Dr. Annasaheb V. Moholkar
Associate Professor
Thin Films Nanomaterials Laboratory
Physics Department, Shivaji University, Kolhapur
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Physics Department, Shivaji University, Kolhapur
Contact| Sr.No | Degree | Year of Passing | Subject | University | % of Marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | B.Sc. | 1992 | Physics | Shivaji University, Kolhapur | 55.81 |
| 2. | M.Sc. | 1994 | Physics | Shivaji University, Kolhapur | 55.93 |
| 3. | M.Phil. | 1995 | Physics | Shivaji University, Kolhapur | A Grade |
| 4. | D.C.P. | 2003 | Computer | Shivaji University, Kolhapur | 68.35 |
| 5. | Ph.D.* | 2007 | Physics | Shivaji University, Kolhapur | Awarded |
Papers Published
Industrialization and transportation cause enormous emissions of several toxics and hazardous gases like NO2, NH3, Acetone, LPG, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), and many others from various industries such as power generation plants, automotive, aerospace, glass, ceramic, petrochemical, food processing etc. These gases spread rapidly over the large area within a short time and are dangerous to human health can cause severe respiratory diseases, lung infection, and causes even death. Therefore, it is important to detect the concentration of these toxic gases in the atmosphere and take safety precautions. Sensor is a device which provides a usable output in response to a specified measure. Sensors are found in many devices such as automobiles, airplanes, cellular telephones, radios, chemical plants, industrial plants and countless other applications.
The twenty-first century is experiencing an immense fatigue of energy with an advancement of the global economy. The world’s hunger for energy with maintaining the same living standards, the conventional energy sources does not hold the ability to meet the world’s energy requirements. Thus, it is of immense inevitability to generate and store energy. The elegant energy storage devices such as batteries, conventional capacitors, and supercapacitors have fascinated great attention of worldwide researchers to decode the global energy dilemma. Among various energy storage systems, the electrochemical capacitors (EC’s), also known as supercapacitors is fabulous leading one consideration. It is generally observed that supercapacitors show higher specific power than batteries. However, their specific energy is generally lower than that of batteries. Supercapacitors have attracted great attention due to eco-friendly, being lightweight, long lifespan, high efficiency, short charging time, etc.
The heavy industrialization and continuously growing population lead to the tremendous environmental pollution. Organic impurities such as dyes, alcohols and acids are discharged into potable water sources and consequently causing water pollution. Therefore, one of the primary challenges to sustain modern society is to acquire adequate water resources of a required quality for various elected uses. It is well known that some of the dyes are carcinogenic. Therefore, after propagation within the aquatic environment they can cause critical damage to aquatic life by increasing chemical oxygen demand, and as well toxicity. Therefore, the removal of these dyes from wastewater before discharging to the environment is necessary. Nowadays various wastewater treatment methods have been explored. however, among them, advanced oxidation processes (AOP’s) have been demonstrated to be effective for the degradation of organic pollutants. Semiconductor heterogeneous photocatalysis comes under AOPs and has enormous potential to mineralization of organic pollutants in the wastewater by means of a photocatalytic (redox) reaction.
Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) are electrically conductive materials with a comparably low absorption of light. They are usually prepared with thin film technologies and used in opto-electrical devices such as solar cells, displays, opto-electrical interfaces and circuitries. Spray pyrolysis is bound to produce non-stoichiometric oxide thin films and can create high quality large area uniform thin films. This ability makes them highly suitable for production of transparent conductive oxide thin films with cost effective and simple chemical technique.
Nowadays, we are facing energy crises and global warming seriously. The stock of non-renewable energy sources is going to end in some days, the solution of this is to use the renewable energy sources which are freely available, clean, most promising energy sources. Among all, solar energy has large capacity to fulfil the whole world energy needs, one-hour solar energy is sufficient to fulfil all the population energy demand for one year. The TFNML perceives great research in the field of Solar Cells. Most of the research was done on photo-electrochemical solar cells (PEC), electrochemical photovoltaic cell (EPCV), dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSC), quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSC), etc. At the beginning of the research on solar cell, it was centred on the materials like TiO2, ZnO, Cu2O, Cu2SnS3, Cu2ZnCd (S, Se)3, CZTS, CCTS, etc. These materials have been synthesized by methods like chemical bath deposition, hydrothermal, spray pyrolysis, electrodeposition, SILAR, sol-gel, etc.
