Dr. Nandan Ghorai

Post Doctoral Researcher


Curriculum vitae


Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology

University of Pennsylvania

3200 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104



Publications


Direct and indirect interfacial electron transfer at a plasmonic p-Cu7S4/CdS heterojunction


Zhicheng Yang, Nandan Ghorai, Shengxiang Wu, Sheng He, Tianquan Lian

ACS nano, vol. 19, ACS Publications, 2025, pp. 1547--1556


Efficient Size-Dependent Hot Electron Transfer from Au to TiO2 Nanoparticles


Nandan Ghorai, Zhicheng Yang, Sara T Gebre, Shengxiang Wu, Fengyi Zhao, Ilia N Ivanov, Tianquan Lian

Nano Letters, vol. 25, ACS Publications, 2025, pp. 3253--3258


Illuminating the mechanistic impacts of an Fe-quaterpyridine functionalized crystalline poly (triazine imide) semiconductor for photocatalytic CO 2 reduction


Scott McGuigan, Stephen J Tereniak, Avery Smith, Subhendu Jana, Carrie L Donley, Leonard Collins, Nandan Ghorai, Yixuan Xu, Emmanuel Adu Fosu, Simon Suhr, others

Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2025


In Situ Studies of Multi-Carrier Dynamics in Electrochemically-Charged Colloidal CdSe/CdS Core/Shell Quantum Dots


Sheng He, Nandan Ghorai, Arun Ashokan, Sara T Gebre, Zhicheng Yang, Tianquan Lian

Angewandte Chemie, Wiley Online Library, 2025, pp. e202503972


Unveiling the Carrier Dynamics in Plasmonic and Nonplasmonic Cu x In y S Nanocrystals


Manvi Sachdeva, Nitika Kharbanda, Nandan Ghorai, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 16, ACS Publications, 2025, pp. 3302--3308


Charge transfer mechanism on a cobalt-polyoxometalate-TiO2 photoanode for water oxidation in acid


Fengyi Zhao, Ting Cheng, Xinlin Lu, Nandan Ghorai, Yiwei Yang, Yurii V Geletii, Djamaladdin G Musaev, Craig L Hill, Tianquan Lian

Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, ACS Publications, 2024, pp. 14600--14609


Plasmon-Induced Ultrafast Hot Hole Transfer in Nonstoichiometric Cu x In y S/CdS Heteronanocrystals


Nitika Kharbanda, Manvi Sachdeva, Nandan Ghorai, Arshdeep Kaur, Vikas Kumar, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 15, ACS Publications, 2024, pp. 5056--5062


Ultrafast Plasmonic Hot Hole Transfer and Plasmon Dynamics in a Dual Plasmonic Au@ p-Cu2- xSe Heterostructure


Manvi Sachdeva, Nandan Ghorai, Nitika Kharbanda, Hirendra N Ghosh

Advanced Optical Materials, vol. 12, Wiley Online Library, 2024, p. 2301250


Effects of hydrogen bonding on intramolecular/intermolecular proton-coupled electron transfer using a Ruthenium-anthraquinone dyad in ultrafast time domain


Ananta Dey, Nandan Ghorai, Amitava Das, Hirendra N Ghosh

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, vol. 441, Elsevier, 2023, p. 114709


Harvesting plasmonic near-infrared photons by hot hole transfer in nonstoichiometric-semiconductor plasmonic heterojunctions


Nandan Ghorai, Manvi Sachdeva, Nitika Kharbanda, Hirendra N Ghosh

ACS Photonics, vol. 10, ACS Publications, 2023, pp. 733--742


Understanding the charge transfer dynamics of the Cu 2 WS 4--CNT--FeOOH ternary composite for photo-electrochemical studies


Preeti Dagar, Nandan Ghorai, Manisha Bungla, Hirendra N Ghosh, Ashok K Ganguli

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 25, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023, pp. 30867--30879


Chemical interface damping in nonstoichiometric semiconductor plasmonic nanocrystals: an effect of the surrounding environment


Nandan Ghorai, Hirendra N Ghosh

Langmuir, vol. 38, ACS Publications, 2022, pp. 5339--5350


Discerning the Ultrafast Charge Dynamics in Photostable Perovskite-Carbon Dot Composite Systems: Role of Doped Carbon Dots


Subham Burai, Nandan Ghorai, Hirendra N Ghosh, Somen Mondal

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 126, ACS Publications, 2022, pp. 20092--20100


In situ CsPbBr 3 architecture engineered in electrospun fibers and its ultrafast charge-transfer dynamics


Kaliyamoorthy Justice Babu, Gurpreet Kaur, Ayushi Shukla, Arshdeep Kaur, Himanshu Bhatt, Nandan Ghorai, Goutam De, Hirendra N Ghosh

Materials Advances, vol. 3, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022, pp. 6566--6576


Plasmon mediated electron transfer and temperature dependent electron-phonon scattering in gold nanoparticles embedded in dielectric films


Nandan Ghorai, Goutam De, Hirendra N Ghosh

ChemPhysChem, vol. 23, Wiley Online Library, 2022, pp. e202200181


Ultrafast insights into full-colour light-emitting C-Dots


Nandan Ghorai, Soumyadip Bhunia, Subham Burai, Hirendra N Ghosh, Pradipta Purkayastha, Somen Mondal

Nanoscale, vol. 14, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022, pp. 15812--15820


CdS--CNT--CoPi heterostructures for simultaneous exciton separation: ultrafast and photoelectrochemical studies


