Professor and J.C. Bose National Fellow
FASc, FNASc, FNA
Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India
E-mail: anindajb@iisc.ac.in
Physical and Materials Chemistry
The group research primarily focuses on understanding diverse electrochemical phenomena and their correlation with renewable energy. The know-how from fundamental studies is translated to the design and engineering of novel and practical materials for sustainable energy generation and storage applications. The group uses interdisciplinary methodologies to deliver sustainable materials, processes, and systems solutions in energy and environment. The Government of India's Funding Agencies and Industry financially support R&D works.
Keywords: Electrochemistry, Energy Storage and Conversion, Materials, Energy Devices/Processes (Batteries, Supercapacitors, Photon Harvesting), Electrocatalysis, Electrosynthesis, Sensing
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Debalina Deb, Research Associate
Rekha Kumari, Research Associate
PhD/Int-PhD Students
Vishnu Priya H. R., Senior Research Fellow/SRF, DST-INSPIRE
Neeraj Pal, Senior Research Fellow/SRF (Int-PhD)
Subhankar Mandal, Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF) and Senior Research Fellow/SRF (Int-PhD)
Manisha Sanawa, Senior Research Fellow, IISc
Kunnam Teja Vardhana Reddy, Senior Research Fellow/SRF, IISc (Int-PhD)
Sanhita Pal, Senior Research Fellow/SRF, UGC
Rikta Salui, Senior Research Fellow/JRF, UGC
Md. Mobarak Hossain, Junior Research Fellow/JRF, DST-INSPIRE
Himanshi, Junior Research Fellow/JRF
Ankita Konar, Junior Research Fellow/JRF
Rudra, Junior Research Fellow/JRF
Soumyaranjan Mishra, Junior Research Fellow/JRF, CSIR
Muskaan Rawat, Junior Research Fellow/JRF, CFTI
Akshara O. M., Junior Research Fellow/JRF, CSIR
Former Group Members
Shyamal Kumar Das (PhD/2010), Tezpur University
Monalisa Patel (PhD/2010), Shell, Bengaluru
Shobhna Kapoor (MS-Int-PhD/), IIT-Bombay, Mumbai
Supti Das (PhD/2012), Morrow Battery, Oslo, Norway
Soumit Sankar Mandal (Int-PhD/2013), IISER, Tirupati
Konda Shiva Reddy (PhD/2013)
Sayantan Mazumdar (PhD/2015), Guangdong, China
Sudeshna Sen (PhD/2016), WMG, University of Warwick, UK
Subhra Gope (PhD/2017), Mahindra Electric Mobility, Bengaluru
Suman Das (PhD/2017), Exide Energy Solutions, Bengaluru
Tamilselvan M. (Int-PhD/2018), Exide Energy Solutions, Bengaluru
Rudra Narayan Samajdar (Int-PhD/2019), National Physical Laboratory, UK
Sweta Mariam George (ICER) (PhD/2021), Ola Electric, Bengaluru
Ravindra K. Bhardwaj (PhD/2021), NREL, US
Akshatha Venkatesha (PhD/2022), Ola Electric, Bengaluru
Abhishek Bharti (PhD/2022), CNRS-CRISMAT, Caen, France
Asutosh Behera (PhD/2025), GFC, India
Sham. J. Mane, Bengaluru
Chandrappa K.G. (Project Assistant/2007-09), Govt. Engg. Coll., Ramanagara, Karnataka
Manu M. Patel (Project Assistant/2008-10), Indegene, Bengaluru
Pramod V. Menezes (Project Assistant/2008-10), Huhtamaki Flexible Packaging Germany GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Rajendra H.B. (Project Assistant/2011-2014), Godi, Hyderabad
Santosh A. L. (Project Assistant/2012-15)
Medhashree H. (Project Assistant/2013-14)
Sneha Malunavar (Project Assistant/2014-18), Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria
M. Gnanavel (DS Kothari Fellow/2010-12; 2016-17), Periyar Arts College, TN
Farheen N. Sayed (INSPIRE Faculty/2017-19), Cambridge University, UK
G.R. Dillip (INSPIRE Faculty/2018-2021), MDK SUSTECH, Bengaluru
Gundegowda Kalligowdanadoddi Kiran (DS Kothari Fellow/2019-21), University of Waterloo, Canada
Ruth Gomes (NPDF/2017-19, RA/2019-2022), University of Nottingham, UK
Homen Lahan (DS Kothari Fellow/2020-22), Atria University, Bengaluru
Dipen Biswakarma (DS Kothari Fellow/2021-24), Bengaluru
Priya Murria (MS-Int-PhD/2011), Moderna, Massachusetts, USA
Karthik Narayan Kotha (MS-Int-PhD/2012), USA
Dipak Dutta (Research Associate/2012-17), National Central University, Taiwan
Rupavath Chandar (MS-UG-Res/2023), Wisconsin-Maddison, US
Subhankar Mandal, Dipen Biswakarma, Aninda J. Bhattacharyya* (2024): Operando Spectroscopy Investigations of the Redox Reactions in Heme and Heme-Proteins, PCCP, DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP03341H
Sham J. Mane, N.B. Joseph, R. Kumari, A. Narayan, Aninda J. Bhattacharyya* (2024): Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrogen to Ammonia Using Zinc Telluride. ACS Materials Au, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialsau.4c00014
Abhishek Bharti, Debalina Deb, Govindaraj Achutharao, Aninda J. Bhattacharyya* (2024): CO2 Crossover to the Li-Anode and its Implications on the Solid Electrolyte Interphase Composition in a Rechargeable Li-CO2 Battery, J. Phys. Chem C, 128, 11543-11551.
