Flora Banerjee, PMRF fellow
IIT Kharagpur
Hello everyone! I am Flora, a research scholar from dept. of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur. I am currently working under the supervision of Dr. Suman Kalyan Samanta .I am interested in furnishing novel organic polymer networks with multifaceted applications. We'll also try to explore their structure property relationship and interesting facts associated with.
Research Interests
My research interest revolves around macromolecular chemistry, precisely synthesizing organic polymer networks(OPN) showing wide spectrum of activity in the areas of foremost importance (i.e. environmental clean-up, energy storage and conversion, catalytic Carbon-dioxide fixation) to the benefit of mankind. OPNs are basically a smart multifunctional engine having 2D/3D crosslinked porous architecture where building units are linked via covalent bond. Besides, their porosity can be further tuned via target oriented synthetic strategy and diversified methodology involving interesting C-C and C-O coupling, condensation reactions as well as ion-exchange(in case of ionic OPN) host-guest chemistry. Superior thermochemical stability and low skeletal density acts as added feather to their fascinating properties. Poor solubility in common organic solvent and recyclability also makes them suitable heterogeneous catalyst after loading metal NPs. Improved charge carrier migration through porous channel and extended conjugation within POP can even open up a new window through energy device applications(Li ion battery, supercapacitor etc.)
Publications
Hierarchical Porous Organic Polymers via In-Situ Construction of BINOL Entity: Versatile and Efficacious Adsorbents for Multiple Industrial Toxic Waste in Water.(Flora Banerjee and Suman Kalyan Samanta*.(Mater. Chem. Front., 2023, 7, 689-697)
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Triphenylamine-Anthracene based Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Detection and Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Micropollutants
Soumitra Sau, Flora Banerjee and Suman Kalyan Samanta*
(ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2023, 6, 11679–11688).
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Phosphate based Organic Polymer Nanocontainer Efficiently Hosts Ag/Ru Nanoparticles for Heterogeneous Catalytic Reduction of Nitroaromatics and Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohols. Sudharanjan Bera, Flora Banerjee and Suman Kalyan Samanta*
(ChemNanoMat, 2023, 9, e202300088)
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Bowl-Shaped Phosphate-Based Polymer Nanocontainers Loaded with Pd Nanoparticles for Catalytic C-C Coupling Reactions.Sudharanjan Bera, Flora Banerjee and Suman Kalyan Samanta*
ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2023, doi: 10.1021/acsanm.3c02546
MWCNTs-ZrO2 as a reusable heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of N-heterocyclic scaffolds under green reaction medium.B.Halder, F.Banerjee, A.Nag.(Applied organometallic chemistry, Willey,DOI: 10.1002/aoc.5906
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"WETSA: an agro waste green medium for one-pot three-component approach for the synthesis of substituted 4H-pyrans",Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds,DOI: 10.1080/10406638.2020.1858885
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Synthesis and computational study of beta-aminoalcohol scaffold from plant derived polyphenols using ACC as a green reaction medium..K.Mishra,B.Halder,F.Banerjee,G.Jana,H.S.Maity,A.B.Kachve,A.Nag.(Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, DOI : 10.1080/10406638.2022.2069136)
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