Dr. Progna Banerjee

I (Institute webpage: https://www.anl.gov/profile/pr...; homepage: https://prognabanerjee.wixsite...;) am a NST core-funded postdoctoral appointee at Argonne with strong interdisciplinary research background in experimental condensed matter physics, materials chemistry, and electronics. I earned Ph.D. (Physics with Materials Chemistry) degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. I used a template-based synthetic technique-'cation exchange' in chalcogenide nanocrystals obtained from quantum dots and established their unusual structural arrangement as the cause for exhibition of room-temperature superionicity and topological insulating properties. Presently at Argonne, I am the materials chemistry part of an interdisciplinary team looking to discover nanomaterials using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning assisted colloidal synthesis and post-synthetic cation exchange combinatorics using an autonomous liquid-handling platform,