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Dr. Himadri Acharya

Dr. Himadri Acharya

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

Email: himadriau@yahoo.co.in; himadri.acharya@aus.ac.in himadri_iit@yahoo.com

Phone: 9401162138

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Education:

Ph.D.  Indian Institute of Technology- Kharagpur, 2008

M. Sc. (specialization: Inorganic Chemistry) Vidyasagar University, 2002

B.Sc.: Vidyasagar University, 2000

Teaching & Research Experience:

Assistant Professor:  2009 – to till date

Post-doctoral research:  Mentor, Prof. Cheolmin Park, Yonsei University, Seoul (2007-2009)

Conference/Seminar Organized:

  1. Co-Convener: National Conference on Emerging Materials (NCEM 2018).

Research Interests:

  1. Hybrid nanomaterials,
  2. Polymeric materials,
  3. Nanopatterning,
  4. Adsorption and Catalysis

Research Guidance:

PhD Students:

  1. Synthesis and Characterisation of Catalytically Active Nanoparticles Supported by Layered Double Hydroxides and Metal Organic Frameworks. Dewan Azharul Islam, 2020 (Supervisor)
  2. Synthesis, characterization and properties of liquid crystal-nanoparticle composites. Nirmalendu Das, 2019 (Co-supervisor)

M.Sc.  Students:

Total: 40 students (from year 2009 to till date)

Research Project:

  1. Directed self assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals in conjugated block copolymer micelle for optoelectronic application”, SERB, DST, 2012 (Rs. 22.90 Lakh)

List of Publications (last 5 years):

  1. Anindita Chakraborty, Dewan A. Islam, Himadri Acharya, “One pot synthesis of ZnO-CuO nanocomposites for catalytic peroxidase like activity and dye degradation” Materials Research Bulletin 120, 110592, 2019.
  2. Dewan A. Islam, Koushik Barman, Sk. Jasimuddin, Himadri Acharya, “Synthesis of ultrasmall and monodisperse sulfur nanoparticle intercalated CoAl layered double hydroxide and its electro-catalytic water oxidation reaction at neutral pH” Nanoscale 11, 7560-7566, 2019.
  3. Anindita Chakraborty, Dewan A. Islam, Himadri Acharya, “Facile synthesis of CuO nanoparticles deposited zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIF-8) for efficient photocatalytic dye degradation” Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 269, 566-574, 2019.
  4. Nirmalendu Das, Debasish Borah, Himadri Acharya, Sudip Choudhury, S Krishna Prasad, DS Shankar Rao, Chira R Bhattacharjee, “Grafting a mesomorphic Schiff base onto gold nanoparticle via ester link–photoluminescence, mesomorphism, electrical conductivity and antioxidant activity” Liquid Crystals 46, 609-617, 2019.
  5. Anindita Chakraborty, Himadri Acharya, “Facile Synthesis of MgAl-Layered Double Hydroxide Supported Metal Organic Framework Nanocomposite for Adsorptive Removal of Methyl Orange Dye” Colloid and Interface Science Communications,24, 35-39, 2018.
  6. Nirmalendu Das, Himadri Acharya, S Krishna Prasad, DS Shankar Rao, Chira R Bhattacharjee, “Mesomorphic Schiff base amine tethered giant gold nanoparticles” Liquid Crystals, 44 (14-15), 2259-2266, 2017.
  7. Dewan A. Islam, Kaushik Barman, Sk. Jasimuddin, Himadri Acharya, “Ag‐Nanoparticle‐Anchored rGO‐Coated MIL‐88B (Fe) Hybrids as Robust Electrocatalysts for the Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction at Neutral pH” ChemElectroChem, 4, 3110-3118, 2017.
  8. Himadri Acharya and Suneel K. Srivastava, “Mechanical, thermo-mechanical, thermal, and swelling properties of EPDM-organically modified mesoporous silica nanocomposites” Polymer Composites, 38, E371-E380, 2017.
  9. Himadri Acharya, “Deposition of Au nanoshell on thermally grown patterned Ag nanoparticle from block copolymer micelle thin film by seeding method” Reactive and Functional polymers, 105, 122-128, 2016.
  10. Dewan A. Islam, Anindita Chakraborty and Himadri Acharya, “Fluorescent silver nanoclusters (Ag NCs) in metal-organic framework MIL-101(Fe) for catalytic hydrogenation of 4-nitroaniline” New Journal of Chemistry, 40, 6745-6751, 2016.
  11. Dewan A. Islam, Anindita Chakraborty,Barnali Bhattacharya, Utpal Sarkar and  Himadri Acharya, “Tailored synthesis of CuS nanodisks from a new macrocyclic precursor and their efficient catalytic properties on methylene blue dye degradation” Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 2016, 18, 114.
  12. Dewan A. Islam and Himadri Acharya, “Magnetically separable palladium nanoclusters supported iron based metalorganic frameworks (MIL-88B) catalyst in efficient hydrogenation reaction”, RSC Adv., 2015,5, 46583-4658
  13. Dewan A. Islam, Debojyoti Borah and Himadri Acharya, “Controlled synthesis of monodisperse silver nanoparticles supported layered double hydroxide catalyst”, RSC Adv., 2015,5, 13239–13245.

