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Personal Details
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| Name | Dr Prakash Chandra |
| Designation | Associate Professor |
| Department | Chemistry, School of Energy Technology |
| Email | Prakash.Chandra@sot.pdpu.ac.in |
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Educational Qualifications
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| B.Sc. (Chemistry, Lucknow University), 2004 |
| M.Sc. (Chemistry, Lucknow University), 2007 |
| Ph.D (Catalysis and Inorganic Chemistry, CSIR National Chemical Laboratory Pune), 2014 |
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Professional Affiliation
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| UCL IMCN, Belgium,
CSIR National Chemical Laboratory Pune
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
UCL IMCN Belgium |
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Awards
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| · Awarded UCL-IMCN postdoctoral fellowship
· Awarded IIT-Indore postdoctoral fellowship
· Awarded CSIR Senior Research Fellowship in June-2011.
· UGC-NET Qualified- with JRF in the exam held in June-2009.
· GATE Qualified- In year 2008, 92.92 percentile in Chemical Sciences. |
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Publications / Articles / Conference
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| Research based or onographs/Textbooks published |
| 'Guest Editor of special issue of Topics in Catalysis titled Sustainable Catalysts: Propelling the Future with Materials', Springer, Feb 2025 |
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| Articles/Chapters Published in the books |
| 'Importance of Electrolytes and Their Selection for Energy Storage Systems', taylor & francis group, Oct 2024 |
| 'Dehydrogenation Reactions of Heterocyclic Compounds and Their Derivatives', CRC Press, Jan 2024 |
| 'Recent Advances in Dehydrogenative Technique for Hydrogen Energy Storage and Utilization', CRC Press, Jan 2024 |
| 'Importance of Electrolytes and Their Selection for Energy Storage Systems', CRC Press, Nov 2024 |
| 'Electrical Energy Storage Devices Based on 2D Semiconducting Materials', CRC Press, Nov 2024 |
| 'Dehydrogenation Reactions of Heterocyclic Compounds and Their Derivatives', CRC Press, Jan 2024 |
| 'Transition Metal Catalyst Free Dehydrogenative Organic Synthesis', CRC Press, Jan 2024 |
| 'Recent Advances in Dehydrogenative Technique for Hydrogen Energy Storage and Utilization', CRC Press, Jan 2024 |
| '21. Powerpaste Hydrogen Storage technologies', Elsevier, May 2023 |
| '20. Approaches towards economical hydrogen storage', Elsevier, May 2023 |
| 'Chapter 12 - Fabrication and catalytic applications of first row-transition metal and mixed-metal chalcogenides synthesized from single-source precursors', , Jan 2022 |
| 'Chapter 10 - Applications of 3d-transition metals as Pt-free counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells application', , Jun 2021 |
| 'Chapter 8 - Fabrication techniques and working principle of neoteric dye-sensitized solar cells', , Jun 2021 |
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| Published Papers in Journals |
| 'The Preface', Topics in Catalysis, pp. 00-00, Mar 2025, DOI : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11244-025-02060-9 |
| 'Synthesis of Cerium-doped Gadolinium Gallium Aluminum Garnet (GGAG:Ce) Scintillating Powder via Solvothermal Method', Physica Scripta, pp. 0-0, Mar 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad30e2 |
| 'Novel Synthesis of radioluminescent CsI:Tl microcrystals under ambient conditions by antisolvent recrystallization method', Optical Materials, pp. 1-9, Feb 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2023.114759. |
| 'Review of Garnet‑Based Solid Electrolytes for Li‑Ion Batteries (LIBs)', Journal of Electronic Materials, pp. 1-26, Feb 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-024-10942-z |
| 'Supported copper nanoarchitecture for selective ethylbenzene oxidation (EBO) reaction', Journal of Molecular Structure, pp. 138673-138673, Apr 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2024.138673 |
