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Dr. Ashim Pramanik

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Associate Professor

Department of Basic Sciences (Physics), School of Sciences and Humanities, SR

National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India

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Material Science, Nanophotonics and Laser Technology

Photophysics of Quantum Materials, Nonlinear Optics and Random Lasing

Mail: ashim.pramanik@sru.edu.in

Educational
Qualifications
(From Highest)

2021

Ph.D. in Physics from Department of Physics, NIT Durgapur, India

2014

M.Sc. in Electronics from Vidyasagar University, WestBengal, India

2012

B.Sc. with Physics Honours, Vidyasagar University, WestBengal, India

Professional
Experience

2026

Associate Professor at SR University Warangal, from 2026-07-15 to .

2025

Post-Doctoral Researcher at Laboratoire de Solides Irradiés, Ecole Polytechnique, France, from 2025-01-01 to 2026-05-31.

2022

Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow, at Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Palermo, Italy, from 2022-11-15 to 2024-11-14.

2022

Post-Doctoral Researcher at Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, from 2022-01-01 to 2022-06-30.

Key Publications

P. Kumbhakar, A. Pramanik, S. Biswas, A. K. Kole, R. Sarkar, and P. Kumbhakar, In-situ synthesis of rGO-ZnO nanocomposite for demonstration of sunlight driven enhanced photocatalytic and self-cleaning of organic dyes and tea stains of cotton fabrics, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2018, 360, 193.

A. Pramanik, S. Biswas, and P. Kumbhakar, Solvatochromism in highly luminescent environmental friendly carbon quantum dots for sensing applications: Conversion of bio-waste into bio-asset, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2018, 191, 498.

A. Pramanik, S. Karmakar, P. Kumbhakar, S. Biswas, R. Sarkar, and P. Kumbhakar, Synthesis of bilayer graphene nanosheets by pulsed laser ablation in liquid and observation of its tunable nonlinearity, Applied Surface Science, 2019, 499, 143902.

A. Pramanik, S. Biswas, C. S. Tiwary, P. Kumbhakar, R. Sarkar, and P. Kumbhakar, Forster resonance energy transfer assisted white light generation and luminescence tuning in a colloidal graphene quantum dot-dye system, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2020, 565, 326.

S. Karmakar. A. Pramanik, A. K. Kole, U. Chatterjee, and P. Kumbhakar, Syntheses of flower and tube-like MoSe2 nanostructures for ultrafast piezocatalytic degradation of organic dyes on cotton fabrics, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, 424, 127702.

K. Mondal, S. Biswas, A. Pramanik, D. Banerjee, V. R. Soma, A. K. Chaudhary, and P. Kumbhakar, Giant femtosecond nonlinear optical response in bi-metallic GO nanocomposites for photonic applications, Applied Surface Science, 2022, 578, 151966.

A. Pramanik, P. Kumbhakar, S. D. Negedu, and C. S. Tiwary, Identification of aggregated 2D cobalt tellurides using a spatial self-phase modulation technique, Optics Letters, 2022, 47, 4965-4968

P. Kumbhakar, A. Pramanik, S. S. Mishra, R. Tromer, K. Biswas, A. Dasgupta, D. S. Galvão, and C. S. Tiwary, Enhanced light scattering using a two-dimensional quasicrystal-decorated 3D-printed nature-inspired bio-photonic architecture, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2023, 127, 9779-9786

A. Dey, A. Pramanik, K. Mondal, S. Biswas, U. Chatterjee, F. Messina, and P. Kumbhakar, Replica symmetry breaking in a colloidal plasmonic random laser with gold-coated triangular silver nanostructures, Optics Letters, 2023, 48, 4141-4144

A. K. Kole, S. Karmakar, A. Pramanik, and P. Kumbhakar, TOPICAL REVIEW on Transition metal dichalcogenides nanomaterials based piezocatalytic activity: recent progresses and outlook, Nanotechnology, 2023, 34, 282001.

A. Pramanik, P. Kumbhakar, A. Dey, K. Mondal, D. Banerjee, V. R. Soma, P. Kumbhakar, and C. S. Tiwary, Synthesis, green photoluminescence and studies of nonlinear optical spatial Self phase modulation effect in 2D Ga2Te3 nanosheets, ACS Appl. Opt. Mater., 2023, 1, 1634-1642

A. Pramanik, A. Sciortino, M. Reale, P. Pasbakhsh, G. Cavallaro, M. Cannas, G. Lazzara, and F. Messina, Naturally occurring halloysite nanotubes as light scatterers for stable random lasing applications, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2023, 17, 15896-15905.

