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Dr. Dharmendar Kumar Sharma

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U.G

CY 1107/1207 Engineering Chemistry

CY 1110/1210 Environmental Sciences

CY 1126/1226 Engineering Chemistry Lab

P.G

CY MS 511/ CHY 511 Physical Chemistry I (Quantum Chemistry & Basic Spectroscopy)

CY MS 515/ CHY 515 Physical Chemistry Lab

CY MS 533 Instrumental Methods of Analysis

CY MS 524 / CHY 24524 Chemistry of Materials

CY MS 525 / CHY 24525 Physical Chemistry Lab II

CY MS 654/ CHY 24654 Photophysical Chemistry

CY MS 615/ CHY 24615 Physical Chemistry Lab III

CHY 521 Chemical Kinetics & Thermodynamics

CHY 532 Chemical Biology

CHY 654 Modern Optical Techniques

CY MS 552 / CHY 657 Optical Imaging and Ultrafast Spectroscopy

PhD

CHY 811 Advanced Analytical Chemistry

CHY 815 Advanced Physical Chemistry

CHY 811 Scientific Practices In Research

CHY 815 Advanced Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy

Organization

Start Date

End Date

Designation

Nature of Work

Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal

06.02.2019

Present

Assistant Professor G.II

Teaching, Research and Academic Administration

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

01.02.2015

20.10.18

Researcher

Teaching Assistant during Postdoc

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

01.01.2009

05.12.2014

PhD Scholar

Teaching Assistant & Tutorial during PhD

Name of the Student

Topic

Year of Award

Co-Supervisor (if any)

Anusha A Synthesis and Photophysical Characteristics of Perovskite Halides -ongoing- -NA-
Divya Porwal Correlative Microscopy and Spectrochemical Analysis for Micro-Trace Evidence (Tentative) -PhD course work ongoing- -NA-
Kaki Yaswanth Chemiluminescence Imaging and Spectroscopy of  Forensically Relevant Substrates (Tentative) -PhD course work ongoing- -NA-
Sai Priya Effect of Morphology on Photophysical Properties of Nanocrystals (Tentative) -PhD course work ongoing- Dr. Sukanti Behera
Himanshu Mamtani Under consideration  

Dr. Sarvesh Kumar Pandey

Title

Sponsoring Agency

Duration

Amount

Co-PI (if any)

Development of Lead-Free Perovskite Halide Materials and In-Situ Photophysical Characterization for Quantum Dot based Display Applications.

Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Govt. of India

2 Years

2955754

NA
Exploring morphological effects on the Photophysical properties of Lead-Free Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

UGC-DAE-CSR, Govt. of India

3 Years (renews every year)

536670

NA

Rational Development of Non-toxic Perovskite Materials for Optoelectronic Applications Seed Grant 1 Year

500,000 Lakh

NA

Title

Sponsoring Agency

Duration

Amount

Co-Investigator                       (if any)

         
 

Authors

Title

Journal

VOL. NO.,

PAGE NO

YEAR

SCI/

Scopus

IMPACT FACTOR

Anusha, A.; Yadav, A.; Vishnoi, P.; Sharma, D. K.*

Mixed Metal Halide Perovskite CsPb 1-x Sn x Br 3 Quantum Dots: Insight into Photophysics from Photoblinking Studies

Nanoscale

17, 5150–5160

2025

SCI

5.1

डॉ. धर्मेन्द्र कुमार शर्मा, अनुशा ए

श्रेष्ठ हिंदी लोकप्रिय लेख (Popular Article) पुरस्कार: 'नैनो-पदार्थ की दुनिया: छोटे आकार, बड़ी संभावनाएँ'

The Science World

  • 4(1), पृष्ठ 321-325

 

2024

 

 

Demirkurt, B.; Petrova, D.; Sharma, D. K.; Vacha, M.; Weber, B.;Bonn, D.;Brouwer

Resolving Multi-Asperity Contacts at the Nanoscale through Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging

J. Phys. Chem. Lett.

15(7) 1936-1942

2024

SCI

 

 Mahato, J.; Bhattacharya, S.; Sharma, D. K.; Chowdhury

Polarization-resolved single molecule tracking reveals strange dynamics of individual fluoroscent tracers through a deep rubbery polymer network

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys

23(18)

2021

SCI

3.7

Sharma, D. K*.; Hirata, S.; Vacha, M.

M. Energy localization vs. Charge Funneling in Aggregates of CsPbBr3 perovskite Nanocrystals

J. Luminescence

 

222, 117119

2020

SCI

4.2

Petrova, D.; Sarma, D.K.; Vacha, M.; Bonn, D.; Brouwer, A. M.; Weber, B.

