Dr. Nirman Chakraborty

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsPhysical Chemistry at Surfaces,Physical Chemistry of Solids and Surfaces, Material Characterisation,Analytical Chemistry
KeywordsOperando spectroscopy, Surface phenomenon, Chemiresistive sensing, Heterogeneous catalysis, Sub-zero temperature
Honours and awards

2024: Lady Davis Fellowship from Technion

2023: Weizmann Excellence Fellowship from Feinberg Graduate School

2022: G C Jain Memorial Award for Best PhD thesis in Materials Science by Materials Research Society of India

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityDarmstadt
InstitutionTechnische Universität Darmstadt
InstituteInstitut für Physikalische Chemie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Christian HessInstitut für Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2025

Programme(s)

2024Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026Nirman Chakraborty, Subhajit Nandy, Souvik Bhattacharjee, Maximilian Pfeiffer, Esmaeil Adabifiroozjaei, Leopoldo Molina-Luna and Christian Hess: Chirality induced operando probing of analyte-surface hybrid states in heterogeneous redox processes. In: J. Mater. Chem. A, 14, 2026, 23231-23247
2025Nirman Chakraborty, Adi Harchol, Beatriz Costa Arnold, Kusha Sharma, Diksha Prabhu Gaonkar, Azhar Abu-Hariri, Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Muhamed Dawod, Anna Eyal, Yaron Amouyal, Thomas Brumme, Thomas Heine, Doron Naveh and Efrat Lifshitz: Change in Magnetic Order in NiPS3 Single Crystals Induced by a Molecular Intercalation. In: Chemistry of Materials, 37, 2025, 3594−3607
2025 Sayantani Paul, Bibaswan Sen, Nilendu Basak, Sangita Das, Pratyasha Rudra, Nirman Chakraborty, Ekramul Islam, Swastik Mondal, Sk Jahir Abbas and Sk Imran Ali: Hydrothermal Synthesis, Characterization of Co3Sb4O6F6 and Carbon doped Co3Sb4O6F6 and their Application towards Photocatalytic Dye Degradation, Adsorption, Catalytic Knoevenagel Condensation and Bacterial Disinfection. In: Journal of Molecular Structure 1321, 2025, 140006
2025Nirman Chakraborty,* Souvik Bhattacharjee, Anagha Ghosh, Efrat Lifshitz and Swastik Mondal: Polarization Induced NO2 Sensing and Amine Generation using Sb Single-Atoms Embedded in Few-Layered MnPS3 Flatlands. In: J. Mater. Chem. A, 13, 2025, 16491–16507
2025Nirman Chakraborty,* Anagha Ghosh, Manjari Chakraborty, Shreyashi Sinha, Ajay K. Mishra, Sujit Manna and Swastik Mondal: Tuning Thermo-Optical Coupling in CdS-Phase Change Material Heterojunctions via Exciton-Defect State Energy Transfer: Insights from operando spectroscopy. In: Applied Surface Science 712, 2025, 164207
2024Nirman Chakraborty and Swastik Mondal: An approach to surface electron density-sensing property correlation in non-stoichiometric boron carbide. In: AIP Advances, 14, 2024, 045106
2024Nirman Chakraborty,* Anagha Ghosh, Subhajit Mojumder, Ajay K. Mishra and Swastik Mondal: Selectively activated suppressed quantum networks in self-assembled single atom-Ag catalyst-based room temperature sensors for health monitoring. In: J. Mater. Chem. A, 12, 2024, 17607-17627
2024Nirman Chakraborty*, Pratyasha Rudra, Shreyashi Sinha, Velaga Srihari, Ajay K. Mishra, Sujit K. Manna and Swastik Mondal: Unusual negative thermal expansion of intercluster -C-BC-C- bond in carbon rich boron carbide observed using in-situ X-ray diffraction technique. In: J. Appl. Phys. 136, 2024, 035104
2023Pratyasha Rudra, Nirman Chakraborty, Velaga Srihari, Ajay K. Mishra, Sagnik Das, Debdulal Saha and Swastik Mondal: Effects of dopant oxidation states on enhanced low ppm CO sensing by Copper doped Zinc Oxide. In: Materials Chemistry and Physics 295, 2023, 127047
2023Sayantani Paul, Bibaswan Sen, Nilendu Basak, Nirman Chakraborty, Kiron Bhakat, Sangita Das, Ekramul Islam, Swastik Mondal, Sk Jahir Abbas, Sk Imran Ali: Zn3Sb4O6F6 and KI-doped Zn3Sb4O6F6: A Metal Oxyfluoride System for Photocatalytic Activity, Knoevenagel condensation and Bacterial Disinfection. In: Inorganic Chemistry, 62, 2023, 1032-1046
2022Sonam Chakraborty#, Nirman Chakraborty#, Swastik Mondal and Mrinal Pal: Band gap engineered Sn-doped bismuth ferrite nanoparticles for visible light induced ultrafast methyl blue degradation. In: Ceramics International, 48, 2022, 37253-37263
2022Nirman Chakraborty and Swastik Mondal: Chemiresistive NH3 detection at sub-zero temperatures by polypyrrole loaded Sn1-xSbxO2 nanocubes. In: Materials Horizons, 9, 2022, 1750-1762
2022Nirman Chakraborty and Swastik Mondal: Dopant Mediated Surface Charge Imbalance in Enhancing Performance of Metal Oxide Chemiresistive Gas Sensors. In: J. Mater. Chem. C, 10, 2022, 1968-1976
2022Nirman Chakraborty, Surya Narayan Panda, Ajay K. Mishra, Anjan Barman and Swastik Mondal: Ferromagnetic Ni1-xVxO1-y nano-clusters for NO detection at room temperature: A case of magnetic field induced chemiresistive sensing. In: ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14, 2022, 52301−52315
2022Nirman Chakraborty, Sagnik Das, Debdulal Saha and Swastik Mondal: Surface-analyte interaction as a function of Topological Polar Surface Area of Analytes in metal (Cd, Al, Ti, Sn) sulphide, nitride and oxide based chemiresistive materials. In: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 341, 2022, 113610
2022Subhojit Mojumder, Tanushri Das, Sagnik Das, Nirman Chakraborty, Debdulal Saha, Mrinal Pal: Y and Al codoped ZnO-based ultrasensitive trace ethanol sensor: a potential breath analyzer for fatty liver disease and drunken driving detection. In: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 372, 2022, 132611
2022Sayantani Paul, Bibaswan Sen, Nirman Chakraborty, Sangita Das, Swastik Mondal, Asoke Prasun Chattopadhyay, Sk Imran Ali: pH-regulated hydrothermal synthesis, characterization of Sb4O5X2 (X=Br/Cl) and its use for the dye degradation of methyl orange both with and without light illumination. In: RSC Advances, 12, 2022, 8374-8384
2021Nirman Chakraborty, Pradeepta Kumar Ghose, Pratyasha Rudra, Sagnik Das, Debdulal Saha, Ajay K. Mishra, Ambarish Sanyal and Swastik Mondal: Dopant Induced Cationic Bivalency in Hierarchical Antimony Doped Tin Oxide Nano-particles for Room Temperature SO2 Sensing. In: J. Mater. Chem. A, 9, 2021, 21824-21834
2021Nirman Chakraborty, Sagnik Das, Akbar Hossain Debdulal Saha and Swastik Mondal: Poly Aniline (PANI) Loaded Hierarchical Ti1-xSbxO2 Rutile Phase Nanocubes for Selective Room Temperature Detection of Benzene Vapor. In: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 347, 2021, 130622
2021Nirman Chakraborty, Sagnik Das, Velaga Srihari, Dibya Jyoti Mondal, Debdulal Saha, Sanjit Konar, Ajay K. Mishra and Swastik Mondal: Roles of structure and electron mobilization in enhanced ethanol sensing by Al doped SnO2 nanoparticles. In: Materials Advances, 2, 2021, 3760-3769
2020Nirman Chakraborty, Ambarish Sanyal, Sagnik Das, Debdulal Saha, Samar K. Medda and Swastik Mondal: Ammonia Sensing by Sn1-xVxO2 Mesoporous Nanoparticles. In: ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 3, 2020, 7572-7579
2020Manikanadan Krishnan, Rukshana Pervin, Chandrasekaran Saravanan, Sathiskumar Mariappal, Nirman Chakraborty, Parasharam Shirage, Swastik Mondal, Velaga Srihari, Himanshu Poshwal and S Arumugam: Influence of pressure on transport, magnetic and structural properties of superconducting Cr0.001NbSe2 single crystal. In: RSC Advances, 10, 2020, 13112-13125