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Development of Bio & Electro-active  Nanomaterials

Anisotropic Nanomaterials 

Synthesis of metal nanoparticles is a major research area in nanoscale science and engineering owing to their unusual chemical and physical properties, such as catalytic activity, novel electronic, optical and magnetic properties and their potential applications in biotechnology. The major objective is to synthesize nanoparticles of different shape and investigate their electrocatalytic, biocatalytic and SERS properties. Gold nanoparticles of flower-shape, prism, periwinkle, and cube; Ag nanopartcles of branched shape and Pd nanoparticles of fractal and garland shapes, Pt nanoparticles of branched shapes have been synthesized in aqueous solution and characterized by various techniques.

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Carbon Based Nanomaterials
( Graphene, Carbon Nanodots)

The ground breaking properties of graphene have recognized in many emerging applications. Similarly, the unique properties of carbon nanodots have recognized as best alternative nanostructures for many promising applications.  These are found to be eco-friendly, nontoxic, photo chemically stable and nonblinking. Here new methods have been developed for synthesis of graphene and carbon nanodots for various applications.

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Metal Based Nanomaterials (Metal oxides/chalcogenides/Phosphides)

The selection of the good and efficient electrode materials is very much essential for energy conversion, storage, electrocatalytic and bi-catalytic applications. Therefore, for substantial efforts have carried to explore new materials of comparable efficiency. Here we developed  the new synthesis methods for syntheses of variety of Transition Metal based 0D, 2D and 3D nanomaterials such as MoS2 Quantum Dots(QDs), MOFs, NiSe2, MoS2, Nickel Phosphides, Co2P, FeOOH, ZnO, MoO2, VO2, CuWO4, transition metal oxide Calcium Cobaltite, Cu2O, NiCo2O4, β-NiMoO4, Cu3P, ZnCo2O4 and etc.

Hybrids/Composites Nanomaterials

To improve the catalytic performance, the nanostructured catalyst requires supporting material with high conductivity and large surface area. It not only enhances the catalytic activity but also provides stability by preventing the extensive aggregation of nanoparticles. We made our effort to develop variety of hybrids/composites of nanomaterials on graphene, SnO2 or mesoporosus silca with Noble metals, Metal oxides based materials for their synergistic promising applications of interest. For examples, Graphene hybrids of Graphene-(Mn3O4, Pt, Pd, Au/Pd, Au@Pd, Porous Pd, Au@Porous Pd, Vo2D, MoS2, NiCo2O4, ZnCo2O4, Ag nanowires) Pt-SnO2, AgNPs-Mesoporous silica, Au-ZnO and etc.

Representive Publications

  • B. Mohanty, Y, Wei, M. Ghorbani-Asl, P. Rajput A. V. Krasheninnikov, Bikash Kumar Jena* “Revealing the defect-dominated oxygen evolution activity of hematene” J. Mater. Chem. A 2020, 8, 6709-6716

  • S. Mondal, B Mohanty, M. Nurhuda, S. Dalapati, M. Addicoat, Bikash Kumar Jena,* Asim Bhaumik* “Thiadiazole Based Covalent Organic Framework: Metal-free Electrocatalyst towards Oxygen Evolution Reaction” ACS Catalysis 2020, 10, 5623–5630.

  • S, K. Das, S. C. Sahu, A. Ghosh, S. Basu, B. Chakraborty, and Bikash Kumar Jena* “The experimental and theoretical insights towards the CO induced Pd-Graphene and their multifunctional energy conversion applications” Carbon 2019, 149, 307-317. 

  • S. Kamila, B. Chakraborty, S. Basu, Bikash Kumar Jena* “Combined Experimental and Theoretical Insights into Energy Storage Applications of a VO2(D)–Graphene Hybrid” J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123, 24280-24288. 

  • U. Kayal, B. Mohanty, P. Bhanja, D. Chandra, M. Hara, Bikash Kumar Jena* and Asim Bhaumik “Ag NPs decorated ordered mesoporous silica as an efficient electrocatalyst for alkaline water oxidation reaction” Dalton Transactions 2019, 48, 2220-2227. 

  • A. Dutta, S. Mutyala, A. K. Samantara, S. Bera, Bikas Kumar Jena* and Narayan Pradhan* Synergistic Effect of Inactive Iron Oxide Core on Active Nickel Phosphide Shell for Unprecedented Enhancement in the OER Activity ACS Energy Lett. 2018, 3, 141−148.

