Dr. Srabanti Ghosh

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সিএসআইআর-কেন্দ্রীয় কাঁচ ও সেরামিক গবেষণা সংস্থা

सीएसआईआर-केंद्रीय काँच एवं सिरामिक अनुसंधान संस्थान

CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute

Senior Scientist

Energy Materials & Devices Division

Contact Information:

Phone: +91-033-2322 3567
Direct :(033) 24733496, (Ext. 3567)
Mobile: +91- 09831290937
Fax: +91-33-2473-0957
E-mail: srabanti@cgcri.res.in

Dr. Srabanti Ghosh

Joined CSIR-CGCRI on 17th September 2020

Professional Career

Institution	Position	Period
CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata	Sr. Scientist	2020 – till date
UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALA, Madrid-Spain	Marie Curie Fellow	2019 – 2020
CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata	SRA-Scientists’ Pool Scheme& Senior Research Associate-III	2015 – 2019
S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata	Visiting Assistant Professor	2014 – 2015
University of Paris-SUD, CNRS, France	Researcher, Marie Curie Cofund	2012 – 2014
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata	Research Associate	2010 – 2012
UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kolkata Centre	Research Fellow	2006 – 2010
CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal	Project Assistant	2004 – 2006

Education

Degree	Discipline	University; Year
B.Sc.	Honours in Chemistry	University of Calcutta, 2002
M.Sc.	Chemistry	Barkatullah University, 2004
Ph.D.	Science	UGC-DAE Consortium for scientific research, Kolkata, University of Jadavpur, 2010

Patents filed / Granted

Summary: 3 (Granted-1 Indian, filed – 02)

A process for the preparation of leachable manganese (Non-stoichiometric) manganese oxide from manganese containing industrial wastes and natural pyrolusite ores, Navin Chandra, S. S. Amritphale, Srabanti Ghosh, Murari PrasadandDeepti Sarkar, Indian Pat. Appl. (018/NF/2006), 254799/KOL/2012 dated 19^th December-2012.
Conjugating polymer nanofibers for antimicrobial and antibiofilm applications, Marta E. G. Mosquera, Roberto Rosal, Srabanti Ghosh, and Georgiana Amariei, Spanish Pat. Appl. (P202031199), dated 2^nd December-2020.
Glass substrate for stable embedded gold nano-islands useful for functional applications, Amarnath R. Allu, Srabanti Ghosh, Jagannath Gangareddy, Indian Pat. Appl. 0210NF2022; dated: 10^th November-2022.

RESEARCH INTEREST

Our research is targeting the next generation of materials for hydrogen generation, fuel cell, and environmental remedy. This research is underpinned by fundamental experimental studies into the role that the chemical structure of materials, leading to the rational design of new materials with improved properties.Solar-driven fuel synthesis is a sustainable and potentially economical technology for producing energy carriers such as “green” H₂fuel through water splitting. The main focus has been directed towards conjugated polymers – the newest family of photocatalysts material that is receiving global research attention.

SYNTHESIS AND CATALYSIS:Colloidal and radiation chemistry based synthesis of organic and inorganic semiconductor semiconductor nanomaterials, polymer synthesis, engineering & functionalization
SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS:Multifunctional transition metal oxides,conjugated polymers nanostructures and polymer nanohybrids, semiconductor heterostructures
MATERIALS FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS: Visible Light active Photocatalysis, Electrocatalysis, Water splitting & Hydrogen generation, Low Temperature Fuel cells

Notable Research Contribution

A. Conducting PolymerNanostructures and Nanohybrids for Energy Harvesting Application

Development of conducting polymer nanofibers as a new generation photocatalystswithout the need for any sacrificial electron donors or precious co catalyst which facilitates the use of sunlight for water depollution and environmental protection.
Fabrication of conducting polymer nanofiberas alternative catalystsupport (in contrast to expensive commercial Nafion membranes for alcohol fuel cells
Developed visible light active conjugated polymer based nanohybrids for photocatalytic water splitting and hydrogen generation
Photo-reduction of CO₂ and solar fuel production

B. Fabrication of Semiconductor based Heterostructures for Photocatalytic Application

Developed Bismuth based stable, low band gap semiconductors based heterostructured materials for photodegradation of organic pollutants
Highly efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation under visible light

Best paper and cash award in NSRP-2009 organized by DAE-BRNS, Govt. of India, (2009).
Best paper and cash award in APSRC-2010&TSRP-2010 by DAE-BRNS, Govt. of India Japan and China, (2010).
MRSI Young Scientists Award in Young Scientists Colloquium organized by MRSI) Kolkata Chapter, (2012).
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Marie Curie Cofund, RBUCE-UP No.246556 awarded by the European Commission, (2012).
Young Investigator Award in Gordon Radiation Chemistry (GRC), USA, (2014).
Co–Chair a technical session during ICNN 2014: International Conference on Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine, Venice, Italy, 2014.
Visiting Professor in Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, University of Paris-SUD, CNRS, France, (2016).
Best paper award in International Conference on Energy Options for Tomorrow: Technology to Sustainability, (2017).
First Prize in poster presentation by The Indian Chemical Society,(2017).
Rated as Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Alloys and Compounds(Impact Factor: 4.65), Applied Surface Science (Impact Factor: 6.18), (2018).
Selected as top 10% of highly cited authors in Royal Society of Chemistry Materials portfolio of journals, (2019).
GOT ENERGY TALENT COFUND MARIECURIE Fellowship (3^rd position), (2019).
Publication titled “Modulation of Enzyme Activity by Surface Functionalized Quantum Dots Promote Inhibition of Malignant Cells” has been selected as TOP 20 article in the journal of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,(2014).
Publication titled “PEDOT Nanostructures Synthesized in Hexagonal Mesophases” has been selected as Hot Articles in the journal “New Journal of Chemistry” (2014).
Publication titled “Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of Mn₂O₃ nanoballs as bifunctional electrocatalyst for alkaline fuel cells” has been listed as TOP 50 most downloaded articles in the journal “Catalysis Science and Technology” (2016).
Publication titled “Nanostructured Conducting Polymers for Energy Applications: Towards a Sustainable Platform” has been identified as highly cited articles in the journal “Nanoscale” (2019).
Publication titled “Bimetallic Pd₉₆Fe₄Nanodendrites Embedded in Graphitic Carbon Nanosheets as Highly Efficient Anode Electrocatalysts” has been selected in themed collection International Year of the Periodic Table: Single Atoms as Active Catalysts in the journal” Nanoscale Advances” (2019).
Publication titled “Multifunctional Electrocatalyts Design for Energy Conversion and Storage: Current status, perspectives and challenges” have been identified as Top 5% most-read Q2 web collection in the journal “Nanoscale” (2019).
Review panel memberfor “FONDECYT Regular Competition, National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development, Government of Chile, (2019).
Expert reviewer for SCI journals (more than 65 international journals) – Royal Society of Chemistry, American Chemical Society, Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, MDPI, Bentham Publishers since July 2014 (> 343 manuscripts evaluated).
Expert assignments in Department of Science and Technology (DST), India for project evaluation – (since 2015-present).
Editorial broad member of Journal of Composites and Compounds, (2019).
Guest Editing a special issue on “Conducting Polymer-Based Hybrid Nanomaterials” Polymers (Open Access Journal by MDPI, I.F. 3.426).
Reviewer for book proposals, Elsevier-Science and Technology Books , Royal Society of Chemistry.
Selected as top 5% of highly cited authors in Royal Society of Chemistry Materials portfolio of journals, (2020).
Guest editor in “Women in Polymer Science and Technology”Polymers (MDPI, I.F. 3.426), (2021).Outstanding Reviewer for Dalton Transactions, Royal Society of Chemistry in 2021.
Moderator position, 3^rd Edition of International Conference on Materials Science and Engineering, September 21-22, 2022,Virtual Event.

