Kushwaha's Group
Nano & Energy Materials Lab
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INDORE
Publications
Patents
Amorphous Metal Oxide films, (In area of multifunctional Inorganic coating); Technology is licensed
K.L.G. Goh, H.Q. Le, and Ajay Kushwaha
International Patent: WO-2,016,039,693
US(WIPO) patent:US20170259300
Book Chapters
4. Two dimensional (2-D) thermoelectric materials
Ajay Kushwaha, Hemen Kalita, Siddhartha Suman, Aditya Bhardwaj and Rajesh Ghosh
Thermoelectricity and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials
Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials,2021, Pages 233-260
3. Application of Nanotechnology in Detection and Prevention of Covid-19
Ajay Kushwaha, Hemen Kalita, Aditya Bhardwaj, Siddhartha Suman, Biswajit Dehengia and Rajneesh Kumar Mishra
Integrated risk of Covid-19 like outbreaks: Impacts, Resilience and Recommendations, Springer Publishing, (2020) .
2. Zinc oxide nanowire films: solution growth, defect states and electrical conductivity
Ajay Kushwaha and M. Aslam
Advanced Materials for Agriculture, Food and Environmental Safety, WILEY-Scrivener Publishing, LLC, USA (2014).
1. Development in electrodes and electrolytes of Dye-sensitized solar cells
Ajay Kushwaha, Nagaraju Mokurala, Krishnaiah Mokurala and Siddhartha Suman
Photosynthetic Protein based photovoltaics, Taylor and Francis group (2018)
Review Articles
63. Transparent heat regulating (THR) materials and coatings for energy saving window applications: Impact of materials design, micro-structural, and interface quality on the THR performance
G. K. Dalapati, Ajay Kushwaha, M Sharma, V Suresh, S Shannigrahi, S Zhuk, and S Masudy-Panah,
Progress in Materials Science, 95, 42, (2018) Impact Factor: 39.580
62. Critical review on sputter-deposited Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) based thin film photovoltaic technology focusing on device architecture and absorber quality on the solar cells performance
S. Zhuk, Ajay Kushwaha, T. K.S.Wong, S. Masudy-Panah, A.Smirnov and G. K. Dalapati,
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 171, 239 (2017) , Impact Factor: 7.267
Peer-reviewed journal publications
Aditya Bhardwaj Ajay Kumar Kushwaha
Nanomaterials and Energy (2023) Impact Factor: 2.03
Abhinav Maurya, Lokanath Mohapatra, Siddhartha Suman, Aditya Bhardwaj & Ajay Kumar Kushwaha
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (2023) Impact Factor: 2.03
Lokanath Mohapatra, Ajay K Kushwaha
Ceramics International (2023) Impact Factor: 5.53
Upendra Kumar, Vipin Kumar, Ajay Kumar Kushwaha, Sung Beom Cho
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures (2022) Impact Factor: 3.37
SiddharthaSuman, NagarajuMukurala, LokanathMohapatra, Ajay KumarKushwaha
Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems (2022)
LokanathMohapatra, MukuralaNagaraju, SiddharthaSuman, Ajay K.Kushwaha
Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2022) Impact Factor: 6.37
Abhinav Maurya, Siddhartha Suman, Aditya Bhardwaj, Lokanath Mohapatra & Ajay Kumar Kushwaha
Electrocatalysis (2022) Impact Factor: 2.93
Aditya Bhardwaj, Ajay K. Kushwaha
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (2022) Impact Factor: 2.47
SiddharthaSuman, Ajay K. Kushwaha
Journal of Solid State Chemistry (2022) Impact Factor: 3.49
Aditya Bhardwaj, Ajay K. Kushwaha
ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology (2022) Impact Factor: 2.07
Mokurala Krishnaiah, Ajit Kumar, Ajay K. Kushwaha Junyoung Song, Sung Hun Jin
Materials Letters (2021) Impact Factor: 3.42
Nagaraju Mukurala, Krishnaiah Mokurala, Lokanath Mohapatra, Siddhartha Suman, Ajay Kumar Kushwaha
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy(2021) Impact Factor: 5.81
Mokurala Krishnaiah, AjitKumar, Dhananjay Mishra, Ajay Kumar Kushwaha, Sung Hun Jin, Jong Tae Park
Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2021) Impact Factor: 5.316
Siddhartha Suman, Nagaraju Mukurala, Ajay K Kushwaha
Materials Chemistry and Physics 271(2021)124958, Impact Factor: 4.094
Nagaraju Mukurala, Krishnaiah Mokurala, Ajit Kumar, Ajay K Kushwaha , Sung Hun Jin
Ceramics International Impact Factor: 4.527
Nagaraju Mukurala, Krishnaiah Mokurala, Siddhartha Suman, Ajay K Kushwaha
Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects 26 (2021) 100697,
Mukurala Nagaraju, Siddhartha Suman, Aditya Bhardwaj, Krishnaiah Mokurala, Sung Hun Jin, Ajay K Kushwaha
Applied Surface Science 551 (2021) 149377, Impact Factor:6.707
44. Recent Development in Analytical Model for Graphene Field Effect Transistors for RF Circuit Applications
Abhishek Kumar Upadhyay, Ajay K Kushwaha, Deepika Gupta, Santosh K Vishvakarma
arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.01955
43. Annealing induced surface restructuring in hydrothermally synthesized gallium oxide nano-cuboids
SiddharthaSuman, NagarajuMukurala, Ajay K. Kushwaha
Journal of Crystal Growth 554 (2021) 125946, Impact Factor: 1.797
42. Nanoengineered Advanced Materials for Enabling Hydrogen Economy: Functionalized Graphene–Incorporated Cupric Oxide Catalyst for Efficient Solar Hydrogen Production (Global Challenges 3/2020)
Goutam Kumar Dalapati, Saeid Masudy‐Panah, Roozbeh Siavash Moakhar, Sabyasachi Chakrabortty, Siddhartha Ghosh, Ajay Kushwaha, Reza Katal, Chin Sheng Chua, Gong Xiao, Sudhiranjan Tripathy, Seeram Ramakrishna
Global Challenges 4 (3), 2070031
41. Sulphur precursor dependent crystallinity and optical properties of solution grown Cu2FeSnS4 particles
N. Mukurala, R.K. Mishra, S.H. Jin, and Ajay Kushwaha, Materials Research Express, 6 (8), 085099, 2019
40. Vertical-slate-like MoS2 nanostructures on 3D-Ni-foam for binder-free, low-cost, and scalable solid-state symmetric supercapacitors
R.K. Mishra, Ajay Kushwaha, S. Kim, S.G. Seo and S.H. Jin, Current Applied Physics , 19, 1-7 (2019)
39. Explicit Model of Channel Charge, Backscattering, and Mobility for Graphene FET in Quasi-Ballistic Regime
A.K. Upadhyay, Ajay Kushwaha, P. Rastogi, Y.S. Chauhan and S.K. Vishvakarma, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices , 65 5468 (2018)
38. Binder-Free, Scalable Hierarchical MoS2 as Electrode Materials in Symmetric Supercapacitors for Energy Harvesting Applications
R. K. Mishra, M. Krishnaih, S. Y. Kim, Ajay Kushwaha, and S. H. Jin, Materials Letters , (In-Press:2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2018.10.009
37. AuPd bimetallic nanoparticle decorated TiO2 rutile nanorod arrays for enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting
R. Moakhar, M. Jalali, Ajay Kushwaha, G. K. L. Goh, N. R. Noori, A. Dolati and M. Ghorbani, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry , 48, 995 (2018)
36. A Unified Scalable Quasi-Ballistic Transport Model of GFET for Circuit Simulations
A. Upadhyaya, Ajay Kushwaha and S.K. Vishvakarma, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 65, 739 (2018)
35. Impact of molybdenum out diffusion and interface quality on the performance of sputter grown CZTS based solar cells
G.K. Dalapati, S. Zhuk, S. Masudy-Panah, Ajay Kushwaha, H. Leng et al. Scientific Reports 7, 1350 (2017)
34. Influence of electrodeposition modes on the electrochemical performance of MnO 2 films prepared using anionic MnO4 - (Mn 7+ ) precursor
RK Mishra, CS Prajapati, RR Shahi, Ajay Kushwaha,and P P Sahay, Ceramics International, OI 10.1016/j.ceramint.2017.12.224 (2017)
33. Electrochemical supercapacitive performance of potentiostatically cathodic electrodeposited nanostructured MnO2 films
P.P. Sahay and Ajay Kushwaha, J Solid State Electrochem, DOI: 10.1007/s10008-017-3574-7
32. Stable and Efficient CuO Based Photocathode through Oxygen-Rich Composition and Au Pd Nanostructure Incorporation for Solar-Hydrogen Production
S. M.Panah, S. Roozbeh; S.C. Chua, Ajay Kushwaha, and G.K. Dalapati, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,9 (33), 27596 (2017)
31. Morphologically tailored CuO photocathode using aqueous solution technique for enhanced visible light driven water splitting
Ajay Kushwaha*, G. K. Dalapati, R. S. Moakhar, and G. K. L. Goh, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 337, 54-61 (2017)
30. A Facile pH Controlled Citrate-Based Reduction Method for Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis at Room Temperature
H.Tyagi#, Ajay Kushwaha#, A. Kumar and M. Aslam, Nanoscale Res Lett, 11, 362 (2016) #Equal contribution
29. All earth abundant materials for low cost solar-driven hydrogen production
