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Research Interests

• Development of a unique far field technique for sub-diffraction transmission microscopy.
• Ultrafast (picoseconds) and slow (seconds) excited state dynamics in a variety of exotic organic semiconductors.

Publications

• Debansu Chaudhuri, J. W. Galusha, M. J. Walter, N. J. Borys, M. H. Bartl and J. M. Lupton, Towards subdiffraction transmission microscopy of diffuse materials with silver nanoparticle white-light beacons, Nano Letters 9, 952 (2009). (Also highlighted in ScienceShots and J. Chem. Edu.)
• S. C. Hernandez, Debangshu Chaudhuri, W. Chen, N. V. Myung and A. Mulchandani, Single polypyrrole nanowire ammonia sensor, Electroanalysis 19, 2125 (2007).
• Debangshu Chaudhuri and D. D. Sarma, Blue emitting polyaniline, Chemical Communications 2006, 2681.
• Debangshu Chaudhuri, A. Kumar, R. Nimala, D. D. Sarma, M. G. Hernandez, L. S. S. Chandra and V. Ganesan, Transport and magnetic properties of conducting polyaniline doped with BX3 (X = F, Cl and Br), Physical Review B 73, 075205 (2006). 
• Debangshu Chaudhuri, S. Datar, R. Vishwanatha, H. Amenitsch and D. D. Sarma, Self organization of polyaniline nanorods : towards achieving a higher conductivity, Applied Physics Letters 87, 093117 (2005).
• Debangshu Chaudhuri, P. W. Menezes and D. D. Sarma, Remarkable thermal stability of BF3 doped polyaniline, Applied Physics Letters 83, 2348 (2003).
• Debangshu Chaudhuri, A. Kumar, D. D. Sarma, M. G. Hernandez, J. P. Joshi and S. V. Bhat, Magnetic study of an amorphous conducting polyaniline, Applied Physics Letters 82, 1733 (2003).
• Debangshu Chaudhuri, A. Kumar, I. Rudra and D. D. Sarma, Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of highly conducting BF3-doped polyaniline, Advanced Materials 13, 1548 (2001).

Patent

• J. M. Lupton, M. Bartl, Debansu Chaudhuri, J. Galusha, N. Borys and M. J. Walter, Transmission microscopy using light emitted from nanoparticles, U.S. Patent Application 12/501,068, Jul 2009.

Conference  Proceedings

• Debangshu Chaudhuri and D. D. Sarma, BF3 doped polyaniline : a novel conducting polymer, Pramana 67, 135 (2006). 

Presentation

• Debansu Chaudhuri, J. Galusha, M. J. Walter, N. J.Borys, M. Bartl and J. M. Lupton, Towards sub-diffraction transmission microscopy using nanoplasmonic hot spot beacons, 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 03/2009, Salt Lake City (USA)
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Resume

• 2006-2007       Postdoctoral Research Associate, Nanoelectrochemical System Laboratory, University of California -                              Riverside, Riverside, California.
• 2000 - 2006     Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. "Investigation of a Novel Class of                                    Conducting Polyaniline and Related Systems"
• 1997 - 2000     M. S. (Chemistry), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• 1994 - 1997     B. Sc. (Chemistry Honors), Presidency College, University of Calcutta, India.