Professor
Sumit Saxena (FRSC, FIMMM, FNESA)
Email: sumit[dot]saxena[at]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in
Phone: (+91) (022) 2576 7615
Education:
- PhD Matls. Sci., New Jersey Inst. of Tech., USA, 2010
- MSc. Physics, IIT Kanpur, India, 2001
- Bsc. Physics& Mathematics, Bundelkhand University, India, 1999
Prof. Saxena has taught courses related to electronic properties and structure along with optimization techniques at undergraduate and graduate level. The recent courses taught by him are
- Introduction to Abinito Methods in Materials Science PG
- Simulation and Optimization (UG+PG)
Prof. Saxena has pursued research interests in various areas which has led to breakthrough research in various domains such as discovery of plasmonic effects and extraordinary transmission in microapertures, experimental realization of stanene and is currently involved in developing silicon chemistry in 2D lattices. He has made significant contributions in the area of energy storage devices by developing coronal architectures at nanoscale for hybrid energy storage devices. He has been involved in development of several technologies in the area of water sensing and purification such as development of oil skimmer, development of heavy metal sensors.
- Energy storage (Super capacitors,
- Sodium ion Batteries,
- Hybrid devices) Water (Purification)
- Sensors (heavy metal, gas) Density Functional Theory AI/ML
Novel coronal nanostructures for hybrid devices
IoT enabled, automated surface water vehicle in action at Powai lake
Portable hand held heavy metal (Hg/As) sensor
- S Saxena, RP Chaudhary, A Singh, S Awasthi and S Shukla, "Plasmonic Micro Lens for Extraordinary Transmission of Broadband Light", Scientific Reports 4, 5586 (2014)
- S Saxena, RP Chaudhary and S Shukla, "Stanene: atomically thick freestanding layer of 2D hexagonal tin", Scientific reports 6 (1), 31073 (2016)
- SK Kiran, S Shukla, A Struck and S Saxena, "Surface enhanced 3D rGO hybrids and porous rGO nanonetworks as high performance supercapacitor electrodes for integrated energy storage devices", CARBON 158, 527 (2020)
- S Rani, RK Das, A Jaiswal, GP Singh, A Palwe, S Saxena and S Shukla, "4D nanoprinted sensor for facile organoarsenic detection: A twophoton lithographybased approach" Chemical Engineering Journal 454, 140130 (2023)