Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti PhD

Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti

School of Chemistry
Associate Professor in Soft Matter
Royal Society Short Industry Fellow

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+44 (0) 121 414 7470
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+44 (0) 121 414 4403
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d.chakrabarti@bham.ac.uk
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School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
B15 2TT

Dwaipayan Chakrabarti is an academic in the School of Chemistry.


The overarching theme of his research is optimal design of soft matter to inform fabrication of functional materials as well as formulation of consumer products. The study of soft matter is central to this research theme. His current research is focused on designing programmed self-assembly of a range of building blocks, from molecular to microscale, to realise a variety of soft functional materials. His research interests span designing novel photonic, phononic, opto-electronic and viscoelastic materials.

To this end his research group develops, adapts, and applies computational methods, largely underpinned by the theory of statistical mechanics, to study systems of interest in close connection with contemporary experimental research.

For further details, please visit the group website.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Chemical Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2006
  • MSc in Chemistry, University of Calcutta, 2001
  • BSc (Hons) in Chemistry, University of Calcutta, 1999

Biography

Dwaipayan Chakrabarti obtained a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2006 in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. He then moved to the University of Cambridge with a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship (2006-08) hosted by Professor David J. Wales in the Department of Chemistry. He there, subsequently, held an Ernest Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship (2008-11), awarded by the University of Cambridge in the broadly interpreted field of Colloid Science. He also held a Research Fellowship (2009-11) at Clare Hall, a graduate college in Cambridge, where he is now a Life Member.

Following a brief stint in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi as an Assistant Professor (2011-12), he returned to Cambridge.  He was appointed at the University of Birmingham as a Birmingham Fellow in 2013. He now holds the position of Lecturer in Soft Matter.

He is currently serving as secretary of the Colloids and Interface Science Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry as well as the Joint Colloids Group and on the Steering Committee of the British Liquid Crystal Society. He is also involved in the EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training in Topological Design."

Teaching

  • Soft Matter 
    Year 4 
  • Statistical Mechanics 
    Year 4 

Research

The Chakrabarti group’s current research is focused on designing programmed self-assembly of a range of building blocks, from molecular to microscale, into functional materials. Designing novel photonic, phononic, opto-electronic, and viscoelastic materials is of particular interest.

To this end, the Chakrabarti group’s research develops, adapts, and applies computational methods, largely underpinned by the theory of statistical mechanics, to study systems of interest in close connection with contemporary experimental research.

Publications

A. Neophytou, V. N. Manoharan and D. Chakrabarti, ACS Nano 15, 2668 (2021).   Self-Assembly of Patchy Colloidal Rods into Photonic Crystals Robust to Stacking Faults 

A. B. Rao, J. Shaw, A. Neophytou, D. Morphew, F. Sciortino, R. L. Johnston and D. Chakrabarti, ACS Nano 14, 5348 (2020).
Leveraging Hierarchical Self-Assembly Pathways for Realizing Colloidal Photonic Crystals

Z. Ou, B. Luo, A. Neophytou, D. Chakrabarti and Q. Chen, Frontiers of Nanoscience 13, 61 (2019).
Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Janus and Triblock Patchy Particles

D. Morphew and D. Chakrabarti, Nanoscale 10, 13875 (2018).
Programming hierarchical self-assembly of colloids: matching stability and accessibility

D. Morphew, J. Shaw, C. Avins and D. Chakrabarti, ACS Nano 12, 2355 (2018).
Programming Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Patchy Particles into Colloidal Crystals via Colloidal Molecules

D. Morphew and D. Chakrabarti, Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 30, 70 (2017).
Clusters of Anisotropic Colloidal Particles: from Colloidal Molecules to Supracolloidal Structures

D. Morphew and D. Chakrabarti, Soft Matter 12, 9633 (2016).
Supracolloidal reconfigurable polyhedra via hierarchical self-assembly

D. Morphew and D. Chakrabarti, Nanoscale 7, 8343 (2015).
Hierarchical self-assembly of colloidal magnetic particles into reconfigurable spherical structures

S. N. Fejer, D. Chakrabarti, H. Kusumaatmaja, and D. J. Wales, Nanoscale 6, 9448 (2014).
Design principles for Bernal spirals and helices with tunable pitch

J. W. R. Morgan, D. Chakrabarti, N. Dorsaz, and D. J. Wales, ACS Nano 7, 1246 (2013). 
Designing a Bernal spiral from patchy colloids

D. Chakrabarti, S. N. Fejer, and D. J. Wales, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 20164 (2009). 
Rational design of helical architectures 

D. Chakrabarti and D. J. Wales, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 1970 (2009). 
Simulations of rigid bodies in an angle-axis framework

D. Chakrabarti and D. J. Wales, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 127801 (2008). 
Tilted and helical columnar phases for an axially symmetric discoidal system

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