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2025
D. Sarkar, S. Das, V. Taneja, M. Samanta, K. Jagadish, A. Das, M. Bhakar, P. V. D. Matukumilli, S. Perumal, G. Sheet, D. Sanyal, K. Pal, N. Ravishankar, U. V. Waghmare, K. Biswas.* Glassy Thermal Transport Triggers Ultra-High Thermoelectric Performance in GeTe, Adv. Mater. 2025, 2417561, https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202417561
P. Acharyya, A. Das, R. Arora, Raagya; M. Samanta, S. Das, T. Ghosh, U. Waghmare, K. Biswas.* Electronic Structure Modulation in GeTe by Hg and Sb co-doping Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 22, 19296, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c05116
2023
M. Samanta,* H. Tan, S. Laha, H. A. Vignolo-González, L. Grunenberg, S. Bette, V. Duppel, P. Schützendübe, A. Gouder, B. Yan, B. V. Lotsch.* The Weyl Semimetals MIrTe4 (M = Nb, Ta) as Efficient Catalysts for Dye-Sensitized Hydrogen Evolution, Adv. Energy Mater. 2023, 13, 2300503, https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202300503
S. Chandra, J. Sunil, P. Dutta, K. Pal, M. Samanta, B. Joseph, C. Narayana, K. Biswas.* Evidence of pressure-induced multiple electronic topological transitions in BiSe, Mater. Today Phys., 2023, 30, 100956, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtphys.2022.100956
2022
D. Sarkar, M. Samanta, T. Ghosh, K. Dolui, S. Das, K. Saurabh, D. Sanyal, K. Biswas.* All-scale hierarchical nanostructures and superior valence band convergence lead to ultra-high thermoelectric performance in cubic GeTe, Energy Environ. Sci., 2022, 15, 4625, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EE02752F
2021
S. Roychowdhury, T. Ghosh, R. Arora, M. Samanta, L. Xie, N.K. Singh, A. Soni, J. He, U. V. Waghmare, K. Biswas.* Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe2 , Science, 2021, 371, 722, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abb3517
2020
M. Samanta, K. Pal, U. V. Waghmare, K. Biswas.* Intrinsically Low Thermal Conductivity and High Carrier Mobility in Dual Topological Quantum Material, n‐type BiTe. Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 4822, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202000343 (VIP article)
M. Samanta, T, Ghosh, S. Chandra, K. Biswas.* Layered Materials with 2D Connectivity for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 12226, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA00240B
M. Samanta, K Biswas.* 2D Nanosheets of Topological Quantum Materials from Homologous (Bi2)m (Bi2Se3)n Heterostructures: Synthesis and Ultralow Thermal Conductivity, Chem. Mater. 2020,32,8819, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c02129
M. Dutta, M. Samanta, T. Ghosh, D. J. Voneshen, K. Biswas.* Evidence of Highly Anharmonic Soft Lattice Vibrations in a Zintl Rattler, Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2020, 60, 4259, https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202013923
B. B. Singh, S. K. Jena, M. Samanta, K. Biswas, S Bedanta.* High Spin to Charge Conversion Efficiency in Electron Beam-Evaporated Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 , ACS Applied Mater. & Interfaces, 2020, 12, 53409, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c13540
P. Acharyya, S. Roychowdhury, M. Samanta, K. Biswas.* Ultralow Thermal Conductivity, Enhanced Mechanical Stability, and High Thermoelectric Performance in (GeTe)1-2x(SnSe)x(SnS)x, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 20502, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c11015
2019
B. B. Singh, S. K. Jena, M. Samanta, K. Biswas, B. Satpati, S. Bedanta.* Inverse Spin Hall Effect in Electron Beam Evaporated Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 Thin Film, Phys. Status Solidi RRL, 2019, 13, 1800492, https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201800492
S. Roychowdhury, M. Samanta, A. Banik, K. Biswas.* Thermoelectric energy conversion and topological materials based on heavy metal chalcogenides. J. Solid State Chem., 2019, 275, 103, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2019.04.005
T. Ghosh, M. Samanta, A. Vasdev, K. Dolui, J. Ghatak, T. Das, G. Sheet, K. Biswas.* Ultrathin Free-standing Nanosheets of Bi2O2Se: Room Temperature Ferroelectricity in Self-assembled Charged Layered Heterostructure. Nano Lett., 2019, 19, 5703, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02312
S. Perumal, # M. Samanta, # T. Ghosh, U. Sandhya Shenoy, A. K. Bohra, S. Bhattacharya, A. Singh, U. V. Waghmare, K. Biswas.* Realization of High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in GeTe by Complementary Co-doping of Bi and In. Joule, 2019, 3, 2565, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2019.08.017 (# - Equal Contribution)
M. Samanta, T. Ghosh, R. Arora, Umesh V. Waghmare, K. Biswas.* Realization of both n- and p- type GeTe Thermoelectrics: Electronic Structure Modulation by AgBiSe2 Alloying. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 19505, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b11405
M. Samanta, T, Ghosh, S. Chandra, K. Biswas.* Layered Materials with 2D Connectivity for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 12226, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA00240B
M. Samanta, K Biswas.* 2D Nanosheets of Topological Quantum Materials from Homologous (Bi2)m(Bi2Se3)n Heterostructures: Synthesis and Ultralow Thermal Conductivity, Chem. Mater. 2020,32,8819, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c02129
M. Dutta, M. Samanta, T. Ghosh, D. J. Voneshen, K. Biswas.*Evidence of Highly Anharmonic Soft Lattice Vibrations in a Zintl Rattler, Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 2020, 60, 4259, https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202013923
B. B. Singh, S. K. Jena, M. Samanta, K. Biswas, S Bedanta.*High Spin to Charge Conversion Efficiency in Electron Beam-Evaporated Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 , ACS Applied Mater. & Interfaces, 2020, 12, 53409, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c13540
P. Acharyya, S. Roychowdhury, M. Samanta, K. Biswas.* Ultralow Thermal Conductivity, Enhanced Mechanical Stability, and High Thermoelectric Performance in (GeTe)1–2x(SnSe)x(SnS)x , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 20502, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c11015.
2018
M. Samanta, K. Pal, P. Pal, U. V. Waghmare, K. Biswas.* Localized vibrations of Bi bilayer leading to ultralow lattice thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance in weak topological insulator n-type BiSe, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 5866,https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b02691 (spotlight and cover page)
S. Roychowdhury, M. Samanta, S. Perumal, K. Biswas.* Germanium Chalcogenide Thermoelectrics: Electronic Structure Modulation and Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity, Chem. Mater., 2018, 30, 5799, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b02676
2017
M. Samanta, S. N. Guin, K. Biswas.* Ultrathin Few Layer Oxychalcogenide BiCuSeO Nanosheets, Inorg. Chem. Front., 2017, 4, 84, https://doi.org/10.1039/C6QI00435K (*corresponding author)
M. Samanta, S. Roychowdhury, J. Ghatak, S. Perumal, K. Biswas.* Ultrahigh Average
Thermoelectric Figure of Merit, Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity and Enhanced Microhardness in Nanostructured (GeTe)x(AgSbSe2)100-x , Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 7438, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201701480
M. Samanta, K Biswas.* Low Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Performance in (GeTe)1-2x(GeSe)x(GeS)x : Competition between Solid Solution and Phase Separation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 9382, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b05143
B. Srinivasan, C. Boussard-Pledel, V. Dorcet, M. Samanta, K Biswas, R. Lefèvre, F.Gascoin, F. Cheviré, S. Tricot, M. Reece, B. Bureau.* Thermoelectric Properties of Highly-Crystallized Ge-Te- Se Glasses Doped with Cu/Bi, Materials, 2017, 10, 328, https://doi.org/10.3390/ma10040328
Book Chapters
M. Samanta, M. Dutta, K. Biswas.* “Thermoelectric Energy Conversion” in the book “Advances in the Chemistry Physics of Materials”, World Scientific Publications, 2019, 350-375, ISBN: 978-981-121-133-1
S. Chandra, M. Samanta, K. Biswas.* High-performance Thermoelectric Energy Conversion Based on Lead-free Group IV–VI Metal Chalcogenides in the book “Inorganic Thermoelectric Materials: From Fundamental Concepts to Materials Design,” Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021, 157-215, ISBN: 978-1-78801-759-6
Patent
M. Samanta, K. Biswas, “A tellurium-free n-type material and implementations”, 2018, IN Patent No. 390688, granted on 28/02/2022
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