Rahul Banerjee (chemist)

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Rahul Banerjee, born on 22 March 1978{{Cite web |url=https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/associate/Banerjee,_Dr_Rahul |title=Associateship - Indian Academy of Sciences |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.ias.ac.in |access-date=2018-12-23}} in the Indian state of West Bengal, graduated in chemistry with honors from the University of Calcutta in 1998 and continued at the institution to earn a master's degree from the prestigious Rajabazar Science College campus in 2000.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pmatlab.com/members/rahul-banerjee |title=Dr. Rahul Banerjee - PMATLAB 2 |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.pmatlab.com |access-date=2018-12-23}} His doctoral studies were at the University of Hyderabad under the guidance of TWAS laureate, Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju,{{Cite web |url=https://academictree.org/chemistry/tree.php?pid=764006 |title=Chemistry Tree - Rahul Banerjee |date=2018-12-23 |website=academictree.org |access-date=2018-12-23}} and he received his PhD in crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry in the year 2006. Subsequently, he moved to the US to do his post-doctoral work at the laboratory of Omar M. Yaghi at the University of California, Los Angeles and on his return to India in 2008, he joined the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (NCL){{Cite web |url=http://academic.ncl.res.in/r.banerjee |title=CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Faculty |date=2018-12-23 |website=academic.ncl.res.in |access-date=2018-12-23}} as a scientist at grade C.{{Cite web |url=http://www3.iiserkol.ac.in/people/faculty/dcs/r-banerjee |title=Profile on IISER Kolkata |date=2018-12-23 |website=IISER Pune |access-date=2018-12-23}} At the time his next move to the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata (IISER) in 2017, he was an E-1 grade scientist at NCL. At IISER, he holds the position of an associate professor{{Cite web |url=http://www.pmatlab.com/members-1/rahul-banerjee |title=Dr. Rahul Banerjee - PMATLAB |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.pmatlab.com |access-date=2018-12-23}} and heads the Porous Materials Laboratory (PMATLAB) where he hosts a number of researchers.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pmatlab.com/members |title=Members - PMATLAB |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.pmatlab.com |access-date=2018-12-23}}

Banerjee focuses his research on designing Metal–organic frameworks for improved gas uptake property and is known to have contributed to the field of structural chemistry with regard to applications in hydrogen storage and carbon capture.{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.rsc.org/ce/2018/10/23/congratulations-to-rahul-banerjee-for-winning-the-shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-prize/ |title=Congratulations to Rahul Banerjee for winning the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize! – CrystEngComm Blog |date=23 October 2018 |website=Royal Society of Chemistry |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-23}} He has also worked extensively on the design and applications of covalent-organic frameworks in recent years.{{Cite journal |last1=Kandambeth |first1=Sharath |last2=Dey |first2=Kaushik |last3=Banerjee |first3=Rahul |date=2019-02-06 |title=Covalent Organic Frameworks: Chemistry beyond the Structure |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.8b10334 |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |language=en |volume=141 |issue=5 |pages=1807–1822 |doi=10.1021/jacs.8b10334 |pmid=30485740 |bibcode=2019JAChS.141.1807K |issn=0002-7863|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Sasmal |first1=Himadri Sekhar |last2=Kumar Mahato |first2=Ashok |last3=Majumder |first3=Poulami |last4=Banerjee |first4=Rahul |date=2022-07-06 |title=Landscaping Covalent Organic Framework Nanomorphologies |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c02301 |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |language=en |volume=144 |issue=26 |pages=11482–11498 |doi=10.1021/jacs.2c02301 |pmid=35754375 |bibcode=2022JAChS.14411482S |issn=0002-7863|url-access=subscription }} He has published a number of articles.{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}}{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4ky6cJ0AAAAJ&hl=en |title=S K Mandal - Google Scholar Citations |date=2018-12-23 |website=scholar.google.com |access-date=2018-12-23}} ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 165 of them.{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rahul_Banerjee4 |title=S K Mandal - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune |date=2018-12-23 |website=ResearchGate |language=en |access-date=2018-12-23}} He has participated in several scientific events including the Royal Society of Chemistry Roadshow 2017 held at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune where he was one of the keynote speakers.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/29167/royal-society-of-chemistry-roadshows-2017-csir-ncl-pune |title=Royal Society of Chemistry Roadshows 2017 - CSIR-NCL, Pune |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.rsc.org |access-date=2018-12-23}} He is also an associate editor of CrystEngComm, the biweekly journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

