Interparticle Coupling Effect on the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Gold Nanoparticles:  From Theory to Applications

Dr. Sujit Kumar Ghosh has been graduated as Doctor of Philosophy working with Professor Tarasankar Pal at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His doctoral research encompasses the optical, electronic, and catalytic aspects of metal nanoparticles. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Naoki Toshima at Tokyo University of Science at Yamaguchi, Japan. Presently, he is appointed as a Lecturer in Chemistry at Raidighi College, South 24-Parganas, India. His current research interest involves studying the optical properties of nanoscale assemblies and the photophysical properties of molecular probes on the surface of nanoscale materials.

Professor Tarasankar Pal obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Burdwan University. In 1984, he was appointed as a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He worked as a visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with Prof. Tuan Vo-Dinh. He has also served as a visiting Professor in the University of Kent at Canterbury, University of Paris-sud, Tokyo University of Science at Shinjuku-ku, and Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Pal has received numerous national and international awards including R & D-100 Award, U.S.A., CRSI medal, and Royal Society-INSA Fellowship. Dr. Pal is a reviewer for ACS, RSC, Elsevier, and several other nanoscience journal publishers and an editorial board member of ChemTracts in Inorganic Chemistry. Recently, he has received D.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Visva-Bharati University. His research interests include syntheses and catalytic and spectroscopic applications of metal and semiconductor nanoparticle assemblies including surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) studies and analytical and environmental chemistry.