Dilip K Maiti

PeerJ Editor

Summary

Dilip K. Maiti was born September 09, 1970, in West Bengal, India. He received his BSc. in chemistry in 1991 and MSc. (organic chemistry major) in 1993, from the University of Calcutta, India. He achieved his Ph.D. on stereoselective synthesis, from Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in 1998. He carried out his postdoctoral research in the School of Medicine, Wayne State University, USA. In 2005, he joined as a Reader faculty at the University of Calcutta and became full Professor in 2011. His major research activity is focused on organic synthesis and fabrication of smart organic nanomaterials, sensors and devices.

Catalysis Catalysts Computational Science Electronic, Optical & Magnetic Energy Materials Green Chemistry Materials Science (other) Nano & Microstructured Materials Nanomaterials & Nanochemistry Organic Chemistry (other) Organic Compounds Organometallic Chemistry Physical Organic Chemistry Sensors Stereochemistry Supramolecular Chemistry Surface & Structural Imaging Synthetic Organic Chemistry

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PeerJ Organic Chemistry

PeerJ Materials Science

Work details

Professor

University of Calcutta

September 2005 - September 2035

Chemistry

Synthetic Organic Chemistry: Catalysis and organic synthesis including C-H activation, photocatalysis, NHC catalysis, organocatalysis, combocatalysis, ionic liquid catalysis, nanocatalysis, hypervalent iodine mediated synthesis, computational studies using density functional theory (DFT), mechanistic study by DFT Calculation, XPS, EPR, ATR-Mid-IR, UV-Vis-NIR, ESI-MS and Fluorescence spectroscopy. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Fabrication of smart organic nanomaterials for sensing hazardous pollutants, synthesis of polymer materials for sensing metal ions, peptide-based smart materials with halogen bonding for cyanide sensing, nanomaterials for security and inkless data printing, fabrication of crossbar devices for RRAM, WORM and other memory device applications, and fabrication of inverted organic solar cell devices.

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