Sukanta De

Assistant Professor

B. Sc (Hons.) in Physics (Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, University of Calcutta, 1999).

M. Sc in Physics (University of Calcutta, 2001).

Ph. D in Science (IACS, Kolkata & Jadavpur University, 2006). (Thesis title : “Electrical and Dielectric Properties of Conducting Polymer nanocomposites”)

Post Doctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2006 - 2012.

     I obtained B.Sc. degree (1999) and M.Sc. degree (2001) in Physics from Calcutta University.   I did my doctoral work at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta and obtained PhD degree (2006) from Jadavpur University.  Then I have Joined Prof. J. N. Coleman’s group at Trinity College Dublin as postdoctoral fellow.  During my postdoctoral research I worked in a project collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, on the development of flexible, transparent and conducting electrode materials to in optoelectronic devices.  After postdoctoral work he joined Presidency University on October 2012 as Ramanujan Fellow.  

      My current research is focused on graphene and carbon nanotube based supercapacitor as energy storage device with high specific capacitance and energy density. At present my group is preparing different kind of hybrid materials of transition metal oxides in their zero or two dimensional structure with graphene or carbon nanotubes for electrode materials of supercapacitor.  His group is also working to develop ultrathin flexible and transparent supercapacitor for future application in transparent flexible devices.

         My group also producing graphene analogues (ie, 2-D nano materials) of layered inorganic materials by liquid phase exfoliation and soft chemical methods. These 2-D materials are important for both fundamental materials science and applications. Layered inorganic materials, such as Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMC’s), and transition metal oxides (TMO’s) are of great interest because they occur in different types and electrically they cover a wide spectrum of properties. These exfoliation leads to materials with high surface area and hence enhanced surface activity, leading to important applications, for example electrodes in supercapacitor and batteries, flexible photo detector.  His aim is to study electrical and optical properties of exfoliated layered materials for use in different types of optoelectronic devices.

1. Condensed Matter Physics (PG)

2. Physics of Nanostructure Materials (PG)

3. Physical Optics (UG)

4. Solid State Physics (UG)

5. Electricity and Magnetism (UG)

6. Major Experiments (Lab.) (UG)

List of Publications

1.      “ Redox – enhanced supercapacitors based on orange-peel-derived activated carbon with optimized redox – additive electrolyte”. S. Pramanik, N. Dey, P. K. Maji and S. De;  Ionics 32 (2026) 5207.
2.      “Enhanced Supercapacitor Performance of BiOI Nanoflowers/rGO Nanocomposites with GO Modified Gel Electrolyte”, N Ahammed; S  Pramanik; P Maity; J Chowdhury; S De; Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Engineering 21 (2026)1.
 
3.      “Green Power from Scraps: Renovating Fruit and Vegetable Waste into High-Performance Supercapacitor Electrodes - A Comprehensive Review”;  S. Pramanik,  S. De; Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy  7 (2025) 777.
 
4.      “In-situ fabrication of polyaniline-strontium hexaferrite composites for efficient electrodes in symmetric supercapacitor” M Pradhan, S Pramanik, A Das, A Nandi, M Kangsabanik, M Swarnakar, SDe, M Pal Chowdhury, R N Gayen; Ionics 31 (2025) 7283–7297.   .
 

5.      “A new plasmonic bi-metallic nanomaterial embedded cellulose membrane for efficient single step removal of chemical and microbial impurities from river water with zero water wastage” P Saha, S Nandi, A Majumder, A Kapuria, S Koley, N Ahammed, S De, M Mukhopadhyay, G Kulsi, A Datta, M Ghosh, A Layek, P K Sinha, J Mukhopadhyay, S Das, K. Dutta; Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 13(2025) 115408.

6.      “Schotky enabled enhanced UV photo-detection based on vertically aligned ZnO nanowire coated with TiO2-GO nanocomposites”, M. Chakraborty, E.S. Kadir, M. Pradhan, M. Kangsabanik, S. De, R.N. Gayen; Optical Materials 148 (2024) 114976.

7.      “Combined impact of elevated temperature and zinc oxide nanoparticles on physiological stress and recovery responses of Scylla serrata”,  Sritama Baag, Nashiruddin Ahammed, Sukanta De, Sumit Mandal; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology  275 (2024) 109764.
 
8.      “Integrated application of morphological, anatomical, biochemical and physico-chemical methods to identify superior, lignocellulosic grass feedstocks for bioenergy purposes”, T. Rahaman, S. Biswas, S. Ghorai, S. Bera, S. Dey, S. Guha, D. Maity, S. De, J. Ganguly, M. Das; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 187 (2023) 113738.
 
