Invited Talks
“Carbon Free Self-Powered Energy Technology in Micro-Scale” ATAL FDP titled Nano Technology, Materials & Science, School of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, JU, February 19, 2024.
“Harvesting Waste-Energies for Flexible Electronics” 21st All India Congress of Genetics and Genomics (AICGG) International Symposium, Environmental Toxicogenomics: Ecosystem Health and Sustainability - Challenges and Way Forward, Dept. Environmental Science, CU, February 5, 2024.
“Micro-Power Harvesting from Ambient Waste Energies for Self-Powered Technologies: New Materials and Scalable Processing”, Department of Materials Science and Technology, IIT-BHU, January 25, 2024.
“Self-Powered Sustainable Micro Energy Harvesters: Materials, Methods and Potential Applications” Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, IIT-Delhi, January 18, 2024.
“ Sustainable Self-Powered Thermal and Mechanical Waste Energy Harvesters” Southwest India Chapter of The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and Research to Business (R2B) Meet on Ceramics & Advanced materials - Innovative & Emerging Materials, Bangalore, September 22, 2023.
“Earth Abundant Elements Based Lithium Niobate type Chalcogenide Nanocomposites for Micro-Energy Harvesting” EMRS Fall Meeting 2023, Warsaw, Poland, September 19-21, 2023.
“Ferro- and Piezo- electricity in Supramolecular Assembly of Ambipolar π-System for Energy Generation and Sensing” Chemistry Meet 2023, Borgos, Kaziranga, March 17, 2023.
"Environment Friendly Micro-Energy Harvester for Future Electronics" Science Technology Research and Entrepreneurship Enhancement (STREE2020), JNU, New-Delhi, November 26, 2022.
"Emergent Nontoxic Inorganic and Organic High Performance Ferroelectric Materials" Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM IN CHEMICAL SCIENCES, IACS, Kolkata, June 04, 2022.
“Novel Organic and Inorganic Hybrid Thermoelectric Materials and Versatile Device Fabrication for Efficient Thermal Energy Harvesting” SAIS Annual Symposium, IACS, Kolkata, 26th March, 2022.
“Nanomaterials for Micro-energy Harvesting: Success and Challenges”, ICANN, IIT Guwahati, Dec. 16, 2021 .
“Harvesting Micro-Energies: Paving Science and Technology for Sustainable Future”, SIES Physics Department. Pratibha P Pai National Webinar on ‘The Frontiers of Physics, University of Mumbai, July 17, 2021.
“Novel Piezoelectric Polymer Nanowires for Harvesting Mechanical Energies”, SAIS Annual Symposium, IACS, March 9, 2019.
“Environment Friendly Piezo-Polymer Materials for Sustainable Energy Needs” 19th International Symposium on Eco-materials Processing and Design (ISEPD 2018) and Expo on Surface Coatings, Jaipur, India, February 22, 2018.
“Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Nanostructures for Energy Generation and Harvesting Applications”. Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), IISc Bangalore, India, November 3rd, 2016.
“Solution-Based Synthesis and Enhanced Properties of New Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Nanowires for Energy Harvesting” Summer School & International Workshop on Advanced Materials Challenges for Health and Alternative Energy Solutions, University of Cologne, Germany, 31st August - 3rd September 2016.
“Enhanced Properties and Applications of New Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Nanowires” EMN Meeting on Smart and Multifunctional Material-2016, Berlin, Germany August 23-26, 2016.
“Enhanced ferroelectric Curie temperature in lead-free oxide nanowires” E-MRS Spring Meeting, Lille, France, 1-7 May, 2016.
“Noncentrosymmetric Perovskite Oxide Nanostructures: Synthetic Strategies and Applications” Colloquium Speaker: Department of Physics, University of Central Michigan, USA, April 17, 2015.
“Design, Structure and Enhanced Ferroelectricity in Perovskite Oxide Nanostructures for Energy Efficient Memory and Photovoltaics” Materials Research Center-IIT-KGP, India, March 25, 2015.