Water splitting is the chemical reaction in which water is broken down into oxygen and hydrogen: 2 H2O → 2 H2 + O2 Efficient and economical water splitting would be a technological breakthrough that could underpin a hydrogen economy, based on green hydrogen. A version of water splitting occurs in photosynthesis, but hydrogen is not produced. The reverse of water splitting is the basis of the hydrogen fuel cell.
Water resources are essential for life as we know it, in cultivated farmland, sustainability, human consumption, economic development, and environmental systems . Globally, over five billion inhabitants are dependent on groundwater and surface water systems since people use these resources in numerous ways such as potable water, housing, crop production, and manufacturing applications. The degradation of water resources is a much-studied phenomenon and can be caused by natural processes (climate change, water-rock interactions, and geological factors) and human activity (agriculture practices and urban waste), as well as the presence of considerable chemical compounds since the industrial revolution. Despite this, the management of surface water and groundwater as resources remains complicated in many circumstances and relevant information remains unknown. Apart from anthropogenic activities, natural heterogeneities of rock/soil interact with water, influencing natural water cycles and affecting water quality across all domains. Such modifications can have severe repercussions for the functioning of human health and the living organism
| Sr.No | Title | Cost in Lakh | Duration | PI and CO-PI | Role (PI/Co-PI) | Agency | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films by spray pyrolysis technique | 1.15 | 01/04/2009 To 31/05/2011 | A.V. Moholkar | PI | UGC, New Delhi | Completed |
| 2. | Preparation and characterization of spray deposited fluorine dopedtin oxide (FTO) and indium doped tin oxide (ITO) and their use as gas sensors | 0.78 | 01/06/2012 To 31/05/2015 | A.V. Moholkar | PI | UGC, New Delhi | Completed |
| 3. | Studies on spray deposited CZTSthin films for solid state junction solar cells | 13.99 | 01/06/2012 To 31/05/2015 | A.V. Moholkar | PI | UGC, New Delhi | Completed |
| 4. | Photoelectrocatalytic performance of spray depositednanocrystalline stratified oxide semiconductor thin films | 10.16 | 23/05/2013 To 22/05/2016 | C.H. Bhosale and A.V. Moholkar | Co-PI | DST, New Delhi | Completed |
| 5. | Development of Porous Nanocarbon Electrodes for Alkaline Fuel Cells | 23.11 | 26/11/2013 To 25/11/2016 | C.H. Bhosale and A.V. Moholkar | Co-PI | BRNSDAE, Mumbai | Completed |
| 6. | A synergetic strategy to detect hazardous gases using nanostructured MoO3-V2O5 composites by chemical route | 26.75 | 27/07/2018 To 26/07/2021 | A.V. Moholkar | PI | SERB, New Delhi | Completed |
| 7. | Novel Development Of Photoelectrochemical, Dye Sensitized and Solid State Hetero-Junction Solar Cells Based On Ultrasonically Sprayed Cu2CoSn(S,Se)4 Thin Films | 54.41 | - | A.V. Moholkar | PI | SERB, New Delhi | Submitted on 09/10/2020 |
| Sr.No | Article Name | Journal/Volume | Period | Rank in TOP 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Physical Properties of Transparent and Conducting Sprayed Fluorine Doped Zinc Oxide thin Films
P.S.Shinde, S.M.Pawar, A.V. Moholkar, C.H.Bhosale, K.Y.Rajpure |
Solid State Sciences,Volume 10, Issue 9, September 2008, Pages 1209-1214 | October to December 2008 | 13 |