  • A. K. Samantara, S. Kamila, A. Ghosh, Bikash Kumar Jena*, “Highly Ordered 1D NiCo2O4 Nanorods on Graphene: An Efficient Dual-functional Hybrid Materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Applications” Electrochimica Acta, 2018, 264, 147-157. 

  • B. Mohanty, M. Ghorbani-Asl, S. Kretschmer, A. Ghosh, P. Guha, S. K. Panda, B. Jena, A. V. Krasheninnikov, Bikash Kumar Jena* “MoS2 Quantum Dots as an Efficient Catalyst Material for Oxygen Evolution Reaction” ACS Catalysis 2018, 8, 1683−1689.

  • S. Ratha, A. K. Samantara, K. K. Sinha, A. S. Gangan, B. Chakraborty, Bikash Kumar Jena,* C. S. Rout “Urea-assisted Room Temperature Stabilized Metastable β-NiMoO4: Experimental and Theoretical Insights into its Unique Bi-functional Activity towards Oxygen Evolution and Supercapacitor” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 9640-9653. 

  • S. Kamila, B. Mohanty, A. K. Samantara, P. Guha, A. Ghosh, B. L. Jena, P. V. Satyam, B. K. Mishra, Bikash Kumar Jena* “Highly Active 2D Layered MoS2-rGO Hybrids for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications” Scientific Reports, 2017, 7, 8378.

  • A. Ghosh, P. Guha, A. K. Samantara, Bikash Kumar Jena, R. Bar, S. Ray and P. V. Satyam “Simple growth of faceted Au-ZnO hetero-nanostructures on silicon substrates (Nanowires and Triangular Nanoflakes): A shape and defect driven enhanced photocatalytic performance under visible light” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2015, 7, 9486–9496. 

  • A. K. Samantara, S. C. Sahu, A. Ghosh and Bikash Kumar Jena* “Sandwiched graphene with nitrogen, sulphur co-doped CQDs: an efficient metal-free material for energy storage and conversion applications” J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 16961–16970. 

  • S. C. Sahu, B. Satpati, L. Besra and Bikash Kumar Jena* “A Bifunctional Nanoelectrocatalyst Based on Flower-like Au/Pd Bimetallic Alloy Nanostructure and Its Graphene Hybrid” ChemCatChem, 2015, 7,4042–4049. 

  • Subash Chandra Sahu, Aneeya K. Samantara, Ajit Dash, R. R. Juluri, R. K. Sahu, B. K. Mishra, and Bikash Kumar Jena* “Graphene induced Pd nanodendrites: A highly performance hybrid nanoelectrocatalyst” Nano Research, 2013, 6, 635-643. 

  • Subash Chandra Sahu, Aneeya K. Samantara, Biswarup Satpati, Sarama Bhattacharya and Bikash Kumar Jena,* “A Facile Approach for In Situ Synthesis of Graphene-Branched Pt Hybrid nanostructures with Excellent Electrochemical Performance” Nanoscale  2013, 5, 11265-11274.

  • Subash Chandra Sahu, Aneeya K. Samantara, A. Ghosh and Bikash Kumar Jena,* “A Bio-inspired Approach for Shaping Au Nanostructures: Role of Biomolecule Structure in Shape Evolution” Chemistry-A European Journal, 2013, 19, 8220-8226.

  • Bikash Kumar Jena,* Subash Chandra Sahu, Biswarup Satpati, Ranjan K. Sahu, Debadhyan Behera and Swagatika Mohanty, “A facile approach for morphosynthesis of Pd nanoelectrocatalysts” Chemical communications, 2011, 47, 3796-3798.

  • A. Dutta, A. K. Samantara, S. K. Dutta, Bikash Kumar Jena,* and N. Pradhan “Surface-Oxidized Dicobalt Phosphide Nanoneedles as a Nonprecious, Durable, and Efficient OER Catalyst” ACS Energy Letters. 2016, 1, 169–174.

  • Bikash Kumar Jena and C. Retna Raj* “Seedless, Surfactantless Room Temperature Synthesis of Single Crystalline Fluorescent Gold Nanoflowers with Pronounced SERS and Electrocatalytic Activity Chemistry of Materials, 2008, 20, 3546-3548. 

  • Bikash Kumar Jena and C. Retna Raj* “Synthesis of Flower-like Gold Nanoparticles and their Electrocatalytic Activity Towards Oxidation of Methanol and Reduction of Oxygen”, Langmuir 2007, 23, 4064-4070. 

  • Bikash Kumar Jena and C. Retna Raj* “Shape Controlled Synthesis of Gold Nanoprism and Nanoperiwinkles with Pronounced Electrocatalytic Activity” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2007, 111, 15146-15153. 

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