Vijay Kumar Maka

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow

Current

Location:

3315-WS07

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Research Interests

Stimuli-Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks, Covalent Organic Frameworks & Porous Organic Polymer Materials.
Supramolecular & Porous Materials for Environmental Applications.
Design & Synthesis of Potential Functional Organic/-Inorganic Materials.

Selected Publications

  • Photochromic 2D Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets (MONs): Design, Synthesis, and Functional MON-Ormosil Composite
    A. Mukhopadhyay, V. K. Maka, S. Govardhan, J. N. Moorthy
    Chem, 4, 1059-1079, (2018)
  • Fluorescent 2D Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets (MONs): Design, Synthesis and ‘Turn-Off’ Fluorescence Sensing of Explosive Nitroaromatic Compounds (NACs)
    V. K. Maka, A. Mukhopadhyay, S. Govardhan, J. N. Moorthy
    Nanoscale, 10, 22389-22399, (2018)
  • Redox-Reversible 2D Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets (MONs) Based on Chemically-Induced Hydroquinone/Quinone Redox Couple
    V. K. Maka, A. Mukhopadhyay, S. Jindal, J. N. Moorthy
    Chem. Eur. J., 25, 3835-3842, (2019)
  • Multifunctional Porous Organic Polymers (POPs): Inverse Adsorption of Hydrogen Over Nitrogen, Stabilization of Pd(0) Nanoparticles, and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions and Reductions
    C. Yadav, V. K. Maka, S. Payra, J. N. Moorthy
    J. Cat., 384, 61-71, (2020)
  • Tuning the Structure of In-Tetracarboxylate Frameworks through Rigidification of Organic Linkers and Size Selective Cationic Dye Exchange
    V. K. Maka, P. Tamuly, S. Jindal, J. N. Moorthy
    Appl. Mater. Today, 19, 100613, (2020)
  • De Novo Access to SO3H‑Grafted Porous Organic Polymers (POPs@H): Synthesis of Diarylbenzopyrans/Naphthopyrans and Triazoles by Heterogeneous Catalytic Cyclocondensation and Cycloaddition Reactions
    C. Yadav, V. K. Maka, S. Payra, J. N. Moorthy
    ACS Appl. Polym. Mater, 2, 3084-3093, (2020)
  • Selective Sensing of Aliphatic Biogenic Polyamines by a Zwitterionic Cd-MOF Based on Bisimidazole Tetracarboxylic Acid Linker
    S. Jindal, V. K. Maka, J. N. Moorthy
    J. Mater. Chem. C, 8, 11449-11456, (2020)
  • Fluorescent 2D MONs Based on Bisimidazole Anthracene Tetraacid Linker: Design, Synthesis and Turn-On Sensing of Nerve Agent (NA) Mimics
    S. Jindal, V. K. Maka, G. Anjum, J. N. Moorthy
    ACS Appl. Nano Mater, 4, 449−458, (2021)

Education

Ph.D., Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India.
M.Sc., Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
B.Sc., Chemistry, Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh, India.​

Professional Profile

  • 2022-Present: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
  • 2021-2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IISER TVM, Kerala, India.

Awards

  • IUCr Young Scientists Award by Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA), Singapore in the year 2019.
  • Bursary Award by MOF 2018, New Zealand in the year 2018.
  • IUCr Young Scientists Award by Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA), New Zealand in the year 2018.

KAUST Affiliations

PSE - Physical and Engineering Division

Research Interests Keywords

Stimuli-Responsive MOFs COFs POPs Functional Organic-/Inorganic Materials