Professor gitish.dutta@nitm.ac.in 9485177036 Qualification : Post-Doc, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology Area of Research : Carbon-based and composite materials for energy, storage devices, fuel cell, Electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reactions and electrochemical sensors
1. Uddin, N.; Roy, S.; Baruah, R.; Nareda, A.; Dutta, G. K.; Chatterjee, P. N., Synthesis of symmetrical bis(indolyl)methanes via Sc(OTf)3 catalyzed tandem C–O and C–C bond breaking reaction and their anti-bacterial studies. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2026,137.
2. Uddin, N.; Roy, S.; Giri, S.; Dutta, G. K.; Chatterjee, P. N., Decarbonative routes to generate N-acyliminium ion intermediates for the synthesis of 3-substituted isoindolinones via an intermolecular amidoalkylation reaction. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2025,23 (32), 7448-7455.
3. Deb, R.; Gogoi, R.; Dutta, G. K., Single-step process for creating nitrogen and oxygen-enriched carbon using organic polymers for supercapacitor applications. Diamond and Related Materials 2025,151.
4. Uddin, N.; Roy, S.; Roy, S.; Paul, D.; Basumatary, G.; Dutta, G. K.; Chatterjee, P. N., Formation of Bis-indolylmethanes from Symmetrical Triarylmethanes via Brønsted Acid Catalyzed C−C Bond Breaking Reaction. ChemistrySelect 2024,9 (30).
5. Deb, R.; Barman, J.; Dutta, G. K., Iron, cobalt embedded nitrogen-doped carbon derived from conjugated macrocyclic polymers as electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction. Electrochimica Acta 2024,508.
6. Deka, N.; Dutta, G. K., Recent advancement in carbon-based materials as sulfur hosts for rechargeable aluminum–sulfur (Al–S) batteries. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 2023,38.
7. Barman, J.; Deb, R.; Deka, N.; Dutta, G. K., Nitrogen-Enriched Porous Carbon Materials from Expanded Polystyrene Waste for Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Rechargeable Zinc–Air Battery. Energy Technology 2023,11 (10).
8. Rudra, S.; Deka, N.; Nayak, A. K.; Pradhan, M.; Dutta, G. K., Facile hydrothermal synthesis of Au-Mn3O4 decorated graphene oxide nanocomposites for solid-state supercapacitor. Journal of Energy Storage 2022,50.
9. Barman, J.; Deka, N.; Rudra, S.; Dutta, G. K., Promising N, P Co-doped Porous Carbon Materials as Metal-Free Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Alkaline Medium. ChemistrySelect 2022,7 (28).
10. Barman, J.; Deka, N.; Maji, P. K.; Dutta, G. K., Nitrogen and Sulfur Enriched Porous Carbon Materials with Trace Fe Derived from Hyper-Crosslinked Polymer as an Efficient Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalyst. ChemElectroChem 2022,9 (15).
11. Kalita, G.; Deka, N.; Paul, D.; Thapa, L.; Dutta, G. K.; Chatterjee, P. N., Sulfonated Tetraphenylethylene-Based Hypercrosslinked Polymer as a Heterogeneous Catalyst for the Synthesis of Symmetrical Triarylmethanes via a Dual C-C Bond-Cleaving Path. Synlett 2021,32 (3), 304-308.
12. Deka, N.; Barman, J.; Gawas, P.; Parse, H. B.; Kakade, B.; Nutalapati, V.; Dutta, G. K., Nitrogen-Doped Microporous Carbons Synthesized from Indole-Based Copolymer Spheres for Supercapacitors and Metal-Free Electrocatalysis. Energy and Fuels 2021,35 (3), 2785-2794.
13. Deka, J.; Saha, K.; Gogoi, R.; Dutta, G. K.; Raidongia, K., Fabrication of Pressure-Responsive Energy Device from Nanofluidic Vanadium Pentoxide and Polymeric Hydrogel. ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2021,3 (1), 277-284.
