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Department of Chemical & Biological Sciences

Head of Department

Dr. Amit Kumar Paul
Ph.D, IACS, University of Calcutta

E-mail:
hod.cy@nitm.ac.in

Ph.D

Mr. Siddheswar Rudra Research Scholar

  • B. Sc. Chemistry from University of Calcutta (2014).
  • M. Sc. Inorganic Chemistry from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara (WBSU, 2016).

rudrasiddheswar@gmail.com udrasiddheswar@nitm.ac.in
9531651725, 7003036044
Full Time/Part Time Scholar: Full-Time

Highest Degree with specialization

  • M. Sc. Inorganic Chemistry from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College Rahara (WBSU, 2016).

Academic Honors & Awards

  • Best poster award in National Symposium On Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences, NIT Meghalaya, 2017.
  • First prize for oral presentation in the national conference “NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE STRUCTURAL MATERIALS (NCISM)-2018 organized by Advanced Engineering Research Foundation Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
  • Best poster awards in International conference on “Advances in Chemical Sciences and Technologies” organized by Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal, 2019.

Research Area:

  • Synthesis of the composite nanomaterials for energy harvesting and storage application.
  • Synthesis of graphitized carbon nanomaterials from biowaste/biomass for the energy storage application.
  • Oxygen Reduction Reaction.

Seminar/Conference Attended

  • National Symposium on Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Education, 2017.
  • National Symposium on Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences, NIT Meghalaya, October 12-13, 2017.
  • National Symposium on Innovative Structural Materials (NCISM)-2018, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
  • National Seminar on Contemporary Challenges in Chemistry (NSC3-2018), North Eastern Hill University Shillong.
  • International conference on “Advances in chemical science and technology, ACST-2019, September 23-25, NIT Warangal, Telangana.
  • National Conference on Recent Advances in Chemistry, RAC-2019, October 14-15, NIT Meghalaya, Shillong.
  • Research Conclave, NIT Meghalaya, 2020
  • Research Conclave, NIT Meghalaya, 2021
  • Webinar on "Basics of Gas Adsorption: Physisorption Technique, 29th January 2021.
  • Webinar series on Recent Advances in Physics organised by Department of Physics, 14th Sep to 18th Sep 2020.
  • International conference on recent developments in chemistry, RDC 2021, March 3-5th, NIT Durgapur

Publications:

  • Rudra, S.; Nayak, A. K.; Chakraborty, R.; Maji, P. K.; Pradhan, M.Synthesis of Au-V2O5 composite nanowire through shape transformation of vanadium(III) metal complex for high-performance solid-state supercapacitor Inorg. Chem. Front. 2018, 5, 1836-1843.
  • Paul, D.; Rudra, S.; Rahman, P.; Khatua, S.; Pradhan, M.; Chatterjee, P. N. Synthesis and characterization of Pd-Fe2O3 nanocomposite and its application as a magnetically recyclable catalyst in ligand-free Suzuki-Miyaura reaction in water, J. Organomet. Chem., 2018, 871, 96-102.
  • Rudra, S.; Nayak, A. K.; Koley, S.; Chakraborty, R.;Maji, P. K.; Pradhan, M. Redox-mediated shape-transformation of Fe3O4 nanoflake to chemically stable Au-Fe2O3 composite nanorod for high-performance asymmetric solid-state supercapacitor device. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.,2019, 7, 724–733.
  • Rudra, S.;Chakraborty, R.; Maji, P. K.; Koley, S.; Nayak, A. K.; Paul, D.; Pradhan, M. Intercalation pseudocapacitance in chemically stable Au-a-Fe2O3-Mn3O4 composite nanorod: Towards highly efficient solid-state symmetric supercapacitor device Electrochim. Acta, 2019, 324, 134865.
  • Singha, S. S.; Rudra, S.; Mondal, S.; Pradhan,M.; Nayak, A. K.; Satpati, B.;Pal, P.; Das, K.; Singha, A. Mn incorporated MoS2 nanoflowers: A high performance electrode material for symmetric supercapacitor, Electrochimica Acta, 2020,338,1358153.
  • Pradhan, M.; Chakraborty, R.; Rudra, S.; Koley, S.; Maji, P. K.; Nayak A. K.; Das, S.; Nandi, U. Intercalation pseudocapacitance in Bi2Se3?MnO2 nanotube composite for high electrochemical energy storage, Electrochim. Acta, 2020, 367, 137531.

Any other remarkable Experience

  • Project Assistant in DST-INSPIRE funded Project titled “Novel Biocompatible Nanocomposites for SERS Based Sensing of Biomolecules and Toxic Metal Ions”, Department of Chemistry, NIT Meghalaya.
  • 2017-2020: Inorganic Chemistry laboratory classes as TA duty