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- No of research papers published: 139 click here
- Average impact factor: 2.7
- Patent: 03 (granted-02 & filed-01): click here
- No. of books published: 05 Click here
- No. of Ph. D. awarded: 10 Click here
- No. of M.Phil. degree awarded: 03
- Research funding received: Rs 420.85 lacs Click here
- Seminar / Conference organized: 20 Click here
- Seminar / conference attended: 200
- Ongoing Ph.D. scholars: 06 Click here
Research in thin films & Nanoscience lab been have been going on in the following directions:
A. Designing organic memory for ROM & RAM applications
B. Investigation of optical switchable thin films for naked eye cliometric sensors applications
C. Designing various bio-sensors / chemical sensors
D. Design of Nonlinear Optically (NLO) active films & their applications towards optoelectronics devices
E. Investigations of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) & its applications
F. Design on nano-scale aggregates in ultra-thin films & their applications towards optoelectronics devices
Few of our noted research findings are listed below:
A. Designing organic memory for ROM & RAM applications:
Recently we are working on design and characterization of Resistive Memory devices using organic materials. Such memory devices are expected to be a potential candidate to replace the existing memory based on silicon and will play vital role to realize Organic Electronics. Organic electronics is very promising due to the flexibility, modifiability as well as variety of the available organic molecules. We have already designed resistive memory using several organic molecules and demonstrated their use as both volatile (RAM) and non-volatile (ROM) memory. It has been observed that performance of these memory with respect to data retention, cyclibility, device yield, stability are very good and have every potential for commercial applications.
Reference of few of our recent ongoing works are listed below:
- Langmuir (ACS, IF=4.331) 38/30 (2022) 9229–9238 Download
- ACS Omega 7,21 (2022) 17583–17592 (ACS, IF = 4.132) Download
- ACS Applied Electronic Materials 3/12 (2021) 5248 – 5256 (ACS, IF = 4.494)
- RSC Advances 11 (2021) 10212–10223 (RSC, IF=3.070) download
- Langmuir 15 (2021) 4449-4459 (American Chemical Society, IF=3.557) Download
- Chemistry Select 4 (2019) 9065 – 9073 (Wiley, IF=1.716) Download
- Organic Electronics 55 (2018) 50 – 62 (Elsevier, IF =3.399) Download
- Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 13308 (2017) (A Nature Research Journal, IF = 4.259) Download
- Langmuir 33 (34) (2017) 8383–8394 (American Chemical Society, IF=3.833) download link1 link2
B. Investigation of optical switchable thin films for naked eye cliometric sensors:
We are also working on designing optical switchable thin films and invetsigating their feasibility towards designing naked eye colorometric sensors.
Reference of few of our recent ongoing works on chromatic behaviour:
- J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 29, 15976–15986 (American Chemical Society, IF=4.189)
Download - Polymer Bulletin 78 (2021) 93-113 (Springer, IF=1.858) Download
- Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 144 (2020) 109487 Click here
- Softmaterials 17(1) (2019) 77-92 (Taylor & Francis, IF=1.132) Download
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series (IOP), (2019) 1330, 012012
Download - Materials Today: Proceedings Materials Today: Proceedings 5 (2018) 2367–2372 (Elsevier) Download
C. Designing various sensors:
We are also working on designing various optical sensors. e.g. arsenic sensor and it was found that the deigned sensor give good result while testing the arsenic contaminated water collected from different parts of Tripura. It was found that in Kamalpur there exist arsenic contamination. Our designed alcohol sensor is capable of identifying drunk person just by changing the colour very similar to litmus paper. We have also designed several other sensors like – DNA sensor, hard water sensor, pH sensor, cholesterol sensor, ion sensor etc.
