Gour Prasad Das
Senior Professor
Materials Science
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
India
Biography
enior Professor, Materials Science Dept, IACS, Kolkata, 2006 – Present Distinguished Visiting Professor, PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, 2012 – Present Honorary Adjunct Professor, IIT Kharagpur, 2016 – Present. Previous Positions : Honorary Adjunct Professor, IIEST Shibpur, 2010 – 2012 Professor, Dept of Materials Science, IACS, Kolkata 2004 – 2006 Scientific Officer, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai Visiting Positions (Long and Short Term) : Max Planck Institute for Solids State Research, Stuttgart, Germany Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA Institute of Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Research Interest
Computational condensed matter physics and materials science, in particular, density functional based first-principles investigation of the electronic and magnetic properties of alloys, interfaces, multilayers, clusters and various kinds of nanostructured materials. Current research interests cover spintronics materials, hydrogen storage materials, functionalized nanomaterials and quantum structures.
Publications
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An extended fractal growth regime in the diffusion limited aggregation including edge diffusionâ€, Aritra Ghosh, R. Batabyal, G.P. Das and B.N. Dev, AIP Advances 6, 015301 (2016).
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“Electronic Structure and Local Magnetism of 3d, 4d and 5d impurity substituted CeFe2â€, Rakesh Das, G.P. Das and S.K. Srivastava, J. Phys. D : Applied Physics 49, 165004 (2016).
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First principles design of Li functionalized hydrogenated h-BN nanosheet for hydrogen storageâ€, Paramita Banerjee, Biswarup Pathak, Rajeev Ahuja and G.P. Das, Int. J. Hyd. Energy (2016), in press.
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“Exploring adsorption and desorption characteristics of molecular hydrogen on neutral and charged Mg nanoclusters: A first principles studyâ€, Paramita Banerjee, K.R.S. Chandrakumar and G. P. Das, Chem. Phys. 469, 123 (2016)
