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The Centre of excellence on Advanced Functional Materials is being established by the Department of Physics. The primary goal of this center is to provide state-of-the-art facilities to in-campus and outside users from various universities, academia, industries and society. This COE is currently engaged in the cutting-edge research of soft materials and nanocolloids, green technologies and energy harvesting, double perovskite materials and fuel cell purification & dye degradation, carbon nanomaterials and graphene for water purification. The facilities available in this COE are centrifugal Unit, hydrothermal reactor, photocatalytic reactors, UV-Visible spectrophotometer, Polarizing Optical Microscope, electro-optical and polarization measurements etc

List of equipments:

  • Polarizing Optical Microscopy with Hot stage
  • UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
  • Finsler Geometry
  • Spin Coater
  • Centrifuge
  • Hydrothermal Reactor
  • Spray Coating unit
  • Vacuum Oven
  • Fume Hood
  • Laminar airflow
  • Water purification unit
  • Ultrasonicator
  • Microwave synthesis facility
  • UV Cabinet
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A Centre of Excellence on Materials Science and Nano Engineering is being established by Department of Physics to cater to the students at UG, PG and PhD level to pursue their research work in the field of materials science at bulk and nano scale. The COE will provide state-of-the-art facilities such as computer controlled LCR meter, DC Poling unit, Thin Film Deposition by Dip Coating unit, muffle furnace, Magnetic Tc measurement setup (by Sohoo’s Drop Method) etc.

List of equipments:

  • Weighing Balance
  • Ball Mill
  • Hot Air Oven
  • Hydraulic Press
  • Muffle furnace (1300oC)
  • Muffle furnace (1400oC)
  • Magnetic Stirrer
  • DIP Coating Unit
  • Sonicator
  • LCR Meter
  • DC Poling Unit
  • Magnetic Tc set up
  • PE loop tracer
  • FTIR
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Fluid Dynamics

Area - 1: Advanced Functional Smart Materials

Dr. Ravi Kumar Shukla, Dr. Samta Manori, Dr. Natasha Awasthi, Dr. Sonam M. Mishra, Dr. Sanghamitro Chatterjee
Research Scholars: Mrs. Savita, Ms. Kajal Sharma

The research group working in this area works in one of the research labs present in DIT, which is the Advanced Functional Smart Materials Laboratory. This lab has been established in the year 2019 and inaugurated by the Honourable Chancellor and Vice-chancellor sir on 7th October 2019. The primary goal of this laboratory is to provide state-of-the-art facilities to in-campus and outside users from various universities, academia, industries and society. Our team is currently engaged in the cutting-edge research of soft materials and nanocolloids, green technologies and energy harvesting, double perovskite materials, fuel cell, purification and dye degradation, functional materials, photocatalytic smart surfaces and interfaces, sensors, energy storage devices, carbon nanomaterials and graphene for water purification and mesoscopic transport etc. In this laboratory, we have synthesis facilities such as a spin coating unit, ultrasonic bath, hot air oven, centrifugal Unit, hydrothermal reactor, photocatalytic reactors, and a complete facility for nanoparticles and nanocomposites / nanocolloids synthesis. Characterization facilities such as UV-Visible spectrophotometer, Polarizing Optical Microscope, conductivity measurement, optical transmittance measurement, electro-optical and polarization measurements, Abbe Refractometer etc are available with us. Under this lab we are implementing many research sponsored and seed money projects. The Centre has active collaboration with Indian groups from various renowned institutions/ universities and with international groups from NSDU USA, Czech Academy of Sciences, IIT Roorkee etc. International publications from the laboratory can be searched on Scopus and Google scholar by the faculty name.

Design Engineering

Area - 2: Materials And Nano Engineering

Members: Prof. Manoj Bhatnagar, Prof. Surbhi Sachdev, Dr. Parveen Kumar, Dr. Vishakha Kaushik, Dr. Surjeet Chahal
Research Scholars: Mr. Manish Jha & Ms. Shivani Malik

