch up with friends and making new ones and ii was great interacting with you @jd1278 and looking forward to more such occasions.
met again old friends and made some new in 2025 Kaleodoscope thank you @Hari_Chakrapani sabyasachi Rakshit and Naresh Patwari @iitbombay...met @boomi_iiser for the first time after following his work for some time...met again @vkaliginedi and saw his amazing work 😀 @TIFRScience
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Looking forward to attending this exciting meeting...
We are delighted to welcome Prof Dr R Boomi Shankar, @IISERPune as a Speaker in @ForceConference 2025, at Singapore. His group is interested in designing new molecules, host-guest assemblies, supramolecules and materials with ferroelectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric and other
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Sadak Suraksha Abhiyan is an initiative by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways @MoRTHIndia to promote #RoadSafety It seeks to spread awareness, drive change, and instil life-saving habit of following traffic rules and thereby avoiding road accidents. The initiative calls
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Excellent work on multifunctional cabazone phenanthrene systems from Madhusudan, Partha and the team
"Reduced steric hindrance in a multicarbazole phenanthrene system facilitates low D–A angle, increased oscillator strength, enhanced TADF efficiency with NLO and Piezoelectric properties". Thanks collaborators Pankaj Mandal, Boomishankar. Chemical Science,
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@vikashashrey Wonderful collaboration from @neetu_prajesh @Supriya28736509 Dr. Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan, Animesh Gopal, @deswal_swati, Kirana, @Jan_K_Zareba
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Our manuscript on a ferroelectric ammonium phosphate salt - now published in JMC A https://t.co/W12MgqWl0Y A protocol for calculating the efficiencies of composite PENGs described. Great stuff from @vikashashrey and all co-authors
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Ferroelectric phosphate-based materials are known for their biocompatibility, dipole switching, and high thermal stability. In this context, we report a novel organic ferroelectric material, diisop...
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End of an era...Prof. Jayant Narlikar has passed away... Pune, India and the world have lost a doyen of science and scientific thinking... He inspired millions...and will continue to do so...🙏
Jayant Narlikar is a renowned Indian astrophysicist who has made significant contributions to various fields of astronomy and cosmology. He developed the Hoyle-Narlikar theory of gravity with Sir Fred Hoyle, which is a conformal theory that incorporates Mach’s principle and the
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A research breakthrough from @jncasr! A cost-effective, metal-free organic catalyst can now produce green hydrogen fuel using just mechanical energy — no heavy metals required. @DrJitendraSingh @karandi65 @IISERPune @Maji_TK 🔗 https://t.co/eLPiMYIiCY
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Our recent study on chiral separation published in @InorgChem...congrats @Cavyajose Portal Substituent Modulations in Chiral Imido–Pd(II) Cages for the Enhanced Separation of Styrene Oxide Enantiomers | Inorganic Chemistry https://t.co/lEVqXfs0PQ
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Sensing and separation of enantiomers are crucial for the synthesis of biologically relevant compounds as well as for applications in catalysis and pharmaceutical development. Chiral coordination...
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