DESCRIPTION :

Dr Sanjib Das completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, after completing M.Sc. in Chemistry from Banaras Hindu University. He worked for more than five years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the various world class institutions like University of Heidelberg in Germany, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan, Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel prior to join at CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (IMMT) as a Scientist in March 2012. He has achieved a vast expertise in the field of Organic Driven Materials Science combining Supramolecular Host-Guest Chemistry, Opto-Electronic and Luminescent Sensor Materials, Stimuli-Responsive Molecular Switches and Nanoparticles, Conducting Polymers, Porous Organic and Metal-Organic polymeric Materials, Catalysis, and so on. He is recipient of prestigious and highly competitive "NIMS Researcher" and "Dean of Faculty" postdoctoral fellowship from Japan and Israel. He qualified National Eligibility Test in chemical science and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (All India rank 111). He has published in several very high impact international journals from Wiley, ACS, RSC publishers. Currently, he has been working as a Principal Scientist at Materials Chemistry Department, CSIR-IMMT and his present research focus on the rational synthesis of functional Porous Organic Polymeric materials and composites with different topology and structural order combining  nanometer range porosity using organic- and nano-chemistry as major driving tools towards small gas (CO2/SOx/NOx/H2/CH4) capture/separation/conversion, detection and removal of toxic organic/inorganic micropollutants from contaminated water/air, energy storage (battery/supercapacitor), opto-electronic and heterogeneous electro-photo-redox catalytic applications (HER/ORR/NRR/OER).

• Senior Principal Scientist (March 2025 - Continuing), Materials Chemistry & Interfacial Engineering Department, CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, INDIA.
• Principal Scientist (March 2020 - March 2025), Materials Chemistry Department, CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, INDIA.
• Senior Scientist (March 2016 - March 2020), Materials Chemistry Department, CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, INDIA.
• Scientist (March 2012 - March 2016), Materials Chemistry Department, CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, INDIA.
• Dean of Faculty Post Doctoral Research Fellow (July 2010 - November 2011): Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ISRAEL.
• NIMS Post Doctoral Research Fellow (April 2008 - March 2010): Organic Nanomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, JAPAN.
• DFG Post Doctoral Research Fellow (October 2007 - March 2008): Department of Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, GERMANY.
• DFG Post Doctoral Research Fellow (September 2006 - August 2007): Department of Bioinorganic Chemistry, University of Hohenheim, GERMANY.
• Post Graduate Research Scholar (Ph.D.) (July 2001 - August 2006): Advisor: Prof. Parimal K. Bharadwaj, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, INDIA.
• CSIR Project Research Assistant (June 2000 - June 2001): Advisor: Prof. Parimal K. Bharadwaj, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, INDIA.

• Rational design and synthesis of Functional POPs for high-density electrochemical energy storage (Battery, Supercapacitor, Fuel cell)
• POPs as high-throughput electrocatalysts  for Oxygen Reduction, Oxygen & Hydrogen Evolution, and Nitrogen Reduction    
• High density storage of energy gases (hydrogen and methane) as well as capture of greenhouse gases such as CO2, SOx, NOx including their catalytic conversion into value-added products
• Synthesis of semiconducting and/or photo-redox active POPs scaffolds and composites for electro-photo-redox catalytic applications
• "Smart" adsorptive luminescent POPs for both sensing and removal of organic and inorganic micropollutants from contaminated water/air

CURRENT PhD STUDENTS: 

• Ashish Kumar Maharana, MSc from BHU, CSIR-SRF, (PhD since July 2020) 
• Gugulothu Rambabu, Integrated MSc from NISER, CSIR-SRF, (PhD since July 2020)
• Yoti Shankar Patra, Integrated MSc from IISER Kolkata, INSPIRE Fellow (PhD since July 2020)
• Sourav Kumar Sarkar, MSc from BHU, UGC-SRF, (PhD since July 2021)
• Rahul Sarkar, MSc from Tezpur University, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE-1, (PhD since January 2021) 
• Mrutyunjaya Majhi, Project Assistant (since February 2025)

PAST PhD STUDENTS:

