Main profile
- Inspire Faculty Award in Chemistry on 2019 call by Department of Science & Technology (DST), India
- Recipient of a Travel Fellowship at the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC 2016)
- Poster award at International Conference on Structural Chemistry of Molecules and Materials (SCOMM-2014)
- Recipient of “Shyama Prasad Mukherjee” (SPM) Fellowship (2009)
- Qualified GATE in 2009 securing 99.73 percentile (All India Rank - 18)
- Qualified CSIR-NET (December, 2008 and June, 2009)
- Institute Merit Scholarship for outstanding academic performance throughout all four semesters in MSc at IIT Madras
- Qualified JAM (Joint Admission Test for MSc. at IITs), 2007, All India Rank – 131

Assistant Professor
2014 Ph. D.: Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly
Thesis Title: Self-Assembled Coordination Cages for Catalysis and Proton Conduction
Supervisor: Prof. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
2009 M. Sc.: Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India
2007 B. Sc.: Chemistry (Hons.)
Presidency College, Kolkata (Now Presidency University), West Bengal, India
1. Reversible Photoswitching of Encapsulated Azobenzenes in Water
D. Samanta, J. Gemen, Z. Chu, Y. Diskin-Posner, L. J. W. Shimon, R. Klajn. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2018, 115, 9379-9384.
2. Reversible Chromism of Spiropyran in the Cavity of a Flexible Coordination Cage
D. Samanta, D. Galaktionova, J. Gemen, L. J. W. Shimon, Y. D. -Posner, L. Avram, P. Král, R. Klajn. Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 641.
3. Clathrates Grow up (Perspectives)
D. Samanta, R. Klajn. Science 2017, 355, 912.
4. Stepwise Construction of Self-Assembled Heterometallic Cages Showing High Proton Conductivity
R. Saha, D. Samanta, A. J. Bhattacharyya, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 8980-8986.
5. Aqueous Light-Controlled Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles
D. Samanta, R. Klajn. Adv. Optical Mater. 2016, 4, 1373-1377.
6. Covalent Postassembly Modification and Water Adsorption in Pd3 Self-Assembled Trinuclear Barrels
D. Samanta, A. Chowdhury, P. S. Mukherjee. Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 1562-1568.
7. Template-Free Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly of Discrete Hexanuclear Prismatic Cages Employing Half-Sandwich Octahedral RuII2 Acceptors and Triimidazole Donors
A. A. Adeyemo, S. Shanmugaraju, D. Samanta, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2016, 440, 62-68.
8. Light-Controlled Self-Assembly of Non-Photoresponsive Nanoparticles
P. K. Kundu, D. Samanta, R. Leizrowice, B. Margulis, H. Zhao, M. Börner, T. Udayabhaskararao, D. Manna, R. Klajn. Nat. Chem. 2015, 7, 646-652.
9. A Pd24 Pregnant Molecular Nanoball: Self-Templated Stellation by Precise Mapping of Coordination Sites
I. A. Bhat, D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 9497-9502.
10. Sunlight-Induced Covalent Marriage of Two Triply Interlocked Pd6 Cages and Their Facile Thermal Separation
D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17006-17009.
11. Component Selection in Self-Assembly of Pd(II)-Nanocages and Cage to Cage Transformations
D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 12483-12492. (IF-5.16)
12. Self-Assembly of Discrete Metallamacrocycles Employing Half-Sandwich Octahedral Diruthenium(II) Building Units and Imidazole-Based Ligands
D. Samanta, S. Shanmugaraju, A. A. Adeyemo, P. S. Mukherjee. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2014, 751, 703-710. (Invited Article for 50th Anniversary Special Issue)
13. Structural Diversity in Multinuclear PdII Assemblies that Show Low-Humidity Proton Conduction
D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 5649-5656.
14. Self-Assembled Multicomponent Pd6 Aggregates Showing Low-Humidity Proton Conduction
D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 1595-1598.
15. New Structural Topologies in a Series of 3d Metal Complexes with Isomeric Phenylenediacetates and 1,3,5-Tris(1-imidazolyl)benzene Ligand: Syntheses, Structures, and Magnetic and Luminescence Properties
S. Mukherjee, D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Cryst. Growth Des. 2013, 13, 5335-5343.
16. PtII6 Nanoscopic Cages with an Organometallic Backbone as Sensors for Picric Acid
D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Dalton Trans. 2013, 42, 16784-16795.
17. Multicomponent Self-Sorting of a Pd7 Molecular Boat and Its Use in Catalytic Knoevenagel Condensation
D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 4307-4309.
18. Self-Assembly of Ru4 and Ru8 Assemblies by Coordination Using Organometallic Ru(II)2 Precursors: Synthesis, Characterization and Properties
S. Shanmugaraju, D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 313-322.
19. Self-Assembled Pd6 Open Cage with Triimidazole Walls and the Use of its Confined Nanospace for Catalytic Knoevenagel- and Diels–Alder Reactions in Aqueous Medium
D. Samanta, S. Mukherjee, Y. P. Patil, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 12322-12329.
20. Pillar Height Dependent Formation of Unprecedented Pd8 Molecular Swing and Pd6 Molecular Boat via Multicomponent Self-Assembly
D. Samanta, S. Shanmugaraju, S. A. Joshi, Y. P. Patil, M. Nethaji, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 2298-2300.
21. Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly of 2D-Metallamacrocycles Using a Shape-Selective PtII2-Organometallic 90◦ Acceptor: Design, Synthesis and Sensing Study
S. Shanmugaraju, D. Samanta, B. Gole, P. S. Mukherjee. Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 12333-12341.