| 'Synthesis of polyindole/gallium–gadolinium–aluminum garnet nano-composite for supercapacitor electrode', Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, pp. 438-451, Feb 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-024-12181-8 |
| 'Silver nanoparticle for biomedical applications: A review', Hybrid Advances, pp. 100-184, Aug 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hybadv.2024.100184 |
| 'Rare Earth metal oxide nanoparticle-infused polymer nanocomposites for enhanced supercapacitor electrodes', Journal of Molecular Structure, pp. 137919-137925, Mar 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2024.137919 |
| 'Effect of Ga/Al ratio on the luminescent properties of inorganic scintillating GGAG:(4 mol%)Ce ceramic powder', Ceramics International, pp. 47507-47512, Nov 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2024.09.059 |
| 'Investigating CuO-ZrO2 Mixed Metal Oxide Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Sensing of Food Colors', Luminescence ., pp. 0-0, Dec 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1002/bio.70061 |
| 'Investigating the Role of Interfacial Layer for Resistive Switching in a Hybrid Dion-Jacobson Perovskite-Based Memristor', ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. , pp. 5249-5256, Sep 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c01038 |
| 'Reverse microemulsion assisted synthesis of copper nano-catalyst for highly selective toluene oxidation', Journal of Porous Materials, pp. 1-13, Nov 2023, DOI : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10934-023-01527-y |
| 'MoS 2 Nanostructures for Solar Hydrogen Generation via Membraneless Electrochemical Water Splitting', ACS Applied Electronics, pp. 1461-1470, Mar 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.2c01415 |
| 'Investigating the Role of Interfacial Layer for Resistive Switching in a Hybrid Dion-Jacobson Perovskite-Based Memristor', ACS Applied Electronic Materials, pp. 5249-5256, Sep 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c01038 |
| 'MoS2 Nanostructures for Solar Hydrogen Generation via Membraneless Electrochemical Water SplittingSSING SLUDGE USING RECOVERABLE NANOCATALYST', Applied Electronic Materials, pp. 1461 -1470, Apr 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.2c01415 |
| 'The game between molecular photoredox catalysis and hydrogen: The golden age of hydrogen budge ', Molecular Catalysis, pp. 112921-00, Feb 2023, DOI : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468823123000081 |
| 'Study of CuO/TiO2/Polyindole (CTPIN) electrocatalyst in membraneless electrolyzer for solar hydrogen generation', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, pp. 1446-1457, Aug 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.07.248 |
| 'MoS2-based hetero-nanostructures for photocatalytic, photoelectrocatalytic and piezocatalytic remediation of hazardous pharmaceuticals', Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, pp. 1-23, Jun 2023, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2023.109604 |
| 'Recent progress in lysosome-targetable fluorescent BODIPY probes for bioimaging applications', Materials Today: Proceedings, pp. 7082-7087, May 2022, DOI : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214785322002401 |
| 'Recent Advancements in Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) and its Functional Nanostructures for Photocatalytic and Non-Photocatalytic Organic Transformations', FlatChem, pp. 100395-100395, Jul 2022, DOI : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452262722000629 |
| 'Recent advances in nanostructured transition metal sulfide based sensors for environmental applications', Materials Today: Proceedings, May 2022 |
| 'Conducting polymers-based nanocomposites: Innovative materials for waste water treatment and energy storage', Materials Today: Proceedings, May 2022 |
| 'Heterogeneous Transition-Metal Catalyst for Fine Chemical Synthesis Hydrogen Auto-transfer Reaction', Topics in Catalysis, Aug 2022 |
| 'A Review on the Consequence of 3D-Orienation of Cu/TEMPO/Imidazole Sequence on Selective Alcohol Oxidation', Journal of Molecular Structure, pp. 134249-00, Sep 2022, DOI : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022286022018993 |
