Faculty Profile - University

Educational Qualification

Degree Name	Institute	Year of passing/awarded
Ph.D	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata	2005

Career Profile / Teaching Experience

Description of Experience
Professor, Department of Physics, Vidyasagar University since 12th September 2022
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Vidyasagar University since 12 September 2019
Post Doc as UGC -RAMAN Fellow, MSNE, RICE University, Texas, US, 2014-2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Technophysics, Vidyasagar University since 12 September, 2007
Post Doctoral Research, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2005-2007

Specialization/Research Area

Type (Specialization / Research Area / Areas of Interest)	Detailed Description
Field of Specialization	Materials science Surface Science
Research Area/ Areas of Interest	Experimental Nanoscience

Course/ Subject Taught

Course Name
Digital Electronics
Statistical Mechanics
Materials Science

Publications in Journal / Magazines / Newspaper

Title	Publication Type	Published in	Published on	Publisher's Name	Role	Details
Synergistic Inclusion of Reaction Activator and Reaction Accelerator to Ni-MOF Toward Extra-Ordinary Performance of Urea Oxidation Reaction, Animesh Acharya, Koustav Mandal, Neetu Kumari, and Kuntal Chatterjee*	International	Small 2024, 2407377, DOI: 10.1002/smll.202407377	Dec, 2024	Wiley-VCH GmbH	Corresponding Author	Impact Factor: 13.20000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202407377
Ni-MOF derived bimetallic nanoalloy: An excellent UOR electrocatalyst Animesh Acharya, Koustav Mandal, Kuntal Chatterjee	International	AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 3149 Issue 1	Aug, 2024	AIP Publishing	Corresponding Author	Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link:
Iron Oxide-Molybdenum Di-sulfide composite for enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction activity; Pijush K Gan, Arnab Pal, Kuntal Chatterjee	International	AIP Conference Proceedings; Volume 3149 Issue 1	Aug, 2024	AIP Publishing	Corresponding Author	Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link:
Tuneable and Coral-like NiCoP for Enhanced Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution Reaction	International	Materials Today Communication https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.108063	Jan, 2024	Elsevier	Corresponding Author	Impact Factor: 3.80000 Indexing: SCOPUS, UGC CARE Article's Web Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.108063
Nanocomposites exhibiting both photocatalytic and antibacterial activity- a review, Tushar Kanti Jana and Kuntal Chatterjee*,	International	Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res.	Jul, 2023	Springer	Corresponding Author	Impact Factor: 5.80000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link:
a-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Embedded in a g-C3N4Nanocomposite: Optical, Magnetic and Electrochemical Study, Shubhamita Dutta, Tushar K. Jana, Ramaprasad Maiti Kalyanashis De, and Kuntal Chatterjee*,	International	ChemistrySelect 2021, 6, 11759– 11767	Oct, 2021	Wiley-VCH GmbH	Corresponding Author	Impact Factor: 2.23000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link:
Engineering of layered metal dichalcogenides: introducing imperfections to make it perfect, Parbati Basu and Kuntal Chatterjee *	International	Oxford Open Materials Science, 2021, 1(1): itab012	Oct, 2021	Oxford University Press	Corresponding Author	Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link:
Electro-catalytic hydrogen evolution and magnetic behaviorof N-doped-rGO supported NixPyArnab Pal, Kalyanashis De,Ramaprasad Maiti, Subal Chandra Manna,Kuntal Chatterjee1*	International	SN Applied Sciences (2020) 2:993 \| https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-2780-6	Jan, 2020	Springer Nature		Impact Factor: 2.88000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Zn2Al-CO3 Layered Double Hydroxide: Adsorption,Cytotoxicity and Antibacterial Performances, S. Dutta, Tushar K. Jana, Suman K. Halder, Ramaprasad Maiti, Ankita Dutta,A. Kumar, and K.Chatterjee*	International	ChemistrySelect 2020, 5, 6162 –6171	Jan, 2020	Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim		Impact Factor: 2.23000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Oxygen, nitrogen co-doped molybdenum disulphide nanoflowers for an excellentantifungal activity, Parbati Basu, Khushi Mukherjee, Sudipta Khamrui, Subharaj Mukherjee, Maudud