Faculty Details

• Degree: PhD
• Specialisation: Nanocrystalline mixed metal oxides in gas sensors and pigments
• Institute: IIT Kharagpur
• Year of passing: 2009

• Degree: MSc
• Specialisation: Inorganic Chemistry
• Institute: Banaras Hindu University
• Year of passing: 2002

• Institution / Organisation: KRICT, Republic of Korea
• Designation: Post Doc research
• Role: Full time researcher
• Tenure: Full time research 2009-2013 (4 years)

AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

• Area of Interest Inorganic Chemistry, Material Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Photocatalytic Solar Hydrogen Production, Solar Chemical Production from Photoreduction of CO2


• Area of Research Preparation of Nanosized Metal Oxides and Metal Oxide Thin Films for Their Application in Solar Hydrogen Production from Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting, Solar Chemical Production from CO2 Photoreduction, Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Compounds and Dyes, and Their Application in Gas Sensors

Professional Affiliations & Contributions

• Title: Development of Stable Oxide Photoanodes for Solar Hydrogen Production from Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
• Subject: Photooxidation of water
• PI/Co PI: PI
• Date: 2019
• Amount (Rs): 1,50,000/-

• Teaching, Research, and other responsibilities.

• Enhanced Photoactivity of Visible Light Responsive W Incorporated FeVO4 Photoanode for Solar Water Splitting

  2013 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2013), 38, 14451-14457, Biswas, S. K.; Baeg, J. O.

• A Facile One-step Synthesis of Single Crystalline Hierarchical WO3 with Enhanced Activity for Photoelectrochemical Solar Water Oxidation

  2013 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, (2013), 38, 3177-3188, Biswas, S. K.; Baeg, J. O.

• A Photocatalyst−Enzyme Coupled Artificial Photosynthesis System for Solar Energy in Production of Formic Acid from CO2

  2012 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Journal of American Chemical Society, (2012), 134, 11455-11461, Yadav, R. K.; Baeg, J. O.; Oh, G. H.; Park, N-J.; Kong, K-j.; Kim, J.; Hwang, D. W.; Biswas, S. K.

• Morphologically Different WO3 Nanocrystals in Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation - 2012

  2012 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Journal of Nanoparticle Research, (2012), 14, 667, Biswas, S. K.; Baeg, J. O.; Moon S. J.; Kong K. j.; So W. W.

• An Efficient Visible light Active Photocatalyst CuAlGaO4 for Solar Hydrogen Production

  2011 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Catalysis Communications, (2011), 12, 651-654. Biswas, S. K.; Baeg, J. O.; Kale, B. B.; Yadav, R. K.; Moon, S. -J.; Kong, K.; So, W. -W.

• Design of a New Nanostructure Comprising Mesoporous ZrO2 Shell and Magnetite Core (Fe3O4@mZrO2) and Study of its Phosphate Ion Separation Efficiency

  2010 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Journal of Materials Chemistry, (2010), 20, 4417-4424, Sarkar, A.; Biswas, S. K.; Pramanik, P.

• Studies on the Gas Sensing Behaviour of Nanocrystalline CuGa2O4 towards Hydrogen, Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Ammonia

  2010 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Talanta, (2010), 81(4-5), 1607-1612; Biswas, S. K.; Sarkar, A.; Pathak, A.; Pramanik, P.

• Preparation of White Pigments from Nanosized Alkaline Earth Metal Titanates and Potassium Titanium Oxophosphate

  2009 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  International Journal of Applied Ceramics Technology, (2009), 6(4), 479-484; Biswas, S. K.; Ghorai, T. K.; Pramanik, P.

• Studies on the Gas Sensing Behaviour of Nanosized CuNb2O6 towards Ammonia, Hydrogen and Liquefied Petroleum Gas

  2008 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Sensors and Actuators B, (2008), 133(12), 449-455 ; Biswas, S. K.; Pramanik, P.

• Sensing Properties of Chemically Synthesized Pristine and Pt-Impregnated Nanosized FeNbO4 in Hydrogen, Ammonia, and LPG

  2008 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Journal of the Electrochemical Society, (2008), 155(1), J26-J31; Biswas, S. K.; Gnanasekaran, T.; Ghorai, T. K.; Pramanik, P.

• Chemical Synthesis of Environment-friendly Nanosized Yellow Titanate Pigments

  2008 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Material Research Bulletin, (2008), 43, 665-675 ; Biswas, S. K.; Dhak, D.; Pathak, A.; Pramanik, P.

• Codoped Cr and W Rutile Nanosized Powders Obtained by Pyrolysis of Triethanolamine Complexes

  2008 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Ceramic International (2008), 34, 1875-1883; Biswas, S. K.; Pathak, A.; Pramanik, N. K.; Dhak, D.; Pramanik, P.

• Synthesis and Characterization of Hydroxyapatite/Poly(Vinyl Alcohol Phosphate) Nanocomposite Biomaterials

  2008 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology (2008), 5(1), 20-28. Pramanik, N. K.; Biswas, S. K.; Pramanik, P.

• Preparation of Nano-Sized ABi2Nb2O9 (A = Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+) Ferroelectric Ceramics by Soluble Nb(V) Tartarate Precursor and their Dielectric Characteristics after Sintering

  2008 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Journal of Materials Science: Materials Electronics (2008), 19(5), 448-456. ; Dhak, D.; Dhak, P.; Ghorai, T. K.; Biswas, S. K.; Pramanik, P.

• Photooxidation of Different Organic Dyes (RB, MO, TB, and BG) Using Fe(III)-Doped TiO2 Nanophotocatalyst Prepared by Novel Chemical Method

  2008 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Applied Surface Science (2008), 254(22), 7498-7504 ; Ghorai, T. K.; Biswas, S. K.; Pramanik. P.

• Synthesis of Nanocrystalline KTiOPO4 Powder by Chemical Method

  2007 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  The Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2007), 90(4), 1071-1076 ; Biswas, S. K.; Pathak, A.; Pramanik, P.

• Photocatalytic Oxidation of Organic Dyes by Nano-Sized Metal Molybdate Incorporated Titanium Dioxide (MxMoxTi1−xO6) (M = Ni, Cu, Zn) Photocatalysts

  2007 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical (2007), 273, 224-229 ; Ghorai, T. K.; Dhak, D.; Biswas, S. K.; Dalai, S.; Pramanik, P.

• Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystalline SrBi2Nb2O9 Ferroelectric Ceramics Using TEA as the Polymeric Matrix

  2006 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Journal of the European Ceramic Society (2006), 26, 3717-3723 ; Dhak, D.; Biswas, S. K.; Pramanik, P.

• Preparation of Nanosized Mixed-Oxide Powders

  2004 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  American Ceramic Society Bulletin. (2004), 83(8), 9301-9306 ; Pathak, A.; Mohapatra, S.; Mohapatra S.; Biswas, S. K.; Dhak, D.; Pramanik, N. K.; Tarafdar, A.; Pramanik, P.

• Development of solar driven photocatalyst and its application in degradation of organic pollutants

  April 01, 2021 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas

  Granted Patent (IP Australia); Innovation Patent, Patent number: 2021100320

• Facile synthesis of Ti-W-O mixed oxide photoanode for photoelectrochemical solar water oxidation

  January 01, 2020 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas, Sarkar A

  AIP Conference Proceedings ICMMRE 2019 organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, SMIT

• Mesoporous Mixed Zirconium-Niobium Oxide (Zr6Nb2O17): An Efficient Catalyst for the Phenol Red Bromination Reaction

  January 01, 2020 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas, Sarkar, A

  Catalysis in Industry

• A Process for the Preparation of Nanosized MTiO3

  January 01, 2017 | Dr. Soumya Kanti Biswas, Pramanik P

  Granted Indian Patent, Patent no. 281557