“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
-M. Twain
Smart Energy Systems (SESs) are considered as an important solution to cater the storage incapability of the renewable energy sources and also serves as an efficient candidate for off-gird applications. These are urgently needed to ensure energy security and sustainability in semi-urban and villages of India, where grid connectivity may be poor or non-existent. These can also become useful for defense forces, where smaller sized SESs may be used to provide energy to power portable devices ranging from transmitters, signal receivers, or mobiles.
Current research area-:
- • Integrated Smart Energy Storage Device(ISESDs)
- • Perovskite solar cell ( Energy source)
- • Supercapacitors (Energy Storage Unit)
- • Layered Double Hydroxide
About Me
I have completed my Integrated Master of Science degree (BS-MS in Chemistry) from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal. I have awarded by the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF-2019) for my doctoral research. I have started working as PMRF research scholar in IIT Kharagpur under School of Energy Sciences and Engineering. My area of research is Smart Energy Storage Devices (SESDs) that I will carry out with the supervision of Prof. Amreesh Chandra (Department of Physics and School of Energy Sciences and Engineering) and Prof. Trilok Singh (School of Energy Sciences and Engineering).
Research Statement
With the rapidly growing need for developing energy solutions to cater the need of fast developing country like India, my research activity will be focused on topical area of smart integrated energy systems. A typical Integrated Energy Storage Device (IESD) consists of two distinct components, which are generally considered independently of each other viz., photovoltaic cell (energy generation unit) and supercapacitors/ batteries (energy storage unit). During the course, of my research, I plan to work on both PVs and Supercapacitors. For the generation of electricity using PV cell, perovskite type solar cells will be used. For the storage of the generated energy, flexible solid-state supercapacitors would be fabricated.
Publications
- 1. Sakshi et al., Superior-catalytic performance of Ni–Co layered double hydroxide nanosheets for the reduction of p-nitrophenl, International journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2022.
- 2. Sakshi et al., Integrated energy generation and storage systems for low power device application, Energy storage, 2022.
- 3. Sakshi et al., High performing supercapacitors using Cr2O3 nanostructures with stable channels, Theoretical and Experimental insights. Material Chemistry and Physics (Submitted) (Manuscript id-MATCHEMPHYS-D-22-04884).
- 4. Sakshi et al., Nanostructures of Transition Metal Oxides/Hydroxides: Their Synthesis and Use in Catalysis, Book Chapter in ADVANCES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS", Spinger Nature (September, 2022) (Under review).
- 5. Chandra et al., Role of porosity and diffusion coefficient in porous electrode used in supercapacitors–Correlating theoretical and experimental studies, Electrochemical Science Advances, 2022.
- 6. Singh et al., Perovskite Solar Cell Remediation: Materials Assessment, Efficiency and Stability, Catalysis Research, 2022.
- 7. Singh et al., Halide perovskite in energy storage, sensing, memories, and piezoelectric application, book chapter accepted in Low-Dimensional Halide Perovskites, Elsevier, 2022.
- 8. Chandra et al., Time Dependent Exfoliation Study of MoS2 for its use as Cathode Material in High Performing Hybrid Supercapacitors, Nanoscale, 2022. (Under review) [NR-ART-09-2022-005325].
Patents
- 1. Sodium Iron Phosphate (NaFePo4) nanoparticles obtained using fast, feasible, clean and cost-effective synthesis protocol with the application of nanoparticle as battery material for E-cycle, Priya S., Biswas S., Chowdhury A., Mandal D., De P., Halder J., Kansal S., Anshu S. and Chandra A. (Under review).
- 2. Metal organic framework-based electrode materials for low-cost aqueous novel aluminium-ion batteries, De P., Halder J., Mandal D., Priya S., Kansal S., Anshu S. and Chandra A. (Under review).
Awards
Best oral presentation for female researcher: 1 ST International conference on supercapacitors and batteries, IIT Kharagpur, India-2022.