2021

• "G–C4N3–graphene-g-C4N3: A useful spin thermoelectric material" R. Bhowmik, S. Koley, M. Chattopadhyaya* and S. Sen*. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (2021), 156, 110186 [Impact factor: 3.4].
• "Evidence of critical tunneling width in ensuring spin polarized asymmetric negative differential resistance feature in two-dimensional g-C4N3-graphene-g-C4N3" R. Bhowmik, M. Chattopadhyaya* and S. Sen*, Chemistry Select, Just Accepted 2021 [Impact factor: 1.8].  

2020

• "Effect of relative position of donor and acceptor groups on linear and non-linear optical properties of quinoline system" by M. Chattopadhyaya* and M. M. Alam*. Chemical Physics Letter (2020). 754, 137582. [Impact factor: 1.9].
• "Calculation of salt-dependent free energy of binding of β-lactoglobulin homodimer formation and mechanism of dimer formation using molecular dynamics simulation and three-dimensional reference interaction site model (3D-RISM): diffuse salt ions and non-polar interactions between the monomers favor the dimer formation" by R. Srivastava, M. Chattopadhyaya and P. Bandyopadhyay. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2020) 22, 2142. [Impact factor: 3.6].

2017

• "Tuning intermolecular interactions with nanostructured environments" by M. Chattopadhyaya, J. Hermann, I. Poltavsky and A. Tkatchenko. Chemistry of Materials, (2017) 29, 2452. [Impact factor: 9.4].
• "Origin of the Absorption Band of Bromophenol Blue in Acidic and Basic pH: Insight from a Combined Molecular Dynamics and TD-DFT/ MM Study" by M. Chattopadhyaya, N. A. Murugan, Z. Rinkevicius. Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2016) 120, 7175. [Impact factor: 2.9].

2016

• "A Theoretical Study of One- and Two-Photon Activity of D-Luciferin" by M. Chattopadhyaya,* M. M. Alam.* Computation. (2016) 4, 43. [Impact factor: 0.8].

2014

• "Electrically Controlled Eight Spin-qubit Entangled State Generation in a Molecular Break-junction" by M. Chattopadhyaya, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti. Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, (2014) 15, 1747,. [Impact factor: 3.1].
• "Ab initio study of solvent-dependent one-, two- and three-photon absorption properties of PRODAN-based chemo-sensors" by M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya. Journal of Chemical Science (2014) 126, 1217–1226  [Impact factor: 1.3].
• "On the origin of the very strong two-photon activity of squaraine dyes – a standard/damped response theory study" by M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Chakrabarti and A. Rizzo. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. (2014) 16, 8030. [Impact factor: 4.4].
• "Chemical Control of Channel Interference in Two-Photon Absorption Processes" by M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Chakrabarti and K. Ruud. Accounts of Chemical Research (2014) 47, 1604.  [Impact factor: 22.0]

2013

• "Chemical control of a molecular spin switch in the presence of a gate" by M. Chattopadhyaya, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti. RSC Advances (Communication) (2013) 3, 19894. [Impact factor: 3.3].
• "Spatial spin-charge separation in neutral endohedral metallofullerene: A combined restricted open-shell MP2 and Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics study" by M. Chattopadhyaya, N A. Murugan, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti. Chemical Physics Letter (2013) 557, 71.  [Impact factor: 1.9].
• "On site Coulomb repulsion dominates over the non-local Hartree-Fock exchange in determining the band gap of polymers" by M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Sen, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (2013) 75, 212. [Impact factor: 2.0].
• "Effect of donor–acceptor orientation on solvent-dependent three-photon activity in through space charge-transfer systems – case study of [2,2]-paracyclophane derivatives" by M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya and S. Chakrabarti. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2013) 15, 17570. [Impact factor: 4.4].

