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Prof. Sasanka Deka

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Dr. Sasanka Deka is a Professor of Chemistry, Nanochemistry and Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage (ECS) in the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi. He received his B.Sc. in chemistry from B. Borooah college, M.Sc. from Gauhati University, Guwahati and Ph.D. degree from National Chemical Laboratory (NCL-Pune) under the supervision of Prof. P.A. Joy. He did his postdoctoral research from National Nanotechnology Laboratory, CNR-INFM, Lecce, Italy and Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy under the mentorship of Prof. Liberato Manna. He has been awarded the TMS Foundation 2008 SHRI RAM ARORA AWARD, by the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), Warrendale, USA; DAE-BRNS Young scientist research award 2011, RSC best talk-2015, Institute of Physics (IOP), UK best cited paper-India 2019, RSC best cited paper in 2020, International Innovation & Research Excellence Award 2021, DU-IoE research publication award. Dr. Deka has published more than 80 highly cited research papers in different international high impact journals, 3 patents, and also wrote 2 books and 3 book chapters published by international publisher. He has successfully handled several extramural research projects from DST, CSIR, SERB, DBT, DAE, DAAD, IoE-DU, etc. 8 students are awarded Ph.D. degree under his guidance till date. He has been the visiting fellow of SPS, JNU and Adjunct Faculty in Islamic University of Science & Technology (IUST), Kashmir in the past. He is also actively involved in many of the academic/administrative work at the University and National level, and acted as chairs/executive members in various committees. His current research interest deals with synthetic nanochemistry, Manipulation at the Interface and crystal facets, Advanced nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage (sustainable development); Green hydrogen, Nanomaterials for catalysis.

Selected Publications:

  1. Abhinav Yadav, Manash R. Das, Sasanka Deka*   Fine Tuning of Torus-Shaped Mo-Doped Ni2P Nanorings for Enhanced Seawater Electrolysis. Small, 2024, ASAP 2408036 Full text pdf available here
  2. Sahil Singh, Javed Muhommad, Md. Samim Hassan, Raman Singh Lamba, Varsha Jha, Priyesh Yadav, Sasanka Deka,* Sameer Sapra* Interface-Engineered MoSe2-Co9S8 Nanoheterostructures with Enhanced Charge Storage Performance for Supercapacitor Application. Small, 2024 ASAP 2408276 Full text PDF available
  3. J Muhommad, MR Das, Sasanka Deka,* Liner Nanostructure of Metal Boride as a Cathode Material for High-Performance and Flexible Solid-State Asymmetric Hybrid Battery Supercapacitors, Energy & Fuels 2024,  38 (21), 21510-21520
  4. Yadav, A.; Kumar, A.; Purkayastha, S.K.; Guha, A. K.; Ali, M. A.; Deka, Sasanka* Nanoarchitectonics of amorphous Fe–Ni–B nanosheets for high throughput overall water splitting reaction International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2024, 53, 706-716
  5. Kumar, L.; Antil, B.; Kumar, A.; Das, M. R.; López-Estrada, O.; Siahrostami. S.; Deka, Sasanka* Experimental and Computational Insights into the Overall Water Splitting Reaction by the Fe−Co−Ni−P Electrocatalyst. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2023, 15, 54446–54457
  6. Kumar, A.; Purkayastha, S. K.; Guha, A. K.; Das, M. R.; Deka, Sasanka* Designing Nanoarchitecture of NiCu Dealloyed Nanoparticles on Hierarchical Co Nanosheets for Alkaline Overall Water Splitting at Low Cell Voltage. ACS Catalysis. 2023, 13,  10615–10626
  7. Muhommad, J.; Das, M. R.; Deka, Sasanka* Insight on electrochemical charge storage behavior of naturally surface oxidized amorphous NiCuCoB nanosheets. Journal of Energy Storage.  2023, 72, 108435
  8. Kumar, A., Muhommad, J., Purkayastha, S. K., Guha, A. K., Das, M. R., Deka, Sasanka* Robust and Promising Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction by Activated CuCoB Amorphous Nanosheets. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 2023, 11, 6, 2541–2553
  9. Kumar, A.; Purkayastha, S.K.;  Guha, A.K.; Das, M.R.; Deka, Sasanka* Robust and promising hydrogen and oxygen evolution reaction by nanostructured bifunctional FeCoPd alloy electrocatalyst. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2022, 10 (44), 23731-23743
  10. Antil, B.; Kumar, L.; Das, M. R.; Deka, Sasanka* Incorporating NiCoP co-Catalyst into Hollow Rings of ZnCo-Metal-Organic Frameworks to Deliver Pt co-Catalyst like Visible-Light Driven Hydrogen Evolution Activity. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2022, 5, 11113–11121