Tapas Kamilya

A disciplined, motivated and hardworking researcher working in material science. Currently, I am a research professor at the Korea University of Technology and Education, South Korea since March 2022. I have been awarded PhD degree from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India. My research career is enriched with triboelectric nanogenerators; self-powered sensing applications; LED, photodetector and solar cell fabrication and characterization; and gas sensors with multi-functional materials.

• Best Paper Award, presented in the 14th International Symposium on NDT in Aerospace (AeroNDT2023), Busan, South Korea, 2023
• Koreatech Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2022
• IACS research fellow, 2020-2021
• Senior Research Fellowship from UGC, 2018-2020
• Junior Research Fellowship from UGC, 2015-2018
• Project Fellows, IIT Roorkee, 2015
• West Bengal State Eligibility Test (WB-SET), 2013

• Harvesting of electrical energy using Triboelectric nanogenerator, Piezoelectric nanogenerator
• Triboelectric nanogenerator for high voltage applications
• Improvement of output current in triboelectric nanogenerator
• Wearable electronics and wireless communication
• Ultrasensitive self-powered sensor

• From sample to thin film preparation and device fabrication for Triboelectric nanogenerator, self-powered sensor, LED, Photovoltaics, Photo detector.
• Four-probe station with SCS-4200 for electrical and optical characterization of materials
• Laser-induced graphene (LIG) electrode
• Solar simulator
• Operation of digital storage oscilloscopes, various SMUs and electrometers
• Spin coating for thin film preparation
• Thermal evaporation for thin film deposition
• ZEISS Gemini SEM 500
• Elemental analysis from EDAX
• EBSD for microscopic structural analysis
• AFM, KPFM
• FT-IR
• UV-VIS spectrophotometer

• 1. J. Ramu, S. Ramasundaram, S. Yellappa, L. Gunamalai, T. Kamilya, M. Afzal, A. A. Jeffery, T. H. Oh, M. Mahanthappa, V. R. S. “Carbon-supported Nickel/Nickel Oxide Nanohybrid Composite as a High-Performance Sensor for Electrochemical Non-enzymatic Glucose Detection” New Journal of Chemistry (just accepted)
• 2. T. Kamilya, J. Shin, H. Cho, J.H. Park. “Corn starch derived gel for high-performance triboelectric nanogenerator” ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2024, 6, 1006-1014. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.3c02641
• 3. T. Kamilya, D. Han, J. Shin, S. Kwon and J.H. Park. “An ultrasensitive LIG electrode based triboelectric sensor utilizing trapped air as effective dielectric layer” Polymers 2023, 16, 26. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.3c02641
• 4. T. Kamilya, M. Pakhira, P. K. Sarkar, S. Acharya* “Robust Nanogenerators Based on Tribo-Positive Graft Copolymers of Tribo-Negative Poly(vinylidene fluoride)” ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2023, 5, 6521-6530. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c01005
• 5. T. Kamilya and J.H. Park. “Highly Sensitive Self-Powered Biomedical Applications Using Triboelectric Nanogenerator” Micromachines 2022, 13, 2065. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13122065
• 6. P. Mondal, G. Manna, T. Kamilya, M. Das, K. Ariga, G. J. Richards, L. K. Shrestha, J. P. Hill* and S. Acharya* “Mechanical Manipulation of Archimedean Spirals of an Achiral Pyrazinacene for Chiral Assemblies” Advanced materials interfaces 2022, 9, 2200209. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202200209
• 7. S. Paul, S. Sain, T. Kamilya, A. Dalui, P. K. Sarkar and S. Acharya* “Shape Tunable Two−Dimensional Ligand−Free Cesium Antimony Chloride Perovskites” Materials today chemistry, 2021, 23, 100641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtchem.2021.100641
• 8. P. Sarkar, T. J. Konch, T. Kamilya, K. Raidongia, S. Acharya and C. Mukherjee “The range of antiferromagnetic coupling governs the conductivity: semiconducting behavior and ammonia gas sensing property of diamagnetic hexaradicalcontaining tetranuclear CoIII4 cluster and its nonradical congener” Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 15220-15223. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC04061D
• 9. K. D. M. Rao, M. Hossain, Umesh, A. Roy, A. Ghosh, G. S. Kumar, P. Moitra, T. Kamilya, S. Acharya and S. Bhattacharya “Transparent, flexible MAPbI3 perovskite microwire arrays passivated with ultra-hydrophobic supramolecular self-assembly for stable and high-performance photodetectors” Nanoscale 2020, 12, 11986-11996. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NR01394C
• 10. T. Kamilya, P. K. Sarkar, and S. Acharya “Unveiling Peritoneum Membrane for a Robust Triboelectric Nanogenerator” ACS Omega 2019, 4, 17684−17690. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b01963
• 11. P. K. Sarkar, T. Kamilya and S. Acharya* “Introduction of Triboelectric Positive Bioplastic for Powering Portable Electronics and Self-Powered Gait Sensor” ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2019, 2, 8, 5507–5514. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b00677
• 12. G. S. Kumar ,B. Pradhan ,T. Kamilya , and S. Acharya * “Enhancing Performances of Hybrid Perovskite Light Emitting Diodes with Thickness Controlled PMMA Interlayer” Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 2018, 91, 1241-1248. https://doi.org/10.1246/bcsj.20180102
• 13. T. Kamilya, S. Biswas, P. K. Sarkar, S. Acharya “Free-standing Covalent Organic Framework based Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting and Bio-Medical Applications” (Manuscript under communication).

• Prof. Somobrata Acharya, Professor, School of Applied & Interdisciplinary Sciences, Indian Association For The Cultivation Of Science, 2A & 2B, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata, INDIA, 700032, camsa2@iacs.res.in
• Prof. J.H. Park, Professor, School of Mechatronics Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan-si, South Korea, jhpark98@koreatech.ac.kr

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Dr. Tapas Kamilya