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Dr. Amit Kumar Mondal

Scientist

Welcome to our research group! In our lab, we are working in the following areas: Inorganic Chemistry; Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs); Supramolecular systems; Quantum dots; Molecular Magnetism; Chiral Materials; Molecular Spintronics; Spin based Devices; Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLEDs). We are looking for highly motivated students and if you are interested about our research work, please contact me directly at amit@inst.ac.in for more details. Please do visit our personal website for more details at https://amitmondal23.wixsite.com/my-site

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  • Our current work focuses on the following areas:

    Inorganic Chemistry

    Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)

    Supramolecular systems

    Molecular Magnetism

    Chiral Materials

    Molecular Spintronics

    Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLEDs)

     

  • Molecular Magnetism: Single-molecule magnets (SMMs), a kind of molecular nano-magnet that exhibit slow relaxation of their magnetization purely from the molecular origin. The study of these systems has experienced a huge interest in recent times due to their promising applications in molecular spintronics, high-density information storage, and quantum computation.

    Our group is involved towards the design, synthesis and study the magnetic properties of novel coordination complexes for their slow relaxation behaviours. 

  • Molecular Spintronics: In biology, chiral biomolecules, such as proteins and sugars, form chiral structures and appear mainly with one chirality (as one enantiomer). We study the question of why chirality was preserved through evolution. As electrons move through a chiral molecule, the spin electron current is generated; thus, a preference exists for electrons with one magnetic moment direction to pass through the chiral molecule.

    Our group is involved in examining the nature of the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect and exploring how it can be exploited technologically. 
     
    The Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect is a multidisciplinary phenomenon with implications in Chemistry, Physics and Biology.

  • A recent article by Rabia et al. on the dual signature of chirality-induced spin selectivity on 2D metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

  • A recent article by Najaraju et al. on electron spin polarization and memory effect in supramolecular gel materials is published in Small. 

  • A recent article by Pravesh et al. on spin filtering and amplification in self-assembled nanofibers-based chiral asymmetric molecules is published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 

  • Royal Society of Chemistry’s Materials Division Horizon Prize 2022 for the discovery of “chiral materials that allow high control of photon and electron spin”. 

Current Group Members

  • NIDHI BHATT

    NIDHI BHATT

    Email: nidhi.ph24230@inst.ac.in

    Reg. No.: PH24230

  • DIVYAM

    DIVYAM

    Email: divyam.ph24225@inst.ac.in

    Reg. No.: PH24225

  • MOHD USMAN

    MOHD USMAN

    Email: usman.ph24208@inst.ac.in

    Reg. No.: PH24208

  • PRAVESH SINGH BISHT

    PRAVESH SINGH BISHT

    Email: pravesh.ph23219@inst.ac.in

    Reg. No.: PH23219

  • RABIA GARG

    RABIA GARG

    Email: rabia.ph23210@inst.ac.in

    Reg. No.: PH23210

  • NAGARAJU NAKKA

    NAGARAJU NAKKA

    Email: nagaraju.ra202157@inst.ac.in

    Reg. No.: RA-01-202157

  • NAGARAJU NAKKA

    NAGARAJU NAKKA

    Email: nagaraju.ra202157@inst.ac.in

    Reg. No.: RA-01-202157

  • NIDHI BHATT

    NIDHI BHATT

    Email: nidhi.rp1432421@inst.ac.in

    Reg. No.: 1432421

Alumni

  • NAGARAJU NAKKA

    NAGARAJU NAKKA

    Reg. No.: Ra-01-202157

    Designation: Post Docs/RA

    Aug 2023 - Sep 2024

  • 1.

    Dual Signature of Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity through Spontaneous Resolution of 2D Metal-Organic Frameworks , Rabia Garg, Pravesh Singh Bisht, Subash Chandra Sahoo and Amit Kumar Mondal* , Angewandte Chemie International Edition , 2024 , https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202418222

  • 2.

    Electron Spin Polarization and Memory Effect in Supramolecular Gel Exclusively from Achiral Building Blocks. , Nagaraju Nakka, Rabia Garg, Pravesh Singh Bisht, and Amit Kumar Mondal* , Small , 2024 , 2405691

  • 3.

