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Dr. Debabrata Nandi

Assistant Professor (Chemistry)
PhD: Chemistry, Calcutta University
Post Doc: IIT Kharagpur, Marie-Curie Fellow CATRIN/Groningen, IPF Germany

Dr. Nandi received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Calcutta University in 2014. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Leibniz-DAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany, where he conducted research for one year. Following this, he returned to India and joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur as a National Postdoctoral Fellow (NPDF) under the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), New Delhi, for two years. In addition to his research, Dr. Nandi has gained valuable international experience in research and project management in the field of Materials Science and Engineering, through his work at the University of South Africa, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, and the Sirindhorn International Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering (TGGS). He also holds teaching experience in Chemistry at Sabang Sajanikanta Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with Vidyasagar University) and at the Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management (affiliated with West Bengal University of Technology). In 2022, Dr. Nandi was awarded the highly prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fellowship by the European Commission. Under this program, he served as an experienced researcher at RCPTM-CATRIN, Palacký University Olomouc (Czechia) and the University of Groningen (Netherlands) for two years. In August 2025, Dr. Nandi joined MIT Mumbai as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry.

  • Electrochemistry (supercapacitor and battery)
  • Water treatment (dye and heavy metal removal)
  • Gas sensing (Ammonia, carbon monoxide, humidity, etc.)
  1. Debabrata Nandi, Kaushik Gupta, Arup K. Ghosh, Amitabha De, Nihar Ranjan Ray, Uday Chand Ghosh*, Thermally stable polypyrrole–Mn doped Fe(III) oxide nanocomposite sandwiched in graphene layer: Synthesis, characterization with tunable electrical conductivity, Chemical Engineering Journal 220 (2013) 107-116. (Impact factor 13.4)
  2. Tina Basu, Debabrata Nandi, Pintu Sen, Uday Chand Ghosh,* Equilibrium modeling of As(III,V) sorptionin the absence/presence of some groundwater co- curring ions by iron(III)–cerium(IV) oxide nanoparticle agglomerates: A mechanistic approach of surface interaction, Chemical Engineering Journal 228 (2013) 665–678. (Impact factor 13.4)
  3. Indranil Saha, Abir Ghosh, Debabrata Nandi, Kaushik Gupta, Debashis Chatterjee, Uday Chand Ghosh, β-cyclodextrin modified hydrous zirconium oxide: synthesis, characterization and defluoridationperformancesfromaqueoussolution ChemicalEngineeringJournal263(2015)220- 30. (Impact factor 13.4)
  4. Debabrata Nandi*, Suprakash Sinha Ray, and Arjun Maity, Removal of Ni (II) from aqueous medium by fluorescence sensor platform of superparamagnetic nanocomposite decorated on RGO sheet, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 454(2015) 69-79. (Impact factor 10.0)
  5. K. Gupta, S. Bhattacharya, Debabrata Nandi, D.J. Chattopadhyay, N.R. Ray, P. Sen, U.C. Ghosh*, Arsenic(III) sorption on nanostructured cerium incorporated manganese oxide (NCMO): A physical insight into the mechanistic pathway, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 377 (2012) 269–276. (Impact factor 10.0)
  6. DebabrataNandi,*PrasunK.Pal, ArupK.Ghosh,AmitabhaDe,UdayChandGhosh*.Polypyrrole decorated graphene nanostructure: Fabrication, depiction and anomalous dimensional crossover in electronic conduction Applied Surface Science 293(2014) 90-96. (Impact factor 7.7)
  7. Debabrata Nandi*, JyotishkumarParameswaranpillai, SuchartSiengchin, Mechanistic insightinto high response of carbon monoxide gas sensor developed by nickel manganate nanorod decorated reduced graphene oxide, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 589 (2020) 124449. (Impact factor 5.5)
  8. Debabrata Nandi, Arup K. Ghosh, Kaushik Gupta, Amitabha De, Pintu Sen, Ankan Duttachowdhury, Uday Chand Ghosh,* Polypyrrole–titanium(IV) doped iron(III) oxide nanocomposites: Synthesis, characterization with tunable electrical and electrochemical properties, Materials Research Bulletin 47 (2012) 2095-2103. (Impact factor 5.5)
