Chemistry

Dr. Sourav Chakraborty

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

  • Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Material science
  • Host-guest Chemistry
  • Polyoxometalates
  • Catalysis
  • Surface chemistry
  • Energy storage

Education

  • Ph. D, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata (2016)
  • M. Sc, Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata (2010)
  • B. Sc, R. K. Mission Residential College Narendrapur, Kolkata, West Bengal (2008)

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor (Sep 2021 - Till Date), Dept. of Chemistry, IIT Tirupati
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, New York, USA (Feb 2020 – August 2021).
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (July 2016 – July 2019).

Latest Publications

  • Modelling local structural and electronic consequences of proton and hydrogen-atom uptake in VO 2 with polyoxovanadate clusters S. Chakraborty, E. Schreiber, K. R. Sanchez-Lievanos, M. Tariq, W. W. Brennessel, K. E. Knowles and E.M. Matson Chem. Sci., 2021, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SC02809J
  • Atomically precise vanadium-oxide clusters S. Chakraborty, B. E. Petel, E. Schreiber and E. M. Matson Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 1293.
  • Reductive silylation of polyoxovanadate surfaces using Mashima's reagent S. Chakraborty and E. M. Matson Inorg. Chem. Front., 2021, 8, 4507-4516
  • Ligand-Regulated Uptake of Dipolar-Aromatic Guests by Hydrophobically-Assembled Suprasphere Hosts S. Chakraborty, C. K. Tiwari, Y. Wang, G. Gan-Or, E. Gadot and I. A. Weinstock J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 14078.
  • Alcohols as Latent Hydrophobes: Entropically Driven Uptake of 1,2-Diol Functionalized Ligands by a Porous Capsule in Water S. Chakraborty, A. S. Grego, S. Garai, M. Baranov, A. Müller and I. A. Weinstock J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 9170.
  • Aryl Platform Based Tetrapodal 2-iodo-imidazolium as an Excellent Halogen Bond Receptor in Aqueous Medium S. Chakraborty, S. Maji, R. Ghosh, R. Jana, A. Datta and P. Ghosh Chem. Commun, 2019, 55, 1506.

9330571488
sourav@iittp.ac.in
Personal WebPage
Copyright ©2022 Department of Chemistry - IIT Tirupati. All Rights Reserved