Snigdha Praharaj, Ph. D

2B36 Swearingen Engineering Center
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208
(V) 803.777.7281
(F) 803.777.8265
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Curriculum Vitae

I. Education

• Ph. D., Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India [2006]
  Advisor: Professor Tarasankar Pal
   

• M. S., Chemistry, Utkal University, India [2001]
   

• B. S., Chemistry, Utkal University, India [1999]

II. Honors & Awards

• Qualified All India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2002
   

• Qualified CSIR-NET for UGC fellowship and Lectureship in Chemical Sciences, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, June 2003

III. Publications

1. Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sudipa Panigrahi, Soumen Basu, Surojit Pande, Subhra Jana, Sujit Kumar Ghosh and Tarasankar Pal, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem (accepted): ‘Effect of Bromide and Chloride Ions for the Dissolution of Colloidal Gold’
    

2. Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sudip Nath, Sudipa Panigrahi, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Soumen Basu, Surojit Pande, Subhra Jana and Tarasankar Pal, Inorganic Chemistry, 45 (2006) 1439. ‘Layer-by-Layer Deposition of Bimetallic Nanoshells on Functionalized Polystyrene Beads’
    

3. Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sudip Nath, Sudipa Panigrahi, Soumen Basu, Surojit Pande, Subhra Jana and Tarasankar Pal, Chem. Comm., 28 (2006) 3836. ‘Room temperature synthesis of coinage metal (Ag, Cu) chalcogenides’
    

4. Sudipa Panigrahi, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Soumen Basu, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Subhra Jana, Surojit Pande, Tuan Vo-Dinh, Hongjin Jiang and Tarasankar Pal, Nanotechnology, 17 (2006) 5461. 'Cysteine functionalized copper organosol: synthesis, characterization and catalytic Application'
    

5. Sudipa Panigrahi, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Soumen Basu, Sujit Ghosh, Subhra Jana, Surojit Pande, Tuan Vo-Dinh, Hongjin Jiang and Tarasankar Pal, J. Phys. Chem. B., 13 (2006)13436. ‘Self-Assembly of Silver Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Stabilization, Optical Properties, and Application in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering’
    

6. Soumen Basu, Sudipa Panigrahi, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Surojit Pande, Subhra Jana and Tarasankar Pal, New Journal of Chemistry, 30 (2006) 1333. ‘Dipole–
   dipole plasmon interactions in self-assembly of gold organosol induced by glutathione’
    

7. Subhra Jana, Surojit Pande, Sudipa Panigrahi, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Soumen Basu, Anjali Pal and Tarasankar Pal, Langmuir, 22 (2006) 7091. ‘Exploitation of Electrostatic Field Force for Immobilization and Catalytic Reduction of o- Nitrobenzoic Acid to Anthranilic Acid on Resin-bound Silver Nanocomposites’
    

8. Subhra Jana, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Sudip Nath, Surojit Pande, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sudipa Panigrahi, Soumen Basu, Takeshi Endo and Tarasankar Pal, Appl. Catalysis A: General, 313 (2006) 41. ‘Synthesis of silver nanoshell-coated cationic polystyrene beads: A solid phase catalyst for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol’
    

9. Surojit Pande, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Sudip Nath, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, S. Jana, S. Panigrahi, S. Basu and Tarasankar Pal, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 299 (2006) 421. ‘Reduction of methylene blue by thiocyanate: Kinetic and thermodynamic aspects’
    

10. Sudipa Panigrahi, Subrata Kundu, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Sudip Nath, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Soumen Basu and Tarasankar Pal, Polyhedron, 25 (2006) 1263. ‘Selective One-pot Synthesis of Copper Nanorods under Surfactantless Condition’
     

11. Sudip Nath, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sudipa Panigrahi, Soumen Basu and Tarasankar Pal, New J. of Chem., 29 (2005) 12. ‘Silver organosol: synthesis, characterization and localized surface plasmon resonance study’
     

12. Sudip Nath , Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Subrata Kundu, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sudipa Panigrahi and Tarasankar Pal, J. Nanoparticle Res., 8 (2006) 111. 'Is Gold Really Softer than Silver? HSAB Principle Revisited'
     

13. Subrata Kundu, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Sudip Nath, Sudipa Panigrahi, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Soumen Basu and Tarasankar Pal, Ind. Journal of Chem., 44A (2005) 10. ‘Ion-associate of arsenic (V)-salicylic acid chelate with methylene blue in toluene: Application for arsenic quantification’
     

14. Sudip Nath, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sudipa Panigrahi, Subrata Kundu, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Soumen Basu and Tarasankar Pal, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 274 (2006) 145. ‘Hexadecylamine capped silver organosol: a substrate for surface enhanced Raman scattering’
     

15. Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Sudip Nath, Subrata Kundu, Sudipa Panigrahi, Soumen Basu and Tarasankar Pal, J. Phys. Chem. B., 109 (2005) 13166. ‘Size-selective Synthesis and Stabilization of Gold Organosol in CnTAC: Enhanced Molecular Fluorescence from Gold Bound Fluorophore’
     

16. Sudip Nath, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sudip Panigrahi, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Subrata Kundu, Soumen Basu and Tarasankar Pal, Langmuir, 21 (2005) 23. ‘Synthesis and Characterization of N,N-dimethyldodecylamine Capped Aucore-Pdshell Nanoparticles in Toluene’
     

17. Sudip Nath, Anjali Pal, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sudipa Panigrahi, Subrata Kundu, T. Thundat and T. Pal, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 5 (2005) 11. ‘Synthesis, Characterization, and Optical Properties of AuSe Nanoalloys’.
     

18. Subrata Kundu, Anjali Pal, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Sudip Nath, Sudipa Panigrahi, Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Soumen Basu and Tarasankar Pal, J. Nanoparticle Res., 7 (2005) 6. ‘Shape-controlled synthesis of gold nanoparticles from gold (III)-chelates of - diketones’
     

19. Soumen Basu, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Subrata Kundu, Sudip Nath, Sudipa Panigrahi, Snigdhamayee Praharaj and Tarasakar Pal, Chem. Phys. Lett., 407 (2005) 493. ‘Studies on the ion-association of methylene blue and salicylic acid in neat and mixed binary solvents’
     

20. Snigdhamayee Praharaj, Sudip Nath, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Subrata Kundu and T.Pal, Langmuir, 20 (2004) 9889. ‘Immobilization and Recovery of Au Nanoparticles from Anion Exchange Resin: Resin- Bound Nanoparticle Matrix as a Catalyst for the Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol’
     

21. Subrata Kundu, Anjali Pal, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Sudip Nath, Sudipa Panigrahi, Snigdhamayee Praharaj and Tarasankar Pal, Inorg. Chem., 43 (2004) 5489. ‘A new route to obtain shape-controlled gold nanoparticles from Au(III)-β- diketonates’