“Perovskite Oxide Nanostructures with Enhanced Functionality for Energy and Non-volatile Memory Applications” Alumina and Other Functional Ceramics" (AOFC-2015) CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India March 11-13, 2015.
“Hybrid Physical/Chemical Synthesis Strategies for Noncentrosymmetric Perovskite Oxide Nanostructures with Enhanced Functionality” Energy Materials Nanotechnology Ceramics (EMN/Ceramics) 2015 Meeting, Orlando, USA, January 26-29, 2015.
“Physical/Chemical Combinatorial Strategy Towards Multi-Dimensional Perovskite Nano- and Micro-structures with Enhanced Functionality” 38th International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites, Daytona Beach, Florida, January 26-31, 2014.
“Controlled seed-layer assisted growth of hierarchically-ordered Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 nanostructure arrays with improved ferroelectric properties” 38th International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, January 26-31, 2014.
“Synthesis-Property Relationships in Functional Nanostructures” Department of Physics, IIT-Hyderabad, India, 28th November, 2013.
“Strategic Synthesis and Properties of Functional Nanostructures for Optoelectronic, Thermoelectric and Memory Applications” Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS), IIT-Mumbai, India, 25th November, 2013.
Florida Cluster for Advanced Smart Sensor Technologies (FCASST) Faculty Search Seminar Series, Department of Physics, University of South Florida, USA, August 9, 2011.
“Bottom-Up Strategy for Thermoelectric Nanocomposites”, Thermoelectric Materials for Power Generation and Cooling, the American Physical Society (APS) Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA March 22, 2011.
Other Relevant Conference Presentations (As speaker: marked with *)
1. Abhijeet Sangle, Anuja Datta, Vijay Narayan, Sohini Kar-Narayan, “2D printed flexible and scalable thermoelectric power generators for wearable applications” 3rd Innovations in Large-Area Electronics Conference (innoLAE 2017), Cambridge, UK, 31 January- 1 February, 2017.
2. Anuja Datta*, Pedro Sanchez-Jimenez, Yonatan Calahorra, Canlin Ou, Suman-Lata Sahonta, Sohini Kar Narayan, “Measurement of Piezoelectricity and Enhanced Curie temperature in (Ba0.85Ca0.15)(Zr0.1Ti0.9)O3 nanowires NGPT 2016, Rome, Italy, June 15-17, 2016.
3. Gregory Salazar, Anuja Datta, Pritish Mukherjee, “Rapid Microwave Synthesis of Perovskite Oxide Nanostructures with Enhanced Functionality” American Physical Society, Session W12: Insulators: Synthesis and Experiment, March 5, 2015.
4. Corisa Kons, Anuja Datta, Pritish Mukherjee, “Band-Gap Tuning in Perovskite-type Ferroelectric ZnSnO3 by Doping and Core-Shell Approach for Solar Cell Applications” American Physical Society, Session L34: Thin Film Photovoltaics (Perovskites, etc), March 4, 2015.
5. Anuja Datta*, Devajyoti Mukherjee, Corisa Kons, Sarath Witanachchii, and Pritish Mukherjee, “Ferroelectricity in Strategically Synthesized Pb-free LiNbO3-type ZnSnO3 Nanostructure Arrayed Thick Films” 2014 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA, November 30 - December 5, 2014.
6. Corisa Kons and Anuja Datta*, “Facile Growth of Functional Perovskite Oxide Nanowire Arrays by Hybrid Physical-Chemical Techniques” 2014 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA, November 30 - December 5, 2014.
7. Mahesh Hordagoda, Corisa Kons, Devajyoti Mukherjee, Anuja Datta, Sarath Witanachchi1, and Pritish Mukherjee, “Evidence of Polarization Switching in LiNbO3-Type ZnSnO3/ZnO Nanocomposite Thin Films” 2014 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA, November 30 - December 5, 2014.
8. Corisa Kons, Anuja Datta*, Devajyoti Mukherjee, and Pritish Mukherjee “Band Engineering in ZnSnO3 Nanorods by Doping and Core-Shell Approach for Solar Cell Applications” 2014 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA, November 30 - December 5, 2014.
