Dr. Atikur Dr. Atikur Rahman

Position: Postdoctoral researcher

Previous Position: Research Associate with Prof. Prakash P. Neelakandan. Energy and Environment Unit (EEU), Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali (Punjab), India

Research: "Modulating Photophysical Properties of Engineered Photoactive Bio-Hybrids for Visible/NIR Light-driven Photocatalysis"

Research with us: Bio-engineered nanophotonics

ORCID: 0009-0004-6124-5965

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Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=6zCgVVwAAAAJ

Group webpage: Bio-engineered nanophotonics

Joining Date: August 2024

User Name: atikur.rahman

Telephone: 912998883

Dr. Atikur Rahman has received training in both material and organic chemistry. In his doctoral studies from 2017 to 2022 at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology in India, he used organoboron compounds to tune plasmon-molecule interaction in order to explore the underlying mechanism of dye-loaded gold nanoparticles' exceptional photophysical properties. He also worked as a Research Associate from 2022 to 2023 at the same institute for developing stimuli-responsive plasmon-molecule coupled systems for therapeutic applications.

Since 2024, he has been working at IMDEA Nanociencia as MSCA-IDEAL postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Sara Hernández Mejías in the field of Artificial Photoenzymes for Photocatalysis. It is anticipated that this initiative will provide a platform for the development of synthetic drug precursors with a variety of uses in biomedicine, photobiology, and photocatalysis.

Research Lines

Dr. Atikur Rahman is working with Generating Artificial Photoenzymes for Photocatalysis. This project allows me to work on synthesizing and characterizing photoredox biocatalysts for asymmetric photocatalysis.

His current research is focused on generating new biohybrids by embedding photoredox dyes in protein pockets. Various spectroscopic tools are needed to valid the different photo-chemical properties of such biohybrids. In this context, IMDEA Nanociencia has cutting-edge research facilities and that he will imply for his project. He is confident that working on this project will expand the scope of his future studies and strengthen his ability as an independent researcher.

More info on IDEAL Fellowhisp Program https://idealcofund-project.eu/postdoc/

The IDEAL Fellowships Program is supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND. Grant agreement ID: 101034431.

Relevant publications

Hemant, A Rahman, P Sharma, A Shanavas, PP Neelakandan*, "BODIPY Directed One-Dimensional Self-assembly of Gold Nanorods," Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 12127-12133, DOI: 10.1039/D4NR02161D.
Hemant, A Rahman, PP Neelakandan*, "Photocatalytic Degradation of Water Pollutants and Pesticides Using Plasmon-Molecule Coupled Gold-BODIPY Nanoparticles," ChemNanoMat, 2023, 9, e202300236, DOI: 10.1002/cnma.202300236.
A Rahman, T Goswami, N Tyagi, HN Ghosh*, PP Neelakandan*, "Hot Electron Migration from Gold Nanoparticle to an Organic Molecule Enhances Luminescence and Photosensitization Properties of a pH Activatable Plasmon-Molecule Coupled Nanocomposite", J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chemistry, 2022, 432, 114067 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114067.
A Rahman,† PPP Kumar,† P Yadav,† T Goswami,† A Shanavas,* HN Ghosh,* and PP Neelakandan*, "Gold-BODIPY Nanoparticles with Luminescence and Photosensitization Properties for Photodynamic Therapy and Cell Imaging", ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2022, 5, 6532-6542, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.2c00616.
PPP Kumar,† A Rahman,† T Goswami, HN Ghosh*, PP Neelakandan*, "Fine‐Tuning Plasmon‐Molecule Interactions in Gold‐BODIPY Nanocomposites: The Role of Chemical Structure and Noncovalent Interactions", ChemPlusChem, 2021, 86, 87-94 (Cover Picture, DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202000714), DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202000545.