Homepage of Prof. Nitin Chattopadhyay

Doctor of Science, Jadavpur University (DSc, 2023)

Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India (FNASc, 2017)

Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc, 2010)

Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology (FAScT, 2009)

Bronze Medal of Chemical Research Society of India (2013)

Siksha Ratna Award from Government of West Bengal (2019)

Professor R. P. Mitra Memorial Award from University of Delhi (2024)

Professor Suresh C. Ameta Award from Indian Chemical Society (2019)

Professor S. R. Mohanty Memorial Award from Odisha Chemical Society (2018)

Member of the Joint Academy (IASc, INSA, NASI) Science Education Panel (2016 - )

Associate Editor of Heliyon Chemistry (2024 - )

Member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (2022 - )

Member of the Editorial Board of Heliyon (Elsevier) (2017 -)

Member of the Editorial Board of Biophysical Chemistry (2016 - )

Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology B: Biology (2012 - )

Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Colloid & Interface Science (2014 - 2017)

Associate Editor of Journal of Luminescence (2013 - 2017)

Current Research Interest:

Photophysics, Photochemistry; Photobiology, Biophysical chemistry; Surface chemistry; Fluorescence sensing; Polymer photophysics; Nanoparticle research; Steady-state and time-resolved fluorometric study of the photophysical and photochemical processes (ESPT, ICT, electron transfer, charge transfer and energy transfer) in homogeneous as well as microheterogeneous environments; Binding of drugs with proteins and DNA; Theoretical modeling and simulations of photophysical and/or photochemical observations; Photoacoustic calorimetry (PAC). 

Representative Publications

S. Das, M. Das, R. Biswas, S. Laha, B. C. Samanta, N. Bhattacharyya, T. Maity, I. Choudhuri, N. Chattopadhyay, New J. Chem., 2025, (in press). 

P. Kundu, K. N. Venkataravana, N. Chattopadhyay, Photochem. Spectrosc., 2025, 1, 1.   

P. Kundu, N. Chattopadhyay, Heliyon, 2025, 11, e43697. 

D. Satapathi, M. Das, U. K. Das, S. Laha, P. Kundu, I. Choudhuri, N. Bhattacharya, B. C. Samanta, N. Chattopadhyay, T. Maity, Int. J. Biol. Macromol., 2024, 275, 133716. 

A. Biswas, B. Das, P. Pal, A. Ghosh, N. Chattopadhyay, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 2307618 

B. Ari, M. Das, P. Brandao, S. Mukherjee, A. D. Jana, B. Koley, S. Laha, M. Islam, I. Choudhuri, N. Bhattacharya, B. C. Samanta, N. Chattopadhyay, T. Maity, New J. Chem., 2023,  47, 17881. 

N. Chattopadhyay, A. Das, RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 25159  

P. Sengupta, U. Pal, P. Roy, T. Samanta, N. Chattopadhyay, K. Sen, A. Bose, ACS. Food Sc. Technol., 2022, 2, 114

A. Das, S. Das, A. Biswas, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2021, 125, 13482

S. Das, S. Mukherjee, S. Chakrabarty, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2021, 125, 57

S. Das, S. Chakrabarty, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2020, 124, 173

P. Kundu, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Drug Delivery Sci. Technol., 2019, 49, 413   

P. Kundu, S. Das, N. Chattopadhyay, Int. J. Pharmaceutics, 2019, 565, 378

S. Biswas, D. Jana, G. Kumar, S. Maji, P. Kundu, U. Ghorai, R. Giri, B. Das, N. Chattopadhyay, B. K. Ghorai, S. Acharya, ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces, 2018, 10, 17409  

P. Kundu, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys., 2016, 144, 234317 

P. Kundu, S. Ghosh, S. Das, N. Chattopadhyay, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 3685  

S. Ghosh, S. Chakrabarty, D. Bhowmik, G. Suresh Kumar, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119, 2090 

S. Ghosh, S. Chattoraj, N. Chattopadhyay, Analyst, 2014, 139, 5664

B. Jana, S. Senapati, D. Ghosh, D. Bose, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2012, 116, 639

D. Ghosh, D. Sarkar, A. Girigoswami, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 2011, 11, 1141   

D. Sarkar, D. Ghosh, P. Das, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2010, 114, 12541   

P. Das, A. Mallick, D. Sarkar, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112, 9600    

B. Haldar, A. Mallick, N. Chattopadhyay, J. Chem. Educ., 2008, 85, 429    

A. Chakrabarty, A. Mallick, B. Haldar, P. Purkayastha, P. Das, N. Chattopadhyay, Langmuir, 2007, 23, 4842  

A. Chakrabarty, A. Mallick, B. Haldar, P. Das, N. Chattopadhyay, Biomacromolecules, 2007, 8, 920    

A. Mallick, M. C. Mandal, A. Chakrabarty, P. Das, B. Haldar, N. Chattopadhyay,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 3126