G.K. Dalapati, S.C. Chin, Ajay Kushwaha, SL Liew, V Suresh, D Chi, Materials Letters 183, 183 (2016)
28. Rapid thermal annealing assisted stability and efficiency enhancement in a sputter deposited CuO photocathode
S. M. Panah, R.S. Moakhar, C.S. Chua, Ajay Kushwaha, and G.K. Dalapati, RSC Adv., 6, 29383 (2016)
27. Enhancement in solar driven water splitting by AuPd nanoparticle decoration of electrochemically grown ZnO nanorods
S. Roozbeh*, Ajay Kushwaha*, M. Jalali, G.K.L Goh, M. Dolati and A. Ghorbani, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, 1-9 (2016) #Equal contribution
26. Copper Oxide Nano-particles Film On Glass By Using Sputter And Chemical Bath Deposition Technique
A. Das, Ajay Kushwaha, G.K. Dalapati, N. R. Bansal, V. Suresh and S. Chattopadhyay, Advanced Materials Letters 7, 600 (2016)
25. Au-Pd bimetallic nanoparticle electrodes for direct electroreduction of hexavalent chromium complexes
R.S. Moakhar, M. Bagheri, Ajay Kushwaha, A. Dolati, M. Ghorbani and G.K.L.Goh, Australian Journal of Chemistry 69, 423 (2016)
24. Temperature-dependent electrical characteristics of CBD/CBD grown n-ZnO nanowire/p-Si heterojunction diodes
A. Das, Ajay Kushwaha, S. Chakraborty, H.S. Dutta, A. Karmakar,D. Chi, and G. Dalapati, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49, 145105 (2016)
23. Enhanced dye loading-light harvesting TiO2 photoanode with screen printed nanorod-nanoparticles assembly for highly efficient solar cell
M. Jalali, R.S. Moakhar, Ajay Kushwaha, G.K..L Goh, N. Riahi-Noori, and S. K. Sadrnezhaad, Electrochimica Acta 169, 395-401 (2015)
22. Cr-induced modifications in the structural, photoluminescence and acetone-sensing behaviour of hyrothermally synthesised SnO2 nanoparticles
R.K. Mishra, Ajay Kushwaha, P.P. Sahay, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience 10, 1042 (2015)
21. TiO2 surface nanostructuring for improved dye loading and light scattering in double layered screen printed dye sensitized solar cells
M. Jalali, R.S. Moakhar, Ajay Kushwaha, G.K.L. Goh, N.R. Noori and S. K. Sadrnezhaad, J. Applied Electrochemistry 45,831 (2015)
20. SnO2 quantum dots decorated on RGO: A superior sensitive, selective and reproducible performance for a H2 and LPG sensor
RK Mishra, SB Upadhyay, Ajay Kushwaha, TH Kim, G Murali, R Verma, M. Srivastava,J. Singh, P. P. Sahayb and S.H. Lee, Nanoscale 7, 11971 (2015)
19. ZnS shielded ZnO nanowire photoanodes for efficient water splitting
Ajay Kushwaha and M. Aslam, Electrochimica Acta 130, 222 (2014)
18. Influence of Cu doping on the structural, photoluminescence and formaldehyde sensing properties of SnO2 nanoparticles
R.K. Mishra, Ajay Kushwaha and P.P. Sahay, RSC Advances 4 (8), 3904 (2014)
17. Spray-deposited nanocrystalline WO3 thin films prepared using tungsten hexachloride dissolved in N-N dimethylformamide and influence of In doping on their structural, optical and electrical properties
M. Mukherjee, Ajay Kushwaha and P.P. Sahay, Electronic Materials Letters,10, 401 (2014)
16. Improved structural and optical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films via optimized potential in single bath electrodeposition
B. Ananthoju, F.J. Sonia, Ajay Kushwaha, D. Bahadur, N.V. Medhekar and M. Aslam, Electrochimica Acta 137, 154 (2014)
15. Defect controlled water splitting characteristics of gold nanoparticle functionalized ZnO nanowire films
Ajay Kushwaha and M Aslam, RSC Advances 4 (40), 20955 (2014)
14.Tuning the Observability of Surface Plasmon in Silica–Gold Raspberry Shaped Nanoparticles Using Cuprous Oxide Shell
H. Tyagi, J. Mohapatra, Ajay Kushwaha and M. Aslam, ACS applied materials & interfaces 5 (23), 12268-12274 (2013)
13. Effect of Al dopants on the structural, optical and gas sensing properties of spray-deposited ZnO thin films
C.S. Prajapati, Ajay Kushwaha, P.P. Sahay, Materials Chemistry and Physics 142 (1), 276 (2013)
12. Experimental investigation of spray-deposited Fe-doped ZnO nanoparticle thin films: structural, microstructural, and optical properties
C.S. Prajapati, Ajay Kushwaha, P.P. Sahay, Journal of thermal spray technology 22 (7), 1230 (2013)
11. Hydrogen-incorporated ZnO nanowire films: stable and high electrical conductivity
