DESCRIPTION :
I am a Materials Chemist and have experience working with applied physicists, electrical engineers, chemists, and materials scientists. I would like to work in an interdisciplinary work environment where everyone's expertise from different fields hybridizes to do some innovation having a high societal impact. So highly motivated and enthusiastic students (Chemists/chemical engineers/electrical engineers/physicists) interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in such an interdisciplinary work environment are encouraged to send an email to me.
M.Sc. (Chemistry with Organic Special) in 2011 from Vidyasagar University, Midnapur, West Bengal.
Ph.D. in 2016 in Chemistry (Jadavpur University) from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. (Thesis supervisor: Prof. Narayan Pradhan).
Postdoctoral Research at the "Nanoscale Solar Cells and Center for Nanophotonics", AMOLF (Atomic and Molecular Physics) Physics of Functional Complex Matter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from Nov 2016 until Oct 2019.
After that, I joined as a Scientist at the Materials Chemistry Department at CSIR - Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology on Dec 24th, 2019.
Currently, I am working as a Senior Scientist from Dec 2023 till now.
Postdoc (Nov 2016-Oct, 2019) at Nanoscale Solar Cells and Center for Nanophotonics, AMOLF-Physics of Functional Complex Matters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Scientist Dec, 2019 to Dec, 2023
Senior Scientist, Dec, 2023 to present.
AREA OF INTEREST :Development of NEW earth-abundant Halide Perovskite materials (Synthesis of nanomaterials using a wide variety of techniques; wet chemical synthesis, hot injection synthesis, chemical vapor deposition, antisolvent-assisted crystallisations, etc.), chalchogenide materials for mechanoelectric, ferroelectric and optoelectronic applications.
AWARDS & HONOURS :
Awarded DST-SERB Start-up Research Grant 2020 in Chemistry from CSIR-IMMTBest Oral Presentation Award in Materials Science Day 2016 at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, KolkataQualified NET (National Eligibility Test, India) in chemistry June 2011 with CSIR fellowship. All India Rank 46.Qualified GATE in Chemistry (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, India) in March 2011.NP Vikas, Ranjit Kumar Pradhan, Somdutta Mukherjee, Udai P Singh, Biplab K Patra, Ravi P Srivastava, Amritendu Roy, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 2026, 306, 114442 (IF-6.6)
Lead‐Free Hybrid Halide Perovskite for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
Prabhanjan Pradhan, S Paul, RK Pradhan, A Datta, Biplab K Patra*, Small 2026, e14972 (IF-11.8)
High‐Performance GA2PbI4/PVDF Composite for Energy Harvesting and Real‐Time Wireless Photodetection
Pravat Kumar, S Das, NH Makani, P Pradhan, Biplab K Patra, R Banerjee, Advanced Optical Materials 2026, 14 (9), e03176 (IF-7.2)
Versatile Metal Phthalocyanine‐Based Memristive Nanowire Network: Unraveling the Dynamics of Digital to Analog Switching
Sudeshna Maity, A Mandal, P Pradhan, A Ghosh, D Topwal, Biplab K Patra, T Som, Small Science 2026, 6 (1), e202500424. (IF-7.0)
Functionalized Indazaboles: A New Class of Low‐k Interfacial Layer for Multi‐Polar Charge Transport in Organic Field Effect Transistors
Anna Chandrasekar Murali, Mrinali Mohanty, Riya Singh, Indrajit Mondal, Subrat Rout, Avani A, Biplab K Patra, Satyaprasad P Senanayak, Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah, Small 2025, 21 (47), e07561 (IF-11.8)
S‐Heterocyclic s‐Indacenodifluorene: Synthesis, Properties, and Thermally Tunable Ambipolar Field‐Effect Mobility
Sakshi Sahewal, Subhashis Ghosh, Prabhanjan Pradhan, Priyank Kumar Sharma, Md Saifuddin, Biplab K Patra, Satyaprasad P Senanayak, Soumyajit Das Chemistry–A European Journal 2025, 30 (29) e202500725. (IF-3.6)
Emerging New‐generation Colloidal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals with White Photoluminescence
Amit Kumar Guria, Biplab Kumar Patra, Md Moniruzzaman Sk. ChemNanoMat 2025, 11(4) e202500021.