Ahmed, Krishnendu Acharya, Debamalya Banerjee, Padinharu M. G. Nambissan and Kuntal Chatterjee*	International	Mater. Adv. 2020 DOI: 10.1039/d0ma00343c	Jan, 2020	The Royal Society of Chemistry		Impact Factor: 5.36000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Directly Exfoliated Ultrathin Silicon Nanosheets for EnhancedPhotocatalytic Hydrogen ProductionYan Wang,* Rui Cai, Jianfang Zhang, Jiewu Cui, Yongqiang Qin, Yong Zhang, Jingjie Wu,Kuntal Chatterjee, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Yucheng Wu	International	J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 8668-8674	Jan, 2020	American Chemical Society (ACS)		Impact Factor: 6.88000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
The antibacterial and anticancer properties of zinc oxide coated iron oxidenanotextured composites, Tushar K. Jana, Swapan K. Jana, Anoop Kumar, Kalyanashis De, Ramaprasad Maiti,Amit Kumar Mandal, Tanaya Chatterjee, Barun K. Chatterjee, Pinak Chakrabarti,Kuntal Chatterjeea,	International	Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 177 (2019) 512–519	Jan, 2019	Elsevier		Impact Factor: 5.26000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Non-Classical Nucleation Pathways Revealed by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Epitaxy of Covalent Materials, Yi-Hsien Lee, Chung-Kai Fang, Shih-Hsin Chang, Rakesh Kumar,KuntalChatterjee, Ing-Shouh Hwang*	International	Applied Surface Science 500 (2020) 143986	Jan, 2019	Elsevier		Impact Factor: 6.70000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Defect-Engineered MoS2 Nanostructures for Reactive Oxygen Species Generation in the Dark; Antipollutant and Antifungal Performances, Parbati Basu et. al.	International	ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b12988	Jan, 2019	American Chemical Society		Impact Factor: 10.38000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Nitrogen-rich carbon nano-onions for oxygen reduction reaction. Kuntal Chatterjee*, Meiyazhagan Ashokkumar, Hemtej Gullapalli, Yongji Gong, RobertVajtai, Palanisamy Thanikaivelan, Pulickel M. Ajayan	International	Carbon	Jan, 2018	Elsevier		Impact Factor: 11.30000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
MoS2-TiO2 Nanocomposite with Excellent AdsorptionPerformance and High Antibacterial Activity. Arnab Pal, Tushar K. Jana,Tamanna Roy, Ananya Pradhan, Ramaprasad Maiti,Sujata M. Choudhury, and Kuntal Chatterjee*	International	ChemistrySelect 2018, 3, 12140 –12149	Jan, 2018	Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim		Impact Factor: 2.23000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
2. MoS2 embedded TiO2 nanoparticles for concurrent role of adsorption and Photocatalysis, Arnab Pal, Tushar K. Jana, and Kuntal Chatterjee*	International	AIP Conf. Proc. 1942, (2018) 050138	Jan, 2018	American Institute of Physics		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Significant enhancement of power conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells by the incorporation of TiO2–Au nanocomposite in TiO2 photoanode, Swati Bhardwaj, Arnab Pal, Kuntal Chatterjee, Tushar H. Rana, Gourav Bhattacharya, Susanta Sinha Roy, Papia Chowdhury, Ganesh D. Sharma*	International	J Mater Sci. DOI: 10.1007/s10853-018-2156-0	Jan, 2018	Springer Nature		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Silica-Coated Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: Magnetic and Cytotoxicity Studies Parbati Basu, Kalyanashis De, Soma Das,Amit K. Mandal, Anoop Kumar,Tushar K. Jana,* and Kuntal Chatterjee*	International	ChemistrySelect 2018, 3, 7346– 7353	Jan, 2018	Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
MoS2-CNT Porous 3D Network for Enhanced Oxygen ReductionReactionCheesung Lee, Sehmus Ozden. Chandra. S. Tewari, Ok-Kyung Park, Robert Vajtai, KuntalChatterjee*, Pulickel M. Ajayan	International	ChemSusChem 10.1002/cssc.201800982	Jan, 2018	Wiley-VCH		Impact Factor: 9.14000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Electrophoretic deposition of plasmonic nanocomposite for the fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells	International	Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics	Jan, 2017	CSIR-NISCAIR		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Performance of a-Fe2O3Nanostructures, T. K. Jana, A. Pal, A. K. Mandal, S. Sarwar, P. Chakrabarti and K. Chatterjee*	International	Chemistry Select, Volume 2, Issue 10April 3, 2017 Pages 3068–3077	Jan, 2017	Wiley		Impact Factor: 2.23000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Exfoliated Two Dimensional Transition Metal Disulfides for Enhanced Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Medium	International	Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 1500669	Jan, 2016	Wiley		Impact Factor: 6.38000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Silica supported TiO2 nanostructures for highly efficient photocatalytic application under visible light irradiation	International	Materials Research Bulletin 76 (2016) 353–357.	