Publications
“If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment.”— Richard P. Feynman.
15. Soumyadip Bhunia, Manish Mukherjee, and Pradipta Purkayastha, Fluorescent metal nanoclusters: prospects on photoinduced electron transfer and energy harvesting, Chem. Coummun. 2024, 60, 3370 - 3378.
14. Manish Mukherjee, Arunava Chatterjee, Soumyadip Bhunia, and Pradipta Purkayastha, Hydrophobic chain-induced conversion of 3-dimensional perovskite nanocrystals to gold nanocluster-grafted 2-dimensional-platelets for photoinduced electron transfer substrate formulation, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 8251-8260.
13. Nandan Ghorai†, Soumyadip Bhunia†, Subham Burai, Hirendra N. Ghosh, Pradipta Purkayastha and Somen Mondal., Ultrafast insights into full-colour light-emitting C-Dots. Nanoscale 2022, 14, 15812-15820. († Equal Contribution)
12. Pradipta Purkayastha, Soumyadip Bhunia, and Tarasankar Das, Therapeutic applications of metal nanoclusters, Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications, 1st Edition, 2022, Ch. 17, Pages 493-516, Elsevier.
11. Soumyadip Bhunia†, Nandan Ghorai†, Subham Burai, Pradipta Purkayastha, Hirendra N. Ghosh and Somen Mondal. Unraveling the Carrier Dynamics and Photocatalytic Pathway in Carbon Dots and Pollutants of Wastewater System. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2021, 125, 27252−27259. († Equal Contribution)
10. Somen Mondal, Nandan Ghorai, Soumyadip Bhunia, Hirendra N. Ghosh and Nadav Amdursky. Long-range light-modulated charge transport across molecular heterostructures doped protein biopolymers. Chemical Science 2021, 12, 8731–8739.
9. Soumyadip Bhunia, Manish Mukherjee and Pradipta Purkayastha. Photosensitization dynamics of stable copper nanoclusters inside the aqueous core of reverse micelles with different pool size. Langmuir 2021, 37, 3500-3507.
8. Soumyadip Bhunia, Kaustav Gangopadhyay, Ashutosh Ghosh, Sourav Kanti Seth, Rahul Das and Pradipta Purkayastha. Arginine-modified fluorescent gold nanoclusters for Förster resonance energy transfer with hemicyanine dye: A biofriendly approach. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2021, 4, 305-312.
7. Soumyadip Bhunia, Soumyanil Adhikary and Pradipta Purkayastha. Energy transfer from luminescent gold nanoclusters to non-luminescent silver nanoparticles from a new perspective. Journal of Molecular Liquids 2020, 318, 114048.
6. Nripendra Singh, Soumyadip Bhunia and Pradipta Purkayastha. Silver nanoclusters are probably better and cheaper protecting agents for protein from UVC radiation compared to gold nanoclusters. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 229, 2020, 117911.
5. Soumyadip Bhunia, Sourav Kanti Seth, Parna Gupta, Monobina Karmakar, Prasanta Kumar Datta and Pradipta Purkayastha. Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron Transfer from Cyclometalated Rhodium and Iridium Complexes to Cyan Emitting Copper Nanoclusters: Footsteps toward Light Harvesting. ChemistrySelect 2019, 4, 8568-8573.
4. Soumyadip Bhunia and Pradipta Purkayastha. Transformation of 3D cubic CsPbBr3 nanocrystals to massive gold embedded perovskite platelets using surfactant-coated gold nanoclusters. Materials Letters 2019, 253, 109-112.
3. Soumyadip Bhunia, Sumit Kumar, and Pradipta Purkayastha. Dependence of ultrafast dynamics in gold–silver alloy nanoclusters on the proportion of the metal content. SN Applied Sciences 2019, 1, 449.
2. Soumyadip Bhunia, Sumit Kumar, and Pradipta Purkayastha. Application of Photoinduced Electron Transfer with Copper Nanoclusters toward Finding Characteristics of Protein Pockets. ACS Omega 2019, 4, 2523-2532.
1. Soumyadip Bhunia, Sumit Kumar, and Pradipta Purkayastha. Gold Nanocluster-Grafted Cyclodextrin Suprastructures: Formation of Nanospheres to Nanocubes with Intriguing Photophysics. ACS Omega 2018, 3, 1492-1497.