ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
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Ph.D (IIT Guwahati, Kamrup, Assam-781039, India)
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M.Sc. (IIT Guwahati, Kamrup, Assam-781039, India)
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B.Sc. (Suri Vidyasagar College, under The University of Burdwan, West Bengal)
AREA OF RESEARCH
Physical and Materials Chemistry: Quantum Dots, Surface Chemistry, Optoelectronics, Energy Conversion, Sensors.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
23-Nov-2023 – Till date Assistant Professor; Kandi Raj College, Murshidabad, WB, India.
Aug 2023 – Nov 2023 SERB Research Scientist (SRS); University of North Bengal, WB, India.
Aug 2020 – Aug 2023 DST-Inspire Faculty; University of North Bengal, WB, India.
Aug 2019 – Jul 2020 DST-Inspire Faculty; IIT Gandhinagar, Gujrat, India.
Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 Assistant Professor (DST-Inspire Faculty); CNMS, Bangalore, India.
2017 – 2018 Research Scientist; IIT Guwahati, Assam, India.
2016 – 2017 Postdoctoral Researcher; Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
2015 - 2016 Post-PhD Senior Research Fellow; IIT Guwahati, Assam, India.
Fellowships/Awards/Recognition
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SERB-Research Scientist Award-2023 by Science & Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India.
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Highlights of Dr. Bhandari’s Independent Research Works (2021) by Ministry of Science & Technology Press, DST Website, DD News and India Education.
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Outstanding Reviewer Award-2021 (2020; RSC Advances) by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award-2018 (July-2017 session; Chemical Science) by DST, Govt. of India.
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MRSI-Young Scientist Award-2015 by Materials Research Society of Indiaat CGCRI, Kolkata, India.
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RSC Best Poster Award-2023 in 3rd EDCS-23 at University of Kalyani, WB, India.
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Best Poster Award-2023 in 3rd RIC-23 at IIT Guwahati, Assam, India.
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Best Paper Award-2023 in ISFC-2023 at University of North Bengal, WB, India.
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Best Poster Award-2017 in 3rd Chem-Convene at IIT Guwahati, India.
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Best Poster Award-2015 in 6th MRS Trilateral symposium at INST Mohali, India.
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Best Poster Award-2015 in 4th ICANN at IIT Guwahati, India.
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Best Poster Award-2014 in NanoSci (SciFinder) at IASST Guwahati, India.
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Best Paper Award-2014 in 5th ISMC at BARC, Mumbai, India.
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Senior Research Fellowship (SRF)-2012 grant awarded by CSIR, Govt. of India.
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Junior Research Fellowship(JRF)-2010 grant awarded by CSIR, Govt. of India
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Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2010), All India Rank-165
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Qualified CSIR-NET (2009-Dec), All India Rank- 7 (Among the one of the shortlisted candidate for final round interview of prestigious SPM fellowship”).
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Institute Merit-cum-Means (McM-2009) Scholarships by IIT Guwahati, India.
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Qualified Joint Admission Test to MSc (JAM-2008) to IITs, All India Rank-154
PUBLICATIONS
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Singha, S.; Manna; M.; Das, P.; Pramanik, S.; Bhandari, S.;* Surfactant-mediated Enhanced FRET from Quantum-dot Complex for Ratiometric Sensing of Food Colorants. Chem. Commun.2023, 59, 12653-12656. (I.F. – 6.065)
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Manna, M.; Debnath, T.; Bhandari, S.* Chemical Coupling of Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals with a Metal Quinolate Complex for White Light Generation.Chem. Commun.2023, 59, 1469-1472. (I.F. – 6.065)
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Manna, M.; Pal, S.; Goswami, T.; Bhandari, S.;* Debnath, T.Halide Driven Halogen-Hydrogen Bonding versus Chelation in Perovskite Nanocrystals: A Concept of Charge Transfer Bridging.J. Phys. Chem. Lett.2023, 14, 354-362.(I.F. – 6.888)