Jan, 2016	Elsevier		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Photocatalytic and antibacterial activity of cadmium sulphide/zinc oxidenanocomposite with varied morphology, T.K. Jana a, S.K. Maji b, A. Pal a, R.P. Maiti a, T.K. Dolai c, K. Chatterjee a,?	International	Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 480 (2016) 9–16	Jan, 2016	Elsevier		Impact Factor: 9.96000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Spiral Growth of SnSe2 Crystals by Chemical Vapor Deposition, Jingjie Wu, Zhili Hu, Zehua Jin, Sidong Lei, Hua Guo, Kuntal Chatterjee, Jing Zhang, Yingchao Yang, Bo Li, Yang Liu, Jiawei Lai, Robert Vajtai, Boris Yakobson, Ming Tang, Jun Lou and Pulickel M. Ajayan,	International	Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 3, 1600383\| DOI: 10.1002/admi.201600383	Jan, 2016	Wiley		Impact Factor: 6.38000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Nucleation and Growth Mechanism of a Covalent Material: Magic Clusters and Chemical Reactions	International	arXiv:1501.03934	Jan, 2015	Cornell University Library		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Magnetic and photocatalytic study of Co3O4- ZnO nanocomposite, T.K. Jana	International	Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 653, 338-344, 2015, doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.09.040	Jan, 2015	Elsevier		Impact Factor: 6.37000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Self assembled flower like CdS–ZnO nanocomposite and its photocatalytic activity	International	Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 583, 510-515, 2014	Jan, 2014	Elsevier		Impact Factor: 6.37000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Morphology dependent magnetic properties of a-Fe2O3 nanostructures	International	Materials Research Express, 1 (2014) 046104, doi:10.1088/2053-1591/1/4/046104	Jan, 2014	IOP Science		Impact Factor: 2.30000 Indexing: Article's Web Link:
General Route to Synthesize of Metal (Ni, Co, Mn, Fe) Oxide Nanostructure and their Optical and Magnetic Behavior	International	Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Vol. 13, 1–9, 2013	Jan, 2013	American Scientific Publishers		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Synthesis and magnetic properties of morphologically varied Fe2O3 nanostructures	International	AIP Conf. Proc. 1536, 1033; doi: 10.1063/1.4810586	Jan, 2013	American Institute of Physics		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Oriented growth of a-Fe2O3 nanocrystal with different morphologyand their optical behaviour	International	J. of Crystal Growth Volume 381, 15 October 2013, Pages 107–113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2013.07.013	Jan, 2013	Elsevier		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Self assembled flower like CdS–ZnO nanocomposite and its photo catalytic activity T.K. Jana, A. Pal, K. Chatterjee	International	Journal of Alloys and Compounds 583 (2014) 510–515	Jan, 2013	Elsevier		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
A facile and general route to sizecontrolledsynthesis of metal (Ni, Coand Mn) oxide nanoparticle and theiroptical behaviour	International	Journal of Experimental Nanoscience2012, 1–10, iFirsthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17458080.2012.656712	Jan, 2012	Taylor & Francis		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Nucleation and growth of Si on Pb monolayer covered Si(111) surfaces	International	Surface Science 605 (2011) 1249–1256	Jan, 2011	Elsevier		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
GROWTH OF Si ATOMIC WIRES ON Pb-MEDIATED Si(111) 7 × 7 SUBSTRATE	International	International Journal of Nanoscience Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2 (2011) 129133	Jan, 2011	World Scientific		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Synthesis and OpticalManifestation of NiO-Silica Nanocomposite	International	ISRN Nanotechnology Volume 2011, Article ID 719027, 6 pages doi:10.5402/2011/719027	Jan, 2011	Hindawi		Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:

Ph. D. Thesis Guidance

Scholar Name	Thesis Title	Name of the Co Supervisor	Status	Date
Animesh Acharya	Synthesis of Two Dimensional Materials by Chemical Vapour Deposition and Study Their Performance in Production of Alternative Fuels		Ongoing	Apr, 2027
Koustav Mandal	Growth of 2D Materials and Study of Their Electrocatalytic behaviours.		Ongoing	Jan, 2026
Pijush Kanti Gan	Synthesis and Study of Layered Materials for Environmental Applications		Ongoing	Jan, 2025
Shubhamita Dutta	Layered Nanomaterials for Environmental and Energy Applications		Awarded	Dec, 2024
Parbati Basu	ENGINEERED METAL DICHALCOGENIDE NANOSTRUCTURES FOR FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS		Awarded	Aug, 2021
Arnab Pal	Synthesis and Multifunctional Characterization of Different Transition Metal Based Nanomaterials		Awarded	Jan, 2019
Tushar Kanti Jana	SYNTHESIS AND STUDY OF DIFFERENT HETEROSTRUCTURED NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS		Awarded	Jan, 2018
Sankalpita Chakrabarty	Synthesis of nanostructured materials and study of their optical, magnetic and charge transfer properties	Dr. S. Ghosh	Awarded	Jan, 2015

Research Project

Worked as	Funding Agency	Amount in Rs.	Duration	Period	Status
PI	CSIR	2275000	3 years	2017-2020	Complete
PI	UGC	200000	2 years	2013-2015	Complete
PI	DST-India	1776000	3 years	2010-2013	Complete

Invited Lectures

Title	Organized By	Venue	Date
Decreasing Dimensionality - Increasing Functionality: A step to Care our Environment	National WEBINAR on "Advancement of Plasma Physics and Nanoscience" organised by Kharagpur College,	ONLINE mode	Jan, 2020
Nanomaterials: New Skyline of Materials Science	"National Seminar on Photonics and Nanoscience" organized by Garbeta College, Paschim Medinipur	Garbeta College, Paschim Medinipur	Jan, 2012

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended

Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop	Date	Role	Held at and Organiser
Advanced Energy Materials(AEM 2018) 14-17April, 2018, Hefei, China	Jan, 2018	Invited Speaker	Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), Hefei, Anhui Province, ChinaHFUT, China & RICE University, Houston, TX, US
228th ECS Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, US	Jan, 2015	Speaker	11-15 October,2015 Electro Chemical Society (ECS)

Awards

Award Name	Awarded by	Date
UGC-RAMAN Fellow, RICE University, Houston TX, US	UGC	Jan, 2015
Visiting Scholar	Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Jan, 2012
Visiting Scholar	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Jan, 2009
SRF	CSIR, India	Jan, 2002
JRF	CSIR, India	Jan, 2000

Dr. Kuntal Chatterjee