Professor Deepak Dubal

phD

Background Dr. Deepak Dubal is Associate Professor (Australian Future Fellow) at QUT and has a strong research background in the field of Nano-materials for clean energy conversion and storage systems. Briefly, Deepak's research interest is focused on designing and engineering of functional materials such as New Oxides/Nitrides, Polyoxometalates (POMs), Conducting polymers and their hybrids for energy storage applications with special emphasis on Supercapacitors, Li-ion batteries, beyond Li-ion batteries etc. At QUT, his research is to develop an integrated system as self-charging power source for wearable electronics and implantable medical devices. Before joining QUT, Deepak worked as Vice Chancellor Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide. He is also former recipient of two most prestigious fellowships: Marie-Curie at ICN2, Spain (2014) and Alexander von Humboldt at TUC, Germany (2012). So far, Deepak has co-authored more than 140 research articles including Chem. Soc. Rev., Adv. Mater., Adv. Fun. Mater, Nano Energy, NPG Asia Materials etc. and achieved over 9767 citations, 'h' index: 53 and 'i10' index 122 (Google Scholar). He has edited one book, contributed several book chapters and filed several patents including World, US, European and Spanish. He has also participated as founding partner of Earthdas graphene mobility spin-off Company, Spain with Prof. Gomez-Romero. His Google Scholar citations is available via the link below https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=5RaaXvsAAAAJ&hl=en Research Interest At various levels of research career, Dr. Dubal has developed a variety of disciplines and research topics, including thin films, semiconductors, gas sensors, solar cells and very specially energy storage materials and devices. Following are his different research lines of interest 1. Advanced Nano-materials

• Two-dimensional (2D) materials, their hetero-structures and hybrids.
• Synthesis of New Oxides/Nitrides, Nanocarbons (Graphene, CNTs), Polyoxometalates (POMs), Conducting polymers and so on.
• Hybrid Nano-Materials (Nanocarbon/Oxides, Organic-Inorganic Nano-composites such as Polymer/metal oxides and Polymer-Polyoxometalates)
• Metal-Organic-Framework (MOF) derived materials and their nanocomposites.

2. Bio-waste derived Materials

• Turning organic wastes (e.g. Fruit-waste, Winery-waste (Grape-Marc) and all types of agricultural-waste) into value added porous carbon.
• Surface treatments to prepare different types of porous carbons
• Synthesis of carbon quantum dots using Bio-waste materials.

3. Supercapacitors

• Novel electrode materials for high power devices
• Electrolytes (Liquid and polymer-based electrolytes)
• Micro-supercapacitors for wearable electronics
• Piezo-Supercapacitors for medical implants
• Electrochemical Flow Capacitors for large scale applications

4. Li-Ion Battery Technology

• Engineering of nanostructured anode and cathode materials
• Development of high energy density and fast charging battery materials
• Computational Chemistry to uncover the charge-storing mechanism
• In-situ and In-operando techniques for battery materials characterizations
• Li-S battery: High ionic conductivity solid-polymer electrolytes
• Li-S battery: Designing new porous carbon hosts to accommodate Sulfur

5. Hybrid Devices (Unique Cell Configurations)

• Asymmetric Supercapacitors (ASC)-Aqueous system
• Hybrid Supercapacitors (HSC)-Aqueous system
• Lithium Ion Capacitor (LIC)-Non-aqueous system

6. Beyond Li-ion Battery

• Developing materials for Potassium Ion Battery (KIB)
• Fabrication of cathode materials for Aluminium Ion Battery (AIB)
• Investigating new battery technologies such as K-S
• Potassium Ion Capacitor (LIC)-Non-aqueous system

6. Recycling of LIBs

• Recovering materials from spent LIBs
• Developing new materials from recovered waste from LIBs.
• Circular economy: closing the loop

Awards and Recognition

• 2019        Conference Ambassador of 20th IUMRS-ICA, 22-26 September 2019
• 2019        Award of Australian Future Fellowship, QUT, Australia
• 2018        Foreign Young Associate Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, India
• 2017        Nominee among top four Scientists for USERN Prize in Physical Sciences
• 2017        Award of Vice Chancellor Fellowship, University of Adelaide, Australia
• 2014       CEMAM Prize for Best Poster, (MAT4ENERGY),Grenoble, France,
• 2014       Marie-Curie Fellow, ICN2, Barcelona, Spain
• 2013       Award of Nobel Laureate Meeting 2013, Lindau, Germany
• 2012       Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Germany
• 2010       Senior Research Fellow, CSIR, New Delhi, India
• 2009      Project Fellow, UGC, New Delhi, India

Projects

• High performance monolithic perovskite photocapacitors

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