Reference of few of our recent ongoing works related to sensors are listed below:
Cholesterol sensor: Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical 255 (2018) 519-528 (Elsevier, IF = 6.393) Download
Arsenic sensor: Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical 241 (2017) 1014-1023 (Elsevier, IF = 6.393) Download
Hard water sensor: Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical 184 (2013) 268 – 273 (Elsevier; IF=6.393) download
Ion sensor: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 195 (2014) 382–388 (Elsevier;IF=6.393) download
pH sensor:
Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology A: Chemistry 252 (2013) 174– 182 (Elsevier; IF= 3.261) download
Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 175 (2017) 110-116 (Elsevier; IF= 2.129) Download
Invertis Journal of Science and Technology, (ISSN : 0973-8940) 7( 2) (2014) 1-8 download
Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 149 (2015) 143–149 (Elsevier; IF=2.129) Download
DNA sensor:
Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 136 (2015) 1797–1802 (Elsevier; IF=2.129) Downlod
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 204 (2014) 746–753 (Elsevier; IF=6.393) download
J Biol Phys; 39(3) (2013) 387-394 (Springer, IF 1.152)
Alcohol sensor: Journal of Physics: Conference Series (IOP), (2019) 1330, 012012 Download
Mercury sensor: Int. J. Environmental Analytical Chemistry 100 (2020) 789-807 (Taylor and Francis, IF=1.372) Download
Sci. Lets. J. 2015, 4: 119 (Publisher – Cognizure: ISSN 2454 – 7239) Download
D. Design of Nonlinear Optically (NLO) active films
Second-harmonic generation (SHG, also called frequency doubling) is a nonlinear optical process in which two photons with the same frequency interact with a nonlinear material, are “combined”, and generate a new photon with twice the energy of the initial photons (equivalently, twice the frequency and half the wavelength). It is a special case of sum-frequency generation (2 photons), and more generally of harmonic generation. The second-order nonlinear susceptibility of a medium characterizes its tendency to cause SHG. SHG, like other even-order nonlinear optical phenomena, is not allowed in media with inversion symmetry. Second-harmonic generation is used by the laser industry to make green 532 nm lasers from a 1064 nm source, Second-harmonic imaging microscopy, optoelectrnics devices etc. We have demonstrated SHG active thin films (LB) using a thiacyanine derivative which is intrinsically SHG inactive. We also demonstrated the enhancement of stability (SHG signal intensity) by incorporating nano-clay in the thinfilms.
Reference of our recent ongoing works related to SHG active thin films:
E. Investigations of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) & its applications
We are working to identify new FRET molecules, optimise the maximum energy transfer conditions, apply them to design FRET. FRET is a physical dipole–dipole coupling between the excited state of a donor fluorophore and an acceptor chromophore that causes relaxation of the donor to a non-fluorescent ground state, which excites fluorescence in the acceptor. In the process of FRET, initially a donor fluorophore (D) absorbs the energy due to the excitation of incident radiation and transfers the excitation energy to a nearby chromophore, the acceptor (A). FRET is a highly distance dependent phenomenon – 1 to 10 nm distance between donor and acceptor flurophore is crucial for the process to occur. Accordingly FRET phenomenon is used to study molecular scale phenomenon, conformation of macromolecules, optical sensors etc.
Reference of our recent ongoing works related to FRET:
- Polymer Bulletin 78 (2021) 93-113 (Springer, IF=1.858) Download
- Materials Today: Proceedings (article in press) (Elsevier, IF=0.694) Download
- Materials Todat: Proceedings (Elsevier, IF=0.694) (article in press) Download
- Int. J. Environmental Analytical Chemistry 100 (2020) 789-807 (Taylor and Francis, IF=1.372) Download
- Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical 255 (2018) 519-528 (Elsevier, IF = 6.393) Download
- Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical 241 (2017) 1014-1023 (Elsevier, IF = 6.393) Download
- Journal of Luminescence 185 (2017) 42-47 (Elsevier; IF= 2.719) Download
- Journal of Luminescence 172 (2016) 168-174 (Elsevier; IF= 2.719) Download
- Sci. Lets. J. 2015, 4: 119 (Publisher – Cognizure: ISSN 2454 – 7239)
- Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 204 (2014) 746–753 (Elsevier; IF=6.393) download
- Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 195 (2014) 382–388 (Elsevier;IF=6.393) download
- Science Journal of Physics Vol 2012, Article ID sjp-268, 4 Pages, 2012. doi: 10.7237/sjp/268 Download
F. Design on nano-scale aggregates in ultra-thin films
We are also working on nanoscale aggregate onto thin films. Main objective is to explore new nanomaterials with different functionalities like sensing, biosensing, catalysis, optics, electronics etc… Already a number of such aggregates have been optimised and their diverse applications have been demonstrated.
