Sachin Pundir

I completed my master’s in physics from Chandigarh University, Mohali, India (2020-2022). My master’s thesis dissertation was supervised by Dr. Ruby Priya (Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University) and Prof. O.P. Pandey (Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India). In my research, I focused on studying the structural, morphological, and electrochemical properties of carbon-supported MoO2 nanoparticles synthesized using waste plastic. My expertise includes the ability to synthesize nanomaterials through various methods, including hydrothermal, co-precipitation, combustion, and solid-state techniques.

After completing my Master’s, I worked as a project intern for a year at the TIET-VT Centre of Excellence in Emerging Materials (CEEMS) at Thapar Institute of Engineering, India, under the supervision of Prof. R.L. Mahajan (Virginia Tech, USA) and Prof. O.P. Pandey (TIET, India). My project, titled “MXene/Biomass-derived Activated Carbon Heterostructures as Supercapacitors and Photocatalysts”. During my tenure, I am working on the scale-up synthesis of MAX phases and MXenes. Throughout all these years, I honed my skills in utilizing waste-to-wealth approaches and gained extensive hands-on experience in operating various instruments, including electrochemical workstations (for HER, OER, and supercapacitor applications), UV-visible spectroscopy, photoluminescence, FTIR, ball milling, and high-temperature furnaces.

Currently, I am working as a Ph.D student at the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass). My Ph.D work focused on utilizing industrial waste such as brown and red mud to develop a photoactive/conductive oxide electrode by additive manufacturing techniques for photo/electrocatalytic reactions.

Dissertation topic: Development of photoactive/conductive oxide electrodes by additive manufacturing techniques for photo/electrocatalytic reactions

Supervisor: Dr. Akansha Mehta

Co-supervisor: Doc. Ing. Marián Janek, PhD., Dr. Jozef Kraxner

Department: Department of Glass Processing

Beginning of study: September 2024

Date of dissertation exam: August 2028

2023

  • Sachin Pundir, Sanjay Upadhyay, Ruby Priya, Nikhil Tanwar, Piyush Sharma, O.P. Pandey, One-pot synthesis of carbon-supported MoO2 nanoparticles for efficient oxygen evolution reaction, Materials Chemistry and Physics 298(2023) 127432.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2023.127432
  • Sachin Pundir, Sanjay Upadhyay, Ruby Priya, Niraj Kumar, S Chetana, Ismail Hossain, Naveen Chandra Joshi, O.P. Pandey, Synthesis of 1D – MnO2 for high-performance supercapacitor application, Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 27(2023) 531-538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-022-05347-z
  • Sachin Pundir, Sanjay Upadhyay, Niraj Kumar, Naveen Chandra Joshi, Ruby Priya, Rameez Ahmad Mir, Ismail Hossain, O.P. Pandey, Interconnected CuO nanoplates as a highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction, Materials Letters 336(2023) 133921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2023.133921
  • Nikhil Tanwar, Sanjay Upadhyay, Ruby Priya, Sachin Pundir, Piyush Sharma, O.P. Pandey, Eu-doped BaTiO3 perovskite as an efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 317(2023) 123674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2022.123674
  • Sachin Pundir, Ruby Priya, Kulwinder Singh, Harmanpreet Kaur, Prashant Choudhary, A systematic study on synthesis of CeO2 nanoparticles by various routes, IOP Conference Proceeding: Earth and Environmental Science (2023) 012030.  10.1088/1755-1315/1110/1/012030
  • 2023 – 2024 – MXene/Biomass derived activated carbon heterostructures as supercapacitor and photocatalyst
  • 2021 – 2022 – One-pot synthesis of carbon-supported MoO2 nanoparticles for efficient oxygen evolution reaction

Other professional activities:

  • 2024 – Sachin Pundir, International Conference on Sustainable Development in Chemical and environmental Engineering (SDCEE – 2024), Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Punjab, India
  • 2024 – Sachin Pundir, Workshop on Additive Manufacturing: From Principles to Practice, Sponsored by National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM), Govt. of India
  • 2023 – Sachin Pundir, Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics: Unveiling reactions and structure, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Punjab, India
  • 2021 – Sachin Pundir, Online workshop on Electrochemistry Techniques Series, University of Waterloo
Sachin Pundir
Sachin Pundir
E-mail: sachin.pundir@tnuni.sk
Tel.: +421 32 7400 515
Office: n. B4.05