Ph.D. in Physics (Nottingham), MRSC (Member of The Royal Society of Chemistry, London)

>20 articles in peer-reviewed journals of international repute, >15 international conferences and 10 invited lectures.

Techniques of Materials Characterisation, Materials for Engineering Applications, Nanomaterials Science and Technology, Nuclear Physics and Reactor Technology, X-ray diffraction and Crystallography at the PG level and Engineering Physics and Engineering Thermodynamics at UG level.

Welcome to the "Carbon Nanotechnology" group at the Physics department of National Institute of Technology Durgapur. Founded in June 2011, my group currently consists of three Ph.D. students, two M. Tech. students and one M.Sc. student. In addition my group has strong collaboration with some of the top research organisations in Europe and India including Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), University of Nottingham, and IIT Kharagpur. At present, the main interest of my research group is to explore the properties of various carbon nanostructures including carbon nanotube and graphene and especially to exploit their excellent mechanical, electrical and optical properties for developing novel nanocomposites for a variety of applications including lightweight structural composites, electromagnetic shielding, and sensors. Carbon is an element which has a number of nanoscale allotropes depending on the atomic arrangement. From zero dimensional Buckminster fullerenes to one dimensional nanotube to two dimensional graphene and three dimensional nanodiamond are all allotropes of carbon in nanoscale with significantly different properties. A single sheet of sp2 bound carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice is known as graphene and when such a sheet is rolled up as a cylinder it forms a carbon nanotube (CNT). With the discovery of methods for large scale synthesis of these nanostructures, both CNT and graphene have received huge attention from the composite industry in the last decade. It is our aim to develop nanocomposites of polymers with properties significantly enhanced compared to those of the reference polymer through carbon based nanotechnology using CNT and graphene. Prior to joining this institute I have worked in this field for nearly nine years at some of the top-ranked research institutes of Europe including Universities of Nottingham, Durham and EMPA, an institute under the world famous ETH Zurich domain. A news article on one of my recent discoveries can be found by visiting the link below: http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/39257

12 years of research experience including 6 years in UK and 2.5 years in Switzerland. After completion of Ph.D. from School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK in March 2005, for a thesis entitled "Synthesis characterisation and modification of carbon nanotube and related carbon nanostructures", I joined as a post doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, UK where I worked till January 2008. I then moved to the Laboratory for Mechanical Systems Engineering at EMPA, Switzerland as a Scientific Staff which I resigned on 31st July 2010 to join NIT Durgapur. On August 3, 2012, I have become the Head of the Physics department.

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