IISER Kolkata

Research Interests

We want to ask simple questions: How are inorganic crystals formed? Does time play a role in making of any catalyst? Can creation of matter be modelled in a chemical lab? In short, we pursue simple questions to glimpse and glance the grandeur of emergence of complexity. In course of such explorations at times we get lucky and we develop prototypical solutions to contemporary problems like that of waste to wealth conversion. Our pursuit of creating simple knowledge has thus at times rewarded us with valuable outputs, of which, inexpensive printable electronics, conversion of carbon-dioxide to ethanol, acetic acid and alike, water cleaning algorithmic chemical systems, are worth mentioning.

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

Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology from WAST (2019)
Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society from The Indian Chemical Society (2017)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts from The RSA (2015)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry from RSC (2015)
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science from AAAS (2013)
Member Westfaelia Lippe University Society, Germany from WLUG Germany (2006)
Dissertationspreis from WLUG, Germany (2005)
Best Speaker Award from GDCh, Germany (2003)

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Roy, Soumyajit. 2022."Time-Gel." Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 99, 100431

Roy, Soumyajit. 2022."On soft-oxometalates (SOMs) and crystallization of polyoxometalates (POMs) ." Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 99, 100385

Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Ranjan, Anand Dev; Das, Santu; Sen, Rakesh; Roy, Basudev; Roy, Soumyajit and Banerjee, Ayan. 2021."Directed Self-Assembly Driven Mesoscale Lithography Using Laser-Induced and Manipulated Microbubbles: Complex Architectures and Diverse Applications." Nanoletters, 21, 10

De, Ratnadip; Gonglach,, Sabrina; Paul, Shounik; Haas, Michael; Sreejith, S. S.; Gerschel, Philipp; Apfel, Ulf P; Vuong, Thanh H; Rabeah, Jabor; Roy, Soumyajit and Schoefberger, Wolfgang. 2020."Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to Acetic Acid by a Molecular Manganese Corrole Complex." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 10527

Paul, Shounik; Gonglach, Sabrina; Haas, Michael; Pillwein, Felix; Sreekumar, Sreejith S; Barman, Soumitra; De, Ratnadip; Muellegger, Stefan; Gerschel, Philipp; Apfel, Ulf P; Coskun, Halime; Aljabour, Abdalaziz; Stadler, Philip; Schoefberger, Wolfgang and Roy, Soumyajit. 2019."Molecular cobalt corrole complex for the heterogeneous electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide." Nature Communications, 10, 3864

All Publications:

Roy, Soumyajit. 2022."Time-Gel." Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 99, 100431

Roy, Soumyajit. 2022."On soft-oxometalates (SOMs) and crystallization of polyoxometalates (POMs) ." Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 99, 100385

Ezogwu, Chizoba; Liu, Shengwei; Li, Chaunhao; Zhuiykov, Sergei; Roy, Soumyajit and Verpoort, Francis. 2022."Engineering metal-organic frameworks for efficient photocatalytic conversion of CO2 into solar fuels." Coord. Chem. Reviews, 450, 214245

Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Ranjan, Anand Dev; Das, Santu; Sen, Rakesh; Roy, Basudev; Roy, Soumyajit and Banerjee, Ayan. 2021."Directed Self-Assembly Driven Mesoscale Lithography Using Laser-Induced and Manipulated Microbubbles: Complex Architectures and Diverse Applications." Nanoletters, 21, 10

De, Ratnadip; Gonglach,, Sabrina; Paul, Shounik; Haas, Michael; Sreejith, S. S.; Gerschel, Philipp; Apfel, Ulf P; Vuong, Thanh H; Rabeah, Jabor; Roy, Soumyajit and Schoefberger, Wolfgang. 2020."Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to Acetic Acid by a Molecular Manganese Corrole Complex." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 59, 10527

Paul, Shounik; Gonglach, Sabrina; Haas, Michael; Pillwein, Felix; Sreekumar, Sreejith S; Barman, Soumitra; De, Ratnadip; Muellegger, Stefan; Gerschel, Philipp; Apfel, Ulf P; Coskun, Halime; Aljabour, Abdalaziz; Stadler, Philip; Schoefberger, Wolfgang and Roy, Soumyajit. 2019."Molecular cobalt corrole complex for the heterogeneous electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide." Nature Communications, 10, 3864

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

Thomas, Preethi; Ghosh, Subhrokoli and Roy, Soumyajit. 2016."Epoxidation of alkenes on Soft Oxometalate (SOM) based trails patterned by using laser of optical tweezers set up." Chem. Select, 1, 805

Crans, Debbie and Roy, Soumyajit. 2016."Introduction for the Emergent Polyoxometalates and Soft-oxometalates Thematic Issue." New J. Chem., 40, 882

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

Biswas, Subharanjan; Vinnakota, Sumanjani and Roy, Soumyajit. 2016."Soft-matter led Hardening of Concrete: Enhancement of Compressive and Thermal Strength of Concrete by Polymer and Nanoparticles." RSC Advances, 6, 7933

Biswas, Subharanjan; Mani, Ethayaraja; Mondal, Arobendo; Tiwari, Ashwani and Roy, Soumyajit. 2016."Supramolecular Polyelectrolyte Complex (SPEC): pH Dependent Phase Transition and Exploitation of its Carrier Properties." Soft Matter, 12, 1989

Das, Santu; Kumar, Saurabh; Mallick, Apabrita and Roy, Soumyajit. 2015."Competitive self-assembly manifests supramolecular Darwinism in Soft-oxometalates." J. Mol. Eng. Mater., 3, 154008

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

Xu, Shixian; Roy, Soumyajit; Ben, Teng; Pei, Cuying and Qiu, Shilun. 2015."Enhanced recognition of a nitrogen containing organic compound by adjusting the acidity of the porous organic frameworks base (JUC-Z2)." J. Materials Chemistry A, 3, 2628

Roy, Basudev; Ghosh, Nirmalya; Banerjee, Ayan; Dutta Gupta, Subhasish and Roy, Soumyajit. 2014."Manifestations of geometric phase and enhanced spin Hall shifts in an optical trap." New J. Phys., 16, 083037

Sahasrabudhe, Atharva and Roy, Soumyajit. 2014."PHOTOACTIVE GOLD NANOPARTICLE SOFTOXOMETALATES (SOM) USING A KEPLERATE FOR SYNTHESIS OF POLYSTYRENE LATEX MICROSPHERES BY PHOTO-POLYMERIZATION." J. Mol. Eng. Mater., 2, 1308281821

Roy, Basudev; Ghosh, Nirmalya; Panigrahi, Prasanta K; Banerjee, Ayan; Sahasrabudhe, Atharva; Parasar, Bibudha and Roy, Soumyajit. 2014."Micro-optomechanical movements (MOMs) with soft-oxometalates: Controlled motion of single soft-oxometalate peapods using exotic optical potentials." J. Mol. Eng. Mater., 2, 1440006

Das, Santu; Thomas, Preethi; Roy, Soumyajit and Roy, Soumyajit. 2014."Photoinduced Topological Transformation in Mesoscopic Inorganic Nanoparticles: Application as a UV Sensor." Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 27, 4551-4557

Biswas, Subharanjan and Roy, Soumyajit. 2014."Soft-oxometalates: Patterning and Catalysis." J. Materials Nanoscience, 1, 1-6

Roy, Soumyajit and Hor, Andy. 2014."Soft-oxometalates (SOMs): Toward new oxometalate based materials." J. Mol. Eng. Mater., 2, 1402001

Li, Yanqiang; Roy, Soumyajit; Ben, Teng; Xu, Shixian and Qiu, Shilun. 2014."Micropore Engineering of Carbonized Porous Aromatic Framework (PAF-1) for Supercapacitors Application." PhysChemChemPhys, 1, 2-8

Roy, Soumyajit. 2014."Soft-oxometalates beyond crystalline polyoxometalates: formation, structure and properties." CrystEngComm, 16, 4667-4676

Roy, Basudev; Arya, Manish; Thomas, Preethi; Juergschat, Julius Konstantin; Rao, K. Venkata; Banerjee, Ayan; Reddy, Chilla Malla and Roy, Soumyajit. 2013."Self-Assembly of Mesoscopic Materials To Form Controlled and Continuous Patterns by Thermo-Optically Manipulated Laser Induced Microbubbles." Langmuir, 29, 14733

Liang, Pei; Roy, Soumyajit; Chen, Meng Ling and Zhang, Gen Hua. 2013."Visual influence of shapes and semantic familiarity on human sweet sensitivity." Behavioural Brain Research, 253, 42

Ma, Yun-Sheng; Yin, Wen-Yu; Cai, Wang-Shui; Zhu, Ping-Zhou; Tang, Xiao-Yan; Yuan, Rongxin and Roy, Soumyajit. 2013."Eight novel metal diphosphonates based on 2-(4-pyridinyl)-1-hydroxyl-1,1-ethylidenediphosphonate: syntheses, structures, and magnetic properties." RSC Advances, 3, 18430

Chen, Dianyu; Sahasrabudhe, Atharva; Wang, Peng; Dasgupta, Arijit; Yuan, Rongxin and Roy, Soumyajit. 2013."Synthesis and properties of a novel quarternerized imidazolium [?-PW12O40]3? salt as a recoverable photo-polymerization catalyst." Dalton Trans., 42, 10587

Roy, Basudev; Ghosh, Nirmalya; Gupta, S. Dutta; Panigrahi, Prasanta K.; Roy, Soumyajit and Banerjee, Ayan. 2013."Controlled transportation of mesoscopic particles by enhanced spin-orbit interaction of light in an optical trap." Phys. Rev. A, 87, 043823

Xue, Feng Feng; Yuan, Dan Dan; Sahasrabudhe, Atharva; Biswas, Subharanjan; Wang, Peng; Tang, Xiao-Yan; Chen, Dianyu; Yuan, Rongxin and Roy, Soumyajit. 2012."Supramolecular thermo aero-able gelators (STAGs) for synthesis of hydrogels." New J. Chem., 36, 2541–2548

Chen, Dianyu; Wang, Xueying; Yang, Gaowen; Li, Qiaoyun; Chai, Wen; Yuan, Rongxin; Liu, Shifan; Gao, Fei; Jin, Hongyu and Roy, Soumyajit. 2012."4,4' Bipyridine phosphotungstic salt: A recoverable versatile photo-polymerization catalyst." J. Mol. Catal. A., 363-364, 195-199

Mani, Ethayaraja; Sanz, Eduardo; Roy, Soumyajit; Dijkstra, Marjolein; Groenewold, Jan and Kegel, Willem K. 2012."Sheet-like assemblies of spherical particles with point-symmetrical patches." J. Chem. Phys., 136, 144706

Ma, Yun-Sheng; Tang, Xiao-Yan; Xue, Feng Feng; Chen, Bin; Dai, Yao-Liang; Yuan, Rongxin and Roy, Soumyajit. 2012."Structural Diversity and Magnetic Properties of the Manganese(II)/Carbazol-9-ylacetate/N,N' Donor Reaction System." Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2012, 1243–1249

Ma, Yun-Sheng; Tang, Xiao-Yan; Yin, Wen-Yu; Wu, Bin; Xue, Feng Feng; Yuan, Rongxin and Roy, Soumyajit. 2012."Zinc and cadmium 2-pyrazinephosphonates: Syntheses, structures and luminescent properties." Dalton Trans., 41, 2340-2345

Roy, Soumyajit. 2012."“SOFT OXOMETALATES” (SOMs): A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION." Comments on Inorganic Chemistry, 32, 113-126

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