Himanshu Chakraborty

Post Doctoral Fellow
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University
United States of America

Academician Chemistry
Biography

Himanshu Chakraborty received a Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India in 2015. She then held a research assistant (provisional) position in Theoretical Sciences Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India. Himanshu joined Professor Klein’s research group as a postdoctoral fellow in 2016. She is associated with Center for the Computational Design of Functional Layered Materials, an Energy Frontier Research Center.

Research Intrest

Her Research Interests include: 1.Theory of the electronic structure of atoms, molecules, surfaces and solids 2.First-principles calculations to determine electrical and chemical properties of nano-scale materials 3.Optical properties of conjugated polymers, graphene and other related 2D materials

List of Publications
Basak T, Chakraborty H, Shukla A (2015) Theory of linear optical absorption in diamond-shaped graphene quantum dots. Physical Review B.92:205404.
Chhetri M, Maitra S, Chakraborty H, Waghmare UV, Rao CN (2016) Superior performance of borocarbonitrides, B x C y N z, as stable, low-cost metal-free electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Energy & Environmental Science 9:95-101.
Xu B, Chakraborty H, Remsing RC, Klein ML, Ren S (2017) A Free‐Standing Molecular Spin–Charge Converter for Ubiquitous Magnetic‐Energy Harvesting and Sensing. Adv Mater 29:1605150-1605158.

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