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Profile
| Academic position | Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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| Research fields | Production and Properties of Functional Materials,Experimental Condensed Matter Physics |
| Keywords | 2D layered materials, Composites/ Hybrids, Electrode, Graphene, Energy storage/ conversion device |
| Honours and awards | 2024: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, AvH, Germany 2024: Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics 2024: JSPS (Invitational) Fellowship, Japan 2018: JSPS (Standard) Fellowship, Japan 2018: Ramanujan Fellow, India 2017: Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Fellowship, Brazil 2014: Brain Korea (BK21+), South Korea |
Current contact address
| Country | India |
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| City | Kanpur |
| Institution | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur |
| Institute | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Homepage | https://sites.google.com/view/rajeshkumar1 |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ralf Riedel | Institut für Materialwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/2025 |
Programme(s)
| 2024 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Dr. Kumar is an internationally renowned authority in the field of materials science and engineering. His scientific achievements have set unprecedented landmarks in the fields of 2D graphene-based composite materials. Dr. Kumar has developed new synthesis approaches along with suitable mechanism to explain the formation of graphene-based electrode materials for energy applications. The research plan drawn up by Dr. Kumar for his stay in Germany envisages studies in the field of graphene modified materials for energy applications. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2024 | Rajesh Kumar, Sumanta Sahoo, Raghvendra Pandey, Ednan Joanni and Ram Manohar Yadav: Electromagnetic irradiation-assisted synthesis, exfoliation and modification of graphene-based materials for energy storage and sensing applications. In: Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 161, 2024, 100860 |
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| 2024 | Rajesh Kumar, Raghvendra Pandey, Ednan Joanni and Raluca Savu: Laser-induced and catalyst-free formation of graphene materials for energy storage and sensing applications. In: Chemical Engineering Journal, 497, 2024, 154968 |
| 2024 | Rajesh Kumar, Ednan Joanni, Wai Kian Tan and Atsunori Matsuda: Microwave-aided ultra-fast synthesis of Fe3O4 nanoparticles attached reduced graphene oxide edges as electrode materials for supercapacitors. In: Materials Today Communications, 38, 2024, 108438 |
| 2023 | Rajesh Kumar and Sumanta Sahoo and Ednan Joanni: Composites based on layered materials for absorption of microwaves and electromagnetic shielding. In: Carbon, 211, 2023, 118072 |
| 2023 | Rajesh Kumar and Sumanta Sahoo and Ednan Joanni and Jae-Jin Shim: Cutting edge composite materials based on MXenes: Synthesis and electromagnetic interference shielding applications. In: Composites Part B: Engineering, 264, 2023, 110874 |
| 2023 | Rajesh Kumar and Dinesh Pratap Singh and Romina Muñoz and Mongi Amami and Rajesh Kumar Singh and Shipra Singh and Vinod Kumar: Graphene-based materials for biotechnological and biomedical applications: Drug delivery, bioimaging and biosensing. In: Materials Today Chemistry, 33, 2023, 101750 |
| 2023 | Rajesh Kumar and Sumanta Sahoo and Ednan Joanni and Rajesh Kumar Singh and Ram Manohar Yadav: Graphene-metal oxide hybrid materials with 2D and 3D morphologies for advanced supercapacitor electrodes: Status, challenges and prospects. In: Materials Today Nano, 24, 2023, 100399 |
| 2023 | Rajesh Kumar and Sumanta Sahoo and Ednan Joanni and Raghvendra Pandey and Wai Kian Tan and Go Kawamura and Stanislav A. Moshkalev and Atsunori Matsuda: Microwave-assisted dry synthesis of hybrid electrode materials for supercapacitors: Nitrogen-doped rGO with homogeneously dispersed CoO nanocrystals. In: Journal of Energy Storage, 68, 2023, 107820 |
