Educational Qualification : Ph.D. in Chemistry (IIT Guwahati)
Areas of Expertise : Energy Materials; Battery Materials; Carbon Nanomaterials; Rare Earth Elements; Certified Reference Materials (CRMs).
No. of Papers Published : 33 Nos.
International : (i) Mini-Review on Organic Electrode Materials: Recent Breakthroughs and Advancement in Metal Ion Batteries | T Banerjee, R Kundu* | Energy Fuels 2024, 38(14), 12487–12509. | (ii) Doping Engineering in Electrode Material for Boosting the Performance of Sodium Ion Batteries | K Kumar, R Kundu* | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c06305. | (iii) Improving the Energy Efficiency in a Walking Hearth Type Reheating Furnace by Energy Balance Method and Optimizing the Resources | K Chakravarty, S Mondal, R Kundu | Measurement: Energy, 2024, 3, 100010. | (iv) Utilizing Cold Rolling Mill Iron Oxide To Synthesize Lithium Iron Phosphate for Li-Ion Batteries | K Kumar, S Kumar, A Sen, H Mediboyana, SS Bag, R Kundu* | ACS Sustainable Resour. Manage. 2024, 1(6), 1185–1194. | (v) Empowering Energy Storage Technology: Recent Breakthroughs and Advancement in Sodium-Ion Batteries | K Kumar, R Kundu* | ACS Applied Energy Materials 2024, 7(9), 3523-3539. | (vi) Investigation of Capacity Fading Mechanism on Nanocrystalline LiNi0.5Mn0.5O2 Synthesized by Autocombustion Technique | V Mahato, S Kumar, A Sen, SMB Ali, C Ghanty, R Kundu* | Chemistry Africa, 2024, 7(3), 1675-1683. | (vii) Solid-State direct regeneration of spent lithium cobalt oxide cathodes for Li-Ion batteries | S Kumar, K Chakravarty, K Kumar, A Sen, C Ghanty, S Chakravarty, R Kundu* | Energy & Fuels 2024, 38(7), 6499-6507. | (viii) Distribution, mode of occurrence, and significance of rare-earth elements in coal from Samaleswari open cast coal blocks, Odisha, India with their provenance and paleodepositional environment | Sneha Kumari, Toushali Roy, Saswati Chakladar, Alok Kumar, Md Arif, Ashok Mohanty, Rajen Kundu, Sanchita Chakravarty | Environmental Earth Sciences 2023, 82(5), 130. | (ix) Preparation and characterization of graphene oxide from coal | B Das, R Kundu*, S Chakravarty | Materials Chemistry and Physics 2022, 290, 126597. | (x) Characterization and analysis of the triglyceride transesterification process | R Kundu*, S De | Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 2023, 13, 4933–4948. | (xi) Glycerolysis process of fatty acid and use thereof in biodiesel production from high free fatty acid feedstock | Inventors: Rajen Kundu, Krishnendu Kundu, Harish Hirani | Indian Patent Application No.: 202111047810, Date of Filing: 20/10/2021 | Publication Date: 21/04/2023 | Publication Number 16/2023. | (xii) Reference Material for The Elemental Analysis of Cathode Material in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Methods Thereof | Rajen Kundu, Sanchita Chakravarty, Arindam Sen, Koushik Chakravarty, Chandan Ghanty | Indian Patent Application No. 202431015212.
Awards and Recognitions : (i) Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Colorado Boulder, USA (2015-2017), (ii) Postdoctoral Fellow at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea (2013-2015), (iii) Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (2018) Under the European Commission's Horizon 2020 (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017) at University of Sheffield, England, UK, (iv) Postdoctoral Fellowships (2018) at University of Guelph, ON, Canada, (v) CSIR-JRF NET and GATE for PhD Fellowship (2008)