- Materials Chemistry and Physics 234 (2019) 158-167 (Elsevier, IF=2.21)
- Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology A: Chemistry 364 (2018) 696–704 (Elsevier; IF = 2.891)
- Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 353 (2018) 570-580 (Elsevier, IF =2.891)
- Chemical Physics Letters 691 (1018) 298–306 (Elsevier, IF=1.815)
- Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 348 (2017) 199–208 (Elsevier, IF = 2.891)
- Langmuir 33 (34) (2017) 8383–8394 (American Chemical Society, IF=3.833)
- Applied Clay Science 147 (2017) 105–116 (Elsevier, IF = 3.101)
- Chemical Physics Letters 676 (2017) 99-107 (Elsevier, IF = 1.86)
- ChemistrySelect 2 (2017) 241–245 (Wiley)
- Chemical Physics Letters 665 (2016) 76–84 (Elsevier, IF = 1.86) 11
- Supramolecular Chemistry (2016) 1-10 (Taylor and Francis, IF = 1.467)
- Journal of Luminescence 179, 2016, 287–296 (Elsevier; IF= 2.719)
- Journal of Luminescence 178 (2016) 347–355 (Elsevier; IF= 2.719)
- Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 157 (2016) 79–87 (Elsevier; IF= 2.129)
- Adv. Sci. Letts. 22(1) (2016) 149-153 (American Scientific Publisher, IF=1.25)
- Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 87 (2015) 128-135 (Elsevier; IF: 1.853)
- Chemical Physics Letters 633 (2015) 82–88 (Elsevier; IF: 1.991)
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2015, 119 (17), pp 9429–9441 (American Chemical Society, IF = 4.835)
We have demonstrated electronics using organic molecules: Non-volatile RRAM and WORM memory devices using amido-phenazines / metalloporphyrin.
Related publications:
Langmuir 15 (2021) 4449-4459 Download Supporting Information
RSC Advances 11 (2021) 10212–10223 download
Chemistry Select 4 (2019) 9065 – 9073 (Wiley, IF=1.716) Download
Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 13308 (2017) (A Nature Research Journal, IF = 4.259) Download
Organic Electronics 55 (2018) 50 – 62 (Elsevier, IF =3.399) Download
Langmuir 33 (34) (2017) 8383–8394 (American Chemical Society, IF=3.833) download link1 link2
Design of Cholesterol Sensor: To read the publication – click here
Ref: Arpan Datta Roy, Dibyendu Dey, Jaba Saha, P.Debnath, D.Bhattacharjee, Syed Arshad Hussain* Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (2017) (Elsevier, IF = 5.401) Click for details
Design of Arsenic (V) Sensor: To read the publication – click here
Arsenic (symbol As, atomic number 33) is a group V-A, heavy toxic, ubiquitous element occurring in the atmosphere, soils and rocks, natural waters and organisms. Tripura is highly As prone area.
Recently at Thin Film and Nanoscience Laboratory, Tripura university we have designed a novel Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)- based ratiometric sensor for detecting arsenic(v) with detection limit 10 ppb.
It was found that the proposed sensor is highly selective with respect to various salts (cations). The proposed method has also been tested using natural lake water and suitable results were obtained with good recovery, ranging between 95.1%–98.6% to the RSD value within range 0.5% −2.6%. The present system has also been tested with real As contaminated water.
Ref: Jaba Saha, A. D. Roy, D. Dey, D. Bhattacharjee, Syed Arshad Hussain* Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical 241 (2017) 1014-1023 (Elsevier, IF = 5.401) Click for details
Organic Nanostructures & Swithing: To read the publication – click here
Recently we designed and synthesized as well as demonstrated the supramolecular assembly behavior of a 2,4,5-triaryl imidazole derivative at the air–water interface and in thin films using Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) technique. It has been demonstrated that this molecules form two types of nanostructures – Nanorod & Nanowire in thin films. These nanostructures were found to have switching behavior which may be promising for next-generation organic electronics.
Ref: Bapi Dey, Pintu. Debnath, Santanu. Chakraborty, Barnali. Deb, Debajyoti. Bhattacharjee, Swapan. Majumdar, Syed Arshad Hussain* Langmuir 33 (34) (2017) 8383–8394 (American Chemical Society, IF=3.833) Click here
Molecular Aggregates: To read the publication – click here
Nanoscale aggregates onto ultra-thin films are gaining importance due to their potential applications towards opto-electronic device application.
Recently we have developed a series of aggregates (J aggregate/H aggregate/excimer etc) onto thin films via LB/LbL techniques. See list of publications: click here
Ref: Debnath, Pintu; Chakraborty, Santanu; Deb, Subrata; Nath, Jayasree; Bhattacharjee, Debajyoti; Syed Arshad Hussain* The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2015, 119 (17), pp 9429–9441 (American Chemical Society, IF = 4.835) Click for details
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