July 24, 2012. Holl 202 in Lu-Jiaxi Building.

Seminar Title: Role of organic-inorganic nanocomposites and bio-nano-conjugates in materials sciences and biotechnology

Prof. Tapan Ganguly  （Dept. of Phys., Bengal Eng. & Sci. Univ, Shibpur (BESUS), India.   Formerly, Senior Professor and Ex-Chair, Department of Spectroscopy.   Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India)

Biography of Professor Dr Tapan Ganguly, MSc, PhD, FAScT

Visiting Professor 

    Presently Prof Ganguly is the visiting professor of the department of Physics of Bengal Engineering and Science University, India.  Formerly, he was the senior Professor of the department of Spectroscopy, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta (a well-known research institute and the oldest institute in India where Prof C V Raman discovered his celebrated effect-Raman Effect).  His current research interests are on the development of artificial light energy conversion devices, organic-inorganic nanocomposites, nano-pico-femto laser dynamics, protein-nanoparticles interactions, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), bionanosensors etc.  He was elected as fellow of West Bengal Academy of Sciences and Technology (FAScT) for his outstanding contributions in photochemistry and photophysics.  He is the recipient of many international awards including JSPS (senior-short term), Indo-USA Science and Tchnology forum, visiting research scholar award of the University of Melbourne, Australia, Stint fellowship, Sweden, Royal Soc award for UK-India Science network scheme and others.  In 2009 he visited Caltech, USA to work in collaboration with Prof Harry Gray in the project ”Powering the Planet” funded by NSF to fight against energy crisis.  Thirteen students have been awarded PhD degree under his active supervision.  He has 131 publications in the different international journals of high impact factors and 4 articles in books.

Role of organic-inorganic nanocomposites and bio-nano-conjugates in materials sciences and biotechnology

Dept. of Phys., Bengal Eng. & Sci. Univ, Shibpur (BESUS), India

Formerly, Senior Professor and Ex-Chair, Department of Spectroscopy

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India 

Abstract

 Nanomaterials are at the leading edge of the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology.  In contemporary materials research organic-inorganic nanocomposite systems are gradually becoming a highly exciting area.  This type of research possesses strong technological relevance eg., for constructing of molecular photovoltaic cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, light emitting diodes etc.  In our approach we tried to construct novel hybrid nanocomposites with organic short-chain dyad and noble metals, core/shell of noble metal-semiconductor systems which appear to possess high technological applications. Apart from the novel nanomaterials developments, our research group is also involved to design several bionanoconjugates which have strong biomedical applications related to drug and bionanosensors.