Chemist

Basudeb Chakraborty Department of Chemistry

R-*** Chemistry Building

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Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI - 48824

Education

Michigan State University, Michigan, USA

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Masters in Inorganic Chemistry Fall 2011 - Spring 2014

– Thesis: Synthesis, Characterization and study of the Electronic and Optical Properties of

Indium Nitride Nanocrystals

– Current GPA: 3.51

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

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Project Associate 2010 - 2011

– Research Topic: Synthesis, characterization and study of the photocatalytic activity of nanomaterials.

Indian School of Mines Dhanbad, India

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M.Sc in Chemistry 2008-2010

– Syntheis of silica sulfated zirconia binary oxide with improved acidic and textural properties

– Preparation and Characterization of Clay Hybrid Fiber material

– GPA: 3.43

St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India

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B.Sc in Chemistry, 2005-2008

Research Experiences

Graduate Student in Dr. Remi Beaulac’s Group Michigan, USA

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Dept. of Chemistry, Michigan State University Fall 2011 - Present

– Synthesis of III-V colloidal quantum dots from organo-metallic precursors

– Controlling the size and shape of these nanomaterials and studying their optical properties

using Near-Infrared Absorbance, Luminescence and Lifetime Decay measurements

– Characterizing the nanoparticles through X-ray diffraction, Transmission electron microscopy

(TEM), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Inductively-coupled plasma atomic emission

spectroscopy (ICP-AES), Fourier Transform Infrared Resonance (FTIR), Raman Spectroscopy,

Atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Scanning tunnelling microscopy

(STM) and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)

– Investigating the mechanism of the reaction pathway for these nanomaterial synthesis through

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and FTIR

Graduate Student, Dhanbad, India

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Dept. of Chemistry, Indian School of Mines 2008 - 2010

– Synthesis of silica sulfated zirconia binary oxide with improved acidic and textural properties

and Preparation and Characterization of Clay Hybrid Fiber material

• Research Intern, Haldia Petrochemicals (Chemical Industry), India. (Jan 2011-July 2011)

Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (Dept. of Chemistry, April 2010 - Jan 2011)

– Synthesis, characterization and modification of nanomaterials.

Summer Research Trainee, Dept. of Molecular biology, SINP, India May 2009 - July 2009

– Cloning, purification and expression of Fis (DNA binding Protein) in V. coli

Publications

• Chakraborty, B.; Beaulac, R. “Colloidal InN Quantum Dots: Synthesis and Characterization”

(To be submitted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.)

• Chakraborty, B.; Dutta, P.; Nandi, S. K. “Synthesis of silica sulphated zirconia binary oxide with

improved acidic and textural properties” Materials Science: An Indian Journal (2013), 9(4), 144 -153

• Chakraborty, B., “Effect of Nano Particles on Electrical Conductivity and Viscosity Subject to a

Cyclic Temperature Pattern”, Nano Science and Nano Technology (ISSN 0974-7494); Volume 4,

Issue 1, 2010

• Chakraborty, B., “Synthesis, Characterisation Of Sulphated Zirconia and Application as So lid

Acid Catalyst for Industrially Important Organic Reaction”, Material Science; (ISSN 0974 -7486);

Volume 6, Issue 3, 2010

• Paper on “Effect of Ester Linker in Cationic Surfactant on DNA Compaction” published in

Proceeding of Bio-Nano Frontier (“National conference On Advancement In Nano-Science For

Different Technologies”) February, 2010. (ISSN 0974-0678)

• Paper on “Magnetic Nanoparticle LSMO” (BPP-127) published in proceeding of ‘NATCON

NAMTECH 2009’ (ISBN 978-93-80043-61-6) (Lucknow Univ.)

• Paper on “ZnO nanocomposite and its textual properties” published in proceedings of International

conference of Nanotechnology ‘ICONN-2010’ (SRM Univ., Chennai)

• Chakraborty, B.; Chodhry, T. “Thermal Stability of Clay Hybrid Materials” published in

proceedings of ‘THERMANS 2010’ organized by ‘BARC, Mumbai’ (DAE-BRNS)

Conference Presentations

• Poster Presentation on “Synthesis and properties of size tunable indium nitride nanoparticles”, in

246th ACS National Meeting and Exposition held at Indianapolis, IN, September 8-12, 2013,

(INOR-645)

• Attended National Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology ‘NATCON NAMTECH 2009’

at Lucknow Univ. and presented poster on “Magnetic Nanoparticle LSMO”

• Attended National Symposium on ‘Recent Trends in Biophysics’ at BHU and presented poster on

“Rational drug design based on 3-D structure of proteins”.

• Oral presentation on “DSC studies of a clay hybrid” in National Symposium on Thermal Analysis

(DAE BRNS sponsored, organized by BARC),2010

• Presented poster on Characterization of ZnO nanocomposite in International Conference on

nanotechnology, ICONN 2010 at SRM University, Chennai

• Poster presentation on “Effect of Nano Particles onelectrical conductivity and viscosity” in

International Conference on nanotechnology, ‘ICANN 2009’ at IIT Guwahati

• Oral presentation on “Magnetic Nanoparticle and their applications” in ‘National Symposium on

Photonics and Materials - 2010’ at ISMU, Dhanbad

• Poster Presentation in 246th ACS National Meeting and Exposition held at Indianapolis, IN

(INOR-645)

• Poster Presentation in 15th Annual Chemistry Graduate research symposium, Sept 2013, Wayne

State University

• Oral Presentation in APS Meeting held in March 2014 at Denver, Colorado

Teaching Experiences

Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University

• CEM 141, 142 & 161: General Chemistry Recitations and Lab

• CEM 143: Survey of Organic Chemistry (Lab & Recitation)

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