Pradipta Purkayastha
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: ppurkayastha [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
•Photophysical characterization of new organic and inorganic molecules in microheterogeneous environments •Host-guest interaction and applications in biological environments •Synthesis and application of metal nanoparticles and nanoclusters in drug delivery •Carbon nanoparticles in photoinduced energy/electron transfer •Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS)
Academic Background:
- PhD (Photophysics and Photochemistry), Jadavpur University, 2002
Positions:
- Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (2013 - 2018)
- Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (2009 - 2013)
- Assistant Professor, BITS, Pilani (2007 - 2009)
- Lecturer, BITS, Pilani (2004 - 2007)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania (2002 - 2004)
Awards and Honors:
- Bharat Gaurav Puraskar from KTK Outstanding Achievers and Education Foundation (2022)
- Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry from The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge (2022)
- Research Excellence Award from Institute of Scholars, Bangalore (2020)
- Fellow from West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST) (2019)
- Research Ratna Awards 2019 from Research Under Literal Access (RULA) Awards (2019)
- Outstanding Faculty in Chemistry from Venus International Foundation (2018)
Selected Publications:
- Bhunia, Soumyadip; Mukherjee, Manish and Purkayastha, Pradipta. 2024."Fluorescent metal nanoclusters: prospects for photoinduced electron transfer and energy harvesting." Chem. Commun., 60, 3370-3378
- Chatterjee, Arunavo; Joy, Athira and Purkayastha, Pradipta. 2024."Microviscosity-Assisted Disaggregation of a Model Ophthalmic Drug and FRET-Controlled Singlet Oxygen Generation in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals." Langmuir, 40, 4331-4332
- Pattanayak, Pradip; Nandi, Arnab; Patra, Ramen and Purkayastha, Pradipta. 2023."Triplet Exciton Harvesting in Water by a Structurally Simple Organic Phosphor with Sustained Afterglow and Lifetime Tunability." Adv. Optical Mater., 12, 2302155
- Pattanayak, Pradip; Nandi, Arnab and Purkayastha, Pradipta. 2023."Polymorphism-Mediated Regulation of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Room-Temperature Phosphorescence via Intra- and Intermolecular Charge Transfer." Chem. Mater., 35, 9799-9805
- Mukherjee, Manish; Chatterjee, Arunavo; Bhunia, Soumyadip and Purkayastha, Pradipta. 2023."Hydrophobic Chain-Induced Conversion of Three-Dimensional Perovskite Nanocrystals to Gold Nanocluster-Grafted Two-Dimensional Platelets for Photoinduced Electron Transfer Substrate Formulation." J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 14, 8251-8260
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