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    Meet the Associate Professor

    Sanmitra Barman

    Associate Professor,
    School of Engineering

    prabhakar

    Position (additional roles) : Coordinator

    Email : sanmitra.barman@bmu.edu.in

    Sanmitra teaches nanoscience,electrochemistry, environmental science and sustainability. His research interests include designing energy harvesting materials for photoelectrochemical water splitting, photocatalytic pollutant degradation in wastewater and designing substrate for sensing of environmental pollutants present in water by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic technique.

    • Graduation In: Chemistry (Hons)
    • Graduation From: Burdwan University
    • Graduation Year: 2000
    • Post Graduation In: Inorganic Chemistry
    • Post Graduation From: Jadavpur University
    • Post Graduation Year: 2002
    • Doctorate In: Organic Chemistry
    • Doctorate From: Kansas State University
    • Doctorate Year: 2010
    • Nanoscience: from Synthesis to Applications
    • Chemistry
    • Environmental Sciences
    • Electrochemistry and Energy Storage Systems
    • Research and Publication Ethics
    From - To (Year) Designation & Organization Core Competency Additinal Exp. Details
    April 2021-Present Associate Professor in Chemistry at BML Munjal University
    March 2013-April 2014 Assistant Professor in Chemistry at BML Munjal University
    2013-2014 Research Scientist at Piramal Healthcare
    2011-2012 Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Texas with Dr. Eric Anslyn
    • Barman, S.*; Singh, B.*; Bag, A. “Visible light driven photocatalytic degradation of Methyl Orange by Fe2O3-BiOCl0.5Br0.5 heterojunction photocatalyst” Asia Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/apj.2715, Impact Factor: 1.47
    • Ashraf, W.; Bansal, S.; Singh, V.; Barman, S.; Khanuja, M*. “BiOCl/WS2 hybrid nanosheet (2D/2D) heterojunctions for visible-light-driven photocatalytic degradation of organic/inorganic water pollutants” RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 25073-25088. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ra02916e, Impact Factor: 3.027
    • Mir, A. Q.; Dolui, D.; Khandelwal, S.; Bhatt, H.; Kumari, B.; Barman, S.; Kanvah, S.; Dutta, A*. “Developing photosensitizer-Cobaloxime hybrid for solar-driven H2 production in aqueous aerobic conditions” J. Vis. Exp. 2019, 152, 60231, Impact Factor: 1.2
    • Barman, S.; Levy, C. J. “Asymmetric Sulfoxidation by C1-symmetric V(IV)O(ONO) (S)-NOBIN Schiff-base Vanadyl Complexes” Canadian J. Chem. 2019, 97(9), 637-641 https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2019-0017 Canadian J. Chem. 2019, Impact Factor: 1.05
    • Barman, S.; You, L.; Ran, C.; Kago, G.; Robertus, J.; Krug, R.; Anslyn, E. V. “Exploring naphthylcarbohydrazides as inhibitors of influenza A viruses” Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2014,71(7), 81-90, ISSN: 0223-5234, Impact Factor: 3.50
    • Barman, S.; Anslyn, E. V. “Rapid Determination of Enantiomeric Excess of α-Chiral Aldehydes Using Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy” Tetrahedron. 2014,70(6), 1357-1362, ISSN: 0040-4020, Impact Factor: 2.80
    • Roy, S.; Parsi, P. K.; Kotha, R. S.; Barman, S.; Vinayak, K.; Roy, M. M.; Banerjee, R. “Effective utilization of waste cooking oil in a single cylinder diesel engine using alumina nanoparticles” Sustainable Energy Fuels 2020, 4, 571-581, https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SE00393B, Impact Factor: 4.92
    • Barman, S.; Diehl, K. L.; Anslyn, E. V. “The effect of alkylation, protonation and hydroxyl group substitution on reversible alcohol and water addition to 2- and 4- formyl pyridine derivatives” 2014, RSC Advances.4, 28893-28900, Impact Factor: 3.70
    • Barman, S.; Desper, J.; Levy, C. J. “Synthesis and characterization of TiL2 complexes with tridentate-(ONO) (S)-NOBIN schiff-base ligands” Polyhedron. 2014, 84, 168-176, ISSN: 0277-5387, Impact Factor: 2.05
    • Barman, S.; Patil, S.; Aikens, C. M.; Desper, J.; Levy, C. J. “Mono-helical vanadyl(IV) salen complexes as catalysts for asymmetric sulfoxidations” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 2013(33), 5708-5717, ISSN: 1434-1948, Impact Factor: 3.12
    • Barman, S; Patil, S.; Levy, C. J. “Asymmetric sulfoxidation of thioanisole by helical Ti(IV)-salan catalysts” Chem. Lett. 2012, 41(9), 974-975, ISSN: 0366-7022, Impact Factor: 1.61
    • Dhillon. A. K.; Barman. S.; Siddhanta. S. “Photoinduced Electron-Transfer-Mediated Differential Recognition of Proteins on Plasmonic Surfaces” 2024, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16, 35, 45888.
    • Kundu, A.; Dhillon, A. K.; Singh, R.; Barman, S.; Siddhanta, S.; Chakraborty, B. “Evolution of Mn–Bi2O3 from the Mn-doped Bi3O4 Br electro (pre) catalyst during the oxygen evolution reaction”, 2024, Dalton Transactions, 53, 18, 8020.
    • Barman, S.*; Neema, S.; Rana, A.; Patel, A. S..; Chakraborti, A.; Rana, A*. “Investigation of Vacuum Arc-Deposited ta-C and taC:N Thin Films on Silicon and Stainless-Steel Foil Substrates using Raman Spectroscopy”, 2022, Materials Transactions, DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.MT-M2022054, Impact Factor: 1.37
    • Kansas State University Department of Chemistry Best Teaching Assistant Award on 2010