Faculty Profile
Prof. Chayan Kanti Nandi
Professor
Office: A3-310
School of Chemical Sciences
E-mail: chayan@iitmandi.ac.in
Phone: +91-1905-26-7047
Personal Information
- Professor, IIT Mandi (Dec 2020 - present)
- Associate Professor, IIT Mandi (June 2015 - Dec 2020)
- Assistant Professor, IIT Mandi (Aug 2010 - June 2015)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (2009 - 2010)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Geothe University (2006 - 2009)
- Ph.D: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2001-2006
- M.Sc: (Physical Chemistry) from University of Burdwan, WB, 1998-2000
- B.Sc: (Chemistry) from University of Burdwan, WB, 1995-1998
Teaching
- CY-701: Advanced Physical Methods in Chemistry (PhD)
- CY 512: Quantum Chemistry (M.Sc)
- CY 513: Chemical Thermodynamics (M.Sc)
- CY 514: Molecular Reaction Dynamics (M.Sc)
- CY 511P: Physical Chemistry lab
- IC 101: Basic Chemistry (B. Tech)
- IC 101P: Chemistry Lab (B. Tech)
- IC 201: Design Practicum (B. Tech)
- CY 511: Spectroscopy and Molecular Symmetry (M.Sc)
- CY670: Advanced fluorescence and microscopy (PhD & M.Sc)
Awards, Recognition and Membership
- Guest Editor, Frontiers in Chemistry (June 2020)
- CRSI Bronze Medal, Chemical Research Society of India (July 2019)
- Best Poster Award in MRSI-AGM (Feb 2019)
- Visiting Professor, Gottingen University (June 2018)
- Visiting Professor, University of Nottingham (Sept 2017)
- Best Teaching Award at IIT Mandi for excellence in Chemistry (Sept 2017)
- Outstanding Faculty for Innovative Research Award, IIT Mandi (Feb 2016)
- DST/DBT Travel Grant Awards for conference in Berlin Germany (Sept 2015)
- Visiting Professor Braunschweig, Germany by AvH foundation, Germany (Dec 2011)
- Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow: Geothe University, Frankfurt am Main Germany (2007-2008)
- Senior Research Fellowship (NET, CSIR, India) (2003-2005)
- Lifetime members of Materials Research Society of India (2020), Electron Microscopy Society of India (2019), and CRSI (2018)
Research Area
Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Microscopy
- Spectroscopy and microscopy of nanomaterials
- Designing new fluorescent materials for microscopic imaging
- Super resolution imaging of cellular cytoskeleton
- Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy
- Stochastic Optical Reconstruction microscopy
Research Interests
We work at the interdisciplinary level to fundamentally understand the photophysical properties, especially the photoluminescence origin of florescent nanoprobes for their successful application in single particle level Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM), which is an advanced level optical nanoscopic imaging technique. We have developed custom built STORM set up at IIT Mandi to understand the dynamical cellular events under living condition.
Currently, we are developing correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM), which is the combination of both super resolution light microscopy and electron microscopy. CLEM measured the high resolution optical and electron microscopic image from the same spot thus overcoming the individual shortcoming and provide new information on the unknown cellular events. We design carbon based nanoprobes, gold nanoclusters and iron based magneto-fluorescent nanoprobes with a major focus to make them as universal nanoprobes for multimodal single particle level super resolution imaging.
Representative Publications
- Protein Conjugation helped CdTe Quantum Dots for the Specific Labeling and Super-Resolution Imaging of Lysosomes. ChemNanoMat. 2022.
- Ultra-Long-Term Super-Resolution Tracking of Lysosomes in Brain Organoids by Near-Infrared Noble Metal Nanoclusters. ACS Materials Letters. 2022, 4, 1565–1573.
- Mapping the Time Dependent DNA Fragmentation caused by doxorubicin Loaded on PEGylated Carbogenic Nanodots using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging and Super-resolution microscopy. Biomaterials Science. 2022, 10, 4525-4537.
- Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of Pyrene Derived Carbon Nano Dots: A Single-Particle Level Analysis. Nanoscale 2022, 14, 3568-3578.
- Development of a Highly Specific, Selective, and Sensitive Fluorescent Probe for Detection of Mycobacteria in Human Tissues. Adv. Healthcare Mater. 2022, 2102640.
- Absorption and Emission of Light in Red Emissive Carbon Nanodots. Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 3615-3626.
- Paving the Path to the Future of Carbogenic Nanodots. Nat. Commun. 2019, 10 (1), 2391.
- Emergence of Carbon Nanodots as a Probe for Super-Resolution Microscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125 (3), 1637–1653.