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Pushpendra Kumar

Pushpendra Kumar

Pushpendra Kumar
Pushpendra Kumar
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Physical Sciences
Room No
212
Residence
8954218797
Email
pushpendra@mail.jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Ph.D. (2010)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Condensed Matter Physics, Materials For Energy Storage (Li-Ion, Li-S batteries), Thin-Film Micro-batteries, 2D Materials, Nanomaterials, PVD, CVD.

Experience

Associate Professor (June 2023- present)
School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
New Delhi India

 

Head Intellectual Properties (2022- May 2023)
Theion GmbH, Berlin Germany

 

Scientist (Core Team) (Oct 2021- 2022)
Theion GmbH, Berlin Germany

 

Senior Postdoctoral Associate (Jan 2018- Oct 2021)
Mentor: Prof. Carl V. Thompson
Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA

 

SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellow (Aug 2017- Dec 2017)
Mentor: Dr. Manjusha V Shelke
Senior Principal Scientist
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

 

Senior Scientist (Jan 2017- 2017)
Energy Storage Division
CIDETEC- Spain

 

Postdoctoral Fellow (March 2015- June 2016)
Mentor: Prof. Lain-Jong Li
Professor, Materials Science & Engineering,
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia

 

Postdoctoral Fellow (Oct 2012- Feb 2015)
Mentor: Prof. Lain-Jong Li
Professor, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science,
Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan

 

P.I. & Postdoctoral Fellow (Oct 2011- Sept 2012)
Department of Materials Engineering
University of Concepcion, Chile

 

Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow (Jan 2011- Sept 2011)
University of Allahabad,
Allahabad, India

Awards & Honours
  • SAGE, FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellowship, DST-India.      
  • FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chile.      
  • Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship, UGC- India
  • Senior Research Fellowship, UGC- India
  • Junior Research Fellowship, UGC- India
International Collaboration/Consultancy
  1. Prof. Lung-Hao Hu (Taiwan) – Research Collaboration
  2. Prof. Jun Ming (China) – Research Collaboration
  3. Dr. Manjusha V Shelke (India) – Research Collaboration
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. High-performance graphene/sulphur electrodes for flexible Li-ion batteries using the low-temperature spraying method, P. Kumar, FY Wu, LH Hu, SA Abbas, J Ming, CN Lin, J Fang, CW Chu and L-J Li, Nanoscale 7 (17), 2015, 8093-8100.
  2. Green Strategy to Single Crystalline Anatase TiO2 Nanosheets with Dominant (001) Facets and Its Lithiation Study Toward Sustainable Cobalt-Free Lithium-Ion Full Battery, H Ming, P. Kumar, W Yang, Y Fu, J Ming, WJ Kwak, LJ Li, Y Sun, J Zheng, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 3 (12), 2015, 3086-3095.
  3. Multilayer Approach for Advanced Hybrid Lithium Battery, J. Ming, M. Li, P. Kumar, and L.-J. Li, ACS Nano, 10 (6), 2016, 6037-6044.
  4. Redox Species-Based Electrolytes for Advanced Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery, J. Ming, P. Kumar, M. Li, A. Lu, W. Wahyudi, and L.-J. Li, ACS Energy Letters, 1 (3), 2016, 529-534.
  5. New insights on graphite anode stability in rechargeable batteries: Li-ion coordination structures prevail over solid electrolyte interphases, J. Ming, Z. Cao, W. Wahyudi, M. Li, P. Kumar, Y. Wu, J. Hwang, M. N. Hedhili, L. Cavallo, Y. -K. Sun, and L.-J. Li, ACS Energy Letters 3 (2), 2018, 335-340.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. RuO2 as Cathode Material of Thin Film Lithium-Ion Micro-batteries, L. Xu, X. Wang, P. Kumar, D. Perego, A. Weathers, B. Wang, M. Chon, Carl V. Thompson, MIT-Press (https://ilp.mit.edu/node/41994).
  2. 2D layered transition metal dichalcogenides (MoS2): Synthesis, applications, and theoretical aspects, P. Kumar*, A. K. Singh*, D. J. Late, A. Kumar, S. Patel and J. Singh, Applied Materials Today, 13, 2018, 242-270.
  3. Kumar P., Dwivedi P.K., Yadav P., Shelke M.V. (2019) Nanostructured Materials for Li-Ion Battery Applications. In: Rajendran S., Naushad M., Raju K., Boukherroub R. (eds) Emerging Nanostructured Materials for Energy and Environmental Science. Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World, vol 23. Springer-Nature.
Patents (if any)
  1. “Lithium batteries, anodes, and methods of anode fabrication” granted US 10840539 B2 on November 17, 2020.
    Also published as CN107925052 A on April 17, 2018.
    Also published as WO 2016/207722 A1 on December 29, 2016.
  2. “Method of preparation a battery electrode by spray coating, an electrode and a battery made by method thereof” granted TW I552420 B on October 01, 2016.
    Also published as CN106663779 A on May 10, 2017.
    Also published as WO 2016/022117A1 on February 11, 2016.
    Also published as US20170229703A1 on August 10, 2017.
  3. “Heterogeneous layers, Polyacrylnitrile (PAN) nanofibers Anode for Rechargable Batteries” European Patent Application no. EP 22157 422.1, (Accepted).
  4.  “3D Current Collector, For Battery Electrode” PCT Application no. PCT/EP2023/054737.

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