Dr. Jyotirmoy Ghosh
- Mar 2026 - Present: Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, IIT (BHU) Varanasi - Dec 2020 - Dec 2025: Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Supervisor: Prof. R. Graham Cooks - Jun 2020 - Dec 2020: Research Associate
Indian Institute of Technology Madras - Dec 2019 - Jun 2020: Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- July 2015 - Dec 2019: Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Supervisor: Prof. T. Pradeep - July 2013 - July 2015: M.Sc. in Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Madras - July 2010 - May 2013: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons.)
Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta
J. Ghosh, N. M. Morato, W. LeFever, and R. G. Cooks, Accelerated and Green Synthesis of N,S- and N,O-Heterocycles in Microdroplets, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2026, 148, 2920-2929. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c12522
J. Ghosh, and R. G. Cooks, Accelerated Click Reactions using Boronic Acids for Heterocyclic Synthesis in Microdroplets, Chemical Science 2025, 16, 8800-8806. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SC00851D
J. Ghosh, N. M. Morato, Y. Feng, and R. G. Cooks, High-Throughput Drug Derivatization and Bioassay by Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, ChemPlusChem 2025, 90, e202500164. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202500164
J. Ghosh, G. Vishwakarma, R. Kumar, and T. Pradeep, Formation and Transformation of Clathrate Hydrates under Interstellar Conditions, Accounts of Chemical Research 2023, 56, 2241-2252. Journal Cover DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00317
J. Ghosh, J. Mendoza, and R. G. Cooks, Accelerated and Concerted Aza-Michael Addition and SuFEx Reaction in Microdroplets in Unitary and High-Throughput Formats, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2022, 61, e202214090. (Selected as a Hot Paper) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202214090
J. Ghosh, R. R. J. Methikkalam, R. G. Bhuin, G. Ragupathy, N. Choudhary, R. Kumar, and T. Pradeep, Clathrate Hydrates in Interstellar Environment, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 2019, 116, 1526-1531. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1814293116
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J. Ghosh, and R. G. Cooks, Mass Spectrometry in Materials Synthesis, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023, 161, 117010. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2023.117010
J. Ghosh, and R. G. Cooks, Facile Synthesis of Triazoles using Electrospray-Deposited Copper Nanomaterials to Catalyze Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition (AAC) Click Reactions, ChemPlusChem 2022, 87, 10, e202200252. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202200252
J. Ghosh, R. G. Bhuin, G. Vishwakarma, and T. Pradeep, Formation of Cubic Ice via Clathrate Hydrate, Prepared in Ultrahigh Vacuum at Cryogenic Conditions, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2020, 11, 26-32. (Featured as ACS LiveSlides) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03063
J. Ghosh, R. R. J. Methikkalam, R. G. Bhuin, G. Ragupathy, N. Choudhary, R. Kumar, and T. Pradeep, Reply to Choukroun et al.: IR and TPD Data Suggest the Formation of Clathrate Hydrates in Laboratory Experiments Simulating ISM, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 2019, 116, 14409-14410. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.190589411
J. Ghosh, G. Vishwakarma, S. Das, and T. Pradeep, Facile Crystallization of Ice Ih via Formaldehyde Hydrate in Ultrahigh Vacuum under Cryogenic Conditions, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2021, 125, 4532-4539. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c10367
J. Ghosh, R. G. Bhuin, G. Ragupathy, and T. Pradeep, Spontaneous Formation of Tetrahydrofuran Hydrate in Ultrahigh Vacuum, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123, 16300-16307. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b04370
J. Ghosh, A. K. Hariharan, R. G. Bhuin, R. R. J. Methikkalam, and T. Pradeep, Propane and Propane-Water Interactions: A Study at Cryogenic Temperatures, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2018, 20, 1838-1847. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CP06467E
K-H. Huang,† J. Ghosh,† S. Xu, and R. G. Cooks, Late-Stage Functionalization and Characterization of Drugs by High-Throughput Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, ChemPlusChem 2021, 87, 1, e202100449. †Equal contribution DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202100449