9. Corisa Kons, Anuja Datta, Devajyoti Mukherjee, and Pritish Mukherjee, “Band Gap Modification in ZnSnO3 by Cation Doping and Core-Shell Approach for Solar Cell Applications” NanoFlorida 2014 - The 7th Annual Nanoscience Technology Symposium Sept. 25-26, Miami, Fl, USA, 2014.
10. Boeing Smith, Corisa Kons, and Anuja Datta, “Band Energy Modification of Ferroelectric ZnSnO3 for Photovoltaic Applications” REU-RET Poster Symposium, University of South Florida, July 31, Tampa, Fl, USA, 2014.
11. Corisa Kons and Anuja Datta “Seed-Assisted Synthesis and Characterization of Ferroelectric ZnSnO3 Nanostructures” Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition (FAME) by the Florida Section of the American Chemical Society, Innisbrook, Florida, May 8 – 10, 2014.
12. Corisa Kons and Anuja Datta, “Growth and Characterization of Eco-friendly Lead-Free Ferroelectric ZnSnO3 Nanostructures” 38th International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites, Daytona Beach, Florida, January 26-31, 2014.
13. Corisa Kons and Anuja Datta, “Synthesis and properties of ZnSnO3 Nanostructures” American Physical Society (APS) Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP), Florida State University, Jan. 17-19, 2014, Tallahassee.
14. Anuja Datta* and Pritish Mukherjee “Fabrication of Group IIIA Layered Sulfide Semiconductor Nanostructures by Physical Vapor Deposition Process and Their Enhanced Optical and Electronic Properties” MRS Spring Meeting, April 02, 2013, San Francisco.
15. Anuja Datta,* Devajyoti Mukherjee, Sarath Witanachchi and Pritish Mukherjee. “Facile Low Temperature Synthesis of Nearly Monodisperse Thin In2S3 Nanoplatelets and Their Optical and Photoconductance Properties” MRS Spring Meeting, April 05, 2013, San Francisco.
16. Devajyoti Mukherjee, Anuja Datta, Sarath Witanachchi and Pritish Mukherjee. “Growth of Low-dimensional Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 Nanostructures by Combined Physical and Wet-chemical Synthesis Approaches with Enhanced Electronic Properties” MRS Spring Meeting, April 05, 2013, San Francisco.
17. Anuja Datta* and Pritish Mukherjee, “Optoelectronic Properties of Ultrathin Monodisperse In2S3 Nanoplatelets Synthesized by Low Temperature Polyol Process.” USA’ International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials (NANOSMAT-USA), Tampa, Fl, 27-30 March 2012.
18. Anuja Datta,* M. Hordagoda, D. Mukherjee, S. Witanachchi, P. Mukherjee, “Growth of One-Dimensional Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 Nanostructures by Combined Physical and Wet-Chemical Synthesis Approaches for Enhanced Ferroelectric Properties” Poster presentation at the USA’ International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials (NANOSMAT-USA), Tampa, Fl., 27-30 March 2012.
19. Anuja Datta,* Kaya Wei, Adrian Popescu, Lilia Woods, and George S. Nolas “Processing Dependence on the Thermoelectric Properties of Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials”. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 28 - Dec. 02, 2011.
20. Adrian Popescu, Anuja Datta, George S. Nolas and Lilia Woods, “Tailoring Thermoelectric Properties of Bismuth: Theoretical Investigations” 9th European Conference on Thermoelectrics, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 29, 2011.
21. George S Nolas, Anuja Datta, Jagannath Paul, Adrian Popescu, and Lilia Woods “Bottom-Up Approach for the Synthesis of Thermoelectric Materials with Nano-Scale Domains” 35th International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Cermics and Composites, Daytona Beach, Florida, January 27, 2011.
22. Anuja Datta,* Jagannath Paul, Adrian Popescu, Lilia Woods, and George S Nolas, “Bottom-Up Strategy Towards Thermoelectric Materials With Nano-Scale Domains”. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 30- Dec. 03, 2010.
