Presently a physics faculty and a passionate researcher in materials science working at the Trinity Academy of Engineering affiliated with University of Pune. Also an editorial board member of international journals "NANO" and "Materials Open" of World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore
Education / Academic Training:
Oct 2018: Postdoc fellowship by MOST Govt of Taiwan
April 2013: INSPIRE Faculty Award by Govt of India
June 2010: Recipient of “Individual Post-doctoral Grant 2010” by FCT, Govt. of Portugal.
Feb 2010:- PhD (University of Pune, pursued work at National Chemical Laboratory)
May 2003:-MSc (Shivaji University) Ranked First in Physics in whole Shivaji University
International Research Publications:
TEN Significant Publications:
1. Adv. Mater., 19, (2007) 3295. [Impact Factor ~ 32]
2. J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, (2008) 14595 [Citation index: 500, Impact factor ~5]
3. RSC Adv., 5, (2015) 93081. [Impact Factor ~ 5]
4. Appl. Surf. Sci., 549, (2021) 149281. [Im. Factor ~ 7.4]
5. Beilstein J Nanotechnol., 10, (2019) 2182 [Impact Factor ~ 3.65]
6. J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 12, (2012), 928-936 [Impact Factor ~ 2.5]
7. J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, (2008) 15106-15112 [Impact Factor ~ 5]
8. Applied Catalysis A: General, 452, (2013) 214–221. [Impact Factor ~ 6]
9. Chem. Phys. Lett., 452, (2008), 301-308. [Impact Factor ~ 3]
10. © 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21722-8_10
Technology Development:
Developed novel titania coating based toxic H2S gas sensor technology at Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai.
API : - Academic Performance Indicator as per UGC norms >> 110
Field of Specialization:
Advanced Nanomaterials & thin films of multi-functional complex transition metal oxides for technological applications in the fields such as Visible light photo-catalysis, Transparent Conducting Coatings (TCC), Advanced gas sensors, Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors, and Solar Cells.
Very well versed with research techniques such as XRD, XPS, TEM, SEM, AFM, UV-VIS-IR and Raman spectroscopy, FTIR, VSM, SQUID.
Expert in synthesis techniques such as sol-gel, hydrothermal, solid state synthesis, Fuel Combustion, co-precipitaion, pulsed laser deposition, thermal evaporation, spray pyrolysis, dip & spin coating, doctor's blade's films, surfactant capping.
Materials Systems: Oxide Nano-systems and thin films especially Pure or doped anisotropic & composite nanosystems of TiO2, ZnO, CuAlO2.
