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Cheers to the lab

To the quiet corners where ideas spark and the long hours where breakthroughs are born.This is more than just a room of instruments, samples, and screens. This is my Karma Bhumi the sacred ground where I owe my duty, my focus, and my passion. Every failed experiment teaches resilience. Every small data point edges us closer to truth. Every late night spent under these fluorescent lights is a step toward making a difference. Here, curiosity meets hard work. Here, we don’t just observe the world; we try to understand it, fix it, and build its future. So, cheers to the hustle, the hypotheses, and the breakthroughs. Cheers to this lab my space of purpose, my sanctuary of science, my Karma Bhumi. 🧪

The Team

"Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers"

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Ph.D. Scholar

Name: Manish Chauhan

Research area: Water splitting reaction,  Chemical Vapour Deposition       

      Email:  manish69466@gmail.com 

  1. Manish Chauhan, R. Abinayashri, Ankita Chaurasiya, Yashmeen Budania, K. Karthikeyan, S. Singh* (corresponding) Carbon-Based Electrocatalysts for Hydrazine Oxidation: A Sustainable Alternative to the Spontaneous Oxygen Evolution Reaction for Hydrogen Generation, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Accepted, 2026) IF=10

  2. Manish Chauhan, Yashmeen Budania, Ridipt Mishra, Ankit Tyagi, Pradip Kumar, Sarvesh Kumar Pandey, S. Singh *(corresponding). Effect of  Counter Electrodes for Overall Water Splitting Using FeO/NiO-Doped Carbon Nanofibers. SPJ Energy Material Advances, (Accepted, 2025). IF=18

  3. Sudip Shil, Manish Chauhan, Ankit Tyagi, Pradip Kumar, and S. Singh* (corresponding). CVD-Grown NiO-Carbon Nanofiber Decorated rGO Hybrids for High-Performance Electrochemical Hydrogen Storage: Role of Hierarchical Porous Structures. Nanoscale. 17, 21175-21189 (2025). IF= 5.5

  4. Gajiram Murmu, Manish Chauhan (equal author), Pradip Kumar, S. Singh *(corresponding), Sumit Saha, Assessing MXene-supported polyoxometalate electrocatalysts: Is MXene always a miracle material for HER and OER applications? Inorganic Chemistry Communications 178, 114601 (2025). IF=5.8

  5. Manish Chauhan, Yashmeen Budania, Akshay Modi, Pradip Kumar, Sarvesh Kumar Pandey, S. Singh *(corresponding). Trifunctional nature of heteroatoms (B, N, S, O) doped waste diesel soot: Turning pollutants into potential energy catalysts for HER, OER and ORR. Carbon Neutralization, 4, e195 (2025) IF=21       (Research highlighted in Nature India doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d44151-025-00047-9 ) (Research highlighted in Science X/Phys.org https://phys.org/news/2025-03-pollution-power-method-carbon-nanoparticles.html )

Name: Yashmeen Budania

Research area:  Urea oxidation reaction,  Microbial fuel cell, Microbial desalination

Email: yashmeenbudania1996@gmail.com

  1. Yashmeen Budania, Manish Chauhan, Shraddha Mishra, S. Singh *(corresponding). N/NiO-Ornated Graphitic Fiber-Engrained Micro-Carbon Beads: Innovative Packed Bed Type Capacitive Electrodes for Microbial Fuel Cells. Chemical Engineering Journal 499, 156018 (2024) I.F.= 16.5                                                                                                                                           Research highlighted in Science X/ phys.org https://phys.org/news/2024-09-pollution-power-merging-wastewater-treatment.html#google_vignette 

  2. Smriti Mishra, Yashmeen Budania, Ankit Tyagi, Sheelendra Pratap Singh, Pradip Kumar, S. Singh *(corresponding). Copper Oxide Anchored Carbon Nanofibers: A Versatile Platform for Multiplex Detection of Antibiotics, Heavy Metals and Pesticides. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. (2024),19, e202400241. I.F.= 4.6 Graphics published as cover page of journal https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.2024810013.

  3. Yashmeen Budania, Smriti Mishra, Aradhana Mishra, Animesh Jana, Akshay Modi, Ankit Tyagi, Pradip Kumar, S. Singh *(corresponding). Multi-heteroatom doped vehicle exhaust soot derived nano-onion based economical and efficient electrodes for microbial fuel cell: A waste to wealth strategy. Chemical Engineering Journal 474, 145627 (2023). I.F.= 16.5 Research highlighted in Nature India doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d44151-023-00143-8) (Research highlighted in Science X/TechXplore https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-harnessingpower-microbial-fuel-cells.html 

Name: Ankita Chaurasia

Research area:  Bioelectrochemical CO2 reduction, Microbial fuel cell 

Email: ankitaac2002@gmail.com

  1. Ankita Chaurasia, Yashmeen Budania, Goldy Shah, A. Mishra, S. Singh *(corresponding), Carbon-Based Electrodes for Photo-Bio-electrocatalytic Microbial Fuel and Electrolysis Cells: Advances and Perspectives. Materials Horizons, (Accepted, 2025). IF=14

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