Amit Mondal

About

Research Interest:

 Stimuli-responsive (light/ heat etc.), self-healing, and mechanically flexible [plastically bendable/ elastically flexible/ twistable/ 3D plastic (ductile or malleable like metals)] crystalline smart materials for different applications like optical wave-guide, semiconducting, mechanical energy harvesting (piezoelectricity), non-volatile memory (ferroelectricity), pyroelectricity, triboelectricity, flexoelectricity, thermoelectricity, etc.

 Phase transition materials [plastic crystals or orientationally disordered crystals (both organic, inorganic, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, perovskites)]; characterization of their different peculiar properties like reversible phase transition and associated enthalpy/ entropy changes, different kinds of reorientational and translational degrees of freedom, metal-like mechanical properties (3D plasticity/ ductility/ malleability), etc. and their numerous applications like solid-state electrolytes, thermal energy storage & conversion, barocalorics (solid-state coolants), non-linear optics (SHG switching), molecular magnets, multiaxial ferroelectricity, pyroelectricity, piezoelectric energy harvesting, self-powered sensing technology, etc.

 Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage materials (organic photoswitching materials).

 Crystal engineering, mechanical properties (hardness, elastic modulus, toughness, stress-strain etc.), nanoindentation and different types of imaging techniques like SPM, SEM, AFM, PFM, KPFM etc.

Employment

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher
  2025 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Postdoctoral Researcher
  2024 - 2025

Education

• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata PhD
  2017 - 2023
• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata Master of Sciences
  2015 - 2018

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (20)

• Isomeric Ag 14 Nanoclusters With Distinct Photophysical and Nanomechanical Properties
  Advanced Science 2026 DOI: 10.1002/advs.76657
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• Fast self-healing in a layered molecular crystal mediated by stress-induced symmetry breaking
  Nature Communications 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68987-z
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• Intricate Low Hysteretic Phase Transitions of an Organic Plastic Crystal: Temperature Reliant Mechanical Properties
  Advanced Functional Materials 2026 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.77819
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• Structure-Nanomechanical Property Correlation in Photosalient Isostructural Metal–Organic Crystals
  Inorganic Chemistry 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c00943
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• Plasticization of a stiff pharmaceutical solid for better tabletability via cocrystallization: Shape synthons as supramolecular protecting groups
  Chemical Engineering Research and Design 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2024.08.042
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• Mechanically flexible piezoelectric organic single crystals for electrical energy harvesting
  Chem 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2024.01.019
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• Water-chain mediated proton conductivity in mechanically flexible redox-active organic single crystals
  Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2024 DOI: 10.1039/d3ta05797f
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• Dehydration-Driven Nanomechanical Responses of the Antiviral Drug EIDD-1931
  Crystal Growth & Design 2023 DOI: 10.1021/ACS.CGD.2C01445
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• Plastically Bendable Organic Crystals for Monolithic and Hybrid Micro-Optical Circuits
  Advanced Optical Materials 2023 DOI: 10.1002/ADOM.202201518
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• Temperature-Reliant Dynamic Properties and Elasto-Plastic to Plastic Crystal (Rotator) Phase Transition in a Metal Oxyacid Salt
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2022 DOI: 10.1002/ANIE.202115359
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