Dr. Gobinda Gopal Khan

Assistant Professor

Contact Number:	+91 9434827837
E-mails:	gobinda.gk[at]gmail.com, gobindakhan[at]tripurauniv.ac.in
Qualifications:	M. Sc., M. Tech., Ph. D.
Topics Taught:	Nanostructure materials, Electronic, opto-electronic and energy materials, Materials characterization.

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Position held

• DST-INSPIRE Faculty at Center for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Calcutta, India (December 2012- July 2016)
• Post‐Doctoral Fellow in S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India (August 2010 ‐ December 2012)

Research Areas

• Advanced functional nanomaterials
• Novel nanostructures for energy harvesting and storage
• Multifunctional nanostructures for nano-electronics
• Nanomaterials for eivironment 
• Dilute magnetism and Spintronics

Funded Research Projects

• UGC-DAE, CSR Project (CRS/2021-22/01/430) by UGC-DAE, CSR  during 2022-2025 (Ongoing)
• UGC-DAE, CSR Project (UGC-DAE-CSR-KC/CRS/19/REM02/0930) by UGC-DAE, CSR (Kolkata), during 2019-2022 (Ongoing)
• ‘DST INSPIRE Faculty Award’ [IFA 12ENG 09] research grant by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, Rs. 35 lakhs, during 2013-18 (Completed)
• Start-Up Research Grant for Young Scientists [SB/FTP/ETA-0142/2014] by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, Rs. 9.7 lakhs, during 2017-20. (Completed)

Awards, Honour and Scholarships

• Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) Fellowship for Scientists/Faculties by Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), 2019
• 'ACS PITTCON International Travel Award' for Young Scientist by American Chemical Society (ACS), 2018 
• 'Early Carrier Chemist Award' by International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, in 2015
• ‘DST INSPIRE Faculty’ award by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology , Government of India in 2012
• ‘Young Scientist Award’ by Material Research Society of India (MRSI) in 2006
• 'Senior Research Fellowship' (SRF) by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India in 2008
• Selected for the Academic Visit to attend the ‘Asia Academic Seminar‐2009’, Yokohama and undertake training in advanced materials laboratories in Japan by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Government of Japan and Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India in 2009
• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Scholarship in Physics, awarded by Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India in 2004
• 'Merit Award' in the Science Aptitude and Talent Search Test by All India Science Teachers Association in 1993
• 'Merit Award' in Intelligence and Science Talent Test by National Science Society, India in 1989

Thesis Supervision

• PhD Thesis: Awarded: Dr. Ayan Sarkar (Supervisor, from University of Calcutta, Oct, 2018), Dr. Arpan Sarkar (Co-Supervisor, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad September, 2020),On-going: Debashis Pal (Supervisor, Tripura University)

• M.Tech Thesis: Awarded: Debabrata Majumder (Tripura University, 2018), Papan Pal (Tripura University, 2019), Bhubandeep Biswas (Tripura University, 2021), Debasmita Sinha (Tripura University, 2021).  

Invited Speaker

• Pacifichem 2015, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2015
• ‘European Materials Research Society’ Spring Meeting 2015 (EMRS-Spring 2015), Lille, France, 2015
• 2^nd International congress on ‘Materials and Renewable Energy 2014’ (MRE 2014), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2014
• 2^nd International conference ‘Kathmandu Symposia on Advanced Materials – 2014’ (KaSAM 2014), Nepal Polymer Institute (NPI), Kathmandu, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2014
• ‘International Union of Materials Research Society - ICA 2013’ (IUMRS-ICA 2013), Bangalore, India, 2013

Member of the professional body

• American Chemical Society (ACS),  number:30368268, Since, 2015.
• Electron Microscopy of India (EMSI), Member number: LM 1732, Since, 2019.
• The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), USA, (Honarary member ID: 494993) since, 2020 
• Material Research Society of India (MRSI, (Membership Number : LMB3264)

Member of the Editorial Board (Journals)

• 'SF Journal of Material and Chemical Engineering' by ScienceForecast Publications, USA
•  'Frontiers in Carbon’ (Upcoming), by Frontiers, UK

Publications (from Tripura University, since July 2016)

• Multifunctional Ultrathin Amorphous CoFe-Prussian Blue Analogue Catalysts for Efficiently Boosting the Oxygen Evolution Activity of Antimony-Doped TiO₂ Nanorods Photoanode, D. Pal, D Maity, A. Sarkar, D. De, A. Raj, GG Khan*, ACS Appl. Energy Mater.5,15000–15009 (2022) (Impact factor: 6.95)
• CeO_x as Surface Passivation and Hole Transfer Catalyst Layer Boosting Solar Water Oxidation of ZnFe₂O₄ Nanorods Photoanode, D Maity, D Pal, S Saha, P Punetha, D Sarkar, D De, GG Khan,* K Mandal, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2201645 (2022) (Impact factor: 6.38)
• Effect of defect-rich Co-CeO_x OER cocatalyst on the photocarrier dynamics and electronic structure of Sb-doped TiO₂ nanorods photoanode, D. Pal, D Maity, A. Sarkar, D. Sarkar, GG Khan*, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 620, 209–220 (2022). (Impact factor: 9.96)
• Dual co-catalysts activated hematite nanorods with low turn-on potential and enhanced charge collection for efficient solar water oxidation, D Maity, D. Pal, K Karmakar, R. Rakshit, GG Khan* and K Mandal, Nanotechnology 33, 265402 (2022) (Impact factor: 3.95)
• imensional p-ZnCo2O4/n-ZnO Nanoheterojunction Photoanode Enabling Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting.  D Maity, K Karmakar, D Pal, S. Saha,  GG Khan*, K. Mandal, ACS Applied Energy Materials 4, 11599 (2021) (Impact factor: 6.95)
• Integration of LaCo(OH)x photo-electrocatalyst and plasmonic Gold nanoparticles with Sb-doped TiO2 Nanorods for photoelectrochemical water oxidation. D Pal, A Sarkar, N G Ghosh, D M Shanke, D. Maity, K Karmakar, D Sarkar, S S Zade and GG Khan*, ACS Applied Nano Materials 4, 6111 (2021) (Impact factor: 6.14)
• Earth abundant transition metal ferrite nanoparticles anchored ZnO nanorods as efficient and stable photoanodes for solar water splitting, D Maity, K Karmakar, D. Mandal, D Pal, GG Khan* and K Mandal, Nanotechnology 31 (47) , 475403 (2020) (Impact factor: 3.95)

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