Welcome to the Electrochemistry and Materials Science Research Group at The Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari (East-Champaran), Bihar, India
Emails: pandeyrake at gmail dot com; rakeshpandey at mgcub dot ac dot in
OPEN PhD positions: Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for a PhD in Electrochemical Energy Storage, Materials Science, and Electrochemical Science. Candidates with CSIR-NET (JRF, LS, or PhD) are encouraged to apply for a PhD by sending an email to show their interest in joining our group.
🔥Students qualified for the NET-Third category (for PhD) are especially encouraged to apply for Non-Net PhD fellowship at MGCUB for their PhD.🔥
For our latest Research interests and output, please see our select published works this year (2025) below:
1. Electron rich triazine based covalent organic framework as aqueous electrolyte symmetric supercapacitor. Chemical Communications, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC01105A, 2025, D. Nain, R.R. Pandey, S. Ali, Md. Ehesan, S. Kalla, Rakesh K. Pandey*, Jangir, Ritambhara*
2. Exploring the Role of Exfoliation Mediums on Electrochemically Derived Graphene for Enhanced Supercapacitor Performance. Carbon Letters, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-025-00909-3, 2025, R. R. Pandey, A. Andola, H. Pandey, Rakesh K. Pandey*
3. Recycled Battery Materials for Green and Sustainable Series and Parallel Microbial Fuel Cell Stacks. ACS Sustainable Resource Management, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssusresmgt.5c00057. Also, the Front Cover of the Journal Issue. R. R. Pandey, A. Andola, H. Pandey, Y. Kashyap, A. Prakash, Rakesh K. Pandey*
Post-Doc positions: Eligible candidates having a PhD in Science/technology fields are requested to apply for National-level post-doc fellowships, e.g., NPDF of SERB, D. S. Kothari Fellowship of UGC, and WISE-post doc scheme of DST. The research proposal can be discussed and forwarded to the appropriate agency.
ANRF-NPDF: Please click here to apply for the NPDF (SERB)
D S Kothari Fellowship: Please click here to apply for the DS Kothari post doc fellowship
DST Women post doc Scheme: Please click here to apply for the DST WISE post doc scheme