Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Publications (List of papers published in SCI Journals, in year wise descending order).
Independent career:

40. “Co–N–C/C Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Dual Applications in Seawater Electrolysis and Catalyst in Hydrazine Fuel Cells.” Snehanjali Behera, Chetansinh Chauhan, Biswajit Mondal* Small (2024): https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202311946

39. “Non-Noble-Metal-Based Porphyrin Covalent Organic Polymers as Additive-/Annealing-Free Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting and Biomass Oxidation.” Sayantan Sarkar, Snehanjali Behera, Ritika Munjal, Argha Chakraborty, Biswajit Mondal,* Suman Mukhopadhyay* Energy Fuels 38 (2024): 5183–5191. doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.4c00029.

38. “Heptanuclear Mixed-Valence Co4IIICo3II Molecular Wheel─A Molecular Analogue of Layered Double Hydroxides with Single Molecule Magnet Behavior and Electrocatalytic Activity for Hydrogen Evolution Reactions.” Biplab Biswas, Anjila I. Siddiqui, Mithun Chandra Majee, Swadhin Kumar Saha, Biswajit Mondal*, Rajat Saha*, and Carlos J. Gómez García* Inorg. Chem. 63 (2024): 6161–6172.

37. “Chemistry of a series of heterobimetallic complexes Mn III2 (Ca II /Sr II )X 2 (X = Cl − , Br − ).” Priyabrata Bhattacharya, Riya Bag, Ray J. Butcher, Snehanjali Behera, Biswajit Mondal* and Sanchita Goswami* Dalton Trans. 53 (2024): 2324-2332.

36. “A Review of Nanostructured Transition Metal Phosphide-Driven Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution.” Reaction. Tarik Aziz, Mahejabeen A. Haque, Sukanta Saha, Biswajit Mondal, Siddarth Jain, and Arnab Dutta*. Energy and Fuels (2023): doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c02773.

35. “Demystifying the Role of Covalently Attached Electron–Proton Transfer Mediator in Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyst”. Soumitra Dinda, Anjila I Siddiqui, Snehanjali Behera, Biswajit Mondal*. ACS Catal. (2023): 10.1021/acscatal.3c03817. 

34. “The Synergy between Electrochemical Substrate Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction Reaction to Enable Aerobic Oxidation”. Snehanjali Behera, Sk Tarik Aziz, Nisha Singla, Biswajit Mondal*. Chem. Commun. (2023): 10.1039/D3CC02428H.

33. “Critical Role of Interface Design in Acceleration of Overall Water Splitting and Hybrid Electrolysis Process: State of the Art and Perspectives”. Snehanjali Behera, Souradip Ganguly, Chanchal Loha, Biswajit Mondal,* Sirshendu Ghosh*. Energy Fuels 37 (2023): 7603–7633.

32. “Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by Hydrolytically Stable Metal-Organic Frameworks at Both Neutral and Alkaline Medium: Inverse Relation of Dimensionality with Catalytic Activity”. Soumen Kumar Dubey, Snehanjali Behera, Maxcimilan Patra, Biswajit Mondal,* Subham Bhattacharjee,* Rajat Saha*. ChemCatChem (2023): e202300328.

31. “Quantitative Electrocatalytic Upcycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate Plastic and Its Oligomer with a Cobalt-Based One Dimensional Coordination Polymer Having Open Metal Sites along with Coproduction of Hydrogen.” Snehanjali Behera, Soumitra Dinda, Rajat Saha*, and Biswajit Mondal*. ACS Catalysis 13 (2023): 469–474.

From Post-doc:

30. “The Implications of Coupling an Electron Transfer Mediated Oxidation with a Proton Coupled Electron Transfer Reduction in Hybrid Water Electrolysis.” Biswajit Mondal, Soumitra Dinda, Neeta Karjule, Sanjit Mondal, Alagar Raja Kottaichamy, Michael Volokh, Menny Shalom * . ChemSusChem (2022) e202202271.

29. “Photoelectrochemical alcohols oxidation over polymeric carbon nitride photoanodes with simultaneous H 2 production.” Neeta Karjule, Ravindra S Phatake, Shmuel Barzilai, Biswajit Mondal, Adi Azoulay, Alexander I Shames, Michael Volokh, Josep Albero, Hermenegildo García, Menny Shalom * . Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10 (2022): 16585-16594.

28. “Alcohol oxidation with high efficiency and selectivity by nickel phosphide phases.” SirshenduGhosh, Biswajit Mondal, Shubasis Roy, Menny Shalom * , Maya Bar Sadan * .Journal of Material Chemistry A 10 (2022): 8238-8244.

27. “Chemical and Electrochemical O 2 Reduction on Earth-Abundant M-N-C Catalysts and Implications for Mediated Electrolysis”. Jason Bates, Sourav Biswas, Sung-Eun Suh, Mathew Johnson, Biswajit Mondal, Thatcher Root, and Shannon S. Stahl *.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (2022): 922 – 927.

