Dibakar Datta

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Computational Nanomechanics and Materials Science Group

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think" - Albert Einstein

Dr. Dibakar Datta is currently a tenure-track assistant professor (Sept. 2016 - present) 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. (Sept. 2010 - Jan. 2015) at Brown University under the direction of Prof. Vivek B Shenoy.  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.  He came to the United States after completing his studies in India   ( IIEST - Shibpur,  IISc - Bangalore), Spain (BarcelonaTech-Barcelona), and France (Ecole Centrale-Nantes, EDF -Paris). He is interested in Interdisciplinary Research integrating ideas from different disciplines, but keeping the epicenter at Mechanics and Materials Science.

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 *** Funding News ***

 * 07/24/2019 - Our collaborative/GOALI proposal with UT Austin and industry partner Graphenix Developement Inc. has been funded by the National Science Foudnation (NSF) CMMI Advanced Manufacturing Program. Project Title : GOALI/Collaborative Research: Roll-to-Roll Atomic Layer Deposition of Selenium-based Battery Cathodes.                                                                                            NJIT (Computational) part : $ 196,626 & UT Austin (experimental) part : $ 295,692                                                                              

 Latest Media Coverage

• TechXplore & NJIT News  : Researchers publish discoveries in battery technology
  
• Firstpost - Tech2 : Researchers create lithium-ion batteries with lower levels of toxicity from cobalt
• Technology.org : Designing Lithium Ion Batteries with less cobalt content
  

 Latest three publications [ Click Here for More ]

•  K. Ghatak, S. Basu, T. Das, V. Sharma, H. Kumar, D. Datta, Effect of Cobalt Content on the Electrochemical  Properties and Structural Stability of NCA Type Cathode Materials, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018

• V. Sharma, K. Ghatak, D. Datta, Amorphous Germanium as a Promising Anode Material for Sodium Ion Batteries: A First Principle Study,  Journal of Materials Science, 2018

• S. Basu, S. Shravan, K. Ghatak, S. Bartolucci, T. Gupta, P. Hundekar, R. Kumar, T-M. Lu, D. Datta, Y. Shi, N. Koratkar, Utilizing van der Waals slippery interfaces to enhance the electrochemical stability of Silicon film anodes in Lithium-ion batteries, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018

 *** News Highlight *** [ Click Here for More News ]

 * 06/14/2019 - Our renewal proposal for the XSEDE research allocation is approved. The estimated value of these awarded resources is $19,650. We previously recieved $56,195 award value. 

 * 02/25/2019 - Ph.D. student Ms. Vidushi Sharma won the First Prize in Oral Presentation in International Conference on Functional Nanomaterials, IIT, Varanasi, India .

* 12/04/2018 - Dr. Datta has been invited to review funding proposals for the Chilean National Science and Technology Commission  (Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica).