Arghya Narayan Banerjee

About

Arghya Narayan Banerjee is currently a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University (YU), South Korea. He was one of the five WCU Faculty members at YU. After finishing his Ph.D. (2005) at Jadavpur University, India, he joined the University of Nevada and the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, before moving to YU.

Arghya is the recipient of the National Scholarship, Govt. of India, and winner of the CSIR fellowship – an all-India-based Young Scientist hunt. He is the recipient of Research Excellence President Award, 2025 of YU for included in the Standford-Elsevier top 2% scientist list for 5 consecutive years (2021-2025). He is also the recipient of the Prof. Joseph Wang Young Scientist Award 201,5 conferred by the publishing division of Cognizure. He is a member of the Electrochemical Society, Indian Physical Society, Materials Research Society, andthe Electron Microscopy Society of India. ​Arghya is the Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine (ISSN: 2455-3492), and Science Dialectica (ISSN: 3048-5754). He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Research and Development (ISSN: 2279-0438), Associate Editor of the ScienceJet Journal (​ISSN 2278 - 3393), Global Journal of Nanomedicine (​Juniper Publishers), International Journal of Information Communication Technology and Digital Convergence (IJICTDC, ISSN 2508-2620-Online) and Lead Guest Editor of the journal Reviews in Advanced Sciences and Engineering (American Scientific Publisher). He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of several international conferences organized by the International Junction for Business Review and Modern Manufacturing.

Arghya’s research interests include Nanostructured Thin Films, Wide Bandgap Metal Oxides, Transparent Nano-Electronics, Carbon-Based High Surface Area Materials (Graphene, CNT, Micro/Mesoporous Carbon, Graphitic Carbon, etc.) for Hydrogen Storage, Field Emission Devices for Vacuum Microelectronics, Transparent Thin-Film Junctions for UV-Based Solar Cells, Layered Materials for Thermoelectric Converters, Polymer/Metal-Oxide Nanocomposites for Super-Capacitors, Catalytic/Photocatalytic Degradation of Water-Soluble Toxic Wastes for Environmental Remediation, Micro/Nanofluidics, among others.

Currently, Arghya has 3 books, 10 book chapters/invited review articles, 150 peer-reviewed articles, and several conference proceedings to his credit, with nearly 6065 citations and a Google-Scholar-based H-index of 43 and i10-index of 90 (as of July 2026).

Employment

Employment history is unavailable.

Education

• University of Colorado Boulder Research Associate
  2008 - 2010
• University of Nevada Las Vegas Post Doctoral
  2005 - 2008
• Jadavpur University Ph.D.
  2000 - 2005
• University of Calcutta Masters (M.Sc.) in Pure Physics (Major), Electronics and Communications (Minor)
  1997 - 1999
• St. Xavier's University Kolkata Bachelors (B.Sc.) in Physics
  1994 - 1997
• St. Xavier's College Higher Secondary (10 +2)
  1992 - 1994
• Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur Madhyamik (10)
  1986 - 1992

Projects & Funding

• Next-Generation Flexible Supercapacitors for Wearable energy Systems National Research Foundation of Korea
  2026 - 2031
• Autonomous Automobile Parts Material Blue Technology National Research Foundation of Korea
  2021 - 2026
• Self-Organized Nano- and Micro-Patterning of Bio-Compatible Materials: A Fundamental Study with Applications to High-Throughput Bio-Chips National Research Foundation of Korea

Publications

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