  9. DebabrataNandi*,JyotishkumarParameswaranpillai,SuchartSiengchin,AnilK. Bhowmick,The unique microsphere of rutheniummanganate:Synthesis, structure elucidation, morphology analyses and magnetic property, Materials Chemistry andPhysics 246 (2020) 122845. (Impactfactor 4.8)
  10. Debabrata Nandi, Velram Balaji Mohan, Anil K. Bhowmick, Debes Bhattacharyya, Metal/metal oxide decorated graphene synthesis and application as supercapacitor: a review, Journal of Materials Science 55 (2020) 6375–6400. (Impact factor 4.8)
  11. Debabrata Nandi,* Arup K. Ghosh, Amitabha De, Pintu Sen, and Uday Chand Ghosh*. Fabrication, nanostructure evaluation, 3D electrical transport and electrochemical capacitance of PEDOT–Ti(IV)-doped iron(III) oxide nanocomposite Journal of Materials Science49 (2014) 776- 785. (Impact factor 4.8)
  12. Debabrata Nandi,* MinojGnanaseelan,Frank SimonandJürgen Pionteck,* Uniquenanopetalsof nickel vanadate: crystal structure elucidation and supercapacitive performance, New Journal of Chemistry 41 (2017) 5620-5627. (Impact factor 3.9)
  13. DebabrataNandi*andArjunMaity,Synthesis,nanostructureevaluationandtunableanomalous3D hopping transport of manganese ferrite encapsulated poly [3,4 -(ethylenedioxy) thiophene] decorated graphene layer, RSC Advance 5 (2015) 36149-36155. (Impact factor 4.0)
  14. Indranil Saha, Sarat Kanrar, Kaushik Gupta, Bibhutibhushan Show, Debabrata Nandi, Krishna Biswas, Biswaranjan Manna, Debashis Chatterjee and Uday Chand Ghosh, Tuned synthesis and characterizational insight into β-cyclodextrin amended hydrous iron-zirconium hybrid oxide: a promising scavengeroffluoridein aqueous solution, RSC Advance6 (2016) 93842-93854. (Impact factor 4.0)
  15. Partha Dutta, Debabrata Nandi, Sudeshna Datta, Subhajit Chakraborty, Nilimesh Das, Shovon Chatterjee, Uday Chand Ghosh, Arnab Halder, Excitation wavelength dependent UV fluorescence ofdispersedmodifiedgrapheneoxide:EffectofpH, JournalofLuminescence 168(2015)269-275. (Impact factor 5.6)
  16. Debabrata Nandi, Tina Basu, Sushanta Debnath, Arup K. Ghosh, Amitabha De, Uday Chand Ghosh*. Mechanistic Insight for the Sorption of Cd(II) and Cu(II) from Aqueous Solution on MagneticMn-Doped Fe(III) Oxide Nanoparticle Implanted Graphene, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data 58 (2013) 2809-2818. (Impact factor 3.2)
  17. Sushanta Debnath, Debabrata Nandi, Uday Chand Ghosh, Adsorption-Desorption Behavior of Cadmium(II) and Copper(II) on the Surface of Nanoparticle Agglomerates of Hydrous Titanium(IV) Oxide, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data 56 (2011) 3021-3028. (Impact factor 3.2)
  18. AbirGhosh,SaratKanrar, DebabrataNandi, PalaniSasikumar,KrishnaBiswas*,andUdayChand Ghosh*,Redox-Assisted Arsenic(III) Adsorption for Removal from Aqueous Solution by Cerium(IV)- Incorporated Zirconium Oxide Nanocomposites, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data 65 (2019) 885-895. (Impact factor 3.2)
  19. Debabrata Nandi, Kaushik Gupta, Arup Kumar Ghosh, Amitabha De, Sangam Banerjee, Uday Chand Ghosh*. Manganese-incorporated iron(III) oxide–graphene magnetic nanocomposite: synthesis, characterization, and application for the arsenic(III)-sorption from aqueous solution, Journal of Nanoparticle Research 14(2012) 1272. (Impact factor 2.3)
  20. Sayan Bhattacharya*, Navonil De Sarkar*, Debabrata Nandi, Kaushik Gupta, Uday ChandGhosh, Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay, Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Study Of Hydrological Characters Of The Groundwater In An Arsenic Contaminated Zone In West Bengal, India International Journal Of InstitutionalPharmacy And Life Sciences 12(4) (2012) 2249-6807. (Impact factor 0.5)
  21. Debabrata Nandi, Atanu Talukdar, Uday Chand Ghosh, Amitabha De, Satyaban Bhunia Arup Kumar Ghosh*Reduced Graphene Oxide/ Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Co-polymer Composite with Improved Thermal Stability and Flame Retardancy, Journal of Polymer Materials29 (4) (2012) 401-411. (Impact factor 0.5)
  22. Debabrata Nandi, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Suchart Siengchin, Synthesis of three- dimensional graphene architectures from chicken feather and its unusual dimensional crossover in electronic conductivity, Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects, 25 (2021) 100665.
