Atanu  Ghosh

Department Department of Chemistry
Designation Assistant Professor
Educational Qualification M.Sc (IIT Madras), PhD (IIT Madras)
E-Mail aghosh.chy@nitrr.ac.in
Contact Number 09176326489
Areas of Interest

• Structure and Geometry of nanomaterials through crystallization

• Photoredox catalysis, Heterogeneous catalysis, Electrochemical functionalization reactions

• Sensing and Mass spectrometry

Publications
Journal-32, Average Impact factor-9.5, Patents-4, Citations-2451
h-index: 26
  1. Badriah Alamer, Arunachalam Sagadevan, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Kathiravan Murugesan, Salman Alsharif, Ren-Wu Huang, Atanu Ghosh, Malenahalli H Naveen, Chunwei Dong, Saidkhodzha Nematulloev, Jun Yin, Aleksander Shkurenko, Mutalifu Abulikemu, Xinglong Dong, Yu Han, Mohamed Eddaoudi, Magnus Rueping, Osman M Bakr“Planar Core and Macrocyclic Shell Stabilized Atomically Precise Copper Nanocluster Catalyst for Efficient Hydroboration of C–C Multiple Bond” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146, 16295–16305, 2024.Impact Factor: 14.4                               H5 Index: 235                     Citations: 21
  2. Atanu Ghosh, Arunachalam Sagadevan, Kathiravan Murugesan,Stefan Adrian F. Nastase, Bholanath Maity,Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Aleksander Shkurenko, Mohamed Nejib Hedhili, Jun Yin,Omar F. Mohammed, Mohamed Eddaoudi, Luigi Cavallo,Magnus Rueping,and Osman M. Bakr“Multiple Neighboring Active Sites of Atomically Precise Copper Nanocluster Catalyst for Efficient Bond-Forming Reactions” Mater. Horizons, 11, 2494-2505,2024.Impact Factor: 12.2               H5 Index: 112                     Citations: 11
  3. Chunwei Dong, Ren-Wu Huang,Arunachalam Sagadevan, Peng Yuan,Luis Gutiérrez-Arzaluz,Atanu Ghosh, Saidkhodzha Nematulloev, Badriah Alamer, Omar F. Mohammed, Irshad Hussain,Magnus Rueping, and Osman M. Bakr “Isostructural Nanocluster Manipulation Reveals Pivotal Role of One Surface Atom in Click Chemistry” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62, e202307140,2023.Impact Factor: 16.1               H5 Index: 266                     Citations: 48
  4. Arunachalam Sagadevan,*Atanu Ghosh,* Partha Maity, Omar F. Mohammed, Osman Bakr, and Magnus Rueping “Visible-Light Copper Nanocluster Catalysis for the C–N Coupling of Aryl Chlorides at Room Temperature” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 12052−12061, 2022. (*Equal first authorship to this work)Impact Factor: 14.4                               H5 Index: 235                     Citations: 78
  5. Ren-Wu Huang, Cailing Chen, Jie Chen, Saidkhodzha Nematulloev, Xianrong Guo, Atanu Ghosh, Badriah Alamer, Mohamed Nejib Hedhili, Tayirjan T Isimjan, Yu Han, Omar F Mohammed, Osman M Bakr “[Cu23(PhSe)16(Ph3P)8(H)6]·BF4: Atomic-Level InsightsintoCuboidalPolyhydrido Copper Nanoclusters and Their Quasi-simple Cubic Self-Assembly” ACS Materials Lett., 3, 90−93, 2021.Impact Factor: 9.6                 H5 Index: 58                        Citations: 33
  6. Chunwei Dong, Ren-Wu Huang, Cailing Chen, Jie Chen, Saidkhodzha Nematulloev, Xianrong Guo, Atanu Ghosh, Badriah Alamer, Mohamed Nejib Hedhili, Tayirjan T Isimjan, Yu Han, Omar F Mohammed, Osman M Bakr“[Cu36H10(PET)24(PPh3)6Cl2] Reveals Surface VacancyDefects in Ligand-StabilizedMetal Nanoclusters”J. Am. Chem. Soc.,143, 11026−11035, 2021.Impact Factor: 14.4                               H5 Index: 235                     Citations: 71
