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Spet 2025: Welcome to Aditya Singh for joining the group as the Institute Research Fellow.
Sept 2025:Congratulations to Adityua Singh for submission of his P:hD thesis.
August 2025: Congratulayions Aditya for his paper published in Advanced Materials and Interfaces.
May 2025: Welcome to Parul to our group as a Integrated PhD student (2025-2030).
May 2025: Welcome to Khushi Singh to our group as a M Sc project student.
May 2025: Welcome to Deepak Chaurasia to our group as a M Sc project student.
May 2025: Welcome to Ms. Malavika Nair from University of Western Ontario, Canada to our group as a summer intern.
March 2025: Congratulations to Alumni Dr. Somanth Acharya for joining as Research Professor at Yonsei University, South Korea.
January 2025: Welcome to Deepak as PhD scholar to our group. He will work on Thermoelectric materials.
January 2025: Congratulations to Aditya for his paper in Phys Rev B for the work done with Prof Ranjani Viswanatha, JNCASR.
January 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Divya Rawat for her paper in JACS for the work done with Prof Kanishka Biswas, JNCASR.
December 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Divya Rawat for the DAE best thesis award in Solid State Physics Symposium at BARC Mumbai.
Nov2024: Congratulations to Dr. Ajay Soni for selected as the Fellow of Institue of Physics, UK (F-InstP).
Nov2024: Congratulations to Dr. Ajay Soni for promoted to Professor at IIT Mandi.
August 2024: Congratulation to Dr. Kewal Singh for defending his thesis on August 29th, 2024.
August 2024: Welcome to Memansa as PhD scholar to our group. She will work on twisted atomic layer materials.
August 2024: Welcome to Atul Jhalani as PhD scholar to our group. He will work on thermoelectric materials.
August 2024: Congratulation to Dr. Divya Rawat for defending her thesis on August 5th, 2024.
July 2024: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk in40 the ICT and 20th ECT held at Krkakow, Poland, During June 30 to July 4th, 2024.
June 2024: Congratulations to Kewal for his work published in ACS Applied Enrgye Materials (2024).
June 2024: Sixth PhD thesis submitted from the group: Congratulation to Kewal Singh.
May 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Ajay Soni for selected as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemsitry, UK (F-RSC).
May 2024: Fifth PhD thesis submitted from the group: Congratulation to Divya Rawat.
March 2024: Congratulations to Kewal for his work published in Phys Rev B (2024).
February 2024: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk on National Science Day event of School of Physical Sciences, IIT Mandi, 28 February 2024.
February 2024: Welcome to Prithwija as PhD scholar to our group. She will work on optical properties of CDW chalcogenides.
January 2024: Congratulations to Ankit, Divya, Dr. Debattam, Dr. Niraj, Prof Kanishka and Prof Soni for their work published in Anegwandte Chemie (2024). The work is primarily focused on silver telluride nanowire based flexible thermoelectric generators.
January 2024: Congratulations to Aksa Thomas for her paper in Phys Rev B for the work done with Prof Surajit Saha, IISER Bhopal.
December 2023: Congratulation to Dr. Soni, Prof Biswas and their Team for the paper Advanced Functional Materials (2023).
Nov 2023: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk in The International Conference on Recent Progress in Graphene Research (RPGR 2023), held at the IISc Bangalore, India, during 20-23, November 2023.
Oct 2023: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk in The International Conference on Advanced Materials for Better Tomorrow (AMBT 2023), held at the Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, during 10-13, October 2023.
Oct 2023: Congratulations to Ms Divya for best poster presentation in The International Conference on Advanced Materials for Better Tomorrow (AMBT 2023), held at the Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, during 10-13, October 2023.
September 2023: Dr. Soni outreached as special expert for evaluation and approval of teh HIMCOSTE Research Projects 2023-24.
September 2023: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk in a Two Days Workshop on "Research Awareness and Skill Development" during 22-23 September 2023 held at Department of Physics, Central University of Rajasthan.
July 2023: Congratulation to Kewal and our collaborative team with Prof Biswas, Prof Vitta and Prof Bera for the paper accepted in Phys Rev B 2023.
June 2023: Congratulation to Dr. Soni, Prof Biswas and Team for their paper Advanced Functional Materials 2304607 (2023).
May 2023: Congratulation to Dr. Soni for becoming Member of Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK (M-RSC).
April 2023: Congratulation to Kewal for his review paper accepted in Oxford Material Science, 2023.