  23. Seena K.Thomas, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Senthilkumar Krishnasamy, P.M. Sabura Begum, Debabrata Nandi, Suchart Siengchin, Jinu Jacob, Natalia Sienkiewicz, A comprehensive reviewoncellulose,chitin,andstarchasfillersinnaturalrubberbiocomposites, CarbohydratePolymer Technologiesand Applications,2 (2021)100095
  24. Seno Jose, VK Smitha, Sanjay M Rangappa, Senthilkumar Krishnasamy, Debabrata Nandi, Suchart Siengchin, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Micro‐and Nanoscale Structure Formation in Epoxy‐Clay Nanocomposites, Epoxy Composites: Fabrication, Characterization and Applications (2021) 61-82, Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
  25. K Senthilkumar, Debabrata Nandi, M Chandrasekar, T Senthil Muthu Kumar, S Karthikeyan, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Suchart Siengchin, An overview of metal oxide-filled biocomposites, Green Biocomposites for Biomedical Engineering (2021) 97-111
  26. DebabrataNandi*,SumanK.Ghosh,AbirGhosh,SuchartSiengchin,UdayC.GhoshandAnil K. Bhowmick* Arsenic removal from water by graphene nanoplatelets prepared from nail waste: a physicochemical study of adsorption based on process optimization, kinetics, isotherm and thermodynamics, Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring & Management 16 (2021) 100564.
  27. Sabarish Radoor, Jasila Karayil, Aswathy Jayakumar, Debabrata Nandi, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Jaewoo Lee, Jyothi Mannekote Shivanna, Rajarathinam Nithya, Suchart Siengchin, Adsorption of Cationic Dye onto ZSM-5 Zeolite-Based Bio Membrane: Characterizations, Kinetics and Adsorption Isotherm, Journal of Polymers and the Environment (2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-022-02421-5. (Impact factor 4.7)
  28. Harikrishnan Pulikkalparambil, Debabrata Nandi*, Sanjay Mavikere Rangappa, Sreelakshmi Prasanth, Suchart Siengchin, Polymer Composites from Natural Fibers And Recycled Waste Surgical Masks During Covid-19 Pandemic, Polymer Composites (2022) https://doi.org/10.1002/pc.26668 (Impact factor 3.5)
  29. A Jayakumar, S Radoor, JT Kim, JW Rhim, Debabrata Nandi et al. Recent innovations in bionanocomposites-based food packaging films–A comprehensive review, Food Packaging and Shelf Life 33 (2022) 100877 (Impact factor 8.7).
  30. A Jayakumar, S Radoor, JT Kim, JW Rhim, Debabrata Nandi et al. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles and elderberry extract incorporated starch based polyvinyl alcohol films as active and intelligent food packaging wraps, Food Packaging and Shelf Life 34 (2022) 100967 (Impact factor 8.7).
  31. Sabarish Radoor, Jasila Karayil, Aswathy Jayakumar, Jaewoo Lee, Debabrata Nandi, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Bisheshwar Pant, Suchart Siengchin. Efficient Removal of Organic Dye from Aqueous Solution Using Hierarchical Zeolite-Based Biomembrane: Isotherm, Kinetics, Thermodynamics and Recycling Studies, Catalysts 12(8) (2022) 886. (Impact factor 4.5)
  32. Sabarish Radoor, Jasila Karayil, Aswathy Jayakumar, Jaewoo Lee, Debabrata Nandi, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Suchart Siengchin Polyvinyl alcohol/guar gum-based bio-adsorbent for the removal of cationic and anionic dyes from aqueous solution. Polymer Bulletin (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-022-04552-0(Impact factor 2.8)
  33. Debabrata Nandi*,Harikrishnan Pulikkalparambil, Sabarish Radoor et al. Solvothermal synthesis of nickel titanate nanosphere: crystal structure determination and high-rate supercapacitorperformance. Chemical Papers (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s11696-022-02451-2(Impact factor 2.1).
