Major Research Areas

• Focus: Development of Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) and related Advanced Functional Porous Materials for Critical Minerals Processing and Recycling, Safe Drinking Water, Environmental Sustainability, Clean Energy, and Industrially Relevant Chemicals Separations.

• Chemistry of functional advanced porous materials (APMs) e.g. Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs), Covelent-organic frameworks (COFs), Porous organic polymers (POPs), porous hybrid composite materials etc. 

• Development of greener methods for Critical Minerals Processing and recovery from E-Wastes.

• Hazardous (including radioactive) pollutants recognition and sequestrtaion for safe drinking-water and sustainable environment.

• Materials for clean energy and industrially relevant low-energy adsorption based chemicals separation. 

• Supramolecular, host-guest and crystal engineering chemistry of advanced porous materials.

Representative Publications

Research Articles

• Covalently grafted MOP-on-MOF hybrid ionic-porous composite for efficient adsorption and catalysis

Dipayan Ghosh, Sahel Fajal, Kishalay Biswas, Anirban Roy, Dipanjan Majumder and Sujit K. Ghosh

Chem. Sci., 2026,17, 927, Web Link ( 2025 Chem. Science HOT Article Collection) 

• Enhancing Photocatalytic Activity of Porous Organic Frameworks via Facile Post-Synthetic Modification for Ultrafast Uranium Extraction

Dipayan Ghosh, Sudip Maity, Sagarmani Rasaily, Anirban Roy, Kishalay Biswas, Gourab K. Dam and Sujit K. Ghosh

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2026, e19249, Web Link

• Chemically Robust Functionalized MOF/Polymer Composite for Selective Sequestration of Higher-Valent Actinides from Simulated Nuclear Waste

Dipanjan Majumder, Sahel Fajal, Nayan Sarkar, Arijit Sengupta, Writakshi Mandal, Mandar M. Shirolkar and Sujit K. Ghosh

Chem. Mater. 2025, 37, 19, 7996–8008  Web Link

• Chemically Robust Urea-Tethered Adaptable Ionic Porous Nanotrap: Ultrafast Organic and Inorganic Arsenic Water Decontamination

Gourab K. Dam, Sumanta Let, Vidha Bhasin, Sahel Fajal, Kishalay Biswas, Mandar M. Shirolkar, Dibyendu Bhattacharyya and Sujit K. Ghosh

Chem. Mater. 2025, 37, 6, 2367–2378  Web Link

• Ultrafast Photocatalytic Decontamination of Mustard Gas Simulant and Thermodynamic Insights by a Metal-Free Imidazoline Porous Organic Polymer

Gourab K. Dam, Vartika Jaiswal, Sumanta Let, Anirban Roy, Sudip Maity, Shalu Rana and Sujit K. Ghosh  

Chem. Mater. 2025, 37, 5, 1854–1864 Web Link

• Nano-springe Enriched Hierarchical Porous MOP/COF Hybrid Aerogel: Efficient Recovery of Gold from Electronic Waste

Dipanjan Majumder, Sahel Fajal, Mandar M. Shirolkar, Arun Torris, Yashasvi Banyla, Kishalay Biswas, Sagarmani Rasaily and Sujit K. Ghosh  

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202419830 Web Link

Media Coverages: The Indian Express, Nature India For More: Click here.

• Chemically Robust Functionalized Covalent Organic Framework for Highly Efficient and Selective Separation of Bromine

S. Fajal, D. Ghosh, K. Biswas, W. Mandal, N. Sarkar, G. K. Dam, A. Roy, A. Roychowdhury, D. Majumder, R. R. Urkude, M. M. Shirolkar, S. K. Ghosh

Mater. Horiz., 2025,12, 802-813 Weblink (Materials Horizons Most Popular Articles 2024 and 2025) 

• Nanotrap Infused Ultrathin Hybrid Composite Material for Rapid and Highly Selective Entrapment of 99TcO4- 

W. Mandal, S. Fajal, D. Majumder, A. Sengupta,S. Let, R. R. Urkude, M. M. Shirolkar, A. Torris, S. K. Ghosh

Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 18463-18475. Weblink

• Ultralight crystalline hybrid composite material for highly efficient sequestration of radioiodine
  Sahel Fajal, Writakshi Mandal, Arun Torris, Dipanjan Majumder, Sumanta Let, Arunabha Sen, Fayis Kanheerampockil, Mandar M. Shirolkar and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Nature Communication, 2024, 15, 1278. Web Link

Media Coverages: Nature India, Springer Nature Research Communities For More: Click here.