14. Deka, N.; Barman, J.; Kasthuri, S.; Nutalapati, V.; Dutta, G. K., Transforming waste polystyrene foam into N-doped porous carbon for capacitive energy storage and deionization applications. Applied Surface Science 2020,511.
15. Nath, N. K.; Gupta, P.; Hazarika, P. J.; Deka, N.; Mukherjee, A.; Dutta, G. K., Plastically Deformable and Exfoliating Molecular Crystals of a 2-D Coordination Polymer and Its Ligand. Crystal Growth and Design 2019,19 (11), 6033-6038.
16. Lee, S. M.; Lee, H. R.; Dutta, G. K.; Lee, J.; Oh, J. H.; Yang, C., Furan-flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole-based chalcogenophene copolymers with siloxane hybrid side chains for organic field-effect transistors. Polymer Chemistry 2019,10 (22), 2854-2862.
17. Dutta, G. K.; Kasthuri, S.; Marappan, G.; Jayaraman, S. V.; Sivalingam, Y.; Di Natale, C.; Nutalapati, V., Aggregation behavior in naphthalene-appended diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives and its gas adsorption impact on surface potential. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2019,7 (32), 9954-9965.
18. Deka, N.; Patidar, R.; Kasthuri, S.; Venkatramaiah, N.; Dutta, G. K., Triazine based polyimide framework derived N-doped porous carbons: A study of their capacitive behaviour in aqueous acidic electrolyte. Materials Chemistry Frontiers 2019,3 (4), 680-689.
19. Deka, N.; Barman, J.; Deka, J.; Raidongia, K.; Dutta, G. K., Microporous Organic Polymer-Derived Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon Spheres for Efficient Capacitive Energy Storage. ChemElectroChem 2019,6 (13), 3327-3336.
20. Deka, J.; Saha, K.; Konch, T. J.; Gogoi, R. K.; Saikia, S.; Saikia, P. P.; Dutta, G. K.; Raidongia, K., Reconstruction of Soil Components into Multifunctional Freestanding Membranes. ACS Omega 2019,4 (1), 1292-1299.
21. Deka, N.; Deka, J.; Dutta, G. K., Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon Derived from Carbazole-Substituted Tetraphenylethylene-Based Hypercrosslinked Polymer for High-Performance Supercapacitor. ChemistrySelect 2018,3 (29), 8483-8490.
22. Kang, S. H.; Lee, H. R.; Dutta, G. K.; Lee, J.; Oh, J. H.; Yang, C., A Role of Side-Chain Regiochemistry of Thienylene-Vinylene-Thienylene (TVT) in the Transistor Performance of Isomeric Polymers. Macromolecules 2017,50 (3), 884-890.
23. Chen, S.; An, Y.; Dutta, G. K.; Kim, Y.; Zhang, Z. G.; Li, Y.; Yang, C., A Synergetic Effect of Molecular Weight and Fluorine in All-Polymer Solar Cells with Enhanced Performance. Advanced Functional Materials 2017,27 (2).
24. Lee, K. C.; Kim, T.; Song, S.; Kim, Y.; Dutta, G. K.; Kim, D. S.; Kim, J. Y.; Yang, C., Medium bandgap copolymers based on carbazole and quinoxaline exceeding 1.0 v open-circuit voltages. RSC Advances 2016,6 (21), 17624-17631.
25. Han, A. R.; Dutta, G. K.; Lee, J.; Lee, H. R.; Lee, S. M.; Ahn, H.; Shin, T. J.; Oh, J. H.; Yang, C., ε-branched flexible side chain substituted diketopyrrolopyrrole-containing polymers designed for high hole and electron mobilities. Advanced Functional Materials 2015,25 (2), 247-254.
26. Moghe, D.; Dutta, G. K.; Patil, S.; Guha, S., Photocurrent spectroscopic studies of diketopyrrolopyrrole-based statistical copolymers. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2014,16 (9), 4291-4298.
