Bulumoni Kalita
Assistant Professor
Physics
Dibrugarh University
India
Biography
Bachelor’s Degree: B.Sc.(Physics), Department of Physics, Cotton College, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India (1997-2000) Master’s Degree: M.Sc. (Physics), Department of Physics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India (2000-2002) Ph.D.: Ph. D. in the area of theoretical modeling of nanomaterials (2006-2010) Thesis title: Structural and Electronic Properties of Bare and Supported Palladium Nanoclusters: A Density Functional Approach, Department of Chemical Sciences, Tezpur University, Assam, India. Other: Qualified CSIR-UGC NET for Lectureship in Physical Sciences held in India, June, 2004 Qualified b Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Physics, India, 2005 Qualified for Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) in Transdisciplinary Research, CSIR, India, 2009
Research Interest
Structural,electronic,magneticandcatalyticpropertiessub-nano metal/metal alloyclusters Metal nanoclusterssupport Nanoparticles for gas sensing Magnetic nanomaterials Nanomaterials for hydrogen storage Interaction of metal nanoparticles with biological systems Molecular Dynamics calculations for studying various properties of nanomaterials
Publications
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Adsorption of CO on oxygen pre-adsorbed neutral and charged gas phase Pd4 clusters: A density functional study, Bulumoni Kalita and Ramesh C. Deka, J. Comput. Chem. 31, 2476 (2010).
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Nature of CO and NO interactions with Pd-H-ZSM-5 catalyst: A comparative study of DFT based cluster and ONIOM methods, Bulumoni Kalita and Ramesh C. Deka, Catal. Lett. 140, 205 (2010).
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Tuning the Adsorption of Elemental Mercury by Small Gas Phase Palladium Clusters: First Principle Study, Bulumoni Kalita, J. Phys. Chem. A, 7714, 120 (2016).
