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Arnab Dutta

Associate Professor

Room No. 339, , Chemistry Bldg.

arnabdutta@chem.iitb.ac.in

+91 22 2576 7162

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Educational Background:

Ph.D., Arizona State University (2012)

M.Sc., IIT Bombay (2007)

B.Sc., Presidency College, University of Calcutta (2005)

Professional Experience:

Associate Professor, IIT Bombay (2021-)

Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay (2020-2021)

Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar (2015-2020)

Post doc, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), WA, USA (2012-2015)

Research Interest:

We are bio-inspired catalyst designers. In our lab, we develop molecular catalysts that can perform small molecule activation reactions such as hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), and water oxidation reaction (WOR) under the most practical conditions. For this purpose, we develop first-row transition metal-based molecular catalysts that include the vital architectural features of natural metalloenzymes. Apart from chemical synthesis, we perform electrochemistry and photocatalysis in both homogeneous and heterogeneous conditions.

Publications:

Bio-inspired Cobalt Catalyst Enables Natural-Sunlight-Driven Hydrogen Production from Aerobic Neutral Aqueous Solution

D. Dolui, S. Das, J. Bharti, S. Kumar, P. Kumar, A. Dutta*

Cell Reports Physical Science, 2020, 1, 1.

Enzyme-inspired synthetic proton relays generate fast and acid stable Cobalt-based H2 production electrocatalysts

D. Dolui, S. Khandelwal, A. Saikh, D. Gaat, V. Thiruvenkatam, A. Dutta*

ACS Catalysis, 2019, 9, 10115−10125.

Plasmonic gold nanoprism-Cobalt molecular complex dyad mimics Photosystem-II for visible-NIR illuminated neutral water oxidation

A. Q. Mir, G. Joshi, P. Ghosh, S. Khandelwal, A. Kar, R. S. Hegde, S. Khatua*, A. Dutta*

ACS Energy Letters, 2019, 4, 2428-2435.

Inclusion of peripheral basic groups activates dormant cobalt-based molecular complex for catalytic H2 evolution in water

S. Khandelwal, A. Zamader, V. Nagayach, D. Dolui, A. Q. Mir, A. Dutta*