Electrolyte-Gated Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskites for Switchable Optoelectronic Universal Logic Gates
Tanuj Kumar, Mohit Kumar, Ramesh Kumar, Prabhanjan Pradhan, Shumile Ahmed Siddiqui, Kaushik Ghosh, Biplab K Patra, Monojit Bag .Nano Letters 2025, 25 (12) 4961-4968. (IF-9.1)
Linkage-dependent nano-conductivity of free-standing covalent organic membranes
A Puthukkudi, S Rout, AN Thiruthimmal, OP Swain, Biplab K Patra*, BP Biswal*, Chemical Communications 2025, 61 (87), 16958-16961 (IF-4.2)
Inducing Piezoelectric Behavior in Copper Iodide Cubane Cluster-Based Metal-Organic Framework via Linker Engineering
SN Panda, P Pradhan, S Nath, J Mohapatra, Biplab K Patra*, BP Biswal*. Chemical Communications, 2025, 61(12) 2536-2539. (IF-4.2)
Phosphonium Cation-Based Ferroelectric 1D Halide Perovskite-Like Semiconductor for Mechanical Energy Harvesting
Prabhanjan Pradhan, P Kumar, RK Bandaru, R Dandela, R Banerjee, Biplab K Patra*. Chemistry of Materials, 2024 36 (22), 11015-11024 (IF-7.1)
On the grain boundary charge transport in p-type polycrystalline nanoribbon transistors
Sougata Sarkar, AVM Ali, G Ghorai, P Pradhan, Biplab K Patra, AA Sagade, KDM Rao. Nanoscale 2024, 16 (35), 16611-16621 (IF-5.2)
Green biomass derived porous carbon materials for electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs)
MM Sk, Prabhanjan Pradhan, Biplab K Patra, AK Guria. Materials Today Chemistry 2023, 30, 101582 (IF-7.4)
State of the art and prospects of metal halide perovskite core@ shell nanocrystals and nanocomposites
MR Kar, S Ray, Biplab K. Patra*, S Bhaumik. Materials Today Chemistry 20, 100424
Intermittency of CsPbBr3 Perovskite Quantum Dots Analyzed by an Unbiased Statistical Analysis
Isabelle M Palstra, Ilse Maillette de Buy Wenniger, Biplab K Patra, Erik C Garnett, A Femius Koenderink (Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2021)
Fano lineshapes and Rabi splittings: Can they be artificially generated or obscured by the numerical aperture?
Zhoumuyan Geng, Johanna Theenhaus, Biplab K Patra, Jian-Yao Zheng, Joris Busink, Erik C Garnett, Said RK Rodriguez
(ACS Photonics 2021, 8, 5, 1271–1276) (IF-7)
Quantifying Strain and Dislocation Density at Nanocube Interfaces after Assembly and Epitaxy. Chemically Filled and Au-Coupled BiSbS3 Nanorod Heterostructures for Photoelectrocatalysis. Dopant-Controlled Selenization in Pd Nanocrystals: The Triggered Kirkendall Effect Hybrid Dot–Disk Au-CuInS2 Nanostructures as Active Photocathode for Efficient Evolution of Hydrogen from Water Coincident Site Epitaxy at the Junction of Au–Cu2ZnSnS4 Heteronanostructures Monodisperse Au-Cu-Sn trimetallic nanocube catalysts Au-SnS hetero nanostructures: Size of Au matters Chemical sealing of nanotubes: a case study on Sb2S3 Monodisperse SnS nanocrystals: in just 5 seconds Diffusion-Induced Shape Evolution in Multinary Semiconductor Nanostructures Efficient Superionic Conductor Catalyst for Solid in Solution-Solid-Solid Growth of Hetero-nanowires Tuning the growth pattern in 2D confinement regime of Sm2O3 and the emerging room temperature unusual superparamagnetism Synthesis and photo-darkening/photo-brightening of blue-emitting doped semiconductor nanocrystals The Redox Chemistry at the Interface for Retrieving and Brightening the Emission of Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals