Soumyajit Roy

Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: s.roy [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
Polyoxometalate chemistry. Polymeric materials. Supramolecular connectivity in materials. Soft oxometalates.
Academic Background:
- Dr.rer.nat. (Chemistry), University of Bielefeld, Germany. (University of Bielefeld, Germany), 2005, Summa cum laude
Positions:
- Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Associate Professor, IISER-Kolkata (2015 - 2020)
- Assistant Professor, IISER-Kolkata (2011 - 2015)
- Professor, Changshu Institute of Technology, China (2010 - 2010)
- Researcher, BASF-ISIS (2007 - 2009)
- Post-doctoral fellow, University of Utrecht (2005 - 2007)
Awards and Honors:
- Dissertationspreis from WLUG, Germany (2005)
- Best Speaker Award from GDCh, Germany (2003)
Selected Publications:
- Das, Santu; Lai, Dipti; Mallick, Apabrita and Roy, Soumyajit. 2016."Photo Redox Mediated Inexpensive One-Pot Synthesis of 1,4-Diphenyl Substituted Butane-1,4-Dione from Styrene using Polyoxometalates as Catalysts." Chem. Select, 1, 691
- Mallick, Apabrita; Lai, Dipti and Roy, Soumyajit. 2016."Autonomous movement induced in chemically powered active soft-oxometalates using dithionite as fuel." New J. Chem., 40, 1057
- Das, Santu; Misra, Archismita and Roy, Soumyajit. 2016."Enhancement of Photochemical Heterogeneous Water Oxidation by Manganese Based Soft oxometalate Immobilized on Graphene Oxide Matrix." New J. Chem., 40, 994
- Das, Kousik and Roy, Soumyajit. 2015."Direct Synthesis of Controlled-Size Nanospheres inside Nanocavities of Self-Organized Photopolymerizing Soft Oxometalates [PW12O40]n (n=1100–7500)." Chem. Asian Journal, 10, 1884
- Thomas, Preethi; Pei, Cuying; Roy, Basudev; Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Das, Santu; Banerjee, Ayan; Ben, Teng; Qiu, Shilun and Roy, Soumyajit. 2015."Site specific supramolecular heterogeneous catalysis by optically patterned soft oxometalate–porous organic framework (SOM–POF) hybrid on a chip." J. Materials Chemistry A, 3, 1431-1441
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