Dibakar Datta

Computational Electro-Chemo-Mechanics

Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA.

———- Selected Media Coverage ———-

Firstpost – Tech2 : Researchers create lithium-ion batteries with lower levels of toxicity from cobalt

TechXplore & NJIT News  : Researchers publish discoveries in battery technology

Technology.org : Designing Lithium Ion Batteries with less cobalt content 

——— Selected Latest News ———-

– October : Dr. Datta has been selected for NSF CMMI’s Game Changer Academies (CGCA) program 2023.

– August : Ph.D. candidate Mr. Jatin Kashyap defended his thesis.

– June : Dr. Datta reviewed Department of Energy (DOE)  $16 million EFRC (Energy Frontier Research Center) proposals.

– Dr. Datta is among the “ASME JEECS Emerging Investigators in Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage 2022“.

– Dr. Datta is among the “IAAM Young Scientist Medalists” in Computational Materials Science.

– Dr. Datta is the Vice Chair of IEEE Nanotechnology Council Chapter (NTC), North Jersey Section.

– January : Dr. Datta has been invited to served on National Science Foundation (NSF) CMMI MOMS panel.

– May : Undergrad student Mr. Adrian Cespedes won prestigious “McNair Summer Research Institute Program“.

———- Selected Recent Publications ———-

** A. S. Lakhnot et al., Intercalation Hosts for Multivalent-Ion Batteries, Wiley Small Structures

** Invited Article : V. Sharma, D. Datta, Developing Potential Energy Surfaces for Graphene-Based 2D–3D Interfaces From Modified High-Dimensional Neural Networks for Applications in Energy Storage, ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, 19(4):041006, 2022

Part of ASME Special Issue : Emerging Investigators in Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage 2022

** Invited Article : J. Kashyap, D. Datta, Drug repurposing for SARS-CoV-2: a high-throughput molecular docking, molecular dynamics, machine learning, and DFT study, Journal of Materials Science, 57, 10780-10802, 2022

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Dr. Dibakar Datta is currently a faculty at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, USA. He finished his Ph.D. at Brown University.  His major is Mechanics of Solids & Structures and minors are Physics & Chemistry. While at Brown, he was also a visiting researcher at The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM), The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He got an opportunity for his postdoctoral training (Mar. 2015-Aug. 2016) in Mechanics and Computation at Stanford University. 

Email : dibakar.datta @ njit.edu