  7. Saidkhodzha Nematulloev, Ren‐Wu Huang, Jun Yin, Aleksander Shkurenko, Chunwei Dong, Atanu Ghosh, Badriah Alamer, Rounak Naphade, Mohamed Nejib Hedhili, Partha Maity, Mohamed Eddaoudi, Omar F Mohammed, Osman M Bakr “[Cu15(PPh3)6(PET)13]2+: a Copper Nanocluster withCrystallization Enhanced Photoluminescence” Small, 17, 2006839, 2021.Impact Factor: 13                  H5 Index: 164                     Citations: 81
  8. Ren-Wu Huang, Jun Yin, Chunwei Dong, Atanu Ghosh, Mohammad J Alhilaly, Xinglong Dong, Mohamed Nejib Hedhili, Edy Abou-Hamad, Badriah Alamer, Saidkhodzha Nematulloev, Yu Han, Omar F Mohammed, Osman M Bakr “[Cu81(PhS)46(tBuNH2)10(H)32]3+ Reveals the Coexistence of Large Planar Cores and Hemispherical Shells in High-Nuclearity Copper Nanoclusters” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142,8696–8705,2020.Impact Factor: 14.4                               H5 Index: 235                     Citations:113
  9. Debasmita Ghosh, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Anirban Som, Sebastian Raja, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Akshayaa Ganesh, Priyanka Samji, Sundarasamy Mahalingam, Devarajan Karunagaran, and Thalappil Pradeep “Internalization of a preformed atomically precise silver cluster in proteins by multistep events and emergence of luminescent counterparts retaining bioactivity” J. Phys. Chem. C,123, 29408–29417, 2019.Impact Factor: 3.3                 H5 Index: 91                        Citations: 17                                                                
  10. Atanu Ghosh,Ren-Wu Huang,Badriah Alamer,Edy Abou-Hamad, Mohamed N Hedhili,Omar F. Mohammed, and Osman M. Bakr “[Cu61(StBu)26S6Cl6H14]+: A Core–Shell Superatom Nanocluster with a Quasi-J36 Cu19 Core and an “18-crown-6” Metal-Sulfide-like Stabilizing Belt” ACS Materials Lett.,3, 297-302, 2019 .Impact Factor: 9.6                     H5 Index: 58                        Citations: 107 (Journal web page)
  11. Atanu Ghosh, Omar F. Mohammed, and Osman M. Bakr, “Atomic-Level Doping of Metal Clusters” Acc. Chem. Res. 51, 3094−3103, 2018.Impact Factor: 16.4                               H5 Index: 163                     Citations: 389
  12. Mohammad Bodiuzzaman,* Atanu Ghosh,* Korath Shivan Sugi, Abhijit Nag, Esma Khatun, Babu Varghese, Ganesan Paramasivam, Sudhadevi Antharjanam, Ganapati Natarajan and T. Pradeep, “Camouflaging structural diversity: Co-crystallization of two different nanoparticles having different cores but the same shell” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,58, 189 –194, 2018. (*Equal first authorship to this work)Impact Factor: 16.1                               H5 Index: 266                     Citations: 89
  13. K. R. Krishnadas, Ganapati Natarajan, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Esma Khatun and Thalappil Pradeep, “Metal-ligand interface in the chemical reactions of ligand protected noble metal clusters,”Langmuir,35, 11243−11254, 2019.Impact Factor: 3.7                 H5 Index: 73                        Citations: 37
  14. Esma Khatun, Atanu Ghosh, Papri Chakraborty, Priya Singh, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Ganesan Paramasivam, Ganapati Nataranjan, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Samir Kumar Pal, and T. Pradeep, “Thirty-fold photoluminescence enhancement induced by secondary ligands in monolayer protected silver clusters”Nanoscale, 10, 20033-20042, 2018.Impact Factor: 5.8                 H5 Index: 132                     Citations: 87
  15. Madhuri Jash, Arthur C. Reber, Atanu Ghosh, Depanjan Sarkar, Md Bodiuzzaman, Pallab Basuri, Ananya Baksi, Shiv N. Khanna, and T. Pradeep, “Preparation of gas phase naked silver cluster cations outside the mass spectrometer from ligand protected clusters in solution” Nanoscale, 10, 15714–15722, 2018.Impact Factor: 5.8                 H5 Index: 132                     Citations: 15
