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Himanshu Chakraborty
Country of origin: India Currently in: United States, Philadelphia General field of specialization: Physics-
Degrees
2015 Doctorate Physics2007 Master Physics2005 Undergraduate Physics -
Current Research Activities
Physics
Computational design of functional layered materials (graphene, BN, BCN and MoS2 etc.) for electro and photo-catalysts for clean energy applications such as hydrogen gas evolution. Modeling of ground and excited charge transfer states and light induced material expansion in fullerene based complexes (C60-DBTTF) for sensing, magnetic energy generation and photoactuators applications.
Publications resulting from Research:
Deepak Kumar Rai, Himanshu Chakraborty and Alok Shukla, “Tunable Optoelectronic of Triply Bonded
Carbon Molecules with Linear and Graphyne Substructures” . J. Phys. Chem. C (2018), 122 (2), 13091317
Nuwan H. Attanayake, Akila C. Thenuwara, Abhirup Patra, Yaroslav V. Aulin, M. Tran, Himanshu
Chakraborty, Eric Borguet, Michael L. Klein, John P. and Daniel R. Strongin, “Effect of Intercalated Metals
on the Electrocatalytic of 1T-MoS2 for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction” ACS Energy Lett (2018), 3, 713
Beibei Xu, Himanshu Chakraborty, Vivek K. Yadav, Zhuolei Zhang, Michael . Klein and Shenqiang Ren,
“Tunable two-dimensional interfacial coupling in molecular heterostructures” Nat. Comm. 8, 312 (2017)
Beibei Xu, Himanshu Chakraborty, Richard Remsing, Michael L. Klein and Ren, “A free-standing
molecular spin-charge converter for ubiquitous magnetic-energy harvesting” Adv. Mater. 1605150 (2016)
Manjeet Chhetri, Somak Maitra , Himanshu Chakraborty, Umesh V. Waghmare and C. N. R. Rao,
“Superior performance of borocarbonitrides, B x C y N z , as stable, metal-free electrocatalysts for hydrogen
evolution reaction” Energy Environ. Sci., 9, 95 (2016)
Tista Basak, Himanshu Chakraborty, and Alok Shukla, “Theory of Linear Absorption in Diamond
Shaped Graphene Quantum Dots” Phys. Rev. B, 92, 205404 (2015)
Himanshu Chakraborty, and Alok Shukla, “Theory of Triplet Optical Absorption of Oligoacenes: From
Naphthalene to Heptacene” J. Chem. Phys., 141, 164301 (2014)
Himanshu Chakraborty, and Alok Shukla, “Pariser-Parr-Pople Model Calculations the ground and low-
lying excited states of long acenes” J. Phys. Chem. A, 117, (2013)
Zhuolei Zhang, Richard C. Remsing, Himanshu Chakraborty, Michael L Klein, Shenqiang Ren, “Light-
induced dilation in nano-sheets of charge transfer complexes” PNAS (2018), 0027-8424.
Himanshu Chakraborty, Santosh Mogurampelly, Vivek K. Yadav, Umesh V Waghmare and Michael L.
Klein, Phonon and thermal conducting properties of borocarbonitride (BCN) nanosheets,
arXiv:1802.08340, (2018).
Current profession
Current professional activities type:Research
Workshop and Conference Attended
2012Affiliations
American Physical SocietyPresentation given
2012Large scale configuration interaction calculations of linear optical absorption of octacene and nonaceneIndian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, IndiaEvent: 57TH DAE SOLID STATE PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM 20122012Large scale configuration interaction calculations of linear optical absorption of decaceneBARC Mumbai, IndiaEvent: CARBON MATERIALS 20122012Correlated theory of linear optical absorption of octacene and nonaceneKobe, JapanEvent: CCP 2012 -
Other Awards
Dec 2012Best Poster AwardBest Poster Award at 57th DAE Solid State Physics SymposiumJul 2009CSIR-NET/JRFJunior Research Fellowship and Lectureship awarded by Council of Scientific Industrial Research, India (fellowship to pursue PhD)
