Graduated Students Guided as Supervisor

Dr. Sathish Deshagani

Thesis Title: Conducting Polymers/Transition Metal Oxides/Chalcogenides and Carbon Nano Materials Based Supercapacitor

Date of Defense: 8th February 2022

Post-PhD

  • Research Fellow at IITH

Dr. Manoranjan Ojha

Thesis Title: Metal Chalcogenides/Metal-Organic Frameworks and Porous Carbon Materials for Supercapacitors

Date of Defense: 29th November 2021

Post-PhD

  • Industry Sponsored Research Associate at IITH

Dr. Ankita Kolay

Thesis Title: Photoactive or Electrochromic Counter Electrodes for Efficient Quantum Dot Solar Cells

Achievements: 1) KVR Research Award Runner up-II in the year 2020

2) IITB-Metrohm Young Chemist Award (3rd)-2019

Date of Defense: 15th Nove 2021

Post-PhD

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Dr. Aparajita Das

Thesis Title: Solution processed solar cells and their application to photo-supercapacitors

Date of Defense: 15th July 2020

Post-PhD

  • Awarded NPDF

Dr. Ramesh K Kokal

Thesis Title: Effect of Photosensitizers, Electrolyte Additives, and Counter Electrode Materials on Performance Characteristics of Quantum Dot Solar Cells

Achievement: IUSSTF-BASE Student Internship

Date of Defense: 6th July 2019

Post-PhD

  • Senior Research Officer at HPCL Green R & D Center, Bengaluru

Dr. Radha Mukkabla

Thesis Title: Sulfur and Selenium Composites as Cathodes for High Performance Rechargeable Li-S and Li-Se Batteries

Date of Defense: 26th October 2018

Post-PhD

  • Post-doc at University of Stuttgart, Germany

  • SERB-NPDF at JNCASR

Dr. P Naresh Kumar

Thesis Title: Metal Nanostructures in Photoanodes and Counter Electrodes for Cadmium Sulfide Based Quantum Dot Solar Cells

Achievement: KVR Research Award Runner up-II in the year 2017

Date of Defense: 17th July 2017

Post-PhD

  • PDF under CAS President's International Fellowship Initiativeat Fujian Institute of Research, China

  • PDF at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Dr. Rambabu Sydam

Thesis Title: Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and Viologen Based Materials for Electrochromic Devices

Date of Defense: 21st May 2015

Post-PhD

  • Post-Doc at NTU, Taiwan

  • PDF at Fujian Institute of Research, China

Dr. Akkisetty Bhaskar

Thesis Title: Molybdenum Oxide and Tin Oxide/Sulfide Nanostructured Materials for Anodes in Lithium Ion Batteries

Date of Defense: 10th January 2015

Achievement: IIST Research Scholar's Day Best Poster Award (2011)

Post-PhD

  • Fulbright Post-doc Fellowship at UIUC, USA

  • PDF at University of Nottingham, UK

  • Senior Scientist at GODI

Dr. Remya Narayanan

Thesis Title: Charge Transport Processes in Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells

Date of Defense: 7th January 2015

Achievement: IIST Research Scholar's Day Best Poster Award (2011)

Post-PhD

  • SERB-NPDF at IISER Pune

  • DST Inspire Faculty at Pune University

Dr. B Narsimha Reddy

Thesis Title: Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxypyrrole) and Composites for Electrochromic and Supercapacitor Applications

Date of Defense: 12th November 2014

Post-PhD

  • Post Doc at the Université de Moncton, Canada

  • SERB-NPDF at IIT Delhi

  • PDF at University of Sheffield

List of Graduated Students Guided as C0-Supervisor

1. Dr. Sweta Lal

Thesis Title: Small‐scale power generation using paper based fuel cells. Supervisor: K. C. Sahu Co-supervisors: Vinod Janardhanan & M Deepa. Date of Defense: 16 March 2019

2. Dr. P Subramaniam

Thesis Tilte: Semiconducting Hetero-Nanostructures with Novel Configurations for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. Supervisor: Ch Subrahmanyam, Co-supervisor: M. Deepa. Date of Defense: 7th March 2020

