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Dr. Sujoy Sarkar

Assistant Professor

Email: sujoy.sarkar@vit.ac.in

Employee ID 51941
Salutation (Prof./ Dr.) Dr.
Name Sujoy Sarkar
Designation Assistant Professor Senior Grade 2
School/Centre School of Advanced Sciences/Chemistry Division
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Educational details (Please mention all the degrees with latest first)
Degree Passed out year Specialization Institute/University/ College
PhD 2015 Materials Electrochemistry Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
M.Sc. 2008 Physical Chemistry Visva-Bharati (Central University)
B.Sc. 2006 Chemistry Visva-Bharati (Central University)
Post-Doctoral Experience if any 1. Queens College, City University of New York, USA

2. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Research Details
Areas of Specialization Materials Science, Electrochemical Energy conversion and storage (Li/Na Battery, Supercapacitor, Fuel cells), Nanoelectrochemistry, Sensors
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7838-0005
Scopus ID https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57193852851
H-index (scopus) 12
Google Scholar ID https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K469vcoAAAAJ&hl=en
i10 index 13
Ongoing Funded Project Details              
Ongoing Funded Project Title Funding Agency
Study of the electrocatalytic behavior of bimetallic mxenes for next generation energy fuels VIT SEED grant
Book / Book Chapter Published Details
Title Publisher Year
Phthalocyanines: A Class of Organic

Photoconductive Materials (Chapter 21)

Wiley, Chichester 2022
Publications
1.Bera A, Sarkar S, Banik A, Ghosh P, Das B. Unveiling Binding Behavior of Naringenin with Functionalized Graphene: Insights from Spectroscopic and Computational Analyses. ChemistrySelect. 2025 Sep;10(35):e02625.

2.Agrahari VK, Bhuin A, Yadav A, Sarkar S, Sadhu S, Pandey DS. Efficacy of Methylammonium Iodobismuthate: A Green Catalyst for Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia. Inorganic Chemistry. 2025 Jul 3. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c02618

3. Abhik Bhuin, Akhilesh Kumar Yadav, Utkarsh Pandey, Debdyuti Mukherjee, Vivek Kumar Agrahari, Caroline Ponraj, Subha Sadhu, Bhola Nath Pal and Sujoy Sarkar, “Fabrication of a solution-processed low voltage TFT by using colloid 2D ZnO nanosheets and its application as a UV photodetector”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2025,13, 8763-8775

4. Sujoy Sarkar, “Two-dimensional PdPS: A multifunctional electrocatalyst towards HER, ORR, and supercapacitor applications” Catalysis Today, Volume 445, 2025, 115073, ISSN 0920-5861, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2024.115073.

5. Harini U, Caroline Ponraj, Sujoy Sarkar, “Exploring the battery-like pseudocapacitive behavior of bismuth ferrite-N doped rGO composites”, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Volume 207, 2025, 112905, ISSN 0022-3697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2025.112905.

6. Agrahari, Vivek Kumar, Bhuin, Abhik, Yadav, Ankur, Sarkar, Sujoy, Sadhu, Subha, Pandey, Daya Shankar, “Efficacy of Methylammonium Iodobismuthate: A Green Catalyst for Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia”, doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c02618

7. Mandira Ghosh, Shyamapada Nandi, Sujoy Sarkar, “Photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 to value-added chemicals using 2D nanomaterials”, Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, Volume 166, 2025, 101029, ISSN 0927-796X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mser.2025.101029.

Awards & Recognition Details (only national and international awards and recognitions)
Name of the award, awarding agency, year of award
1. Prof. S.R. Palit Memorial Award , Indian Chemical Society, 2018
2. Junior Research Fellow (JRF), CSIR, India, 2009 (June/December)
Major International Collaboration Details  – Academic Collaboration Details
Type of collaboration (Research & publication/Funded Project/consultancy etc.), collaborating institute, year of collaboration
1. VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic (Research & publication)

2. Chungnam National University, South Korea (Research & publication)

3. Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka (Research & publication)

4. University of Johannesburg, South Africa (Research & publication)

Other Details
Editorial Experience (if any) 1. Editorial board member for “International Journal of Materials Science and Applications.”

2. Review Editor in “Frontier in Chemistry- Electrochemistry”

 

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