ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ph.D. in Science (Degree awarded on 21st September, 2016), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Master of Science, 2010 (Electronic Science) (Percentage of Marks: 75), University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India

• Bachelor of Science, 2008 (Electronics) (Percentage of Marks: 61.3), University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India

• Higher Secondary, 2005 (Science), (Percentage of Marks: 67), Bidya Bharati Girls’ High School, West Bengal, India

• Secondary, 2003 (Percentage of Marks: 81.5), Bidya Bharati Girls’ High School West Bengal, India

COURSES TAUGHT

• CLASSICAL MECHANICS

• OPTICS

• QUANTUM MECHANICS

• STATISTICAL MECHANICS

• SOLID STATE PHYSICS

• ELECTRONICS

EXPERIENCES

• Assistant Professor, Department: Physics at Department of Engineering Sciences and Humanities, Siliguri Institute of Technology, Duration of work: 01.04.2019 - till date.

• Guest Lecturer, Department: Electronics/Physics, Gokhale Memorial Girls' College, Duration of work: 2010 - 2014

• Post Doctorate: Research Associate at Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India, Duration of work: 15th November 2016 to 14th November 2018.

PUBLICATIONS:

JOURNAL:

1. B. Bhattacharya, D. Roy, S. Dey, A. Puthuvakkal, S. Bhunia, S. Mondal, R. Chowdhury, M. Bhattacharya, M.Mandal, K. Manoj, P. K. Mandal and C. M. Reddy, Mechanical bending induced fluorescence enhancement in plastically flexible crystals of a GFP chromophore analogue, Angewandte Chemie, 132 [45] 2020, 20050-20055 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202007760, 2020. (IF: 12.959)

2. R. Samanta, D. Kitagawa, A. Mondal, M. Bhattacharya, M. Annadhasan, S. Mondal, R. Chandrasekar, S.Kobatake, C. Malla Reddy, Rewritable Crystalline Monomer-Polymer Heterostructures Patterning andMechanical Actuation via Topochemical Polymerization in a Dual-Responsive Photochromic Organic Material, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12 [14] 2020, 16856-16863, doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b23189 (IF: 8.456)

3. A. Mahatoa, Z. Sandy, S. Bysakh, L. Hupa, I. Das, P. Bhattacharjee, B. Kundu, G. De, S. K. Nandi, P. Vallittue,V. K.Balla, M. Bhattacharya, Development of nano-porous hydroxyapatite coated e-glass for potential bone-tissue engineering application: An in vitro approach, Materials Science and Engineering: C, 111, June 2020,110764, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2020.110764, (IF: 5.88)

4. S. Mukherjee, S. Rath, M. Bhattacharya, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Multilayer ceramic-polymer microcompositewith improved optical tunability and nanomechanical integrity, Ceramics International, 2020,doi.org/10.1016/.ceramint.2020.03.088, (IF: 3.830)

5. M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Interaction of Nanoscale Damages with Static and DynamicContact Induced Damages in Alumina: A Novel Approach using Nanoindentation, Ceramics International,2019, 45, [18] 24982 – 24998. (IF: 3.830), (Citation: 1)

6. P. Maiti, M. Bhattacharya, P. S. Das, J. Ghosh, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, A critical note on nanoscale plasticity in 20 ZTA ceramics, Ceramics International, 2019, 45(18), pp.25034-25043, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2019.05.189.(Elsevier, IF: 3.450), (Citation: 3)

7. P. Maiti, A. Eqbal, M. Bhattacharya, P. S. Das, J. Ghosh, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Micro pop-in issues innanoindentation behaviour of 10 ZTA ceramics, Ceramics International, 45, 2019, 8204-8215. (Elsevier, IF:3.450) (Citation: 5)

8. P. Maiti, M. Bhattacharya, P. S. Das, P. S. Devi, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Indentation Size Effect and EnergyBalance Issues in Nanomechanical Behaviour of ZTA Ceramics, Ceramics International, 44, 2018, 9753-9772. (Elsevier, IF: 3.450), (Citation: 11)

