Contact:
Director and Chair Professor (on lien), Department of Physical Chemistry
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Phone: +(91) (33) 2473 3542(O)
+(91) (33) 2435 9118 (R)
+(91) (33) 2436 4457 (R)
Fax: +(91) (33) 2473 2805
Email : pckb [AT] iacs.res.in and director [AT] iacs.res.in

Some Recent Publications

184. S. Sen Mojumdar, T. Mondal, A. K. Das, S. Dey, K. Bhattacharyya,  Ultrafast and Ultraslow Proton Transfer of Pyranine in an Ionic Liquid Microemulsion, J. Chem. Phys. (2010, in press).

183.  S. Ghosh, A. Adhikari, S. Sen Mojumdar,  K. Bhattacharyya, A FCS Study of Diffusion of an Organic Dye in The Gel Phase and Fluid Phase of a Single Lipid Vesicle, J. Phys. Chem.  B  114 (2010) 5736. 

182.  D. K. Sasmal, S. Sen Mojumdar, A. Adhikari, K.  Bhattacharyya,  Deuterium Isotope Effect on Femtosecond  Solvation  Dynamics in an Ionic Liquid Microemulsion: An Excitation Wavelength Dependence Study, J. Phys. Chem.  B 114 (2010) 4565. 

181. K. Bhattacharyya, Jiggling of coherent excitons along a polymer chain, ChemPhysChem 10 (2009) 1981.

180. D. K. Sasmal, S. Dey, D. K. Das, K. Bhattacharyya, Deuterium isotope effect on femtosecond solvation dynamics in methyl beta-cyclodextrins, J. Chem. Phys. 131 (2009) 044509.

179. S. Ghosh, U Mandal, A. Adhikari, K. Bhattacharyya, Study of diffusion of organic dyes in a triblock co-polymer micelle and gel by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Chem. Asian J. 4 (2009) 948.  

178. A. Adhikari, D. K. Das, D. K. Sasmal, K. Bhattacharyya, Ultrafast FRET in a room temperature ionic liquid micro-emulsion: A femtosecond excitation wavelength dependence study, J. Phys. Chem. A 113 (2009) 3737.  

177. S. Dey, A. Adhikari, D. K. Das, D. K. Sasmal, K. Bhattacharyya, Femtosecond solvation dynamics in a micron sized aggregate of an ionic liquid and P123 tri-block co-polymer, J. Phys. Chem. B. 113 (2009) 959.

176. S. K. Mondal, K. Sahu, K. Bhattacharyya, “Study of biological assemblies by ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy,” Ann. Rev. Fluorescence 2007 (Springer, 2009). 

175. S. Dey, D. K. Sasmal, D. K. Das, K. Bhattacharyya, A femtosecond study of solvation dynamics and anisotropy decay in a catanionic vesicle: excitation wavelength dependence, ChemPhysChem 9 (2008) 2848 

174. U. Mandal, S. Ghosh, G. Mitra, A. Adhikari, S. Dey, K. Bhattacharyya, A femtosecond study of the interaction of human serum albumin with a surfactant (SDS), Chem. Asian J. 3 (2008) 1430. 

173. A. Adhikari, S. Dey, D. Das, U. Mandal, S. Ghosh, K. Bhattacharyya, Solvation Dynamics in Ionic Liquid Swollen P123 Triblock Copolymer Micelle: A Femtosecond Excitation Wavelength Dependence Study, J. Phys. Chem. B. 112 (2008) 6350. 

172. K. Bhattacharyya, Nature of Biological Water: A Femtosecond Study, Chemical Communications (2008) 2848.
Kankan Bhattacharyya, FNA, FASc, FNASc
Director, IACS and Sr. Professor (on lien)

Education/positions:
Ph. D.(Supervisor: M. Chowdhury, IACS) 1984
Post-doc (Notre Dame University, USA with P. K. Das) 1984-86
Post-doc (Columbia University, USA, with K. B. Eisenthal) 1986-87
Faculty: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science  
Senior lecturer 1987-92
Reader 1992-98
Professor 1998-2005
Senior Professor 2005-

Current Interest

Solvation dynamics Femtosecond Up-conversion
Energy Transfer (FRET)
 Picosecond single photon counting
Proton/Electron Transfer Confocal microscope and fluorescence life time imaging
Anisotropy decay Surface Second harmonic generation
Proteins, micelles, lipid, cyclodextrin, polymer  

Awards/Membership of Learned bodies

Professor Sadhan Basu Memorial Lecture for 2011 by INSA 2011
INSA Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal (Chemical Sciences) 2010
Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences 2008
Senior Editor, The Journal Of Physical Chemistry 2008-
Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize in Chemistry 2007
Member, Editorial Adv Board, The Journal of Physical Chemistry  
Member, Editorial Board, Chemistry-An Asian Journal  
J. C. Bose Fellowship, Govt. of India 2007-
CRSI Silver Medal 2006
Member, India-Japan Science Council 2005-
CSIR New Millennium Science Leadership Medal 2000
S. S. Bhatnagar Prize 1997
Fellow, Indian National Science Academy 2002
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences 1997
Fellow, National Academy of Sciences 2008
B. C. Dev Memorial Prize, Indian Science Congress 1997

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