Ajay Kushwaha and M. Aslam, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 46, 485104 (2013)
10. Role of defect states in magnetic and electrical properties of ZnO nanowires
Ajay Kushwaha, H Tyagi and M Aslam, AIP Advances 3 (4), 042110 (2013)
9. Influence of Fe doping on the structural, optical and acetone sensing properties of sprayed ZnO thin films
C.S. Prajapatia, Ajay Kushwaha and P. P. Sahay, Materials Research Bulletin 48, 2687 (2013)
8. Optoelectronics and formaldehyde sensing properties of tin-doped ZnO thin films
C.S. Prajapati, Ajay Kushwaha and P.P. Sahay, Applied Physics A 339, 7589 (2013)
7. Defect induced high photocurrent in solution grown vertically aligned ZnO nanowire array films
Ajay Kushwaha and M Aslam, Journal of Applied Physics 112, 054316 (2012)
6. Controlled growth of highly oriented ZnO nanorod array on amorphous glass substrate and their optical and electrical properties
Ajay Kushwaha and M Aslam, International Journal of Nanoscience 10, 635 (2011)
5. pH-dependent synthesis of stabilized gold nanoparticles using ascorbic aciders
H. Tyagi, Ajay Kushwaha, A. Kumar and M. Aslam, International Journal of Nanoscience 10, 857 (2011)
4. Performance Enhancement of p-type Organic Thin Film Transistors Using Zinc Oxide Nanostructures
A. Kumar, R.R. Navan, Ajay Kushwaha, M. Aslam and V. Ramgopal Rao, International Journal of Nanoscience 10, 761 (2011)
3. Electrochemical unzipping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes for facile synthesis of high-quality graphene nanoribbons
D.B. Shinde, J. Debgupta, Ajay Kushwaha, M. Aslam and V.K. Pillai, Journal of the American Chemical Society 133, 4168 (2011) (Highlighted in Nature India)
2. A novel catalyst-free synthesis of vertically aligned silicon nanowire–carbon nanotube heterojunction arrays high performance electron field emitters
V.S. Kale, B.R. Sathe, Ajay Kushwaha, M. Aslam and M.V. Shelke, Chemical Communications 47, 7785 (2011)
1. Synthesis of Rh–carbon nanotube based heterostructures and their enhanced field emission characteristics
B. R. Sathe, B.A. Kakade, Ajay Kushwaha, M. Aslam and V. K. Pillai, Chemical Communications 46 567
Conference Proceedings
6. Effect of Oxygen Annealing on the Surface Defects and Photoconductivity of Vertically Aligned ZnO Nanowire Array
Ajay Kushwaha, H. Kalita and M. Aslam; World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 74, 326 (2013)
7. Surface roughness induced defects and photoconductivity of acid etched ZnO nanowire arrays
Ajay Kushwaha and M. Aslam; IEEE Explore 2012, DOI:10.1109/ICEmElec.2012.6636232)
8. Energy efficient and size-tunable synthesis of ‘colloidal’ zinc oxide nanoparticles by simple beaker chemistry
Ajay Kushwaha, V. Singh and M. Aslam, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1349, 391 (2011)
9. PVA stabilized gold nanoparticles using ascorbic acid as a reducing agent
H. Tyagi, Ajay Kushwaha , A. Kumar, and M. Aslam, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1349, 419 (2011)
10. Synthesis and photo luminescence properties of zno nanorod grown via hydrothermal approach
Ajay Kushwaha , Anshuman Kumar and M. Aslam, 54th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium Proceeding (2009)
1. Effect of solvents on structural, morphological and optical properties of solvothermally grown Cu2FeSnS4 particles
N. Mukurala, S. Suman and Ajay Kushwaha, AIP Conference Proceedings , 2115 (1), 030603 (2019)
2. Enhanced electrical conductivity and reduced defect emissions of ZnO:Mo nanowire array films
Ajay Kushwaha and M. Aslam, AIP Proceeding, 1512, 240 (2013)
3. Structural and optical properties of electrochemically grown highly crystalline Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films
B. Ananthoju, Ajay Kushwaha, F. J. Sonia and M. Aslam, AIP Proceeding, 1512, 706 (2013)
4. Morphology controlled synthesis of ZnO nanostructure through a mild-thermal decomposition
S. Singh, J. Mohapatra, A. Mitra, Ajay Kushwaha, M. Aslam, AIP Proceeding, 1512, 326 (2013)
5. Burr Formation and Surface Quality in High Speed Micromilling of Titanium Alloy (Ti6Al4V)
V. Bajpai, Ajay Kushwaha and R.K. Singh, ASME 2013 Volume 2: Systems; Micro and Nano Technologies