26. Biswajit Mondal, Neeta Karjule, Chanderpratap Singh, Ran Shimoni, Michael Volokh, Idan Hod and Menny Shalom*. “Unraveling the Mechanisms of Electrocatalytic Oxygenation and Dehydrogenation of Organic Molecules to Value-Added Chemicals Over a Ni–Fe Oxide Catalyst”. Advanced Energy Materials 11 (2021): 2101858. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aenm.202101858.

25. Jiawei Xia, Neeta Karjule, Biswajit Mondal, Jiani Qin, Michael Volokh, Lidan Xing, and Menny Shalom*. “Design of melem-based supramolecular assemblies for the synthesis of polymeric carbon nitrides with enhanced photocatalytic activity”. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 9 (2021): 17855-17864. #equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TA05450C.

24. “Molecular Cobalt Catalysts for O 2 Reduction to H 2 O 2 : Benchmarking Catalyst Performance via Rate–Overpotential Correlations.” Yu-Heng Wang, Biswajit Mondal, and Shannon S. Stahl * . ACS Catalysis 10 (2020): 12031-12039.

23. “Slow magnetic relaxation and water oxidation activity of dinuclear Co II Co III and unique triangular Co II Co II Co III mixed-valence complexes”. Ritwik Modak, Biswajit Mondal, Yeasin Sikdar, Jayisha Banerjee, Enrique Colacio, Itziar Oyarzabal, Joan Cano, and Sanchita Goswami * . Dalton Transactions 49 (2020): 6328-6340.

22. Yu-Heng Wang, Patrick E. Schneider, Zachary K. Goldsmith, Biswajit Mondal, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer and Shannon S. Stahl*. “Brosnted Acid Scaling Relationships Enable Control Over Product Selectivity from O2 Reduction with a Mononuclear Cobalt Porphyrin Catalyst”. ACS Central Science 6 (2019): 1024-1034. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.9b00194.

From Ph.D.:

21. Biswajit Mondal,# Pritha Sen,# and Abhishek Dey*. “Proton Reduction in the Presence of Oxygen by Iron Porphyrin Enabled with 2nd Sphere Redox Active Ferrocenes”. Chinese Journal of Catalysis 42 (2021): 1327 – 1331. #equal contribution. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1872206720637615.

20. Biswajit Mondal,# Samir Chattopadhyay,# Subal Dey, Atif Mahammed, Kaustuv Mittra, Atanu Rana, Zeev Gross, and Abhishek Dey*. “Elucidation of Factors That Govern the 2e-/2H+ vs. 4e-/4H+ Selectivity of Water Oxidation by a Cobalt Corrole”. Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (2020): 21040 – 21049. #equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c08654.

19. Biswajit Mondal,# Pritha Sen,# Atanu Rana, Dibyajyoti Saha, Purusottam Das and Abhishek Dey*. “Reduction of CO2 to CO by an Iron Porphyrin Catalyst in the Presence of Oxygen”. ACS Catalysis 9 (2019): 3895-3899. #equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b00529.

18. Pritha Sen,# Biswajit Mondal,# Dibyajyoti Saha, Atanu Rana and Abhishek Dey*. “Role of 2nd Sphere H-bonding Residues in Tuning the Kinetics of the CO2 Reduction to CO by Iron Porphyrin Complexes”. Dalton Transactions 48 (2019): 5965-5977. #equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8DT03850C.

17. Atanu Rana, Pradip Kumar Das, Biswajit Mondal, Subal Dey, Danielle Crouthers and Abhishek Dey*. “Investigation of Bridgehead Effects on Reduction Potential in Alkyl and Aryl Azadithiolate‐Bridged (µ‐SCH2XCH2S)[Fe(CO)3]2 Synthetic Analogues of [FeFe]‐H2ase Active Site”. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (2018): 3633–3643. https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejic.201800335.

16. Subal Dey, Biswajit Mondal, Sudipta Chatterjee, Atanu Rana, Sk Amanullah and Abhishek Dey*. “Molecular electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction”. Nature Reviews Chemistry 1 (2017): 0098. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-017-0098.

15. Anamika Banerjee, Biswajit Mondal, Anuradha Verma, Vibha R. Satsangi, Rohit Shrivastav, Abhishek Dey and Sahab Dass*. “Enhancing efficiency of Fe2O3 for robust and proficient solar water splitting using a highly dispersed bioinspired catalyst”. Journal of Catalysis 352 (2017): 83-92. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021951717301446.

