Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

Anirban Mondal

Department : Chemistry

Research Interests

● Charge transport in organic semiconductors, excited states, and optoelectronics
● Machine learning techniques to explore the chemical space of organic semiconductors
● Design of efficient host/guest systems for blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
● Donor-acceptor materials for organic solar cells
● Machine learning potentials for atomistic modeling of materials
● Proton/ion transport in solid electrolytes

Professional Summary

Assistant Professor: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Aug 2021 – present)
Postdoctoral Associate: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Jan 2021 – Aug 2021)
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Princeton University, Princeton, USA (Jan 2019 – Dec 2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany (Oct 2016 – Dec 2018)

Publications

1. A Window to Trap-free Charge Transport in Organic Semiconducting Thin Films. N. B. Kotadiya, Anirban Mondal, D. Andrienko, P. W. M. Blom, and G. A. H. Wetzelaer; Nature Materials, 2019, 18, 1182-1186.
2. Genetic Algorithm Driven Force Field Parameterization for Molten Alkali-Metal Carbonate and Hydroxide Salts. Anirban Mondal, J. M. Young, T. Barckholtz, G. Kiss, L. Koziol, and A. Z. Panagiotopoulos; Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2020, 16, 5736-5746.
3. First-Principles Modeling of Transport Mechanisms in Carbonate-Hydroxide Electrolytes. Anirban Mondal, J. M. Young, G. Kiss, and A. Z. Panagiotopoulos; Journal of Physical Chemistry Chemistry C, 2021, 125, 4412-4422.
4. Predicting Chemical Reaction Equilibria in Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells via Molecular Simulations. J. M. Young, Anirban Mondal, T. Barckholtz, G. Kiss, L. Koziol, and A. Z. Panagiotopoulos; AIChE Journal, 2020, 67, e16988.
5. Unicolored Phosphor-Sensitized Fluorescence for Efficient and Stable Blue OLEDs. P. Heimel, Anirban Mondal, F. May, W. Kowalsky, C. Lennartz, D. Andrienko, and R. Lovrincic; Nature Communication, 2018, 9, 4990.
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