Awards from Ph. D. Students

Best paper award in International Conference on Energy Options for Tomorrow: Technology to Sustainability held on 17-19^thApril 2017, Kolkata presented by D. student Ms. Susmita Bera.
First Prize in poster presentation in Commemoration of the 156^th Birth Anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray organized by The Indian Chemical Society, 2017, presented by Susmita Bera.
Best oral presentation award at 85^th Annual Session of Indian Ceramic Society on “Advances in Ceramics & Cement Technologies: Materials & Manufacturing” held on 13-14^th December, 2021 presented by Susmita Bera.
Best oral presentation award at on day workshop on ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS & DEVICES (AEMD), held on 3^rd March 2022, presented by Susmita Bera.
S S Bhatnagar Young Scientist Award for the Oral Presentation in the Celebration of the 161^st Birth Anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray during July 30-31 & August 02-03, 2022, by Soumita Samajdar.
First Prize for E-poster presentation by Dipendu Sarkar in The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), Jharkhand Chapter in association with CSIR National Metallurgical Laboratory (CSIR-NML), Jamshedpur, “Workshop on Materials for Energy and Sustainability” 20^th January, 2023.
Third Prize for E-poster presentation by Soumita Samajdar in (NASI), Jharkhand Chapter & CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur, “Workshop on Materials for Energy and Sustainability” 20^th January, 2023.
Best oral presentation award by Soumita Samajdarin37^th National Science Day Celebration & Global Science for Global Wellbeing‒Lab to the Land, 3^rd– 5^th March 2023.
Best oral presentation award by Sourabh Pal in37^th National Science Day Celebration & National Seminar, Global Science for Global Wellbeing‒Lab to the Land, 3^rd– 5^th March 2023.

FELLOWSHIP:

CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship (2009)
CSIR-Research Associate Fellowship (CSIR 2012-2013)
CSIR-Senior Research Associateship (Scientists’ Pool Scheme) (2015-2018)
Advanced Postdoctoral position in Bremen University, Germany (2014)
Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (UGC 2015-2018, 2018-2021)

Membership in organizational / national / international committees

Life – membership of Material Research Society of India (MRSI)
Member of Material Research Society, USA (MRS) (2013-2014)
Member of Marie Curie Alumni Association, Europe
International Scientific Committee of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET)

Publication Summary: In SCI Journals – 88; Book Edited – 06; Book chapters – 19 (Full list attached)

Total citations: 4704; h-index:38; i10-index: 77 https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=1orRg_MAAAAJ&hl=en

Conference Presentations Summary: 100 (Invited – 11; Oral – 40; Poster – 49)

Selected Publications(* as corresponding author)

Srabanti Ghosh,Debasmita Ghosh, Prasanta Kumar Bag, Subhas Chandra Bhattacharya and Abhijit Saha*, “Facile Synthesis of Water-soluble, Highly Fluorescent ZnTe/Dendrimer Nanocomposite and its antimicrobial activity” Nanoscale, 3 (2011) 1139–1148. (Feature Article) (I.F. = 8.307, Citation:61)
Srabanti Ghosh, Kouame Amoin Natalie, Laurence Ramos, SamyRemita, Alexandre Dazzi, Ariane Deniset-Besseau, Fabrice Goubard, Pierre-Henri Aubert and HyndRemita*, “Conducting polymer nanostructures for photocatalysis under visible light” Nature Materials,14(2015) 505–511. (I.F. = 47.66, Citation:562)
Srabanti Ghosh*, MaiyalaganThandavarayan, and Rajendra N. Basu,* “Nanostructured Conducting Polymers for Energy Applications: Towards a Sustainable Platform” Nanoscale, 8 (2016) 6921–6947. (I.F. = 8.307, Citation:214)
Srabanti Ghosh*, Prasenjit Kar, Nimai Bhandary, Suddhasatwa Basu, Samim Sardar, Dipanwita Majumdar, Swapan Kumar Bhattacharya, Asim Bhaumik, Peter Lemmens and Samir Kumar Pal, “Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of Mn₂O₃ nanoballs as bifunctional electrocatalyst for alkaline fuel cells”Catalysis Science and Technology, 6 (2016)1417–1429. (I.F. = 6.177, Citation:73) (Selected TOP 50 most downloaded articles in 2016.)
Srabanti Ghosh*,SusmitaBera, S. Bysakh and R. N. Basu,* “Highly Active Multimetallic Palladium nanoalloys Embedded in Conducting Polymer as Anode Catalysts for Electrooxidation of Ethanol” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9 (2017) 33775–33790. (I.F. = 10.383, Citation:73)
Srabanti Ghosh*, Hynd Remita and Rajendra N. Basu*, “Significantly enhanced photocatalytic reduction of Cr(VI) on ZnO-conducting polymeric nanofibers heterojunction under visible-light irradiation”Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 239 (2018) 362-372. (I.F. = 24.319, Citation:74)
Susmita Bera, Srabanti Ghosh*, Sanjib Shyamal, Chinmoy Bhattacharya and Rajendra N. Basu,* “Photocatalytic hydrogen generation using gold decorated BiFeO₃ heterostructures as an efficient catalyst under visible light irradiation”Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 194 (2019) 195-206.(I.F. = 7.305, Citation: 70)
Srabanti Ghosh*, Georgiana Amariei, Marta E. G. Mosquera* and Roberto Rosal, “Polymeric Ruthenium Precursor as a Photoactivated Antimicrobial Agent” Journal of Hazardous Materials, 402 (2021) 123788. (I.F. = 14.224, Citation: 11)
Srabanti Ghosh*, Shweta Rani Keshri, Susmita Bera and Rajendra N. Basu*, “Enhanced solar hydrogen generation using Cu–Cu₂O integrated polypyrrole nanofibers as heterostructured catalysts”International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 45 (2020)6159-6173.(I.F. = 7.139, Citation: 30)
Susmita Bera, Srabanti Ghosh*, Maiyalagan, and Rajendra N. Basu, “Band Edge Engineering of BiOX/CuFe₂O₄ Heterostructures for Efficient Water Splitting” ACS Applied Energy Materials, 5 (2022)3821–3833.(I.F. = 6.959, Citation: 18)

Book Edited

Srabanti Ghosh (Editor), “Visible-Light-Active Photocatalysis: Nanostructured Catalyst Design, Mechanisms, and Applications” by Wiley-VCH VerlagGmbh& Co. KGaA, April, 2018,ISBN: 978-3-527-34293-8.
Srabanti Ghosh (Editor),“Heterostructured photocatalysts for solar energy conversion” published by Elsevier Inc., 20^th October 2020, ISBN:9780128200728.
Srabanti Ghosh (Editor), “Conjugated Polymer Nanostructures for Energy Conversion and Storage” to be published by Wiley-VCH Verlag Gmbh& Co. KGaA, Germany, March 2021, 59553, ISBN: 978-3-572-34557-1.
Srabanti Ghosh, Aziz Habibi-Yangjeh, Sweta Sharma, Ashok Kumar Nadda (Editors), “Nanomaterials for Water Treatment and Remediation” published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, December 2021, ISBN: 9780367633073.
Valentina Sessini, Srabanti Ghosh, Marta E. G. Mosquera (Editors), “Biopolymers: Synthesis, properties, and emerging applications” published by Elsevier Inc., 1^st April, 2023.
Srabanti Ghosh, Qian Wang (Editors), “Recent Developments in Functional Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis; In Energy and Environment Series” to be published by THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY, 8^th March, 2023.

…full list

No. of R&D Projects: 03

Energy Storage Platform on Batteries, sponsored by DST, Co-principal Investigator (August 2019 to July 2023), Scope: Development of highly responsive photoactive material for photoelectrochemical water splitting and hydrogen generation& development of ceramic separators for Li-ion battery.
Nanostructured Semiconductor-Conjugated Polymer based Hybrid Photocatalysts for Efficient Solar Water Splitting, sponsored bySERB Power Grant, Principal Investigator(August 2021 to July 2023), Scope:Design and development of visible light active nanohybrids, reactors for green H₂production
Functional Nanocomposites and MOF Glass-based Materials for Thermoelectric Generator Device Application, sponsored by CSIR, Member (January 2022- June 2024), Scope: Development of thermoelectric materials and flexible devices

Present PhD students:

Ms. Soumita Samajdar(CSIR-NET JRF)

Mr. Dipendu Sarkar(CSIR-NET JRF)

Ph. D: Mentored – 02, Awarded – 01

Project Student: 01
M. Tech thesis supervision: 04
M. S. / M. Sc thesis supervision: 06

B.Tech summer project:02

Openings:

Ph. D Position: We are looking for an application from motivated CSIR-NET qualified students for Ph. D program and postdoctoral research associatein our group from Chemistry or Engineering background.