April 2023: Congratulation to Divya, Aditya and Niraj for their paper accepted in Physical Review B, 2023.
March 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Niraj Singh for The Best Thesis award in SHODH-2023, an online conference for Doctoral Students on, “Emerging Strategies in Research: Going Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries”, held on March 25-29th, 2023, at SVVV Indore.
March 2023: Dr. Soni gave an interactive session on "Importance of science and Scientific Methodology, for the DST Vigan Jyoti Program for Girls, held at JNV Pandoh, Mandi, on March 28th, 2023.
March 2023: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk on "Light Matter Interactions and Many Body Phenomena in Chalcogenide Materials ", in the symposium on "Frontier Areas of Materials", held for Oxford instruments Nanoscientist India Award function at JNCASR, Bangalore on March 14th, 2023.
Feb 2023: Congratulations to Ms Divya for best technical presentation and Mr Ankit for best poster award in workshop in physics for celebration of National Science Day 2023, by School of Physical Sciences, IIT Mandi.
November 2022: Congratulations Dr. Juhi Pandey for the best poster award in The International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE-2022), held at Jeju, Korea, during November 6-9, 2022.
October 2022: Congratulations Ankit for the best technical Presentation award in the International Conference On Smart Materials for Sustainable Technologies (SMST-2022), held at IIT Bombay, during October 13-16, 2022.
July 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Soni for elevation to Senior Member The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SM-IEEE).
June 2022: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk on "Thermoelectricity and Materials ", in the 5th faculty development program organized by UGC-HRDC and University of Calicut, Kerala, on June 30th, 2022.
June 2022: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk on "Light Matter Interactions in Chalcogenides and Technological Applications ", in International conference on Emerging Trends in Science and Technology, organized by Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, on June 5th, 2022.
June 2022: Congratulations to Abhishek M Sc (Chemistry), Riya Nager (M Tech Biotechnology), Liza, Sandhya and Shrershyam (M Sc Physics) for successfully defending their master thesis (PGP-2). We wish them good luck for their future projects.
May 2022: Prof Kanishka Biswas, JNCASR, Bangalore, visited our group at IIT Mandi
April 2022: Dr Niraj left our group for pursuing Post Doctoral research at Linkoping University Sweden. We wish him good luck for his future.
April 2022: Welcome to Shilpa Verma as PhD scholar to our group. She will work on phase change materials.
April 2022: Congratulations to Kewal for his collaborative paper in Chemistry of Materials (2022).
March 2022: Congratulations to Juhi for her collaborative paper in Angewandte Chemie (2022)
February 2022: Congratulations to Kewal for his collaborative paper in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
January 2022: Congratulation to Niraj and Divya for their paper accepted in Physical Review B.
December 2021: Dr. Soni gave a session talk on "Physics at Nanoscale: The Science of the Invisible ", for Inservice Course for Physics Teacher of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, organized by ZIET ,MYSURU program on December 25th, 2021.
December 2021: Congratulation to Dr. Niraj Singh for defending his thesis on 23rd December, 2021.
December 2021: Dr. Soni gave a talk on "Crystalline Anharmonicity and Thermoelectric Properties of Bi-Ge-Te Materials with an Intrinsic van der Waal Heterostructure ", in a Thermoelectric Symposium of Materials Research Society of India Conference, during December 20-23, 2021. Dr. Soni also chaired the session.
December 2021: Dr. Soni gave a talk on "Chalcogenide materials doe waste heat recovery using thermoelectric technology", in a faculty development program by Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra.
December 2021: Congratulation to Divya, Niraj and Kewal for receiving best poster award presented by Divya in 65th, DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, December 16-19, 2021.
December 2021: Dr. Soni is an Associate Editor for journal Materials Lab.
November 2021: Congratulation to Niraj and Ankit for their paper accepted in Applied Physics Letters.
October 2021: Dr. Soni has been invited to co-chair the thermoelectric symposium in Annual general Body meeting of MRS India, to be held in online mode during December 20-23, 2021.
September 2021: Forth PhD thesis submitted from the group: Congratulation to Niraj Kumar Singh.
September 2021: Congratulation to Kewal for receiving best Teaching Assistantship award for his efforts in taking care of high-end Raman spectrometer and services for AMRC users at IIT Mandi.
August 2021: Dr. Soni has been elected as the member of Journal Energy & Environmental Materials Youth Editorial Board member.
