DR. SIRSHENDU GHOSH

A highly devoted science researcher with an experience of working in internationally renowned research institutes and universities which include top institutes in India and Israel. Skilled analyst and enthusiastic experimenter in interdisciplinary field of chemistry-physics-materials science. An assiduous and dedicated science devotee who maintains the ethics of punctuality, has an excellent communication skill, and loves to work in alliance. An updated person with immense subject knowledge to assess the scientific value of a research work. A scholar having an extraordinary track record with publications (40) in top class international journals like Wiley (8), American Chemical Society (11), Royal Society of Chemistry (13), Institute of physics (2), Elsevier (5). A flourishing scientist, with immeasurable knowledge and vast intelligence, currently working as DST Inspire Faculty Fellow with an aim for the betterment of scientific research-publications, teaching the blooming minds.

• Design of novel nanoparticle for electro catalytic application: CO2 reduction, Organic conversion
• Photo-electrochemical hybrid electrolysis for hydrogen generation coupled with substrate oxidation toward production of value-added commodity chemicals including biofuel generation.
• Synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles (metal, semiconductor or metal-semiconductor heterostructure), study of their applications in photonics like plasmonic photocatalysis, photodetector etc.
• Cation exchange chemistry to synthesis exotic nanoheterostructure for diverse application.

• Synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles (metal, semiconductor), control their size and morphology.
• Electrocatalytic Hydrogen production, CO2 reduction to fuel, anodic upcycling of different organic molecule.
• Tuning of surface plasmon resonance absorbance of degenerate semiconductor via controlling the aliovalent ion doping for exotic photonic applications.
• Plasmonic photocatalysis by synthesis of metal semiconductor heterostructure and exciton-plasmon coupling. Understanding the catalysis process via studying the decay dynamics.
• Synthesis of white light emitting coating (nanoparticle based) for design of WLED.
• Synthesis of halide-based perovskites nanoparticles for fabrication of ultrafast responsive photodetector.
• Instrument knowledge and used: TEM/STEM, NMR, SEM/FIB, AFM, XPS, XRD, RAMAN (SERS), UV-VIS-NIR absorbance and PL, TCSPC, Solar simulator, Electrochemical work station, NMR, FTIR, GC, EPR and TGA-DSC.

• CSIR-JRF (all India rank 0033/0790), Chemical Sciences, dec 2009.
• Ranked 4th in MSc, Calcutta University.
• Ranked 6th in BSc, Calcutta University.
• Qualified Gate-2010.