| 2. | Effect of laser incident energy on the structural, morphological and optical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films
Pawar S.M.; Moholkar A.V.; Kim I.K.; Shin S.W.; Moon J.H.; Rhee J.I.; Kim J.H. |
Current Applied Physics, Volume 10, Issue 2, March 2010, Pages 565-569 | January to March 2010 | 8 |
| 3. | Single step electrosynthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films for solar cell application
Pawar S.M.; Pawar B.S.; Moholkar A.V.; Choi D.S.; Yun J.H.; Moon J.H.; Kolekar S.S.; Kim J.H. |
Electrochimica Acta, Volume 55, Issue 12, April 2010, Pages 4057-4061 | April to June 2010 | 16 |
| 4. | Effect of laser incident energy on the structural, morphological and optical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films
Pawar S.M.; Moholkar A.V.; Kim I.K.; Shin S.W.; Moon J.H.; Rhee J.I.; Kim J.H. |
Current Applied Physics, Volume 10, Issue 2, March 2010, Pages 565-569 | April to June 2010 | 15 |
| 5. | Single step electrosynthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films for solar cell application
Pawar S.M.; Pawar B.S.; Moholkar A.V.; Choi D.S.; Yun J.H.; Moon J.H.; Kolekar S.S.; Kim J.H. |
Electrochimica Acta, Volume 55, Issue 12, April 2010, Pages 4057-4061 | July to September 2010 | 8 |
| 6. | Effect of laser incident energy on the structural, morphological and optical properties of Cu”2ZnSnS”4 (CZTS) thin films
Pawar S.M.; Moholkar A.V.; Kim I.K.; Shin S.W.; Moo J.H.; Rhee J.I.; Kim J.H. |
Current Applied Physics, Volume 10, Issue 2, March 2010, Pages 565-569 | July to September 2010 | 8 |
| 7. | Effects of dopant (Al, Ga, and In) on the characteristics of ZnO thin films prepared by RF magnetron sputtering system
Sim K.U.; Shin S.W.; Moholkar A.V.; Yun J.H.; Moon J.H.; Kim J.H. |
Current Applied Physics, Volume 10, Issue 3, May 2010, Pages S463-S467 | July to September 2010 | 20 |
| 8. | Effects of dopant (Al, Ga, and In) on the characteristics of ZnO thin films prepared by RF magnetron sputtering system
Sim K.U.; Shin S.W.; Moholkar A.V.; Yun J.H.; Moon J.H.; Kim J.H. |
Current Applied Physics, Volume 10, Issue 3, May 2010, Pages S463-S467 | July to September 2010 | 23 |
| 9. | Effect of laser incident energy on the structural, morphological and optical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films
Pawar S.M.; Moholkar A.V.; Kim I.K.; Shin S.W.; Moon J.H.; Rhee J.I.; Kim J.H. |
Current Applied Physics, Volume 10, Issue 2, March 2010, Pages 565-569 | April to June 2011 | 23 |
| 10. | Synthesis and characterization of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films grown by PLD: Solar cells
Moholkar A.V.; Shinde S.S.; Babar A.R.; Sim K.U.; Lee H.K.; Rajpure K.Y.; Patil P.S.; Bhosale C.H.; Kim J.H. |
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 509, Issue 27, July 2011, Pages 7439-7446 | July to September 2011 | 16 |
| 11. | A Facile Low-Cost Synthesis of earth abundant element Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) nanocrystals: Effect of Cu Concentrations
Seung Wook Shin,Jun Hee Han,Chan Yeong Park,Sae-Rok Kim,Yeon Chan Park, G.L .Agawane, A.V. Moholkar,Jae Ho Yun,Chae Hwan Jeong, Jeong Yong Lee,Jin Hyeok Kim |
Journal of Alloys and Compounds Volume 541, 15 November 2012, Pages 192-197 | July to September 2012 | 6 |
| 12. | A facile and low-cost synthesis of earth abundant element Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) nanocrystals: Effect of Cu concentrations