Akshatha Venkatesha, Gowra Raghupathy Dillip, Tanmay Mohan Bhagwat, Sayak Mandal, Rekha Kumari, Martin Etter, Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam, Aninda J. Bhattacharyya* (2024): Exploring Cation-Deficient Magnetite as a Cathode for Zinc-ion Aqueous Batteries, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 12 (28), 10411-10422.
Asutosh Behera, Deepak Seth, Manish Agarwal, M. Ali Haider, and Aninda Jiban Bhattacharyya* (2024): Exploring Cu-Doped Co3O4 Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Aqueous Zn-Air Batteries, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 16, 17574-17586
Abhishek Bharti, Govindaraj Achutharao, and Aninda J. Bhattacharyya* (2023): Efficient Rechargeable Li-CO2 Battery with a Liquid Electrolyte Soluble CuCl2 Electrocatalyst, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 15, 53342-53350.
Pal, N., Bhattacharyya, Aninda J.* (2023): Probing the “Universal” Amorphization of Crystalline Sulfur in its Mixture with Ultrahigh Surface Area Porous Carbon, J. Phys. Chem. C 127, 5713-5719.
Venkatesha, Akshatha, Seth, Deepak, Varma, Rahul Mahavir, Das, Suman, Agarwal, Manish, Haider, M. Ali, Bhattacharyya, Aninda J.* (2023): A Redox-Active 2-D Covalent Organic Framework as a Cathode in an Aqueous Mixed-Ion Electrolyte Zn-Ion Battery: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations, ChemElectroChem 10, e202201013.
George, Sweta M., Deb, Debalina, Zhu, Haijin, Sampath, S., Bhattacharyya, Aninda J.* (2022): Spectroscopic investigations of solvent assisted Li-ion transport decoupled from polymer in a gel polymer electrolyte, Appl. Phys. Lett 121, 223903:1-7
Dillip, Gowra Raghupathy, Kiran, Gundegowda Kalligowdanadoddi, Bharti, Abhishek, Bhagwat, Tanmay Mohan, Gautam, Gopalakrishnan Sai *, and Aninda J. Bhattacharyya* (2022): Defective Nanoporous Zinc Cobaltite as a Potential Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalyst, ACS Applied Energy Materials 5, 13635-13644.
George, Sweta M., Sampath, S., Bhattacharyya, Aninda J.*, A Self-Standing Flexible Gel Polymer Electrolyte for Dendrite-Free Lithium-Metal Batteries (2022): Batteries & Supercaps 5, e202200252
Bharti, Abhishek, Manna, Gouranga, Saha, Pinku, Achutarao, Govindaraj, Bhattacharyya, Aninda J.* (2022): Probing the Function of a Li-CO2 Battery with a MXene/Graphene, Oxide Composite Cathode Electrocatalyst, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 7380−7385.
Subhankar Mandal, Rudra N. Samajdar, Sanjukta Parida, Sabyashachi Mishra, and Aninda J. Bhattacharyya* (2022): Transition Metal Phthalocyanines as Redox Mediators in Li–O2 Batteries: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Influence of 3d Electrons in Redox Mediation, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 26714–26723.
1. A non-aqueous electrolyte and a battery, a supercapacitor, and electrochromic device and a solar cell including such an electrolyte. Europe Patent (DE, CH, FR, GB, IE), No EP1505680 B1 dated 3.12.2008. US Patent, No US 7700240 B2 dated 20.4.2010.
2. Ultra-thin Compositions of Lithium Metal Phosphate. Indian Patent (Application No: 1826/CHE/2012 dated 09.05.2012). Patent No.: 311445; Patent Granted on: 23.04.2019.
3. Sn-Alloy Nanoparticle Carbon One-dimensional Assemblies for Rechargeable Batteries. (Application No: 4589/CHE/2013 dated 10.10.2013). Patent Number: 419771; Patent Granted on: 31.01.2023.
Ph.D.: Chemistry/Chemical Engineering/Materials Science & Engineering/Physics/Applied Physics candidates with good CSIR-NET rank (preferable) // GATE score/DST-INSPIRE Fellow.
MTech(Res): Candidates with Chemical Engineering/Materials Science & Engineering
There is NO direct entry. Interested candidates should strictly comply with all IISc, Bengaluru admissions criteria. For initial inquiries, interested candidates for PhD/M.Tech (Res.) may contact Prof. Aninda J. Bhattacharyya by E-mail: anindajb@iisc.ac.in
Post-Doctoral Fellow (subject to vacancies): Chemistry/Chemical Engineering/Materials Science & Engineering/Physics/Applied Physics candidates are encouraged to apply via National Level Fellowships/CSIR-RA.
The lab is also open to hosting women researchers under the DST-WISE-PDF Program (subject to vacancies)
The laboratory is open to hosting BS/MS/B.Tech. (restricted to the above branches of science and engineering only) candidates for Internships and projects (IISc students only). For discussions on research topics and vacancies (subject to IISc/Division norms), don't hesitate to contact anindajb@iisc.ac.in.