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X'Tal Engineering Laboratory

Department of Chemistry, University of Kashmir

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Current Focus Area

  • Designing organic materials with a broad range of applications, alternate to inorganic materials.
  • Currently focusing on pharmaceutical co-crystals and applied optical materials.

Prospective Focus Area

  • Soft crystals for opto-electronic properties
  • NIR crystals / Co-crystals for photothermal therapies, Desalination, Bioimaging, Cancer therapy, etc

Latest Research News!

  1. Photo-switching in multi-stimuli-responsive low Z′-high Z′ co-crystal polymorphs | Ahmad, SJ Prathapa, AA Dar |Journal of Materials Chemistry C

    Photo-switching in multi-stimuli-responsive low Z′-high Z′ co-crystal polymorphs

    Ahmad, SJ Prathapa, AA Dar (2025) | Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  2. Cooling Crystallization of Sulfamethazine-Acetylsalicylic Acid Cocrystal: Estimating Nucleation Kinetics and Real-Time Phase Identification | A Saha, SV Dalvi, AA Dar, JV Parambil | Crystal Growth & Design

    Cooling Crystallization of Sulfamethazine-Acetylsalicylic Acid Cocrystal: Estimating Nucleation Kinetics and Real-Time Phase Identification

    A Saha, SV Dalvi, AA Dar, JV Parambil (2025) | Crystal Growth & Design
  3. Multi-color emission and temperature promoted luminescence efficiency of stimuli-responsive stoichiomorphic ionic co-crystals | AA Malik, ATM Munthasir, AA Ganie, P Thilagar, AA Dar | Journal of Materials Chemistry C13 (29), 15121-15134

    Multi-color emission and temperature promoted luminescence efficiency of stimuli-responsive stoichiomorphic ionic co-crystals

    AA Malik, ATM Munthasir, AA Ganie, P Thilagar, AA Dar (2025) | Journal of Materials Chemistry C13 (29), 15121-15134