Manas K Bhunia
Assistant Professor, RISE, TCG CREST
Dr. Manas K Bhunia is an Assistant Professor at the Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (RISE), TCG CREST. His research interests lie in developing aqueous zinc-ion batteries and designing electrolytes for sodium metal batteries.
He received B. Sc. (Chemistry) from University of Calcutta, and M. Sc. from Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He obtained Ph. D. from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Jadavpur University) focusing on developing organic-inorganic hybrid nanoporous materials for catalytic applications. Then he joined as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Davis, USA, where he worked on thermochemistry of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). In his second postdoc at KAUST Catalysis Center, he developed metal-free semiconductor for solar water splitting. After that he worked as an Assistant Professor on contract at Central University of Tamil Nadu, India. Before joining TCG-CREST RISE, he was a specially appointed Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan where his primary research was on biomass conversion.
He has more than a decade of research experience on materials science, particularly synthesis, characterization of organic-inorganic hybrid porous nanomaterials and their applications in heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis. With the understanding at molecular or electronic level he aims to establish the structure- function correlation of advanced materials and molecules.
At RISE, his group is developing aqueous batteries for scalable and sustainable energy storage by leveraging abundant and locally available materials and minerals to ensure affordable indigenous battery technology in India.
Contact: manas.bhunia@tcgcrest.org
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/susscigroup/about