Dr. Arpita Sarkar
Head Department of Chemistry,
Brainware University, Kolkata, India
India
Biography
Dr. Arpita Sarkar is currently working as Assistant Professor and head in the Department of Chemistry of Brainware University, Kolkata, India. She completed her doctoral research in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. After the completion of her PhD, she worked as postdoctoral research associate in Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Republic of Korea for two years and her research focused on well-organized mesoporous metal oxide photoelectrodes by block copolymer- induced sol−gel assembly for inorganic−organic hybrid solar cells. She also worked as a research associate in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India for one year. There she was engaged in the research works based on dye sensitized solar cells and quantum dot sensitized solar cells. Her research works have been published in many peer reviewed high impact international journals. She has also presented her research works in many international conferences.
Research Interest
Nanomaterial synthesis, functional mesoporous materials and their applications as catalyst and adsorbent, advanced materials for artificial photosynthesis.