Member

Koustav Sahoo

Koustav Sahoo
Koustav Sahoo

E-mail

koustavsahoo2016(a)gmail.com

Research Interests

Metal nanoclusters, Self-assembly of nanoclusters, Catalysis

Education

2019.6. BS (Chemistry), University of Calcutta, India
2021.6. MS (Chemistry), University of Hyderabad, India
2022.7.- ongoing Ph. D. (Nanoscience and Technology), IIT Kharagpur, India
2025.6.-2025.9. Visiting Research Scholar, EPFL, Switzerland (SPARC project)
2026.3.- present Visiting Research Scholar, The University of Tokyo

Academic Achievements

Selected as a prestigious PMRF scholar in cycle 11 at IIT Kharagpur.

1st position in the 3rd International Conference on Energy, Functional Materials/Molecules and Nanotechnology (ICEFN-2025), held at Kumaun University, Uttarakhand.

1st position in Oral presentation and 2nd position in poster presentation on Research Scholar Day, 2024, at the School of Nano Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur.

Visited SUNMIL lab under Prof. Francesco Stellacci, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1st July to 31st August, 2025 (three months) internship under the SPARC scheme.

Best Poster Award in International Symposium on Monolayer Protected Clusters - 2025 (ISMPC-2025), held at Munnar, Kerala, India, organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram from September 22 to 24, 2025.

Publications

  1. Ligand Effects on the Photoluminescence of Atomically Precise Silver Nanoclusters

    Koustav Sahoo, and Indranath Chakraborty*
    Nanoscale, 15, 3120-3129 (2023).

  2. Nanohybrids of Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters

    Koustav Sahoo, Tapu Raihan Gazi, Soumyadip Roy, and Indranath Chakraborty*
    Commun. Chem., 6, 157 (2023).

  3. Effect of Ni-Doping on the Optical, Structural, and Electrochemical Properties of Ag29 Nanoclusters

    Abdullah A. A. Ahmed†, Shana Havenridge†, Koustav Sahoo†, Loknath Thapa, Ananya Baksi, Guido H. Clever, Heshmat Noei, Mona Kohantorabi, Andreas Stierle, C. Retna Raj, Wolfgang J. Parak*, Christine M. Aikens*, and Indranath Chakraborty* (†: Equal contribution)
    Small, 21, 2408096 (2025).

  4. Luminescent Metal Nanoclusters Superstructures and method thereof. I. Chakraborty, Koustav Sahoo, 202431037355, filed on 12-05-2024 (IN).

Other Interests

Cricket, table tennis, and travelling

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