About Me
I completed my bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from St.Xavier's College, Kolkata in 2016. I joined IISER Bhopal as an MS-PhD student in 2016 and completed my Master's in Chemistry in May 2019. Currently, I am working as a graduate student in ab initio theory group at IISER Bhopal.
Research Interest
My thesis work involves unraveling the nature and mechanisms of temperature and
pressure induced phenomena observed in hydrogen bonded systems by using ab initio
molecular dynamics simulations. One of the projects is aimed at providing critical
understanding of the nature of different pressure and temperature induced structural
phases in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites (MAPbBr3 , MAPbI3 , FAPbBr3 etc.)
which have immense potential to be used as solar energy materials. We are specifically
interested in the role played by the coupling between rotations of the organic
cation and distortions in the inorganic lattice in stabilising different phases
under different conditions. In this context, I am also interested in the origin
of ferroelectricity in some phases of these types of materials.
In another work, we have been able to predict polymerisation of solid acrylamide
under high pressure. We have shown the importance of hydrogen bonding network,
which responds to pressure anisotropically, setting the stage for the topochemical
polymerisation of acrylamide. The effect of kinetics also plays important roles as
rapid compression could lead to different polymeric structures. Currently we are
investigating these possibilities using ab initio molecular dynamics in the NPT ensemble.
Some other projects I am working on include probing the mechanism of negative
linear compressibility (NLC) and negative thermal expansion (NTE) in materials.
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