Students completed PhD thesis: 6

(i) Dr. Gurpreet Kaur (2018-24)  (in association with Prof. S C Sivasubramanian, department of chemistry) is M Sc in chemistry. Joined in August 2018. She is working on some aspects of sol-gel derived fast ionic compounds, such as Garnet, NASICONs, and glasses and their applications in all-solid-state batteries and supercapacitors. She defended her thesis on 24th April 2024

Patent filed - 1

Publications: 

Electrochimica Acta -1 

Journal of Energy Storage - 1

Materials Research Bulletin - 1

Batteries - 1

(ii) Dr. M. Dinachandra Singh (2017-2022) is from Manipur. He did is B. Sc. and M. Sc. from Pune University Fergusson College. He joined in January 2017 and worked on some aspects of conductivity structure correlation in Na+ and Li+ ion conducting in polymer nanocomposites in DAE CSR project. He also explored applications in Na+ and Li+ ion solid state supercapacitors. Defended thesis successfully on 7th of January 2022.

Publications:

Solid State Ionics- 1
Journal of Materials science - 1
Materials Letters - 1
Materials Research Bulletin - 1
Journal of Energy Storage- 1
Applied Surface Science -1
After PhD worked with Prof H C Verma as Project Manager at Shiksha Sopan, IIT Kanpur.

Currently working as Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Knapur, India.

(iii) Dr. Neelakshi Sharma (2016-21) joined in August 2016 and defended her PhD thesis on 22nd February, 2021.
Title of thesis: Development of Li+-NASICON based Glass-Ceramic Composites: Novel Synthesis Route, Characterization and Applications (DST-SERB project supported work). She also qualified CSIR SRF.

Publications:
Journal of Alloys and Compounds - 2
Solid State Ionics- 1
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids - 1
Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry - 1
AIP refereed conference - 3

Destination: Senior Research Engineer at Ola Electric, Bangalore


(iv) Dr. Rajinder Kaswan-Shivran (2014-20) (in association with Prof. S C Sivasubramanian, department of chemistry BITS Pilani)

Thesis Title:"Silica Gel based Li+ ion solid electrolytes: Studies on structure, electrical transport and supercapacitance"

She worked on ionic liquid confinement in ionic glasses by sol-gel route. Further also explored applications of these fast ionic composites in all-solid-state supercapacitors

Publications:

Electrochimica Acta - 1
Materials Research Express -1

(v) Dr. Munesh Rathore (2010-15 )

( First Appointment after PhD: Assistant Professor in Amity University, Jaipur, September, 2015)
Thesis title: "Assessment of electrical conductivity-structure correlation in Li+ ion conducting oxide glasses and glass-ceramic nano composites"

Munesh did her M Sc hons. from BITS, Pilani and was working with me for last 5 years. She has acquired expertise in various techniques, viz. impedance spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry, scanning electron microscopy and FT-IR. Her work is mainly on preparation of Li+ ion conducting glass-ceramic composites by controlled crystallization and their characterization. She has a fine experimental hand and now in teaching and research.

Publications:

International Journals: 5 (published in reputed journals)
Solid State Ionics- 3
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids - 1
Indian Journal of Pure and applied Physics - 1
communicated-2
Referred Conferences (DAE SSPS aip conf. proc etc) : 7


(vi) Dr. Neha Gupta (2007-2012)

(working as a scientific officer in Applied Materials, USA company at Mumbai)

Title "Thermal stability investigations on Ag+ ion conducting superionic glasses and glass ceramic nanocomposites"

Neha is my first PhD student. She is M Sc and M phil from DAVV School of Physics. She has published several papers in journals of high impact factors, and has done a very important fundamental work on thermal stability issues of superionic glasses and helped me in setting-up the laboratory.


Publications:

International Journals: 6
Solid State Ionics: 2
Journal of Non-crystalline solids: 1
International Journal of Ionics: 1
Journal of Thermal analysis and calorimetry: 1
Indian Journal of pure and applied Physics: 1
DAE SSPS symposiums: 3