9.      “Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of BiOCl Nanoflower-RGO Based Supercapacitor in the Presence of Redox Additive Electrolyte”, S Dutta, S Pal, N Ahammed, S Sahoo, S Chatterjee, S De; ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology 12 (2023) 091002.
 
10.  “High doses of nano-polystyrene aggravate the oxidative stress, DNA damage, and the cell death in onions” S. Maity ,  R. Guchhait ,  S. De , and K. Pramanick, Environmental Pollution 316 (2023)120611.
 
11.  “Toxicological impacts of nanopolystyrene on zebrafish oocyte with insight into the mechanism of action: An expression-based analysis”, A. Chatterjee , S. Maity , S. Banerjee  , S. Dutta , M. Adhikari , R. Guchhait , C. Biswas , S. De , K. Pramanick;    Science of The Total Environment  830 (2022) 154796.

12.  “Light-weight flexible solid-state supercapacitor based on highly crystalline 2D BiOCl nanoplates/ MWCNT nanocomposites,” Shibsankar Dutta, Shreyasi Pal, Debopriya Sikder and Sukanta De;  Journal of Alloys and Compounds 820 (2020) 153115.

13.  “Cytogenotoxic potential of a hazardousmaterial, polystyrene microparticles on Allium cepa L”. Sukhendu Maity, Ankit Chatterjee, Rajkumar Guchhait, Sukanta De, KousikPramanicka; Journal of Hazardous Materials 385 (2020) 121560.

14.  “Mixed solvent exfoliated transition metal oxides nanosheets based flexible solid state supercapacitor devices endowed with high energy density”.  Shibsankar Dutta, Shreyasi Pal and Sukanta De; New J. Chem. 43 (2019) 12385-12395.

15.  “Engineering of ZnO/rGO nanocomposite photocatalyst towards rapid degradation of toxic dyes”. Sujoy Kumar Mandal, Kajari Dutta, Saptarshi Pal, Sumit Mandal, Avigyan Naskar, Pabitra Kumar Pal, T.S. Bhattacharya, Achintya Singha, Rezaul Saikh, Sukanta De, Debnarayan Jana; Mater. Chem. Phys. 223 (2019) 456-465.

16.  “Magnetic field induced electrochemical performance enhancement in reduced graphene oxide anchored Fe3O4 nanoparticle hybrid based supercapacitor”.  Shreyasi Pal,Sumit Majumder, Shibsankar Dutta, Sangam Banerjee,Biswarup Satpati, and Sukanta De, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 51(2018)  375501.

17.   “Development of an effective electrochemical platform for highly sensitive DNA detection using MoS2 - polyaniline nanocomposites”. Shibsankar Dutta, Ankan Dutta Chowdhury, Sangita Biswas, Enoch Y. Park, Nidhi Agnihotri, Amitabha De, Sukanta De; Biochemical Engineering Journal 140 (2018) 130–139 

18.  “Efficient Flexible White-Light Photodetectors Based On BiFeO3 Nanoparticles”.  Suchanda Mondal, Kajari Dutta, Shibsankar Dutta, Debnarayan Jana, Adam Kelly, Sukanta De;  ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 1 (2018), 625.

19.  “Hydrothermally Synthesized BiVO4 –Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite as a High Performance Supercapacitor Electrode with Excellent Cycle Stability.”  Shibsankar Dutta, Shreyasi Pal and  Sukanta De; New J. Chem. 42 (2018) 10161.  

20.  “Highly efficient photocatalytic activity of CuO quantum dot decorated rGO nanocomposites”  Shibsankar Dutta, Kajari Das, Kaushik Chakrabarti, D. Jana, S. K. De and Sukanta De;  J Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49 ( 2016) 315107.

21.  “Thermoelectric behaviour of organic thin film nanocomposites”, G. P. Moriarty, S De, P. J King, U Khan, M Via, J.A. King, J. N. Coleman and J. C. Grunlan; J. Poly. Sc. Part B: Poly. Phys. 51 (2013) 119-123.

22.  “The dependence of the optoelectrical properties of silver nanowire networks on nanowire length and diameter.”  Sophie Sorel, Philip E. Lyons, Sukanta De, Janet C Dickerson and J N Coleman;  Nanotechnology  23 (2012) 185201.

23.  “Percolation Effects in Supercapacitors with Thin, Transparent Carbon Nanotube Electrodes”, Paul J King, Thomas M Higgins, Sukanta De, Norbert Nicoloso and Jonathan N Coleman; ACS Nano  6 (2012) 1732 - 1741.

24.  “High Performance Transparent Conductors from Networks of Gold Nanowires”, Philip E Lyons, Sukanta De, Jamil Elias, Matthias Schamel, Laetitia Philippe, Allen T Bellew, John J. Boland  and Jonathan N. Coleman;  J. Phys. Chem. Lett.  2 (2011) 3058 – 3062.

25.  “The effects of percolation in nanostructured transparent conductors”, Sukanta De and J N Coleman, MRS Bulletin 36 (2011) 774. Invited review article.

26.  “Large-Scale Exfoliation of Inorganic Layered Compounds in Aqueous Surfactant Solutions”, Ronan J Smith, Paul J King, Mustafa Lotya, Christian Wirtz, Umar Khan, Sukanta De,  Arlene O’Neill, Georg S Duesberg, Jaime C Grunlan, Gregory Moriarty, Jun Chen, Jiazhao Wang, Andrew Minett, Valeria Nicolosi, and Jonathan N Coleman; Adv. Mater.  23 (2011) 3944 - 3948.

27.   “Transparent Conducting films from NbSe3 Nanowires” , Sukanta De, C S Boland, Paul J King, M Lotya, U Patel, Z L Xiao and J N Coleman;  Nanotechnology  22 (2011) 285202.

28.  “Two-dimensional nano-sheets produced by liquid exfoliation of layered materials”  Jonathan N Coleman, Mustafa Lotya, Arlene O’Neill, Shane D Bergin, Paul J King, Umar Khan, Karen Young, Alexandre Gaucher, Sukanta De, Ronan J Smith, Igor V Shvets, Sunil K Arora, George Stanton, Hye-Young Kim, Kangho Lee, Gyu Tae Kim, Georg S Duesberg, Toby Hallam, John J Boland, Jing Jing Wang, John F Donegan, Jaime C Grunlan, Gregory Moriarty, Aleksey Shmeliov, Rebecca J Nicholls, James M Perkins, Eleanor M. Grieveson, Koenraad Theuwissen, David W. McComb, Peter D. Nellist and Valeria Nicolosi;    Science  331 (2011) 568 - 571.

29.  “Size effects and the problem with percolation in nano-structured transparent conductors”, Sukanta De, Paul J King, Umar Khan and Jonathan N Coleman; ACS Nano  4 (2010) 7064 – 7072.

30.  “Improvement of Transparent Conducting Nanotube films by additions of small quantities of Graphene”,  Paul J King, Umar Khan, Mustafa Lotya, Sukanta De, and Jonathan N Coleman; ACS Nano  4 (2010) 4238 – 4246.

31.  “High-Concentration, Surfactant Stabilized Graphene Dispersions”, Mustafa Lotya, Paul J King, Umar Khan, Sukanta De, and Jonathan N Coleman; ACS Nano 4 (2010) 3155 – 3162.

32.  “Are There Fundamental Limitations on the Sheet Resistance and Transmittance of Thin Graphene Films?”, Sukanta De, and Jonathan N Coleman; ACS Nano  4 (2010) 2713 – 2720.

33.  “High concentration solvent-exfoliation of defect-free graphene”, Umar Khan, Arlene O’Neill, Mustafa Lotya, Sukanta De, and Jonathan N Coleman; Small 6 (2010) 864-871.

34.  “Flexible, transparent, conducting films of randomly stacked graphene from surfactant- stabilised, oxide - free graphene dispersions”,  Sukanta De, Paul King, Mustafa Lotya, Arlene O’Neill, Evelyn M Doherty, Yenny Hernandez, Georg S Duesberg  and Jonathan N Coleman;  Small  6 (2010) 458-464.

35.  “Connectivity in single walled carbon nanotube networks”, Peter N. Nirmalraj, Philip E Lyons, Sukanta De, Jonathan N Coleman, John J Boland;  Nano Letters 9 (2009) 3890 – 3895.

36.  “Silver nanowire networks as flexible, transparent, conducting films: Extremely high DC to optical conductivity ratios”,  Sukanta De, Thomas M Higgins, Philip E Lyons, Evelyn M Doherty, Peter N. Nirmalraj, Werner J Blau, John J Boland and Jonathan N Coleman;  ACS Nano 3 (2009) 1767-1774.

37.  “The spatial uniformity and electromechanical stability of transparent, conductive films of single walled nanotubes”,      Evelyn M. Doherty, Sukanta De, Philip E. Lyons, Aleksey Shmelov, Peter N. Nirmalraj, Vittorio Scardaci, Jerome Joimel, Werner J. Blau, John J. Boland  and Jonathan N. Coleman;    Carbon  47 (2009) 2466-2473.

