Dr. Rupesh's research group - IIT Indore

14/07/2025

Celebrating Our Graduates: Soaring Toward New Horizons

This year, two of our research group members have successfully graduated and are now ready to take on the challenges of the real world. With wings of knowledge and determination, they are set to embark on exciting new journeys and achieve greater milestones.

Shrivastava, who completed his B.Tech., has been awarded the among all graduating students of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Indore. He becomes the second member from our group to receive this prestigious : an achievement we take immense pride in.

Venkatesh, who completed his M.Tech., carried out his thesis project in collaboration with Dr. Ravindra Jangir at . He has now been selected to pursue his Ph.D. at the IISc Bangalore, one of the premier institutes in the country.

We are proud of their accomplishments and confident they will continue to shine in their future endeavors.
Here’s to continuing this legacy of excellence and inspiration in the years to come!

08/02/2025

The UG students, Nitin Sathish Kumar and Jitin Sathish Kumar, worked in our group for their BTP. These twin brothers helped each other in all aspects of the work. Both were hardworking and committed to the project, always interacting with group members to clear any doubts and achieve good results in the experiments. The research scholars provided excellent guidance during the experiments and manuscript drafting process. In fact, their BTP presentation was so well-organized that hardly any questions were asked by the examiners or committee members. Their hard work paid off with a publication in the Chinese Journal of Physics.
Currently, both of them have joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Minnesota.

You can read more details through the link https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S057790732500005X?dgcid=author





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Rupesh Devan

12/01/2025

🌟 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫-𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧!🌟
Excited to share that our research at 𝐈𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 on sustainable Interface Steam Generator (ISSG) technology has been featured in 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 and 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐤 𝐁𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐚𝐫!
💡 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
👉 Solar-powered, cost-effective seawater purification.
👉 𝟏𝟎𝐱 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 than reverse osmosis, eco-friendly, and energy-efficient.
👉 Ideal for water-scarce coastal and remote areas.
Grateful to Prof. Suhas Joshi, Director of IIT Indore, and DST for their support. Honored to contribute to India’s progress in sustainable technologies! 🌍
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06/12/2024

When your group perform well across the board, you can't help but feel proud, and we certainly do. We are especially proud of our research group of young friends. This time, Ajay Patil won the Best Poster Award at the International Union of Materials Research Societies – International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA) 2024. What an incredible start to his first international conference! This could be a fantastic way to end 2024.




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Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT IndoreeRupesh Devan

26/10/2024

🌟 Honored by National Recognition for Pioneering MXene Research! 🌟

Our research in collaboration with is featured by IIT Indore in the Times of India, Patrika, Dainik Bhaskar, Mai Duniya, and Raj Express! The views of Prof. Suhash Joshi, Director IIT Indore, highlighting our breakthrough in developing a cost-effective, high-quality MXene synthesis process that can redefine the global standards for energy storage materials, are highly encouraging.

Our novel Molten Salt Solid-State Reaction-Based Process is a major breakthrough, significantly lowering production costs by 10 times and enhancing the commercial viability of MXenes. This opens up new opportunities for industries such as energy storage, defense, aerospace, biomedical technologies, and more!

💥 From supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries to hydrogen storage and electromagnetic interference shielding, the possibilities with MXenes are limitless. As this cutting-edge material grows in demand globally, we are proud to contribute to its progress and innovation.

Being recognized by publications for showcasing the potential impact of MXenes on clean energy and advanced materials is a tremendous honor and a testament to the hard work and dedication of our team Ekta Choudhary, Rupesh Devan Jangir. We extend sincere thanks to the Science and Engineering Research Board ( ) and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for financially supporting this impactful work.
This achievement highlights India’s leadership in advanced materials research, and we are thrilled to be part of this journey towards a sustainable and innovative future! 🌍

01/10/2024

Cheers to Our Senior’s Send-Off! 🎉
Today, we celebrated our senior Dr. Santosh Bimli's last day in Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Indore as he wraps up his PhD with 6 first-author papers and a total of 17 publications! His dedication and passion have truly set a benchmark for all of us. 📚✨
Now, as he heads to the University of Ulsan, Korea for his postdoc, we know he’s destined for even greater things! 🌍
You've left a lasting legacy that we’ll strive to maintain. Your secret of journey is still a mystery to this lab. You’re truly an inspiration to us all. 🧑‍🔬🔬
Wishing you all the best, senior! Keep shining! ✨

20/08/2024

Our groups is ready to host the potential candidate for WISE_SCOPE Fellowship to Women Scientists and Technologists who have completed Ph.D. and want to utilize their S&T knowledge and expertise for the benefit of society.
https://dst.gov.in/callforproposals/call-proposals-under-wise-scope-fellowship Those who are interested shall go through our research work on https://rupesh76.wixsite.com/rupesh or contact on [email protected]

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Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Indore
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13/07/2024

This year Convocation , 06 group members graduated and also grabbed 02 silver medals (01 among all graduating M. Tech. students of IIT Indore, and 02 among all graduating B.Tech. students of MEMS department)
02 Ph.D. student(Santosh and Sameena)
01 M.Tech. student (Rishav)
03 B. Tech. students (Aksh*ta, Jitin and Nitin)

You all, stars in the making and ready to challenge the world, have made us all proud.
Congratulations on graduating!

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IIT Indore

06/07/2024

Santosh joined our group as M.Tech. student (2018) and subsequently registered for Ph.D. degree. He will be always remembered for his 7 years association (M.Tech + PhD) with our group.
He has been instrumental in the transformation of our lab from completely empty to overloaded. He has taken care for the installation of almost all equipments including XRD (Central facility).
Initially, he was known as very less talkative guy who followed his seniors. Later all new joiners (after him) started following him. He was trusted fellow of our groups. His thesis work is focused on understanding the role of metal oxide nanostructures for solar-driven energy applications. He received the best oral presentation award at the International Conference for Decarbonization of Energy and Materials held at NTU Singapore on Dec. 2023. He has published 05 research and 01 review articles in highly reputed SCI journals related to his Ph.D. thesis work. Moreover, 01 more research article is under revision for publication. He has also co-authored 17 research articles during his PhD.
Here we are presenting Santosh as Dr. Santosh Bimli. (6th PhD student from our group)

Special thanks to the thesis committee members Prof. P. M. Shirage, Prof. Amod Umarikar, Dr. Sunil Kumar, and Dr. Hemant Borkar, chairman of the open-defense Dr. Bhargav Vaidya and External examiner Prof. D. S. Rana (IISER Bhopal).
You shall find his articles on: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=05a7yZAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Indore
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Dr. Rupesh's research group - IIT Indore

29/06/2024

Sameena was first lady candidate to join our group as research scholar back in 2018. She was one to start work in our group on water remediation.Her thesis focused on “Fe-based perovskites compounds for water remediation including dye removal and desalination.” She has developed perovskite compounds using cost-effective synthesis techniques, which were further utilized for applications in organic dye removal and interfacial solar steam generation (desalination). She has published 03 research articles, and 01 is under revision in SCI journals related to her Ph.D. thesis work. She has also co-authored 06 research articles during her PhD. So here we are presenting Sameena as Dr. Sameena Mulani
Special thanks to the thesis committee members Prof. P. M. Shirage, Prof. Amod Umarikar, and Dr. Sunil Kumar, chairman of the open-defense Prof. Tripti Jain, and External examiner Prof. Mohammed Aslam (IIT Bombay).

One shall find her articles on https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=1rmM8eYAAAAJ

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