A. Madonia, G. Minervini, A. Terracina, A. Pramanik, V. Martorana, A. Sciortino, C. M. Carbonaro, C. Olla, T. Sibillano, C. Giannini, E. Fanizza, M. L. Curri, A. Panniello, F. Messina, and M. Striccoli; Dye-Derived Red-Emitting Carbon Dots for Lasing and Solid-State Lighting, ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 21274-21286.

A. Pramanik, M. M. Calvino, L. Sciortino, P. Pasbakhsh, G. Cavallaro, G. Lazzara, F. Messina and A. Sciortino, Charge-selective photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes driven by naturally occurring halloysite nanotubes, Photochem, 2024, 4, 151-162.

A. Dey, A. Pramanik, S. Biswas, P. Kumbhakar, and U. Chatterjee, Employment of nonlinear optical properties of GO/Ag nanocomposite scatterer materials for achieving random lasing in the visible region in the gain medium of a commercially available dye, Optical Materials, 2024, 152, 115400.

K. Mondal, A. Haldar, A. Pramanik, R. Layek, D. Banerjee, V. R. Soma, S. Pal, P. Kumbhakar, Enhanced femtosecond nonlinear optical susceptibility and terahertz conductivity in MoSe2-noble metal nanocomposites, Advanced Optical Materials, 2024, 2401138.

L, Stagi, D. Carboni, R. Anedda, R. Popescu, Y. Eggeler, L. Calvillo, A. Pramanik, A. Sciortino, M. Cannas, F. Messina, L. Malfatt, One-Step fabrication of carbon dot-based nanocomposites powering solid-state random lasing, Small Structures, 2024, 2400498

A. Dey, A. Pramanik, S. Karmakar, S. Biswas, K. Jeyakumar, F. Messina, U. Chatterjee, P. Kumbhakar, Black TiO2 nanoparticles as plasmonically active scatterers for random lasing, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2025, 8, 3595-3607

A. Pramanik*, M. Reale, L. Roffi, S. Agnello, M. Cannas, P. Kumbhakar, P. Kumbhakar, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, Optically Coupled Bilayered Disordered System for Spatially Controllable Dual Band Random Lasing and Random Number Generation, APL Photonics, 2025, 10, 036121.

G. Ficarra, A. Pramanik, L. G. Barbata, M. Cannas, R. L. Ettlinger, R. E. Morris, G. Buscarino, F. Messina, and A. Sciortino, Host?Guest Engineering of MOF-808 for Random Lasing and Solid-State Emission, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2025, 8, 15165-15175.

W. Qi, S. Ponzoni, G. Huitric, V. Gorelov, A. Pramanik, Y. Laplace, M. Marsi, E. Papalazarou, S. F. Maehrlein, E. Deleporte, N. Mallik, A.Taleb-Ibrahimi, A. Bendounan, K. Zheng, T. Pullerits, and L. Perfetti, About carrier’s self-trapping and dynamical Rashba splitting in the two-dimensional hybrid perovskite (BA)2(MA)2Pb3I10, 2026, Small, 22, e11410.

A. Pramanik*, S. Biswas, M. Reale, M. Cannas, M. L. Saladino, R. Layek, A. Dey, A. Sciortino, L. Perfetti, P. Kumbhakar, F Messina, Plasmonically activated porous semiconductor microspheres for demonstration of random lasing with statistical interpretations, Optics & Laser Technology, 2026, 203, 115909.

Research Projects / Patents

Project
BIO-WASTE ASH BASED LOW COST, LIGHT WEIGHT, AND ECO- FRIENDLY SELF-RECHARGEABLE BATTERY

Awards and Honors / Achievements

award

2. EXCELLENCE IN PAPER PRESENTATION AWARD, for presenting the paper entitled: Observation of CW laser induced Third Order Nonlinear Optical Response in Quantum Graphene Flakes, in FRONTIERS IN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS (FOP21)

award

Marie Sk?odowska-curie postdoctoral Individual Fellowship (Call-2021, Score: 94.20%), CARLITO, Grant agreement ID: 101061538.

award

3. Recipient of Young Scientist Award in International Conference on Sustainable Technology 2024 (ICST-2024) organised by Microsystem Design Integration Lab, Bidhan Chandra Collage, West Bengal, India.

Books

book
Developments of Random Laser: Fundamentals and Applications

A. Dey, A. Pramanik, S. Biswas, P. Kumbhakar, and P. Kumbhakar

Springer, In: Handbook of Materials Science, Volume 1. Indian Institute of Metals Series. Springer, Singapore, doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7145-9_12

book
Green and sustainable methods of syntheses of photocatalytic materials for efficient application in dye degradation

Green and sustainable methods of syntheses of photocatalytic materials for efficient application in dye degradation

Elsevier, In: Photocatalytic Degradation of Dyes, 2021, 167-206. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823876-9.00004

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