Dr. Nitish Yadav

Assistant Professor – Basic & Applied Sciences

Dr. Nitish Yadav

Interest Area(s)

  • Physics pedagogy
  • Experimental and computational tools to investigate materials science problems
Dr. Nitish Yadav graduated with B.E.(Hons.) Chemical Engineering and M.Sc.(Hons.) Physics through the integrated dual-degree program of Birla Institute of Technology & Science – Pilani (BITS-Pilani), Pilani (2012). Subsequently he worked at Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi to develop solid-state electrical double layer and sodium-ion capacitors and obtained his Ph.D degree (2019). He has also worked as a National Post-doctoral Fellow at School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi where he studied biomass derived magnetic materials, and at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi as an Institute Post-doctoral Fellow where he deployed porous polymers as piezoelectric nanogenerators in integrated self-charging supercapacitors.

He has extensive teaching experience of UG and PG courses and laboratories from his stints at Miranda House (DU) and IIT-Delhi. He has handled course delivery, exam and quiz preparation, conduction and marking of students. He his a student friendly, unbiased and sincere teacher, focused on enabling students excel in the subject of Physics, understand its usefulness for their career, and perform brilliantly in a stress-free and joyous environment.

  • Ph.D (2019)
  • M.Sc. (Hons.) Physics (2012)
  • B.E. (Hons.) Chemical (2012)
  • National Postdoctoral Fellow, JNU, Delhi (2020-2021)
  • Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT-Delhi (2021-2023)
  • Supercapacitor Development; Nanocarbons; Sensors.
  • Industry-Academia  Consultancy Research Projects  Completed:  (Rs 100100).
  • Received  International Adroit Academic Leadership Award by Green Thinker,NITIAYOG,GOV.of INDIA
  • “Outstanding Research in Pharmacognosy” for the contribution and achievement in the discipline of Pharmacy by Center for Health and Medical Sciences, Venus International Foundation, Chennai.
  • Recipient of Young Women Scientist Award by CAREER POINT UNIVERSITY & INTERNATIONAL J. OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES& RESEARCH(IJPSR ).
  • Exceptional contribution as a ”Jury” in ‘Smart India Hackathon’ Grand Finale Organized by (Govt. Of India, MHRD) at Oriental University, Indore.
  • Certificate of Achievement from International J. Engineering Sciences & Research Technology’
  • National Conference on Environment and Energy Materials (NCEEM-2020) 27-28 Jun 2020
  • 7th International Conference on Electroactive Polymers 3-8 Feb 2019
  • 16th International Symposium on Polymer Electrolytes (ISPE-16) 24-29 Jun 2018
  • International Conference on Science and Engineering of Materials (ICSEM – 2018 6-8 Jan 2018
  • National Conference on Environment and Energy Materials (NCEEM-2020) 27-28 Jun 2020
  • 12th National Conference on Solid State Ionics (NCSSI-12)  21-23 Dec 2017
  • 15th Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics (ACSSI-2016) 27-30 Nov 2016
  • 11th National Conference on Solid State Ionics (NCSSI-11) 21–23 Dec 2015
  • 8th National Conference on Thermophysical Properties (NCTP-2015) 14–16 Dec 2015
  • Nitish Yadav, (2019) “Development of Porous Polymer Electrolytes for Supercapacitor Applications”, University of Delhi, Advisor: Prof. S. A. Hashmi
  • S. A. Hashmi, Nitish Yadav, M. K. Singh, “Polymer Electrolytes for Supercapacitor and Challenges” in Polymer Electrolytes : Applications and Challenges (Volume 2), Editors :Tan Winie, Abdul Kariem Arof and Sabu Thomas, 2020, 231-297, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KgaA (https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527805457.ch9)
  • Deepak Kumar, Nitish Yadav, Kuldeep Mishra, Raza Shahid, Tasnim Arif, D.K. Kanchan, “Sodium ion conducting flame-retardant gel polymer electrolyte for sodium batteries and electric double layer capacitors”, Journal of Energy Storage (accepted, 22nd December, 2021) (Impact factor: 6.583)
  • Neetu Yadav, Nitish Yadav, and S. A. Hashmi, “High-Energy-Density Carbon Supercapacitors Incorporating a Plastic-Crystal-Based Nonaqueous Redox-Active Gel Polymer Electrolyte.” ACS Applied Energy Materials (2021) (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c00703) (Impact factor: 6.024).
  • Kuldeep Mishra, Nitish Yadav, S. A. Hashmi, “Recent progress in electrode and electrolyte materials for flexible sodium-ion batteries”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 8 (2020) 22507-22543 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA07188A) (Impact factor: 12.732)
  • Nitish Yadav, Kuldeep Mishra, S. A. Hashmi, “Nanozirconia polymer composite porous membrane prepared by sustainable immersion precipitation method for use as electrolyte in flexible supercapacitors”, Materials Today Communications 25 (2020) 101506 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2020.101506) (Impact factor: 2.678)
  • Neetu Yadav, Nitish Yadav, S. A. Hashmi, “Ionic liquid incorporated, redox-active blend polymer electrolyte for high energy density quasi-solid-state carbon supercapacitor”, Journal of Power Sources 451 (2020) 227771 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2020.227771) (Impact factor: 9.127)
  • Nitish Yadav, Ritu, Promila, S. A. Hashmi, “Hierarchical porous carbon derived from Eucalyptus-bark as sustainable electrodes for high-performance solid-state supercapacitor”, Sustainable Energy & Fuels 4 (2020) 1730-1746 (https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SE00812H) (Impact factor: 6.367)
  • Neetu Yadav, Nitish Yadav, Manoj K. Singh, S. A. Hashmi, “Non-aqueous, redox-active gel polymer electrolyte for high performance supercapacitor”, Energy Technology 7 (2019) 1900132 (https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.201900132) (Impact factor: 3.631)
  • Md. Yasir Bhat, Nitish Yadav, S.A. Hashmi, “Pinecone-derived porous activated carbon for high performance all-solid-state electrical double layer capacitors fabricated with flexible gel polymer electrolytes”, Electrochimica Acta 304 (2019) 94-108 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2019.02.092) (Impact factor: 6.901)
  • Neetu Yadav, Manoj K. Singh, Nitish Yadav, S.A. Hashmi, “High performance quasi-solid-state supercapacitors with peanut-shell derived porous carbon”, Journal of Power Sources 402 (2018) 133-146 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2018.09.032) (Impact factor: 9.127)
  • Nitish Yadav, Kuldeep Mishra and S.A. Hashmi, “Nanofiller-incorporated porous polymer electrolyte for electrochemical energy storage devices”, High Performance Polymers, 2018, Vol. 30(8) 957-970 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0954008318774392) (Impact factor: 2.161)
  • Nitish Yadav, Kuldeep Mishra and S.A. Hashmi, “Optimization of porous polymer electrolyte for quasi-solid-state electrical double layer supercapacitor”, Electrochimica Acta 235 (2017) 570-582 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2017.03.101) (Impact factor: 6.901)
  • Lakshya Kumar, Himani Chauhan, Neetu Yadav, Nitish Yadav, S. A. Hashmi, Sasanka Deka, “Faster Ion Switching NiCo2O4 Na-noparticle Electrode-Based Supercapacitor Device with High Performances and Long Cycling Stability”, ACS Applied Energy Materials 1(12) (2018) 6999-7006 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b01427) (Impact factor: 6.024)