• Dr Soumya Mukherjee, Veolia Water Technology, Research Engineer
• Dr Monojit Das,  TCG Lifesciences, Senior Research Scientist
• Dr Anupam Manna, Macleods Pharmaceuticals, Research Scientist
• Dr Santosh Kumar Rath, Assistant Professor (Grade-II), DIT University, Dehradun

• Awarded prestigious “Dean of Faculty Postdoctoral Fellowship” of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel in 2010.
• Awarded highly competitive “NIMS Postdoctoral Researcher Fellowship” of National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan in 2008.
• Qualified “National Eligibility Test (NET)” in Chemistry, India in 2001.
• Qualified “Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)” in Chemical Science, India in 2000 (All India Rank 111).

1. Ashish Kumar Maharana, Sourav Kumar Sarkar, Rahul Sarkar,   Matthew A. Addicoat, Gugulothu Rambabu, Mrutyunjaya Majhi and Sanjib Das*, "Thermally Tuned Oxygenated Covalent Triazine Framework via Self-Templating for Durable 3.8 V Aqueous Supercapacitor with Record Energy and Power Density" J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5TA06521F
2. Sourav Kumar Sarkar, Ashish Kumar Maharana, Rahul Sarkar, Gugulothu Rambabu, Bibek Dash, Monalisa Pradhan, Gopal K Pradhan, Gaurav Jhaa, Sanjib Thakuria, Sandip Paul, Sanjib Das*, "Nucleobase Regulated Facet Engineering Enables Zinc (100) Oriented Growth for Long‐Life Zinc Anode under Combined Elevated Areal Capacity and Current Density", Small 2025, e08779.
3. Ashish Kumar Maharana, Sourav Kumar Sarkar, Soumya Mukherjee, Rahul Sarkar, Gugulothu Rambabu, Koh Sugamata, Sanjib Das*, "Triazole-boosted dual-structured covalent triazine frameworks for ultra-stable high-energy and-power density aqueous supercapacitors and notable selective CO2 capture", J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, 13, 11717-11731.
4. Monojit Das, Sourav Kumar Sarkar, Yoti Shankar Patra, Anupam Manna, Soumya Mukherjee and Sanjib Das*, “Soft Self-Templating Approach Derived Covalent Triazine Framework with Bimodal Nanoporosity as Efficient Radioactive Iodine Capture for Safe Nuclear Energy”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2022, 5, 8783-8793.
5. Anupam Manna, Ashish Kumar Maharana, Gugulothu Rambabu, Sagarika Nayak, Suddhasatwa Basu and Sanjib Das*, “Dithia-Crown-Ether Integrated Self-Exfoliated Polymeric Covalent Organic Nanosheets for Selective Sensing and Removal of Mercury”, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2021, 3, 5527-5535. 
6. Anupam Manna, Monojit Das, Soumya Mukherjee and Sanjib Das*, “All-in-One: Sensing, Adsorptive Removal, and Photocatalytic Degradation of Nitro-Explosive Contaminants by Microporous Polycarbazole Polymer”, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2021, 42, 2000469. [published as Feature Article]
7. Soumya Mukherjee, Monojit Das, Anupam Manna, Rajamani Krishna and Sanjib Das*, "Dual Strategic Approach to Prepare Defluorinated Triazole Embedded Covalent Triazine Frameworks with High Gas Uptake Performance", Chem. Mater. 2019, 31, 3929-3940. 
8. Soumya Mukherjee, Monojit Das, Anupam Manna, Rajamani Krishna and Sanjib Das*, "Newly designed 1,2,3-triazole functionalized covalent triazine frameworks with exceptionally high uptake capacity for both CO2 and H2", J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 1055-1068. 
9. Pintu K. Kundu, Sanjib Das, Johannes Ahrens, and Rafal Klajn, “Controlling the lifetimes of dynamic nanoparticle aggregates by spiropyran functionalization” Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 19280–19286.