9. D. Mukherjee, A. Dey , A. C. M. Esther , D. Palai , N. Sridhara, P. Bera , M. Bhattacharya, A. Rajendra , A. K.Sharma , A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Reversible, repeatable and low phase transition behaviour of spin coatednanostructured vanadium oxide thin films with superior mechanical properties, Ceramics International, 44,2018, 8913-8921. (Elsevier, IF: 3.450), (Citation: 5)

10. K. Bal Raju, Subham Ranjan, V. S. Vishnu, Manjima Bhattacharya, Biswajit Bhattacharya, Anoop K.Mukhopadhyay and C. Malla Reddy, Role of weak interactions in the distinct mechanical behavior of trimorphsof a Schiff’s base: Brittle, plastic and elastic deformation and thermosalient effect, Crystal Growth and Design, 18, 2018, 3927 – 3937. (American Chemical Society, IF: 3.972), (Citation: 14)

11. D. Chanda, S. Roy Chowdhury, M. Bhattacharya, A. K. Mandal, N. Dey and A. K. Mukhopadhyay,Intelligently Designed Fly-Ash based Hybrid Composites with very High Hardness and Young’s modulus,Construction and Building Materials, 158, 2018, 516–534. (Elsevier, IF: 4.046) (Citation: 4)

12. A. Samanta, M. Bhattacharya, I. Ratha, H. Chakraborty, S. Datta, J. Ghosh, S. Bysakh, M. Sreemany, R. Rane,A. Joseph, S. Mukherjee, B. Kundu, M. Das, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Nano- and micro-tribological behaviours of plasma nitrided Ti6Al4V alloys, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 77, 2018,267-295. (Elsevier, IF: 3.485), (Citation: 21)

13. P. Maiti, P. S. Das, M. Bhattacharya, S. Mukherjee, B. Saha, A. K. Mullick and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Transparent Al+3 doped MgO Thin films for Functional Applications, Materials Research Express, 4, 2017,086405. (IOP Science, IF: 1.449), (Citation: 7)

14. A. Samanta, S. Podder, C. K. Ghosh, M. Bhattacharya, J. Ghosh, A. K. Mallik, A. Dey, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, ROS mediated high anti-bacterial efficacy of strain tolerant layered phase pure nano-calcium hydroxide. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 72, 2017, 110-128. (Elsevier, IF: 3.485), (Citation: 13)

15. A. Samanta, H. Chakraborty, M. Bhattacharya, J. Ghosh, M. Sreemany, S. Bysakh, R. Rane, A. Joseph, S. Mukherjee, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Nanotribological response of a plasma nitrided bio-steel, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 65, 2017, 584 - 599. (Elsevier, IF: 3.485), (Citation: 13)

16. M. Bhattacharya, A. Dey and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Influence of Loading Rate on Sapphire, Ceramics International, 42, 2016, 13378-13386. (Elsevier, IF: 3.830), (Citation: 20)

17. M. Bhattacharya, A. Dey and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Self-adjusting Unique Nanoscale Contact Resistance of a Single Alumina Grain, Materials Research Express 3, 2016, 045017, doi:10.1088/2053-1591/3/4/045017. (IOP Science, IF: 1.449) (Citation: 4)

18. M. Bhattacharya, S. Dalui, N. Dey, S. Bysakh, J. Ghosh and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Low Strain Rate Compressive Failure Mechanism of Coarse Grain Alumina, Ceramics International 42, 2016, 9875–9886. (Elsevier, IF: 3.450), (Citation: 5)

19. D. Palai, M. Bhattacharya, A. B. Mallick, P. Bera, A. K. Sharma, A. K. Mukhopadhyay and A. Dey, Microstructural, thermo-optical, mechanical and tribological behaviours of vacuum heat treated ultra thin SS304 foils, Materials Research Express 3, 2016, 096501. (IOP Science, IF: 1.449), (Citation: 2)

20. A. Kar, S. Sarkar, P. K. Das, M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Impact Energy Absorption Analysis of Spark Plasma Sintered Al2O3 Reinforced Bulk MWCNT compacts using Nanoindentation, International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, 13, 2016, 987 - 996. (The American Ceramic Society, IF: 1.072), (Citation: 1)