| 'Recent trends in MXene/Metal chalcogenides for electro-/photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reactions', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, pp. 41711-41732, Dec 2022, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.02.049 |
| 'Advanced copper based nanostructured materials for oxidative methylesterification reactions-A mini review', Materials Today: Proceedings, May 2022 |
| 'Hydrothermal synthesis of graphene modified SnO nanocomposite for oxygen reduction reaction', Materials Today: Proceedings, pp. 72-76, Mar 2022, DOI : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214785322003625 |
| 'Modern Trends in the Applications of Perovskites for Selective Organic Transformations', ChemistrySelect, Aug 2021 |
| 'Recent Advancement in the Copper Mediated Synthesis of Heterocyclic Amides as Important Pharmaceutical and Agrochemicals', ChemistrySelect, Mar 2021 |
| 'Copper Mediated Chemo- and Stereoselective Cyanation Reactions', Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, pp. 1897-1937, Apr 2021, DOI : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajoc.202100182 |
| 'Recent advancement in oxidation or acceptorless dehydrogenation of alcohols to valorised products using manganese based catalysts', Coordination Chemistry Reviews, May 2020 |
| 'Catalytic Application of Tactically Aligned Cd (II)‐Based Luminescent 3D‐Supramolecular Networks', ChemistrySelect, Jun 2019 |
| 'Synthesis of discrete catalytic oligomers and their potential in silica-supported cooperative catalysis', RSC advances, May 2019 |
| 'Benign approach for methyl-esterification of oxygenated organic compounds using TBHP as methylating and oxidizing agent', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Jun 2018 |
| 'Spatial Coordination of Cooperativity in Silica-Supported Cu/TEMPO/Imidazole Catalytic Triad', ACS Catalysis, May 2018 |
| 'Sequence and Surface Confinement Direct Cooperativity in Catalytic Precision Oligomers', Journal of the American Chemical Society, Mar 2018 |
| 'Mesoporous tin oxide: An efficient catalyst with versatile applications in acid and oxidation catalysis', Catalysis Today, Jul 2018 |
| 'Remarkable catalytic activity of a sulfonated mesoporous polymer (MP-SO 3 H) for the synthesis of solketal at room temperature', New Journal of Chemistry, May 2017 |
| 'Facile Access to Amides from Oxygenated or Unsaturated Organic Compounds by Metal Oxide Nanocatalysts Derived from Single-Source Molecular Precursors', Inorganic chemistry, Aug 2017 |
| 'Reduction of selective polyaromatic nitrotriptycene via an azoxytriptycene intermediate under ambient conditions using a cobalt/cobalt oxide nanocomposite (CoNC)', RSC advances, May 2016 |
| 'Tailor made ionic liquids: catalyst and media for organic transformations', Current Organic Chemistry , Apr 2015 |
| 'A trifunctional mesoporous silica-based, highly active catalyst for one-pot, three-step cascade reactions', Chemical Communications, Apr 2015 |
| 'Silica microspheres containing high density surface hydroxyl groups as efficient epoxidation catalysts', Rsc Advances, Feb 2015 |
| 'One-pot synthesis of ultrasmall MoO 3 nanoparticles supported on SiO 2, TiO 2, and ZrO 2 nanospheres: an efficient epoxidation catalyst', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Sep 2014 |
| 'Mechanistic studies on the roles of the oxidant and hydrogen bonding in determining the selectivity in alkene oxidation in the presence of molybdenum catalysts', Chemistry–A European Journal, Feb 2013 |
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| Full Papers in Conference Proceedings |
| 'Advanced MoS2 nanocomposite materials for the synthesis of valuable pharmaceuticals', International Symposium on Materials of the Millennium: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects, pp. 6967-6971, Jan 2022, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.12.372 |
| 'Advanced MoS2 nanocomposite materials for the synthesis of valuable pharmaceuticals', International Symposium on Materials of the Millennium: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects, pp. 6967-6971, Jan 2022, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.12.372 |
| 'Recent advances in nanostructured transition metal sulfide based sensors for environmental applications', International Symposium on Materials of the Millennium: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects, pp. 6945-6949, Jan 2022, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.12.330 |
