Swastik Mondal
Principal Scientist
Sensor and Actuator Division
central glass and ceramic research institute
India
Biography
Swastik Mondal Reviewer of Acta Crystallogr. Sect. B (International Union of Crystallography) and Journal of Molecular Structure (Elsevier). One of the members of the Indian delegation in the IUCr Congress, Florence, Italy, 2005, financially assisted by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). Travel award from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, to attend the IUCr Congress, Florence, Italy, 2005. Financial award from Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Germany, for attending the IUCr Congress, Madrid, Spain, 2011. Awarded a FAST-TRACK project in 2013 by DST, GoI (not started). Life member of Indian Crystallographic Association.
Research Interest
High resolution electron density analysis; Ab-initio structure determination, phase and microstructure analysis using powder-XRD data; Single-crystal structure analysis of periodic and aperiodic crystals; super-hard boron-rich materials; low-dimensional materials and functional materials with photo-electric, thermo-electric and photo-catalytic activities.
Publications
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S Mondal, S van Smaalen, G Parakhonskiy, SJ Prathapa, L Noohinejad, E Bykova, et al.(2013) Experimental evidence of orbital order in α-B12 and γ-B28 polymorphs of elemental boron. Phys Rev B 88: 024118.
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S Mondal, S van Smaalen, A Schoenleber, Y Filinchuk, D Chernyshov, et al. (2011) Electron Deficient and Polycenter Bonds in the High-Pressure γ–B28 Phase of Boron. Physical Review Letters 106: 215502.
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S Mondal, E Bykova, S Dey, Sk I Ali, N Dubrovinskaia, et al. (2016)Disorder and defects are not intrinsic to boron carbide. Scientific Reports Nature Publishing Group 6: 19330.
