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Name Dr. Kuntal Chatterjee Designation Professor Department Name PHYSICS Office Phone No +91 3222 298-403 / Centrex Extn. 403 Email ID kuntal@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in Fax Mobile No 9474816352 Personal Website Address Dept. of Physics Vidyasagar University Midnapore 721102 West Bengal

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

Career Profile / Teaching Experience 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 Field of Specialization Research Area/ Areas of Interest Materials science Surface Science Experimental Nanoscience

Course/ Subject Taught Digital Electronics Statistical Mechanics Materials Science

Conference/ Symposium /Journal Paper / Books Published International Publication Title Published in Published on Published by Role Details Ni-MOF derived bimetallic nanoalloy: An excellent UOR electrocatalyst Animesh Acharya, Koustav Mandal, Kuntal Chatterjee 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 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 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*, Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. Jul, 2023 Springer Corresponding Author Impact Factor: 5.80000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: Engineering of layered metal dichalcogenides: introducing imperfections to make it perfect, Parbati Basu and Kuntal Chatterjee * Oxford Open Materials Science, 2021, 1(1): itab012 2021 Oxford University Press Corresponding Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: α-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Embedded in a g-C3N4Nanocomposite: Optical, Magnetic and Electrochemical Study, Shubhamita Dutta, Tushar K. Jana, Ramaprasad Maiti Kalyanashis De, and Kuntal Chatterjee*, ChemistrySelect 2021, 6, 11759– 11767 2021 Wiley-VCH GmbH Corresponding Author Impact Factor: 2.23000 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* SN Applied Sciences (2020) 2:993 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-2780-6 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* ChemistrySelect 2020, 5, 6162 –6171 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* Mater. Adv. 2020 DOI: 10.1039/d0ma00343c 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 J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 8668-8674 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*, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 177 (2019) 512–519 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* Applied Surface Science 500 (2020) 143986 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. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b12988 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 Carbon 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* ChemistrySelect 2018, 3, 12140 –12149 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* AIP Conf. Proc. 1942, (2018) 050138 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* J Mater Sci. DOI: 10.1007/s10853-018-2156-0 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* ChemistrySelect 2018, 3, 7346– 7353 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 ChemSusChem 10.1002/cssc.201800982 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 Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics 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* Chemistry Select, Volume 2, Issue 10April 3, 2017 Pages 3068–3077 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 Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 1500669 2016 Wiley   Impact Factor: 6.38000 Indexing: Article's Web Link: Silica supported TiO2 nanostructures for highly efficient photocatalytic application under visible light irradiation Materials Research Bulletin 76 (2016) 353–357. 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,? Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 480 (2016) 9–16 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, Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 3, 1600383| DOI: 10.1002/admi.201600383 2016 Wiley   Impact Factor: 6.38000 Indexing: Article's Web Link: Nucleation and Growth Mechanism of a Covalent Material: Magic Clusters and Chemical Reactions arXiv:1501.03934 2015 Cornell University Library   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Magnetic and photocatalytic study of Co3O4- ZnO nanocomposite, T.K. Jana Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 653, 338-344, 2015, doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.09.040 2015 Elsevier   Impact Factor: 6.37000 Indexing: Article's Web Link: Morphology dependent magnetic properties of a-Fe2O3 nanostructures Materials Research Express, 1 (2014) 046104, doi:10.1088/2053-1591/1/4/046104 2014 IOP Science   Impact Factor: 2.30000 Indexing: Article's Web Link: Self assembled flower like CdS–ZnO nanocomposite and its photocatalytic activity Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 583, 510-515, 2014 2014 Elsevier   Impact Factor: 6.37000 Indexing: Article's Web Link: Self assembled flower like CdS–ZnO nanocomposite and its photo catalytic activity T.K. Jana, A. Pal, K. Chatterjee Journal of Alloys and Compounds 583 (2014) 510–515 2013 Elsevier   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: General Route to Synthesize of Metal (Ni, Co, Mn, Fe) Oxide Nanostructure and their Optical and Magnetic Behavior Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Vol. 13, 1–9, 2013 2013 American Scientific Publishers   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Synthesis and magnetic properties of morphologically varied Fe2O3 nanostructures AIP Conf. Proc. 1536, 1033; doi: 10.1063/1.4810586 2013 American Institute of Physics   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Oriented growth of a-Fe2O3 nanocrystal with different morphologyand their optical behaviour J. of Crystal Growth Volume 381, 15 October 2013, Pages 107–113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2013.07.013 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 Journal of Experimental Nanoscience2012, 1–10, iFirsthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17458080.2012.656712 2012 Taylor & Francis   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Nucleation and growth of Si on Pb monolayer covered Si(111) surfaces Surface Science 605 (2011) 1249–1256 2011 Elsevier   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: GROWTH OF Si ATOMIC WIRES ON Pb-MEDIATED Si(111) 7 × 7 SUBSTRATE International Journal of Nanoscience Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2 (2011) 129133 2011 World Scientific   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Synthesis and OpticalManifestation of NiO-Silica Nanocomposite ISRN Nanotechnology Volume 2011, Article ID 719027, 6 pages doi:10.5402/2011/719027 2011 Hindawi   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: National Publication Other Publication Book Published Book Chapter Published

Ph. D. Thesis Guidence Ongoing / Submitted Ph. D. Thesis Scholar Name Thesis Title Co Supervisor Status Complete in Year Shubhamita Dutta Layered Nanomaterials for Environmental and Energy Applications   Submitted 0 Pijush Kanti Gan Synthesis and Study of Layered Materials for Environmental Applications   Ongoing 0 Koustav Mandal Growth of 2D Materials and Study of Their Electrocatalytic behaviours.   Ongoing 0 Animesh Acharya Synthesis of Two Dimensional Materials by Chemical Vapour Deposition and Study Their Performance in Production of Alternative Fuels   Ongoing 0 Awarded Ph. D. Thesis Scholar Name Thesis Title Co Supervisor Status Complete in Year Parbati Basu ENGINEERED METAL DICHALCOGENIDE NANOSTRUCTURES FOR FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS   Awarded 2021 Arnab Pal Synthesis and Multifunctional Characterization of Different Transition Metal Based Nanomaterials   Awarded 2019 Tushar Kanti Jana SYNTHESIS AND STUDY OF DIFFERENT HETEROSTRUCTURED NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS   Awarded 2018 Sankalpita Chakrabarty Synthesis of nanostructured materials and study of their optical, magnetic and charge transfer properties Dr. S. Ghosh Awarded 2015

Project Work Completed Project Works Project title Worked as Funding Agency Amount in Rs. Duration in years Period Year to Year Status Two-dimensional nanomaterials for electrochemical water oxidation and reduction: steps towards green energy PI CSIR 2275000 3 year 2017 2020 Completed Synthesis, Characterization and Optical Properties of Metal-Metal and Metal-Dielectric Core-Shell Nanoparticles PI UGC 200000 2 year 2013 2015 Completed Core Shell Nanoparticles and Nanowires – the Novel Materials for Future Technology PI DST-India 1776000 3 year 2010 2013 Completed

Invited Lectures  Title Organized by Venue Year 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 2020 Nanomaterials: New Skyline of Materials Science "National Seminar on Photonics and Nanoscience" organized by Garbeta College, Paschim Medinipur Garbeta College, Paschim Medinipur 2012

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

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

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