23. Anuja Datta,* Jagannath Paul and George S. Nolas “Solution Phase Synthesis Routes In Preparing Chalcogenide Nanocomposites With Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties” The 86th American Chemical Society Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition, Innisbrook, Florida, May 13-15, 2010.
24. Anuja Datta,* Jagannath Paul, Adrian Popescu, Lilia Woods, and George. S. Nolas “Synthesis and Transport properties of Dimensional Nanocomposite Chalcogenides”, Oral Presentation, The American Physical Society (APS) Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 15-19, 2010.
25. M. Beekman, W. Schnelle, M. Baitinger, H. Borrmann, K. Meier, Anuja Datta, Yu. Grin, G.S. Nolas, “Physical Properties from Na24Si136 Single Crystals”. The American Physical Society (APS) Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 15-19, 2010.
26. Anuja Datta, Jagannath Paul, Hillary Kirby, Joshua Martin, Matt Beekman, Lilia Woods, Nathan Crane and George S Nolas, “Thermoelectric Nanocomposite Chalcogenides”. Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar on Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials, Bad Honnef, Germany, February 24, 2010.
27. Anuja Datta, Jagannath Paul, Adrian Popescu, Lilia Woods, and George S Nolas, “Enhanced Power Factor in Nanocomposite Materials and Magnetocaloric Materials” 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology (PacRim8), Vancouver, Canada, May 31 - June 5, 2009.
28. Joshua Martin, Anuja Datta, Hillary Kirby, Adrian Popescu, Lilia Woods, Nathan Crane and George S Nolas “Enhanced Power Factor in Nanocomposite Chalcogenides”. DOE Thermoelectric Applications Workshop, San Diego, October 1, 2009.
29. Anuja Datta,*Subhendu K. Panda and Subhadra Chaudhuri, “In2S3 Micropompons and Thermally Converted In2O3 Nanobipyramids: Synthesis, Optical and Optoelectronic Properties.” International Conference on Nano Science and Technology (ICONSAT-2008), Chennai, India, 27 -29 February, 2008.
30. Anuja Datta, Soma Gorai and Subhadra Chaudhuri, “Sol-Gel Derived Undoped and Mn2+ Doped In2S3/SiO2 Nanocomposite Films and Their Characterization”. 21st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Messe Dresden (Germany), 4–8 September, 2006 (not presented).
31. Anuja Datta,* Soumitra Kar and Subhadra Chaudhuri, “CdS Nanorods: Controlled Synthesis and Characterization”. International Conference on Lasers and Nanomaterials (ICLAN-2006), Kolkata, India, 30th November -2nd October, 2006.
32. Anuja Datta,* Soma Gorai and Subhadra Chaudhuri “Fabrication of Crystalline Indium Sulfide Micro- and Nano- Forms Directly on Indium Foil via Solvothermal Process”, International Conference on Recent Trends in Nanoscience and Technology (ICRTNT-2006), Kolkata, India, 7 - 9 December, 2006.
33. Anuja Datta,* Soma Gorai and Subhadra Chaudhuri, “Surfactant Assisted Synthesis of β-In2S3 Dendrites”. International Conference on MEMS NANO, 2005, Kharagpur, India, 20 – 22 December 2005.
Outreach and Societal Talks
"Use of Internet to Make a Smart City" Workshop on Digital Entrepreneurship for Rural Women - St. Xavier's College, Raghabpur Campus, November 19, 2022.
“Smart and Safe Parenting’, E-Shakti digital flagship program under Shakti, an NGO on 8th January, 2022.
‘IoT: Opportunities and Impact’, E-Shakti flagship project by Shakti: empowering women in science and technology, an NGO, 5th March 2021.
‘No more waste: energy perspective’ in ‘Stree’: organized by Kolkata Nivedita Shakti and Vijnan Bharati in association with Indian association for the cultivation of science, 8th March for "International Women's Day", 2020.