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Ms. Shyamal Shegokar, PhD Scholar under the supervision of Prof. Chandra, wins the Young Scientist Award during the 16th NCSSI conference at IIT Bhillai. | Prof. Chandra takes charge as Co-Chairman, Central Research Facility (CRF), IIT Kharagpur | Society of Materials Chemistry "Silver Medal" (2023) to Prof. Amreesh Chandra for contribution in the field of materials science. | Prof. Amreesh Chandra elected as a ''Fellow'' of the Royal Society of Chemistry. |

Responsibilities

  • Co-Chairperson, CRF (Material Science Division)

Research Areas

  • Hiearchical Nanostructures for Devices
  • 3D printing of energy devices
  • Sodium ion batteries and supercapacitors
  • Carbon footprint of Energy Devices
  • Alternate Chemistry Cells and Batteries
My team focuses on tuning nanostructures for energy applications ranging from storage to catalysis. It is now clear that hierarchical structures are essential to bring step change in devices for use in applications mentioned earlier. My team has been working on the establishing protocols for the stabilization of hollow nanostructures. Such structures, with pronounced surface area, can even be formed at room temperature, which make them industrially viable. The hollow structures have been showing far superior catalytic, storage or even electro-magnetic shielding response, when compared with their solid counter parts. 
The research group is fully equipped to carry out the research with funding available from DST (India), MPG (Germany), UKIERI (UK), BRNS (India), SRIC (IIT Kharagpur), etc.
  • Need for revisiting the use of magnetic oxides as electrode materials in supercapacitors- Unequivocal evidences of significant variation in specific capacitance under variable magnetic field by Sharma V., Biswas S. , Chandra A. Advanced Energy Materials 1800573-18005785 (2018)
  • Pseudo 2-dimensional nanostructures of metal oxides for high-performance supercapacitors by Mandal D., Biswas S. , Chowdhury A. , Chandra A. Materials Advances 3 5987-5999 (2022)
  • Time Dependent Exfoliation Study of MoS2 for its use as Cathode Material in High Performing Hybrid Supercapacitors by Priya S., Mandal D. , Chowdhury A. , Kansal S. , Chandra A. Nanoscale Advances 1-10 (2023)
  • Metal Organic Framework for Aluminum based Energy Storage Devices: Utilizing Redox Additives for Significant Performance Enhancement by De P., Priya S. , Halder J. , Srivastava A. K., Chandra A. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 16 26299-26315 (2024)
  • Marigold-like MoS2@MOF-Derived N-Doped Carbon as a Stable and High-Capacity Anode Material for Sodium-Ion Batteries by Priya S., Ravindran R., De P., Mandal D., Mahato S., Kansal S., Chandra A. ACS Applied Energy Materials 7 594-603 (2024)
  • Bricks of Co, Ni doped Fe3O4 as high performing pseudocapacitor electrode by Halder J., De P. , Mandal D. , Chandra A. Journal of Energy Storage 58 106391-106399 (2023)
  • Stable Na-ion supercapacitor under non-ambient conditions using NaMnPO4 nanoparticles by Chowdhury A., Biswas S. , Dhar A. , Burada P. S., Chandra A. Journal of Power Sources 516 230679- (2021)
  • External vibrations can destroy the specific capacitance of supercapacitors From experimental proof to theoretical explanations by Biswas S., Sharma V. , Singh T. , Chandra A. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 9 6460-6468 (2021)

Principal Investigator

  • Battery regeneration and carbon footprint generation BATTERY LIFE 2
  • Characterization of Materials and Energy Devices Various internal users of the Institute
  • Characterization of Materials and Energy Devices (external) Various Government and Non-Government Organisations
  • Designing, Development and Distribution of Na-ion Cells UNEVERSE MOBILITY PRIVATE LIMITED
  • Health monitoring of EVs Integration of AI enabled chipsets and smart BMS for ensuring high safety, longevity and charging cycles IIT KHARAGPUR AI4ICPS I HUB FOUNDATION
  • State of Art Battery Testing Tata Power Delhi Distribution- Tata Power DDL

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Centre of Excellence on Energy Aware Urban Infrastructure Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

Ph. D. Students

Anjan Dutta

Area of Research: Nanomaterials for Battery Storage Systems

Dipanwita Mondal

Area of Research: Nanomaterials for Batteries

Lalit Bharti

Area of Research: Energy Storage Devices

Mrittika Paul

Area of Research: All Inorganic Perovskite solar cell

Rahul R

Area of Research: Smart Nanomaterials for Energy Devices

Satvik Anshu

Area of Research: Hybrid Energy Systems

Shyamal Gopal Shegokar

Area of Research: Energy Storage Materials and Devices

Silpa C S

Area of Research: Aluminium ion batteries and materials

Suman Shit

Area of Research: Na-ion and dual ion batteries