Dr. Amitava Choudhury

Associate professor, Department of Chemistry

Office: 330 Schrenk Hall

Phone: (573)343-6332

e-mail: choudhurya@mst.edu

Biography

Amitava Choudhury was born and brought up in the tea estates of North Bengal (popularly known as Dooars), India. He went to A. C. College (Science and Arts) and University of North Bengal to study Chemistry and received his B.Sc (Chemistry honors) and M.Sc in Chemistry (Inorganic Specialization), respectively. He then joined Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and received his PhD from the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit and came to Colorado State University as post-doctoral fellow. In 2008, he took up a position of Assistant research professor in Chemistry in Missouri S&T and was then hired as a tenure track assistant professor in 2011. Currently, he is an associate professor of Chemistry.

Dr. Choudhury has published more 100 peer-reviewed journals papers and his research has been funded through NSF (SSMC-DMR), American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund, UM Research Board and various research centers in Missouri S&T. Further details of Dr. Choudhury’s work can be found here Selected Works profile.

Research Interests

Energy generation, Storage and Conversion; Sustainable catalysis; Critical elements

Area of Expertise

Solid state synthesis of materials which include both oxides and non-oxides. Materials targeted: Polyanion based materials (phosphates, sulfates, phosphites, boro-phosphates etc.), complex chalcogenides, porous materials (MOFs, organically templated solids, zeolites and zeolite related). Tools used: X-ray crystallography including single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction (laboratory and synchrotron) and a range of spectroscopic techniques. Properties investigated: Solid state electrochemistry (Lithium- and sodium-ion batteries, Solid electrolytes), Magnetic properties, Electronic properties, Thermoelectric properties, catalysis, sorption.

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