Patents/Publications

Patents

1. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri, “A textured nanocomposite coating composition for absorption of electromagnetic waves” Patent No.: 431318. 

2. Viney Ghai, Khurshed Shah and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Synthesis of carbon nanomaterials and method thereof” Patent No.: 421747. 

3. Viney Ghai, Shantnu Chawla and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Synthesis of vertically aligned multilayer graphene sheets on different substrates using edible and non-edible oils.” Patent No.: 444144.

4. Viney Ghai and Roland Kádár “Method for orienting anisotropic particles using Halbach magnet array” EU patent application No. EPC 23220689.6, 2024.

Publications

1. Viney Ghai, Santosh Pandit, Magnus Svensson, Ragnar Larsson, Aleksandar Matic, Roselle Ngaloy, Saroj P. Dash, Ann Terry, Kim Nygård, Ivan Mijakovic and Roland Kádár "Achieving long-range arbitrary uniform alignment of nanostructures in magnetic fields” Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 2406875 (Impact Factor of 18.5)

2. Viney Ghai, Sajjad Pashazadeh, Hengzhi Ruan, and Roland Kádár "Orientation of graphene nanosheets in magnetic fields " Progress in Materials Science, 2024, 143, 101251 (Impact Factor of 37.4) 

3. Viney Ghai, Ashwin Rathod, Prabhat Ranjan and Harpreet Singh “Experimental Investigation of Single Spark µ-EDM Using Electrodes Fabricated with µ-Turning Process” Sadhana, 2024, 49, 157 (Impact Factor of 1.6)

4. Hengzhi Ruan, Alexandra Aulova, Viney Ghai, Santosh Pandit, Martin Lovmar, Ivan Mijakovic, and Roland Kádár. "Polysaccharide-based antibacterial coating technologies." Acta Biomaterialia, 2023, 168, 42-77 (Impact Factor of 9.7). 

5. Ravinder Kumar, Viney Ghai, Ashish Kumar Sahani “A surface modification approach to overcome wetting behaviour of gallium based liquid metal droplets” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2022, 21, 158-162 (Impact Factor of 2.4) 

6. Viney Ghai, Kingshuk Chatterjee and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Coated Aluminium Foil as Flexible Supercapacitor electrode for High Power Applications” Carbon Letters, 2021, 31, 473-481 (Impact Factor of 4.5) 

7. Gurpreet Singh, Viney Ghai, Shilpi Chaudhary, Surinder Singh, Prabhat K. Agnihotri and Harpreet Singh “Effect of graphene on thermal conductivity of laser cladded copper” Emergent Materials, 2021, 4, 1491-1498 (Impact Factor of 3.8) 

8. Viney Ghai, Jasdeep Bhinder, Prabhat K. Agnihotri and Harpreet Singh “Effect of texturing and vertex angle on silicon based multilayer absorber” Vacuum, 2020, 171, 108992 (Impact Factor of 4.0) 

9. Iva Surana, Harpreet S. Bedi, Jasdeep Bhinder, Viney Ghai, Ankit Chauhan and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Compression and Fracture Behaviour of Leather Particulate Reinforced Polymer Composites” Materials Research Express, 2020, 7, 054006 (Impact Factor of 2.7)

10. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh Bedi, Jasdeep Bhinder, Ankit Chauhan, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Catalytic-free Growth of VACNT for Energy Harvesting” Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures, 2020, 28, 11, 907-912 (Impact Factor of 2.3)

11. Viney Ghai, Kshitiz Sharma, Jashan Sanger, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Ultrafast microwave-assisted synthesis of various zinc oxide nanostructures” Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences, 2020, 27, 365-372 (Impact Factor of 0.9).

12. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Synthesis and Transfer of Large Area Graphene without Support Layer” Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences, 2020, 27, 1141-1144 (Impact Factor of 0.9)

13. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Near perfect thin film flexible broadband optical absorber with high thermal/electrical conductivity” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2019, 137, 48855 (Impact Factor of 3.0)

14. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Dandelion-Like Carbon Nanotubes for Near Perfect Black Surfaces” ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2019, 2, 7951−7956 (Impact Factor of 5.9)

15. Viney Ghai, Ankit Baranwal, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Design and Fabrication of a Multifunctional Flexible Absorber (Flexorb) in the UV–Vis–NIR Wavelength Range” Advanced Materials Technologies, 2019, 4, 1900513 (Impact Factor of 6.8)

16. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Ultra-black superhydrophobic multilayer broadband optical absorber” MRS Advances, 2019, 4, 163-168 (Impact Factor of 0.8)

17. Surinder Singh, Viney Ghai, Anupam Aggrawal and Harpreet Singh “Effect of machining parameters on cutting force during micro-turning of a brass rod” Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 2019, 34, 1816-1823 (Impact Factor of 4.8)

18. Prabhat K. Agnihotri, Viney Ghai and Harpreet Singh “Design and Fabrication of Optically Graded Near-Perfect Absorber” Scientific Reports, 2018, 8, 12312 (Impact Factor of 4.6)

19. Viney Ghai, Prabhat Ranjan, Ajay Batish and Harpreet Singh “Atomic-level finishing of aluminum alloy by chemo-mechanical magnetorheological finishing (CMMRF) for optical applications” Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2018, 32, 635-643 (Impact Factor of 6.2)

20. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Structure Dependent Broadband Optical Absorption in Carbon Nanotubes” ACS Applied Optical Materials, 2023, 1, 252260 (Impact Factor of NA).