• Enhancing Trifunctional Electrocatalytic Activities via Lanthanide Modulation in Fe−Co-Based Double Perovskite Oxides., Souradip Ganguly, Raktim Datta, Chanchal Loha, and Sirshendu GhoAcs Energy&Fuels, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c01611
• Selective Facet Engineering of Ni12P5 Nanoparticle for Maximization of Electrocatalytic Oxidative Reaction of Biomass Chemicals., Souradip Ganguly, Jyotishman Kaishyop, Tuhin Suvra Khan, SK Tarik Aziz, Arnab Dutta, Chanchal Loha, Sirshendu Ghosh, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2024, 12, 19, 7374-7381
• A-site modulation of Co-Ir based double perovskite oxides (A2CoIrO6, A = Sr, Nd, Pr and Sm) for maximization of water oxidation and hybrid electrolysis derived isopropanol up-conversion in acid medium., Souradip Ganguly, Raktim Datta, Pooja Basera, Subodh Kumar De, Kalyan Mistry, Chanchal Loha and Sirshendu Ghosh, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2024, 12, 2, 849-859
• LSPR assisted photoredox catalysis of newly fabricated Cu-Nanorods: A decarboxylative approach towards C-H bond formation under visible light., Saikat Khamarui and Sirshendu Ghosh, New J. Chem., 2024, 48, 520-524
• Ternary Ni-Co-Se Nanostructure for electrocatalytic oxidative value addition of Biomass platform chemicals., Souradip Ganguly, Sumana Paul, Deepak Khurana, Tuhin Suvra khan, P. K. Giri, Chanchal Loha and Sirshendu Ghosh, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2023, 6, 10, 5331-5341
• Critical Role of Interface Design in Acceleration of Overall Water Splitting and Hybrid Electrolysis Process: State-of-the-art and Perspective., Snehanjali Behera, Souradip Ganguly, Chanchal Loha, Biswajit Mondal and Sirshendu Ghosh, ACS Energy & Fuels, 2023, 37, 11, 7603-7633
• Alcohol oxidation with high efficiency and selectivity by nickel phosphide phases., Sirshendu Ghosh, Biswajit Mondal, Shubasis Roy, Menny Shalom and Maya Bar Sadan, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 8238-8244
• W Doping in Ni12P5 as a Platform to Enhance Overall Electrochemical Water Splitting., Sirshendu Ghosh, Sunil R Kadam, ShayLee Kolatkar, Alevtina Neyman, Chanderpratap Singh, Andrey N Enyashin, Ronen Bar-Ziv, Maya Bar-Sadan, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 1, 581-589
• Control Synthesis and Alloying of Ambient Stable Pb-Free Cs3Bi2Br9(1-x)I9x (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) Perovskite Nanocrystals for Photodetector Application., (as corresponding author), ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2020, 3, 11, 11107-11117
• Nickel Phosphide Catalysts for Hydrogen Generation through Water Reduction, Ammonia-borane, and Borohydride Hydrolysis., Sirshendu Ghosh, Sunil R. Kadam, Lothar Houben, Ronen Bar-Ziv and Maya Bar-Sadan, Applied Materials Today, 2020, 20, 100693
• Lead-free metal halide perovskite nanocrystals: challenges, applications, and future aspects., Sirshendu Ghosh, Bapi Pradhan, ChemNanoMat, 2019, 5, 300
• Control Synthesis of Air-Stable Morphology Tunable Pb-Free Cs2SnI6 Perovskite Nanoparticles and Their Photodetection Properties., Sirshendu Ghosh, Sumana Paul, Subodh Kumar De, Part. Part. Syst. Charact., 2018, 35, 1800199
• Cation Exchange-Mediated Synthesis of Library of Plasmomagnetic Nanoheterostructures: Transformation of 2-Dimensional-Shaped Fe7S8 Nanoplates to Cu-Fe-S-Based Ternary Compound., Dulal Barman@, Sirshendu Ghosh@, Sumana Paul, Biswajit Dalal and Subodh Kumar De, (@ equal contributing 1st author), Chemistry of Materials, 2018, 30, 16, 5550-5560
• Efficient Charge Separation in Plasmonic ZnS@Sn:ZnO Nanoheterostructure: Nanoscale Kirkendall Effect and Enhanced Photophysical Properties., Sumana Paul@, Sirshendu Ghosh@, Subodh Kumar De, (@ equal contributing 1st author), Langmuir, 2018, 34, 14, 4324-4339
• Visible transparent white light emitting ink from a Ce3+ sensitized monodispersed Tb,Sm co-doped LaF3@C-dot nanocomposite., Sirshendu Ghosh, Chandrani Pal, Sumana Paul, Manas Saha, Dulal Barman and Subodh Kumar De, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 14124-14127
• Shape controlled plasmonic Sn doped CdO colloidal nanocrystals: a synthetic route to maximize the figure of merit of transparent conducting oxide., Sirshendu Ghosh, Manas Saha, Sumana Paul and Subodh Kumar De, (Corresponding author), Small, 2017, 13, 1602469
• Maximization of photocatalytic activity of Bi2S3/TiO2/Au ternary heterostructures by proper epitaxy formation and plasmonic sensitization., Sumana Paul@, Sirshendu Ghosh@, Dulal Barman and Subodh Kumar De, (@ equal contributing 1st author), Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2017, 219, 287-300
• Excitation dependent multicolor emission and photoconductivity of Mn, Cu doped In2S3 monodisperse quantum dots., Sirshendu Ghosh, Manas Saha, Vishal Dev Ashok, Arijit Chatterjee and S K De, Nanotechnology, 2016, 27, 155708
• Enhanced photophysical properties of plasmonic magnetic metal-alloyed semiconductor heterostructure nanocrystals: a case study for the Ag@ Ni/Zn1− xMgxO system., Sumana Paul, Sirshendu Ghosh, Manas Saha and S. K. De. (Corresponding author), Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 13092-13107
• Tunable Surface Plasmon Resonance in Sn-Doped Zn-Cd-O Alloyed Nanocrystals., Sirshendu Ghosh, Manas Saha, Vishal Dev Ashok, Biswajit Dalal, and S. K. De, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119, 2, 1180-1187
• Maximizing the photo catalytic and photo response properties of multimodal plasmonic Ag/WO3− x heterostructure nanorods by variation of the Ag size., Sirshendu Ghosh, (Corresponding author)., Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 18284-18298
• Fabrication of tungsten nanocrystals and silver-tungsten nanonets: a potent reductive catalyst., Sirshendu Ghosh, Saikat Khamarui, Manas Saha and S. K. De, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 38971-38976
• Tunable surface plasmon resonance and enhanced electrical conductivity of In doped ZnO colloidal nanocrystals., Sirshendu Ghosh, Manas Saha and S. K. De, Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 7039-7051
• Bright white light emitting Eu and Tb co-doped monodisperse In2O3 nanocrystals., Sirshendu Ghosh, Kajari Das, Godhuli Sinha, J. Lahtinen and S. K. De, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1, 5557-5566
• Template free synthesis of SnO2 nanoflower arrays on Sn foil., Sirshendu Ghosh, Kajari Das, Kaushik Chakraborty and S. K. De, CrystEngComm, 2012, 14, 929-935
• Effect of oleic acid ligand on photophysical, photoconductive and magnetic properties of monodisperse SnO2 quantum dots., Sirshendu Ghosh, Kajari Das, Kaushik Chakrabarti and S. K. De, Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 3434-3446

• Prof. Maya Bar Sadan, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel, barsadan@bgu.ac.il
• Prof. Dilip Kumar Maity, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta, India, dkmchem@caluniv.ac.in
• Prof. Subodh Kumar De, Professor, School of Materials Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India, msskd@iacs.res.in
• Prof. Menny Shalom, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel, mennysh@bgu.ac.il