  34. Debabrata Nandi*, Aswati Jayakumar, Sabarish Radoor, Rapeeporn Srisuk and Suchart Siengchin. Hydrothermal synthesis, crystal structure investigation, and high-rate electrochemical performanceofnickelzincatenanorods, JournalofSolid-StateElectrochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-022-05318-4(2022)(Impactfactor2.7)
  35. Harikrishnan Pulikkalparambil, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Jürgen Pionteck, Debabrata Na ndi,SuchartSiengchin, Autonomous self-healing in green epoxy thermosets for flexible functional coatings, Construction and Building Materials 393 (2023) 132090 (Impact factor 7.5)
  36. Sabarish Radoor, JasilaKarayil, Aswathy Jayakumar, Debabrata Nandi, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Jaewoo Lee & Suchart Siengchin, Polyvinyl alcohol/guar gum-based bio-adsorbent for the removal of cationic and anionic dyes from aqueous solution, Polymer Bulletin 80 (2023) 10165–10191 (Impact factor 3.0)
  37. Debabrata Nandi, Sabarish Radoor, Aswathy Jayakumar, Chandni Devi & Suchart Siengchin, Application of a biowaste of fish (Labeo rohita) scale for the removal of methyl orange from aqueous solutions: optimization of sorption conditions by response surface method and analysis of adsorption mechanism, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 14 (2024) 3523–3534 (Impact factor 3.5)
  38. Debabrata Nandi, Sabarish Radoor, Aswathy Jayakumar, Chandni Devi & Suchart Siengchin, Hexagonal nanoplatelets of Ni–Mn oxide implanted reduced graphene oxide for high response in humidity sensing, Chemical Papers 78 (2024) 3099–3110 (Impact factor 2.1)
  39. GauravKumarYogesh,DebabrataNandi(equalcontributionwiththefirstauthor),RungsimaYeetsorn, Waritnan Wanchan, Chandni Devi, Ravi Pratap Singh, Aditya Vasistha, Mukesh Kumar, Pankaj Koinkar, Kamlesh Yadav, Energy Advances DOI: 10.1039/D4YA00577E (2025)(Impact factor 3.2)
  40. Veronika Šedajová,Debabrata Nandi,Petr Langer, et al.,Direct upcycling of highly efficient sorbents for emerging organic contaminants into high energy content supercapacitors, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 692, 2025, 137481 (Impact factor 9.5)
  1. The European Corrosion Congress (EUROCORR, Paris, France 2024), titled “Ultrahigh supercapacitive energy storage in layered porous transition metal carbide.”
  2. Annual International Conference on Materials Science and Nanoscience (AICMSN Rome 2025), titled “High energy density asymmetric supercapacitor of manganese carbide with low work function.”
  3. International Conference on Biomaterials and implants: Prospects and possibilities in the new millennium (CSIR and Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India 2011), entitled “ Carbon based materials for dye removal.”
  4. International seminar on Global Environmental Issues: Challenges to Industry, Ecology and Society (University of Kalyani and IRDF West Bengal, India 2011) titled ‘heavy metal removal from aqueous solution.”
  5. 48thannual convention of chemists (Indian Chemical Society, Allahabad, India, 2011), titled ‘Metal oxide based materials for arsenic removal from aqueous solution”.
  6. National Seminar on Current Trends In Chemistry (Sripat Singh College, Murshidabad, India, 2013), titled “Removal of copper and cadmium from aqueous solution by trantion metal oxide.”
  • Marie-Curie fellowship (European Commission) 2022
  • KMUTNB Post-Doctoral fellowship 2020
  • NPDF (SERB New Delhi) 2016
  • DAAD (German Academic Service) award Bonn Germany 2015
  • GATE 2010
  • NET 2010
  • Patents:
    • S. Siengchin, J. Tengsuthiwat, H. Pulikkalparambil, J. Parameswaranpillai, D. Nandi, S.M. Rangappa. Formulation and methodology of modification of bio-epoxy resin using ionic liquid on autonomous self-healing. Thai Patent 2203000842 (07.04.2022).
    • S. Siengchin, J. Tengsuthiwat, D. Nandi, H. Pulikkalparambil, S.M. Rangappa. Preparation and methodology of sisal fiber composites with polypropylene derived from recycled surgical mask for packaging application. Thai Patent 2203000843 (07.04.2022).
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