21. A. Dey, M. K. Nayak, A. C. M. Esther, M. S. Pradeepkumar, D. Porwal, A. K. Gupta, P. Bera, H. C. Barshilia, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, A. K. Pandey, K. Khan, M. Bhattacharya, D. R. Kumar, N. Sridhara and A. K. Sharma, Nanocolumnar Crystalline Vanadium Oxide −Molybdenum Oxide Antireflective Smart Thin Films with Superior Nanomechanical Properties, Scientific Reports, 6, 2016, 36811, doi:10.1038/srep36811. (Nature, IF: 4.525), (Citation: 22)

22. D. Porwal, A. C. M. Esther, A. Dey, A. K. Gupta, D. R. Kumar, P. Bera, H. C. Barshilia, M. Bhattacharya, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, K. Khan, A. K. Sharma, Effect of low temperature vacuum annealing on microstructural, optical, electronic, electrical, nanomechanical properties and phase transition behavior of sputtered vanadium oxide thin films, Materials Research Express, 3, 2016, 106407. (IOP Science, IF: 1.449), (Citation: 6)

23. P. S. Das+, M. Bhattacharya+, D. Chanda, S. K. Dalui, S. D. Acharya, S. Ghosh and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Failure and Deformation Mechanisms at Macro- and Nano-scales of Alkali Activated Clay, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 49, 2016, 235503, (+ Contributed Equally). (IOP Science, IF: 2.829), (Citation: 5)

24. B. Bera, P. S. Das, M. Bhattacharya, S. Ghosh, A. K. Mukhopadhyay and A. Dey, Nanoscale contact resistance of V2O5 xerogel films developed by nanostructured powder, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 49, 085303, 2016. (IOP Science , IF: 2.829), (Citation: 7)

25. A. Samanta+, M. Bhattacharya+, S. Dalui, M. Acharya, P. S. Das, D. Chanda, S. D. Acharya, S. K. Sivaraman, S. Nath, A. K. Mandal, J. Ghosh and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Nanomechanical Responses of Human Hair, Journal of Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedical Materials, 56, 229-248, 2016 (+ Contributed Equally). (Elsevier, IF: 3.485), (Citation: 10)

26. A. Dey+, M. Bhattacharya+ and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Grain boundary nanohardness of coarse grain alumina, International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, 12, 2015, 1199–1209, (+ Contributed Equally). (The American Ceramic Society, IF: 1.072), (Citation: 3)

27. I. N. Reddy, V. R. Reddy, N. Sridhara, V. S. Rao, M. Bhattacharya, P. Bandyopadhyay, S. Basavaraja, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, A. K. Sharma, A. Dey, Pulsed rf magnetron sputtered alumina thin films, Ceramics International, 128, 2014, 9571. (Elsevier, IF: 3.450) (Citation: 1)

28. S. Ghosh, K. S. Pal, A. K. Mandal, N. Biswas, M. Bhattacharya and P. Bandyopadhyay, Cordierite based glass ceramic glazed floor tiles by microwave processing, Materials Characterization, 95, 2014, 192-200. (Elsevier, IF: 3.220), (Citation: 12)

29. M. Bhattacharya, R. Chakraborty, A. Dey, A. K. Mandal, and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, New observations in micro-pop-in issues in nanoindentation of coarse grain alumina, Ceramics International, 39, 2013, 999 -1009. (Elsevier, IF: 3.450), (Citation: 20)

30. M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Contact Deformation of Alumina, ISRN Ceramics, vol. 2012, Article ID 741042, 9 pages, 2012. doi:10.5402/2012/741042. (Citation: 5)

31. M. Bhattacharya, R. Chakraborty, A. Dey, A. K. Mandal and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Improvement in nanoscale contact resistance of alumina, Applied Physics A: Mat. Sci. Processes, 107, 2012, 783-787. (Springer, IF: 1.694), (Citation: 22)

National /International Conference:

1. K. D. Joshi, S. Bhattacharya, A. Dey, R. Chakraborty, M. Bhattacharya, A. S. Rav, S. K. Biswas, A. K. Mukhoadhyay and S. C. Gupta, “Nanomechanical properties of shock treated aluminum alloy Al2024-T4”, International Conference on “High Pressure Science and Technology (AIRAPT-23)”, September 25-30, 2011 (Mumbai, India), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, p. 412 in Book of Abstracts.