Books/ book chapters:

  1. Suneel Kumar Srivastava and Himadri Acharya “Ageing and degradation behaviour of rubber nanocoposites” in Rubber Nanocomposites: Preparation, Properties and Applications, Chapter 20, Eds. S. Thomas and R. Stephen, John Wiley & Sons Publication, 2010.

Seminar/Conference/symposia:

  1. A. Chakraborty and H. Acharya, “Synthesis and application of metal organic framework/Fe3O4 nanoparticles [MIL-53(Cr)/Fe3O4 NPs] hybrids in catalytic nitrile synthesis” International Conference on Chemical Research in Materials and Biological Sciences (CRMBS-2019), March 15-16, 2019, Assam University, Silchar.
  2. A. Chakraborty and H. Acharya, “Monodisperse Fe3O4 nanoparticles encapsulated Zinc imidazole frameworks (ZIF-8) for adsorptive removal of Cr (VI)” International Conference on Complex and Functional Materials (ICCFM-2018), December 13-16, 2018, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.
  3. A. Chakraborty and H. Acharya, “Fe3O4 nanoparticles/Metal organic framework (MIL-53, Al) hybrid in aromatic nitrobenzene reduction” National Conference on Emerging Materials (NCEM 2018), March 20-22, 2018, Assam University, Silchar.
  4. Efficient anchoring of ZnO nanorods on GO nanosheets for photocatalytic dye degradation” National Conference on Emerging Materials (NCEM-2018), March 20-22, 2018, Assam University, Silchar.
  5. A. Chakraborty and H. Acharya, “Anionic dye adsorption study of Zn-Al layered double hydroxide (LDH)/metal organic framework (MOF) hybrid” International Conference on Emerging Trends in Chemical Sciences (ETCS-2018), February 26-28, 2018, Dibrugarh University.
  6. A. Chakraborty and H. Acharya, “In-situ synthesis of Co-Al LDH supported metal organic framework (MOFs) nano-hybrids for organic dye adsorption” International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN-2017), December 18-21, 2017, IIT Guwahati.
  7. A. Chakraborty and H. Acharya, “CuO-ZnO hybrid nanostructure for catalytic peroxidase like activity” National Conference on Chemical Physics (NCCP-2017), March 20-21, 2017, Assam University, Silchar.
  8. A. Chakraborty, D. A. Islam and H. Acharya, “Fe3O4 nanoparticles supported metal organic frameworks (ZIF-8) in Ibuprofen release” Second International conference on material science (ICMS-2017), February 16-18, 2017, Tripura University, Agartala.
  9. Antimicrobial Activity of Sulphur Nanoparticles Deposited Zn-Al Layered Double   Hydroxides” Second International conference on material science (ICMS-2017), February 16-18, 2017, Tripura University, Agartala.
  10. Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) on MOFs@PS core-shell microspheres for catalytic hydrogenation of 4-nitrophenol” National Symposium on Advances in Chemical Sciences (NSACS-2017), January 11-12, 2017, Assam University, Silchar.
  11. A. Chakraborty, D. A. Islam, K. Borah and H. Acharya, “Metal organic frameworks (ZIF-8) supported CuO nanoparticles in catalytic Rhodamine 6G dye degradation” National Symposium on Advances in Chemical Sciences (NSACS-2017), January 11-12, 2017, Assam University, Silchar.
  12. D. A.Islam, A Chakraborty and H. Acharya, “Silver Nanocluster (Ag NC) Supported Metal-organic Framework MIL-101 (Fe) in Catalytic Hydrogenation Reaction” Advanced materials for Sustainable Applications, MRSI North East, February 18-21, 2016, CSIR-NERIST JORHAT, Assam, India