Avijit Chowdhury
Associate Professor







avijitc@bose.res.in
www.bose.res.in
Telephone +91-33-2335 5706/07/08 (extn: 271)

 

 

Educational Background:

  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.): 2003 - 2006 Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

  • Master of Science (M.Sc.): 2006 - 2008 - Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Science: 2008 - 2013, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) (Degree Awarded by Jadavpur University), Kolkata, India.

Professional Background:

  • Assistant Professor (2013 to 2018), Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam

  • Assistant Professor Grade I (2018-2021), NIT Silchar, Assam

  • Assistant Professor (2021-2024), SNBNCBS, Kolkata

  • Associate Professor (2024 to present), SNBNCBS, Kolkata

Main area of Research :

 

Selected Awards & Achievements:

  • Associates of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (2025)
  • Best Reviewer Award (Nanotechnology, Flexible and Printable Electronics)

Student Supervision:

  • MSc/IPhD Supervision: 13
  • Summer Projects: 06
  • PhD (Completed: 04; Ongoing: 05)
  • Post Doctoral (Completed: 02; Ongoing: 01)

Research Grants:

  • Development and testing of broadband optoelectronic synaptic devices employing ferroelectric/ photoelectric 2D material hybrid systems. PI, Rs. 22 Lakh, 2023-2026, CRG, SERB, DST.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Significant recent publications:

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  • M Biswas, D Bhattacharya, R Mondal, R Bhunia, A Garg, A Chowdhury*, Surface Engineered MoS2-based Novel Vertical Triboelectric Nanogenerator (V-TENG) for Wireless Information Processing, Small (2025) (DOI:10.1002/smll.202410608).
  • S Das, S Paramanik, RG Nair,A Chowdhury*, Mesoporous NiFe2O4@g-C3N4-Based p-n Heterostructures for Boosting Solar-Driven Photocatalytic Dye Degradation and Hydrogen Evolution, Chem Asian Journal 2025, e202401402
  • S Das, S Pramanik, R G Nair, Avijit Chowdhury*, Heterointerface engineering in mesoporous g-C3N4@MnFe2O4 photocatalysts for superior hydrogen (H2) evolution, Surfaces and Interfaces, 2024, 54,105226.
  • D Bhattacharya, S Mukherjee, A Chowdhury, S K Ray, Novel TMDC/Si Heterojunction Based Direct Current UV Sensitive Tribovoltaic Nanogenerator and Visual-Image Sensors, Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 34, 2403705.
  • S Das, S Paramanik, RG Nair, A Chowdhury*, Rational Design of Mesoporous ZnFe2O4@g-C3N4 Heterojunctions for Environmental Remediation and Hydrogen Evolution, Chemistry European Journal, 2024, 30, e202402512.
  • R Jana, S Ghosh, R Bhunia, A Chowdhury*, Recent developments in the state-of-the-art optoelectronic synaptic devices based on 2D materials: a review, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12, 5299.
  • S Das, S Pramanik, RG Nair,A Chowdhury, Unlocking the potential of thermally exfoliated ultrathin gC3N4 nanosheets: abundant active sites for enhanced solar photocatalysis, New J. Chem., 2023, 47, 12418
  • S Das, S Das, R G Nair, A Chowdhury*, Magnetically separable ZnFe2O4 grafted g-C3N4/rGO ternary nanocomposites for enhanced photo-Fenton catalytic activity under visible light, Materials Today Sustainability 2023, 21, 100263.
  • S Das, T Deka, P Ningthoukhangjam, A Chowdhury*, R G Nair*, A critical review on prospects and challenges of metal-oxide embedded g-C3N4-based direct Z-scheme photocatalysts for water splitting and environmental remediation, Applied Surface Science Advances 2022, 11, 100273.
  • S Das and A Chowdhury*, Recent advancements of g-C3N4 -based magnetic photocatalysts towards the degradation of organic pollutants: a review, Nanotechnology 33 (2022) 072004
  • D Chakraborty, M Devi, B Das, M H Barbhuiya, S S Dhar *, Avijit Chowdhury, A benevolent direction to environmental suitability: ionic liquid immobilized MoO3 nanoparticles used in the efficient visible lightdriven photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics, New Journal of Chemistry 2021, 45, 12922.
  • KK Gogoi, S Das, S Maiti, A Chowdhury*, Semiconductor-Grafted Polymer-Embedded Reduced Graphene-Oxide Nanohybrid for Power-Efficient Nonvolatile Resistive Memory Applications, ACS Applied Nano Materials 2020, 3 (11), 11562-11573.
  • KK Gogoi, A Chowdhury*, Performance improvement of organic resistive memories by exploiting synergistic layered nanohybrid dispersed polymer composites, Journal of Applied Physics, 2020, 127 (6), 065501.
  • KK Gogoi, A Chowdhury*, Performance Enhancement of Solution-Processed Organic Memories by Exploiting Synergistic Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Composites, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2020, 124 (1), 1108-1120.
  • KK Gogoi, A Chowdhury*, Electric field-induced tunable memristive characteristics of exfoliated graphene oxide embedded polymer nanocomposites, Journal of Applied Physics, 2019, 126 (2), 025501-11.
 
 
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