Saikat Talapatra

• Position: Assistant Professor
• Field: Experimental Condensed Matter/ Materials Science
• Degree: Ph.D., 2002, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• At SIUC Since: 2007
• Office: Neckers 474
• Mailcode: 4401
• Tel:(618)-453-2270
• Fax:(618)-453-1056
• E-mail: stalapatra@physics.siu.edu
• Web: http://www.physics.siu.edu/people/talapatra/index.html

Office Hours

• MWF 11:50am - 1:50pm

Teaching

• PHYS 253 / 255 A & B (Lab Coordinator)
• PHYS 420 (Electromagnetism II)

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Research Interests

• Multifunctional carbon nanotube and graphene based architectures
• Carbon based electrochemical energy storage devices
• Electrical transport in nanostructured carbon
• Adsoption studies on carbon nanotubes
• Carbon nanotubes in catalysis
• Carbon magnetism

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Selected Publications

1. R. Shah, X. F. Zhang, and S.Talapatra
   "Electrochemical double layer capacitor electrodes using aligned carbon nanotubes grown directly on metals"
   Nanotechnology 20, (2009) 395202

2. .C. Soldano, S.Kar, S.Talapatra, R.Vajtai, S. Nayak and P.M.Ajayan
   "Detecting Nanoscale Magnetic Activity with single Carbon Nanotube"
   Nano. Letters 8, 4498-4505 (2008)

3. Y. Zhang, S.Talapatra, S.Kar, R.Vajtai, S. Nayak and P.M.Ajayan
   "First principles study of defect induced magentism in carbon"
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 107201 (2007)

4. S.Talapatra, S.Kar, S.Pal, R.Vajtai, L.Ci, P.Victor, M.M.Shaijjumon, S.Kaur, O.Nalamasu and P.M.Ajayan
   "Direct growth of alinged carbon nanotubes on bulk metals"
   Nature Nanotechnology 1, 112-116 (2006)

5. S.Talapatra, G.P.Ganeshan, T.Kim, R.Vajtai, M.B.Huang, G.Ramanath, M.Shima, D.Srivastava, S.C.Deevi and P.M.Ajayan
   “Defect Induced Magnetism in Carbon Nanostructures”
   Phys. Rev. Lett., 097201 (2005)

6. A.Srivastava, O.N.Srivastava, S.Talapatra, R.Vajtai and P.M.Ajayan
   “Carbon nanotube filters”
   Nature Materials 3, 610–614 (2004)

7. S.Talapatra, V.Krunglevichute and A.D.Migone
   “High coverage gas adsorption on carbon nanotubes: Evidence of a new phase in the second layer”
   Phys. Rev. Lett.. 89, 246106 (2002)

8. S.Talapatra and A.D.Migone
   “Existence of novel quasi 1-D phases of atoms adsorbed on the exterior surface of closed ended SWNT bundles”.
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 87,201606 (2001)

9. S.Talapatra, A.Zambano, S.E.Weber and A. D. Migone,
   “Gases do not adsorb in the interstitial channels of SWNT bundles”
   Phys. Rev. Lett.. 85,138 (2000)

 

 

 

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