2. M. Bhattacharya, R. Chakraborty, A. Dey, A. K. Mukhopadhyay and S. K. Biswas, “Effect of loading rate on nano-mechanical properties of alumina ”, Third International Workshop on “Mechanical Behaviour of Systems at Small Scales-3”, September, 18-21, 2011, (Trivandrum, India), Jointly organized by Hysitron Nanotechnology India and India Institute of Science Bangalore, p. 40 in Book of Abstracts.

3. M. Bhattacharya, “Improvement in Intrinsic Contact Deformation Resistance of Coarse Grain Alumina,” MRSI, 2012.

4. M. Bhattacharya, “Contact Deformation Resistance of Coarse Grain Alumina,” Research Scholar Day, 2012, organized by CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, India.

5. M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Effect of Plasticity in Nanoindentation of Alumina”, ISJPS-2013 presented at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur during February 25-27, 2013.

6. M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Incipient Plasticity Issues in Nanoindentation of Alumina”, Fourth International Workshop on “Mechanical Behaviour of Systems at Small Length Scales-4”, February, 24-28, 2013, Karnataka, India (Invited Talk).

7. M. Bhattacharya, A. K. Mandal, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Micromechanical Response of Dense Coarse Grain Alumina”, ALUMINAS-2013”, March 7-9, 2013, CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India, pg-52 of abstract book.

8. M. Bhattacharya, A. Dey, R. Chakraborty, A. K. Mandal, S. Bysakh and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Grain and Grain Boundary Nanohardness of Alumina”, ALUMINAS-2013”, March 7-9, 2013, CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India, pg-58 of abstract book (Best Poster Award).

9. A. K. Mukhopadhyay, S. K. Dalui, N. Dey, M. Bhattacharya, “Strain Rate Issues in Compressive Strength of Alumina”, ALUMINAS-2013”, March 7 - 9, 2013, CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India, pg-51 of abstract book.

10. I. N. Reddy, V. R. Reddy, N. Sridhara, V. S. Rao, M. Bhattacharya, P. Bandyopadhyay, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, A. K. Sharma and A. Dey, “Microstructural and Nanomechanical Characterization of Alumina Thin Films”, ALUMINAS-2013”, March 7-9, 2013, CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India, pg-50 of abstract book.

11. M. Bhattacharya, “Plastic Deformations in Alumina,” Research Scholar Day, 2013, organized by CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, India. (Best Poster Award).

12. M. Bhattacharya, A. Samanta, S. Acharya, and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, S. S. Kalidas and S. Nath, “Nanomechanical Characterization of Human Hair”, ICEMP 2014, Bhubaneswar, Feb. 26-28, 2014, pp:376-383.

13. M. Bhattacharya, S.K. Dalui, A. K. Mandal, N. Dey and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Strain Rate Behaviour of a Coarse Grain Alumina”, ICEMP 2014, Bhubaneswar, Feb. 26-28, 2014.

14. M. Bhattacharya, “Strain Rate Effect of a Dense Coarse Grain Alumina from Micro to Macro Scale”, Research Scholar Day, 2014, organized by CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, India. (Poster Presentation). (Best Poster Award).

15. U. Sinha, M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Grain Boundary Behavior of alumina under nanoindentation”, page no. 128 in the book of abstracts at First International Conference on Emerging Materials: Characterization and Application (EMCA- 2014), December 04-06, 2014, Kolkata, India.

16. M. Bhattacharya, S. K. Dalui, N. Dey, S. Baishak, A.K. Mukhopadhyay, “New Dynamic Failure Mechanism of Coarse Grain Alumina”, presented in 1st International Conference in Alumina and Other Functional Ceramics (AOFC-2015) held from 11th- 13th March, 2015 at CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, Abstract book pp-75 (Best Oral Presentation).

17. M. Bhattacharya, A. Dey, S. Saha, D. Paul, P. K. Agarwal, S. Roy Chowdhury and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Loading Rate Effect of Sapphire under Nanoindentation,” Nanoyantrika- 2015: Nanomechanical Testing Workshop and Hysitron User Meeting held from September 20th-22nd, 2015, in Trivandrum, pp-34 Abstract Book.