    Spin Filtering and Amplification in Self-Assembled Nanofibers Based on Chiral Asymmetric Building Blocks. , Pravesh Singh Bisht, Rabia Garg, Nagaraju Nakka, and Amit Kumar Mondal* , J. Phys. Chem. Lett. , 2024 , 15 , 6605-6610

  • 4.

    Spin-Induced Electron Transmission through Metal-Organic Chiral Crystals , Tapan Kumar Das, Amit Kumar Mondal, Om Shanker Tiwari, Pandeeswar Makam, Ehud Gazit, Fontanesi Claudio, Ron Naaman. , Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics , 2023 , 25 , 22124–22129

  • 5.

    Degradation Analysis of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes through Dispersive Magneto-Electroluminescence Response , Amit Kumar Mondal, Xin Pan, Ohyun Kwon and Zeev Valy Vardeny , (2023) , 15: 9697–9704 , ACS applied materials & interfaces , https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c20070

  • 6.

    Spin-Induced Asymmetry Reaction–The Formation of Asymmetric Carbon by Electropolymerization , Deb Kumar Bhowmick, Tapan Kumar Das, KakaliSantra, Amit Kumar Mondal, Francesco Tassinari, Rony Schwarz, Charles E. Diesendruck, Ron Naaman , (2022) , 8: 2727 , Science Advances , https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq2727

  • 7.

    Spin Filtering in Supramolecular Polymers Assembled from Achiral Monomers Mediated by Chiral Solvents , Amit Kumar Mondal, Marco D. Preuss, Marcin L. Sleczkowski, Tapan Kumar Das, G. Vantomme, E. W. Meijer, Ron Naaman , (2021) , 143: 7189-7195 , Journal of the American Chemical Society , https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c02983

  • 8.

    Multistate Switching of Spin Selectivity in Electron Transport Through Light-driven Molecular Motors , Qirong Zhu*, WojciechDanowski*, Amit Kumar Mondal*,(*equal first authors) Francesco Tassinari, C. L. F. van Beek, G. HenriekeHeideman, KakaliSantra, Sidney R. Cohen, Ben L. Feringa, Ron Naaman , (2021) , 2101773: 0 , Advanced Science , https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202101773

  • 9.

    Long-Range Spin-Selective Transport in Chiral Metal-Organic Crystals with Temperature-Activated Magnetization , Amit Kumar Mondal, Noam Brown, Suryakant Mishra, PandeeswarMakam, Dahvyd Wing, Jonas Fransson, OdedHod, LeeorKronik, Ehud Gazit, Ron Naaman , (2020) , 14: 16624-16633 , ACS Nano , https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c07569

  • 10.

    Highly Efficient and Tunable Filtering of Electrons’ Spin by Supramolecular Chirality of Nanofiber-Based Materials , Chidambar Kulkarni*, Amit Kumar Mondal*, (*equal first authors)Tapan Kumar Das, Gal Grinbom, Francesco Tassinari, Mathijs F. J. Mabesoone, E. W. Meijer, Ron Naaman , (2020) , 32: 1904965 , Advanced Materials , https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201904965

  • 11.

    Spin Filtering Along Chiral Polymers , Suryakant Mishra, Amit Kumar Mondal, Eilam Z. B. Smolinsky, Ron Naaman, Katsuhiro Maeda, Tatsuya Nishimura, KokoroTakayama, EijiYashima , (2020) , 59: 14671–14676 , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed , https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202006570

  • 12.

    Length-Dependent Electron Spin Polarization in Oligopeptides and DNA , Suryakant Mishra, Amit Kumar Mondal, Shubhadeep Pal, Tapan Kumar Das, Eilam Z. B. Smolinsky, Giuliano Siligardi, Ron Naaman , (2020) , 124: 10776−10782 , J. Phys. Chem , https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02291

  • 13.

    Slow Magnetic Relaxation in a One-Dimensional Coordination Polymer Constructed from Hepta-Coordinate Cobalt(II) Nodes , Amit Kumar Mondal, Arpan Mondal, SanjitKonar , (2020) , 6: 45 , Magnetochemistry , https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry6040045

  • 14.