27. Kim, J.; Yun, M. H.; Kim, G. H.; Lee, J.; Lee, S. M.; Ko, S. J.; Kim, Y.; Dutta, G. K.; Moon, M.; Park, S. Y.; Kim, D. S.; Kim, J. Y.; Yang, C., Synthesis of PCDTBT-based fluorinated polymers for high open-circuit voltage in organic photovoltaics: Towards an understanding of relationships between polymer energy levels engineering and ideal morphology control. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2014,6 (10), 7523-7534.
28. Kim, G.; Kang, S. J.; Dutta, G. K.; Han, Y. K.; Shin, T. J.; Noh, Y. Y.; Yang, C., A thienoisoindigo-naphthalene polymer with ultrahigh mobility of 14.4 cm2/V·s that substantially exceeds benchmark values for amorphous silicon semiconductors. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014,136 (26), 9477-9483.
29. Dutta, G. K.; Kim, T.; Choi, H.; Lee, J.; Kim, D. S.; Kim, J. Y.; Yang, C., Synthesis of fluorinated analogues of a practical polymer TQ for improved open-circuit voltages in polymer solar cells. Polymer Chemistry 2014,5 (7), 2540-2547.
30. Zhang, Y.; Pandey, A. K.; Tandy, K.; Dutta, G. K.; Burn, P. L.; Meredith, P.; Namdas, E. B.; Patil, S., Channel II photocurrent quantification in narrow optical gap polymer-fullerene solar cells with complimentary acceptor absorption. Applied Physics Letters 2013,102 (22).
31. Dutta, G. K.; Han, A. R.; Lee, J.; Kim, Y.; Oh, J. H.; Yang, C., Visible-near infrared absorbing polymers containing thienoisoindigo and electron-rich units for organic transistors with tunable polarity. Advanced Functional Materials 2013,23 (42), 5317-5325.
32. Tandy, K.; Dutta, G. K.; Zhang, Y.; Venkatramaiah, N.; Aljada, M.; Burn, P. L.; Meredith, P.; Namdas, E. B.; Patil, S., A new diketopyrrolopyrrole-based co-polymer for ambipolar field-effect transistors and solar cells. Organic Electronics 2012,13 (10), 1981-1988.
33. Dutta, G. K.; Patil, S., Solution processable quinoxaline based molecular materials for organic field effect transistors. Organic Electronics 2012,13 (7), 1266-1276.
34. Dikundwar, A. G.; Dutta, G. K.; Row, T. N. G.; Patil, S., Polymorphism in opto-electronic materials with a benzothiazole-fluorene core: A consequence of high conformational flexibility of π-conjugated backbone and alkyl side chains. Crystal Growth and Design 2011,11 (5), 1615-1622.
35. Dutta, G. K.; Guha, S.; Patil, S., Synthesis of liquid crystalline benzothiazole based derivatives: A study of their optical and electrical properties. Organic Electronics 2010,11 (1), 1-9.
36. Chandrasekaran, Y.; Dutta, G. K.; Kanth, R. B.; Patil, S., Tetrahydroquinoxaline based squaraines: Synthesis and photophysical properties. Dyes and Pigments 2009,83 (2), 162-167.
Invited Talk in the “International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biochemistry (ICETB-2024)” at Nalbari College 11-13th March 2024, Assam
Resource person in “Frontiers in Material Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities Organised by Department of Chemical Sciences”, Tezpur University, 7 – 8th March 2024
Paper presentation in “8th International FAPS Polymer Congress” held in Istanbul, 12 -14 September 2023
Resource person in the Refresher course in Chemistry during the period of August 1-14, 2023 held at NEHU
Conference on Electrochemistry for Industry, Health, and Environment (EIHE 2023) at DAE Convention Centre, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 7 – 11 February 2023
Invited talk in “The International Conference on Emerging Trends in Chemical Sciences (ETCS-2020)” held in Gauhati University in 2020.
The 3rd International Symposium on Recent Progress of Energy and Environmental Photocatalysis held at Tokyo University of Science in 2019.
EPF 2015-European Polymer Federation Meeting 2015 held in Dresden, Germany.
7thIndo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium held by IIT Kanpur and DST- Humboldt Foundation in 2015.
7th Seminar on Hydrocarbon Industry Growth - Prospects & Challenges in North East held at NRL, Golaghat in 2015.