The second research area also focuses on the experiments done in the Materials and Nano Engineering Research Lab which was established in the year 2019 and inaugurated by the Honourable Chancellor and Vice-chancellor sir on 7th October 2019. The primary goal of this laboratory is to provide state-of-the-art facilities to in-campus and outside users from various universities, academia, industries and society. The lab presently works on advanced materials such as ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, high K materials, single-phase multiferroics and composites. Under this lab, we have synthesis and characterization facilities including major equipments like Muffle Furnace, Electric oven, Magnetic Tc measurement set up (drop method), LCR meter, Ball mill, Hydraulic press, Poling Unit, Dip Coating Unit and Ultrasonicator. Under this lab we are implementing research sponsored projects viz (i) “Synthesis and characterization of thin films of electrocaloric materials for solid-state cooling applications”, DRDO Govt. of India (INR 21.5 Lakhs), (ii) “Exfoliation of large quantity MOS2 Nano sheets using a cost effective technique for catalytic applications” DIT university (1.5 lakhs). Some projects are submitted to different funding agencies. International publications from the laboratory can be searched on Scopus and Google scholar by the faculty name.

Design Engineering

Area - 3: Theoretical & Computational Physics

Members: Dr. Natasha Awasthi, Dr. Sonam M. Mishra, Dr. Soni Sharma, Prof. Debashish Chowdhury, Dr. Atanu Bhatta

Our research area in theoretical and computational physics involves a wide range of work in the field of quantum theory and computation, quantum optics and on non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Biological physics, Hydrodynamics and Active matter. Our team have been working in open quantum systems and its application, resource theory and non-Markovian channel, quantum speed limit, interplay between quantum foundation and quantum computation. In addition, we are also working on optical response in hybrid optomechanical systems that are used as an all-optical switch in quantum information devices. The computational physicist use AI & ML, MPI, OpenMP for parallel computing, writes extensive Codes in C, C++ and Fortran and does Molecular Dynamics simulations to generate In-vitro motility assays. This group uses various softwares in their research work like Mathematica, MATLAB, C++, FORTRAN, LaTeX, GNUPlot, Paraview, Tisean, OriginLab, LAMMPS, and GitHub. The theoretical and computational physicist group has active person-to-person collaboration with renowned institutes such as QIC (Quantum Information and Computing) group at Harish Chandra Research Institute Allahabad, Urmia Institute Iran, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad-Campus, University of Delhi, IISER Mohali, IIT Palakkad and IIT Mumbai.

From the experimental field to the theoretical field, the physics department helps in guiding students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in world-class research endeavors to complete their dissertation projects headed by our faculty members. The department of Physics offers many different projects in the field of material science, solid-state physics, soft matter physics, magnetic nanostructures and thin films, quantum optics, open quantum systems and so on. The students have their hands-on experience with various instruments available in COE labs to complete their experimental projects. Also, some of the students learn various physics concepts and software like MATHEMATICA, MATLAB and so on to do their theoretical projects.

S.No. NAME AREA OF RESEARCH
1 Prof. Surbhi Sachdev Material Science
2 Prof. Manoj Bhatnagar Condensed Matter Physics, Material Science
3 Prof. Debashish Chowdhury Interdisciplinary Applications of Statiscal Physics
4 Dr. Ravi Kumar Shukla Soft matter physics & Nanocolloids
5 Dr. Parveen Kumar Condensed Matter Physics
6 Dr. Samta Manori Magnetic nanostructures and thin films
7 Dr. Vishakha Kaushik Soild State Physics, Materials Science
8 Dr. Natasha Awasthi Open Quantum System
9 Dr. Sonam Mahajan Mishra Quantum Optics
10 Dr. Soni Sharma Theoretical Nanotechnologyy
11 Dr. Sanghamitro Chatterjee Soft Condensed Matter Physics
12 Dr. Atannu Bhatta String Theory

S.No. Name of research scholar Title of thesis Supervisor(s) University Year of award
1 Amit Badola Study and Analysis of Neutron Resonance Parameters and Cross-Sections Dr. Manoj Bhatnagar DIT University 2019
2 Khushbu Synthesis and Characterization of Binary and Ternary System of BaTiO3-PbZrO3-SmFeO3 Ceramics Dr. Parveen Kumar DIT University 2019
Name of Principal Investigator & Co-Investigator Name of the research project Amount sanctioned Name of Funding Agency Year of Sanction Status
Dr. Ravi Kumar Shukla (PI) Dr. K.K. Raina (Co-PI) Lyotropic liquid crystalline materials for capacitive devices and as a water free soft templates to develop nanostructures 39.3 Lakhs SERB 2017 Completed
Dr. Parveen Kumar (PI) Dr. Ravi Kumar Shukla (Co-PI) Synthesis and characterization of thin films of electrocaloric materials for solid state cooling applications 21.3 lakhs DRDO 2017 Completed

