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Dr Arup Chakraborty

Dr Arup Chakraborty received his PhD degree from Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, India in 2019. His PhD thesis work was focused on the development of an electrochemical method to estimate the ECSA of carbon and nitrogen-doped carbon electrode. At the early stage of his PhD and as an MSc student, he worked on the synthesis and electrochemical testing of palladium and platinum nanoparticles as ORR active electrocatalysts. He is currently working as a research associate on the project of redox flow batteries and degradation of Li-ion batteries at Newcastle University, UK.

Current research area

Fast kinetics, pulse techniques, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, redox flow battery, Li-ion battery

Previous research area

Electrochemically active surface area estimation, nitrogen-doped carbon, Anthraquinone and catechol adsorption voltammetry, oxygen reduction reaction, the kinetics of redox reactions, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, electrochemistry of palladium and platinum nanoparticles, Cu stripping voltammogram

Working experience

10/2019 – present:  Research Associate, Newcastle University

Education

06/2013 - 06/2019: PhD in Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, India (Thesis title: Electrochemical estimation of active site density of metal-free carbon-based catalysts and its validation through determination of the rate constant of a redox reaction)

07/2011 - 06/2013: M.Sc. in Energy, at Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, India (Thesis title: Effect of halide (Cl˗, Br-) ions adsorption on shape evolution of Palladium nanoparticles)

06/2008 - 06/2011: B.Sc. in Chemistry, at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira Belur Math, West Bengal, India

Website link

Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=JY_ImwoAAAAJ&hl=en)

Research gate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arup_Chakraborty2)

Publications