During these 20 years of research, Prof. Vinu has made a tremendous contribution in the field of nanoporous materials and their application in sensing, energy storage, fuel cells, adsorption and separation, and catalysis. The quality of his research has been recognised with several international awards, including the Chemical Research Society of India Medal 2018, the CRS Gold Medal 2023, the SPARC award 2019, CNR Rao Lectureship award 2019. Medal and KY NIEM CHUONG Award 2018, Scopus Young Researcher Award 2014, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel award by the Humboldt Society (2010), JSPS Senior Invitational Fellow for the year 2014, Australian Future Fellowship (Professorial Level) for the year 2010, Indian Society for Chemists and Biologists award for excellence for the year 2010, Catalysis Society of India Young Scientist award for the year 2010, Chemical Society of Japan Award for the Young Scientist for the year 2008, Laureate of Khwarizmi International Award 2008, Asian Excellent Lectureship Award, and ICYS fellowship. Prof. Vinu is honoured with the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC (UK), Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI), Fellow of the World Academy of Ceramics (FWAC), Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (FWAAS), Fellow of Asia-pacific Academy of Materials (FAPAM) and Foreign Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, FFMAS. His contribution in the field of nanoporous materials is also clearly reflected by his international ranking by Science Watch as one of the top 15 researchers in the field and has led to ca. 500 papers in high-impact factor journals with ca. 29,400 citations and an H-index of 88.

The impact of my research culminating in multiple reports of world’s first mesoporous CN, boron nitrides, boron carbon nitrides, biomolecules and fullerenes engineered through innovative polymeric chemistry and nanotemplating technologies. The high impact of my science is reflected by more than 100 citations of 69 of his papers (33 of which have been cited more than 200 times), more than 17 highly cited papers, and 32 patents. He has been ranked number 1 (last 20 years) and number 7th (last 50 years) in Australia among the Top 2% of scientists in the field of “Materials” as per the database created by the Stanford University in 2020, reflecting his high-quality research and research impact that he made in this field. As he published more than 10 papers in Angewandte Chemie, which is one of the top journals in chemistry, his author profile has been published, reflecting the high impact of his research. His research has been published in top journals like Angew. Chemie, Nano Letters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater, Adv. Funct., Mater. Chem., Eur. J., Chem. Mater., etc. with an average of 1300 citations per year.