2 .EFCS-2020 NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING FRONTIERS INCHEMICAL SCIENCES 4 – 5 DECEMBER 2020
An
endeavour to support chemical/materials education, Farook College initiated a
conference series named, "Emerging Frontiers in Chemical Sciences, EFCS”.
The conference is intended to provide a platform for young researchers and
science aspirants to communicate with experts in the country. This also aims to
provide a link between the college and the outside world in the broader areas
of chemical science. It also acts as a forum to unite the chemical/material
science community in the region, spread across various institutions.The 4th
EFCS and the second national conference in this series (EFCS 2020) fall under
online Conference held on 4th and 5th December, 2020.The program was in zoom
platform. The link of the program was https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83793906286?pwd=K0dFVGRyVXVEaXlyVnVucktxRlNlQT09
The
inaugural ceremony started at 9.15 am in zoom platform with a prayer.The chief guest was GautamRadhakrishnaDesiraju
(Professor, IISc Bangalore). Dr. A. P. Kavitha (Head, Department of Chemistry)
welcomed the gathering. Prof. T. Pradeep, Chairman, EFCS preside over the
function. Principal’s
Address was done by Dr. K. M.
Naseer, Principal, Farook College. Prof.V. M. Abdul Mujeeb (Vice Chairman,
Organizing Committee) introduced the chief guest ( Prof.Gautam R. Desiraju). Mr. C. P. Kunhimohammed (Manager, Managing Committee,
Farook College) presented a memento to Prof.GautamR.Desirajuas a token of love and appreciation. After that
Prof.Gautam R. Desirajuinaugurated
the conference. After his inaugural speech Dr. A. K. Abdul Rahim, Vice
Chairman, EFCS declared
Distinguished Scientist award. Mr C. P. Kunhimohammed, Manager, Farook College honoured the distinguished awardee
Dr.Harikumar P. S, Senior Principal Scientist, CWRDM y giving a memento. Prof.
P. E. M. Abdul Rasheed, Vice Chairman, EFCS Declared ‘EFCS Young Scientist
Award’. Principal Dr. K. M. Naseer, honoured the young scientist
awardee of EFCS,Dr.Binitha N. N, Assistant
Professor, SreeNeelakanta Government Sanskrit
College. There was
releasing of book of abstracts by Prof. E. P. Imbichikoya, Former Principal,
Farook College and Dr. K. M. Naseer,
Principal received the book of
abstracts. Then there was releasing of cubedium which contain lectures
delivered in all the conferences of EFCS conference series.Mr. P. K. AhammadPresident,
Farook College Managing Committee, Jb. C. P. Kunhimohammed, Manager, Farook
College Managing Committee and
Dr.Santosh R Nandan, (Ambernath
Organics Pvt Ltd, Mumbai)
Alumnus conveyed felicitation to the
programme. The inaugural ceremony was concluded with vote of
thanks by Dr.Rafeeque P (General Coordinator, Organizing Committee).
Technical
Session was started at10.05 by the Inaugural talk of Prof.Gautam R. Desiraju,
Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on the topic Role of state
universities and colleges in the context of NEP-2020.Next Prof. T. Pradeep,
Institute professor and professor of chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology
Madras delivered a lecture on the topic: Clean water through nanotechnology.
Then there was a small tea break for 15 minutes. After the tea break Prof.ShobhanaNarasimhan,Professor JNCASR
Bangalore delivered a lecture on the topic: The
rational design of catalysts. Then a one hour lunch break is provided from
12.30 pm to01.30pm.After the lunch break technical session -4 started with the
lecture of Prof. Sameer Sapra,Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
on the topic 2D transition metal
dichalcogenidenanosheets: hybrid nano-heterostructures for optoelectronic and
catalytic applications. After that there was a presentation by Dr.Shibdas Banerjee,
Assistant professor, Indian Institute of
Science Education and Research, Tirupati
on the topic: Ambient mass
spectrometry: from mechanistic organic chemistry to disease diagnosis.Next
technical session started at 3pm by Dr. T. G. Gopakumar, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His presentation
was on the topic Molecular materials for
future electronic device. Technical Session 7 was the presentation
of Dr.Binitha N. N, Assistant Professor,SreeNeelakanta
Government Sanskrit College on the topic Green
graphenenanocomposites for versatile applications. This was followed by
paper presentations of research scholars.
Second day of EFCS-2020 (02/12/2020) started with the presentation
of Prof.RajakumarBalla, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology
Madras on the topic Measurement of absorption cross-sections and kinetics of
radicals relevant to the Earth’s atmosphere using cavity ring down
spectroscopy. This Technical
Session-8 started at9.30am and ended at10.15am. Technical Session 9 was the
presentation of Dr.Pramod P. Pillai, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of
Science Education and Research, Pune on the topic Surface ligand directed
catalysis by nanomaterials. Then there was a small tea break for 15 minutes
from 11.00am to 11.15am. After the tea break Technical Session 10 started with
the presentation of Dr. G. V. Pavan Kumar, Associate Professor, Indian
Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune on the topic Probing single
molecules with gap-plasmons.Technical Session 11 started at 12pm
with the presentation of Dr. A. I. Yahya,Associate Professor & Head,
University of Calicut, Kozhikode on the topic Artificial muscles: materials,
technologies and biomimetic properties Then a one hour lunch break is provided
from 12.30 pm to 01.30pm. After the lunch break technical session -12 started
with the presentation of Dr. M. M. Shaijumon, Associate Professor, Indian
Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram on the topic Batteries: beyond
Lithium-ion.Technical Session 13 started at 2.15pm with the
presentation of Prof.SatishPatil, Associate
professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on the topic Exciting world of
molecular electronics. The last technical
session, Technical Session 14 was from 3.00 PM to 3.45 PM. With the
presentation of Dr. Tania
Francis,Assistant Professor St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri, Kozhikode on the
topic Biodegradable
solutions.
After the
tea break we entered to Valedictory Session and Concluding Remarks. Started the
session with prayer and Dr.Shalina Begum T (Joint Convener, EFCS)welcomed the gathering. Dr. K. Dr. A. P. Kavitha (Head, Department of
Chemistry) was preside over the function. There was a conference briefing of
EFCS-2019 by Prof. T. Pradeep (Chairman, Organizing committee). There was declaration of prize for Oral and poster presentation by
Dr.Pramod P. Pillai,Associate
Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune. Then participants said their feedback about this programme. The
session concluded with vote of thanks by Dr.Reji Thomas (General Coordinator, EFCS 2021).
