1. Book Publication with Springer Nature

Dear Professor/Researcher,

 Currently, I am in the process of editing a forthcoming book entitled “Defects Engineering in Electroceramics for Energy Applications”, Book Series Title: Engineering Materials, which will be published by Springer-Nature Publishing , an international publisher of progressive academic research in the area of science and technology. I would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to submit your work for consideration in this publication.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit, on or before August 15, 2023, a chapter proposal of 250–500 words, including author details clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by August 30, 2023, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 15, 2023. The minimum length of the chapter should not be less than 15–20 pages (3500–4000 words). The full chapter includes Title of paper, Authors Name, affiliations, email IDs, Corresponding author details, department, Authors bios, etc. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

All manuscript submissions to the book should be sent to the editor via mail:

upendrakumar@iiita.ac.in;

Note: There are no publication charges at any stage.

Please circulate this flyer with your students and research group for wide publicity.

Flyer for this book for more detailed information.

2. Book Publication with Willey-IEEE

Dear Sir,

Here, I am sharing the details of the book chapters. Please let us know if you are interested in writing a chapter (18-20 pages).

Book Title: New Dimensions In Carbon Based Nanomaterials For Green Energy Applications

Publisher: IEEE Wiley

Editor: Dr. Upendra Kumar, Dr. Piyush K Sonkar & Suman Lata Tripathi

Kindly inform your selected chapter soon.

Thank you.

1 Introduction: historical and classification of carbon based nanomaterials

2 Properties of carbon based nanomaterials and tools for characterizations.

3 Green energy: present and future prospective

4 Carbon based nanomaterials and their green energy applications: carbon nanotubes

5 Graphene for green energy applications

6 Fullerene for green energy applications

7 Graphynes-based carbon nanomaterials for green energy applications

8 Mesoporous carbon for green energy applications

9 Carbon quantum dots for green energy applications

10 Carbon nano-diamonds and dendrimers and their energy storage applications

11 Carbon based nanomaterials in energy storage devices: supercapacitors

12 Carbon based nanomaterials in energy storage devices: solar cells

13 Carbon based nanomaterials in energy storage devices: fuel cells and biofuel cells

14 Carbon based nanomaterials for pollutants treatment

15 Applications of carbon based nanomaterials in CO2 reduction and capture

16 Industrial applications of carbon nanomaterials

17 Application of carbon-based nanomaterials in the field of electronic devices

18 Carbon based nanomaterials in day to day human life

19 Conclusions and future perspectives

1. Intellectual Property Rights Awareness Programme (NIPAM) @ IIIT-Allahabad under the initiative "Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav" by Govt. of India on 24 January 2022.

2. One-day national webinar on NanoDCAL Software for Nanoelectronics materials & device simulation at 3 August 2022.

3. One-week training program on "Advanced Training Program on Experimental and Simulation Techniques for Materials Science", in association with Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, under the DST-STUTI scheme, Govt. of India, from 21-27 June 2023.

4. Sixth IEEE International "WORKSHOP ON RECENT ADVANCES IN PHOTONICS", 07-09 December 2023 - IIIT Allahabad.

5. Self-Finance course on, "Materials Informatics", 16-18 February 2024 at IIIT Allahabad.

6. ONLINE WORKSHOP ON "NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL RELATIVITY (NAR-2024)" MARCH 20-22, 2024 - IIIT Allahabad.

7. Technical Programm Committee member of the International conference, "7th International Conference on Inventive Material Science and Applications" organized by Muthayammal Engineering College, an Autonomous Institution affiliated to Anna University, Chennai.

1. A series of talks in "Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Data Analysis and Instrumentation Techniques for Translational Research", 

2. Ruddlesden Popper oxide-based ceramics as multifunctional materials, "International Conference on Advancement in Functional Materials,"  during February 8–10, 2024, at the VBS Purvanchal University Jaunpur campus.

3. Layered Perovskite Oxide as Functional Material for Multifunctional Applications, in Seven day International Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Advanced Functional Materials: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development towards the National Science Day Celebration during February 28, to March 9, 2023. 

4. Ruddlesden Popper oxide ceramics and its application, “International Conference on Emerging Trends in Nanomaterials and Devices (ICONMD-23)” to be conducted by the Department of Physics during 02.03.2023 & 03.03.2023

5. Research career opportunities, in National Workshop on Career Counselling, Personality Development & Interaction Sessions (CCPDIS-2023) organised by Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India from 6-10 Feb 2023. 

6. XRD & its application, DST-STUTI program organized at Department of Physical Sciences, Banasthali Vidyapiyh, 09 to 15th January 2023.

7. Defect assisted Dielectric, Optical and Magnetic properties of undoped and doped Sr2SnO4 Ruddlesden Popper Oxide, International e-Conference on Advanced Functional Materials and Optoelectronic Devices-2020, 13th to 15th June 2020 organized by VBSPU Jaunpur.

