Personal Profile:
Ph.D. (2001) IIT Kharagpur
Post Doc. (2001 Dec to 2004 March), Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Post Doc. (2004 April to 2006 Oct), University of Arkansas, USA
Assistant Professor (2007 Jan- ), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India

Research interest: Colloidal Chemistry

Publication :

	Advances in Optically Active Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals Narayan Pradhan* and D. D. Sarma J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2011, 2, 2818. (Invited Perspective Article), (Cover Art of the issue) Video Link
	Insertion/Ejection of Dopant ions in Composition Tunable Semiconductor Nanocrystals Shinjita Acharya and Narayan Pradhan* J. Phys. Chem. C. 2011, 115, 19513.
	Correlation of Dopant States and Host Bandgap in Dual Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals Santanu Jana, Bhupendra B. Srivastava and Narayan Pradhan* J. Phys. Chem. Letters, 2011, Accepted.
	Ultra Small Color Tunable Cu Doped Ternary Semiconductor Nanocrystal Emitters Suresh Sarkar, Niladri S. Karan and Narayan Pradhan* Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 6065-6069.
	Thermally Controlled Cyclic Insertion - Ejection of Dopant ions and Reversible Zinc Blende - Wurtzite Phase Changes in ZnS Nanostructures Niladri S. Karan, Suresh Sarkar, D. D. Sarma, Paromita Kundu, N. Ravishankar and Narayan Pradhan* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133 , 1666–1669.
	Doping Cu in Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Some Old and Some New Physical Insights Bhupendra B. Srivastava, Santanu Jana and Narayan Pradhan* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 1007–1015.
	Doping Transition Metal (Mn or Cu) Ions in Semiconductor Nanocrystals Niladri S. Karan, D. D. Sarma, R. M. Kadam, and Narayan Pradhan* J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2010, 1 (19), pp 2863–2866.
	An Alternate Route to High-Quality ZnSe and Mn-Doped ZnSe Nanocrystals Shinjita Acharya, D. D. Sarma, Nikhil R. Jana, and Narayan Pradhan* J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1, 485-488
	Prevention of Photooxidation in Blue–green Emitting Cu doped ZnSe Nanocrystals Santanu Jana, Bhupendra B. Srivastava, Shinjita Acharya, Pralay K. Santra, Nikhil R. Jana, D. D. Sarma and Narayan Pradhan* Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 2853-2855.
	Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Organic Dyes: An Efficient and Greener FRET System Suresh Sarkar, Riya Bose, Santanu Jana, Nikhil R Jana, and Narayan Pradhan* J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1, 636-640.
	Highly Luminescent Mn-Doped ZnS Nanocrystals: Gram-Scale Synthesis Bhupendra B. Srivastava, Santanu Jana, Niladri S. Karan, Sayantan Paria, Nikhil R. Jana, D. D. Sarma and Narayan Pradhan* J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1, 1454-458.
	Role of Fatty Acid in Controlling Nucleation and Growth of CdS Nanocrystals in Solution Niladri S. Karan, Aritra Mandal, Subhendu K. Panda, and Narayan Pradhan* J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 8873- 8876.
	Surface Ligand Population Controlled Oriented Attachments: A Case of CdS Nanocrystals Bhupendra. B. Srivastava, Santanu Jana, D. D. Sarma, Narayan Pradhan* J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1, 1932–1935

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