Nitai (He/Him/His) works as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Technology at IIT (BHU), Varanasi. He completed his direct Ph.D. in chemical engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2020 after receiving his B.Tech. in chemical engineering from NIT Durgapur in 2013. During his doctoral study, Nitai focused on the large-scale, economical production of 0D, 1D, and 2D copper nanostructures for nanofluids applications. A postdoctoral fellowship from the institute funded his postdoctoral work from 2020 to 2022 at IIT Madras.

Nitai spent his first 24 years of life in Durgapur, West Bengal, where he was born and reared, until relocating to Kharagpur in 2014. In March 2022, he arrived in Varanasi (Banaras), one of India's most ancient and culturally rich cities, after spending 1.5 years in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

You can locate his office on the ground floor of the Department, besides the Chemical Engineering Laboratory (Workshop/Fluid mechanics/Heat transfer lab).

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India (January 2020)
• B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, NIT Durgapur, India (June 2013)

• Course convenor, Chemical Engineering Practices (CHE101), Even semester 2021-2022
• Course Instructor, Energy Resources & Utilization (CHE 231), Odd semester 2022-2023

Journals

• Nitai Chandra Maji, Jayanta Chakraborty, “Explaining the disparity in nanofluid results: role of morphology, material, and state of aggregation of colloidal particles.” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Elsevier, 2020, 156, 119709
• Supriya, Nitai Chandra Maji, Sonali Sengupta, Jayanta Kumar Basu, “Synthesis of mixed polymer multilayer film-immobilised nanosilver for catalytic study in condensation reaction of aniline and acetyl acetone.” Journal of Chemical Sciences. Springer, India, 2020, 132, 79
• Nitai Chandra Maji, Jayanta Chakraborty, “Gram-scale green synthesis of copper nanowire powder for nanofluid applications.” ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. ACS Publications, 2019, 7(14), 12376-12388
•  Nitai Chandra Maji, Hampapuram Prithvi Krishna, Jayanta Chakraborty, “Low-cost and high-throughput synthesis of copper nanopowder for nanofluid applications.” Chemical Engineering Journal. Elsevier, 2018, 353, 34-45
• Swarnendu Chatterjee*, Nitai Chandra Maji*, Abid Hussain Shaik, Jayanta Chakraborty (*equal contribution), “Economical and high throughput synthesis of copper nanopowder using continuous stirred tank and tubular flow reactors.” Chemical Engineering Journal. Elsevier, 2016, 304, 241-25

Conferences

• Nitai Chandra Maji, Jayanta Chakraborty, Niket S. Kaisare, Madivala G. Basavaraj, Complex Fluids 2021, Indian Society of Rheology, IIT Gandhinagar, Gujrat, India, 12/2021, Colloids: Heat Transfer Fluids and Microreactors for interfacial catalysis
• Nitai Chandra Maji, Niket S. Kaisare, Madivala G. Basavaraj, SoR 92^nd Annual Meeting, Society of Rheology, Bangor, Maine, USA, 10/2021, Pickering Interfacial Photocatalysis of o-Xylene
• Nitai Chandra Maji, Jayanta Chakraborty, AIChE annual meeting 2019, American Institute of Chemical Engineering, Orlando, Florida, USA, 10/2019, Effect of Material and Geometry of Nanofillers on Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids
• Nitai Chandra Maji, Jayanta Chakraborty, 9th International Colloid Conference, Elsevier Ltd., Barcelona, Spain, 6/2019, Synthesis of elongated 1D and 2D copper nanostructures for preparation of nanofluid
• Nitai Chandra Maji, Jayanta Chakraborty, AIChE annual meeting 2018, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Pittsburgh, USA, 10/2018, Low-cost and high-throughput synthesis of copper nanopowder for nanofluid applications
• Nitai Chandra Maji, Jayanta Chakraborty, CHEMCON 2017, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Haldia, West Bengal India, 12/2017, Room temperature synthesis of redispersable copper nanopowder in large quantity for economic nanofluid production
• Nitai Chandra Maji, Jayanta Chakraborty, CHEMCON 2016, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Anna University and IIT Madras, Chennai, India, 12/2016, Continuous synthesis of oxidation resistive copper nanopowder for economical Cu nanofluid production