8. Energy Storage devices, National science day, 27th to 28th February 2020 organized by Department of Physical Sciences, Banasthali Vidyapith Rajasthan.

1. One Week Online Faculty Development program on CASEMA (Current Advances in Science for Engineering & Medical applications: An Interdisciplinary approach) 2020 from 3rd -7th July 2020, organized by Kakatya Institute of technology & science, Warangal.

1. Participation in technical meet “Anveshan - 2019” organized by Department of Metallurgical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi and presented an Oral Presentation on titled “A detailed thermal analysis, structural and electrical properties of La -doped Sr2SnO4” on 31st March 2019 and received second prize in Best Oral Presentation.

2. Participated in International Symposium on “Materials & Technologies for Energy Conversion and Storage (M-TECS 2018)” organized by BARC and BRNS and presented a Poster and Oral presentation on titled “A detailed thermal analysis, structural and electrical properties of La -doped Sr2SnO4” during 25th -29th September 2018.

3. Participated in 20th symposia and workshop on Thermans-2016 organized by DAE and BRNS, and present an oral presentation titled “Synthesis and characterization of BaSnO3 prepared using Sol-Gel Method” during 18-20 January 2016.

1. Participated in International conference on “Solid State Physics Symposium-2019” organized by BARC Mumbai and present a paper titled “Dielectric and Impedance Spectroscopy studies of Ba0.90Y0.10SnO3” during 18th – 22nd December 2019 in IIT Jodhpur.

2. Participated in International conference on “Solid State Physics Symposium-2018” organized by BARC Mumbai and present a paper titled “Structural and Optical properties of Eu doped at the site of Sr and Sn in Sr2SnO4 Layered Perovskite” during 18th – 22nd December 2018 in Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology.

3. Participated in National conference on “Recent Trends in Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science (CMPMS-2018)” organized by Department of Physics, Institute of Science BHU Varanasi India and present a poster on titled “Effect of Eu-doping at Sr-site and Sn-site of Sr2SnO4 layered perovskite” during 15th-16th Sept 2018.

4. Participated in National conference on “Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN-2018)” organized by Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT) Noida, India and delivered a talk on titled “Structural and magnetic properties of Nd-doped Sr2SnO4 layered perovskite” during 15th-17th March 2018.

5. Contribution paper is presented in International conference “5th International conference on Nanotechnology, Nanoscience and Advanced materials (ICNNAM)” organized by ICONTES Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with paper titled “Structural and Electrical Characterization of SrCeO3 and Sr2CeO4: A comparative study” during 01-02 February 2018.

6. Participated in International conference on “Solid State Physics Symposium-2017” organized by BARC Mumbai and present a paper titled “Structural, microstructural and electrical characterization of BaSnO3 and Ba0.90Y0.10SnO3 synthesized by solution combustion method” during 26th – 30th December 2017.

7. Participated in National Conference on National Seminar on Crystallography “NSC-46” and present a paper titled “Correlation between structural and optical properties of Eu-doped Sr2SnO4 phosphor material” during 9th-12th July 2017 in organized by School of Materials Science and Technology IIT (BHU) Varanasi.

8. Participated in International conference on Advances in Biological Systems and Materials Science in Nano-World “ABSMSNW” and present a paper titled “Effect of Eu doping on structure and optical properties of Sr2SnO4 phosphor material” during 19th-23rd February 2017 organized by Department of Physics, IIT (BHU) Varanasi.

9. Participated in Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics-2016 (ACSSI-2016) organized by IIT PATNA and present a paper titled “Synthesis and electrical characterization of Barium orthostannate” during 27-30 November 2016.

10. Participate in International Conference “Nanotechnology for better living” organized by IIT Kanpur and NIT Srinagar and present a paper titled “Synthesis and characterization of BaSnO3 and Ba0.90M0.10SnO3 (M: La, Y, Gd)” during 25-30 May 2016.

11. Participated in Workshop on Advance Ceramics and Nanotechnology (Theme Electroceramics), 4-5 Dec 2015 Dept. of Ceramic IIT (BHU) Varanasi-221005, presented Poster with titled “Low-Temperature Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel doped Barium Stannate.” 

1. Participated in GIAN program on “Fuel Cell Technology” organized by IIT Gandhinagar in the collaboration of IIT Kharagpur and MHRD during 5-9 December 2016.

2. Participate in Workshop and Training program on “Latex and other useful software” organized by Institute of Agricultural Science BHU and Department of Statistics Institute of Science Varanasi during 09-24 November 2016

3. Participate in International school on “Ion beam in Material Science” organized by IUAC New Delhi during 22-27 September 2016.

4. Participated in Training and Workshop on “Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Techniques” jointly organized by DSS Imagetech Pvt. Ltd. and Olympus Medical System India Pvt. Ltd. and photometrics USA along with IIT BHU from 7th-8th August 2015.

5. Participated in Workshop on “Characterization and Functionalization of Nanomaterial” (CFN-2015) organized by Department of Physics Banaras Hindu University Varanasi during March 12-15, 2015.