June 2021: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk on "Physics at Nanoscale: The Science of Invisible", in Physics Fest organized by Indian Physics Association (Indore Chapter) and SICA College Indore on June 5th, 2021.
June 2021: Congratulations to M Sc (Chemistry) students Nikita Kunwar and Shivani Tiwari for successfully defending their master thesis (PGP-2) and getting Job in chemical Industry.
June 2021: Congratulations to M Sc (Physics) students Rajender, Kashish and Sumit for defending their master thesis (PGP-2).
June 2021: Welcome to Riya Nager, M Tech Biotechnology student to our group. A new research area addition to the group.
June 2021: Welcome to the new M Sc Physics students Sreeshyam, Sandhya and Liza to our group.
May 2021: Niraj joined as Senior Project Scientist on DRDO project.
April 2021: Congratulations to Kewal for publication in Chemistry of Materials.
February 2021: Dr. Soni gave a session talk on "Scientific Research: Planning and Execution", in a faculty development program by Teaching Learning Center, organized by Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh, Rajasthan.
February 2021: Congratulation to Divya for getting 12th foundation award for Teaching assistantship.
February 2021: Congratulation to Dr. Ajay Soni for getting 12th foundation award for research excellence.
February 2021: Congratulation to Dr. Juhi Pandey for getting Post-Doctoral position at KAIST, Korea.
February 2021: Dr. Soni gave an invited session "Carbon Materials and Their Applications in Flexible Electronics" in 2 weeks Refresher Course in Sciences: Organic Electronics (online)”, organized at UGC-Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), by University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
February 2021: A good news for the group as collaborative work with Prof K Biswas, JNCASR has been accepted in Science. Congratulations to group of authors from JNCSAR, Bangalore and Niraj Singh from IIT Mandi.
February 2021: Congratulation to Navmi Naik from MG University, Kerala, (who did Masters project in our group) for getting PhD position at Department of Physics, University of Houston, USA.
February 2021: Congratulation to Dr. Juhi Pandey for getting Post-Doctoral position at IIT Bombay.
December 2020: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk in International Conference on Multifunctional Nanomaterials (ICMN2020), organized by Department of Physics, Manipal University Jaipur.
November 2020: Congratulation to Juhi Pandey for her paper on chalcogenide perovskite BaZrS3, a work done in collaboration with Prof Nikhil Koratkar, RPI, NY, USA and Prof A. Taraphder, IIT Kharagpur group, published in Phys Rev B (2020) .
October 2020: Congratulation to Juhi Pandey for defending her PhD thesis on October 6th, 2020.
September 2020: Congratulation to Niraj for his paper accepted in Applied Physics Letters.
September 2020: Welcome to the new I-PhD students Aditya Singh and Aksa Thomas to our group.
September 2020: Welcome to the new M Sc Physics students Sumit Kumar, Kashik and Rajendra to our group.
August 2020: Congratulations to Kewal Singh and Juhi Pandey for their collaborative paper in collaboration with Prof Kanishka Biswas, JNCASR Bangalore, accepted in JACS (2020).
July 2020: Congratulations to Kewal Singh and Juhi Pandey for their collaborative paper on monolayer MoS2,in collaboration with Prof Narayanan, TIFR Hyderabad, accepted in Journal and Physics : Materials (2020).
July 2020: Third PhD thesis submitted from the group: Congratulation to Juhi Pandey.
June 2020: Congratulations to Juhi Pandey for her paper on Charge Density wave in 1T-VSe2 accepted in Physical Review Research.
June 2020: Congratulations to M Sc (Physics) students Yogesh, Akash, Shumile and Pooja for successfully defending their master thesis (PGP-2).
June 2020: Good news for the group as DRDO-CARS Proposal has been sanctioned.
June 2020: Good news from the Alumni of the group Dr. Mahesh and Dr. Somnath joined for their second post doctoral position at University of Lancaster, UK and Yonsei University, South Korea, respectively. Congratulations to both of them.
June 2020: Dr. Soni gave an interesting talk on "Scientific Research: Planning and Execution", in an online workshop on research methodology for faculty development program held at Indore Institute of science and Technology, Indore and organized by Rajiv Gandhi Prodhyogiki Univeristy, Bhopal.
April 2020: Congratulations to our team for the collaborative work, with Prof Nikhil Koratkar, RPI, Troy, NY, USA group, published in Advanced Functional Materials 2020. which has impact factor of 15.6.
