Sayan Bhattacharyya
Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: sayanb [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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The Advanced Functional Materials Laboratory (AFML) led by Dr. Sayan Bhattacharyya focuses on an interdisciplinary research on functional nanomaterials. The current research interests are: (A) Photovoltaics: Quantum dot sensitized solar cells and Perovskite Solar Cells; (B) Electrocatalysis, Photoelectrocatalysis and Photolysis; (C) Zinc-air Battery; (D) Electrochemical CO2 Reduction; (E) Hybrid Perovskite Nanocrystal Photocatalysts; (F) Magnetism and Magnetotransport Properties of Doped rare-earth manganite nanostructures and Metal oxide heterostructures; (G) Nano-Bio Interface: Drug delivery, photothermal and photodynamic therapy, and Waste water treatment.
- Ph. D. (Solid State Chemistry ), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), 2006
- M. Sc. (Physical Chemistry), Department of Chemistry (University of Kalyani), 1998
- B. Sc. (Honours) (Chemistry (H), Physics (P), Mathematics (P)), Maulana Azad College (University of Calcutta), 1996
- Professor, IISER Kolkata ( - )
- Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (2015 - 2019)
- Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (2010 - 2015)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2008 - 2010)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel (2006 - 2008)
- Ghosh, Anima; Chaudhary, Dhirendra K.; Mandal, Arnab; Prodhan, Sayan; Chauhan, Kamlesh Kumar; Vihari, Saket; Gupta, Govind; Datta, Prasanta Kumar and Bhattacharyya, Sayan. 2019."Core/Shell Nanocrystal Tailored Carrier Dynamics in Hysteresis-Less Perovskite Solar Cell with ~20% Efficiency and Long Operational Stability." J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 1, 1
- Chaudhary, Dhirendra K.; Ghosh, Anima; Ali, Md. Yusuf and Bhattacharyya, Sayan. 2019."Charge Transport between Coaxial Polymer Nanorods and Grafted All-Inorganic Perovskite Nanocrystals for Hybrid Organic Solar Cells with Enhanced Photoconversion Efficiency." J. Phys. Chem. C, 1, 1
- Majee, Rahul; Kumar, Arun; Das, Tisita; Chakraborty, Sudip and Bhattacharyya, Sayan. 2019."Tweaking Nickel with Minimal Silver in a Heterogeneous Alloy of Decahedral Geometry to Deliver Platinum-like Hydrogen Evolution Activity." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 1, 1
- Behera, Rakesh Kumar; Dutta, Anirban; Ghosh, Dibyendu; Bera, Suman; Bhattacharyya, Sayan and Pradhan, Narayan. 2019."Doping Smallest Shannon Radii Transition Metal Ion Ni(II) for Stabilizing a-CsPbI3 Perovskite Nanocrystals." J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 10, 7916-21
- Majee, Rahul; Islam, Quazi Arif and Bhattacharyya, Sayan. 2019."Surface Charge Modulation of Perovskite Oxide at the Crystalline Junction with Layered Double Hydroxide for Durable Rechargeable Zinc-air Battery." ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 11, 35853-62