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Manish Pal Chowdhury

About


Dr. Manish Pal Chowdhury is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIESTS). He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Calcutta (Dinabandhu Andrews College and Rajabazar Science College, respectively) and then his Ph.D. from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Kolkata. He further broadened his academic experience through post-doctoral research appointments at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. His research expertise spans carbon-based and nanostructured materials, including carbon nanotubes, graphene, reduced graphene oxide (RGO), and related nanomaterials, with a strong focus on sensors, detectors, nanogenerators, and allied functional devices.

Academic collaboration:

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India

Banaras Hindu University, India

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

 

 

Academic Qualifications


  • B.Sc., University of Calcutta (Dinabandhu Andrews College, Kolkata)
  • M.Sc., University of Calcutta (Rajabazar Science College, Kolkata)
  • Ph.D., Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Research Statement


  • Carbon nanotubes, graphene, RGO
  • Nanomaterials
  • Sensors and detectors

Latest Publications


  • 1 Santanu Dhara, Sri Medha Juloori, Samir Das, Partha Sarathi Mandal, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Ethically sourced biotemplate engineered with smart polymer for promoting skeletal tissue regeneration, 15, 980–989, MRS Communications, 2025
  • 2 Monalisa Pradhan, Suvamay Pramanik, Alipsa Das, Abhrajit Nandi, Manoj Kangsabanik, Mainak Swarnakar, Sukanta De, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Rabindra Nath Gayen, In-situ fabrication of polyaniline-strontium hexaferrite composites for efficient electrodes in symmetric supercapacitor, Ionics, 2025
  • 3 Mainak Swarnakar, Partha Sarathi Mandal, Mohd Ali, Chandra Shekhar Pati Tripathi, Suchandra Mukherjee, Aritra Banerjee, Sanat Kumar Adhikari, Souvik Chatterjee, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Novel Hall voltage-assisted enhanced ammonia sensing properties of polyaniline/zinc ferrite composite-based sensor, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2025
  • 4 Partha Sarathi Mandal, Mainak Swarnakar, Mohd Ali, Chandra Shekhar Pati Tripathi, Sanat Kumar Adhikari, Souvik Chatterjee, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Synergistic effects of zinc titanates on electroactive ?-phase formation and tuning the piezoelectric properties of PVDF, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025
  • 5 Mainak Swarnakar, Partha Sarathi Mandal, Rabindranath Gayen, Manish Pal Chowdhury, A complex impedance spectroscopy study on PVDF/PANI/CoFe2O4 composites, 5th International Conference on Processing and Characterization of Materials 2023 (ICPCM 2023), 2024
  • 6 Manas Bandyopadhyay, Biman Bera, Swastik Pathak, Dipendu Bhunia, Sayan Bhadra, Snehangshu Patra, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Jorge Escorihuela, Mrinal K Bera, Selective Hydro?and Deuterodechlorination of Trichloroacetamides under Controlled Electrochemical Conditions To Prepare Mono?, Di?, and Deuterochloroacetamides, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2024
  • 7 Soumalya Kundu, Rahul Majumder, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Superior ammonia sensing properties of PET-supported polyaniline/reduced graphene oxide/zinc ferrite ternary nanocomposite thin film at room temperature, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2023
  • 8 Soumalya Kundu, Rahul Majumder, Subhadip Roy, Dipali Banerjee, Manish Pal Chowdhury, PANI/f-rGO/CuxZn1-xFe2O4 composite on flexible PVDF mat for trace-level detection of ammonia and thermoelectric characterization at room temperature, 306, 128059, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2023
  • 9 R. Majumder,S. Kundu,M. P Chowdhury, Investigation of ambient regulated enhanced photo-responsive properties of GO-ZnO and transition metal doped GO-ZnO nanocomposite: Improved photocurrent and swift response, 142, 113981, Optical Materials, 2023
  • 10 Soumalya Kundu, Rahul Majumder, B. R. Bhagat, Subhadip Roy, Rabindranath Gayen, Alpa Dashora & Manish Pal Chowdhury, An in situ synthesis of polyaniline/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite flexible thin film on PET for the room temperature detection of trace level ammonia at ppb level, Journal of Materials Science, 2023
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    Publications


    1 Santanu Dhara, Sri Medha Juloori, Samir Das, Partha Sarathi Mandal, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Ethically sourced biotemplate engineered with smart polymer for promoting skeletal tissue regeneration, 15, 980–989, MRS Communications, 2025 2 Monalisa Pradhan, Suvamay Pramanik, Alipsa Das, Abhrajit Nandi, Manoj Kangsabanik, Mainak Swarnakar, Sukanta De, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Rabindra Nath Gayen, In-situ fabrication of polyaniline-strontium hexaferrite composites for efficient electrodes in symmetric supercapacitor, Ionics, 2025 3 Mainak Swarnakar, Partha Sarathi Mandal, Mohd Ali, Chandra Shekhar Pati Tripathi, Suchandra Mukherjee, Aritra Banerjee, Sanat Kumar Adhikari, Souvik Chatterjee, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Novel Hall voltage-assisted enhanced ammonia sensing properties of polyaniline/zinc ferrite composite-based sensor, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2025 4 Partha Sarathi Mandal, Mainak Swarnakar, Mohd Ali, Chandra Shekhar Pati Tripathi, Sanat Kumar Adhikari, Souvik Chatterjee, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Synergistic effects of zinc titanates on electroactive ?-phase formation and tuning the piezoelectric properties of PVDF, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2025 5 Manas Bandyopadhyay, Biman Bera, Swastik Pathak, Dipendu Bhunia, Sayan Bhadra, Snehangshu Patra, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Jorge Escorihuela, Mrinal K Bera, Selective Hydro?and Deuterodechlorination of Trichloroacetamides under Controlled Electrochemical Conditions To Prepare Mono?, Di?, and Deuterochloroacetamides, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2024 6 Soumalya Kundu, Rahul Majumder, Manish Pal Chowdhury, Superior ammonia sensing properties of PET-supported polyaniline/reduced graphene oxide/zinc ferrite ternary nanocomposite thin film at room temperature, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2023 7 Soumalya Kundu, Rahul Majumder, Subhadip Roy, Dipali Banerjee, Manish Pal Chowdhury, PANI/f-rGO/CuxZn1-xFe2O4 composite on flexible PVDF mat for trace-level detection of ammonia and thermoelectric characterization at room temperature, 306, 128059, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2023 8 R. Majumder,S. Kundu,M. P Chowdhury, Investigation of ambient regulated enhanced photo-responsive properties of GO-ZnO and transition metal doped GO-ZnO nanocomposite: Improved photocurrent and swift response, 142, 113981, Optical Materials, 2023 9 Soumalya Kundu, Rahul Majumder, B. R. Bhagat, Subhadip Roy, Rabindranath Gayen, Alpa Dashora & Manish Pal Chowdhury, An in situ synthesis of polyaniline/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite flexible thin film on PET for the room temperature detection of trace level ammonia at ppb level, Journal of Materials Science, 2023 10 Ria Ghosh; Rahul Majumder; Soumalya Kundu; Monalisa Pradhan; Subhadip Roy; Rabindranath Gayen; Manish Pal Chowdhury, Effect of grain–grain boundary on ZnO nanorod-based UV photosensor: a complex impedance spectroscopic study, Journal of Materials Science, 2021 11 Rahul Majumder; Soumalya Kundu; Ria Ghosh; Monalisa Pradhan; Dibyendu Ghosh; Shubham Roy; Subhadip Roy; Manish Pal Chowdhury, Expeditious UV detection of tungstite (WO3·H2O) and tungsten oxide (WO3) decorated multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) based photodetector: ultrafast response and recovery time, SN Applied Sciences, 2019 12 Soumalya Kundu; Rahul Majumder; Ria Ghosh; Monalisa Pradhan; Subhadip Roy; Pintu Singha; Dibyendu Ghosh; Aritra Banerjee; Dipali Banerjee; Manish Pal Chowdhury, Relative humidity sensing properties of doped polyaniline-encased multiwall carbon nanotubes: wearable and flexible human respiration monitoring application, Journal of Materials Science, 2019
  • 13 R. Majumder;S. Kundu;R. Ghosh;S. Roy;U. Guria;M. P. Chowdhury, Self-doped SnO2:F synthesis by aerosol-spray deposition technique and their application in relative humidity sensor devices, 9, 1553, Applied Nanoscience, 2019
  • 14 R. Ghosh;S. Kundu;R. Majumder;S. Roy;S. Das;A. Banerjee;U. Guria;M. Banerjee;M. K. Bera;Kiran M. Subhedar; M. Pal Chowdhury, One-pot synthesis of multifunctional ZnO nanomaterials: study of superhydrophobicity and UV photosensing property, 9, 1939, Applied Nanoscience, 2019
  • 15 Soumalya Kundu;Rahul Majumder;Ria Ghosh;Manish Pal Chowdhury, Superior positive relative humidity sensing properties of porous nanostructured Al:ZnO thin films deposited by jet-atomizer spray pyrolysis technique, 30, 4618, Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics, 2019
  • Patents


    # Patents Year

    Projects


    • Chemiresistive-magnetic hybrid gas sensor for NH3 detection, Sponsored
      Ongoing
    • Synthesis and characterization of (1) ultra-long carbon naotubes and resist free fabrication of carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNTFET) for sensor application and (2) carbon nanotube carpet for thermoelectric application., Sponsored
      Completed
    • UGC Start-up project grant, Sponsored
      Completed

    Research Groups


    Rahul Majumder
    Ph. D.
    mrahul.rana@gmail.com

    Research:
    Carbon nanotube based photosensors, thin films, quantum dot.

    Soumalya Kundu
    Ph. D.
    physics.soumalya@gmail.com

    Research:
    Carbon nanotubes, conducting polymers, gas sensors

    Ria Ghosh
    Ph. D.
    riaphysics93@gmail.com

    Research:
    Synthesis of nanomaterials and its application in photovoltaics

    Created: 23 November 2019