• Nonfluorinated Hydrophobic Porous Composite for Efficient Recovery of Oil from Oil−Water Emulsion and for Oil Spills Clean-up from Seawater

Dipanjan Majumder, Sahel Fajal, Writakshi Mandal, Yogeshwar D. More, Anirban Roy, and

Sujit K. Ghosh

ACS Materials Lett. 2024, 6, 3254–3263. Web Link

• Urea-Tethered Porous Organic Polymer (POP) as an Efficient Heterogeneous Catalyst for Hydrogen Bond Donating Organocatalysis and Continuous Flow Reaction

Gourab K. Dam, Sumanta Let, Vartika Jaiswal, and Sujit K. Ghosh 

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2024, 12, 8, 3000–3011. Web Link

• Unraveling Mechanistic Insights in Covalent Organic Frameworks for Highly Efficient Sequestration of Organic Iodides from Simulated Nuclear Waste
  Sahel Fajal, Dipanjan Majumder, Writakshi Mandal, Sumanta Let, Gourab K. Dam, Mandar M. Shirolkar and Sujit K. Ghosh
  J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, 11, 26580-26591. Web Link

• Organic porous heterogeneous composite with antagonistic catalytic sites as a cascade catalyst for continuous flow reaction
  Sumanta Let, Gourab K. Dam, Sahel Fajal and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 10591-10601. Web Link

• Nanotrap Grafted Anionic MOF for Superior Uranium Extraction from Seawater
  Yogeshwar D. More, Samraj Mollick, Satyam Saurabh, Sahel Fajal, Michele Tricarico, Subhajit Dutta, Mandar M. Shirolkar, Writakshi Mandal, Jin-Chong Tan and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Small 2023, 2302014. Web Link

• Covalent Organic Framework Featuring High Iodine Uptake for Li-ion Battery: Unlocking the Potential of Hazardous Waste
  Satyam Saurabh, Samraj Mollick, Yogeshwar D. More,  Abhik Banerjee, Sahel Fajal, Nikhil Kumar, Mandar M. Shirolkar, Satishchandra B. Ogale and Sujit K. Ghosh
  ACS Materials Letters 2023, 5, 9, 2422-2430. Web Link 

Media Coverages: The Times of India For More: Click here.

• Ordered Macro/Microporous Ionic Organic Framework for Efficient Separation of Toxic Pollutants from Water
  Sahel Fajal, Atikur Hassan, Writakshi Mandal, Mandar M. Shirolkar, Sumanta Let, Neeladri Das and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  2023, 62, e202214095. Web Link (Cover Page) 

Media Coverages: The Hindu For More: Click here.

• Benchmark uranium extraction from seawater by an ionic macroporous metal-organic framework 

Samraj Mollick, Satyam Saurabh, Yogeshwar D. More, Sahel Fajal, Mandar M. Shirolkar, Writakshi Mandal and Sujit K. Ghosh

Energy & Environmental Science 2022,15, 3462-3469. Web Link 

Media Coverages: India Today, Nature India  For More: Click here.

• Trap Inlaid Cationic Hybrid Composite Material for Efficient Segregation of Toxic Chemicals from Water
  Sahel Fajal, Writakshi Mandal, Samraj Mollick, Yogeshwer D. More, Arun Torris, Satyam Saurabh, Mandar M. Shirolkar, and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  2022, 61, e202203385. Web Link (Hot paper and Cover Page)

• Three-in-One C2H2-Selectivity-Guided Adsorptive Separation across an Isoreticular Family of Cationic Square-Lattice MOFs
  Subhajit Dutta, Soumya Mukherjee, Omid T. Qazvini, Arvind K. Gupta, Shivani Sharma, Debanjan Mahato, Ravichandar Babarao and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  2022, 61, e202114132. Web Link 

• Efficient Capture of Trace Acetylene by an Ultramicroporous Metal–Organic Framework with Purine Binding Sites
  Shivani Sharma , Soumya Mukherjee, Aamod V. Desai, Matthias Vandichel, Gourab K. Dam, Ashwini Jadhav, Gabriele Kociok-Köhn, Michael J. Zaworotko and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Chem. Mater., 2021, 33, 14, 5800–5808. Web Link 

• Rapid, selective capture of toxic oxo-anions of Se(IV), Se(VI) and As(V) from water by an ionic metal-organic framework (iMOF)
  Shivani Sharma, Sumanta Let, Aamod V. Desai, Subhajit Dutta, Gopalsamy Karuppasamy, Mandar M. Shirolkar, Ravichandar Babarao  and  Sujit K. Ghosh
  J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 6499-6507.   Web Link     

