EFAML of Dr. Soumyajit Roy

We have 2 open positions in our group for PhD. We are currently looking for someone who has interest in materials science and would also be interested to innovate. Do get in touch. www.soumyajit-roy.com

It’s always an inspiration when you have your Teacher visiting you. Today we had the distinct pleasure of a visit by Prof Ashok Ganguli, Director, IISER Behrampore. We had a great time and science was celebrated by his lecture at IISER Kolkata’s Institute Colloquium.

Electric. CO2. Gives Acetone (C3). In a recent work from our group in collaboration with DrSanjib Ganguly and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schöfberger led by Nidhi Kumari and Supriyo we have been able to convert CO2 to Acetone with significant efficacy. The work has just been published in Materials Today Catalysis. Now in our repertoire of catalysts this metal free catalyst is the most recent addition. Please read the article if you’re interested in the following link.

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Nobel to Nano. Quantum dots.

Medicine and Physiology Nobel for Vaccine Development with mRNA against COVID 19.

We are now able to synergistically silence the site directing influence of functional groups in aromatics in addition to site specific catalysis on a micro-chip. For instance, starting from nitro benzene we can make o- or p- dinitrobenzene instead of usual m- dinitrobenzene. Interested? Please have a look at our recently published Materials Advances article with Ayan Banerjee. It’s free to read.

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Thank you ICEMN and Hubei University, P.R. China, for inviting me as a plenary speaker to this prestigious conference. A snapshot with other delegates and the award winners.

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"Stuff matters". But what is the origin of that stuff or matter or mass? In a rather provocative proposal I put forward an idea of "Time-Gel". What is it? In short the concept gives us a scope to simulate the signature of time in matter. It has the capacity to capture the essence of criticality resulting from spatio-temporal symmetry breaking as it is a 'gel'. We believe that this communication would stimulate experiments in classical domain and will be able to give us some insights on origin of mass (apart from the ideas we already have from QCD and of course from the standard model). Disclaimer: I came up with this concept inspired by the concept of "Time-Crystal" by Frank Wilczek. However "Time-crystal" is a quantum mechanical concept, while "TIme-Gel" I believe, can be tested experimentally in classical systems. Let there be a constructive controversy to test "Time-Gel"s idea and see if it can stand the test of time! This work is free to read for next few weeks, so if you are interested please use the following link.

Time-Gel Can creation of matter be modelled? This communication proposes the idea of Time-Gel to address this question. Using existing framework of temporal dy…

My recent review on CO2RR in Coord Chem Rev with Prof Francis Verpoort. Free to read for the next six weeks.

Engineering metal-organic frameworks for efficient photocatalytic conversion of CO2 into solar fuels Artificial photosynthesis is an emerging and reliable technique for CO2 mitigation, and it is also a potential method to achieve carbon dioxide resour…

Congratulations Shounik Paul for winning the poster award at CRSI NSC Meeting.

CRSI The 27th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-27) is organized by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISERK) during September 26th - 30th September, 2021 under the auspices of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI). The organizing committee at IISER Kolkata takes...