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Arkaprabha Giri

Office: ES&T 2314
Email: agiri36@gatech.edu

Favorite Hobbies? Aquarium keeping
Favorite Nobel Laureate? Rabindranath Tagore

Educational Background

Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India

M.Sc. and B. Sc. from Vidyasagar University, India

Advisors

Christopher W. Jones

Project

Development of porous organic materials for carbon capture from air

Project Description

CO2 capture from dry/humid Design, synthesize, and characterize sorbent materials based on porous polymer hybrid materials to create carbon dioxide sorbents. ambient/sub-ambient conditions

Publications

  • A. Giri, G. Shreeraj, T. K. Dutta, A. Patra*, Transformation of an Imine Cage to a Covalent Organic Framework Film at the Liquid–Liquid Interface, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, e202219083.
  • s. Jaiswal, A. Giri, A. Patra*, UV-to-NIR harvesting conjugated porous polymer nanocomposite: upconversion and plasmon expedited thioether photooxidation, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. DOI:10.1002/anie.202312910.
  • G. Shreeraj#, A. Giri#, A. Patra, Pushing the boundaries of covalent organic frameworks through postsynthetic linker exchange, ChemNanoMat., 2023, DOI:10.1002/cnma.202300398.
  • G. Shreeraj, A. Sah, S. Sarkar, A. Giri, A. Sahoo, A. Patra*, Structural Modulation of Nitrogen-Rich Covalent Organic Frameworks for Iodine Capture, Langmuir, 2023, DOI:10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02215.
  • S. Nayak, A. Sahoo, G. S. Naidu, A. Giri*, A. Patra*, Pyridinium-functionalized ionic porous organic polymer for rapid scavenging of oxoanions from water, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2023, 2300138.
  • Giri#, S. Biswas#, M. W. Hussain, T. K. Dutta, A. Patra*, Nanostructured hypercrosslinked porous organic polymers: morphological evolution and rapid separation of polar organic micropollutants, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces., 2022, 14, 7369-7381.
  • A. Giri#, Y. Khakre#, G. Shreeraj#, T. K. Dutta, S. Kundu, A. Patra*, The order-disorder conundrum: a trade-off between crystalline and amorphous porous organic polymers for task-specific applications, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 17077-17121.
  • A. Giri, A. Patra*, Porous organic polymers: promising testbed for heterogeneous reactive oxygen species mediated photocatalysis and nonredox CO2 fixation, Chem. Rec., 2022, 22, e202200071.
  • D.K. Chauhan, V. R. Battula, A. Giri, A. Patra, K. Kailasam*, Photocatalytic valorization of furfural to value-added chemicals via mesoporous carbon nitride: A possibility through metal-free pathway, Catal. Sci. Technol, 2022, 12, 144-153.
  • A. Giri#, N. N. Patil,# A. Patra*, Porous noria polymer: a cage-to-network approach toward a robust catalyst for CO2 fixation and nitroarene reduction, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 4404-4407.
  • J. Hassin M, A. Giri*, S. Kundu*, V. Kumar, B. Sk, A. Patra, Pyrene-cyanostyrene-pyridine triad: multi-stimuli responsive fluorescent emitter and mitochondrial imaging, Chem. Phys. Impact, 2021, 3, 100036.
  • S. Kundu, B. Bahera#, A. Giri#, N. Saha, A. Patra*, N,N’-bicarbazole-benzothiadiazole-based conjugated porous organic polymer for reactive oxygen species generation in live cells, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 6875-6878.
  • N. Sharma, S. Kumar, V. R. Battula, A. Kumari, A. Giri, A. Patra, K. Kailasam*, Tailored heptazine-based porous polymeric network as versatile heterogeneous (photo)catalyst, Chem. Eur. J., 2021, 27, 10649-10656.
  • P. Mehra, C. Singh, I. Cherian, A. Giri, A. Paul*, Deciphering the incredible supercapacitor performance of conducting biordered ultramicroporous graphitic carbon, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2021, 4, 4416-4427.
  • A. Giri*, A. Sahoo, T. K. Dutta, A. Patra*, Cavitand and molecular cage-based porous organic polymers, ACS Omega, 2020, 5, 28413-28424.
  • M. W. Hussain, V. Bhardwaj, A. Giri, A. Chande,* A. Patra*, Multifunctional ionic porous frameworks for CO2 conversion and combating microbes, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 7910-7920.
  • Kundu, B. Sk, P. Pallavi, A. Giri, A. Patra*, Molecular engineering approaches towards all-organic white light emitting materials, Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 5557-5582.
  • A. Giri, M. W. Hussain, B. Sk, A. Patra*, ‘Connecting the dots’: knitting C-phenylresorcin[4]arenes with aromatic linkers for task-specific porous organic polymers, Chem. Mater., 2019, 31, 8440-8450.
  • M. W. Hussain, A. Giri, A. Patra*, Organic nanocage: A promising testbed for catalytic CO2 conversion, Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2019, 3, 2567-2571.
  • S. Bandyopadhyay, S. Kundu, A. Giri, A. Patra*, A smart photosensitizer based on a red emitting solution processable porous polymer: generation of reactive oxygen species, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 9123-9126.

Group News

November 2024-

After completing his postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Yunseok Lee joined the Samsung Advanced Research Institute.

The group welcomes two new postdoctoral researchers: Dr. Xin Deng, who received her PhD from Nankai University, and Dr. Xiaowei Wu, who received his PhD from the University of Houston.

September 2024-

Dr. Tony Vallace completed his postdoctoral stay and has joined First Light Solutions Inc. as CSO.

Jiaqi Zhang joined the group to work on DAC.  He is co-advised with Prof. Sievers.

August, 2024-

The group’s work on carbon capture was recognized by ACS with the 2025 E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry.

Dr. Samser Shaikh completed his postdoctoral stay and took a position at National Energy Technology Laboratory.

June, 2024-

Botagoz Kuspangaliyeva passed her Ph.D. proposal and was admitted to Ph.D. candidacy.  Congratulations!

May, 2024-

Dr. Guanhe Rim completed his postdoctoral stay and joined Aramco in Houston, TX.

February, 2024-

Youn Ji Min successfully defended her PhD thesis.  Congratulations to Youn Ji, PhD graduate #48.  Dr. Min will work at GT as a postdoc.

The Jones Group also participated in our biennial Birkman Assessment workshop.

January, 2024-

Quinn Yu and Dr. Gaurav Iyer joined the group to work on DAC.  They are both coadvised with Prof. Lively.

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