Electrical Polymer
Resume:
Govind Kumar Prajapati
Mailing address: Shivdaspur Block- Road
Manduadih Varanasi – 221103
UP, India
**********@*****.***, ****@***.**
Physicist – Soft Condensed Matter (Experimental)
Electrochemistry – Functional materials
Research Experience –
2017 – Asst Prof teaching and research at DMMV Varanasi 2015 – 2016 Postdoc KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering – with Prof Lars Kloo
• Interfaces study of Ionic liquids enabling them as future lubricants for wind energy devices 2014 – 2014 Teaching/Research Study Achievements/BHU, Varanasi, India 2012 – 2013 Postdoc CEA, Grenoble France
INAC/SPrAM/ Polymer Conductor Ionics Group – with Prof G. Gebel
• In-situ-operando Proton diffusion and water management studies in PEM fuel cells 2005 – 2011 Ph.D. Physics Department, Banaras Hindu University, India Ion Conducting Polymer Group – with Prof P.N. Gupta
• Thesis – Study of Electrical and Dielectric Properties of Ion Conducting additives based Solid Polymer Electrolytes and their Application
Education –
2005 – 2011 Ph.D. Physics Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, India 2003 – 2005 M. Sc. Physics (First)
# Udai Pratap College, Varanasi, India
2000 – 2003 B. Sc. (First) Udai Pratap College, Varanasi, India 1998 – 2000 Intermediate (First) Gov. Queens Inter College, Varanasi, India 1996 – 1998 High School (First)
* B.T.S. High School, Varanasi, India
Awards / Honors
2015-2016 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Fellowship, Stockholm, Sweden 2014 UGC-DSK, Postdoc Fellowship India
2012-2013 CNRS, Postdoc Fellowship France
2009-2011 Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR, New Delhi, India 2011 International travel grant from CSIR, India
2010 International travel grant from DST, India
2007-2009 UGC Research Fellowship, BHU, India
1998 Plus Vidyarthi Pratibha Samman for outstanding performance
#Specialization in Electronics, *passed out with distinction marks 1
Skills –
Materials Ionic Liquids, Solid Polymer Electrolytes, Electroactive polymers Membranes for fuel cells, Nanocomposites, Hybrid/blend-polymer, DSSCs, Perovskite Solar cells
Physico-chemistry Ionic Liquid synthesis/characterizations, Tribo-chemistry, Membrane preparation solution cast, hot-press, sol-gel, vacuum depo, electrospinning Spectroscopy in situ SANS/SAXS, micro-SAXS, XRR/NR, QENS, XPS, XAS, H-NMR NEXAFS/XANES, dielectric relaxation spectroscopy
XRD, SEM, AFM, FT-IR, UV-Visible, DSC / TGA, Impedance spectroscopy Accelerator Swift Heavy ion-irradiation (IUAC, Delhi), Gamma-ray (BARC-Mumbai) Technical skills handling / Operating Fuel cell Test Bench, Solar Cell measurements, Vacuum coating unit, Furnaces, low and high temperature EIS measurements Large facility in-situ/operando water management and proton dynamics in PEM fuel cell studied at ILL/ESRF/MAX-LUND performed at different beam lines (ID22, IN5, IN16/B, ID02, BM02, BM32, and MAX-Lab, Super-Adam)
Teaching skills
Several years of teaching experience of B.Sc. classes Personal skills
Fluent in English reading / writing,
French (basics), Swedish (basics),
Hindi (mother tongue)
Life member of Indian Physics Association (IPA) VAR/LM/12652 Indian Science Congress Association (INSA) L18576
International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) 10118 Reviewer Ionics, Springer
Spectrochemica Acta, J. of Phys. and Chem. of Solids, Elsevier Basic information
Nationality Indian
Date of Birth 17 Dec 1983
Place of Birth Varanasi, India
Marital status Single
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Publications –
1- G.K. Prajapati, P.N. Gupta, Study of ionic conductivity, dielectric and capacitance measurement of γ- irradiated conducting polymeric electrolytes, Phase Trans., 82 (2009) 1-9. 2 G.K. Prajapati, P.N. Gupta, Conduction mechanism in un-irradiated and γ-irradiated PVA- H3PO4 polymer electrolytes, Nuclear Instr. Meth Physics Research B, 267 (200*-****-****. 3- G.K. Prajapati, R. Roshan and P.N. Gupta, Effect of plasticizer on ionic transport and dielectric properties of PVA-H3PO4 polymeric electrolytes, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 71-201*-****-****. 4- G.K. Prajapati, R. Roshan and P.N. Gupta, Structural and electrical characterization of plasticized PVA: AgI polymer electrolyte, J. Polymer. Eng. 31 (2011) 275–278. 5- G.K. Prajapati*, P.N. Gupta, Comparative study of electrical and dielectric properties of PVA: PEG: Al2O3: MI (M=Na, K, Ag) polymer electrolyte system, Physica B 406 (201*-****-**** 6- G.K. Prajapati*, P.N. Gupta, 50 MeV Li3+ ion irradiation effect on structural, electrical, and dielectric properties of PVA-based nanocomposite polymer electrolytes, Ionics 1 (2014) 37-44. 7- M. Maccarini, S. Lyonnard, A. Morin, J F Blachot, E Di Cola, G Prajapati, M. Reynolds, G. Gebel, Submicrometer 3D structural evidence of fuel cell membrane heterogeneous degradation, ACS Macro Lett. 3, (2014) 778−783.
