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Dr. Pankaj Kumar Tripathi

Dr. Pankaj Kumar Tripathi

Assistant Professor, Physics

pankaj.tripathi@sharda.ac.in

About

Dr. Pankaj Kumar Tripathi, is working as an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Physics, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. He completed doctoral degree in Soft Condensed Matter from the University of Lucknow, India. During this period, he was a recipient of JRF and SRF fellowship sponsored by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He did postdoctoral research (Dr. D.S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellow, University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India) at the Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He has completed postdoctoral research in Industry and academic platform at Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea. He is a life member of the Indian Liquid Crystal Society, International Liquid Crystals Society, British Liquid Crystal Society, and Indian Science Congress, Kolkata. He is a reviewer of various refereed journals. His area of research interest includes liquid crystals, polymers, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), THz, Photonics Devices, Organic solar cells, Perovskite Solar cells, Quantum dots solar cells, and Quantum dots composites for various applications
 

Experience
  • 8 Years
Qualification
  • Ph.D. in Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Award & Recognition

Awards/Fellowships:

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Konkuk University, Seoul-05029, Republic of Korea (South Korea),
  • DR. D. S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellowship, UGC, New Delhi.
  • ISRO Founded Project Fellowship, entitled “Designing of SLMs based on nematic liquid crystals doped with non-mesogenic compounds”, during September 2010 to 2013.
  • CSIR International Travel Award (File No. 8071/2013) for joining 14th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany.
  • DST International Travel Award (ITS/2680/2015-2016) for joining Advanced Materials World Congress (AMWC-2015) organized by Linkoping University, Linkoping (VBRI Press AB), Viking Line Crusie, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Best Young Investigator Award, International Conference on "Advances in Biological Systems and Materials Science in Nano-World" (ABSMSNW-2017) to be held in Department of Physics, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India, February 19-23, 2017.
  • Bharat Excellence Award, Friendship Forum, New Delhi, September 2018.
  • Leading Educationist of India Award, Friendship Forum, New Delhi, September 2018.

Research

  • More than 40 international publications in prestigious journals Click here 

Area of Interest

  • Photonics
  • Display technologies
  • Soft Matter:
    • Nematic
    • Smectic and Discotic Liquid Crystal Materials
  • Nanomaterials:
    • Nanoparticles
    • Nanotubes
    • Quantum dots
    • Nanorods
  • Photovoltaic:
    • Organic solar cells
    • Perovskite Solar cells
    • Quantum dots solar cells
  • Energy Storage:
    • Columnar mesogens for energy storage
    • Supercapacitors
  • Engineering Materials
  • Computational analysis (DFT) of the Molecules
  • Microfluidics Devices