S.No. Title of Project Funding Agency Year of Sanction PI/CO PI Total approved cost of the project (in Rs.) Status
1 Lyotropic liquid crystalline materials for capacitive devices and as a water free soft templates to develop nanostructures SERB 2017 Dr. Ravi Kumar Shukla (PI) Dr. K.K. Raina (Co-PI) 39.3 Lakhs Completed
2 Synthesis and characterization of thin films of electrocaloric materials for solid state cooling applications DRDO 2017 Dr. Parveen Kumar (PI) Dr. Ravi Kumar Shukla (Co-PI) 21.3 lakhs Completed
3 Photo-Dielectric Effect in Liquid Crystals (PDELC) UGC-DAE 2024 Dr. Ravi Shukla 15 lakhs Ongoing

S.No. Faculty name Title of Project Total cost (Lakhs) Status
1 Dr. Ravi Shukla & Dr. Parveen Kumar Year: 2015-2016 Development of nano-composite/nano colloids and micro/thin film for dielectric, ferroelectric and capacitive applications 9.9 Completed
2 Dr. Ravi Shukla Year: 2016-2017 Liquid crystalline gel phases as electrolytes 1.5 Completed
3 Dr. Parveen Kumar Year: 2016-2017 Synthesis and Characterization of Magneto-electric Composites with 2-2 type Connectivity 1.7 Completed 
4 Dr. Samta Manori Year: 2017-2018 Development of Photocatalytic Self Cleaning Smart Surfaces: Role of TiO2 1.0 Completed 
5 Dr. Parveen Kumar Year: 2017-2018 Transition Metal Substituted Soft Nano-Ferrites for Humidity Sensors and Other Applications 1.2 Completed
6 Dr. Ravi Shukla Year: 2017-2018 Effect of Nano Particles Doping on the Physical Properties of Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Phases 5.5 Completed 
7 Dr. Pankaj Chamoli Year: 2017-2018 Synthesis of Graphene-Nanocomposite for organic dyes removal  2.0 Completed 
8 Dr. Vishakha Kaushik Dr. Surbhi Sachdev Year:2019 Exfoliation of large quantity MOS2 Nano sheets using a cost-effective technique for catalytic applications 1.5 Completed 
9 Dr. Natasha Awasthi Dr. Surbhi Sachdev Year:2019 Controlling Open Quantum system: A challenge for future quantum Technologies 0.7 Completed 
10 Dr. Anil K. Thakur Year: 2022 Surface controlled nanoarrays in nematics 2.0 Ongoing
11 Dr. Samta Manori Dr. Ravi K Shukla Year 2022 Development of double perovskite materials for solid oxide fuel cells for energy storage  3.0 Ongoing 
12 Dr. Surjeet Chahal Year 2022 Nanostructured metal oxide composites for photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants  2.25 Ongoing
13 Dr. Natasha Awasthi Effects of Quantum Correlations in Presence of Environment 2 Ongoing
14 Dr. Sonam Mahajan Mishra Optical Response of hybrid Optoelectromechanical systems: Feasibility of using in quantum Communication and Sensing 1 Ongoing

S.No. Publications
1 Aritra Sen, Debashish Chowdhury, Ambarish Kunwar, “Coordination, cooperation, competition, crowding and congestion of molecular motors: Theoretical models and computer simulations”, Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology (Elsevier), Volume 141, 563-650 (88 pages), 2024; published on 20th January 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.apcsb.2023.12.005, (Q1 Category).
2 Priya Yadav, Samta Manori, Pankaj Chamoli, Ravi Kumar Shukla, “Photocatalytic degradation of ternary dye mixture using RGO, γ-Fe2O3 and ZnO based binary and ternary nanocomposites”, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, Volume 167, 112791(June 2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inoche.2024.112791 (Q1 Category Journal)
3 Priya Yadav; Samta Manori; Ravi Kumar Shukla, , “Contact Electro Catalysis Driven Degradation of Malachite Green Dye by RGO/ZnO Nanohybrid”, Solid State Communications, Volume 389, 115578, (June 2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssc.2024.115578 (Q3 Category Journal)
4 Yogita; Prayas Singh; Samta Manori; Farheen; Havagiray Chitme; Kuldeep Kumar Raina; Ramesh Chandra; Ravi K. Shukla, , “Self-assembled lyotropic liquid crystals from natural surfactant: A study on their structural, rheological and antimicrobial behaviour”, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Volume 696, 134371, (June 2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2024.134371 (Q2 Category Journal)
5 Kanak, Yogita, Prayas Singh, Ashok Manori, Ashwani Kumar, Ramesh Chandra, KK Raina, Ravi Kumar Shukla, Samta Manori, , “Photocatalytic degradation of malachite green using PVDF membranes doped with Fe3O4 nanoparticles: role of porosity and surface roughness”, Physica Scripta, Vol. 98, 105953, (September 2023) https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/acf8a1 (Q2 Category Journal)
6 A Sagar, S Bhardwaj, A Gupta, H Tripathi, R Shukla, Structural, optical, and photocatalytic properties of Ni–Zn and Mg-Zn spinel ferrites, Interactions 245 (1), 1-17. (2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-024-01930-0 (Q3 Category Journal)
7 V Joshi, V Bachhar, SS Mishra, RK Shukla, A Gangal, M Duseja, GC–MS fingerprinting, nutritional composition, in vitro pharmacological activities and molecular docking studies of Piper chaba from Uttarakhand region, 3 Biotech 14 (6), 158. (2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-024-03996-7 (Q2 Category Journal)
8 Prayas Singh, Surbhi Sachdev, Samta Manori, Sumit Bhardwaj, Havagiray Chitme, Ashish Sharma, Kuldeep Kumar Raina, Ravi K Shukla, Graphene quantum dot doped viscoelastic lyotropic liquid crystal nanocolloids for antibacterial applications, Matter 19 (34), 6589-6603, (2023) https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SM00686G, (Q1 Category Journal)
9 Shriya Subramanyam, Suman, Lakshita Phor, Vishal Chaudhary, Vishakha Kaushik, Parveen Kumar, Surjeet Chahal, Progress in MXene synthesis approaches for energy systems: A comprehensive review, Journal of Energy Storage, 92 (2024), 112043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.112043. (Q1 category Journal)
10 Radhika Choudhary, Surbhi Sachdev, Surjeet Chahal, Vishal Singh, Ajay Singh, Renu Rani, Ankurava Sinha, Parveen Kumar, Structural refinement, dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Cr modified Ba0.90Sr0.10TiO3 ceramics, Ceramics International (in Press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2024.04.420. (Q1 category Journal)
11 Neha, Anshu Mehta, Manoj Bhatnagar, Parveen Kumar, Chandra Prakash, Improved Dielectric and Ferroelectric Properties Near Morphotropic Phase Boundary in Sm3+ Modified BZT-BCT Ceramics, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 188 (2024) 111894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2024.111894. (Q2 category Journal)
12 Radhika Choudhary, Vishal Singh, Ajay Singh, Surbhi Sachdev, Parveen Kumar, Investigation of Structural, Dielectric and Ferroelectric Properties of Nickel Substituted BST Ceramics, Phase Transitions, 97 (2024) 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411594.2023.2300992. (Q3 category Journal)
13 Radhika Choudhary, Vishal Singh, Ajay Singh, Surbhi Sachdev, Parveen Kumar, A comparative study on the effect of Cr3+, Fe3+ and Ni2+ substitution on the dielectric, ferroelectric and electrocaloric response of BST ceramics, Ceramics International, 49 (2023) 35145-35156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2023.08.187. (Q1 category Journal)
