Department of Chemistry, NEHU

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Department of Chemistry

Head of Department

Prof. Ghanashyam Bez
Email: hodche@nehu.ac.in
Contact: 0364 2307930 2602

Programmes

M.Sc

Ph.D

About the Department

Department profile

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).

Academic programme

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.

Instrumental facilities

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	Lenovo X3500 DELL Precision 7850
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.

Social out-reach programme

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.