R. R. J. Methikkalam,† J. Ghosh,† R. G. Bhuin, S. Bag, G. Ragupathy, and T. Pradeep, Iron Assisted Formation of CO2 over Condensed CO and Its Relevance to Interstellar Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2020, 22, 8491-8498. (Selected as a 2020 PCCP HOT Article) †Equal contribution DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CP06983F
G. Vishwakarma, B. K. Malla, S. Chowdhury, J. Ghosh, R. R. J. Methikkalam, R. Kumar, and T. Pradeep, Ultraviolet photolysis of CO2 clathrate hydrate and H2O-CO2 mixed ice under ultrahigh vacuum, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2025, 27, 11025-11035. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CP00620A
G. Vishwakarma, B. K. Malla, K. S. S. V. P. Reddy, J. Ghosh, S. Chowdhury, S. R. K. C. Y. Sharma, S. K. Reddy, R. Kumar, and T. Pradeep, Induced Migration of CO2 from Hydrate Cages to Amorphous Solid Water under Ultrahigh Vacuum and Cryogenic Conditions, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2023, 14, 2823-2829. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00373
G. Vishwakarma, J. Ghosh, and T. Pradeep, Desorption-induced evolution of cubic and hexagonal ices in an ultrahigh vacuum and cryogenic temperatures, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2021, 23, 24052-24060. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP03872A
S. Bag, A. Baksi, S. H. Nandam, D. Wang, X.Ye, J. Ghosh, T. Pradeep, and H. Hahn, Nonenzymatic Glucose Sensing using Ni60Nb40 Nanoglass, ACS Nano 2020, 14, 5543-5552. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b09778
D. Ghosh, M. Bodiuzzaman, A. Som, S. Raja, A. Baksi, A. Ghosh, J. Ghosh, A. Ganesh, P. Samji, S. Mahalingam, D. Karunagaran, and T. Pradeep, Internalization of a Preformed Atomically Precise Silver Cluster in Proteins and Emergence of Luminescent Counterparts Retaining Bioactivity, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123, 29408-29417. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b07765
A. Nag, A. Baksi, J. Ghosh, V. Kumar, S. Bag, B. Mondal, T. Ahuja, and T. Pradeep, Tribochemical Degradation of Polytetrafluoroethylene in Water Assisted by Carbohydrates and Generation of Nanoplastics, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2019, 7, 17554-17558. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b03573
A. Jana, S. K. Jana, D. Sarkar, T. Ahuja, P. Basuri, B. Mondal, S. Bose, J. Ghosh, and T. Pradeep, Electrospray Deposition-Induced Ambient Phase Transition in Copper Sulphide Nanostructures, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2019, 7, 6387-6394. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TA00003H
E. Khatun, A. Ghosh, P. Chakraborty, P. Singh, Md. Bodiuzzaman, G. Paramasivam, G. Nataranjan, J. Ghosh, S. K. Pal, and T. Pradeep, A Thirty-Fold Photoluminescence Enhancement Induced by Secondary Ligands in Monolayer Protected Silver Clusters, Nanoscale 2018, 10, 20033-20042. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NR05989F
B. Mondal, A. Mahendranath, A. Som, S. Bose, T. Ahuja, A. A. Kumar, J. Ghosh, and T. Pradeep, Rapid Reaction of MoS2 Nanosheets with Pb2+ and Pb4+ Ions in Solution, Nanoscale 2018, 10, 1807-1814. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NR07523E
R. R. J. Methikkalam, R. G. Bhuin, J. Ghosh, B. Sivaraman, and T. Pradeep, Interaction of Acetonitrile with Alcohols at Cryogenic Temperatures, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2017, 121, 2822-2835. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11483
V. Jeseentharani, N. Pugazhenthiran, A. Mathew, I. Chakraborty, A. Baksi, J. Ghosh, M. Jash, G.S. Anjusree, T. G. Deepak, A. Sreekumaran Nair, and T. Pradeep, Atomically Precise Noble Metal Clusters Harvest Visible Light to Produce Energy, Chemistry Select 2017, 2, 1454-1463. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201601730
A Process for Low Temperature, Low Pressure Synthesis of Clathrate Hydrates, T. Pradeep, J. Ghosh, R. R. J. Methikkalam, R. G. Bhuin, G. Ragupathy, N. Choudhary, and R. Kumar, Patent No. 356814, filed on December 29, 2018. (Patent granted)
Tribochemical Method for Degradation of Polymers in Water, T. Pradeep, A. Nag, A. Baksi, J. Ghosh, V. Kumar, S. Bag, B. Mondal, and T. Ahuja, Patent No. 378255, filed on September, 2019. (Patent granted)
Removal of Lead from wastewater using Nanoscale MoS2, T. Pradeep, B. Mondal, A. Mahendranath, A. Som, S. Bose, T. Ahuja, A. A. Kumar, and J. Ghosh, IDF 1584, 201741044447 filed on December 11, 2017. Filed as PCT/IN2018/50814, December 05, 2018. (US Patent granted)
Synthesis of Protein Protected Luminescent Metal Clusters and Retaining the Bioactivity of the Protein, T. Pradeep, D. Ghosh, Md. Bodiuzzaman, A. Som, A. Baksi, A. Ghosh, and J. Ghosh, Patent No. 495343, filed on December 31, 2018. (Patent granted)
Removal of Lead from wastewater using Nanoscale MoS2, T. Pradeep, B. Mondal, A. Mahendranath, A. Som, S. Bose, T. Ahuja, A. A. Kumar, and J. Ghosh, Patent No. 365164 filed on December 11, 2017. (Patent granted)