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Dr. Samal joined the Centre for Nano and Material Sciences (CNMS) at Jain University, Bangalore as Assistant Professor in July 2017. In May 2021 he was promoted to Associate Professor. Currently, He is the head of Anisotropic Nanomaterial Laboratory (ANLab). Prior to joining as faculty, Dr. Samal was a postdoc in Prof. Jean Marie Basset’s research group at KAUST, where he was involved utilization of CO2 to syngas (H2+CO) and valuable chemicals such as methanol and dimethyl ether. Dr. Samal finished his postdoc in Prof. Luis Liz-Larzan at University of Vigo, Spain before joining to KAUST, where he was involved core-shell nanoparticles for sensing application. He received his PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. T. Pradeep at IIT Madras, Chennai. His doctoral work mainly focused on anisotropic nanomaterials for sensing applications.
Currently, his research group devoted on design and fabrication of multi-functional anisotropic nanomaterials for catalysis, energy and sensing application. Synthesis of wide varieties of nanoparticles with diverse morphologies such as nanorods, wires,
triangles, cubes, octahedra, decahedra, and icosahedra and investigate their properties and utilize them for various applications. Shape dependent chemistry and reactivity at different surface planes of these anisotropic nanomaterials are the main challenges in our study.
Three major areas such as a) conversion of CO2 to valuable chemicals, b) study of thermoelectric behaviour and c) sensing applications utilizing anisotropic nanomaterials. Noble metal nanoparticles such as gold, silver, palladium and platinum with various shapes are devoted for sensing and catalytic applications. Metal-semiconductor hybrid materials for plasmon resonance energy transfer (PRET) applications. Telluride nanowires are synthesized for thermoelectric applications.