Details of MSc Research Projects Supervised

  1. Gururaj Dandin

MSc Thesis Title: Prussian Blue Analogues as Cathode Material for Zinc Ion Batteries (May 2021)

  1. Gaurav Ganesh Padval

MSc Thesis Title: Electroactive CoWO4@C and ZnFe2O4 Based Flexible Asymmetric Supercapacitor (May 2021)

  1. Saurabh Kumar Pathak

MSc Thesis Title: p-Type Cu2O/PEI modified Si-Nanowires for Efficient Liquid Junction Solar Cells (May 2021)

  1. Souvik Naskar

MSc Thesis Title: Rechargeable Zinc Ion Battery with LiV3O8 Cathode (May 2020)

  1. Rati Kanta Pal

MSC Thesis Title: Se/g-C3N4/MWCNTs Composite Cathode for High Performance Li-Se Batteries (May 2020)

  1. Debanjan Maity

MSc Thesis Title: Photosensitive Selenium Nanoparticles Tethered to Silicon Nanowires for Solar Energy Conversion (May 2019)

  1. Ishita Naskar

MSc Thesis Title: Nickel-Cobalt-Sulfide for Supercapacitor Applications (May 2019)

  1. Parmish Kaur

MSc Thesis Title: Environmentally Benign Ammonia Borane/Hydrogen Peroxide Microfluidic Fuel Cells (April 2018) (Co Supervisors: Profs. V Janardhanan & KC Sahu)

  1. Kuldeep

MSc Thesis Title: Selenium@Rice Husk derived Carbon Composite for Li-Se Batteries (April 2018)

  1. Rajkumar

MSc Thesis Title: Manganese Dioxide and Poly(methylpyrrole) Based Supercapacitors (April 2018)

  1. Sukanya Saha

MSc Thesis Title: Non-Toxic Indium Selenide Quantum Dots as Photosensitizers and Cu2ZnSnS2Se2 Counter Electrode for Solar cells (April 2017)

  1. Subrata Chandra

MSc Thesis Title: Ethanol-Dichromate Fuel-Oxidant and Molybdenum Oxide Nanorods Catalyst for Microfluidic Paper Based Fuel Cell (April 2017) (Co Supervisors: Profs. V Janardhanan & KC Sahu)

  1. Ankita Kolay

MSc Thesis Title: Study of TiO2 Morphologies for CdS Quantum Dot Sensitised Solar Cells (April 2016)

  1. Rajat Verma

MSc Thesis Title: Sodium Percarbonate Fuel Cells Based on Porous Paper Supports (April 2016) (Co Supervisors: Profs. V Janardhanan & KC Sahu)

  1. Snehasis Bhunia

MSc Thesis Title: Different Cathode Architectures for Lithium-Selenium Batteries (April 2016)

  1. Subhajit Laha

MSc Thesis Title: A CdS/CdSeTe with Carbon Nanospheres Sensitized Solar Cell with a Reduced Graphene Oxide Counter Electrode: Fabrication and Characterization (April 2015)

  1. Sudip Mandal

MSc Thesis Title: CdS/PbS Quantum Dot Solar Cells : Fabrication and Characterization (April 2014)

  1. Arnab Ghosh

MSc Thesis Title: A Novel 1,1’-Bis-[2-(1H-indole-3-yl)-ethyl]-4,4′-bipyridinium Diperchlorate (Viologen) for High Contrast Electrochromic Device Supercapacitor Applications (April 2014)

  1. Rini Majumdar

MSc Thesis Title: Development of Carbon-Epoxy Composites with Enhanced Electrical Conductivity (April 2014)

  1. Amrita Das

MSc Thesis Title: Fret Based Quantum Dot Solar Cell with a Fluorescent Lucifer Yellow Dye and PEDOT as a Hole Transport Layer to Improve Efficiency (April 2013)

  1. Naresh Billa

MSc Thesis Title: Poly(N-methylpyrrole)/Au and Poly(m-aminobenzene sulfonic acid) Functionalized Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance (April 2012)