    Field Induced Single Ion Magnetic Behaviour in Square-Pyramidal Cobalt(II) Complexes with Easy-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy , Amit Kumar Mondal, Arpan Mondal, SanjitKonar , (2019) , 5: 12 , Magnetochemistry , https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry5010012

  • 15.

    Spin-dependent electron transport through bacterial cell surface multiheme electron conduits , Suryakant Mishra, SahandPirbadian, Amit Kumar Mondal , (2019) , 141: 19198-19202 , Journal of the American Chemical Society , https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b09262

  • 16.

    Low-resistance molecular wires propagate spin-polarized currents , George Bullard, Francesco Tassinari, Chih-Hung Ko, Amit Kumar Mondal, Ruobing Wang, Suryakant Mishra, Ron Naaman, Michael J Therien , (2019) , 14707-14711: 141 , Journal of the American Chemical Society , https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b06142

  • 17.

    A new series of tetrahedral Co (II) complexes [CoLX2](X= NCS, Cl, Br, I) manifesting single-ion magnet features , Amit Kumar Mondal, Mahesh Sundararajan, SanjitKonar , (2018) , 47: 3745-3754 , Dalton Transactions , https://doi.org/10.1039/C7DT04007E

  • 18.

    Multifunctional Properties of a 1D Helical Co(II) Coordination Polymer: Toward Single-Ion Magnetic Behavior and Efficient Dye Degradation , Manasi Roy, Amit Adhikary,Amit Kumar Mondal, Raju Mondal , (2018) , 3: 15315-15324 , ACS Omega , https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b02212

  • 19.

    Influence of the Coordination Environment on Easy-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy of Pentagonal Bipyramidal Cobalt (II) Complexes , Amit Kumar Mondal, Arpan Mondal, BijoyDey, SanjitKonar , (2018) , 57: 9999-10008 , Inorganic chemistry , https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01162

  • 20.

    Single-ion magnetic anisotropy in a vacant octahedral Co(II) complex , Amit Kumar Mondal, JesúsJover, Eliseo Ruiz, SanjitKonar , (2018) , 48: 25-29 , Dalton Transactions , https://doi.org/10.1039/C8DT03862G

  • 21.

    Zero Field SMM Behavior and Magnetic Refrigeration in Rare Heterometallic Double Stranded Helicates of Cu2Ln2 (Ln= Dy, Tb, Gd) , BijoyDey, Subhadip Roy, Amit Kumar Mondal, AtanuSantra, SanjitKonar , (2018) , 20: 2429-2436 , European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry , https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201800075

  • 22.

    Quantitative estimation of ising-type magnetic anisotropy in a family of C3-symmetric CoII complexes , Amit Kumar Mondal, JesúsJover, Eliseo Ruiz, SanjitKonar , (2017) , 23: 12550-12558 , Chemistry-A European Journal , https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201702108

  • 23.

    Probing the effects of ligand field and coordination geometry on magnetic anisotropy of pentacoordinate cobalt (II) single-ion magnets , Amit Kumar Mondal, TamalGoswami, AnirbanMisra, SanjitKonar , (2017) , 56: 6870-6878 , Inorganic chemistry , https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00233

  • 24.

    Investigation of easy-plane magnetic anisotropy in P-ligand square-pyramidal CoII single ion magnets , Amit Kumar Mondal, JesúsJover, Eliseo Ruiz, SanjitKonar , (2017) , 53: 5338-5341 , Chemical Communications2017 , https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC02584J

  • 25.

    Modulating the Slow Relaxation Dynamics of Binuclear Dysprosium (III) Complexes through Coordination Geometry , Amit Kumar Mondal, Vijay Singh Parmar, SanjitKonar , (2016) , 2: 35 , Magnetochemistry , https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry2030035

  • 26.

    Field‐Induced Single‐Ion‐Magnetic Behavior of Octahedral CoII in a Two‐Dimensional Coordination Polymer , Amit Kumar Mondal, SajalKhatua, KapilTomar, SanjitKonar , (2016) , 22: 3545-3552 , European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry , https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201600569

  • 27.

