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NameDr Kalisadhan Mukherjee
DesignationAssistant Professor
DepartmentChemistry, School of Technology
EmailKalisadhan.Mukherjee@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Educational Qualifications
  • B.Sc. (Chemistry, The University of Burdwan), 2004
  • M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry, The University of Burdwan), 2006
  • Ph.D (Materials Science, Chemical Sensor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), 2012
    Professional Affiliation
    CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CMERI) as DST Inspire Faculty Fellow; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR, New Delhi) as Assistant Professor; The George Washington University, Washington DC as Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow; United States India Educational Foundation (USIEF) as Fulbright Fellow.
    Awards
    • Outreach Lecture Fund (OLF) from Institute of International Education (IIE), USA. • Fulbright-Nehru Post doctoral fellowship from USIEF (2017-18) • Inspire Faculty Fellowship, 2012: (From DST, Govt. of India). • Young Scientist in Materials Processing, Venus International Research Awards-17 • International Travel Grant: (From DST, Govt. of India) • Research Fellowship: (From CSIR through National Eligibility Test): June’08
    Publications / Articles / Conference
    Articles/Chapters Published in the books
  • 'Efficient management of oil waste: chemical and physicochemical approaches ', Advances in Oil-Water Separation, 978-0-323-89978-9, pp. 439-467, jan 2022
  • 'Recent Advances and Opportunities of Plasmonic Sensors', Plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions, 2195-2167, pp. 297-330, feb 2022
  • 'Application of nanosensors in food inspection', Micro & Nano Technology Books series (Title: Nanosensors for Smart Agriculture), Elsevier, , ISBN : 9780128245545, pp. 705-735, jan 2022
  • 'Chalcogenides for photoelectrochemical water splitting', Nanostructured Materials for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting, 978-0-7503-3699-4, pp. Pages 6-1 to 6-27, Nov 2021
  • 'Conductance Transient Analyses in Metal Oxide Gas Sensors on the Example of Spinel Ferrite Gas Sensor', Chemical Sensors-Simulation and Modeling, Vol-2, Editor- Ghenadii Korotcenkov, Momentum press, New Jersey 08904-2114, USA, 9781606503126, pp. 177-232, Oct 2012
    Published Papers in Journals
  • 'Performance Analysis of Several ZnO-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells With Identical Photoelectrodes, Electrolyte, and Sensitizer', IEEE JOURNAL OF PHOTOVOLTAICS, pp. 991-996, apr 2021
  • 'Blending of Dielectric Perovskite with Electron Transport Materials: A Case Study towards Improving Bio-Molecular Devices for Energy Harvest', ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol, pp. 013003, jan 2021
  • 'Research into dye-sensitized solar cells: a review highlighting progress in India', Journal of Physics Energy, pp. 032013, jun 2021
  • 'Structural Features and Optical Properties of CH3NH3Pb(1−x)Sn x Cl3 Thin-Film Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications', Journal of Electronic Materials, pp. 11, sep 2020
  • 'HFIP-mediated strategy towards b-oxo amides and subsequent Friedel-Craft type cyclization to 2 quinolinones using recyclable catalyst', Tetrahedron Letters, pp. 7, Oct 2020
  • 'Case study on the use of image analysis for the simple and inexpensive colorimetric detection of Fe(III) in water', Analytical Methods - Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 4509–4516, aug 2020
  • 'Kinetic insight on improved chemi-resistive response of hydrothermal synthesized Pt loaded TiO2 nano-rods towards vapor phase isopropanol', Frontiers in Materials, pp. 1-9, mar 2019
  • 'Miniaturized Nanohole Array Based Plasmonic Sensor for the Detection of Acetone and Ethanol with Insights into the Kinetics of Adsorptive Plasmonic Sensing', Nanoscale, pp. 11922-11932, jun 2019
  • 'Discrimination of 1- and 2-Propanol by Using the Transient Current Change of a Semiconducting ZnFe2O4 Chemiresistor', ChemPlusChem, pp. 387-391, apr 2019
  • 'Iron (III) oxide hydroxide based novel electrode for the electrochemical detection of trace level fluoride present in water', Electrochimica Acta , pp. 150-156, jan 2018
  • 'A novel non-enzymatic zinc oxide thin film based electrochemical recyclable strip with device interface for quantitative detection of catechol in water', Biosensors and Bioelectronics , pp. 32-36, Dec 2018
  • 'Genesis of flake like morphology and dye sensitized solar cell performance of Al doped ZnO particles: A study', Journal of Nanoparticle Research, pp. 100, feb 2017
  • 'Chemi-resistive response of rutile titania nano-particles towards isopropanol and formaldehyde: A correlation with the volatility and chemical reactivity of vapors', Materials Research Express, pp. 015503, jan 2017
  • 'Structural features and dye-sensitized solar cell performance of chemically synthesized F doped ZnO particles', Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, pp. 227-235, aug 2017
  • 'Improved efficiency of ZnO hierarchical particle based dye sensitized solar cell by incorporating thin passivation layer in photo-anode', Applied Physics A, pp. 80, Dec 2017
