Academics

Bio

Dr. Prasanta Ghosh is an applied physicist with 16 years of research experience and 9 years of teaching experience. He conducts research in organic/inorganic functional nanomaterials, including organic Field Effect Transistors, inorganic/organic hybrids, and advanced sensors. Dr. Ghosh has published 47 research papers in SCI journals, conferences, and books, and has been granted 3 patents by South African Innovation Patent. He is an advisory board member of Materials Research Express and Nanotechnology, both peer-reviewed SCOPUS indexed journals. Dr. Ghosh has also received several awards, including the Top Peer Reviewer in Materials Science by Publons. Apart from his scientific work, he has also developed indigenous instruments and provides low-cost automation and instrumentation solutions for research and industry.

Research Area

Organic/inorganic functional nanomaterials- including organic Field Effect Transistors, inorganic/organic hybrids and advanced sensors based on organic matter and SHI Irradiation

Publication
• “Exercising substituents in porphyrins for real time selective sensing of volatile organic compounds”; Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (Elsevier), 257, (2018), Pg no. 389–397 ISSN 0925-4005 (JCR Impact Factor - 7.460)

• “Selective Discrimination among BTX: Probing Metalloporphyrin Functionalized SWNTs based Field Effect Transistors”; Journal of Physical Chemistry C (American Chemical Society) (2014), 118 (41), 24034–24041 (JCR Impact Factor- 4.126)

• “Poly (O-Toluidine) nanowires based Organic Field Effect Transistors - A study on influence of Anionic Size of Dopants and SWNTs as a dopant”; Journal of Physical Chemistry C (American Chemical Society), 117, ( 2013), 15414-15420 (JCR Impact Factor- 4.126)

• “A Chemiresistive Sensor based on Conducting Polymer / SWNTs Composite Nanofibrilar matrix – Effect of 100 MeV O16 Ion Irradiation on Gas sensing properties”; Smart Materials and Structures (IOP Science Publishing) , 22, (2013), 035004 (8pp). (JCR Impact Factor- 3.585)

• “Iron Tetraphenyl Porphyrin functionalized Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes For Detection of Benzene ”; Materials Letters ( Elsevier), 96, (2013), 38–41 (JCR Impact Factor- 3.423)

• “Fe nanoparticle tailored poly(N-methylpyrrole) nanowire matrix: a CHEMFET study from the perspective of discrimination among electron donating analytes”; Journal of Physics D: Appl. Phys. (IOP Science Publishing), (2015),48, 195301. (JCR Impact Factor- 3.207)

Google Scholar Link

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Qhnz_wIAAAAJ&hl=en

Scopus Link

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Orcid Link

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