    Tetrahedral MII based binuclear double-stranded helicates: single-ion-magnet and fluorescence behaviour , Amit Kumar Mondal, Vijay Singh Parmar, Soumava Biswas, SanjitKonar , (2016) , 45: 4548-4557 , Dalton Transactions , https://doi.org/10.1039/C5DT04173B

  • 28.

    Densely Packed Lanthanide Cubane Based 3D Metal-Organic Frameworks for EfficientMagnetic Refrigeration and Slow Magnetic Relaxation , Soumava Biswas, Amit Kumar Mondal, SanjitKonar , (2016) , 55: 2085-2090 , Inorganic chemistry , https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02486

  • 29.

    Synthesis, structure, magnetic and biological activity studies of bis-hydrazone derived Cu (ii) and Co (ii) coordination compounds , UpendarraoGolla, Amit Adhikary, Amit Kumar Mondal, Raghuvir Singh Tomar, SanjitKonar , (2016) , 45: 11849-11863 , Dalton Transactions , https://doi.org/10.1039/C6DT01496H

  • 30.

    Lanthanide-directed fabrication of four tetranuclear quadruple stranded helicates showing magnetic refrigeration and slow magnetic relaxation , Amit Kumar Mondal, HimanshuSekhar Jena, AmitaMalviya, SanjitKonar , (2016) , 55: 5237-5244 , Inorganic chemistry , https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b00177

  • 31.

    Europium‐Based Dinuclear Triple‐Stranded Helicate vs. Tetranuclear Quadruple‐Stranded Helicate: Effect of Stoichiometric Ratio on the Supramolecular Self‐Assembly , AmitaMalviya, HimanshuSekhar Jena, Amit Kumar Mondal, SanjitKonar , (2015) , 17: 2901-2907 , European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry , https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201500301

  • 32.

    Exploration of the structural features and magnetic behaviour in a novel 3-dimensional interpenetrating Co (II)-based framework , SoumyabrataGoswami, Amit Kumar Mondal, SanjitKonar , (2015) , 127: 257-264 , Journal of Chemical Sciences , http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12039-015-0771-8

  • 33.

    Nanoscopic molecular magnets , Soumyabrata Goswami, Sanjit Konar,Amit Kumar Mondal , (2015) , 2: 687-712 , Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers , https://doi.org/10.1039/C5QI00059A

  • 34.

    Influence of the coordination environment on slow magnetic relaxation and photoluminescence behaviorin two mononuclear dysprosium (III) based single molecule magnets , Amit Kumar Mondal, SoumyabrataGoswami, SanjitKonar , (2015) , 44: 5086-5094 , Dalton Transactions , https://doi.org/10.1039/C4DT03620D
  • 1. Method And System For Spin-dependent Conduction , 2023-09-21 , US Patent- US20230301200A1

  • (1) Awarded DST Inspire Faculty Award in Chemical Sciences (2022).

    (2) Awarded Royal Society of Chemistry’s Materials Division Horizon Prize 2022 for the discovery of “chiral materials that allow high control of photon and electron spin”.

    (3) Awarded PBC Postdoctoral Fellowship-2018 by Council of Higher Education, Govt. of Israel for Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher from India and China.

    (4) Awarded JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Fellowship-2018. (did not join)

    (5) Awarded Raman-Charpak Fellowship-2015 (Indo-French Bilateral Fellowship Programme) as a visiting researcher in France.

    (6) Reviewer of “JACS”, “Inorganic Chemistry”, "Crystal Growth & Design" journals published by American Chemical Society.

    (7) Members of the reviewer board in “Magnetochemistry” (ISSN: 2312-7481) journal which is a scientific, peer-reviewed journal on all areas of magnetism and magnetic materials published by MDPI.

  • Postdoctoral research associate:Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, USA (November 2021 to October 2022 )

  • Postdoctoral fellow:Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (December 2017 to October 2021 )

  • Scientist-B:Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali India (December 2022 to Present till date )

  • Title: DST Inspire Faculty Fellowship

    PI: Dr. Amit Kumar Mondal

    Tenure: 5 yrs

    Funding Agency: DST

  • Title: DAE-BRNS Young Scientist

    PI: Dr. Amit Kumar Mondal

    Tenure: 3 yrs

    Funding Agency: DAE-BRNS