Dr. Mehak Ahuja

Assistant Professor – Basic & Applied Sciences

Dr. Mehak Ahuja

Interest Area(s)

  • Synthesis of novel
  • Naphthalenediimide derivatives
  • Study their applications in organic solar cells
I did my B.Sc. from Deen Dayal Upadhayaya College, Delhi University and Masters in Chemistry from Department of Chemistry, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak and Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from National Physical Laboratory, CSIR on the topic “Design and Synthesis of novel Naphthalenediimide derivatives for opto-electronic applications”.
  • B.Sc.(Hons.) Chemistry 2012-2015
  • M.Sc.(Chemistry) 2015-2017
  • JRF (Chemistry) 2018
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry) 2019-2023
  • Sh. Lal Nath Hindu College, Rohtak, Haryana 2017-2019.
  • My Research work is based on synthesis and device fabrication of n-type organic semiconductor materials for organic solar cells applications. In the broad terms, I have done Synthesis of novel naphthalenediimide derivatives and studied applications of these NDI derivatives as sensors for the detection of acids and their use as electron transport layer material in OSC’s.
  • Qualified JRF exam with All India rank 70 and Participated in Oral presentation in International Conference at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, ICMT 2021 and obtained third prize.
  • Participated in poster presentation in International Conference at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India, AMN 2020.
  • Participated in Oral presentation in International Conference at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, ICMT 2021.
  • Participated in Oral presentation in International Conference at CSIR – Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT), Bhubaneswar , India, FIMTA 2022.
  • Facile synthesis of naphthalene diimide (NDI) derivatives: aggregation induced emission, photophysical and transport properties: Neelam Kumari, Samya Naqvi, Mehak Ahuja, Komal Bhardwaj, Rachana Kumar, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 31, 4310–4322 (2020).
  • Saturated and unsaturated aliphatic side chain appended naphthalenediimide derivatives: synthesis and structure property relationship, Mehak Ahuja, Neelam Kumari, Samya Naqvi and Rachana Kumar, Journal of Material sciences, 56, 18327-18340 (2021).
  • Efficiency measurement of organic solar cells : Step by step protocol to be followed, Mehak Ahuja, Samya Naqvi, Amit Kumar, Rachana Kumar, Rajiv K. Singh, Sushil Kumar, MAPAN, 37, 311–318 (2022).
  • Lab-on-paper strip chemical sensor: Reversible visible sensor for detection of acids using naphthalenediimide derivative, Mehak Ahuja, Pramod Kumar and Rachana Kumar, IEEE Sensors Journal, 22, 12530-12538 ( 2022).
  • Influence of fluoride anion on photoinduced charge transfer interactions in adenine-functionalized push-pull naphthalenediimide chromophores, Shailesh S. Birajdar, Mehak Ahuja, Avinash L. Puyad, Mahesh Kumar, Vishal G. More, Rachana Kumar, Sidhanath V Bhosale and Sheshnath V. Bhosale, Materials Advances 3(11) (2022).
  • Tuning of energy levels and transport properties by introduction of Michael addition reactions in naphthalenediimide derivatization, Mehak Ahuja, Saurabh K. Saini, Neeraj Chaudhary, Mahesh Kumar and Rachana Kumar, New J. Chem.,46, 15392-15404 (2022).