January 2020: Congratulations to Juhi, Kewal, Divya, Shoeb for their collaborative work with Shriparna Mukherjee and Prof R. C. Mallik (IISc, Bangalore) for their paper published in ACS Applied Energy Materials 2020.
December 2019: A good news for the group as collaborative work with Prof K Biswas, JNCASR has been accepted in Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), which has impact factor of 14.7.
December 2019: Dr. Soni gave technical talk at S N Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.
December 2019: Dr. Soni in collaboration with Prof. Per Eklund, Linkoping University, Sweden has been awarded Indo-Swedish joint network grant for 3 years. Congratulations to the group.
September 2019: Welcome to Ankit Kashyap as a project associate in our group. Ankit has done Masters Project in our group and is joining as project staff.
August 2019: Our group research has been highlighted by publications houses.
August 2019: Congratulations to Kewal for for qualifying UGC-NET Junior Research Fellowship (June 2018).
August 2019: Our research on thermoelectric materials has got media attention.
August 2019: Dr. V. Ganesan, UGC-DAE CSR Indore, visited IIT Mandi and interacted with the group members.
August 2019: Welcome to new M Sc Physics and Chemistry students joined our group for the master projects.
August 2019: Welcome to Divya, who joined our group as PhD scholar (2019-2024).
July 2019: Dr. Soni Joined as Associate Professor, School o Basic Sciences, IIT Mandi.
June 2019: Congrats to Ankit Kashyap for successfully defending his Master's Thesis.
June 2019: Dr. Soni gave invited talk in "Workshop on Physics at Low Temperature and High Magnetic Fields", held at UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, MP.
May 2019: Welcome to the new members Vishal Khandelwal from IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, Navmi Naik from MG University, Kerala and Mehak Sharma, Delhi University, Delhi who joined our group for summer internship 2019. They will be spending 2 months this summer to get trained in our lab.
May 2019: Congrats Juhi Pandey for getting SERB-TRAVEL Grant to attend ICMAT 2019, Singapore during June 22-28, 2019. Juhi also has been awarded rebated registration by the conference organizers.
April 2019: Welcome to Shoeb Athar who joined our group as project student on SERB-Core Research Grant.
March 2019: Congratulation to Somnath for defending his PhD thesis on 23 March 2019.
March 2019: Congrats to Niraj for getting CSIR Senior Research Fellowship.
March 2019: welcome to Kewal Singh Rana who joined group as PhD student (2019-24)
February 2019: Dr. Soni has received the Core Research Grant (Extra Mural Research) from Department of Science and Technology and Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi, India.
February 2019: Dr. Soni gave an Invited talk in International Conference on Functional Nanomaterials (ICFNM-2019), held at Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi during February 22-15, 2019. Dr. Soni also chaired a session in the conference.
February 2019: Dr. Soni presented the recent work as invited talk in The 30th Annual General Meeting of MRSI and the First Indian Materials Conclave held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India during February 12-15, 2019. Dr. Soni was also co organizer/chair of Thermoelectric Symposium in the same meeting.
February 2019: Congrats to Somnath for ICTP funded 'Conference on Modern Concepts and New Materials for Thermoelectricity' to be held at Trieste, Itali during match 11-15, 2019.
January 2019: A good news for the group as collaborative work with Prof K Biswas, JNCASR has been accepted in RSC Energy Environmental Science which has impact factor of 30.3.
2013-2018
December 2018: Congrats to Somnath Acharya who submitted his PhD thesis on December 28th, 2018.
December 2018: Prof Ganpati Ramanath, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA visited IIT Mandi (15-20 December, 2018).
December 2018: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk in International conference on soft materials at MNIT Jaipur (12-14 December 2018)
December 2018: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk at PSG Institute Coimbatore (11.12.18)
December 2018: Congrats to Somnath and Juhi for their paper accepted in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
November 30th, 2018: Congrats to Mahesh for defending his thesis successfully. Mahesh was jointly supervised by me and Dr. Satinder K Sharma. the collaborative work was productive and fruitful in past five years.
Congrats to Niraj for his collaborative paper in J Alloy and Compounds (Ashok Rao, Manipal Institute of Technology).
November 2018: Congrats Somnath for his paper accepted in Applied Physics Letters 2018.
September 2018: Dr. Soni has been invited to co chair symposium on Thermoelectric Materials in 30 Annual General Meeting by Materials Research Society of India, to be help at IISc Bangalore during 12-15 February 2019.
