Name : Chanchal Mondal
Department of Chemistry
Designation: Assistant Professor
E-Mail Id: cmondal15@gmail.com
Mobile No. +919800442733
Career objective:
To attain a position that provides opportunity to use my scientific knowledge.
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 15th June 1989
Nationality: Indian
Sex: Male
Languages known: English, Bengali, Hindi
Postal Address: Vill. + P.O. – Dhaban Dist. – Bankura Pin – 722137 West Bengal, India
Education Qualification
- 2015- Till date: Assistant professor in chemistry at Mathabhanga College
- 2011- 2015: Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur)—- Title: Morphology Controlled Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials
for Their Photocatalytic and Supercapacitor Applications - 2009-2011: Master of Science in Chemistry (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
CGPA obtained : 8.41 - 2006-2009: Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (The University of Burdwan)
% of marks obtained: 70.875% - 2004-2006: Higher Secondary Examination (W.B.C.H.S.E)
% of marks obtained: 83.7% - 2002-2004: Secondary Examination (W.B.B.S.E)
% of marks obtained:87.375%
Awards & Honors:
- Qualified CSIR-UGC NET for CSIR fellowship and Lecturer ship in Chemical Sciences, University Grant Commission, New Delhi, held in June, 2010.
- Qualified CSIR-UGC NET for CSIR fellowship and Lecturer ship in Chemical Sciences, University Grant Commission, New Delhi, held in December, 2010.
- Qualified GATE 2011 in Chemistry held in 2011.
Extracurricular Activity:
- G. Sec. Mess, Hall Council, B. C. Roy Hall of Residence.
- President, Hall Council, B. C. Roy Hall of Residence.
Research Area:
- Materials Chemistry.
- Nanocomposites .
- Fabrication of Morphologically different Metal oxides, Composite materials and Mixed metal oxides.
- Supercapacitor fabrication.
- Carbonaceous material e.g., MWCNT.
- Energy Storage materials.
- Environmental remediation.
- Adsorption processes for Abatement of Dyes and heavy metal ions from the Environment.
- Photocatalysis for Removal of environmentally hazardous (dye molecules, aqueous Cr (VI)) from the Environment.
- Metal and Metal oxide Thin film fabrication on various substrates by chemical process.
- Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Templates for various applications.
- Preparation of Inrognaic Gel from Simple Molecular Frame work.
Research Experiences:
- Synthesis of nano and micro structured material for supercapacitor application.
- Preparation of nanocomposites based on MWCNT via chemical method.
- Hydrothermal synthesis of various metal oxides/hydroxides with various morphologies and their composites with MWCNT.
- Synthesis of metal semiconductor composite material (plasmonic photocatalyst) for photocatalysis under visible light exposure.
- Synthesis of sulfide materials for photocatalytic reduction of aqueous Cr(VI) under visible light.
- Mixed metal oxide synthesis for photocatalysis and magnetic moment measurement.
- Plasmonic photocatalyst and engineered photocatalyst with heterojunction for improved catalysis under visible light.
- Synthesis of porous material (gel) for dye and heavy metal ion adsorption for environmental remediation.
- Thin film fabrication for self-cleaning, water repellent character and oil-water separation.
Instrument proficiencies
- UV-visible spectrophotometer.
- X-ray diffraction (XRD).
- FTIR.
- Electrochemical Work Station.
- Raman instrument.
Research Interests:
- Synthesis and functionalization of carbonaceous material on semiconductor and pseudocapacitor.
- Tailoring of various morphologies of conducting polymers and study their morphology dependent electrochemical property.
- Synthesis of nanocomposites based on conducting polymer, Graphene/Carbon Nanotubes with metal oxide/hydroxides/mixed metal oxide/metal sulfide for high performance supercapacitor application.
- Synthesis of electrode material and fabrication of flexible hybrid supercapacitor (supercabaterry) of generation II.
- Fabrication of printable Supercapacitor.
- Li ion battery.
- Study of polymeric gel electrolyte for flexible supercapacitor.
- Synthesis of nanocomposites based on conducting polymer/Graphene/Carbon Nanotubes and semiconductor metal oxide/mixed metal oxide for enhanced photocatalysis.
- Synthesis of porous material for removal of dye molecules through adsorption on the nanomaterial.
- Synthesis of functional nanomaterials for enhanced visible light driven H2 production activity through water splitting.