8- M. Fumagalli, S. Lyonnard, G. Prajapati, Q. Berrod, L. Porcar, A. Guillermo, G. Gebel, Fast Water Diffusion and Long-Term Polymer Relaxations During Nafion Membrane Hydration Evidenced by Time-Resolved SANS, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Part: Part B:, 119,
9- S. Kumar, G.K. Prajapati, A.L. Saroj, P.N. Gupta, Structural, Electrical and Dielectric studies of nano-composite polymer blend electrolyte films based on (70-x) PVA-x PVP-NaI-SiO2, Physica B, Accepted.
Peer reviewed Proceedings
10- P.N. Gupta, G.K. Prajapati, R. Roshan, Effect of Li 3+ ion irradiation on ionic transport properties of complexed polymer electrolytes MRS, 2010 Spring Meeting, Vol.1269 pp FF03-02. 11- G.K. Prajapati, R. Roshan, P.N. Gupta, Investigations on electrical and dielectric properties of Al2O3:NaI dispersed composite polymer electrolyte based on PVA, Proc. NSU-XVII-2008, Ed. Singh et al (MacMillan Pub. Ltd., 2008) pp. 328-332. 12- P. N. Gupta, G. K. Prajapati, Effect of temperature and γ-radiation on electrical characterization of conducting polymer electrolytes, Proc. 2007 Conf. Solid State Ionics (Ed.) Ir. Tutun Nugraha et al, (Serpong, Indonesia, 2007) pp 51-55. 13- P.N. Gupta, G.K. Prajapati, Irradiation effect on dielectric and electrical properties of H3PO4 based polymeric Electrolytes, Recent Advances in Composite Materials Ed. V. K. Srivastava et al (Allied Pub. Ltd, 2007) pp 1019-1023. Book Chapter
14-P.N. Gupta, G.K. Prajapati and R. Roshan, Effect of Nano-particles of Al2O3 on electrical and dielectric properties of PVA-H3PO4 polymer electrolytes, Polymer Processing and Characterization, Volume 1, Apple Pub 2012.
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Submitted
15-G.K. Prajapati, Effect of fumed silica nanoparticles on Water sorption and Ionic transport properties of PVA based nanocomposite polymer electrolyte membranes for fuel cell applications, Ionics.
16- J. Gao, W. Yang, A. M. El-Zohry, G. K. Prajapati, Y. Fang, J. Dai, Per H. Svensson, I. Furó, G. Boschloo, T. Lund, Lars Kloo, Light-induced electrolyte reaction: a simple strategy solving diffusion-controlled hysteresis in cobalt tris(bipyridine) mediated dye-sensitized solar cells, J. Mat. Chem. A..