  • 'Effects of doping, morphology and film-thickness of photo-anode materials for dye sensitized solar cell application-A review', Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews,, pp. 356, jan 2016
  • 'Phase formation behavior and hydrogen sensing characteristics of iron oxide nano-particles synthesized by modified Pechini route', Materials Focus, pp. 119-122, apr 2016
  • 'Simultaneous Adsorption-Desorption Processes in the Conductance Transient of Anatase Titania for Sensing Ethanol: A Distinctive Feature with Kinetic Perception', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, pp. 1146-1152, Dec 2016
  • 'Zinc oxide thin film based nonenzymatic electrochemical sensor for the detection of trace level catechol', RSC Advances, pp. 64611-64616, jul 2016
  • 'Hematite iron oxide nano-particles: facile synthesis and their chemiresistive response towards hydrogen', Materials Research Express , pp. 55901, apr 2015
  • 'Hierarchical zinc oxide nano-tips and micro-rod: Hydrothermal synthesis and improved chemi-resistive response towards ethanol', RSC Advances, pp. 1408, Dec 2015
  • 'A review on metallic ion and non-metal doped titania and zinc oxide photo-anodes for dye sensitized solar cells', Reviews in Advanced Sciences and Engineering, pp. 271-290, Dec 2015
  • 'Visible light absorption and photo-sensitizing properties of spinach leaves and beetroot extracted natural dyes', Spectrochimica Acta: Part A, pp. 85, apr 2015
  • 'Nano-crystalline thin and nano-particulate thick TiO2 layer: Cost effective sequential deposition and study on dye sensitized solar cell characteristics', Materials Research Bulletin, pp. 32-38, feb 2015
  • 'Morphology induced light scattering by zinc oxide polydisperse particles: Promising for dye sensitized solar cell application', Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, pp. 63114, Dec 2014
  • 'Facile synthesis of pseudo-peanut shaped hematite iron oxide nano-particles and their promising ethanol and formaldehyde sensing characteristics', RSC Advances, pp. 31879-31886, jul 2014
  • 'Acetone and ethanol sensing characteristics of magnesium zinc ferrite nano-particulate chemi-resistive sensor', Journal of Materials Science, pp. 5766-5771, may 2014
  • 'Development of multilayered nanocrystalline TiO2 thin films for photovoltaic application', Optical Materials, pp. 1070-1075, feb 2014
  • 'Chemical modification of titanium isopropoxide for producing stable dispersion of titania nano-particles', Materials Chemistry and Physics, pp. 267-274, Dec 2014
  • 'Hydrogen sensing characteristics of nano-crystalline Mg0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 thin film: Effect of film thickness and operating temperature', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, pp. 1185-1191, Dec 2013
  • 'Optimisation of process parameters for fabrication of nanocrystalline TiO2-hydoxyapatite based scaffold using response surface methodology', Advances in Applied Ceramics, pp. 129-138, Oct 2013
  • 'Acetone and ethanol sensing of barium hexaferrite particles: A case study considering the possibilities of non-conventional hexaferrite sensor', Sensors and Actuators B, pp. 627-633, sep 2013
  • 'Promising methane-sensing characteristics of hydrothermal synthesized magnesium zinc ferrite hollow spheres', Scripta Materialia , pp. 617-620, jun 2012
  • 'Addressing the cross-sensitivity of magnesium zinc ferrite towards reducing gas sensing using pattern recognition techniques', Sensor Letters, pp. 915-919, mar 2012
  • 'Investigations on the irreversible and reversible type gas sensing for ZnO and Mg0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 chemi-resistive sensors', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, pp. 505306, sep 2012
  • 'Synthesis of embedded and isolated Mg0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 nano-tubes and investigation on their anomalous gas sensing characteristics', Sensors and Actuators B, pp. 55-63, Oct 2012
  • 'Synthesis process induced improvement on the gas sensing characteristics of nano-crystalline magnesium zinc ferrite particles', Sensors and Actuators B, pp. 229-236, Dec 2011
  • 'Hydrogen sensing characteristics of wet chemical synthesized tailored Mg0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 nanostructures', Nanotechnology, pp. 255504-255509, jun 2010
  • 'Reducing gas sensing behavior of nano-crystalline magnesium-zinc ferrite powders', Talanta, pp. 1826-1832, mar 2010
  • 'Analyses of conductance transients to address the selectivity issue of zinc ferrite gas sensors', Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, pp. J25-J27, jan 2010
  • 'Solution synthesis and kinetic analyses of the gas sensing characteristics of magnesium ferrite particles', Sensors and Actuators B, pp. 91-97, feb 2010
  • 'Combustible gas sensing characteristics of chemical solution synthesized nano-crystalline magnesium ferrite spinel particles', Transaction of Indian Ceramic Society, pp. 187-192, may 2010
  • 'Wet chemical synthesis and gas sensing properties of magnesium zinc ferrite nano-particles', Materials Chemistry and Physics, pp. 509-517, Nov 2009
  • 'Analyses of response and recovery kinetics of zinc ferrite as hydrogen gas sensor', Journal of Applied Physics, pp. 64912, aug 2009