- Dye sensitised solar cell.
International Conference:
- Poster presented at Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, Diamond Jubilee Symposium on Recent Trends in Chemistry (DJSRTC-2011), Kharagpur.
National Conference:
Poster presented at the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, NANODAYS 2015.
Publications:
- Mondal, C.; Ganguly, M.; Pal, J.; Sahoo, R.; Sinha, A. K.; Pal, T. Pure Inorganic Gel: a New Host with Tremendous Sorption Capability. Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 9428-9430.
- Mondal, C.; Ganguly, M.; Manna, P. K.; Yusuf, S. M.; Pal, T. Fabrication of Porous β-Co(OH)2 Architecture at Room Temperature: a High Performance Supercapacitor. Langmuir 2013, 29, 9179-9187.
- Mondal, C.; Ganguly, M.; Pal, J.; Roy, A.; Jana, J.; Pal, T. Morphology Controlled Synthesis of SnS2 Nanomaterial for Promoting Photocatalytic Reduction of Aqueous Cr (VI) under Visible Light. Langmuir 2014, 30, 4157-4164.
- Mondal, C.; Pal, J.; Pal, K. K.; Sasmal, A. K.; Ganguly, M.; Roy, A.; Manna, P. K.; Pal, T. Serendipitous Synthesis of Ag1.92Mo3O10. H2O Nanowire from AgNO3 Assisted Etching of Ammonium Phosphomolybdate: A Material with High Adsorption Capacity. Cryst. Growth Des. 2014, 14, 5034−5041.
- Mondal, C.; Ganguly, M.; Sinha, A. K.; Pal, J.; Pal, T. Fabrication of a ZnO Nanocolumnar Thin Film on a Glass Slide and its Reversible Switching from a Superhydrophobic to a Superhydrophilic state. RSC Adv. 2013, 3, 5937-5944.
- Mondal, C.; Ganguly, M.; Sinha, A. K.; Pal, J.; Sahoo, R.; Pal, T. Robust Cubooctahedron Zn3V2O8 in Gram Quantity: a Material for Photocatalytic Dye Degradation in Water. CrystEngComm 2013, 15, 6745-6751.
- Mondal, C.; Pal, J.; Ganguly, M.; Sinha, A. K.; Jana, J.; Pal, T. A One Pot Synthesis of Au–ZnO Nanocomposites for Plasmon-enhanced Sunlight Driven Photocatalytic Activity. New J. Chem. 2014, 38, 2999—3005.
- Mondal, C.; Sinha, A. K.; Ganguly, M.; Pal, J.; Dhara, S.; Negishi, Y.; Pal, T. Deposition of Zinc Oxide Nanomaterial on Different Substrates for Useful Applications. CrystEngComm 2014, 16, 4322-4328.
- Mondal, C.; Sasmal, A. K.; Yusuf, S. M.; Mukadam, M. D.; Pal, J.; Ganguly, M.; Pal, T. Modified Hydrothermal Reaction (MHT) for CoV2O6.4H2O Nanowire Formation and the Transformation to CoV2O6.2H2O Single-crystals for Antiferromagnetic Ordering and Spin-flop. RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 56977–56983.
- Mondal, C.; Singh, A.; Sahoo, R.; Sasmal, A. K.; Pal, T. Preformed ZnS Nanoflower Prompted Evolution of CuS/ZnS p-n Heterojunction for Exceptional Visible Light Driven Photocatalytic Activity. New J. Chem. 2015, 39, 5628-5635.
- Mondal, C.; Ghosh, D.; Aditya, T.; Sasmal, A. K.; Pal, T. Mn3O4 Nanoparticles Anchored to Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes: A Distinctive Synergism for High Performance supercapacitor. New J. Chem. 2015, 39, 8373-8380.
- Mondal, C.; Ghosh, D.; Ganguly, M.; Sasmal, A. K.; Pal, T. Synthesis of Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Wrapped Co(OH)2 Flakes: A High-Performance Supercapacitor. Appl. Surf. Sci 2015, 359, 500-507.
- Sasmal, A. K.; Mondal, C.; Sinha, A. K.; Gauri, S. S.; Pal, J.; Aditya, T.; Ganguly, M.; Dey. S.; Pal, T. Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Copper Surface on Various Substrates for Roll-off, Self-Cleaning, and Water/Oil Separation. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 22034−22043.
