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Prof.Sk Riyajuddin

Designation: Inspire Faculty

Department: Physics

Email: skriyajuddin[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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Office Number: +91-326-223-5456

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About Me: Dr. Sk Riyajuddin completed his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India. He received post-doctoral training at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology India, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Hyderabad, India and University of Wyoming, USA. He was also the visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow at KAUST for one month. He was awarded the Gold Medal for the best thesis. His research interests include the interface modification of carbon-based nanomaterials for energy conversion (such as water splitting, oxygen evolution reaction and green hydrogen technology) and storage devices (including supercapacitors, batteries and fuel cells), Graphene and CNT etc. He has published more than 60 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

Research Interest: Nanotechnoloygy, Water Splitting, Oxygen Evoluation, Hydrogen Generation, Green Hydrogen, Supercapacitor, Battery, Fuel Cell, 2D-Nano-material, Graphene, CNTs, Sensor, Field Emission, Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU), Nano-Device Fabrication

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

  • Classical Mechanics -PHC 201, B.Tech (Engineering Physics) 

  • Applied Optics, B.Tech (Engineering Physics)

  • Electronics Lab- M.Sc Physics

  • General Lab- B.Tech

Academics

Doctor of Philosophy (Gold Medal-Best Thesis Award) (January 2017- December 2021)

Institute: Indian Institute of Science Educational & Research, Mohali, India

Thesis title: “Investigation of Nano-Carbon/Non-Carbon Material Interfaces for Electronics and Renewable Energy Conversion Applications”

Supervisor: Dr. Kaushik Ghosh, Professor, Scientist-F

Master’s in Physics 

Institute: Aligarh Muslim University (2013-2015)

B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics

Institute: Aligarh Muslim University (2010-2013)

Senior Secondary 10+2 (Science) (2008-2010)

Institute: Sank C S High School

Subject: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Environmental Science, English, Bengali

Secondary (10th) (2006-2008)

Institute: Panchanantala High School

Subject: Physical Science, Mathematics,  Life Science, History, Geography, Work education, English, Bengali

Position

DST-INSPIRE Faculty (2024 to date)

Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, India

Post-Doctoral Experience (2022-2024)

  • University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
  • TATA Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India
  • Institute of Nano and Science and Technology, Mohali, India 

Awards and Honors

  • DST-INSPIRE Faculty Research Grand-124 lakh ($133284)-DST/INSPIRE/04/2023/001577,2024, Government of India
  • Awarded ‘Prof. C.N.R. Rao Best Thesis Award 2021’ by the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, India
  • Qualified for National level test ‘GATE in Physics-
  • Qualified National level test, National Eligibility Test-
  • Research Excellence Award 2020, Institute of Scholars (INSC)-2020
  • University Post Graduate Merit Financial Award in 2014 &2015
  • Awarded Michigan USA Scholarship by “A.M.U Alumni Association” Of Michigan from 2010-2015.
  • Awarded California USA Scholarship by “A.M.U Alumni Association” Of California from 2013-2015.
  • Awarded Sitaram Jindal Foundation Scholarship by the President of SJF, 2011, India.
  • Editor-Frontiers in Nanotechnology
  • Outstanding Editor of Booked: Futuristic Trends in Chemical Material Sciences & Nano Technology, IIP Proceeding

Publications

Books Published

  1. Large Area Graphene and Their Use as Flexible Touchscreens; Surender P. Gaur #, Sk Riyajuddin#, Sushil Kumar, Kaushik Ghosh*; Carbon Nanomaterial Electronics: Devices and Applications, Springer, 2021, ISBN No-978-981-1610-51-6  (#-both authors have an equal contribution).