18. M. Bhattacharya, A. Dey and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Nanoscale Contact Deformation Resistance of Alumina Single Grain, presented in National Conference on Recent Trends in Functional Materials in relation to Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology - RTFMNN, St. Paul’s C.M. College, Kolkata, 4-5 February, 2016.

19. S. Acharya, M. Bhattacharya, P. S. Das, P. K. Das and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Nanoindentation Response of AlN-SiC composites”, Paper to be presented at Fourth International Workshop on “Mechanical Behaviour of Systems at Small Length Scales-4”, February, 24-28, 2013, Karnataka, India.

20. P. S. Das, M. Bhattacharya, D. K. Chanda, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, S. Ghosh, “Rajmahal Kaolinitic Clays for Environmentally Driven Geo-Polymer Applications”, 77th Indian Ceram. Soc. Annual Conference proceedings pp. 26, during 19-20 December, 2013 at Jamshedpur.

21. P. S. Das, M. Bhattacharya, D. K. Chanda, S. J. Iyengar, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, S. Ghosh, “Clay based Geopolymers in the Development of ‘Green’ Functional Materials”, Int. Conf. on Advanced Functional Materials held during February 19-21, 2014 at NIIST, Trivandrum.

22. P. S. Das, M. Bhattacharya, D. K. Chanda, P. Kundu, T. Maiti, A. K. Mandal, S. Dalui, S. Ghosh, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Synthesis and Mechanical Properties of Geopolymer”, Int Conf on Imerging Materials and Process-2014 (ICEMP) being held during Feb 26-28, 2014 at CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar.

23. M. Bhattacharya, P. S. Das, A. Samanta, D. K. Chanda, S. Acharya, S. K. Ghosh and A. K. Mukhopadhyay “Nanoindentation Response of Ecofriendly Geopolymer Composites” INCCOM-13, being held during November 14-15, 2014 at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.

24. M. Bhattacharya, P.S. Das, A. Samanta, D. K. Chanda, S. Acharya, J. Ghosh, T. Maity, A. K. Mandal, S. Ghosh, A. K. Mukhopadhyay “Nanomechanical behavior of geopolymer composites”, EMCA- 2014, December 4-6, 2014 at CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, pp-137 Abstract Book.

25. N. Biswas, S. D. Acharya, D. Kaushik, M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Contact Issues at Microstructural Length Scale of AlN-SiC Composites”, page no. 80 in the book of abstracts at INCCOM-13, ISAMPE National Conference on Composites, November 14 - 15, 2014, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

26. N. Biswas, S. D. Acharya, D. Kaushik, M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Development of High Toughness AlN-SiC Ceramic Composites”, page no. 85 in the book of abstracts at INCCOM-13, ISAMPE National Conference on Composites, November 14 - 15, 2014, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

27. M. Bhattacharya, S. D. Acharya, N. Biswas, D. Kaushik and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Does the Rate of Contact Matter in Ceramic Microcomposites?”, page no. 81 in the book of abstracts at INCCOM-13, ISAMPE National Conference on Composites, November 14 - 15, 2014, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

28. A. Samanta, A. Sinha, S. Sarapure, A. Dey, D. Chanda, P. S. Das, B. Bera, R. Chakraborty, P. Bandyopadhyay, N. Biswas, M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Alumina Lanthanum Phosphate Composites for Structural Applications”, page no. 82 in the book of abstracts at INCCOM-13, ISAMPE National Conference on Composites, November 14 - 15, 2014, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

29. A. Samanta, A. Sinha, S. Sarapure, A. Dey, D. Chanda, P. S. Das, B. Bera, R. Chakraborty, P. Bandyopadhyay, N. Biswas, M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Development of a Tough Matrix / Weak Interface Ceramic Nanocomposite”, page no. 72 in the book of abstracts at INCCOM-13, ISAMPE National Conference on Composites, November 14 - 15, 2014, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

30. D. K. Chanda, A. Sinha, S. Sarapure, A. Dey, A. Samanta, R. Chakraborty, P. S. Das, M. Bhattacharya, P. Bandyopadhyay, N. Biswas, B. Bera and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Development of Zirconia Toughened Alumina Nanocomposites”, page no. 91 in the book of abstracts at INCCOM-13, ISAMPE National Conference on Composites, November 14 - 15, 2014, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