• Nanotrap Grafted Anion Exchangeable Hybrid Materials for Efficient Removal of Toxic Oxoanions from Water
  Samraj Mollick, Sahel Fajal, Satyam Saurabh, Dabanjan Mahato and Sujit K. Ghosh
  ACS Cent. Sci. 2020, 6, 9, 1534–1541.  Web Link    FIRST REACTION Web Link 

• A Water-Stable Ionic MOF for the Selective Capture of Toxic Oxoanions of Se(VI) and As(V) and Crystallographic Insight into the Ion-Exchange Mechanism  
  Shivani Sharma  Aamod V. Desai  Biplab Joarder  Sujit K. Ghosh   
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  2020, 59, 7788. Web Link

• Hybrid blue perovskite@metal-organic gel (MOG) nanocomposite: simultaneous improvement of luminescence property and stability
  Samraj Mollick, Tarak Nath Mandal, Atanu Jana, Sahel Fajal and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 10524–10530. Web Link

• Outer Surface Hydrophobic Shielding Strategy to Enhance the Chemical Stability of Metal-Organic Polyhedra
  Samraj Mollick, Soumya Mukherjee, Dongwook Kim, Qiao Zhiwei, Aamod V. Desai, Rajat Saha, Yogeshwar D. More, Jianwen Jiang, Myoung Soo Lah, Sujit K. Ghosh
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  2019, 58, 1041-1045. Web Link

• Chemically Stable Ionic Viologen-Organic Network: An Efficient Scavenger of Toxic Oxo-anions from Water
  Partha Samanta, Priyanshu Chandra, Subhajit Dutta, Aamod V. Desai and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 7874-7881. Web Link

• Enhanced Proton Conduction by Post-Synthetic Covalent Modification in a Porous Covalent Framework
  Partha Samanta, Aamod V. Desai, Bihag Anothumakkool, Mandar M. Shirolkar, Avishek Karmakar, Sreekumar Kurungot and Sujit K. Ghosh
  J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5,13659-13664. Web Link

• Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks: A New Class of Porous Crystalline Proton Conducting Materials
  Avishek Karmakar, Rajith Illathvalappil, Bihag Anothumakkool, Arunabha Sen, Partha Samanta, Aamod V. Desai, Sreekumar Kurungot and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 10667-10671. Cited by: >250 Web Link

• A Water Stable Cationic Metal-Organic Framework as Dual Adsorbent of Oxo-Anion Pollutants
  Aamod V. Desai, Biplab Manna, Avishek Karmakar, Amit Sahu and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 7811-7815. Cited by: >290 Web Link

• Two-in-one: Inherent Anhydrous and Water-assisted High Proton Conduction in a 3D Metal-organic Framework
  Sanjog S. Nagarkar, Sreekuttan M. Unni, Amitosh Sharma, Sreekumar Kurungot and Sujit K. Ghosh​
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 2638-2642. Cited by: >400 Web Link 

• Highly selective detection of nitro explosives by a luminescent metal–organic framework
  Sanjog S. Nagarkar, Biplab Joarder, Abhijeet K. Chaudhari, Soumya Mukherjee, Sujit K. Ghosh
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013 , 52 (10), 2881-2885.  Web Link Cited by: >1500 (Most cited: Second most cited communication among Articles published in 2013 or 2014)

• Dynamic Structural Behavior and Anion-Responsive Tunable Luminescence of a Flexible Cationic Metal-Organic Framework
  Biplab Manna, Abhijeet K. Chaudhari, Biplab Joarder, Avishek Karmakar and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 998-1002. Web Link

• Porous Coordination Polymer having Bond Switching Mechanism Showing Reversible Structural and Functional Transformations
  Sujit K. Ghosh, Wakako Kaneko, Daisuke Kiriya, Masaaki Ohba, Susumu Kitagawa
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 8843-8847.
  (Selected as a Hot Paper by the Editors)  Web link

• A Dynamic, Isocyanurate-Functionalized Porous Coordination Polymer
  Sujit K. Ghosh, Sareeya Bureekaew, Susumu Kitagawa
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 3403-3406. Web link
  (Selected as a Hot Paper by the Editors)

• Reversible Topochemical Transformation of a Soft Crystal of a Coordination Polymer    
  Sujit K. Ghosh, Jie-Peng Zhang, Susumu Kitagawa
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 7965-7968. Web link

• A Novel Dodecameric Water Cluster Built Around a Cyclic Quasi-Planar Hexameric Core in an Organic Supramolecular Complex of Cryptand
  Sujit K. Ghosh and Parimal K. Bharadwaj
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 3577-3580. Web link

Guest Editor

Themed collection " Emerging Trends in Advanced Functional Porous Materials" in ChemCommun by RSC. 