  16. Atanu Ghosh, Mohammad Bodiuzzaman, Abhijit Nag, Madhuri Jash, Ananya Baksi and T. Pradeep, “Sequential dihydrogen desorption from hydride protected atomically precise silver clusters and the formation of naked clusters in the gas phase” ACS Nano, 11, 11145–11151, 2017.Impact Factor: 15.8                               H5 Index: 220                     Citations: 38
  17. K. R. Krishnadas, Debasmita Ghosh, Atanu Ghosh, Ganapati Natarajan and T. Pradeep, “Structure-reactivity correlations in metal atom substitutions of monolayer protected noble metal alloy clusters” J. Phys. Chem. C.,121, 23224−23232, 2017.Impact Factor: 3.3                 H5 Index: 91                        Citations: 20
  18. Esma Khatun,* Atanu Ghosh,* Debasmita Ghosh,* Papri Chakraborty, Abhijit Nag, Bswajit Mondal, Sudhakar Cheenu and T. Pradeep, “[Ag59(2,5-DCBT)32]3-: A new cluster and a precursor for three well-known clusters”Nanoscale, 9,8240-8248, 2017. (*Equal first authorship to this work)Impact Factor: 5.8                 H5 Index: 132                     Citations: 26
  19. K. R. Krishnadas, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Ganapati Natarajan and T. Pradeep, “Manifestation of Geometric and Electronic Shell Structures of Metal clusters in Intercluster Reactions”ACS Nano, 11, 6015-6023, 2017.Impact Factor: 15.8               H5 Index: 220                     Citations: 56
  20. Ananya Baksi,* Atanu Ghosh,* Sathish Mudedla, Papri Chakraborty, Shridevi Bhat, Bswajit Mondal, K. R. Krishnadas, Venkatesan Subramanian and T. Pradeep, “Isomerism in Monolayer Protected Silver Cluster Ions: An Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Approach” J. Phy. Chem. C, 121, 13421-13427, 2017. (*Equal first authorship to this work)Impact Factor: 3.3                 H5 Index: 91                        Citations: 44
  21. K. R. Krishnadas, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Ganapati Natarajan and T. Pradeep, “Interparticle reactions: An emerging aspect in nanomaterials chemistry” Acc. Chem. Res., 50, 1988−1996, 2017.Impact Factor: 15.8                               H5 Index: 163                     Citations: 106
  22. K. R. Krishnadas*, Ananya Baksi*, Atanu Ghosh*, Ganapati Natarajan and T. Pradeep, “Structure-conserving spontaneous transformations between nanoparticles” Nat. Commun., 7, 13447, 2016 (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13447). (*Equal first authorship to this work)Impact Factor: 14.7                               H5 Index: 349                     Citations: 130
  23. Atanu Ghosh, Debasmita Ghosh, Esma Khatun, Papri Chakraborty and T. Pradeep, “Unusual reactivity of dithiol protected clusters in comparison to monothiol protected clusters: Studies using Ag51(BDT)19(TPP)3 and Ag29(BDT)12(TPP)4”Nanoscale,9, 1068-1077, 2017.Impact Factor: 5.8                 H5 Index: 132                     Citations: 46
  24. Papri Chakraborty, Ananya Baksi, Esma Khatun, Abhijit Nag, Atanu Ghosh, and T. Pradeep “Dissociation of Gas Phase Ions of Atomically Precise Silver Clusters Reflects Their Solution Phase Stability” J. Phys. Chem. C, 121, 10971-10981, 2017.Impact Factor: 3.3                 H5 Index: 91                        Citations: 63
  25. K. R. Krishnadas, Atanu Ghosh, Ananya Baksi, Indranath Chakraborty, Ganapati Natarajan and T. Pradeep, “Inter-cluster reactions between Au25(SR)18 and Ag44(SR)30” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 140–148, 2016.Impact Factor: 14.4                               H5 Index: 235                     Citations: 189
