Dr. Debaprasad Mandal

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Room & Contact: 

Office: Room 302

Phone: +91-1881-242131

Designation: 

Associate Professor

Department: 

Department of Chemistry

Email: 

dmandal@iitrpr.ac.in

Biography: 

Dr. Mandal joined the Department of Chemistry, IIT Ropar in 2010. His research work is centered around Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry and this core area branches into catalysis, organic synthesis, and recoverable catalysts, particularly those with fluorous "ponytails" of the formula (CH2)m(CF2)nF. Recently his group started working on Li-ion, Li-sulfur battery, Ionic Liquids, Ionic Polymers, Composites of Polyoxometallate as electrocatalyst and sensors. Dr. Mandal worked with Prof. Gladysz group at Erlangen, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) fellow for post-doctoral study after his PhD at IIT Kanpur. Then he moved to Texas A&M University where he was working mainly on methane oxidation (industrial project) for more than two years before joining IIT Ropar.

Areas of Research: 

Inorganic and Organometallics chemistry

Polyoxometalates

Ionic liquids and poly(ionic liquids)

Ionic and fluorous polymers

Small Molecule Activation

Li-ion and Li-S battery

Education: 

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2006

M.Sc., Banaras Hindu University, 2000

B.Sc., Midnapore College (Vidyasagar University), 1998

Selected Publications/Patents: 

1. PVIM-Co5POM/MNC Composite as Flexible Electrode for Ultrasensitive and Highly Selective non-Enzymatic Electrochemical Detection of Cholesterol, N. Thakur, M. Kumar, S. D. Adhikary, D. Mandal*, T. C. Nagaiah*, Chemical Communications, 2019, 55, 5021–5024.

2. Poly(Ionic liquid)-zinc polyoxometalate composite as binder free cathode catalyst for high performance lithium-sulfur battery, V. Singh, A.K. Padhan, S.D. Adhikary, A. Tiwari, D. Mandal,* T. C. Nagaiah*, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019, 7, 3018–3023.

3. Stabilization of cobalt-polyoxometalate over poly (ionic liquid) composite for efficient electrocatalytic water oxidation, S. D. Adhikary, A. Tiwari, T. C. Nagaiah,* D. Mandal,* ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2018, 10, 38872–38879

4. Ultrasensitive and Highly Selective Electrochemical Detection of Dopamine Using Poly(ionic liquids)−Cobalt Polyoxometalate/CNT Composite, N. Thakur, S.D. Adhikary, M. Kumar, D. Mehta, A.K. Padhan, D. Mandal,* T. C. Nagaiah,* ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 2966–2973

5. Thermo-reversible Self-healing in Fluorous crosslinked Copolymer, A. K. Padhan, D. Mandal, Polymer Chemistry, 2018, 9, 3248–3261

6. Self-assembly of fluorous amphiphilic copolymers with Ionogels and surface switchable wettability, S. N. Chavan, A. K. Padhan, D. Mandal, Polymer Chemistry, 2018, 9, 2258-2270. (Highlighted as Back cover page)

7. Sustainable non-noble metal bifunctional catalyst for oxygen depolarised cathode and Cl2 evolution in HCl electrolysis, V. Singh, S. D. Adhikary, A. Tiwari, D. Mandal*, T. C. Nagaiah*, Chem. Mater., 2017, 4253–4264

8. Perfluoroalkylated Calix[4]pyrroles: Fluoride Ion Extraction from an Aqueous Medium, S. Maji, D. Mandal, Chemistry an Asian Journal, 2017, 12, 2369–2373.

9. S. N Chavan, A. Tiwari, T. C. Nagaiah, D. Mandal, "Ether and siloxane functionalized ionic liquids and their mixtures as electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 16116-16126

Work Experience: 

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, 2019

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, 2010

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA, 2008

AvH fellow, Institute für Organische Chemie, Friedrich Alexander Universität, Erlangen, Nürnberg, Germany, 2007