2012

• "On the microscopic origin of bending of graphene nanoribbons in the presence of a perpendicular electric field" by M. Chattopadhyaya, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Communication) (2012) 14, 9439. [Impact factor: 4.4]
• "Electrostatic Spin Crossover and Concomitant Electrically Operated Spin Switch Action in a Ti-BaseD Endohedral Metallofullerene Polymer" by M. Chattopadhyaya, M. M. Alam, S. Sen and S. Chakrabarti. Physical Review Letter (2012) 109, 257204. [Impact factor: 9.2].
• "The role of relativity and dispersion controlled inter-chain interaction on the band gap of thiophene, selenophene, and tellurophene oligomers" by M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Sen, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti. Journal of Chemical Physics (2012) 136, 094904. [Impact factor: 2.9].
• "Solvent induced channel interference in the two-photon absorption process-a theoretical study with a generalized few-state-model in three dimensions" by M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya and S. Chakrabarti. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. (2012) 14, 1156. [Impact factor: 4.4].
• "High-Polarity Solvents Decreasing the Two-Photon Transition Probability of Through Space Charge-Transfer Systems-A Surprising in Silico Observation" by M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya, S. Chakrabarti and K. Ruud. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letter (2012) 3, 961. [Impact factor: 8.5]
• "Enhancement of twist angle dependent two-photon activity through the proper alignment of ground to excited state and excited state dipole moment vectors" by M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya and S. Chakrabarti. Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2012) 116, 8067. [Impact factor: 2.9]
• "On the Origin of Large Two-Photon Activity of DANS Molecule" by M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya and S. Chakrabarti. Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2012) 116, 11034. [Impact factor: 2.9]

2011

• "A new design strategy for the two-photon active material based on push-pull substituted bisanthene molecule" by M. Chattopadhyaya, M. M. Alam and S. Chakrabarti. Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2011) 115, 2607. [Impact factor: 2.9].
• "A critical theoretical study on the two-photon absorption properties of some selective triaryl borane-1-naphthylphenyl amine based charge transfer molecules" by M. M. Alam, M. Chattopadhyaya and S. Chakrabarti. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2011) 13, 9285. [Impact factor: 4.4].  

• R. Bhowmick, M. Chattopadhyaya, J. Chakraborty, B. Chakraborty, A. Roy, B. Neogi, S. Koley and S. Sen. “Can enhancement in tunnelling width influence the final spintronic feature of two-dimensional nanostructure of graphitic carbon nitride-(graphene)- graphitic carbon nitride?” . Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1797 012046 (2021).

• R. Bhowmick, M. Chattopadhyaya, J. Chakraborty, S. Maity, A. Basu, S. Koley, A. Roy and S. Sen. “Atomic chain of carbon atoms: Smallest negative differential resistance device” . Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1797 012047 (2021).

Convener of Summer Internship Selection Committee 2021

• Short term project work for completeing M.Sc. thesis (Minimum 3 months and maximum 6 months)

• NET or GATE qualified motivated students for pursuing PhD

• Post doctoral fellows with own funding / fellowships

• PhD student: Dhilshada V. N. (JRF, Joined on February 2021)

• M.Sc. Project Completed: Anai Jishnu Suresh 

Got one funded project on 2018 from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) under the scheme of “Teachers Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE)”.

• Research visit @Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, for one month Oct-Nov ‘2012 during PhD tenure.

• Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray (A. P. C. Ray) award based on PhD work on 2013.

• Post doctoral fellowship (on 2014) from Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany. 

• Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) fellowship on 2015.

• Invited speak on "International Conference on Engineering Response to COVID-19 (IOCER COVID-19 2020)" @JIS Engineering College on 9th October 2020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

• Invited speaker on 2nd International Conference on Non-Conventional Energy – Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials for Energy and Environment @JIS Engineering College on December 2019, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

• Invited speaker on Industry Interactive Innovation in Science, Engineering and Technology (ICNNEE2019) @JIS Engineering College on October 2019, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

• Invited talk on "Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS2019)" held on February 13-16, 2019 at @Bits Pilani, India.

• Invited speaker on "Faculty Development Program (FDP)" held on July 2-4 2018 at @Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

• B.Tech 

  • Chemistry (Course code : CY1001)

• M.Sc Chemistry

  • Chemical Kinetics and Surface Chemistry (Course code : CY6313)

• Wetting of low dimensional materials

• Intermolecular interaction

• Spintronics/Spin crossover phenomenon/Spin-charge Separation

• Nonlinear Optical Properties

• Magnetism