Dr. Parul Tripathi

 

Assistant Professor | Department of Chemistry | Manipur University

Materials Chemistry | Metal–Organic Hybrid Materials | Photocatalysis | Sustainable Energy

 

parul[AT]manipuruniv.ac.in

Department of Chemistry, Manipur University, Imphal – 795003, India

Dr. Parul Tripathi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Manipur University, Imphal. Her research focuses on the design and development of functional metal–organic and organic–inorganic hybrid materials for photocatalysis, sustainable energy conversion, and optoelectronic applications. Her work particularly explores visible-light-driven hydrogen generation and CO₂ reduction, integrating molecular design, materials synthesis, advanced characterization, and photocatalytic and electrochemical studies. With research experience across India, Japan, and Europe, she has authored several peer-reviewed publications in leading international journals and received several national and international research awards.

 

Education

 • Ph.D. in Material Chemistry

          Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru

          Thesis: Organic and Metal-Organic Hybrid ‘Soft’ Materials towards Hydrogen Production, Carbon Dioxide Reduction and Optoelectronic Applications

 • M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry)

          Dept. of Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University

          M.Sc. Project Supervisor: Prof. Satyen Saha

 • P.G. Diploma in Spectroscopy

          Dept. of Physics, Banaras Hindu University

 • B.Sc. Honours in Chemistry

          Dept. of Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University

 

Academic & Research Experience

    • Assistant Professor

          Department of Chemistry, Manipur University, Imphal, India

    • Assistant Professor

          Noyori Group, Nagoya University, Japan

    • Assistant Professor

          Affiliated PG College, RDVV, Madhya Pradesh, India

    • Postdoctoral Researcher

          University of Groningen, Netherlands

    • Postdoctoral Researcher

          JNCASR, Bengaluru, India

    • Research Fellow

          ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bengaluru, India

    • Lecturer

          Sanjay Memorial PG College affiliated to MGKVP, Varanasi, India

 

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

 

Scientific Conferences and Awards

 

International

 

    • Best oral presentation award: International Conference on Novel Materials & Applications (ICNMA) held on Feb 2025 at JEC, Jabalpur, M.P., India

    • Molecular Nanotour Symposium, Oct 2022, KU Leuven, University in Leuven, Belgium

    • Inorganic-Biochemistry Conference, Aug 2022, University of Manchester, England

    • Best Oral Presentation and Poster Award in International Chemical Science Symposium Dec 2021, by Royal Society of Chemistry

    • Best Poster Award, in international conference (8th ICOPVS, 2020), JNCASR, Bangalore

    • 9th Bengaluru India Nano International Conference, 2017, Bangalore, India

    • International Conference of Smart Engineering Materials (ICSEM), 2016, RVCE Bangalore, India

 

National

 

    • National Young Scientist Award 2021 in Chemistry, IMRF, India

    • Best Oral and Poster Presentation Award, 2018, Chemical Frontiers Goa Conference

    • Best Oral Presentation Award, 2018, In House Symposium, JNCASR, Bangalore

    • CSIR JRF fellowship for doctoral research in India, Rank- 97, Chemical Sciences 2016

 

Invited talk

    • Photochemical CO2 reduction, Oct 2022@JAWSchem, Webinar Series

 

Details of Research Publications 

[Note: Research publications listed under the name Parul Verma were published under my former name.]

All listed publications are peer-reviewed and Scopus-indexed.

Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M-pmi58AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao)

 

1. D. Maity, S. Barman, F. A. Rahimi, R. Jena, T. N. Das, Parul Verma, S. Biswas, A. Dey, A. Ghosh, T. K. Maji; A Coordination Polymer Gel as Dual Electrode Material: Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Coupled Dark CO2 Reduction to Ethanol. Adv. Energy Mater. 2025, 2404976. (Impact Factor: 27.8) https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202404976

 

2. Parul Verma; D. Samanta; P. Sutar; A. Kundu; J. Dasgupta; T. K. Maji, Biomimetic Approach toward Visible Light-Driven Hydrogen Generation Based on a Porphyrin-Based Coordination Polymer Gel. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 15, 21, 25173–25183. (Impact Factor: 10.38) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.2c14533

 

3. F. A. Rahimi; S. Dey; Parul Verma; T. K. Maji, Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Based on a Re(I)-Integrated Conjugated Microporous Polymer: Role of a Sacrificial Electron Donor in Product Selectivity and Efficiency. ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 9, 5969–5978. (Impact Factor: 13.7) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.3c00053