Themed collection " Emerging Trends in MOFs" in ChemCommun by RSC. 

Topical Collections "Applications of Porous Materials" in ChemPlusChem by Wiley.

Book Edited

• Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Environmental Applications (Edited by Sujit K. Ghosh, Elsevier Publication, 2019) Weblink   

Selected Review Articles, Highlights etc.

• Bromine sequestration by advanced functional porous materials

Sahel Fajal, Sujit K. Ghosh

Chem. Commun., 2025,61, 17290-17301 Web Link 

• Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and related other advanced porous materials for sequestration of heavy metal-based toxic oxo-pollutants from water

Writakshi Mandal, Sahel Fajal, Aamod V. Desai, Sujit K. Ghosh

Coord. Chem. Rev. 2025, 524, 216326. Web Link

• Heavy Metal-Based Toxic Oxo-Pollutants Sequestration by Advanced Functional Porous Materials for Safe Drinking Water

Subhajit Dutta, Sahel Fajal, and Sujit K. Ghosh

Acc. Chem. Res. 2024, 57, 17, 2546–2560  . Web Link

• (Review Article) Porous Organic Polymers (POPs) for Environmental Remediation

Sahel Fajal, Subhajit Dutta and Sujit K. Ghosh 

Materials Horizons 2023, 10, 4083–4138.  Web Link

• (Feature Article) Ionic Metal-Organic Frameworks (iMOFs): Progress and Prospects as Ionic Functional Materials 

S. Dutta, Y. D. More, S. Fajal, W. Mandal, G. K. Dam and S. K. Ghosh   

Chem. Commun., 2022,58, 13676-13698. Web Link (Cover page)

• ( Perspective) How Reproducible are Surface Areas Calculated from the BET Equation?

Johannes W. M. Osterrieth,............................,Sujit K. Ghosh, Soumya

Mukherjee,.....................and David Fairen-Jimenez. 

(Authors details: Total 60 labs and 113 authors working in the field of MOFs from around the

world, coordinated by Dr David Fairen-Jimenez, University of Cambridge. We are happy

to be part of this historial paper as the only contributing lab from India)

Adv. Mater. 2022, 2201502. Web Link (Inside Back Cover) 

Chemistryworld News: Flaws fixed in venerable 84-year-old method of measuring

porosity Link

• (NEWS & VIEWS) A decade of decoding 

Soumya Mukherjee and  Sujit K. Ghosh.

Nat. Rev. Chem., 2021, 5, 600–601. Web Link 

• (Perspective) Advanced Porous Materials for Sensing, Capture and Detoxification of Organic Pollutants toward Water Remediation

Partha Samanta, Aamod V. Desai, Sumanta Let and Sujit K. Ghosh.

ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2019, 7, 7456-7478.

• (Review Article) N-donor linker based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): Advancement and prospects as functional materials
  Aamod V. Desai, Shivani Sharma, Sumanta Let and Sujit K. Ghosh.
  Coord. Chem. Rev. 2019, 395, 146-192. Web Link

• (Review Article) Potential of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Adsorptive Separation of Industrially and Environmentally Relevant Liquid Mixtures
  Soumya Mukherjee, Aamod V. Desai and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Coord. Chem. Rev. 2018, 367, 82-126. Web Link 

• (Article) Guest Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks as Scaffolds for Separation and Sensing applications
  Avishek Karmakar, Partha Samanta, Aamod V. Desai and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Accounts of Chemical Research 2017, 50, 2457-2469. Web Link (Front Cover of the issue)

• (Review Article) Metal-organic Frameworks: Functional Luminescent and Photonic Materials for Sensing Applications
  William P. Lustig, Soumya Mukherjee, Nathan D. Rudd, Aamod V. Desai, Jing Li and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Chem. Soc. Rev. 2017, 46, 3242-3285. Web Link  Cited by: >2050 (Back Cover of the issue). Listed in the TOP 5 Impact Factor (2019) contributing items.

• (Review Article) Ionic metal-organic frameworks (iMOFs): Design principles and applications
  Avishek Karmakar, Aamod V. Desai, and Sujit K. Ghosh
  Coord. Chem. Rev. 2016, 307, 313-341. Web Link