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  1. Super-Hydrophilic Hierarchical Ni-Foam-Graphene-Carbon Nanotubes-Ni2P-CuP2 Nano-Architecture as Efficient Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting; Sk Riyajuddin, Kashif Azmi, Mansi Pahuja, Sushil Kumar, Takahiro Maruyama, Chandan Bera, and Kaushik Ghosh*; ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 3, 5586–5599.
  2. Super-Hydrophilic leaf-like Sn4P3 on Porous Seamless Graphene-Carbon Nanotube Heterostructure as an Efficient
    Electrocatalyst for Solar-Driven Overall Water Splitting;     Sk Riyajuddin, Mansi Pahuja, Parrydeep Kaur Sachdeva, Kashif Azmi,
    Sushil Kumar, Mohd Afshan, Firdaus Ali, Jenifar Sultana, Takahiro Maruyama, Chandan Bera, and Kaushik Ghosh*; ACS Nano 2022, 16, 4861-4875.
  3. 3D‐Graphene Decorated with g‐C3N4/Cu3P composite: A Noble Metal‐free Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for overall water splitting; Sk Riyajuddin, Tarik Aziz, Sushil Kumar, Gilbert D Nessim, Kaushik Ghosh*; ChemCatChem, 2020, 12, 1394-1402.  
  4. p-i-n Silicon Nanowire Array-NGQD: A Metal-Free Electrocatalyst for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Sk Riyajuddin, Sushil Kumar, Damini badhwar, Shumile Ahmed Siddhiqui, jenifar sultana, Kaushik Ghosh*; Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 2021, 5, 3160-3171.
  5. Silicon Nanowire-Ta2O5-NGQD heterostructure: An efficient photocathode for Photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution; Sk Riyajuddin, jenifar sultana,  Shumile Ahmed Siddhiqui, Sushil Kumar, Damini badhwa Shyam Sundar Yadav, Saveena Goyal, Ananth Venkatesan, Suvankar Chakraverty, Kaushik Ghosh*; Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 2022, 6, 197-208.
  6. Se-Incorporated Porous Carbon/Ni5P4 Nanostructures for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction with Waste Heat Management; Sk Riyajuddin, Mansi Pahuja, Mohd Afshan, Shumile Ahmed Siddhiqui, jenifar sultana, Takahiro Maruyama Kaushik Ghosh*; ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022, 5, 1385-1396.     
  7. Study of field emission property of pure graphene-CNT heterostructure connected via seamless interface; Sk Riyajuddin, Sushil Kumar, Khushboo Soni, Surender P. Gaur, Damini Badhwar and Kaushik Ghosh*; Nanotechnology, 2019, 30, 385702.
  8. Linear Piezoresistive Strain Sensor based on Graphene/g-C3N4/PDMS Heterostructure; Sk Riyajuddin, Sushil Kumar, Aakanksha Sud, Takahiro Maruyama, Md Ehasan Ali*, Kaushik Ghosh*; Nanotechnology, 2020, 31, 295501.
  9. Boosting the Supercapacitive Performance via incorporation of Vanadium in Nickel Phosphide Nanoflakes: A High
    Performance Flexible Renewable Energy Storage Device    , Mohd Afshan, Sushil Kumar, SK Tarik Aziz, Rishita Ghosh, Mansi Pahuja, Shumile Ahmed Siddhiqui, Kehkashan Alam, Seema Rani, Daya Rani, Takahiro Maruyama, Kaushik Ghosh*, Sk Riyajuddin*  ACS Energy and Fuel, 2022, 36, 4076-4086.
  10. Electrodes Based on Se Anchored on NiCoP and Carbon Nanofibers for Flexible Energy Storage Devices; Mohd Afshan, Sushil Kumar, Daya Rani, Mansi Pahuja, Rishita Ghosh, Shumile Ahmed Siddiqui, Kaushik Ghosh*, Sk Riyajuddin*,  ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022,5, 15328-15340.
  11. Strategy to improve the super-capacitive and hydrogen evolution performance of graphitic carbon nitrides via enrichment of carbon content; Sushil Kumar, Sk Riyajuddin, Kulvinder Singh, Lalit Yadav Takahiro Maruyama, and Kaushik Ghosh*; Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021, 858, 157671.  
  12. In-situ growth of Urchin Manganese Sulfide Anchored Three-Dimensional Graphene (γ-MnS@3DG) on Carbon Cloth as Flexible Asymmetric Supercapacitor; Sushil Kumar, Sk Riyajuddin, Mohd Afshan, SK Tarik Aziz and Kaushik Ghosh*; The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021, 12, 6574-6581.

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

  1. 3D-Ni-Foam/Graphene Heterostructure Decorated with Cu3P composite: A Noble-Metal free Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction; Sk Riyajuddin, Kashif Azmi, Sushil Kumar, Firdaus Ali and Kaushik Ghosh* AIP Conference Proceedings, 2020, 2265, 1, 030593. (IF-0.4) ISSN- 0094-243X, 1551-7616 
  2. 3D-Ni-Foam/Graphene Heterostructure Decorated with g-C3N4 composite: A Noble-Metal free Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction; Sk Riyajuddin, Firdaus Ali, Sushil Kumar, Kashif Azmi and Kaushik Ghosh* AIP Conference Proceedings, 2020, 2265, 1, 030598. (IF-0.4)  ISSN-0094-243X, 1551-7616
  3. Low temperature growth of pyroelectric triglycine sulfate single crystal for passive infrared sensing; Surender P Gaur*, Sandhya, Sushil Kumar, Sk Riyajuddin, Sunny Kumar, Damini Badhwar, Kaushik Ghosh; AIP Conference Proceedings, 2019, 2115, 1, 030400. (IF-0.4) ISSN-0094-243X, 1551-7616
  4. Influence of Rare Earth Ions on Microstructural and Optical Properties of ZnO Nanostructures; Sk Riyajuddin*, Swaleha Naseem, Wasi Khan, Shabbir Ahmad, M.Faizan and A.H Naqvi; AIP Conference Proceedings, 2016, 1731, 1, 050040. (IF-0.4)  ISSN- 0094-243X, 1551-7616

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

  • DST-INSPIRE Faculty Research Grant-124 lakh ($133284)-DST/INSPIRE/04/2023/001577,2024, Government of India (Ongoing)

Membership of Scientific Societies

  • Institute of Scholars  (InSc), India 
  • Materials Research Society, USA
  • IOP, UK

Guidance

PhD Student (Joined in July 2024)

Ms. Priyadarshani Tamang
M.Sc-Physics, Visha Bharati University
Research Area: Carbon/Non-Carbon Nanostructure Interface for  Energy Storage Devices

PhD Student (Joined in July 2024)
Ms. Rumana Sultana Parvin, M.Sc-Physics, Coochbehar Panchanan Barma University.
Research Area: Nanostructured material for renewable energy conversion and storage Devices

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