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Welcome to my webpage.  I 'm a 3^rd year graduate student in Department of Chemistry at Penn State University.  I am doing my research under the guidance of Prof. Paul S. Weiss, where the focus of research is in atomic-scale measurements and control.  You can know more about our research by visiting the Weiss Group website. 

Currently, I am working on artificial molecular machines, which have a variety of movable parts and  can be interlocked to realize machine-like directed motion, and thus, can be potentially used as components in the fabrication of intelligent nanodevices.  My research goal is to assemble various types of single-molecule motors in precise nanoscale assemblies on a substrate and to induce and to control motion via light, redox reactions, and ion binding.  We employ scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to measure the motions generated at atomic scales, and microscopic methods to follow the actions of assemblies.

I completed my Integrated MS in chemistry in 2005 from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.  During my undergraduate research under Prof. C. P. Rao, I worked on "photo-physical properties of anthracene-anchored derivatives of calix[4]arene towards divalent transition metal ions."