Atanu Dey

Atanu Dey

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

GITAM School of Science

Bengaluru

Education

Ph. D.

Dr. Atanu Dey hails from the Midnapore (East) district in West Bengal. He completed his master's from IIT Guwahati in 2008 and PhD from IIT Kanpur in 2014. He acquired postdoctoral experience from several premier institutes, including NUS Singapore, IACS Kolkata, and TIFR Hyderabad. After a short stint at Aragen Life Sciences Hyderabad, he joined as an assistant professor at the GITAM University BLR campus in March 2022.

Research Publications

  • A Tetranuclear NiII4O4 Cubane Molecular Complex as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction: From Synthesis to Mechanistic Insights Joshi Ankitkumar Bharatbhai, Soumalya Roy, Atanu Dey, Tarik Aziz, Mahuya Bandhyopadhyay, Soumen Giri, and Sourav Das Small, 2025, 2504175 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202504175.
  • Heterometallic Heptanuclear [Cu5Ln2] (Ln = Tb, Dy and Ho) Single-Molecule Magnets Organized in One Dimensional Coordination Polymeric Network Atanu Dey, Sourav Das, Subrata Kundu, Abhishake Mondal, Mathieu Rouzières,Corine Mathonière, Rodolphe Clérac, Ramakirushnan Suriya Narayanan and Vadapalli Chandrasekhar Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 14612–14623.
  • Disappeared Supramolecular Isomer Reappears with Perylene Guest In-Hyeok Park, Atanu Dey, Kenta Sasaki, Masaaki Ohba, Shim Sung Lee and Jagadese J. Vittal IUCrJ, 2020, 7, 324‒330.
  • Facile Water Oxidation by Dinuclear Mixed-Valent CoIII/CoII Complexes: Role of Coordinated Water Atanu Dey,* Anku Guha, Sumit Bawari, Vierandra Kumar, Tharangattu N. Narayanan* and Vadapalli Chandrasekhar* Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 14257-14263.
  • Ligand-field Effect to Harness the Magnetic Anisotropy in a Series of Mixed Valence Co(III)−Co(II) Dinuclear Complexes Ezhava Manu Manohar, Thierry Guizouarn, Naushad Ahmed, Radovan Herchel,* Fabrice Pointillart,* Sourav Das,* Atanu Dey* Applied Organometallic Chemistry; 2024, e7441; Just Accepted.

Ongoing Research Projects

  • Check Icon MURTI Faculty Fellow Grant (5L)

Expertise

  • Check Icon Stimuli Responsive Magnetic Materials
  • Check Icon Single Ion Magnet/Single molecule Magnet
  • Check Icon Tuning Magnetic Anisotropy in mononuclear complexes
  • Check Icon Metal Organic Frameworks
  • Check Icon Electrochemical Water splitting
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