Pushpendra Kumar, PhD (IITD)

I am working as an associate professor since 2014 in Department of Physics at Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Before Joining Manipal university, I worked as POSTDOC for about six years (2005-2011) at Saarland University Saarbrucken Germany and Technical University Braunschweig Germany followed by assistant professor at Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Delhi for 2 years (2012-2014). I also have been visiting professor at Flinders University Adelaide, Australia during April 9 – 23, 2017. Following are the few credentials. the detail are given on respective page.

SCI Refereed International Journals: 105

National and international Conferences expert/invited talk: 50

National Patent: 03

Participated and received ‘Student award’ from Vapor Technologies Inc. at “International conference on metallurgical coatings and thin films” – 2004, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

Guest editors: special issue on Advances in Polymer Materials, Bulgarian Chemical Communications (2023)

Associate Editor: Condensed Matter Physics, Frontier in Physics

Guest Associate Editor: Nanotechnology for Energy Applications, Frontier in Physics

Lead Guest Editor: in Special Issue on “Mesoporous Materials for Emerging Applications” in Journal of Nanomaterials, 2015-16.

Topic Editor: on “Nanostructure Surface Modification for Energy Storage Applications” in Frontiers in Energy Research, 2018-19.

I am frequent reviewer for around more than 15 Scopus index high impact journals.

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Current research activities

• Fuel cell

• Density Functional Theory based computational analysis.

• Calcium hydroxide nano-composites materials for multifunctional applications.

• Synthesis and characterization of graphene for supercapacitor applications.

• Synthesis of Si nanoparticle by electrochemically prepared nanoporous silicon & Si nanowire.

• Extraction of hydrogen from water via electrochemical route for hydrogen energy applications.

• Porous Silicon, Thin films and metal nanoparticles