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Dr. Bhattacharyya's Lab

Functional nanomaterials for light energy conversion

Hearty Congratulations Mr. Subhajit Kar for the completion of your ''Pre-Synopsis seminar". Best Wishes !!!

Hearty Congratulations Srayee M. and Vinay Kumar S. for "Best Oral Presentation Award" in National Symposium of Research Scholars on Metallurgy and Materials-2024 at IIT Kanpur.

We are looking for Ph.D. students

We will hire one JRF under the SERB-CRG project.

Interested candidates can contact Dr. Santanu Bhattacharyya - santanub@iiserbpr.ac.in

The title of the project is "Heterojunction Hybrids Made of Self-assembled Donor(D)-Acceptor(A)-Donor(D) Type Organic Nanomaterials @ Fullerene/Non-fullerene Based Acceptors for Photocatalytic Solar to Hydrogen and Chemical Energy Conversions."

https://www.iiserbpr.ac.in/engage/job/files/01_23-02-2024Advt._JRF_01_SERB%20053.pdf

In addition, we are looking for the motivated students for regular PhD positions, which will be available from the next semester. Interested candidates can apply through the institute website -

https://www.iiserbpr.ac.in/academics/admission/

Hearty Congratulations Ramesh Mandal & Team for "Optimizing Porosity and Heteroatom Functionalities in Amorphous Carbon-Rich g-C3N4 for Dual-Mode Photocatalysis through Solar to Green Hydrogen and Chemical Energy Conversion" article published in ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

Hearty Congratulations Subhajit Kar & Team for "Unveiling the Role of Ground State Charge Transfer Complex in Carbon Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Metal-free Solar Hydrogen Production " article published in RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

Hearty Congratulations to Bramhaiah Kommula and Team "Stable Room-Temperature Phosphorescence from MXene-Derived Carbon Dots: Ultralong Afterglow Emission without an External Matrix" article published in ACS Applied Optical Materials.

Hearty Congratulations Srayee Mandal & Team for "Structural Optimization of Luminescent Sulfur Dots for Solar Light Induced Efficient and Selective Oxidative Coupling Reactions of Aromatic Amines: A Complete Metal-Free Approach" article published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Once again Congratulations Ramesh Mandal for "The Best Poster Award" in KIIT-CRSI, Bhubaneshwar Local Chapter.

Best wishes to Srayee Mandal and Soham Ghosh for completion of your "Annual Progress Seminar". All the best !!!

Congratulations to Vinay Kumar S. & Team for the article "Understanding the Role of Dominant Crystal Facets on Heterogeneous Catalytic activity of BiOBr Nanomaterials: Boosting Catalytic Efficiency through Fe(III)/Fe(II) Incorporation" published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Elsevier.

Hearty Congratulations to Ramesh Mandal for "The Best Poster Award" in the CRSI NSC-31, NIT Rourkela.

Congratulations to Lopamudra Bishwal, Subhajit Kar & Team for "Role of Noncovalent Interactions in N,P-Functionalized Luminescent Carbon Dots for Ultrasensitive Detection of Moisture in D2O: Boosting Visible-NIR Light Sensitivity" article published in APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES

Hearty congratulations to Srayee M., Pandiselvi D., & Team for"Switching between Fluorescence and Room Temperature Phosphorescence in Carbon Dots: Key Role of Heteroatom Functionalities" article published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Congratulations Vinay Kumar S. for the beginning of SRF. warm best wishes !!!

Congratulations Ramesh Mandal for the beginning of SRF. All the very best!!!

Good News!!! Our recent Advanced Optical Materials article - "Critical Optimization of Phosphorus Functionalized Carbon Nanomaterials for Metal-Free Solar Hydrogen Production and Simultaneous Organic Transformation(doi.org/10.1002/adom.202102641)" is in
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