- Ganguly, M.; Mondal, C.; Jana, J.; Pal, A.; Pal, T. Selective Dopamine Chemosensing Using Silver- Enhanced Fluorescence. Langmuir 2014, 30, 4120-4128.
- Pal, J.; Mondal, C.; Sasmal, A. K.; Ganguly, M.; Negishi, Y.; Pal, T. Account of Nitroarene Reduction with Size and Facet Controlled CuO-MnO2 Nanocomposites. ACS appl. Mater. interfaces 2014, 6, 9173−9184.
- Ganguly, M.; Mondal, C.; Jana, J.; Pal, A.; Pal, T. Photoproduced Fluorescent Au (i)@(Ag2/Ag3)-thiolate Giant Cluster: an Intriguing Sensing Platform for DMSO and Pb (II). Langmuir 2014, 30, 348-357.
- Ganguly, M.; Mondal, C.; Chowdhury, J.; Pal, J.; Pal, A.; Pal, T. The Tuning of Metal Enhanced Fluorescence for Sensing Applications. Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 1032-1047.
- Ganguly, M.; Mondal, C.; Pal, J.; Pal, A.; Negishi, Y.; Pal, T. Fluorescent Au(i)@Ag2/Ag3 Giant Cluster for Selective Sensing of Mercury (II) Ion. Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 11557–11565.
- Ganguly, M.; Mondal, C.; Pal, A.; Pratik, S. M.; Pal, J.; Pal, T. Aggregation of Nitroaniline in Tetrahydrofuran through Intriguing H-bond Formation by Sodium Borohydride. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 12865-12874.
- Pal, J.; Ganguly, M.; Mondal, C.; Negishi, Y.; Pal, T. Precursor Salt Assisted Syntheses of High-index Faceted Concave Hexagon and Nanorod-like Polyoxometalates. Nanoscale 2015, 7, 708–719.
- Ganguly, M.; Pal, J.; Mondal, C.; Pal, A.; Pal. T. Intriguing Manipulation of Metal‐Enhanced Fluorescence for the Detection of Cu(II) and Cysteine. Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 12470 – 12476.
- Pal, J.; Ganguly, M.; Mondal, C.; Roy, A.; Negishi, Y.; Pal, T. Crystal-Plane-Dependent Etching of Cuprous Oxide Nanoparticles of Varied Shapes and Their Application in Visible Light Photocatalysis. J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 24640−24653.
- Ganguly, M.; Jana, J.; Mondal, C.; Pal, A.; Pal, T. Green Synthesis of Highly Fluorescent Au(i)@Ag2/Ag3- thiolate Core–shell Particles for Selective Detection of Cysteine and Pb (ii). Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 18185-18197.
- Ganguly, M.; Pal, J.; Mondal, C.; Pal, A.; Pal, T. Imine (-CH=N-) Brings Selectivity for Silver Enhanced Fluorescence. Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 4370–4379.
- Sahoo, R.; Roy, A.; Ray, C.; Mondal, C.; Negishi, Y.; Yusuf, S. M.; Pal, A.; Pal, T. Decoration of Fe3O4 Base Material with Pd Loaded CdS Nanoparticle for Superior Photocatalytic Efficiency. J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 11485-11494.
- Ganguly, M.; Pal, J.; Das, S.; Mondal, C.; Pal, A.; Negishi, Y.; Pal, T. Green Synthesis and Reversible Dispersion of a Giant Fluorescent Cluster in Solid and Liquid Phase. Langmuir 2013, 29, 10945-10958.
- Sinha, A. K.; Manna, P. K.; Pradhan, M.; Mondal, C.; Yusuf, S. M.; Pal, T. Tin Oxide with a p–n Heterojunction Ensures both UV and Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity. RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 208-211.
- Pal, J.; Ganguly, M.; Dutta, S.; Mondal, C.; Negishi, Y.; Pal, T. Hierarchical Au–CuO Nanocomposite from Redox Transformation Reaction for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering and Clock Reaction. CrystEngComm 2014, 16, 883-893.
- Basu, M.; Sinha, A. K.; Pradhan, M.; Sarkar, S.; Pal, A.; Mondal, C.; Pal, T. Methylene Blue–Cu2O Reaction Made Easy in Acidic Medium. J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116, 25741-25747.
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