Research Overview
The University Grants Commission in its 85th meeting of empowered committee (in 2018) had approved the UGC startup grant for establishing a research lab. For details, click here!
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Representative Publications
1. Mahesh Chand*, Ajay Shankar*, Annveer, Alex Fabiano Campos Cortez, Rajender Prasad Pant, Jerome Depeyrot, “Reversible, voluminous and tunable patterning of multiwalled carbon nanotubes in ferrofluid: Partial or complete?”, Applied Surface Science (Elsevier), 2022, 604, 154283. ISSN: 01694332.
2. Ajay Shankar, Mahesh Chand*, Sandeep Sharma, “On the mixing of oleic acid and graphene in kerosene: A Dissipative Particle Dynamics study”, Applied Physics A (Springer), 2022, 128, 224. ISSN: 1432-0630.
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3. Jakir Hussain*, Arati Dubey, Ikbal Hussian, Mohd. Arif, Ajay Shankar, “Surface water quality assessment with reference to trace metals in River Mahanadi and its tributaries, India”, Applied Water Science (Springer), 2020, 10, 193. ISSN: 2190-5487.
4. Alexander P. Safronov*, Ajay Shankar, Ekaterina, A. Mikhnevich, Igor V. Beketov, “Influence of the particle size on the properties of polyacrylamide ferrogels with embedded micron-sized and nano-sized metallic iron particles”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Elsevier), 2018, 459, 125-130. ISSN: 03048853.
5. Ajay Shankar*, Alexander P. Safronov, Igor V. Beketov, “Encapsulation of metallic iron magnetic nanoparticles by polyacrylamide in water suspensions”, Chimica Techno Acta (UrFU), 2017, 4, 158-166, ISSN: 2409-5613.
6. Ajay Shankar*, Alexander P. Safronov, Ekaterina A. Mikhnevich, Igor V. Beketov, Galina V. Kurlyandskaya, “Ferrogels based on entrapped metallic iron nanoparticles in polyacrylamide network: Extended Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek consideration, interfacial interactions and magnetodeformation”, Soft Matter (RSC), 2017, 13, 3359-3372, ISSN: 1744-683X, 1744-6848.
7. Ajay Shankar*, Alexander P. Safronov, Ekaterina, A. Mikhnevich, Igor V. Beketov, “Multidomain iron nanoparticles for the preparation of polyacrylamide ferrogels”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Elsevier), 2017, 431, 134-137, ISSN: 03048853.
8. Ajay Shankar, Mahesh Chand, Gounda A. Basheed, S. Thakur, Rajendra P. Pant*, “Low temperature FMR investigations on double surfactant water based ferrofluid”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Elsevier), 2015, 374, 696–702, ISSN: 0975-1017 (Online); 0971-4588 (Print).
9. Mahesh Chand, Ajay Shankar, Noorjahan, Komal Jain, Rajendra P. Pant*, “Improved magnetoviscous properties of bidispersed Magneto-rheological fluids”, RSC Advances (RSC), 2014, 4, 53960-53966, ISSN: 2046-2069.
Full publication list is available at ORCID.