14. Sudipta Chatterjee, Kushal Sengupta, Biswajit Mondal, Subal Dey and Abhishek Dey*. “Factors Determining the Rate and Selectivity of 4e-/4H+ Electrocatalytic Reduction of Dioxygen by Iron Porphyrin Complexes”. Accounts of Chemical Research 50 (2017): 1744–1753. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00192.

13. Partha Halder,* Santanu Ghorai, Sridhar Banerjee, Biswajit Mondal, and Atanu Rana. “Iron (II) complexes of 2-mercaptopyridine as rubredoxin site analogues”. Dalton Transactions 46 (2017): 13739-13744. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7DT02645E.

12. Md Estak Ahmed, Subal Dey, Biswajit Mondal, and Abhishek Dey*. “H2 evolution catalyzed by a FeFe-hydrogenase synthetic model covalently attached to graphite surfaces”. Chemical Communication 53 (2017): 8188-8191. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC04281G.

11. Biswajit Mondal, and Abhishek Dey*. “Development of air-stable hydrogen evolution catalysts”. Chemical Communication 53 (2017): 7707-7751. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC02941A.

10. Atanu Rana,# Biswajit Mondal,# Pritha Sen, Subal Dey and Abhishek Dey*. “Activating Fe(I)Porphyrins for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction using Second Sphere Proton Transfer Residues”. Inorganic Chemistry 56 (2017): 1783-1793. #equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01707.

9. Kaustuv Mittra,# Biswajit Mondal,# Atif Mahammed, Zeev Gross and Abhishek Dey*. “Dioxygen Bound Cobalt Corrole Adducts”. Chemical Communication 53 (2017): 877- 880. #equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC06982G.

8. Diptiman Dinda,# Md. Estak Ahmed,# Sumit Mandal, Biswajit Mondal, and Shyamal K. Saha*. “Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide Quantum Dots: An Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalyst in Neutral Medium”. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 4 (2016): 15486-15493. #equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TA06101J.

7. “A Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution and Oxygen Reduction Reactions in Water”. Wolfgang Schöfberger, * Felix Faschinger, Samir Chattopadhyay, Snehadri Bhakta, Biswajit Mondal, Johannes AAW Elemans, Stefan Müllegger, Stefano Tebi, Reinhold Koch, Florian Klappenberger, Mateusz Paszkiewicz, Johannes V Barth, Eva Rauls, Hazem Aldahhak, Wolf Gero Schmidt, and Abhishek Dey * . Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55 (2016): 2350-2355.

6. Biswajit Mondal,# Atanu Rana,# Pritha Sen and Abhishek Dey*. “Intermediates Involved in the 2e–/2H+ Reduction of CO2 to CO by Iron(0) Porphyrin”. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (2015): 11214−11217. #equal contribution. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b05992.

5. Subal Dey, Atanu Rana, Danielle Crouthers, Biswajit Mondal, Pradip Kumar Das, Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, and Abhsiehk Dey*. “Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction by [Fe-Fe]-Hydrogenase Active Site Models”. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (2014): 8847-8850. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja5021684.

4. Subal Dey, Biswajit Mondal, and Abhishek Dey*. “An Acetate Bound Cobalt Oxide Catalyst for Water Oxidation: Role of monovalent anions and cations in lowering overpotential”. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16 (2014): 12221-12227. https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CP01205D.

3. Atif Mahammed, Biswajit Mondal, Atanu Rana, Abhishek Dey* and Zeev Gross*. “The Cobalt Corrole Catalyzed Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: Surprising Electronic Effects and Characterization of Key Reaction Intermediates”. Chemical Communication 50 (2014): 2725-2727. https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC48462A.

2. Subhra Samanta, Pradip Kumar Das, Sudipta Chaterjee, Kushal Sengupta, Biswajit Mondal, and Abhishek Dey*. “O2 Reduction Reaction by Biologically Relevant Anionic Ligand Bound Iron Porphyrin Complexes”. Inorganic Chemistry 52 (2013): 12963–12971. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic4020652.

1. Biswajit Mondal, Kushal Sengupta, Atanu Rana, Atif Mahammed, Mark Botoshansky, Somdatta Ghosh Dey, Zeev Gross, and Abhishek Dey*. “Cobalt Corrole Catalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction from H2O under Ambient Conditions: Reactivity, Spectroscopy, and Density Functional Theory Calculations”. Inorganic Chemistry 52 (2013): 3381–3387. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic4000473.

Books/Reports/Chapters/General articles etc.

2. Biswajit Mondal and Pritha Sen (2022) “Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Fundamentals, Materials, and Applications” Chapter 5: Oxygen reduction reaction by noble metal-based catalysts. ScienceDirect, Pages 173-203.

1. Biswajit Mondal (2019) “Nano structures for energy storage and conversion and their application as catalysts for photochemistry and sensing” Chapter 3: Carbon-Di-Oxide Reduction To Value Added Products on Cu Surfaces. USA: Arcler Education Inc.