  26. Atanu Ghosh, Jukka Hassinen, Petri Pulkkinen, Heikki Tenhu, Robin H. A. Ras, and T. Pradeep, “Simple and efficient separation of atomically precise noble metal clusters” Anal. Chem., 86, 12185–12190, 2014.Impact Factor: 6.7                 H5 Index: 127                     Citations: 77
  27. Atanu Ghosh, Vedhakkani Jeseentharani, Mohd Azhardin Ganayee, Rani Hemalatha, Kamalesh Chaudhari, Cherianath Vijayan and T. Pradeep “Approaching sensitivity of tens of ions using atomically precise cluster-nanofiber composites” Anal. Chem., 86, 10996–11001, 2014.Impact Factor: 6.7                 H5 Index: 127                     Citations: 39
  28. Atanu Ghosh and T. Pradeep, “Synthesis of atomically precise silver clusters using the miscibility principle”Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2014, 5271-5275, 2014. (Cover page and cover profile)Impact Factor: 2.2                 H5 Index: 35                        Citations: 18
  29. Atanu Ghosh, T. Pradeep and Jaydeb Chakrabarti, “Coalescence of atomically precise clusters on graphenic surfaces” J. Phys. Chem. C, 118, 13959–13964, 2014.Impact Factor: 3.3                 H5 Index: 91                        Citations: 18
  30. Indranath Chakraborty, Jayanthi Erusappan, Anuradha Govindarajan, K. S. Sugi, Thumu Udayabhaskararao, Atanu Ghosh and T. Pradeep, “Emergence of metallicity in silver clusters in the 150 atom regime: A study of differently sized silver clusters” Nanoscale, 6,8024–8031, 2014.Impact Factor: 5.8                 H5 Index: 132                     Citations: 55
  31. Indranath Chakraborty, Anuradha Govindarajan, Jayanthi Erusappan, Atanu Ghosh, Bokwon Yoon, Robert L. Whetten, Uzi Landman and T. Pradeep“The superstable 25-kDa monolayer protected silver nanoparticle: Measurements & interpretation as an icosahedral Ag152(SCH2CH2Ph)60 cluster”Nano Lett., 12, 5861-5866,2012. Impact Factor: 9.6 H5 Index: 158                     Citations: 154
  32. Atanu Ghosh, T. Udaya Bhaskara Rao and T. Pradeep,“One-step route to luminescent Au18SG14 in the condensed phase and its closed shell molecular ions in the gas phase” J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 3, 1997-2002, 2012.Impact Factor: 4.8                 H5 Index: 105                     Citations: 121
  33. *Impact Factor Source: Respective Journal Website
  34. **H5 Index Source: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues
  35. *** Citation source: Google scholar citations

 

Patents (accepted)

1.           T. Pradeep, Debasmita Ghosh, Md Bodiuzzman, Anirban Som, Ananya Bakshi, Atanu Ghosh, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, “Synthesis of protein protected luminescent metal clusters and retaining the bioactivity of the protein” Ref no 201841049925(Indian Patent Application). Granted on 05/01/2024.

2.         T. Pradeep, K. R. Krishnadas, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Ganapati Natarajan, “Structure and topology conserving transformations between two archetypal nanoparticles” Ref. no 201641034921 (Indian Patent Application). Granted on 06/09/2022.

3.           T. Pradeep, Ananya Baksi, Atanu Ghosh, Md Bodiuzzman, Papri Chakraborti, Depanjan Sarkar, Pallab Basuri, Madhuri Jash, “Method to produce unprotected naked clusters of metals of precise composition without mass selection” Ref. no201641035574(Indian Patent Application). Granted on 11/06/2021.

4.           T. Pradeep,K. R. Krishnadas, Atanu Ghosh, Ananya Baksi, Indranath Chakraborty, Ganapati Natarajan, “Method of making alloys of precise composition using inter-cluster reactions in solution”Ref. no6907/CHE/2015 (Indian Patent Application). Granted on 29/08/2020.

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