Dr. Nirman Chakraborty

Working area(s)

Operando and transient spectroscopy of doped metal oxide gas sensors

Contact

work +49 6151 16-20452

Work L2|04 F208
Peter-Grünberg-Straße 8
64287 Darmstadt

Publications published in peer-reviewed journals
1. “Change in Magnetic Order in NiPS3 Single Crystals Induced by a Molecular Intercalation” Nirman Chakraborty, Adi Harchol, Beatriz Costa Arnold, Kusha Sharma, Diksha Prabhu Gaonkar, Azhar Abu-Hariri, Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Muhamed Dawod, Anna Eyal, Yaron Amouyal, Thomas Brumme, Thomas Heine, Doron Naveh and Efrat Lifshitz* Chem. Mater. 2025, 37, 3594−3607.
2. “Polarization Induced NO2 Sensing and Amine Generation using Sb Single-Atoms Embedded in Few-Layered MnPS3 Flatlands” Nirman Chakraborty,* Souvik Bhattacharjee, Anagha Ghosh, Efrat Lifshitz and Swastik Mondal* J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, Advance Article (selected as HOT Article)
3. “Unusual negative thermal expansion of intercluster -C-BC-C- bond in carbon rich boron carbide observed using in-situ X-ray diffraction technique” Nirman Chakraborty*, Pratyasha Rudra, Shreyashi Sinha, Velaga Srihari, Ajay K. Mishra, Sujit K. Manna and Swastik Mondal* J. Appl. Phys. 2024, 136, 035104.
4. “Selectively activated suppressed quantum networks in self-assembled single atom-Ag catalyst-based room temperature sensors for health monitoring” Nirman Chakraborty,* Anagha Ghosh, Subhajit Mojumder, Ajay K. Mishra and Swastik Mondal* J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12, 17607-17627.
5. “An approach to surface electron density-sensing property correlation in non-stoichiometric boron carbide” Nirman Chakraborty and Swastik Mondal* AIP Advances 2024, 14, 045106.
6. “Ferromagnetic Ni1-xVxO1-y nano-clusters for NO detection at room temperature: A case of magnetic field induced chemiresistive sensing” Nirman Chakraborty, Surya Narayan Panda, Ajay K. Mishra, Anjan Barman and Swastik Mondal* ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 52301−52315.
7. “Band gap engineered Sn-doped bismuth ferrite nanoparticles for visible light induced ultrafast methyl blue degradation” Sonam Chakraborty1, Nirman Chakraborty1, Swastik Mondal and Mrinal Pal* Ceramics International 2022, 48, 24, 37253-337263. (1Joint first authors)
8. “Chemiresistive NH3 detection at sub-zero temperatures by polypyrrole loaded Sn1-xSbxO2 nanocubes”, Nirman Chakraborty and Swastik Mondal* Mater. Horiz. 2022, 9, 1750-1762.
9. “Surface-analyte interaction as a function of Topological Polar Surface Area of Analytes in metal (Cd, Al, Ti, Sn) sulphide, nitride and oxide based chemiresistive materials”, Nirman Chakraborty, Sagnik Das, Debdulal Saha and Swastik Mondal* Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2022, 341, 113610.
10. “Dopant Mediated Surface Charge Imbalance in Enhancing Performance of Metal Oxide Chemiresistive Gas Sensors”, Nirman Chakraborty and Swastik Mondal* J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022, 10, 1968-1976. (selected as HOT Article)
11. “Dopant Induced Cationic Bivalency in Hierarchical Antimony Doped Tin Oxide Nano-particles for Room Temperature SO2 Sensing”, Nirman Chakraborty, Pradeepta Kumar Ghose, Pratyasha Rudra, Sagnik Das, Debdulal Saha, Ajay K. Mishra, Ambarish Sanyal and Swastik Mondal* J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 21824-21834.