Manuscript under preparation
17- G.K. Prajapati, Y. Wang, M. Rutland, S. Glavatskih, G. Palsson, L. Kloo, Controlling the composition of an ionic liquid boundary layer using electric potentials: a neutron reflectance study
18- G.K. Prajapati, Oleg Antzutkin, S. Glavatskih, Lars Kloo, Inter-ionic Interactions in the
[P6,6,6,14][BMB] Ionic Liquid Investigated by Near-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Oral presentations
2016 Bounadry layer formation in Ionic liquids at charged gold surfaces: A Neutron Reflectometry study, 8th ILEAP meeting held at Stockholm, Sweden 2015 Interfaces and Interionic interactions of Ionic Liquids perceived by Synchrotron based XPS and XAS, 7th ILEAP meeting held at Lulea, Sweden 2011 Effect of fumed silica nanoparticles on electrical and dielectric properties of PVA-PEG- H3PO4 polymer electrolytes, 4th One Day Conference on New Trends in Research, BHU- Varanasi
2010 Investigation on ion transport properties of PVA complexed polymer electrolytes dispersed with Al2O3 nanoparticles, 3rd One Day Conference on New Trends in Research, BHU Varanasi
2010 Effect of Nano particles of Al2O3 on electrical and dielectric properties of PVA-H3PO4 Polymer electrolytes, 2nd Int. Conf. Polymer processing and characterization of materials, Kottayam, Kerala
2009 Characterization of Ion transport properties of plasticized poly (vinyl alcohol) polymer Electrolytes, 2nd One Day Conference on New Trends in Research, BHU Varanasi 2008 Effect of plasticizer on ionic transport properties of PVA-H3PO4 complex electrolytes. National Conf. on Semiconductor materials & Technology, Haridwar, Uttarakhand 2007 Study on Electrical and dielectric properties of PVA-H3PO4 solid polymer electrolytes, 1st One Day Conference on New Trends in Research, BHU Varanasi 4
Poster presentations
2013 Water properties of perfluorosulfonated membranes under symmetric and asymmetric hydration conditions: an in-situ NMR study, 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials, Auckland, New Zealand. 2012 Comparative study of water sorption in PerFluorinated Sufonic Acid (PFSA) membranes for PEMFC: SAXS and SANS, 16th International conference on Solid State Proton Conductors, Grenoble, France
2011 Investigation on electrical and dielectric properties of SiO2 dispersed nanocomposite polymer electrolytes, Conference on Nanomaterials and Applications: Present and Road Ahead, Varanasi, India
2011 Investigation on electrical and dielectric properties of SiO2 dispersed nanocomposite polymer electrolytes, International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Univ of Delhi, India
2010 Ion transport properties of gamma irradiated PVA-H3PO4 complexed solid polymer electrolytes, 3rd International Conference on Multifunctional materials BHU, Varanasi 2010 Effect of Lithium ion Irradiation on Nanocomposite Polymer Electrolytes, 61st International Society of Electrochemistry, Nice, France 2010 Structural and electrical characterization of plasticized PVA: AgI polymer electrolyte, 2nd International Conference on Polymer processing and characterization of materials, Kottayam, Kerala
2008 Investigations on electrical and dielectric properties of Al2O3:KI nanocomposite polymer electrolytes. 17th National Symposium on Ultrasonics, BHU-Varanasi 2008 Investigation on electrical and dielectric properties of Al2O3: NaI dispersed composite Polymer electrolyte based on PVA. National Conference on Semiconductor materials & Technology, Haridwar, Uttarakhand
2008 Lithium ions irradiation effect on PVA based complexed solid polymer electrolytes; Accelerator based Research on Polymer Science, IUAC-New Delhi 2007 Irradiation effects on dielectric and electrical properties of PVA-H3PO4 based polymeric Electrolytes, 2nd Int. Conf. on Recent Advances in Composite Materials, New Delhi Workshop / Symposia participations
2011 Workshop on Writing Research Papers, National Academy of Sciences, Department of Physics, BHU-Varanasi.
2011 Workshop on Electronic and Ionic Materials & Devices, Dept of Physics, BHU Varanasi. 2010 Workshop on Recent Trends in Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Applied Physics, IIT-BHU, Varanasi.
2009 Workshop on Radiation Safety in Teaching and Research, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU- Varanasi & Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Mumbai. 2008 A SERC School on Condensed Matter interface with Chemistry & Biology, DAE-BRNS BARC-Mumbai.
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References –
1. Lars Kloo, Professor and Director of group
Applied Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences and Engineering KTH Royal Institute of Technology
100 44 Stockholm Sweden
Email: *****@***.**, Ph: +46-8-790 93 43
2. Sergei Glavatskih, Professor, I-LEAP Coordinator and Head Machine design and Green Energy Department
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
100 44 Stockholm Sweden
Email: *****@***.**, Ph: +46-8-790 63 82
3. Prof P.N. Gupta, Ph.D. Mentor
Physics Department
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi -221005, India
Email: *********@*****.**.**, Ph: +91-983*******
4. Sandrine Lyonnard, Head
PCI-SPrAM, INAC-CEA/CNRS/UJF
38000, Grenoble, France
Email: ********.********@***.**, Ph: +33-4-38 78 92 86 5. Gerard Gebel, Head of LITEN
LETI/LITEN-CEA
38000, Grenoble, France
Email: ******.*****@***.**, Ph: +33-4-38 78 56 91
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