Department of Chemistry

Dr. Gaind P. Pandey

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Research Associate

E-Mail: gpandey@ksu.edu

Education

Ph. D., Physics, 2010, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, C.G., India. Thesis: Investigations on Polymeric Electrolyte Based All-Solid-State Electrochemical Devices

M. Sc., Physics (Specialization: Solid State Physics) 1997-1999 School of Studies in Physics, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, CG, India.

B. Sc., 1994-1997,MajorSubjects: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, CG, India

Postdoctoral Experience

Current Position: Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA (Since July, 2013)

Previous Positions:

(i) Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Autonomous Solar Power (CASP), State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, USA (3/2011- 7/2013)

(ii) Postdoctoral Research Associate (CSIR), Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. (Fellowship awarded for three years by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India. (4/2010- 3/2011)

Awards

Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship by the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India (2011, not availed)

Research Associate and Senior Research Fellowship by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India (2010 and 2008)

Best Poster Presentation Award (Materials Science Section), 93rd Indian Science Congress, 3-7 January, 2006, Hyderabad, India.

Research Overview

Energy Materials and Electrochemical Power Sources (Batteries and Supercapacitors)

  • Solid-state Li-ion batteries and high energy density electrochemical capacitors.
  • Development of High capacity anode and cathode materials for advanced lithium ion batteries.
  • Development of new electrolytes for lithium and Sodium ion batteries (including ionic liquids and ionic liquid based polymer electrolytes).
  • Component materials to improve the performance of asymmetric supercapacitors (Li-ion capacitors and battery cathode materials based), polymer electrolytes based solid-state supercapacitors.
  • Different Carbon materials such as activated carbon, CNTs, graphene etc. and conducting polymer composite electrode materials (e.g. PEDOT, polyaniline composites) for supercapacitor applications.

Other Academic activities

Editorial Board Member of Heliyon, Elsevier's new broad scope, open access journal.

Referee for research proposals submitted American Chemical Society’s ACS-PRF for funding.

Reviewer for more than 25 reputed Journals.

Some Publications (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RfCby4YAAAAJ&hl=en)

  1. R.C. Agrawal, G.P. Pandey, Solid polymer electrolytes: material designing and all-solid-state battery application-an overview. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 41 (2008) 223001-18.
  2. * G. P. Pandey,A.C. Rastogi, C. R. Westgate,All-solid-state Supercapacitors with Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxy- thiophene)-Coated Carbon Fiber Paper Electrodes and Ionic Liquid Gel Polymer Electrolyte, J. Power Sources, 245 (2014) 857-865.
  3. * G. P. Pandey, S. A. Hashmi, Solid-state supercapacitors with ionic liquid based gel polymer electrolyte: Effect of lithium salt addition. J. Power Sources, 243 (2013) 211-218.
  4. G. P. Pandey, S. A. Hashmi, Ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetracyanoborate-based gel polymer electrolyte for electrochemical capacitors, J. Mater. Chem. A, 1 (2013) 3372-3378.
  5. * G. P. Pandey, A. C. Rastogi, Synthesis and Characterization of Pulsed Polymerized Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxy thiophene) Electrodes for High-Performance Electrochemical Capacitors, Electrochim. Acta, 87 (2013) 158-168.
  6. G. P. Pandey, Yogesh Kumar, S. A. Hashmi, Ionic liquid incorporated PEO based polymer electrolyte for electrical double layer capacitors: A comparative study with lithium and magnesium systems. Solid State Ionics 190 (2011) 93-98.
  7. G.P. Pandey, S.A. Hashmi, Yogesh Kumar, Multiwalled carbon nanotube electrodes for electrical double layer capacitors with ionic liquid based gel polymer electrolyte, J. Electrochem. Soc., 157(1) (2010) A105-A114.
  8. G.P. Pandey, R. C. Agrawal, S. A. Hashmi, Magnesium ion conducting gel polymer electrolytes dispersed with nanosized Magnesium oxide, J. Power sources, 190 (2009) 563-572.
  9. G.P. Pandey, S. A. Hashmi, Experimental investigations on ionic liquid based magnesium ion conducting polymer gel electrolyte, J. Power sources, 187 (2009) 627-634.
  10. G.P. Pandey, S. A. Hashmi, R. C. Agrawal, Hot-press synthesized polyethylene oxide based proton conducting nanocomposite polymer electrolyte dispersed with SiO2 nanoparticles, Solid State Ionics, 179 (2008) 543-549.