| 2023 | Kumar, Rajesh and Sahoo, Sumanta and Joanni, Ednan and Pandey, Raghvendra and Shim, Jae-Jin: Vacancy designed 2D materials for electrodes in energy storage devices. In: Chem. Commun., 59, 2023, 6109-6127 |
| 2022 | Rajesh Kumar and Sumanta Sahoo and Ednan Joanni and Rajesh Kumar Singh: A review on the current research on microwave processing techniques applied to graphene-based supercapacitor electrodes: An emerging approach beyond conventional heating. In: Journal of Energy Chemistry, 74, 2022, 252-282 |
| 2022 | Rajesh Kumar and Ednan Joanni and Sumanta Sahoo and Jae-Jin Shim and Wai Kian Tan and Atsunori Matsuda and Rajesh K. Singh: An overview of recent progress in nanostructured carbon-based supercapacitor electrodes: From zero to bi-dimensional materials. In: Carbon, 193, 2022, 298-338 |
| 2022 | Joanni, Ednan and Kumar, Rajesh and Fernandes, Willians. P. and Savu, Raluca and Matsuda, Atsunori: In situ growth of laser-induced graphene micro-patterns on arbitrary substrates. In: Nanoscale, 14, 2022, 8914-8918 |
| 2022 | Rajesh Kumar and Angel {Pérez del Pino} and Sumanta Sahoo and Rajesh Kumar Singh and Wai Kian Tan and Atsunori Matsuda and Ednan Joanni: Laser processing of graphene and related materials for energy storage: State of the art and future prospects. In: Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 91, 2022, 100981 |
| 2022 | Kumar, Rajesh and Sahoo, Sumanta and Joanni, Ednan and Singh, Rajesh K.: Microwave as a Tool for Synthesis of Carbon-Based Electrodes for Energy Storage. In: ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 14, 2022, 20306-20325 |
| 2022 | Rajesh Kumar and Sally M. Youssry and Ednan Joanni and Sumanta Sahoo and Go Kawamura and Atsunori Matsuda: Microwave-assisted synthesis of iron oxide homogeneously dispersed on reduced graphene oxide for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes. In: Journal of Energy Storage, 56, 2022, 105896 |
| 2021 | Rajesh Kumar and Sumanta Sahoo and Ednan Joanni and Rajesh K. Singh and Wai Kian Tan and Atsunori Matsuda: Recent progress on carbon-based composite materials for microwave electromagnetic interference shielding. In: Carbon, 177, 2021, 304-331 |
| 2020 | Rajesh Kumar and Sumanta Sahoo and Ednan Joanni and Rajesh K. Singh and Keiichiro Maegawa and Wai Kian Tan and Go Kawamura and Atsunori Matsuda: Heteroatom doped graphene engineering for energy storage and conversion. In: Materials Today, 39, 2020, 47-65 |
| 2019 | Rajesh Kumar and Ednan Joanni and Raluca Savu and Matheus S. Pereira and Rajesh K. Singh and Carlos J.L. Constantino and Lauro T. Kubota and Atsunori Matsuda and Stanislav A. Moshkalev: Fabrication and electrochemical evaluation of micro-supercapacitors prepared by direct laser writing on free-standing graphite oxide paper. In: Energy, 179, 2019, 676-684 |
| 2019 | Kumar, Rajesh and Macedo, Wagner C. Jr. and Singh, Rajesh K. and Tiwari, Vidhu S. and Constantino, Carlos J. L. and Matsuda, Atsunori and Moshkalev, Stanislav A.: Nitrogen–Sulfur Co-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide-Nickel Oxide Nanoparticle Composites for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding. In: ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2, 2019, 4626-4636 |
| 2019 | Rajesh Kumar and Sumanta Sahoo and Ednan Joanni and Rajesh Kumar Singh and Wai Kian Tan and Atsunori Matsuda: Recent progress in the synthesis of graphene and derived materials for next generation electrodes of high performance lithium ion batteries. In: Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 75, 2019, 100786 |
| 2019 | Rajesh Kumar and Andrei V. Alaferdov and Rajesh K. Singh and Ashwani K. Singh and Jyoti Shah and Ravinder K. Kotnala and Kedar Singh and Yoshiyuki Suda and Stanislav A. Moshkalev: Self-assembled nanostructures of 3D hierarchical faceted-iron oxide containing vertical carbon nanotubes on reduced graphene oxide hybrids for enhanced electromagnetic interface shielding. In: Composites Part B: Engineering, 168, 2019, 66-76 |
| 2018 | Rajesh Kumar and Ednan Joanni and Rajesh K. Singh and Dinesh P. Singh and Stanislav A. Moshkalev: Recent advances in the synthesis and modification of carbon-based 2D materials for application in energy conversion and storage. In: Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 67, 2018, 115-157 |