Preeti Dagar, Nandan Ghorai, Kasinath Ojha, Hirendra N Ghosh, Ashok K Ganguli

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 125, ACS Publications, 2021, pp. 8684--8695


Long-range light-modulated charge transport across the molecular heterostructure doped protein biopolymers


Somen Mondal, Nandan Ghorai, Soumyadip Bhunia, Hirendra N Ghosh, Nadav Amdursky

Chemical Science, vol. 12, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021, pp. 8731--8739


Temperature-dependent ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in amorphous and crystalline sb2se3 thin films


Palwinder Singh, Nandan Ghorai, Anup Thakur, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 125, ACS Publications, 2021, pp. 5197--5206


Ultrafast hot electron transfer and trap-state mediated charge carrier separation toward enhanced photocatalytic activity in g-C3N4/ZnIn2S4 heterostructure


Himanshu Bhatt, Tanmay Goswami, Dharmendra Kumar Yadav, Nandan Ghorai, Ayushi Shukla, Gurpreet Kaur, Arshdeep Kaur, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 12, ACS Publications, 2021, pp. 11865--11872


Ultrafast insights into high energy (C and D) excitons in few layer WS2


Tanmay Goswami, Himanshu Bhatt, K Justice Babu, Gurpreet Kaur, Nandan Ghorai, Hirendra N Ghosh

The journal of physical chemistry letters, vol. 12, ACS Publications, 2021, pp. 6526--6534


Ultrafast Plasmon Dynamics in Near-Infrared Active Non-stoichiometric Cu2--x Se Nanocrystals and Effect of Chemical Interface Damping


Nandan Ghorai, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 125, ACS Publications, 2021, pp. 11468--11477


Unraveling the carrier dynamics and photocatalytic pathway in carbon dots and pollutants of wastewater system


Soumyadip Bhunia, Nandan Ghorai, Subham Burai, Pradipta Purkayastha, Hirendra N Ghosh, Somen Mondal

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 125, ACS Publications, 2021, pp. 27252--27259


Concurrent energy-and electron-transfer dynamics in photoexcited Mn-doped CsPbBr3 perovskite nanoplatelet architecture


Kaliyamoorthy Justice Babu, Gurpreet Kaur, Ayushi Shukla, Arshdeep Kaur, Tanmay Goswami, Nandan Ghorai, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 12, ACS Publications, 2020, pp. 302--309


Effect of confinement on the exciton and biexciton dynamics in perovskite 2D-nanosheets and 3D-nanocrystals


Ayushi Shukla, Gurpreet Kaur, K Justice Babu, Nandan Ghorai, Tanmay Goswami, Arshdeep Kaur, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 11, ACS Publications, 2020, pp. 6344--6352


Impact of one step alloying on the carrier relaxation and charge separation dynamics of CdxZn1-xSe graded nanocrystals


Partha Maity, Nandan Ghorai, Jayanta Dana, Hirendra N Ghosh

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, vol. 388, Elsevier, 2020, p. 112131


Probing ultrafast charge separation in CZTS/CdS heterojunctions through femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy


Arshdeep Kaur, Tanmay Goswami, K Justice Babu, Nandan Ghorai, Gurpreet Kaur, Ayushi Shukla, Sachin R Rondiya, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 124, ACS Publications, 2020, pp. 19476--19483


Proton-coupled electron transfer for photoinduced generation of two-electron reduced species of quinone


Ananta Dey, Nandan Ghorai, Amitava Das, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 124, ACS Publications, 2020, pp. 11165--11174


Temperature-Dependent Trap-Assisted Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Amorphous and Crystalline In 2 Se 3 Thin Films


Palwinder Singh, Gurpreet Kaur, Nandan Ghorai, Tanmay Goswami, Anup Thakur, Hirendra N Ghosh

Physical Review Applied, vol. 14, APS, 2020, p. 014087


Efficient photosensitizing capabilities and ultrafast carrier dynamics of doped carbon dots


Somen Mondal, Anna Yucknovsky, Katherine Akulov, Nandan Ghorai, Tal Schwartz, Hirendra N Ghosh, Nadav Amdursky

Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 141, ACS Publications, 2019, pp. 15413--15422


Polaron-mediated slow carrier cooling in a type-1 3D/0D CsPbBr3@ Cs4PbBr6 core--shell perovskite system


Gurpreet Kaur, K Justice Babu, Nandan Ghorai, Tanmay Goswami, Sourav Maiti, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 10, ACS Publications, 2019, pp. 5302--5311


Ultrafast Plasmon Dynamics and Hole--Phonon Coupling in NIR Active Nonstoichiometric Semiconductor Plasmonic Cu2--x S Nanocrystals


Nandan Ghorai, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 123, ACS Publications, 2019, pp. 28401--28410


Biexciton Dissociation Dynamics in Nanohybrid Au--CuInS2 Nanocrystals


Somen Mondal, Radhamanohar Aepuru, Jayanta Dana, Nandan Ghorai, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 122, ACS Publications, 2018, pp. 28497--28505


Disentangling the Electron and Hole Dynamics in Janus CdSe/PbSe Nanocrystals through Variable Pump Transient Absorption Spectroscopy


Sourav Maiti, Nandan Ghorai, Jayanta Dana, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 122, ACS Publications, 2018, pp. 29075--29079


Exploring the carrier dynamics in zinc oxide--metal halide-based perovskite nanostructures: toward reduced dielectric loss and improved photocurrent


Radhamanohar Aepuru, Somen Mondal, Nandan Ghorai, Viresh Kumar, HS Panda, Hirendra N Ghosh

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 122, ACS Publications, 2018, pp. 27273--27283


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