Rahul Banerjee (chemist)

Rahul Banerjee (Bengali:রাহুল ব্যানার্জি, born 1978) is an Indian organic chemist and a professor at the department of chemical sciences of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. Banerjee, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, is known for his studies in the field of Metal–organic framework designing. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to chemical sciences in 2018.[1][note 1]

This article is about the scientist. For other people with a similar name, see Rahul Banerjee.

Rahul Banerjee
Born (1978-03-22) 22 March 1978
West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forMetal–organic framework designing
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisor

Biography
Calcutta university - Salt Lake campus

Rahul Banerjee, born on 22 March 1978[2] in the Indian state of West Bengal, graduated in chemistry with honors from the University of Calcutta in 1998 and continued at the institution to earn a master's degree from the prestigious Rajabazar Science College campus in 2000.[3] His doctoral studies were at the University of Hyderabad under the guidance of TWAS laureate, Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju,[4] and he received his PhD in crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry in the year 2006. Subsequently, he moved to the US to do his post-doctoral work at the laboratory of Omar M. Yaghi at the University of California, Los Angeles and on his return to India in 2008, he joined the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (NCL)[5] as a scientist at grade C.[6] At the time his next move to the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata (IISER) in 2017, he was an E-1 grade scientist at NCL. At IISER, he holds the position of an associate professor[7] and heads the Porous Materials Laboratory (PMATLAB) where he hosts a number of researchers.[8]

Research and contributions

Banerjee focuses his research on designing Metal–organic frameworks for improved gas uptake property and is known to have contributed to the field of structural chemistry with regard to applications in hydrogen storage and carbon capture.[9] He has published a number of articles.[note 2][10] ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 165 of them.[11] He has participated in several scientific events including the Royal Society of Chemistry Roadshow 2017 held at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune where he was one of the keynote speakers.[12] He is also an associate editor of CrystEngComm, the biweekly journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[9]

Awards and honors

During his days at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2008, Banerjee received two honors, viz. the Post Doctoral Recognition Award and the Amgen Post Doctoral Award, both awarded by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the university.[7] The Indian Academy of Sciences selected him as a Young Associate in 2009[2] and he received two Young Scientist awards in 2011, the NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award[13] and the CSIR Young Scientist Award.[7] Banerjee, who has received the fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry, was honored again by the National Academy of Sciences, India and Elsevier in 2014 with the NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award[14] and a year later, he received the Thomson Reuters Research Excellence-India Citation Award.[15] The same year, he received the 2015 B. M. Birla Science Prize in Chemistry[16][17] and he was selected for the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology in 2016.[18] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2018.[19][20]

Selected bibliography
  • Halder, Arjun; Ghosh, Meena; Khayum M, Abdul; Bera, Saibal; Addicoat, Matthew; Sasmal, Himadri Sekhar; Karak, Suvendu; Kurungot, Sreekumar; Banerjee, Rahul (5 September 2018). "Interlayer Hydrogen-Bonded Covalent Organic Frameworks as High-Performance Supercapacitors" (PDF). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140 (35): 10941–10945. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b06460. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 30132332.
  • Dey, Kaushik; Pal, Manas; Rout, Kanhu Charan; Kunjattu H, Shebeeb; Das, Anuja; Mukherjee, Rabibrata; Kharul, Ulhas K.; Banerjee, Rahul (20 September 2017). "Selective Molecular Separation by Interfacially Crystallized Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139 (37): 13083–13091. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b06640. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 28876060.
  • Khayum, M. Abdul; Kandambeth, Sharath; Mitra, Shouvik; Nair, Sanoop B.; Das, Anuja; Nagane, Samadhan S.; Mukherjee, Rabibrata; Banerjee, Rahul (2016). "Chemically Delaminated Free-Standing Ultrathin Covalent Organic Nanosheets". Angewandte Chemie. 128 (50): 15833–15837. doi:10.1002/ange.201607812. ISSN 1521-3757. PMID 27862737.
  • Banerjee, Rahul; Kharul, Ulhas K.; Garai, Bikash; Karak, Suvendu; Bera, Saibal; Shinde, Digambar Balaji; Chandra, Suman; Kandambeth, Sharath; Biswal, Bishnu P. (24 November 2015). "Pore surface engineering in porous, chemically stable covalent organic frameworks for water adsorption". Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 3 (47): 23664–23669. doi:10.1039/C5TA07998E. ISSN 2050-7496.
  • Bajpai, Alankriti; Chandrasekhar, Pujari; Govardhan, Savitha; Banerjee, Rahul; Moorthy, Jarugu Narasimha (2015). "Single Crystal-to-Single Crystal Site-Selective Postsynthetic Metal Exchange in a Zn–MOF Based on Semi-Rigid Tricarboxylic Acid and Access to Bimetallic MOFs". Chemistry – A European Journal. 21 (7): 2759–2765. doi:10.1002/chem.201406098. ISSN 1521-3765. PMID 25533890.

See also

Notes
  1. Long link - please select award year to see details
  2. Please see Selected bibliography section

References
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  2. "Associateship - Indian Academy of Sciences". www.ias.ac.in. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  3. "Dr. Rahul Banerjee - PMATLAB 2". www.pmatlab.com. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  4. "Chemistry Tree - Rahul Banerjee". academictree.org. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  5. "CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Faculty". academic.ncl.res.in. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  6. "Profile on IISER Kolkata". IISER Pune. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  7. "Dr. Rahul Banerjee - PMATLAB". www.pmatlab.com. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  8. "Members - PMATLAB". www.pmatlab.com. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  9. "Congratulations to Rahul Banerjee for winning the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize! – CrystEngComm Blog". Royal Society of Chemistry. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  10. "S K Mandal - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  11. "S K Mandal - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune". ResearchGate. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  12. "Royal Society of Chemistry Roadshows 2017 - CSIR-NCL, Pune". www.rsc.org. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  13. "NASI-YOUNG SCIENTIST PLATINUM JUBILEE AWARD". www.nasi.org.in. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  14. "Elsevier and National Academy of Sciences, India Announce the Winners of the 2014 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards". www.elsevier.com. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  15. "Thomson Reuters Honors Indian Scientists at India Citation Awards 2015". www.scind.org. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  16. "BM Birla Science Prizes For 2015 And 2016 Announced". Sakshipost. 1 November 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  17. "BM Birla Science Prize presented". www.thehansindia.com. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  18. NFN Network (29 November 2017). "DST Nominates IISER-Kolkata Professor For Swarnajayanti Fellowship". News from Nadia. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  19. "Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize". ssbprize.gov.in. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  20. "IISER Kolkata scientists win coveted award - Times of India". The Times of India. 3 October 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
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