31. P. S. Das, S. Sarapure, A. Sinha, A. Dey, A. Samanta, D. K. Chanda, R. Chakraborty, M. Bhattacharya, N. Biswas, P. Bandopadhyay, B. Bera and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Role of a Tough Layer in Ceramic Composite Design”, page no. 94 in the book of abstracts at INCCOM-13, ISAMPE National Conference on Composites, November 14 - 15, 2014, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

32. B. Bera, M. Bhattacharya, P. S. Das, A. Dey, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Unique Strain Tolerance of V2O5 Xerogel Thin Films”, presented in 1st International Conference in Alumina and Other Functional Ceramics (AOFC-2015) held from 11th-13th March, 2015 at CSIR- CGCRI, Kolkata, Abstract book pp-73.

33. A. Samanta, H. Chakraborty, M. Bhattacharya, A. Chakraborty, D. Paul, P. K. Agarwal, S. Roy Chowdhury, S. Saha, J. Ghosh, M. Sreemany, S. Bysakh, R. Rane, A. Joseph, S. Mukherjee and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Nanotribological studies on Plasma Nitrided Ti- 6Al-4V alloy,” PSSI-Plasma Scholar’s Colloquium, 2015 held from 6th to 7th August, 2015 at Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

34. H. Chakraborty, A. Samanta, M. Bhattacharya, A. Chakraborty, S. Roy Chowdhury, D. Paul, S. Saha, P. K. Agarwal, J. Ghosh, M. Sreemany, S. Bysakh, R. Rane, A. Joseph, S. Mukherjee and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Enhancements in Nano and Microtribological Properties of a Plasma Nitrided SS316L Biosteel,” PSSI-Plasma Scholar’s Colloquium, 2015 held from 6th to 7th August, 2015 at Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

35. A. Samanta, H. Chakraborty, M. Bhattacharya, J. Ghosh, M. Sreemany, S. Bysakh, R. Rane, A. Joseph, S. Mukherjee and A. K. Mukhopadhyay “Enhancement in Nano and Nano/Microtribological Properties of Novel Biomedical Implants,” Nanoyantrika- 2015: Nanomechanical Testing Workshop and Hysitron User Meeting held from September 20th-22nd, 2015, in Trivandrum.

36. A. Samanta, M. Bhattacharya, S. Dalui, S. Acharya, S. K. Sivaraman, S. Nath, A. K. Mandal, J. Ghosh and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Smart change of nanomechanical Responses of Human Hair,” Nanoyantrika- 2015: Nanomechanical Testing Workshop and Hysitron User Meeting held from September 20th- 22nd, 2015, in Trivandrum.

37. H. Chakraboty, A. Samanta, M. Bhattacharya, J. Ghosh, M. Sreemany, S. Bysakh, R. K. Rane, A. Joseph, S. Mukherjee and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Enhancements in Nanomechanical and Micro/Nanotribological Properties of Plasma Nitrided Austenetic Steel”, International Conference on Ceramic & Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment, page 156 (poster 62), 14th-17th December, 2015, Christ University, Bengaluru, India, 79th Annual Session of Indian Ceramic Society.

38. P. S. Das, D. Mukherjee, G. P. Nani, R. K. Hatale, M. Bhattacharya, D. Palai, B. Bera, J. Ghosh, A. Dey, A. K. Sharma and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Development of Nanostructured V2O5 Powders and Thin Films”, International Conference on Ceramic & Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment, page 92 (Oral 33), 14th -17th December, 2015, Christ University, Bengaluru, India, 79th Annual Session of Indian Ceramic Society.

39. D. Palai, B. Bera, M. Bhattacharya, P.S. Das, D. Mukherjee, G. P. Nani, R. K. Hatale, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, A. K. Sharma and A. Dey, “Thermo-optical behaviours of spin coated vanadium pentoxide thin films”, Conference on Ceramic & Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment, page 137 (Poster 32), 14th -17th December, 2015, Christ University, Bengaluru, India, 79th Annual Session of Indian Ceramic Society.

