Marching with the vision of sustainable environment!
Sustainable Energy & Environmental Research Lab
For a Sustainable Society, we design novel materials and processes for conversion of solar energy to resolve the environmental and energy issues
Karthikeyan Sekar
Research Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry,
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India.
Research Area: Chemistry/ Environmental Chemistry
|The Royal Society-Newton and JSPS-UK Alumnus|
World's Top 2% scientists database released by Stanford University - 2023
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About
SEER Lab has a vision for sustainable growth by fundamentally focusing our attention that are necessary and vital to the advances in sciences and scientific principles. Our research integrates treatment of waste for sustainable energy and sustainable environment
Updates!!
June, 2026
Dr. Karthikeyan S, has attended The 4th Global Conference of Innovation Materials & MRS-K Spring Meeting (GCIM-2026) at ICC JEJU, South Korea consecutively for the second time. Delivered talk and session chair for presentations
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Lekshmi Priya SL, Sagayaraj, P.J., Shanmugam, M., Mani, P., SenthilKumar, A., Lee, J., Neppolian, B., Shenoy, S., Kim, H.I. and Sekar, K., 2026. Understanding the role of metal defects and vacancies in layered double hydroxides for photo (electro) catalytic carbon dioxide reduction. Chemical Physics Reviews, 7(1).
March, 2026
August, 2025
Sagayaraj, P.J., Oyama, K., Okibe, N., Sengeni, A., Kim, H.I. and Sekar, K., 2025. Reconstructing the electronic structure of nickel selenide by Cu incorporation for an enhanced alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13(35), pp.29461-29470.
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July, 2025
Our scholar Ms. Prince Jemima Jebaselvi S has been awarded the CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship in the subject area Material Chemistry. Many congratulations Jemiam for your achievement.
July, 2025
Sagayaraj, Prince J. J., Aravind Senthilkumar, Juwon Lee, Eun-Kyeong Byeon, Hyoung-il Kim, Sulakshana Shenoy, and Karthikeyan Sekar. 2025. "Self-Supported Tailoring of Nickel Sulfide/CuCo Nanosheets into Hierarchical Heterostructures for Boosting Urea Oxidation Reaction" Catalysts 15, no. 7: 664
https://doi.org/10.3390/catal15070664
June, 2025
Mariyappan Shanmugam, Prince J.J. Sagayaraj, Preeyanghaa Mani, Lekshmi Priya SL, Naveen Kumar Thimmarayampalayam Ramasamy, Manova Santhosh Yesupatham, Hyoung-il Kim, Bernaurdshaw Neppolian, and Karthikeyan Sekar. "Development of Titanium (Ti) and Zirconium (Zr)-Based MOFs for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction" ACS Applied Engineering Materials, ASAP.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaenm.5c00275
March, 2025
RSC POSTER 2025#
Kudos to Ms. Prince Jemima Jebaselvi S for winning the RSC poster award 2025, in the Community category, commemorating the 10th anniversary, organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK, in a global level.
Winners of #RSCPoster
Mani, P., Shenoy, S., Sagayaraj, P. J., Agamendran, N., Son, S., Bernaurdshaw, N and Sekar, K*. (2025). Scaling up of photocatalytic systems for large-scale hydrogen generation. Applied Physics Reviews, 12(1). https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apr/article/12/1/011303/3330351/Scaling-up-of-photocatalytic-systems-for-large?searchresult=1
February, 2025
June, 2024
Our scholar Mariyappan S has been awarded a highly prestigious DAAD fellowship. He was selected for the binational supervision program at the University of Cologne, Germany for one year. Many congratulations Mariyappan for your achievement.
May, 2024
Our Lab SEER has published the first nature indexed article in Chemical Communications.
Check out the following link to know more....
May, 2024
Cheers to the new collaborative works for Team SEER in high impact journals.
Applied Catalysis B Environment and Energy (I.F-22.1) and Advanced Energy materials (I.F- 27.8)!
Congratulations to our research scholar Mrs. Brahmari for winning the RSC poster award in the community category organized by Royal Society of Chemistry, UK “#RSCPoster 2024” in global level. Winning an International award is very special. Keep rocking....
March, 2024
October, 2023
Visiting Faculty
Visiting Faculty at The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, from October to November 2023
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