International Conference Publications

1. Viney Ghai, Ankit Baranwal, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Multifunctional Thin Film Optically Graded Flexible Absorber” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2020, 1537, 012016.

2. Ashwin Rathod, Viney Ghai, Parteek Parmar, Shivam Mishra, Shivani Ghildiyal, Prabhat Ranjan and R. Balasubramaniam “Development of Intrinsic Fabry Perot Interferometric Sensor based on a Single Mode -Multi-Mode- Single Mode (SMS) Configuration Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Precision, Meso. Micro and Nano Engineering (COPEN8), NIT Calicut, Dec 13-15, 2013, pp768-771, DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.20602.08648.

International and National Conference Attended

1. Viney Ghai and Roland Kádár “Aligned Nanotech: tailored solutions for the materials of the future” Swedish Graphene Forum, held from 17th-18th October 2023 at Lund, Sweden.

2. Viney Ghai and Roland Kádár “Magnetic Field Alignment of Graphene in Polymers: A Path towards Tailored Functional Materials” Graphene Week 2023, held from 4th-8th September 2023 at Gothenburg, Sweden (Best Poster Award).

3. Viney Ghai, Ases Akas Mishra, Kesavan Sekar, Sylwia Wojno and Roland Kádár “Insights on magnetic field orientation of cellulose nanocrystals” Nordic Rheology Conference, held from 12th-14th April 2023 at Aarhus, Denmark. 

4. Viney Ghai and Roland Kádár “Role of Rheology on the Magnetic Field Orientation of Graphene Nanosheets in Polymers” Nordic Rheology Conference, held from 8th-10th August 2022 at Reykjavik. 

5. Viney Ghai, Ases Akas Mishra, Alexandra Aulova and Roland Kádár “Magnetic Field Orientation of Graphene Nanosheets in Polymers” Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC 2022) and the VIII Iberian Meeting on Rheology (IBEREO 2022) held from 26th-28th April 2022 at Seville, Spain. 

6. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Flower Carbon nanotubes: Blackest than Black” International Virtual Conference on Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology held online from 13-14th, October 2020, organized by Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. 

7. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Effect of Carbon nanotubes MicroStructure on Absorption” Young Scientists’ Conference, held online by India International Science Festival held from 22nd-25th December 2020. 

8. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Carbon Nanotubes Based Passive Camouflage” 14th Chandigarh Science Congress CHASCON 2020 held from 17th-19th December 2020 at Punjab University, Chandigarh (Best Presentation: First Prize).

9. Participated in International Online Conference on “Emerging Trends in Healthcare Technology in Post-COVID-19 Era” held online on 8-9th August 2020, Organized by SPARC Cell and SMST, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. 

10. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Ultra-Dark Flower Carbon Nanotubes for Passive Camouflage” International Virtual Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Applications (VCAN2020), held online from 17th to 19th June 2020 at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore (ACS Best Omega Award Winner).

11. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Design and Fabrication of Broadband Optical Absorber” IIT Ropar OSA (Optical Society of America) Student Chapter, held on 6th of March 2020 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

12. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Flexible Textured Nanocomposite for Energy Harvesting Applications” APS March Meeting 2020, held from 2th to 6th March 2020 at Denver, Colorado, USA, Volume: G33.00002. 

13. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Optically Graded Multilayer Near Perfect Flexible Absorber” 2nd Smart Nanomaterials Advances, Innovation and Applications Conference (SNAIA2019), held from 10th to13th December 2019 at École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, Paris, University of Paris, France. 

14. Viney Ghai, Prabhat Ranjan, Ashwin Rathod and Harpreet Singh “Study of Single Spark μEDM Process using μ-Turned Titanium Electrodes” 7th International Conference on Advancement and Futuristic Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, held from 5th7th December 2019 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

15. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Synthesis and Transfer of Large Area Graphene without Support Layer” Conference on Carbon Materials (CCM-2019), held from 20th-22nd November 2019 at Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi. 

16. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Design and Synthesis of Multifunctional Flexible Broadband Absorber for solar energy harvesting” Young Scientists’ Conference, India International Science Festival held from 5th-7th November 2019 at Kolkata.

17. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Ultra-back carbon nanotubes for passive camouflage” Metrix-II held from 24th-25th July 2019 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (Best Presentation: First Prize).

18. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Optically graded near-perfect flexible absorber” Research Conclave held from 14th -15th May 2019 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar.

19. Viney Ghai, Gurpreet Singh, Surinder Singh, Prabhat K. Agnihotri and Harpreet Singh “A novel method to enhance thermal conductivity of laser cladded copper” Sixth International Conference on Recent Advances in Composite materials, held from 25th-28th February 2019 at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. 

20. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Ultra-black superhydrophobic multilayer broadband optical absorber” 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit from 25th-30th November 2018 at Boston, USA. 

21. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Nano-textured flexible bactericidal surfaces” UK-India interdisciplinary workshop on advanced biomaterials and biosensors (ABB-2018) from 13th-15th November 2018 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

22. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Light absorbing nanomaterials” Research Conclave held on 21st April 2018 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

23. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Aluminium Foil for Supercapacitor” in International Symposium on Functional Materials held from 13th-15th April 2018 at Hotel Shivalik View Chandigarh. 

24. Viney Ghai, Harpreet Singh and Prabhat K. Agnihotri “Enhanced Optical absorption of Silicon Wafer for Photovoltaics applications” in International Conference on nanoscience and Technology from 21st-23rd March 2018 at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

Workshop/Short-term Courses Attended

1. Participated in a “NordicPOP 3D Printing Workshop” commenced on 16-17th May, 2024 in Turku, Finland.

2. Participated in “IV Northern Lights on Food Masterclass” commenced on 28th August-1st September, 2023 in Lund, Gothenburg.

3. Presented in 2D graduate meeting ”Magnetic Field Orientation of 2D Materials: New Horizons for Multifunctional Properties” 29th-30th May 2023, Kolmården, Sweden.

4. Participated in a workshop on “Indo - Israel workshop on Membranes in water treatment” held online on 05-6th November 2020, organized by Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kochi, Kerala. 

5. Participated in one week online short-term course on “Modeling Approach in Micro Machining Processes” held online on 26-30th October 2020, organized by School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar. 

6. Participated in one week online short-term course on “Understanding of Coastal Ocean processes using Remote Sensing and Numerical Modelling” held online on 21-25th September 2020, organized by Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO, Dehradun. 

7. Participated in one-week online short-term course on “Multi-Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications” held online on 21-25th September 2020, organized by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar. 

8. Participated in “Innovation and Commercialization for Atmanirbhar Bharat” held online on 14th August 2020, organized by Turnip Innovations Pvt. Ltd. 

9. Participated in “Full agenda of DST & ACS Virtual Workshop” held online on 28th July 2020, organized by DST and ACS. 

10. Participated in “Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research” held online on 20th July, organized by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. 

11. Participated in online workshop on “Prominence of Animals in Research” held online on 10th July 2020 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

12. Participated in online workshop on “Online Workshop on Scientific Writing and Research Ethics” held online on 29th June 2020, organized by DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance. 

13. Participated in online workshop on “Science Leadership Workshop” held online on 22-28th June 2020, organized by Central University of Punjab, Bathinda. 

14. Participated in online workshop on “SPARC-Indo-US Immunology Workshop” held online on 12-13th June 2020, organized jointly by Indian Institute of Technology Ropar and The George Washington University, USA. 

15. Participated in national level online quiz on “Additive Manufacturing” held online on 7th April 2020 at Malla Reedy Engineering College, Telangana. 

16. Attended a workshop on “Intellectual Property Rights” held on 29th March 2019 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

17. Attended a workshop on “Sustainable Manufacturing” organized by Aeronautics Research and Development Board on 19th March 2019 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

18. Attended a workshop on communication skills for researchers “Researcher Connect” by British Council from 29th March 2019 to 1st April 2019 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

19. Attended UK-India interdisciplinary workshop on advanced biomaterials and biosensors (ABB-2018) from 13th-15th November 2018 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

20. Attended short term course on “Surface Engineering” under Gian initiative from 23-28 June 2016 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

21. Attended a workshop on "Postgraduate level training programme on differential equations" by NPDE-TCA 2016 from May 16th to June 4th, 2016 at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. 

22. Attended 3-day skill development program on “Energy Access” conducted by National
    Institute of Solar Energy, MNRE, Govt. of India from 17th-19th November 2015 at New Delhi.

23. Attended one-week short term course on “Micro Manufacturing” from 29th June 2015 to 3rd July 2015 at IIT Kanpur. 

24. Attended one-day workshop on “Current R&D in Mechanical Engineering” held on 23rd August 2013 at Thapar University, Patiala. 

25. Attended one day workshop on “Simulation of Engineering System” held on August 19, 2013, at Thapar University, Patiala. 

26. Attended one day workshop on “Environment from problem to solutions” held on 21st October 2010 at Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology.