Prof. Ghanashyam Bez
Email: hodche@nehu.ac.in
Contact: 0364 2307930 2602
Department of Chemistry
North-Eastern Hill University
Shillong 793 022
Established in the year 1976, the Department of Chemistry has been imparting higher education in Chemistry by training students through its ongoing MSc and PhD programmes. The academic and research programmes of the Department is designed to enable the students to acquire a good understanding of Chemistry at the molecular level. The department already has developed a strong multidisciplinary character. Its research activities are focussed to rationally employ the knowledge of organic, inorganic, physical and computational chemistry, spectroscopy, and advanced oxidation for the synthesis, characterization, and applications in the field of medicinal chemistry, advanced materials, sensing, atmospheric reactions, and waste water treatment. The research activity of the faculty members of the department is funded by several national funding agencies such as DST, DBT, CSIR, ICMR, DAE-BRNS, UGC, NEC and others. The Department has been recognized by UGC as Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS).
The Department offers two-year Master of Science programme with intake capacity of 45 students. The Department also has a strong Ph.D. program and around 60 students are currently working under 15 faculty members.
The state-of-the art equipment of the Department is available for the use of post-graduate students and Ph.D. scholars. Students learn to use the instruments in laboratory classes and are then free to use them in their research projects/Ph.D. programmes. Instrumentation facility of the Department is included in the table below. There are over 25 teaching and research labs in the Department, which includes a computer lab. The various research labs contain an assortment of vacuum systems, computers and analytical instrumentation.
| Instruments | Make and Model |
| UV-vis Spectrophotometer | Agilent Technologies Cary 60 |
| UV-vis Spectrophotometer | Mapada UV-6100PCS |
| HRMS | Waters Xevo G2-XS QTOF |
| Electrochemical Workstation | CHI 600C |
| Flash chromatograph | Biotage Isolera One |
| Gas Chromatograph | Bruker 430-GC |
| Single crystal X-ray Diffractometer | Agilent Gemini |
| HPLC | Waters 515 |
| Microwave Reactor | Anton Paar Monowave 200 |
| Synthesis Reactor | Anton Paar Monowave 50 |
| Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) |
Photon Technology International QM 40 |
| Fluorescence Spectrophotometer | Hitachi F4500 |
| Fluorescence Spectrophotometer | Perlin Elmer LS55 |
| TGA | Perkin Elmer STA-6000 |
| Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) | Malvern Zetasizer Nano ZS90 ZEN3690 |
| Precision Impedance Analyzer (LCR Meter) |
Wayne Kerr 6500B |
| Toxicity analyser | Modern water Microtox FX |
| Ion Chromatography | Thermo scientific Dionex ICS-1100 |
| FT-IR | Bruker ALPHA II |
| HPCC |
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| Tensiometer | Kruss K11 |
Moreover, Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility (SAIF), NEHU, Shillong facilitates the research activities of the department through the state-of-the-art equipment like NMR, SEM, TEM, ICP-OES, GF-AAS, etc.
The Chemistry Club of the Department conducts various social out-reach programmes such as Science awareness workshops in schools, environment awareness programs, and support to under privileged students. Chemistry Club also arranges cultural activities, sports and picnics for the students, research scholars and faculties.
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