September 2018: Congratulations to Mahesh for getting post-doctoral position at University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
August 2018: Congratulations to Juhi Pandey for her paper in Applied Surface Sciences.
August 2018: Joint proposal submitted to DRDO Extramural Research Grant, India; as Co-PI with Dr. Satinder Sharma (PI) has been awarded.
July 2018: Congratulations to Mahesh who submitted his PhD thesis.
June 2018: Congrats to Mahesh for his paper in Applied Physics Letters.
May 2018: Dr. Soni is visiting Prof Ganpati Ramanath, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA on BASE program until July 2018.
May 2018: Congrats to Somath for his paper in Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Another fruitful collaborative work with Dr. Sharmistha Anwar, IMMT bhubaneshwar and Prof Takao Mori, NIMS, Tsukuba Japan.
March 2018: Congrats to Niraj, Juhi and Somnath for their paper in Journal of Alloy and compounds. A joint collaboration among students and first paper from DST SERB Project.
February 2018: Congrats to Mahesh and Juhi for their paper on flexible electronics appeared in Carbon.
December 2017: Dr. Soni has received prestigious Baskara Advanced Solar Energy Research Fellowship 2018 (BASE 2018) from Indo-US science and Technology Forum, India to Visit Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA During Summer 2018. The joint proposal with Prof Ganpati Ramanath to explore collaboration on flexible thermometric materials.
September 2017: Congrats to Mahesh for his paper in Organic Electronics.
August 2017: Dr. Soni became executive board member of Society for Interdisciplinary Research in Materials and Biology (SIRMB).
July 2017: Our first paper in external collaboration with Prof Per Eklund, Sweden, appeared in Journal of Applied Physics. Congrats to all authors especially Somnath and Niraj from our group.
June 2016: Group welcomes Priya Sharma and Anjali Sharma as summer interns, June-July 2017.
May 2017: Congrats Somnath for his paper in AIP Conference Proceedings.
March 2017: Prof Per Eklund from Linkoping University Sweden visited our group.
February 2017: Congrats to Juhi Pandey for best technical presentation in International conference on "Advances in Biological Systems and Materials Science in NanoWorld ", held at IIT BHU. Dr. Soni gave an invited talk in the conference and chaired a session.
February 2017: Congrats to Mahesh for his papers published in Journal of Physics: Applied Physics D and Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical.
August 2016: Congrats to Somnath and Juhi for their first paper published in Applied Physics Letters.
June 2016: Group welcomes Clair Mathew from University of Liverpool, UK, and Mani Mohan (Second time) as summer interns, June-July 2016.
June 2016: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk in conference on Energy Materials Nanotechnology 2016 (EMN-2016), held at Prague, CZ.
May 2016: Dr. Soni gave talk in European Materials Research Society Meeting, 2016 held at Lille, France.
March 2016: Welcome to Niraj Singh who joined as PhD student on DST SERB project.
February 2016: Dr. Soni received DST SERB grant on "layered chalcogenides for thermoelectric applications".
December 2015: Congrats to Mahesh for his paper published in IEEE Sensors journal.
December 2015: Welcome to Juhi Pandey, who joined as PhD student in our group.
November 2015: Congrats to Mahesh for his first paper from our group.
June 2015: Welcome to Mani Mohan from IISER Bhopal, who Joined as summer intern in our group.
May 2015: Dr. Soni got Young Scientists Research Award from DAE-BRNS, Mumbai. The grant is for setting up experimental facility for thermoelectric power and resistivity measurements at IIT Mandi.
March 2015: Special issue on "Nanomaterial Synthesis, Characterization, and Application" is out.
February 2014: Welcome to Mahesh Soni, who joined as PhD student jointly with Dr. Satinder K Sharma.
December 2013: Dr. Soni gave an invited talk in IUMRS-ICA 2013, held at IISc Bangalore, India.
October 2013: Institute provided a joint start-up seed grant in collaboration with Dr. C. S. Yadav.
October 2013: Dr. Soni has been invited as editor for special issues on "Nanomaterial Synthesis, Characterization, and Application".
August 2013: First experimental work on materials preparation started.
August 2013: Welcome to Somnath Acharya, who joined as first PhD student of our group.
June 2013: Dr. Ajay Soni joined as Assistant Professor in School of Basic Sciences, IIT Mandi
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