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{{Short description|Indian chemist}}
{{About|the scientist|other people with a similar name|Rahul Banerjee (disambiguation){{!}}Rahul Banerjee}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Rahul Banerjee
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1978|3|22}}

| birth_place = [[West Bengal]], India
| fields = {{ublist | [[Organic chemistry]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[National Chemical Laboratory]] | [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Rajabazar Science College]] | [[University of Calcutta]] | [[University of Hyderabad]]}}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist|[[Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju]] | [[Omar M. Yaghi]]}}
| known_for = [[Covalent Organic framework]]
| awards = {{ublist| 2011 [[National Academy of Sciences, India|NASI]]-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award| 2011 [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]] Young Scientist Award| 2014 [[National Academy of Sciences, India|NASI]]-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award| 2015 [[Thomson Reuters]] Research Excellence-India Citation Award| 2018 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] }}
}}

'''Rahul Banerjee''' (Bengali:রাহুল ব্যানার্জি, born 1978) is a Bengali Indian [[Organic chemistry|organic chemis]]t and a [[professor]] at the department of chemical sciences of the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata]]. Banerjee, a [[fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry]], was known for his studies in the field of [[Metal–organic framework]] designing. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to chemical sciences in 2018.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=535 |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=11 November 2017}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}} Currently he is one of the associate editor of international peer-review journal [[Journal of the American Chemical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Editorial Board|url=https://pubs.acs.org/page/jacsat/editors.html|access-date=2021-05-10|website=pubs.acs.org|language=en}}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:Calcutta university in salt lake campas.jpg|thumb|left|Calcutta university - Salt Lake campus]]
Rahul Banerjee, born on 22 March 1978<ref name="Associateship - Indian Academy of Sciences">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/associate/Banerjee,_Dr_Rahul |title=Associateship - Indian Academy of Sciences |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.ias.ac.in |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]], graduated in chemistry with honors from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1998 and continued at the institution to earn a master's degree from the prestigious [[Rajabazar Science College]] campus in 2000.<ref name="Dr. Rahul Banerjee - PMATLAB 2">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pmatlab.com/members/rahul-banerjee |title=Dr. Rahul Banerjee - PMATLAB 2 |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.pmatlab.com |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> His doctoral studies were at the [[University of Hyderabad]] under the guidance of [[TWAS Prize|TWAS laureate]], [[Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju]],<ref name="Chemistry Tree - Rahul Banerjee">{{Cite web |url=https://academictree.org/chemistry/tree.php?pid=764006 |title=Chemistry Tree - Rahul Banerjee |date=2018-12-23 |website=academictree.org |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> and he received his PhD in [[crystal engineering]] and [[supramolecular chemistry]] in the year 2006. Subsequently, he moved to the US to do his post-doctoral work at the laboratory of [[Omar M. Yaghi]] at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] and on his return to India in 2008, he joined the [[National Chemical Laboratory]], Pune (NCL)<ref name="CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Faculty">{{Cite web |url=http://academic.ncl.res.in/r.banerjee |title=CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Faculty |date=2018-12-23 |website=academic.ncl.res.in |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> as a scientist at grade C.<ref name="Profile on IISER Kolkata">{{Cite web |url=http://www3.iiserkol.ac.in/people/faculty/dcs/r-banerjee |title=Profile on IISER Kolkata |date=2018-12-23 |website=IISER Pune |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> At the time his next move to the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata]] (IISER) in 2017, he was an E-1 grade scientist at NCL. At IISER, he holds the position of an associate professor<ref name="Dr. Rahul Banerjee - PMATLAB">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pmatlab.com/members-1/rahul-banerjee |title=Dr. Rahul Banerjee - PMATLAB |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.pmatlab.com |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> and heads the ''Porous Materials Laboratory'' (PMATLAB) where he hosts a number of researchers.<ref name="Members - PMATLAB">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pmatlab.com/members |title=Members - PMATLAB |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.pmatlab.com |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref>

== Research and contributions ==
Banerjee focuses his research on designing [[Metal–organic framework]]s for improved gas uptake property and is known to have contributed to the field of [[structural chemistry]] with regard to applications in hydrogen storage and [[Carbon capture and storage|carbon capture]].<ref name="Congratulations to Rahul Banerjee for winning the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize! – CrystEngComm Blog">{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.rsc.org/ce/2018/10/23/congratulations-to-rahul-banerjee-for-winning-the-shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-prize/ |title=Congratulations to Rahul Banerjee for winning the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize! – CrystEngComm Blog |date=23 October 2018 |website=Royal Society of Chemistry |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> He has also worked extensively on the design and applications of [[Covalent organic framework|covalent-organic frameworks]] in recent years.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kandambeth |first1=Sharath |last2=Dey |first2=Kaushik |last3=Banerjee |first3=Rahul |date=2019-02-06 |title=Covalent Organic Frameworks: Chemistry beyond the Structure |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.8b10334 |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |language=en |volume=141 |issue=5 |pages=1807–1822 |doi=10.1021/jacs.8b10334 |pmid=30485740 |bibcode=2019JAChS.141.1807K |issn=0002-7863|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sasmal |first1=Himadri Sekhar |last2=Kumar Mahato |first2=Ashok |last3=Majumder |first3=Poulami |last4=Banerjee |first4=Rahul |date=2022-07-06 |title=Landscaping Covalent Organic Framework Nanomorphologies |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c02301 |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |language=en |volume=144 |issue=26 |pages=11482–11498 |doi=10.1021/jacs.2c02301 |pmid=35754375 |bibcode=2022JAChS.14411482S |issn=0002-7863|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He has published a number of articles.{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}}<ref name="S K Mandal - Google Scholar Citations">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4ky6cJ0AAAAJ&hl=en |title=S K Mandal - Google Scholar Citations |date=2018-12-23 |website=scholar.google.com |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 165 of them.<ref name="S K Mandal - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rahul_Banerjee4 |title=S K Mandal - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune |date=2018-12-23 |website=ResearchGate |language=en |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> He has participated in several scientific events including the ''[[Royal Society of Chemistry]] Roadshow 2017'' held at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune where he was one of the keynote speakers.<ref name="Royal Society of Chemistry Roadshows 2017 - CSIR-NCL, Pune">{{Cite web |url=http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/29167/royal-society-of-chemistry-roadshows-2017-csir-ncl-pune |title=Royal Society of Chemistry Roadshows 2017 - CSIR-NCL, Pune |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.rsc.org |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> He is also an associate editor of [[CrystEngComm]], the biweekly journal of the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]].<ref name="Congratulations to Rahul Banerjee for winning the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize! – CrystEngComm Blog" />