10. Homas Moldt, Daniel Brete, Daniel Przyrembel, Sanjib Das, Joel R. Goldman, Pintu K. Kundu, Cornelius Gahl, Rafal Klajn, and Martin Weinelt, “Tailoring the Properties of Surface-Immobilized Azobenzenes by Monolayer Dilution and Surface Curvature” Langmuir, 2015, 31, 1048–1057. 
11. Tal Ely, Sanjib Das, Wenjie Li, Pintu K. Kundu, Einat Tirosh, David Cahen, Ayelet Vilan, and Rafal Klajn, “Photocontrol of Electrical Conductance with a Nonsymmetrical Azobenzene Dithiol” Synlett, 2013, 24, 2370–2374. 
12. Shaoan Xu, Sanjib Das, Soichiro Ogi, Kazunori Sugiyasu, Hiroyuki Okazaki, Yoshihiko Takano, Takeshi Yasuda, Kenzo Deguchi, Shinobu Ohki, Tadashi Shimizu, and Masayuki Takeuchi “Synthesis of Polyaniline with low Polydispersity using Supramolecular Ionic Assembly as Reaction Media”, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 5824-5829.
13. Sanjib Das, Priyadarshi Ranjan, Pradipta Sankar Maiti, Gurvinder Singh, Gregory Leitus, and Rafal Klajn, “Dual-Responsive Nanoparticles and their Self-Assembly”, Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 422–426. (cover page) 
14. Yonatan Ridelman, Gurvinder Singh, Ronit Popovitz-Biro, Sharon G. Wolf, Sanjib Das and Rafal Klajn, “Metallic Nanobowls by Galvanic Replacement Reaction on Heterodimeric Nanoparticles”, Small, 2012, 8, 654–660. (cover page)
15. Sanjib Das, Susan Sen and Parimal K. Bharadwaj, “Anion Controlled Structural Variation of Silver(I) Coordination Polymers with a New Donor-p-Acceptor Ligand”, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2011, 372, 425–428.
16. Sanjib Das, Amit Nag, Kalyan K. Sadhu, Debabrata Goswami and Parimal K. Bharadwaj, “Metal Induced Enhancement of Fluorescence and Modulation of Two-Photon Absorption Cross-Section with a Donor–Acceptor–Acceptor–Donor Receptor”, J. Organomet. Chem. 2007, 692, 4969–4977.
17. Sanjib Das and Parimal K. Bharadwaj, “Supramolecular Host-Guest Systems of Luminescent Zn(II) Complexes with Benzene, Nitrobenzene, and Ethanol: Selectivity of Guest Inclusion and Solid-State Fluorescence Modulation Studies”, Crystal Growth & Design 2007, 7, 1192–1197.
18. Sanjib Das, Amit Nag, Debabrata Goswami and Parimal K. Bharadwaj, “Zinc(II)- and Copper(I)- Mediated Large Two-Photon Absorption Cross Sections in a bis-Cinnamaldiminato Schiff Base”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 402–403.
19. Sanjib Das and Parimal K. Bharadwaj, “Self-Assembly of A Luminescent Zinc(II) Complex: A Supramolecular Host-Guest Fluorescence Signaling System for Selective Nitrobenzene Inclusion”, Inorg. Chem. 2006, 45, 5257–5259.
20. Sanjib Das and Parimal K. Bharadwaj, “Water Clusters Gather Luminescent Zinc(II) Complexes Around Hydrogen-Bonded Framework Structures and Associated Fluorescence Modulation”, Crystal Growth & Design, 2006, 6, 187–192.
21. Sanjib Das, Atanu Jana, V. Ramanathan, Tapas Chakraborty, Sampa Ghosh, Pushpendu K. Das and Parimal K. Bharadwaj, “Design and Synthesis of 1,10-phenanthroline Based Zinc(II) Complexes Bearing 1D Push-Pull NLO-phores for Tunable Quadratic Nonlinear Optical Properties”, J. Organomet. Chem. 2006, 691, 2512–2516.
22. Sanjib Das, C. Madhavaiah, Sandeep Verma and Parimal K. Bharadwaj, “Light Induced DNA Scission by a Luminescent Mixed-Ligand Uranyl Complex”, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2006, 359, 548–552.
23. Sanjib Das, C. Madhavaiah, Sandeep Verma and Parimal K. Bharadwaj, “A Reusable Zigzag Copper(II) Coordination Polymer with Bio-essential Constituents as a Facile DNA Scission Agent”, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2005, 358, 3236–3240.