38.  “Development of transparent, conducting composites by surface infiltration of nanotubes into commercial polymer films”,    Ian O’Connor, Sukanta De, Jonathan N. Coleman and Yurii K. Gun’ko;     Carbon 47 (2009) 1983-1988.     

39.  “Liquid Phase Production of Graphene by Exfoliation of Graphite in Surfactant/Water Solutions”,    Mustafa Lotya, Yenny Hernandez, Paul J. King, Ronan J. Smith, Valeria Nicolosi, Lisa S. Karlsson, Fiona M. Blighe, Sukanta De, Zhiming Wang, I. T. McGovern, Georg S. Duesberg  and Jonathan N. Coleman;   J. Am. Chem. Soc.  131 (2009) 3611–3620

40.  “Transparent, Flexible, and Highly Conductive Thin Films Based on Polymer−Nanotube Composites”, Sukanta De, Philip E. Lyons, Sophie Sorel, Evelyn M. Doherty, Paul J. King, Werner J. Blau, Peter N. Nirmalraj, John J. Boland, Vittorio Scardaci, Jerome Joimel and Jonathan N. Coleman;    ACS Nano  3 (2009) 714-720

41.  “High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite”, Yenny Hernandez, Valeria Nicolosi, Mustafa Lotya, Fiona M. Blighe, Zhenyu Sun, Sukanta De, I. T. McGovern, Brendan Holland, Michele Byrne, Yurii K. Gun'Ko, John J. Boland, Peter Niraj, Georg Duesberg, Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Robbie Goodhue, John Hutchison, Vittorio Scardaci, Andrea C. Ferrari, Jonathan N. Coleman,  Nature Nanotechnology 3 (2008) 563.

42.  “On the factors controlling the mechanical properties of nanotube films”, Fiona M Blighe, Philip E Lyons, Sukanta De, Werner J Blau, Jonathan N Coleman;  Carbon, 46 (2008) 41-47.     

43.  “The relationship between network morphology and conductivity in nanotube films”,  Philip E. Lyons, Sukanta De, Fiona Blighe, Valeria Nicolosi, Luiz Felipe C. Pereira, Mauro S. Ferreira, and Jonathan N. Coleman;   J. Appl. Phys.  104 (2008) 044302.

44.  “Electrical transport and optical properties of vanadyl phosphate—polyaniline nanocomposites” Sukanta De, Arup Dey and S.K. De; J. Phys. Chem. Solids 68 (2007) 66-72.

45.  “Optical and electrical characterizations of self-assembled CdS nanorods— polyaniline composites”,   Kousik Dutta, Sukanta De and S. K. De; J. Appl. Phys.  101 (2007) 093711.

46.  “Characterization and electrical properties of vanadyl phosphate-polypyrrole nanocomposites”, Sukanta De, Arup Dey and S.K. De;  J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 39 (2006) 500-505.

47.  “Giant dielectric constant in titania nanoparticles embedded in conducting polymer matrix”, Ashis Dey, Sukanta De, A. De And S. K. De; Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology  6 (2006) 1427-1436.

48.  “Characterization and transport properties of intercalated polypyrrole-vanadium pentoxide xerogel nanocomposite”, Sukanta De, Ashis Dey and S.K. De;  Solid State Communications 137 (2006) 662-667.

49.  “Large polaron tunneling and anomalous dielectric response in complex layered systems”, Sukanta De, Arup Dey and S.K. De;  J. Appl. Phys.  100 (2006) 024105.

50.  “Proton and electron conduction in polymer intercalated vanadium pentoxide xerogel”, Sukanta De, Ashis Dey and S.K. De;  Solid State Ionics 177 (2006) 245-252.

51.  “Mixed protonic-electronic conduction and dielectric response in layered vanadyl phosphate nanocomposites”, Sukanta De, Arup Dey and S.K. De;   J. Chem. Phys. 125 (2006) 224704.

52.  “Humidity effect on electrical properties of layered α-zirconium phosphate”, Sukanta De, and S.K. De;   Solid State Communications 134 (2005) 553-557.

53.  “Charge transport mechanism of vanadium pentoxide xerogel-polyaniline nanocomposite”, Sukanta De, Ashis Dey and S.K. De;  European Physical Journal B 46 (2005) 355-361.

54.  “Transport and dielectric properties of α-zirconium phosphate-polyaniline composite”, Sukanta De, A. De, Ajay Das, and S.K. De; Mater. Chem. Phys. 91 (2005) 477-483.

55.  “Characterization and dielectric properties of polyaniline-TiO2 nanocomposites”, Ashis Dey, Sukanta De, A. De And S. K. De;  Nanotechnology 15 (2004) 1277- 1283.

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