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Being an experienced researcher in the field of functional porous organic materials (COFs and POPs) for organic transformations, heterogeneous photocatalysis, green energy generation and storage, wastewater treatment, and carbon dioxide capture and utilization, Akhtar has contributed to more than 30 publications with 775+ citations, h-index of 17 and i10-index of 19.

(Source: Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7DpyM78AAAAJ&hl=en).

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Selected Publications

1. Triptycene-Based Porous Organic Network Polymers: From Synthesis to Applications. Akhtar Alam, Atikur Hassan, Neeladri Das.* Progress in Materials Science, 2026, 155, 101528. (Impact Factor: 40.0).  DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2025.101528 

2. Xantphos–Cu‐Decorated Covalent Organic Frameworks for C─H Arylation through Sensitized Electron Transfer. 

Akhtar Alam,§ Monojit Roy,§ Shyamali Maji, Avanti Chakraborty, Vikramjeet Singh, Amit Kumar, Sukanta Mondal, Abhik Banerjee, Kamalakannan Kailasam, Debashis Adhikari* Pradip Pachfule.* (§ Equal contribution). Advanced Materials, 2025, 37, 2416100. (Impact Factor: 27.4).  DOI: doi.org/10.1002/adma.202416100 

3. Enhancing Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Generation by Tuning Hydrazone Linkage Density in Covalent Organic Frameworks. 

Avanti Chakraborty, Akhtar Alam, Uttam Pal, Archisman Sinha, Subhadip Das, Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta,* Pradip Pachfule.* Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 503. (Impact Factor: 14.7).   DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-55894-y

4. Isomeric Cyano-vinylene-linked Covalent Organic Frameworks and Their Impact on Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. 

Amit Nagar, Akhtar Alam, Pradip Pachfule, CM Nagaraja.* Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2025, 13, 14304. (Impact Factor: 10.7).   DOI: doi.org/10.1039/D5TA01539A 

5. Covalent Organic Frameworks as Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for Cross-Coupling Reactions. 

Avanti Chakraborty, Monojit Roy, Akhtar Alam,* Debashis Adhikari,* Pradip Pachfule*. (As corresponding author). Green Chemistry, 2024, 26, 9619–9651. (Impact Factor: 9.3).  DOI: doi.org/10.1039/D4GC03467H 

6. Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalysis. 

Bikash Mishra,§ Akhtar Alam,§ Avanti Chakraborty, Bidhan Kumbhakar, Samrat Ghosh,* Pradip Pachfule,* Arne Thomas.* (§ Equal contribution). Advanced Materials, 2024, 2413118. (Impact Factor: 27.4).   DOI: doi.org/10.1002/adma.202413118 

7. Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Generation. 

Akhtar Alam,§ Bidhan Kumbhakar,§ Avanti Chakraborty, Bikash Mishra, Samrat Ghosh,* Arne Thomas,* Pradip Pachfule.* (§Equal contribution). ACS Materials Letters, 2024, 6, 2007–2049. (Impact Factor: 9.9).  DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c00418 

8. Impact of the Crystallinity of Covalent Organic Frameworks on Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. 

Bikash Mishra, Akhtar Alam, Bidhan Kumbhakar, David Díaz Díaz,* Pradip Pachfule.* Crystal Growth & Design, 2023, 23, 4701–4719. (Impact Factor: 3.2).  DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00379 

9. Hydroxy Functionalized Triptycene Based Covalent Organic Polymers for Ultra-high Radioactive Iodine Uptake. 

Atikur Hassan, Akhtar Alam, Mosim Ansari, Neeladri Das.* Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 427, 130950. (Impact Factor: 13.3).  DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.130950

10. Triptycene-Based and Schiff-Base-Linked Porous Networks: Efficient Gas Uptake, High CO2/N2 Selectivity, and Excellent Antiproliferative Activity.       

Akhtar Alam, Snehasis Mishra, Atikur Hassan, Ranajit Bera, Sriparna Dutta, Krishna Das Saha, Neeladri Das.* ACS Omega, 2020, 5, 4250. (Impact Factor: 3.7).   DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b04160 

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14/10/2025: Published a review article in RSC Sustainability. Congratulations to the Team! 

Link: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SU00369E