Awards and Recognitions

1. Awarded with the 'Professor S P Sukhatme Excellence in Teaching' Award 2023.

2. Press release on some of the achievements, titled, ‘New cathode material can produce high-performance, cost-effective, environment-friendly Na-ion batteries as next-generation energy storage systems’ was brought out by the Ministry of Science & Technology, as part of Press Information Bureau, Government of India, on May 16, 2023. (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1924518 ; https://dst.gov.in/new-cathode-material-can-produce-high-performance-cost-effective-environment-friendly-na-ion ; https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1924518)

3. Awarded with the IIT Bombay 'Departmental Excellence in Teaching' Award for the year 2022.

4. Awarded with the 'SwarnaJayanti Fellowship 2020-21'.

5. Some of the achievements with respect to development of Na-ion battery system have been Listed as a 'Success Story' on Materials for Energy Storage by the Department of Science and Technology (DST); vide: 'Story on Green Energy Storage', article 13 ('Enabling the development of Na-ion batteries'), pp 64-68, 2021.

6. Recognized by the Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom) journals as one of the ‘2019 Emerging Investigators’ (and invited to publish a review article in the prestigious J. Mater Chem. A).

7. Conferred with the 'IIT Bombay Research Dissemination Award' for the year 2018.

8. Awarded with the 'INAE Young Engineer Award 2016'.

9. Awarded with the IIT Bombay 'Departmental Excellence in Teaching' Award for the year 2016.

10. Awarded with the 'ASM-IIM North America Visiting Lectureship Award 2016'.

11. Identified by the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Editorial Boards for ‘exceptional contributions to the editorial review process’ in 2015.

12. Awarded with the 'IIT Bombay Young Investigator Award' for the year 2014.

13. Awarded with the prestigious 'Dr. R. L. Thakur Memorial Award' (a National Award as Young Scientist) by the Indian Ceramic Society in 2013, in recognition of his 'valuable contributions in the field of Materials Science and Engineering'.       

14. Awarded with ‘best oral presentation’ at NMD ATM 2011, Hyderabad, India on November, 2011.  

15. Research report on vertically aligned graphene sheets, as published in Adv Mater 23 (2011) 508, has been reported in one of the electronic nano-related newsletters; InterNano: Resources for Manufacturing on Feb 16, 2011: http://www.internano.org/content/view/491/239//utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nmw20110216

16. Awarded with the prestigious Clarendon fund scholarship and Overseas Research Student award (ORS) for supporting his DPhil studies at the Oxford University (UK).

17. Adjudged by St. Catherine’s College (Oxford) as the best overseas student (2006-2007) and awarded him Overseas Student’s Award.

18. One of his review papers, entitled, 'Tribological properties and processing challenges of bulk structural ceramic nanomaterials' has been runner’s up in an all UK competition organized by the Institute for Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3).

19. Received the IIM (Indian Institute of Metals) student’s prize in 2007.

20. Awarded with the Academic Excellence (National) Award for excellent academic performance in the year 2004-2005.

21. Achieved grade A (10/10) in all the courses credited as a part of the M. Tech course at IIT Kanpur, thus securing a CPI (Cumulative Performance Index) of 10 on a scale of 10 and first ranking in the entire Institute.

22. Awarded with Merit Scholarship awards for the first, third and final year of under graduation (B. E. Metallurgical Engineering).

23. Awarded with the Traveling Scholarship (2009) from The Worshipful Company of Founders, UK, for attending International Conference.

Major awards received by research students:

• • Ankur Sharma's poster on 'Suppressing 'cation mixing' at high cell voltages for Ni-containing Li- transition metal oxide based cathode materials' has been highlighted as being particularly standout among 130 participants from 30 different countries by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK in the RSC Batteries Poster event. He is selected as one of the six winners. 

  • Bachu Sravan Kumar and Anagha Pradeep (PhD students) received 'Commendation Prize' in a 'New generation Ideation context 2020' organized by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) for an idea towards 'Transition from non-aqueous to aqueous Processed electrodes for Na-ion batteries eliminating Health/environmental hazards'.

  • Farjana J Sonia received the 2020 Carbon Journal Prize for an 'an outstanding Ph.D. thesis in carbon materials science and technology'.

  • Manoj K Jangid received the ‘Best PhD thesis Award’, during IIT Bombay Convocation held in August, 2020.

• • Farjana J Sonia received the ‘Best PhD thesis Award’, during IIT Bombay Convocation held in August, 2019.

  • Farjana J Sonia (a PhD student) received the prestigious “Electrochemical Society India section S. K. Rangarajan Graduate Student Award” for the year 2018.

  • Farjana J Sonia (a PhD student) received the prestigious “Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship” towards attending the Batteries Gordon Research Conference on batteries in the United States of America in February, 2018.

  • Hemshruti Bhardwaj (a M Tech student) received the “ASM India – Fluidtherm Masters Award by ASM India National council” in the year 2017.

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