Govind Kumar Prajapati

Mailing address: Shivdaspur Block- Road

Manduadih Varanasi – 221103

UP, India

ac9n15@r.postjobfree.com, ac9n15@r.postjobfree.com

Mb +91-945*******

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,

(201*-****-****.

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: ac9n15@r.postjobfree.com, 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: ac9n15@r.postjobfree.com, Ph: +46-8-790 63 82

3. Prof P.N. Gupta, Ph.D. Mentor

Physics Department

Banaras Hindu University

Varanasi -221005, India

Email: ac9n15@r.postjobfree.com, Ph: +91-983*******

4. Sandrine Lyonnard, Head

PCI-SPrAM, INAC-CEA/CNRS/UJF

38000, Grenoble, France

Email: ac9n15@r.postjobfree.com, Ph: +33-4-38 78 92 86 5. Gerard Gebel, Head of LITEN

LETI/LITEN-CEA

38000, Grenoble, France

Email: ac9n15@r.postjobfree.com, Ph: +33-4-38 78 56 91

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