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Diyali, S.; Manna, M.; Mahato, S.; Kumar, V.; Choudhury, A. R.; Biswas, B.; Bhandari, S.;*Hybrid Lead Bromide Perovskite Single Crystals Coupled with a Zinc (II) Complex for White Light Emission.J. Phys. Chem. Lett.2022, 13, 10759-10766. (I.F. – 6.888)
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Manna; M.; Pramanik, S.; Bhandari, S.;*Surface Modification of Dual-Emitting Quantum Dot Complex by Ionic Liquid for Bright and Stable White-Light Emission.ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2022, 5, 8, 11906-11911. (I.F. – 6.140)
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Manna, M.; Bhandari, S.*; Chattopadhyay, A. Recognition and Ratiometric Visual Sensing of Long Chain Unsaturated Fatty Acids by White Light Emitting-Quantum Dot Complex. J. Mater. Chem. C 2021, 9, 13810-13817. (IF –8.067)
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Pramanik, S.; Manna, M.; Hudait, B.; Roy, S.; Bhandari, S.* Physical Insights into Facilitation of an Unprecedented Complexation Reaction on the Surface of a Doped Quantum Dot Leading to White Light Generation.Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2021, 23, 9860-9866. (I.F. – 3.945)
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Manna, M.; Roy, S.; Bhandari, S.*; Chattopadhyay, A. Ratiometric and Visual Sensing of Inorganic Phosphate by White Light Emitting Quantum Dot Complex. Langmuir 2021, 37, 5506-5512.(I.F. –4.331)
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Pramanik, S.; Roy, S.; Bhandari, S.* The Quantum Dot-FRET-based Detection of Vitamin B12 at a Picomolar Level.Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 3809-3814. (I.F. – 5.598; Most Popular Article for 2020)
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Manna, M.; Roy, S.; Bhandari, S.;* Chattopadhyay, A. Dual Emitting Quantum Dot Complex Nanoprobe for Ratiometric and Visual Detection of Hg2+ and Cu2+ ions.J. Mater. Chem. C 2020, 8, 6972-6976. (IF –8.067)
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Pramanik, S.; Roy, S.; Bhandari, S.* Luminescence Enhancement based Sensing of L-Cysteine by Doped Quantum Dot.Chem. Asian J. 2020, 15, 1948-1952. (I.F. –4.839)
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Shet, S. M.; Bisht, M.; Pramanik, S.; Roy, S.; Kumar, S. ; Nataraj, S. K.; Mondal, D.; Bhandari, S.;* Engineering Quantum Dots with Bio-Ionic Liquid: A Highly Stable White Light Emitting Microgel Container for Protein Packaging. Adv. Opt. Mater. 2020, 1902022.(I.F. –10.050)
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Roy, S.; Pramanik, S.; Mondal, P.; Manna, M.; Bhandari, S.* Hue and Chromaticity based Exploring of Surface Complexation Induced Tunable Emission from a Non-luminescent Quantum Dot.Chem. Asian J. 2019, 14, 3823-3829. (I.F. –4.839)
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Pramanik, S.; Roy, S.; Mondal, A.; Bhandari, S.* Two Target Responsive Reversible Ratiometric pH Nanoprobe: A White Light Emitting Quantum Dot Complex.Chem. Commun.2019, 55, 4331-4334. (I.F. – 6.065)
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Bhandari, S.;*Pramanik, S.; Biswas, N.; Roy, S.; Pan, U. Enhanced Luminescence of Quantum Dot Complex Following Interaction with Protein for Applications in Cellular Imaging, Sensing and White Light Generation.ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2019, 2, 2358-2366. (I.F. – 6.140)
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Bhandari, S.;*Mondal, D.; Nataraj, S. K.; Balakrishna, G.; Biomolecules Derived Quantum Dots for Sustainable Optoelectronics. Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 913-936. (I.F. – 5.598; Top Most Popular Article for 2019)
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Shukla, A. K.;†Bhandari, S.;† and Dey, K. K.Dynamics of a Bi-functional Motor under Crowded Conditions. Mater. Today Commun. 2021, 28, 102504. (†These authors contributed equally) (I.F. – 3.662)
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Bhandari, S.; Roy, S.; Pramanik, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Chemical Reactions Involving the Surface of Metal Chalcogenide Quantum Dots. Langmuir 2019, 35, 45, 14399-14413. (Journal Front Cover)(I.F. –4.331)
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Bhandari, S.; Pramanik, S.; Khandelia, R.; Chattopadhyay, A. Gold Nanocluster and Quantum Dot Complex in Protein for Bio-friendly White Light Emitting Material. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2016,8, 1600–1605. (I.F. – 10.383)