| 'Recent progress in lysosome-targetable fluorescent BODIPY probes for bioimaging applications', International Symposium on Materials of the Millennium: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects, pp. 7082-7087, Feb 2022, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.01.220 |
| 'Hydrothermal synthesis of graphene modified SnO nanocomposite for oxygen reduction reaction', MMETFP21, Feb 2022 |
| 'Conducting polymers-based nanocomposites: Innovative materials for waste water treatment and energy storage', International Symposium on Materials of the Millennium: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects, pp. 6950-6955, Dec 2021, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2021.12.335 |
| 'Conducting polymers-based nanocomposites: Innovative materials for waste water treatment and energy storage', AM2, Dec 2021 |
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| Papers presented in Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Symposia |
| 'Performance Comparison of CsI:Tl Crystals Grown by Bridgman and Solution Growth Methods', 27th National Seminar on Crystal Growth and Applications (NSCGA-2025), feb 2025 |
| '3D Printing of CsI:Tl Crystals Clumps Prepared by ITC Method for X-ray Imaging', 27th National Seminar on Crystal Growth and Applications (NSCGA-2025), feb 2025 |
| 'Improvement in the scintillation properties of GGAG:Ce powder synthesized by Solvothermal method', 17th International Conference on Scintillating Materials and their Applications - SCINT2024, jul 2024 |
| '3D printing of CsI:Tl composite film for X-ray imaging application', 17th International Conference on Scintillating Materials and their Applications, jul 2024 |
| 'Fabrication of Scintillator Thin Films via Controlled Deposition of CsI:Tl Microcrystals for Enhanced Radiation Detection', DAE-Solid State Physics Symposium 2023, Dec 2023 |
| 'Rare-Earth Oxide Composites with Conjugated Polymers as Electrocatalysts for Green and Renewable Hydrogen', 1st International Conference on Green Hydrogen for Global De-Carbonization, mar 2023 |
| 'Transition metal oxide (TMO) /organic polymer heterojunction for Photo/electrocatalytic carbon free hydrogen', 1st International Conference on Green Hydrogen for Global De-Carbonization, mar 2023 |
| 'National Workshop on Materials and Methods towards Developing Sensors for Public Safety', National Workshop on Materials and Methods towards Developing Sensors for Public Safety, jan 2023 |
| 'Review on Recent Progress on the Titania Nanocomposites for Elimination of Dyes from Wastewater', 2nd International Conference on Water Technologies 2022(ICWT 2022), Dec 2022 |
| 'Synthesis of GGAG:Ce Nanoparticles: Comparison of Co-precipitation and Sol-gel Methods', International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Clean Technologies (ICSECT-2022), Sep 2022 |
| 'Capacitive performance testing of hydrothermally synthesized CuMoS2/PIn nanocomposite', ICSECT-2022: International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Clean Technologies, Sep 2022 |
| 'Halide Based Composite Scintillator for the Nuclear Battery Application', ICSECT-2022: International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Clean Technologies, Sep 2022 |
| 'Hydrogen Generation using Photovoltaic-Electrochemical Coupling', ICSECT-2022: International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Clean Technologies, Sep 2022 |
| 'Investigation of 3D Printed Halide Based Nanocomposite Scintillator for Nuclear Battery Application', IUMRS ICA 2022, Dec 2022 |
| 'Transfer Hydrogenation: More Economical and Greener Route for Carbon Dioxide Reduction', IUMRS ICA 2022, Dec 2022 |
| 'Advancements in the hydrogen production by acceptorless dehydrogenation of alcohols', ICCMDP-2021, Sep 2021 |
| 'ADVANCED MOS 2 NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF VALUABLE PHARMACEUTI- CALS', AM2, Oct 2021 |
| 'A Review on the Consequence of 3D-Orientation of Cu/TEMPO/Imidazole Sequence on Selective Alcohol Oxidation', MMETFP-21, Nov 2021 |
| 'Scientic Communications', Publish or Perish: Strategies for Scientific Research Publications, Feb 2020 |
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