40. D. Mukherjee, P.S. Das, G. P. Nani, R. K. Hatale, M. Bhattacharya, D. Palai, B. Bera, J. Ghosh, A. Dey, A. K. Sharma and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, “Synthesis and Characterization of Molybdenum doped Spin Coated Nanostructured V2O5 Thin Films”, Conference on Ceramic & Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment, page 136 (Poster 30), 14th -17th December, 2015, Christ University, Bengaluru, India, 79th Annual Session of Indian Ceramic Society.

41. M. Bhattacharya and A.K. Mukhopadhyay, Role of Deformations on the Nanomechanical Properties of Alumina. International Conference on ‘Alumina and Other Functional Ceramics’ 2017 (AOFC 2017), 15-17th February, 2017, (Oral).

42. A. Samanta, S. Podder, C. K. Ghosh, M. Bhattacharya, J. Ghosh, A. K. Mallik, A. Dey, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, High anti-bacterial efficacy of strain tolerant layered phase pure nano-calcium hydroxide. 2nd International Conference in Alumina and Other Functional Ceramics (AOFC-2017) held from 15th-17th February at CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, 2017 (Poster).

43. P. Maiti, P. S. Das, M. Bhattacharya and A.K. Mukhopadhyay, Transparent Al +3 Doped MgO Thin Films for Functional Applications. International Conference on ‘Alumina and Other Functional Ceramics’ 2017 (AOFC 2017), 15-17 th February, 2017 (Poster).

44. P. Maiti, M. Bhattacharya and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Nanomechanical Response of MgO Doped Fine Grain Alumina. 4th International Conference on Advances in Materials & Materials Processing (ICAMMP- IV), 5th -7th November, 2016 (Oral).

45. M. Bhattacharya, P. Sarkar and A. K. Mukhopadhyay, Nanomechanical Response across the Scratch Groove of Alumina. 4th International Conference on Advances in Materials & Materials Processing (ICAMMP- IV), 5th -7th November, 2016 (Oral).

46. M. Bhattacharya, A. Dey and A.K. Mukhopadhyay, Single Crystal Alumina under Nanoindentation: Loading Rate Effect, 24th Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography 2017 (IUCR 2017), 21st -28th August, 2017 (Poster).

47. M. Bhattacharya and A.K. Mukhopadhyay, Deformation Mechanisms of Alumina from Nano to Macro Scale of Contact, International Conference on Microscope and XXXIX Annual Meeting of Electron Microscope Society of India, EMSI 2018, 18th-20th July, 2018 (Poster).

WEBINARS:

1. One Day Webinar organized by Research & Development Committee, Siliguri Institute of Technology, on July 8, 2020 “Journey of solar cells from Silicon to Perovskite”.

2. One Day Interactive Session on IEI Centenary Celebration Technical Programme Theme: Entrepreneurship & Innovation Support through MSME on 25th July 2020, organized by The Institution of Engineers (India), Durgapur Local Centre.

3. One Day International Webinar on “Effect of Global Pandemic in our Professional Life and possible steps to overcome them” Organized by Department of Engineering Science and Humanities, SIT

4. Three-day International Webinar on "Recent Trends and scopes in Physics", organized by Department of Physics in collaboration with IQAC, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College, 1/1B, A.J.C. Bose Road, Kolkata-700020 on 25/07/2020, 26/07/2020, and 27/07/2020.

5. 26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES on Advances in Applied Physics & Earth Sciences held online by Department of Physics, School of Basic Sciences, Manipal University Jaipur during December 18-20, 2020.\

FDP/Refresher Course:

1. 5-day online FDP on the theme “Inculcating Universal Human Values in Technical Education” organized by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) from 8 February, 2021 to 12 February, 2021.

2. Five Days Staff Development Program at Siliguri Institute of Technology, 8th - 12th July, 2019.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

1. Manjima Bhattacharya, Arjun Dey and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay, “Mechanics of elastic and elastoplastic contacts” in Nanoindentation of Brittle Solids, authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 13-19 (2014).