14 Ankit Kumar, Stuti Kartikey Trivedi, Lakshita Phor, Jaideep Malik, Samir Bhargava, Vishakha Kaushik, Parveen Kumar, Surjeet Chahal, Visible light activated Mg, Co co-doped hematite for effective removal of reactive red 35 from textile wastewater, Ceramics International, 49 (2023) 37691-37699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2023.09.095. (Q1 category Journal)
15 Vishakha Kaushik, N. Kumari, A. K. Bhojani, D. K. Singh, S. Pathak, “Rheological and shear thickening properties in MoS2 nanosheets dispersion: An integrated experimental and theoretical investigation” Physica B: Cond. Matt. 673, 415453 (2023). (Q2 category Journal)
16 S. Rawat, P. Bamola, C. Rani, Vishakha Kaushik, U. Kumar, C. Dwivedi, R. Rattan, M. Sharma, R. Kumar and H. Sharma, “Interdigitated electrodes-based Au-MoS2 hybrid gas sensor for sensing toxic CO and NH3 gases at room temperature” Nanotechnology, 34 305601 (2023). (Q1 category Journal)
17 H. Sharma, Vishakha Kaushik, S. Pathak, D. C. Agarwal, A. K. Shukla, D. K. Avasthi & V. D. Vankar, “Impact of ion-induced changes on field emission in multi-walled carbon nanotubes” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 34, 1152 (2023). (Q2 category Journal)
18 Sonam Mahajan, Neha Aggarwal and Aranya B Bhattacherjee “Optical response properties of a hybrid optomechanical system with quantum dot molecules assisted by second-order optomechanical coupling”, Physica Scripta, , (July 2023) Available online. https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ace28e (Q2 Category Journal)
19 Neha Aggarwal, Sonam Mahajan, N Batra and Aranya B Bhattacherjee, “Effect of atomic ensemble position on the dynamics of cold atoms in an optical cavity: normal-mode splitting”, Indian Journal of Physics, (September 2023) Available online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-023-02914-6 (Q3 Category Journal)
20 Ranjan Kumar, Madhav Kumar Singh, Sonam Mahajan, Aranya B. Bhattacherjee, “Study of optical bistability/multistability and transparency in cavity?assisted?hybrid optomechanical system embedded with quantum dot molecules”, Optical and Quantum Electronics, (December 2023) Available online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-023-05635-6 (Q2 Category Journal)
21 Soni Sharma, & Jagat Pal Singh, Development of size and shape dependent model for various thermodynamic properties of nanomaterials. Physics Open, 19, 100215. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physo.2024.100215 (Q3 Category Journal)
22 Soniya Gupta, Dheeraj Kumar Joshi, Natasha Awasthi, Manish Pant, Bhagawati prasad Joshi, and Shshank Chaube, (May 2024) "Distance and similarity measures of Hesitant bi-fuzzy set and its applications in renewable energy systems." Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2023.12.021 (Q1 Category Journal).
23 Soniya Gupta, Dheeraj Kumar Joshi, Natasha Awasthi, Shshank Chaube, and Bhagwati Joshi, "Distance and Similarity Measures of Hesitant Bi-Fuzzy Set and Its Applications in Pattern Recognition Problem." In International Conference on Computer Vision and Robotics, (Sep 2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4577-1_7 (Q2 Category Journal).
24 Natasha Awasthi, Ashutosh Singh, and Dheeraj Kumar Joshi, "Postponing the decay of entanglement and quantum coherence for maximally entangled mixed states under the action of correlated noise channels.” Frontiers in Quantum Science and Technology, (Nov 2023) Available online. https://doi.org/10.3389/frqst.2023.1207793.
S.No. Papers in Conferences
1 Radhika Choudhary, Neha, Parveen Kumar, Surbhi Sachdev, Vishal Singh, Study of structural, infrared, frequency dependent dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Fe substituted BST ceramics, Materials Today: Proceedings, (In press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2024.05.034.
2 S. Sharma, J. P. Singh, Development of size and shape dependent model for vibrational frequency of nanocrystals RP Current Trends In Engineering and Technology, 3, 20–22, (2024).
3 Shikha Uniyal, Kuldeep Choudhary, Sanjeev Kumar Raghuwanshi, Surbhi Sachdev, Santosh Kumar, Etched MMF optical fiber-based LMR biosensor for dopamine detection, Optical Proceedings Volume 12387, Optical Diagnostics and Sensing XXIII: Toward Point-of-Care Diagnostics; 1238703 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2648140, Event: SPIE BiOS, 2023, San Francisco, California, United States.
4 Shikha Uniyal, Kuldeep Choudhary, Sanjeev Kumar Raghuwanshi, Surbhi Sachdev, Santosh Kumar, Sensitive detection of vitamin C using etched SMS based LSPR biosensor Proceedings Volume 12372, Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment and Environmental Applications XXIII; 123720Q (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2648045, SPIE BiOS, 2023, San Francisco, California, United States.