2nd International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials (ICAFM- 14) held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, February 2014.
10th International Symposium on Functional ?-Electron Systems (Fpi-10) held in Beijing, China, October 2011.
International Conference on the Chemistry of The Organic Solid State (ICCOSS-XX) held in Institute of Science Bangalore, June 2011.
Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry held in Indian Institute of Science- Bangalore, December 2009.
1. CY 101 (Chemistry)
2. CY 151 Chemistry Laboratory
3. CY 401 (Stereochemistry and Organic Reaction Mechanism)
4. CY 481 (Organic Chemistry Lab)
5. CY 402 (Pericyclic Reactions, Photochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy)
6. CY 409 (Analytical and Environmental Chemistry)
7. CY 501 (Advanced Organic Chemistry)
8. CY 532 Chemistry of Natural Products And Heterocyclic Chemistry
9. CY 702 Organic Materials and Their Applications
10. CY 701 (Analytical Methods in Chemistry)
Sl No.
Title of Project
PI
CO-PI
Funding Agency
Sanctioned Amount
StartYr - EndYr (Duration)
Status
Project Type
1
Development of 3-D Supramolecular Structure-Based Optoelectronic Materials Towards Photovoltaic Devices.
Dr. G. K Dutta
Dr. P. N. Chattarjee
DST
2765560
2015-2018
Completed
Sponsored
2
Diketopyrrolopyrrole and isoindigo based luminescent conjugated polymers for colorimetric and fluorogenic sensors
Dr. G. K. Dutta
N.A.
SERB_DST
2238000
2015-2018
Completed
Sponsored
1. Head of the Department (2015-2018)
2. Chairman, Library Committee (2019-2020)
3. Dean RC (2020-2023)
4. Faculty Advisor (2019-21) for 2019 Batch
5. Laboratory in Charge (MSc laboratory): 2020-21
6. GIAN Co-ordinator: 3-07-2023 till date
6. Examination Committee Chairman: 01-09-2023 to 14-05-2024.
7. Medical committee Chairman: 4-09-2023 to till date
8. Anti-ragging Squad committee: 05-09-2023 to till date
9. Hostal patrolling committee: 29-09-2023 to till date
10. Nodal Officer Scholarship Section: 12-02-2024 to till date
11. Head of the Department: 14-05-2024 to till date
Past Students
1. Dr. Namrata Deka
2. Dr. Siddheswar Rudra, Co-Supervisor: Dr. Mukul Pradhan, NIT Warangal
3. Dr. Jayshree Barman
4. Dr. Nazir Uddin, Co-Supervisor: Dr. Paresh Nath Chatterjee, NIT Durgapur
Current Students
1. Ria Deb
Year of Joining: 2021 (Autumn)
Email: p21cy001@nitm.ac.in
Research Area: Energy Storage and Energy Conversion
2. Sayantan Roy Co-Supervisor: Dr. Paresh Nath Chatterjee, NIT Durgapur
3. Rimpi Gogoi
Research Area: Electrochemical storage device and Electrochemical sensor
Joining year: 2023
Email: py23cy006@nitm.ac.in
4. Marry Hazarika
Research Area: Electrocatalyst
Joining year: 2024
Email: p24cb001@nitm.ac.in
Past M.Sc. Project Students
Daisy Barman
Anusua Mukherjee
Rashmi Chetry
Sangita Kalita
Loknath Thapa
Subhrata Dutta
Shruti Revankar
Subhransu Sekhar Das
Ajay Bharti
Himadri Sikha Saikia
Junali Devi
Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Vivek
Chamlagain
Vishal Yadav
Ram Wami Toi
Gaurav Raj
Abhijit Gharphalia
Sujata Kalita
ChemistrySelect, Electroanalytical Chemistry, Materials Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Materials Today Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Applied Nanoscience, Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry
1. Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI, lifetime Member)
2. Indian Society for ElectroAnalytical Chemistry (ISEAC, lifetime Member)
3. Asian Polymer Association (APA, life-time Member)