 

4. A. Dey; F. A. Rahimi; Parul Verma; S. Suresh; T. K. Maji, Charge-Transfer-Regulated Selective Solar Fuel Production in Aqueous Medium by a Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Redox-Active Metal–Organic Framework. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2023, 6, 9179 -9187. (Impact Factor: 6.95) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsaem.3c00244

 

5. Parul Verma; F. A. Rahimi; D. Samanta; A. Kundu; J. Dasgupta; T. K. Maji, Visible Light Driven Multi-electron Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 using Coordination Driven Metal-Organic ‘Soft’ Nanoscopic Organogel. (Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202116094. (Impact Factor: 17.6)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/anie.202116094

 

6. Parul Verma; A. Singh, F. A. Rahimi, P. Sarkar, S. Nath; S. K. Pati; T. K. Maji, Charge-Transfer Regulated Visible Light Driven Photocatalytic H2 Production and CO2 Reduction in Tetrathiafulvalene Based Coordination Polymer Gel. Nature Commun., 2021, 12, 7313. (Impact Factor: 18.9) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27457-4

 

7. Parul Verma; A. Singh; F. A. Rahimi; T. K. Maji, Colocalization of Light Harvesting and Catalytic Units in ‘Soft’ Coordination Polymer Hydrogel toward Visible-Light Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 13608-13614. (Impact Factor: 12.73) https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TA02425F

 

8. Parul Verma; A. Singh; T. K. Maji, Photo-Modulated Wide-Spectrum Chromism in Eu3+ and Eu3+/Tb3+ Photochromic Coordination Polymer Gels: Application in Decoding Secret Information. Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 2674-2682. (Impact Factor: 9.826)

https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC05721E

 

9. Parul Verma; A. Singh; D. Samanta; A. Dey; J. Dey; T. K. Maji, Stabilization of Ultra-Small Gold Nanoparticles in a Photochromic Organic Cage: Modulating Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction by Tuning Light Irradiation. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 5780-5786. (Impact Factor: 12.73) https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA12195A

 

10. A. Singh; Parul Verma; D. Samanta; T. Singh; T. K. Maji, Bimodal Heterogeneous Functionality in Redox-Active Conjugated Microporous Polymer toward Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Chem. Eur. J., 2020, 26, 3810-3817. (Impact Factor: 5.02) https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201904938

 

11. A. Singh; Parul Verma; S. Laha; D. Samanta; S. Roy; T. K. Maji, Photochromic Conjugated Microporous Polymer Manifesting Bio-Inspired pcFRET and Logic Gate Functioning. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2020, 12, 20991-20997. (Impact Factor: 10.38)

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c05182

 

12. D. Samanta; M. Kumar; S. Singh; Parul Verma; K. K. Kar; T. K. Maji; M. K. Ghorai, Triphenylamine and Terpyridine-Zinc(II) Complex based Donor-Acceptor Soft Hybrid as a Visible Light Driven Hydrogen Evolution Photocatalyst. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 21968-21972. (Impact Factor: 12.73) https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA02318C

 

13. D. Samanta; A. Singh; Parul Verma; S. Bhattacharyya; S. Roy; T. K. Maji, Photoswitchable J‑Aggregated Processable Organogel by Integrating a Photochromic Acceptor. J. Org. Chem., 2019, 84, 10946-10952. (Impact Factor: 4.198) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.9b01555

 

14. V. S. Mothika; P. Sutar; Parul Verma; S. Das; S.K. Pati; T. K. Maji, Regulating Charge-Transfer in Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Chem. Eur. J., 2019, 25, 3867-3874. (Impact Factor: 5.02) https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201805478

 

15. D. Samanta; Parul Verma; S. Roy; T. K. Maji, Nanovesicular MOF with Omniphilic Porosity: Bimodal Functionality for White-Light Emission and Photocatalysis by Dye Encapsulation. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2018, 10, 23140-23146. (Impact Factor: 10.38)  https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b06363

 

16. Parul Verma; S. Anoop; V.S. Rao; A. K. Sharma, U. Rani, Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube-Poly Vinyl Alcohol Nanocomposite Multifunctional Coatings on Aerospace Alloys. Material Today Proceedings, 2018, 5, 21205-21216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2018.06.520