Tarasankar Pal
Professor
Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
India
Biography
Professor Tarasankar Pal, M.Sc, PhD, D.Sc graduated from the University of Burdwan, India in chemistry. He is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Allahabad. He has published about 300 papers. Recently ACS has highlighted him amongst 20 Indian authors for high-quality research. Prof. Pal has received numerous national and international awards including ISCAS gold medal, R & D-100 Award from the U.S.A.
Research Interest
His research interests include syntheses and applications of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles for catalytic and spectroscopic applications including surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) studies. His ‘arsenic detection kit’ and ‘bench marked model reaction’ to test any metal nanoparticle catalyst deserve special mention.
Publications
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Silver Molybdates with Intriguing Morphology and as a Peroxidase Mimic with High Sulfide Sensing Capacity by Pal T. Crystal Growth & Design 17 295-307 (2017)