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Bhandari, S.; Khandelia, R.; Pan, U. N.; Chattopadhyay, A. Surface Complexation Based Biocompatible Magentofluorescent Nanoprobe for Targeted Cellular Imaging. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2015, 7, 17552–17557. (I.F. – 10.383)
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Bhandari, S.; Roy, S.; Pramanik, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Double Channel Emission from a Redox Active Single Component Quantum Dot Complex.Langmuir2015, 31, 551–561. (I.F. –4.331)
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Bhandari, S.; Roy, S.; Pramanik, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Surface Complexation Reaction for Phase Transfer of Hydrophobic Quantum Dot from Nonpolar to Polar Medium. Langmuir2014, 30, 10760–10765. (I.F. –4.331)
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Bhandari, S.; Roy, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Enhanced Photoluminescence and Thermal Stability of Zinc Quinolate Following Complexation on the Surface of Quantum Dot. RSC Adv.2014, 4, 24217–242211. (I.F. - 4.036)
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Bhandari, S.; Begum, R.; Chattopadhyay, A. Surface Ion Engineering for Tuning Dual Emission of ZnxCd1–xS Nanocrystals.RSC Adv.2013, 3, 2885–2888. (I.F. - 4.036)
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Roy, S.; Bhandari, S.; Manna, M.; De, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. The Nature of the Binding Chemistry of Quinolate Complexes on the Surface of ZnS Quantum Dots. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2019,21, 589-596.(I.F. – 3.945)
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Basu, S.; Bhandari, S.; Pan, U. N.; Paul, A.; Chattopadhyay, A. Crystalline Nanoscale Assembly of Gold Clusters for Reversible Storage and Sensing of CO2 via Modulation of Photoluminescence Intermittency. J. Mater. Chem. C 2018, 6, 8205--8211. (IF –8.067)
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Pramanik, S.; Bhandari, S.; Pan, U. N.; Roy, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. A White Light Emitting Quantum Dot Complex for Single Particle Level Interaction with Dopamine Leading to Changes in Color and Blinking Profile.Small 2018, 14, 1800323. (I.F. – 15.153)
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Roy, S.; Pramanik, S.; Bhandari, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Surface Complexed ZnO Quantum Dot for White Light Emission with Controllable Chromaticity and Color Temperature.Langmuir 2017, 33, 14627–14633. (I.F. –4.331)
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Pramanik, S.; Bhandari, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Zinc Quinolate Complexes Decorated CuInS2/ZnS Core/Shell Quantum Dot for White Light Emission. J. Mater. Chem. C2017, 5, 7291-7296. (IF –8.067)
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Roy, S.; Bhandari, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Quantum Dot Surface mediated Unprecedented Reaction of Zn2+ and Copper Quinolate Complex.J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 21191–21197. (I.F. – 4.177)
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Khandelia, R.; Bhandari, S.; Pan, U. N.; Ghosh, S. S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Gold Nanocluster Embedded Albumin Nanoparticles for Two-Photon Imaging of Cancer Cells Accompanying Drug Delivery. Small2015, 11, 4075–4081. (Frontispiece Cover of Small) (I.F. – 15.153)
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Pramanik, S.; Bhandari, S.; Roy, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Synchronous Tricolor Emission-Based White Light from Quantum Dot Complex.J. Phys. Chem. Lett.2015, 6, 1270–1274.(C&E News and ACS Live Slides presentation)(I.F. – 6.888)
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Dey, K. K.; Bhandari, S.; Bandyopadhyay, D.; Basu, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. The pH Taxis of an Intelligent Catalytic Microbot. Small2013, 9, 1916–1920. (I.F. – 15.153)
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Begum, R.; Bhandari, S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Surface Ion Engineering of Mn2+-Doped ZnS Quantum Dots Using Ion-Exchange Resins. Langmuir2012, 28, 9722–9728. (I.F. –4.331)
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Pramanik, S.; Bhandari, S.Surface Modified Quantum Dot for Advanced Sensing Applications. (Invited Book Chapter-9Sensing and Biosensing with Optically Active Nanomaterials, Micro and Nano Technologies2022, Pages 243-282, Elsevier)
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