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Applications of nanomaterials in the different fields of photosciences

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Current developments in nanostructured materials and nanotechnology will have profound impact in many areas such as energy technologies and biomedical applications. These include solar cells, energy storage, environmental control, tissue engineering, bioprobe, biomarking, cancer diagnosis, cancer therapy, and drug delivery. Our recent work covers a wide range of nanomaterials research for a variety of applications including to produce organic-inorganic nanocomposites which will be used in for constructing light emitting diodes, photovoltaic cells, future organic solar cells etc, biomedicine and photocatalytic. In this article the chief scientific and technical aspects of nanotechnology are introduced and some of its potential applications have been discussed.

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Dr G Mandal was PhD student of Professor T Ganguly and is now involved in collaborative researches with Professor Ganguly as well as teaching as an Associate Professor of Physics of Gobardanga Hindu College, West Bengal. Her research focuses on the synthesis and photochemical properties of various noble metal nanoparticles, core/shell nanocomposites and quantum dot-bionanoconjugate systems.

Professor Dr T Ganguly is at present senior Professor of the department of Spectroscopy of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. His current research interests are the development of solar/light energy conversion and organic-inorganic semiconductor nanocomposite devices, artificial photosynthesis, excitational energy transfer, photoinduced electron transfer processes, nano-, pico- and femtosecond laser dynamics. He is the life member of many learned societies. He is the recipient of many international and national awards. He is involved in many international collaborative researches with various foreign Universities and Institutes.

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Mandal, G., Ganguly, T. Applications of nanomaterials in the different fields of photosciences. Indian J Phys 85, 1229–1245 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-011-0149-9

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