Dhruv Lal

Advised by Professor Jeffrey Greeley

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Dhruv Lal is a graduate student in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue Univrsity. Previously, he completed the BS/MS Research (Chemistry) program from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2022 and served as a Project Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IISc. His bachelor’s research focused on the application of density functional theory calculations to predict the energetics and properties of borofullerenes and clusters of sulphur and silicon. His master’s thesis project involved computational and experimental studies of the catalytic activation of small molecules like H2 and CH4, using late-transition-metal pincer complexes. His previous, published work focused on the computational investigation of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction on 2D materials. Being a chemistry major, he is motivated to seek chemical intuition and an understanding of processes and synthetic methods in inorganic, materials and nanoscale chemistry. He believes in harnessing the phenomenon of small molecule activation and its diverse range of applications, which drives him to research more about making such chemical processes more feasible and attainable under normal conditions.

Electrochemical synthesis of small molecules

Article Link: Unravelling Low Overpotential Pathways for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to CH4 on Pure and Doped MoS2 Edges; Dhruv Lal, Tanmay Konnur, Anand Mohan Verma, M. Shaneeth, and Ananth Govind Rajan; Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2023 62