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 Prof. Sayan Bhattacharyya focuses on an interdisciplinary research on functional nanomaterials. The current research interests are: (A) Photovoltaics: Metal-halide Perovskite Solar Cells & Quantum dot Sensitized Solar Cells and ; (B) Electrocatalysis, Photoelectrocatalysis and Photolysis for Hydrogen Production, Nitrogen Reduction & CO2 Reduction; (C) Zinc-air Battery. Allied Interests: (A) Magnetism and Magnetotransport Properties of Doped rare-earth manganite nanostructures and Metal oxide heterostructures; (B) 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 (current)
- 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)
- Majee, Rahul; Islam, Quazi Arif; Mondal, Surajit and Bhattacharyya, Sayan. 2020."Electrochemically Reversible Lattice with Redox Active A-site of Double Perovskite Oxide Nanosheets to Reinforce Oxygen Electrocatalysis." Chem. Sci. , 11, 10180-9
- Majee, Rahul; Das, Tisita; Chakraborty, Sudip and Bhattacharyya, Sayan. 2020."Shaping a Doped Perovskite Oxide with Measured Grain Boundary Defects to Catalyze Bifunctional Oxygen Activation for Rechargeable Zn-air Battery." ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces , 12, 40355-63
- Roy, Samrat; Mandal, Arnab; Raj R, Akshay; Bhattacharyya, Sayan and Pal, Bipul. 2020."Thermal Nonlinear Refraction in Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanostructure Colloids." J. Phys. Chem. C, 124, 15558-64
- Majee, Rahul; Mondal, Surajit and Bhattacharyya, Sayan. 2020."Charge transfer from perovskite oxide nanosheets to N-doped carbon nanotubes to promote enhanced performance of a zinc–air battery." Chem. Commun., 56, 8277-8280
- Debnath, Bharati; Parvin, Sahanaz; Dixit, Harsha and Bhattacharyya, Sayan. 2020."Defect Oxygen Rich Cobalt Ferrite Nanoparticles for Practical Water Electrolysis with High Activity and Durability." ChemSusChem, 13, 3875-3886