== Awards and honors ==
During his days at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2008, Banerjee received two honors, viz. the Post Doctoral Recognition Award and the Amgen Post Doctoral Award, both awarded by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the university.<ref name="Dr. Rahul Banerjee - PMATLAB" /> The [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] selected him as a Young Associate in 2009<ref name="Associateship - Indian Academy of Sciences" /> and he received two [[Young Scientist Award|Young Scientist]] awards in 2011, the [[National Academy of Sciences, India|NASI]]-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award<ref name="NASI-YOUNG SCIENTIST PLATINUM JUBILEE AWARD">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/yspja.htm |title=NASI-YOUNG SCIENTIST PLATINUM JUBILEE AWARD |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.nasi.org.in |access-date=2018-12-23 |archive-date=9 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109212436/http://www.nasi.org.in/yspja.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]] Young Scientist Award.<ref name="Dr. Rahul Banerjee - PMATLAB" /> Banerjee, who has received the [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry|fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry]], was honored again by the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] and [[Elsevier]] in 2014 with the NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award<ref name="Elsevier and National Academy of Sciences, India Announce the Winners of the 2014 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards">{{Cite web |url=https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/science-and-technology/elsevier-and-national-academy-of-sciences,-india-announce-the-winners-of-the-2014-nasi-scopus-young-scientist-awards |title=Elsevier and National Academy of Sciences, India Announce the Winners of the 2014 NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards |date=9 September 2014 |website=www.elsevier.com |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> and a year later, he received the [[Thomson Reuters]] Research Excellence-India Citation Award.<ref name="Thomson Reuters Honors Indian Scientists at India Citation Awards 2015">{{Cite web |url=http://www.scind.org/131/Mindblower/thomson-reuters-honors-indian-scientists-at-india-citation-awards-2015.html |title=Thomson Reuters Honors Indian Scientists at India Citation Awards 2015 |date=2018-12-23 |website=www.scind.org |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> The same year, he received the 2015 B. M. Birla Science Prize in Chemistry<ref name="BM Birla Science Prizes For 2015 And 2016 Announced">{{Cite web |url=http://english.sakshi.com/news/2017/11/01/bm-birla-science-prizes-for-2015-and-2016-announced |title=BM Birla Science Prizes For 2015 And 2016 Announced |date=1 November 2017 |website=Sakshipost |language=en |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref><ref name="BM Birla Science Prize presented">{{Cite web |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Telangana/2018-01-29/BM-Birla-Science-Prize-presented/354957 |title=BM Birla Science Prize presented |date=29 January 2018 |website=www.thehansindia.com |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> and he was selected for the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] in 2016.<ref name="DST Nominates IISER-Kolkata Professor For Swarnajayanti Fellowship">{{Cite web |url=http://newsfromnadia.in/dst-nominates-iiser-kolkata-professor-swarnajayanti-fellowship/ |title=DST Nominates IISER-Kolkata Professor For Swarnajayanti Fellowship |author=NFN Network |date=2017-11-29 |website=News from Nadia |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2018.<ref name="Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=538 |title=Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |date=2018-12-23 |website=ssbprize.gov.in |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref><ref name="IISER Kolkata scientists win coveted award - Times of India">{{Cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/iiser-kolkata-scientists-win-coveted-award/articleshow/66048411.cms |title=IISER Kolkata scientists win coveted award - Times of India |date=3 October 2018 |website=The Times of India |access-date=2018-12-23}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{Cite journal |last1=Halder |first1=Arjun |last2=Ghosh |first2=Meena |last3=Khayum M |first3=Abdul |last4=Bera |first4=Saibal |last5=Addicoat |first5=Matthew |last6=Sasmal |first6=Himadri Sekhar |last7=Karak |first7=Suvendu |last8=Kurungot |first8=Sreekumar |last9=Banerjee |first9=Rahul |date=2018-09-05 |title=Interlayer Hydrogen-Bonded Covalent Organic Frameworks as High-Performance Supercapacitors |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |volume=140 |issue=35 |pages=10941–10945 |doi=10.1021/jacs.8b06460 |pmid=30132332 |bibcode=2018JAChS.14010941H |s2cid=207193051 |issn=0002-7863|url=http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/34376/1/11800_Addicoat.pdf }}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Dey |first1=Kaushik |last2=Pal |first2=Manas |last3=Rout |first3=Kanhu Charan |last4=Kunjattu H |first4=Shebeeb |last5=Das |first5=Anuja |last6=Mukherjee |first6=Rabibrata |last7=Kharul |first7=Ulhas K. |last8=Banerjee |first8=Rahul |date=2017-09-20 |title=Selective Molecular Separation by Interfacially Crystallized Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |volume=139 |issue=37 |pages=13083–13091 |doi=10.1021/jacs.7b06640 |pmid=28876060 |bibcode=2017JAChS.13913083D |issn=0002-7863}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Khayum |first1=M. Abdul |last2=Kandambeth |first2=Sharath |last3=Mitra |first3=Shouvik |last4=Nair |first4=Sanoop B. |last5=Das |first5=Anuja |last6=Nagane |first6=Samadhan S. |last7=Mukherjee |first7=Rabibrata |last8=Banerjee |first8=Rahul |date=2016 |title=Chemically Delaminated Free-Standing Ultrathin Covalent Organic Nanosheets |journal=Angewandte Chemie |language=en |volume=128 |issue=50 |pages=15833–15837 |doi=10.1002/ange.201607812 |pmid=27862737 |bibcode=2016AngCh.12815833K |issn=1521-3757}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Banerjee |first1=Rahul |last2=Kharul |first2=Ulhas K. |last3=Garai |first3=Bikash |last4=Karak |first4=Suvendu |last5=Bera |first5=Saibal |last6=Shinde |first6=Digambar Balaji |last7=Chandra |first7=Suman |last8=Kandambeth |first8=Sharath |last9=Biswal |first9=Bishnu P. |date=2015-11-24 |title=Pore surface engineering in porous, chemically stable covalent organic frameworks for water adsorption |journal=Journal of Materials Chemistry A |language=en |volume=3 |issue=47 |pages=23664–23669 |doi=10.1039/C5TA07998E |issn=2050-7496}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Bajpai |first1=Alankriti |last2=Chandrasekhar |first2=Pujari |last3=Govardhan |first3=Savitha |last4=Banerjee |first4=Rahul |last5=Moorthy |first5=Jarugu Narasimha |date=2015 |title=Single Crystal-to-Single Crystal Site-Selective Postsynthetic Metal Exchange in a Zn–MOF Based on Semi-Rigid Tricarboxylic Acid and Access to Bimetallic MOFs |journal=Chemistry – A European Journal |language=en |volume=21 |issue=7 |pages=2759–2765 |doi=10.1002/chem.201406098 |pmid=25533890 |issn=1521-3765}}

== See also ==
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* [[Covalent organic framework]]
* [[Metal organic framework#Determining hydrogen storage capacity|Determining hydrogen storage capacity]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://academictree.org/chemistry/tree.php?pid=764004&fontsize=1&pnodecount=4&cnodecount=2 |title=Chemistry Tree - Rahul Banerjee Family Tree |date=2018-12-23 |website=academictree.org |access-date=2018-12-23}}
* {{Cite web |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3547-4746 |title=ORCID profile |date=2018-12-23 |website=orcid.org |access-date=2018-12-23}}

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