Seung Wook Shin,Jun Hee Han,Chan Yeong Park,Sae-Rok Kim,Yeon Chan Park, G.L .Agawane, A.V. Moholkar,Jae Ho Yun,Chae Hwan Jeong, Jeong Yong Lee,Jin Hyeok Kim |
Journal of Alloys and Compounds Volume 541, 15 November 2012, Pages 192-197 | October to December 2012 | 23 |
| 13. | Studies of compositional dependent CZTS thin film solar cells by pulsed laser deposition technique: An attempt to improve the efficiency
Moholkar A.V.; Shinde S.S.; Agawane G.L.; Jo S.H.; Rajpure K.Y.; Patil P.S.; Bhosale C.H.; Kim J.H. |
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 544, December 2012, Pages 145-151 | October to December 2012 | 13 |
| 14. | Quaternary Cu2ZnSnS4 nanocrystals: Facile and low cost synthesis by microwave-assisted solution method
Shin S.W., Han J.H., Park C.Y., Moholkar A.V., Lee, J.Y., Kim J.H. |
Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 516, March 2012, Pages 96-101 | October to December 2012 | 23 |
| 15. | Effect of laser incident energy on the structural, morphological and optical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films
Pawar S.M.; Moholkar A.V.; Kim I.K.; Shin S.W.; Moon J.H.; Rhee J.I.; Kim J.H. |
Current Applied Physics, Volume 10, Issue 2, March 2010, Pages 565-569 | January to December 2013 (Full Year) | 25 |
| 16. | Green route fast synthesis and characterization of chemical bath deposited nanocrystalline ZnS buffer layers
G.L.Agawane, Seung Wook Shin, Min Sung Kim, M.P.Suryawanshi ,K.V.Gurav, A.V.Moholkar, Jeong Yong Lee, Jae Ho Yun, P.S.Patil, Jin Hyeok Kim |
Current Applied Physics Volume 13, Issue 5, July 2013, Pages 850-856 | January to March 2013 | 13 |
| 17. | CZTS based thin film solar cells: a stat us review
M P Suryawanshi; G L Agawane; S M Bhosale; S W Shin; P S Patil; J H Kim; A V Moholkar |
Thin Solid Films Volume 28, Issue 1/2 (March 2013), pp. 98-109 | April to June 2013 | 3 |
| 18. | Green route fast synthesis and characterization of chemical bath deposited nanocrystalline ZnS buffer layers
Agawane G.L.; Shin S.W.; Kim M.S.; Suryawanshi M.P.; Gurav K.V.; Moholkar A.V.; Lee J.Y.; Yun J.H.; Patil P.S.; Kim J.H. |
Current Applied Physics, Volume 13, Issue 5, July 2013, Pages 850-856 | January to December 2013 (Full Year) | 19 |
| 19. | Effect of laser incident energy on the structural, morphological and optical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films
Pawar S.M.; Moholkar A.V.; Kim I.K.; Shin S.W.; Moon J.H.; Rhee J.I.; Kim J.H. |
Current Applied Physics, Volume 10, Issue 2, March 2010, Pages 565-569 | January to December 2013 (Full Year) | 25 |
| 20. | Visible light catalysis of rhodamine B using nanostructured Fe2O3, TiO2 and TiO2/Fe2O3 thin films
M A Mahadik, S S Shinde, V S Mohite, S S Kumbhar, A V Moholkar, K Y Rajpure, V Ganesan, J Nayak, S R Barman, C H Bhosale |
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B, Biology Volume 133, 5 April 2014, Pages 90-98 | January to December 2014 (Full Year) | 22 |
| 21. | Visible light catalysis of rhodamine B using nanostructured Fe2O3, TiO2 and TiO2/Fe2O3 thin films
M A Mahadik, S S Shinde, V S Mohite, S S Kumbhar, A V Moholkar, K Y Rajpure, V Ganesan, J Nayak, S R Barman, C H Bhosale |
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B, Biology Volume 133, 5 April 2014, Pages 90-98 | April to June 2014 | 25 |
| 22. | Simplistic surface-active agents mediated morphological tweaking of CdS thin films for photoelectrochemical solar cell performance
S.A.Vanalakar, M.P.Suryawanshi ,S.S.Mali, A.V. Moholkar,J.Y.Kim, P.S.Patil, J.H.Kim |
Current Applied Physics, Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2014, Pages 1669-1676 | October to December 2014 | 25 |
| 23. | A Chemical approach for synthesis of photoelectrochemically active Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films
M.P.Suryawanshi, S.W.Shin, U.V.Ghorpade, K.V.Gurav, G.L.Agawane, Chang WooHong, Jae HoYun, P.S.Patil, Jin Hyeok,Kim, A.V. Moholkar |
Solar Energy Volume 110, December 2014, Pages 221-230 | October to December 2014 | 15 |
| 24. | Photoelectrocatalytic Degradation of Benzoic using Au doped TiO2 thin films
V.S.Mohite, M.A.Mahadik, S.S.Kumbhar, Y.M.Hunge, J.H.Kim, A.V. Moholkar, K.Y.Rajpure, C.H.Bhosale |
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B, Biology Volume 142, January 2015, Pages 204-211 | January to March 2015 | 24 |
| Sr.No | Title of the Book | Author's Name | Publisher | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Transparent Conductors: Studies on Sprayed Fluorine Doped Tin Oxide (FTO) and Tin Doped Indium Oxide (ITO) thin films | Annasaheb V. Moholkar | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany ISBN No. 978-3-659-74854-7 | 2011 |
| 2. | Thin Film Deposition Methods and Characterization Techniques | Annasaheb V. Moholkar | 1,15,000/- | 2012 |
| 3. | Solution processing of CZTS thin films for solar cells: Layer-by-layer synthesis of CZTS thin films by Modified-SILAR green-route for Photoelectrochemical solar cells | Mahesh Suryawanshi, Annasaheb V. Moholkar | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany 978-3-659-92340-1 | 2016 |
| 4. | Studies on sprayed (MoO3)1-X(V2O5) X films for gas sensor application | Amol Mane, Annasaheb V. Moholkar | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany 918-613-9-92784-5 | 2018 |
| 5. | Earth-abundant Nanomaterials for Photovoltaic Applications: Synthesis of Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 nanoparticles | Mahesh Suryawanshi, Annasaheb V. Moholkar | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany 978-3-659-92340-1 | 2018 |
| 6. | Green route synthesis of metal oxides for dye sensitized solar cell | Mayur Gaikwad, Annasaheb V. Moholkar | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany 978-613-9-96574-8 | 2018 |
| 7. | Back Cover A Synergetic Effect T Detect Hazardous Gases By MoO3 V2O5 Composites Transition Metal based Oxide Semiconductor gas sensor | Amol Mane, Annasaheb Moholkar, Senhal Nikam | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany 978-613—9-92784-5 | 2019 |
| Sr.No | Name of Award | Awarding Agency | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | First Rank holder of the First Star Competition | Govt. of Maharashtra | 1983 |
| 2. | Best Poster Presentation Award | Indian Council of Chemists, ICC-25, Birla College, Mumbai | 2006 |
| 3. | Better Opportunities for Young Scientist in Chosen Areas of Science and Technology” (BOYSCAST) Fellowship | DST, New Delhi, GOI, SR/BY/P-02, 2008 | 2009 |
| 4. | Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences | M.A.S. ALF-990 | 2014 |
| 5. | Member of Indian Science Congress Association | ISCA, Koltakata L35020 | 2018 |
| 6. | Rashtriya Yuva Shastradnya | Avishkar Foundation, Amaravati | 2019 |
| 7. | Top 2% World Scientists (Plos Biology USA, 2020). | Stanford University, USA | 2021 |
| 8. | Best Poster Presentation Award (Second Prize) | Qatar University, Qatar | 2021 |
| 9. | Members of Professional Bodies | (ISC, AIP, ES, SUTA, MAS, IAPT, IP) | Since 1994 |