2. Arjun Dey, Payel Bandyopadhyay, Nilormi Biswas, Manjima Bhattacharya, Riya Chakraborty, I Neelakanta Reddy, and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay “Nanoindentation: Why at All and Where?” in Nanoindentation of Brittle solids authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay published by CRS press, Taylor and Francis Group, 39-43 (2014).

3. Manjima Bhattacharya, Arjun Dey and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay, “Nanoindentation Data analysis methods” in Nanoindentation of Brittle Solids, authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 45-52 (2014).

4. Manjima Bhattacharya, Arjun Dey and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay, “Nanoindentation Techniques” in Nanoindentation of Brittle Solids, authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 53-55 (2014).

5. Arjun Dey, Riya Chakraborty, Payel Bandyopadhyay, Nilormi Biswas, Manjima Bhattacharya, Saikat Acharya, and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay, “Materials and Measurement Issues” in Nanoindentation of Brittle solids, authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay published by, CRS press, Taylor and Francis Group, 63-73 (2014).

6. Riya Chakraborty, Manjima Bhattacharya, Arjun Dey and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay, “Nanomechanical properties of ceramics” in Nanoindentation of Brittle Solids, authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 135-139 (2014).

7. Manjima Bhattacharya, Riya Chakraborty, Arjun Dey and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay, “Does the contact rate matter for ceramics?” in Nanoindentation of Brittle Solids, authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 141-146 (2014).

8. Manjima Bhattacharya, Riya Chakraborty, Arjun Dey and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay, “Nanoscale contact in ceramics” in Nanoindentation of Brittle Solids, authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 147-152 (2014).

9. Riya Chakraborty, Arjun Dey, Manjima Bhattacharya, Nilormi Biswas, Jyoti Kumar Sharma, Devashish Kaushik, Payel Bandyopadhyay, Saikat Acharya and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay, “Pop-in issues in nanoindentation” in Nanoindentation of Brittle Solids, authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 349-357 (2014).

10. Riya Chakraborty, Arjun Dey, Nilormi Biswas, Manjima Bhattacharya, Payel Bandyopadhyay, Jyoti Kumar Sharma, Devashish Kaushik, Saikat Acharya and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay, “Effect of loading rate on nanoindentation response of brittle solids” in Nanoindentation of Brittle Solids, authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 359-364 (2014).

11. Manjima Bhattacharya, Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay and Arjun Dey, “Nanoindentation of bone: a tough hybrid composite,” in Nanoindentation of Natural Materials: Hierarchical and Functionally Graded Microstructure authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018, chapter - 2.

12. Aniruddha Samanta, Manjima Bhattacharya, Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Shekhar Nath, Arjun Dey, Nanoindentation of Hair Fiber: A Tough Hierarchical Layered Architecture authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018, Chapter - 6.

13. Manjima Bhattacharya, Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay and Arjun Dey, “Nanoindentation of shell and scale: a hard-tough layered functionally graded hybrid composite,” in Nanoindentation of Natural Materials: Hierarchical and Functionally Graded Microstructure authored by Arjun Dey and Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay, by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018, Chapter – 7.

ACHIEVEMENTS & REWARDS

1. M. Bhattacharya, “Contact Deformation Mechanisms of Brittle Solids”, CSIR-SRF, 10.10.2014 - 21.09.2016.

2. M. Bhattacharya, “New Dynamic Failure Mechanism of Coarse Grain Alumina”, 1st International Conference in Alumina and Other Functional Ceramics (AOFC-2015), 11th- 13th March, 2015 at CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, Abstract book pp-75 (Best Oral Presentation)

3. M. Bhattacharya, “Plastic Deformations in Alumina,” Research Scholar Day, 2013, organized by CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, India. (Best Poster Award)

4. M. Bhattacharya, “Strain Rate Effect of a Dense Coarse Grain Alumina from Micro to Macro Scale”, Research Scholar Day, 2014, organized by CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, India. (Poster Presentation). (Best Poster Award).

5. M. Bhattacharya, “Grain and Grain Boundary Nanohardness of Alumina”, ALUMINAS-2013”, March 7-9, 2013, CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India, pg-58 of abstract book (Best Poster Award).

MEMBERSHIP:

• Life Member, The Indian Physical Society, India