During his days at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2008, Banerjee received two honors, viz. the Post Doctoral Recognition Award and the Amgen Post Doctoral Award, both awarded by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the university. The Indian Academy of Sciences selected him as a Young Associate in 2009 and he received two Young Scientist awards in 2011, the NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/yspja.htm |title=NASI-YOUNG SCIENTIST PLATINUM JUBILEE AWARD |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.nasi.org.in |access-date=2018-12-23}} and the CSIR Young Scientist Award. Banerjee, who has received the fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry, was honored again by the National Academy of Sciences, India and Elsevier in 2014 with the NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award{{Cite web |url=https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/science-and-technology/elsevier-and-national-academy-of-sciences,-india-announce-the-winners-of-the-2014-nasi-scopus-young-scientist-awards |title=Elsevier and National Academy of Sciences, India Announce the Winners of the 2014 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards |date=9 September 2014 |website=www.elsevier.com |access-date=2018-12-23}} and a year later, he received the Thomson Reuters Research Excellence-India Citation Award.{{Cite web |url=http://www.scind.org/131/Mindblower/thomson-reuters-honors-indian-scientists-at-india-citation-awards-2015.html |title=Thomson Reuters Honors Indian Scientists at India Citation Awards 2015 |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.scind.org |access-date=2018-12-23}} The same year, he received the 2015 B. M. Birla Science Prize in Chemistry{{Cite web |url=http://english.sakshi.com/news/2017/11/01/bm-birla-science-prizes-for-2015-and-2016-announced |title=BM Birla Science Prizes For 2015 And 2016 Announced |date=1 November 2017 |website=Sakshipost |language=en |access-date=2018-12-23}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Telangana/2018-01-29/BM-Birla-Science-Prize-presented/354957 |title=BM Birla Science Prize presented |date=29 January 2018 |website=www.thehansindia.com |access-date=2018-12-23}} and he was selected for the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology in 2016.{{Cite web |url=http://newsfromnadia.in/dst-nominates-iiser-kolkata-professor-swarnajayanti-fellowship/ |title=DST Nominates IISER-Kolkata Professor For Swarnajayanti Fellowship |author=NFN Network |date=2017-11-29 |website=News from Nadia |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-23}} The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2018.{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=538 |title=Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |date=2018-12-23 |website=ssbprize.gov.in |access-date=2018-12-23}}{{Cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/iiser-kolkata-scientists-win-coveted-award/articleshow/66048411.cms |title=IISER Kolkata scientists win coveted award - Times of India |date=3 October 2018 |website=The Times of India |access-date=2018-12-23}}

• {{Cite journal |last1=Halder |first1=Arjun |last2=Ghosh |first2=Meena |last3=Khayum M |first3=Abdul |last4=Bera |first4=Saibal |last5=Addicoat |first5=Matthew |last6=Sasmal |first6=Himadri Sekhar |last7=Karak |first7=Suvendu |last8=Kurungot |first8=Sreekumar |last9=Banerjee |first9=Rahul |date=2018-09-05 |title=Interlayer Hydrogen-Bonded Covalent Organic Frameworks as High-Performance Supercapacitors |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |volume=140 |issue=35 |pages=10941–10945 |doi=10.1021/jacs.8b06460 |pmid=30132332 |bibcode=2018JAChS.14010941H |s2cid=207193051 |issn=0002-7863|url=http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34376/1/11800_Addicoat.pdf }}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Dey |first1=Kaushik |last2=Pal |first2=Manas |last3=Rout |first3=Kanhu Charan |last4=Kunjattu H |first4=Shebeeb |last5=Das |first5=Anuja |last6=Mukherjee |first6=Rabibrata |last7=Kharul |first7=Ulhas K. |last8=Banerjee |first8=Rahul |date=2017-09-20 |title=Selective Molecular Separation by Interfacially Crystallized Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |volume=139 |issue=37 |pages=13083–13091 |doi=10.1021/jacs.7b06640 |pmid=28876060 |bibcode=2017JAChS.13913083D |issn=0002-7863}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Khayum |first1=M. Abdul |last2=Kandambeth |first2=Sharath |last3=Mitra |first3=Shouvik |last4=Nair |first4=Sanoop B. |last5=Das |first5=Anuja |last6=Nagane |first6=Samadhan S. |last7=Mukherjee |first7=Rabibrata |last8=Banerjee |first8=Rahul |date=2016 |title=Chemically Delaminated Free-Standing Ultrathin Covalent Organic Nanosheets |journal=Angewandte Chemie |language=en |volume=128 |issue=50 |pages=15833–15837 |doi=10.1002/ange.201607812 |pmid=27862737 |bibcode=2016AngCh.12815833K |issn=1521-3757}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Banerjee |first1=Rahul |last2=Kharul |first2=Ulhas K. |last3=Garai |first3=Bikash |last4=Karak |first4=Suvendu |last5=Bera |first5=Saibal |last6=Shinde |first6=Digambar Balaji |last7=Chandra |first7=Suman |last8=Kandambeth |first8=Sharath |last9=Biswal |first9=Bishnu P. |date=2015-11-24 |title=Pore surface engineering in porous, chemically stable covalent organic frameworks for water adsorption |journal=Journal of Materials Chemistry A |language=en |volume=3 |issue=47 |pages=23664–23669 |doi=10.1039/C5TA07998E |issn=2050-7496}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Bajpai |first1=Alankriti |last2=Chandrasekhar |first2=Pujari |last3=Govardhan |first3=Savitha |last4=Banerjee |first4=Rahul |last5=Moorthy |first5=Jarugu Narasimha |date=2015 |title=Single Crystal-to-Single Crystal Site-Selective Postsynthetic Metal Exchange in a Zn–MOF Based on Semi-Rigid Tricarboxylic Acid and Access to Bimetallic MOFs |journal=Chemistry – A European Journal |language=en |volume=21 |issue=7 |pages=2759–2765 |doi=10.1002/chem.201406098 |pmid=25533890 |issn=1521-3765}}

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• Covalent organic framework
• Determining hydrogen storage capacity

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• {{Cite web |url=https://academictree.org/chemistry/tree.php?pid=764004&fontsize=1&pnodecount=4&cnodecount=2 |title=Chemistry Tree - Rahul Banerjee Family Tree |date=2018-12-23 |website=academictree.org |access-date=2018-12-23}}
• {{Cite web |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3547-4746 |title=ORCID profile |date=2018-12-23 |website=orcid.org |access-date=2018-12-23}}

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Category:Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Science

Category:Living people

Category:Scientists from West Bengal

Category:Academic staff of the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research

Category:1978 births

Category:University of Calcutta alumni

Category:University of Hyderabad alumni

Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni

Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry