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Snigdha Praharaj, Ph. D


2B36 Swearingen Engineering Center
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208
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Snigdha Praharaj

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Research

Research interests include:

  • Synthesis of semiconductor nanoparticles and their optical properties

  • Surface functionalization of nanoparticles and their applications in sensors

  • Optical properties of metallic nanoparticles

  • Recycling and recovery of metal nanoparticles

  • Catalysis by mono- & bi-metallic nanoparticles

  • Photophysical properties of fluorescent probes on the surface of metal nanoparticles

  • Application of metal nanoparticles in surface enhance Raman scattering (SERS) studies

Selected Publications

  • 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’
     

  • 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’
     

  • 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’
     

  • 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’
     

  • 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’