DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY Established : July 1996 Research & Development Activities : The Chemistry department has adopted Materials Chemistry as its thrust area in the IX plan and is actively pursuing research in the area of surfactant materials and their physical properties, bent shaped molecules exhibiting liquid crystalline behaviour possessing large molecular hyperpolarizability for Nonlinear Optical Devices, macrocyclic complexes of transition metals having applications in industries and biological systems and medicinal compounds, their extraction, identification, characterisation and medicinal activity of natural products. The M.Sc. students have carried out project works in thrust areas of the different branches of Chemistry, in partial fulfillment for the award of M.Sc. degree. Faculty of the Department :
Name & Qualification	Designation	Specialisation
Dr. M. rafiqul Islam, M.Sc.,Ph.D.  Dr. N.V.S. Rao, M.Sc., Ph.D.   Dr. Satya B. Paul, M.Sc., Ph.D. Dr. Chira R. Bhattacharjee, M.Sc., Ph.D. Dr. R. Sochanchingwung, M.Sc., Ph.D.	Professor & Head Reader   Reader Lecturer Lecturer	Physical chemistry, Thermodynamics and Transport Properties of Surfactants. Physical Chemistry (Liquid Crystals, Materials Chemistry). Organic Chemistry, (natural Product and Medicinal Chemistry) Inorganic Chemistry (Bioinorganic and Synthetic inorganic chemistry) Organic Chemistry : Synthetic, Organic Chemistry and medicinal Chemistry.