12. “Poly Aniline (PANI) Loaded Hierarchical Ti1-xSbxO2 Rutile Phase Nanocubes for Selective Room Temperature Detection of Benzene Vapor”, Nirman Chakraborty, Sagnik Das, Akbar Hossain Debdulal Saha and Swastik Mondal* Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2021, 347, 130622.
13. “Roles of structure and electron mobilization in enhanced ethanol sensing by Al doped SnO2 nanoparticles”, Nirman Chakraborty, Sagnik Das, Velaga Srihari, Dibya Jyoti Mondal, Debdulal Saha, Sanjit Konar, Ajay K. Mishra and Swastik Mondal* Mater. Adv., 2021, 2, 3760-3769.
14. “Ammonia Sensing by Sn1-xVxO2 Mesoporous Nanoparticles”, Nirman Chakraborty, Ambarish Sanyal, Sagnik Das, Debdulal Saha, Samar K. Medda and Swastik Mondal* ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2020, 3, 8, 7572-7579.
15. “Hydrothermal Synthesis, Characterization of Co3Sb4O6F6 and Carbon doped Co3Sb4O6F6 and their Application towards Photocatalytic Dye Degradation, Adsorption, Catalytic Knoevenagel Condensation and Bacterial Disinfection” Sayantani Paul, Bibaswan Sen, Nilendu Basak, Sangita Das, Pratyasha Rudra, Nirman Chakraborty, Ekramul Islam, Swastik Mondal, Sk Jahir Abbas and Sk Imran Ali* Journal of Molecular Structure 2025, 1321(3), 140006.
16. “Zn3Sb4O6F6 and KI-doped Zn3Sb4O6F6: A Metal Oxyfluoride System for Photocatalytic Activity, Knoevenagel condensation and Bacterial Disinfection” Sayantani Paul, Bibaswan Sen, Nilendu Basak, Nirman Chakraborty, Kiron Bhakat, Sangita Das, Ekramul Islam, Swastik Mondal, Sk Jahir Abbas, Sk Imran Ali* Inorganic Chemistry 2023, 62, 2, 1032-1046.
17. “Effects of dopant oxidation states on enhanced low ppm CO sensing by Copper doped Zinc Oxide” Pratyasha Rudra, Nirman Chakraborty, Velaga Srihari, Ajay K. Mishra, Sagnik Das, Debdulal Saha and Swastik Mondal* Materials Chemistry and Physics 2023, 295, 127047.
18. “Y and Al codoped ZnO-based ultrasensitive trace ethanol sensor: a potential breath analyzer for fatty liver disease and drunken driving detection” Subhojit Mojumder, Tanushri Das, Sagnik Das, Nirman Chakraborty, Debdulal Saha, Mrinal Pal* Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 2022, 372, 132611.
19. “pH-regulated hydrothermal synthesis, characterization of Sb4O5X2 (X=Br/Cl) and its use for the dye degradation of methyl orange both with and without light illumination” Sayantani Paul, Bibaswan Sen, Nirman Chakraborty, Sangita Das, Swastik Mondal, Asoke Prasun Chattopadhyay, Sk Imran Ali* RSC Adv. 2022, 12, 8374-8384.
20. “Influence of pressure on transport, magnetic and structural properties of superconducting Cr0.001NbSe2 single crystal” Manikanadan Krishnan, Rukshana Pervin, Chandrasekaran Saravanan, Sathiskumar Mariappal, Nirman Chakraborty, Parasharam Shirage, Swastik Mondal, Velaga Srihari, Himanshu Poshwal and S Arumugam* RSC Adv. 2020, 10, 13112-13125.
Patents
“Metal Oxide-Polymer Nano Composite for Ammonia Sensing at Temperatures below ambient including Sub-Zero Temperatures” Swastik Mondal, Nirman Chakraborty, Indian Patent Application No.: 202111015506 (Date of filing: 31.03.2021). International patent filed under PCT (Application no. PCT/IN2022/050309 dated 26.03.2022) [PCT published on 11.10.2023] US Patent Application published (Publication no. US 2024/0094179A1 dated 21.03.2024)