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Parul Tripathi

Email: tripathi.parul.p4@f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Postdoctoral Researcher

2026.02-

 

Education

Ph.D. in Material Chemistry (Jan 2017 - August 2021)

– Supervisor: Prof. Tapas Kumar Maji, JNCASR, Molecular Material Lab, India

M.Sc. in Chemistry (Aug 2012 - June 2014)

– Supervisor: Prof. Satyen Saha, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, India

B.Sc. Honours in Chemistry (Aug 2009 - June 2012)– Banaras Hindu University, India

 

Current Research Interests

Design, synthesis, and characterization of catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation and polymer degradation

 

Technical & Instrumentation Expertise

• Materials Synthesis

• Photocatalytic Testing & Reaction Setups

• Characterization Techniques: SEM, TEM, FESEM, AFM, UV-Vis, NMR, FT-IR, XRD, GC, GC-MS, DLS, Zeta Potential, Electrochemical Workstations

 

Publications: Dr. Parul Tripathi (formerly Parul Verma)

1. A Coordination Polymer Gel as Dual Electrode Material: Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Coupled Dark CO2 Reduction to Ethanol

D. Maity, S. Barman, F. A. Rahimi, R. Jena, T. N. Das, P. Verma, S. Biswas, A. Dey, A. Ghosh, T. K. Maji*

Adv. Energy Mater. 2025, 15, 2404976. (DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202404976) [PDF]

 

2. Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Based on a Re(I)-Integrated Conjugated Microporous Polymer: Role of a Sacrificial Electron Donor in Product Selectivity and Efficiency

F. A. Rahimi; S. Dey; P. Verma; T. K. Maji*

ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 5969–5978. (DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c00053) [PDF]

 

3. Biomimetic Approach toward Visible Light-Driven Hydrogen Generation Based on a Porphyrin-Based Coordination Polymer Gel

P. Verma; D. Samanta; P. Sutar; A. Kundu; J. Dasgupta; T. K. Maji*

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 25173–25183. (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c14533) [PDF]

 

4. Charge-Transfer Regulated Visible Light Driven Photocatalytic H2 Production and CO2 Reduction in Tetrathiafulvalene Based Coordination Polymer Gel

P. Verma; A. Singh, F. A. Rahimi, P. Sarkar, S. Nath; S. K. Pati; T. K. Maji*

Nature Commun. 2021, 12, 7313. (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27457-4) [PDF]

 

5. Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CO/CH4 Using a Metal–Organic “Soft” Coordination Polymer Gel

 P. Verma; F. A. Rahimi; D. Samanta; A. Kundu; J. Dasgupta; T. K. Maji*

Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202116094. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.202116094) [PDF]

 

6. Colocalization of Light Harvesting and Catalytic Units in ‘Soft’ Coordination Polymer Hydrogel toward Visible-Light Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production

P. Verma; A. Singh; F. A. Rahimi; T. K. Maji*

J. Mater. Chem. A 2021, 9, 13608–13614. (DOI: 10.1039/d1ta02425f) [PDF]

 

7. Photo-Modulated Wide-Spectrum Chromism in Eu3+ and Eu3+/Tb3+ Photochromic Coordination Polymer Gels: Application in Decoding Secret Information

P. Verma; A. Singh; T. K. Maji*

Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 2674-2682. (DOI: 10.1039/d0sc05721e) [PDF]

 

8. Charge-Transfer-Regulated Selective Solar Fuel Production in Aqueous Medium by a Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Redox-Active Metal–Organic Framework

A. Dey; F. A. Rahimi; P. Verma; S. Suresh; T. K. Maji*

ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2023, 6, 9179–9187. (DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.3c00244) [PDF]

 

9. Stabilization of Ultra-Small Gold Nanoparticles in a Photochromic Organic Cage: Modulating Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction by Tuning Light Irradiation.

P. Verma; A. Singh; D. Samanta; A. Dey; J. Dey; T. K. Maji*

J. Mater. Chem. A 2021, 9, 5780–5786. (DOI: 10.1039/d0ta12195a) [PDF]

 

10. Bimodal Heterogeneous Functionality in Redox-Active Conjugated Microporous Polymer toward Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

A. Singh; P. Verma; D. Samanta; T. Singh; T. K. Maji*

Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 3810–3817. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904938) [PDF]

 

11. Photochromic Conjugated Microporous Polymer Manifesting Bio-Inspired pcFRET and Logic Gate Functioning

A. Singh; P. Verma; S. Laha; D. Samanta; S. Roy; T. K. Maji*

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 20991–20997. (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c05182) [PDF]

 

12. Triphenylamine and Terpyridine-Zinc(II) Complex based Donor-Acceptor Soft Hybrid as a Visible Light Driven Hydrogen Evolution Photocatalyst

D. Samanta;* M. Kumar; S. Singh; P. Verma; K. K. Kar;* T. K. Maji;* M. K. Ghorai*

J. Mater. Chem. A 2020, 8, 21968–21972. (DOI: 10.1039/d0ta02318c) [PDF]

 

13. Photoswitchable J‑Aggregated Processable Organogel by Integrating a Photochromic Acceptor

D. Samanta; A. Singh; P. Verma; S. Bhattacharyya; S. Roy; T. K. Maji*

J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 10946–10952. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01555) [PDF]

 

14. Regulating Charge-Transfer in Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

V. S. Mothika; P. Sutar; P. Verma; S. Das; S.K. Pati; T. K. Maji*

Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 3867–3874. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805478) [PDF]

 

15. Nanovesicular MOF with Omniphilic Porosity: Bimodal Functionality for White-Light Emission and Photocatalysis by Dye Encapsulation

D. Samanta; P. Verma; S. Roy; T. K. Maji*

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 23140–23146. (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b06363) [PDF]

 

16. Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube-Poly Vinyl Alcohol Nanocomposite Multifunctional Coatings on Aerospace Alloys

P. Verma; S. Anoop; V.S. Rao; A. K. Sharma, U. Rani

Material Today Proceedings 2018, 5, 21205–21216. (DOI: 10.1016/j.matpr.2018.06.520) [PDF]