Ageing of polymer frictional interfaces: the role of quantity and quality of contact

ACS  Appl. Mater. . Interfaces

12(8), 9890-9895

2020

SCI

10.38

Umematsu, T.; Wajima, K.: Hoisang, W.; Sharma, D. K.; Hirata, S.; Kameyama, T.; Vacha, M.; Torimoto, T.; Kuwabata, S.

Narrow band Photoluminescence from cadmium free I- III-VI Ternary Semiconductor Quantum Dots By Surface Modification

ECS Meeting Abstract MA

2, 2727

2020

SCI

 

Sharma, D. K.* Hirata, S.; Vacha, M. 

Single-particle   electroluminescence   of   CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals reveals particle-selective recombination and blinking as key efficiency factors

Nature Communications

10, 4099

2019

SCI

17.69

Sharma, D. K*.; Hirata, S.; Vacha, M.

Stark-effect and Environment Induced Modulation of Emission in Single Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

ACS Nano

13, 624-632

2019

SCI

18.12

Kameyama, T.; Kishi, M.; Miyamae, C.; Sharma, D. K.; Hirata, S.; Yamamoto, T.; Uematsu, T.; Vacha, M.; Kuwabata, S.; Torimoto, T.

Wavelength-Tunable Band-Edge Photoluminescence of Nonstoichiometric Ag–In–S Nanoparticles via Ga3+ Doping.

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces

10, 42844-42855

2018

SCI

10.38

Hatazaki, S.; Sharma, D. K.; Hirata, S.; Vacha, M.

Identification of Short- and Long- Wavelength Emitting Chlorophylls in Cyanobacterial Photosystem I by Plasmon- Enhanced Single-Particle Spectroscopy at Room Temperature

J. Phys. Chem. Lett.

9(22), 6669-6675 

2018

SCI

6.89

Vacha, M.; Sharma, D. K.

Photophysics and electroluminescence of single nanocrystals  of halide perovskites and related nanomaterials

EPJ Web Conf.

190, 02012

2018

Scopus

 

Uematsu, T.; Wajima, K.; Sharma, D. K.; Hirata, S.; Yamamoto, T.; Kameyama, T.; Vacha, M.; Torimoto, T.; Kuwabata, S.

Narrow Band-Edge Photoluminescence from AgInS2 Semiconductor Nanoparticles by the Formation of Amorphous III-VI Semiconductor Shells.

NPG Asia Mater

10, 713-726

2018

SCI

10.761

Nakamura, T.; Sharma, D. K.; Hirata, S.; Vacha, M.

Intra-Chain Aggregates as the Origin of Green Emission in Polyfluorene Studied on Ensemble and Single Chain Level.

 

J. Phys. Chem. C.

122, 8137-8146

 

 

2018

SCI

4.177

Suresh, K.; Sharma, D.K.; Chulliyill, R.; Sarode, K.; Kumar, V.; Chowdhury, A.; Kumaraswamy, G.

Single particle tracking to probe the local environment in ice- templated crosslinked colloidal assemblies.

 

Langmuir

34, 4603-4613

 

2018

SCI

4.331

Vacha, M.; Sharma, D. K.; Hirata, S.

Single-molecule studies beyond optical imaging: Multi-parameter single-molecule spectroscopy

J.         Photo. Chem.            Photobiol. Rev.   C,

 

34,       121-136

2017

SCI

17.176

Bujak, L.; Narushima, K.; Sharma, D. K.; Hirata, S; Vacha, M.

Plasmon Enhancement of Triplet Exciton Diffusion Revealed by Nanoscale Imaging of Photochemical Fluorescence Upconversion

 

J. Phys. Chem. C

 

 

121, 25479–25486

2017

SCI

4.177

Bujak, L.; Ishii, T.; Sharma, D. K.; Hirata, S; Vacha, M.

Selective turn-on and modulation of resonant energy transfer in single plasmonic hybrid nanostructures

  •  

9, 1511–1519

2017

SCI

8.307

Sharma, D. K.*; Hirata, S.; Bujak, L.; Biju, V.; Kameyama, T.; Kishi, M.; Torimoto, T.; Vacha, M.

Influence of Zn on the Photoluminescence of Colloidal (AgIn)xZn2(1-x)S2 Nanocrystals

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys

19, 3963–3969

2017

SCI

3.676

Sharma, D. K.; Irfanullah, M.; Basu, S. K.; Madhu, S.; De, S.; Jadhav, S.; Ravikanth, M.; Chowdhury, A.

An approach to estimate spatial distribution of analyte within cells using spectrally-resolved fluorescence microscopy

Methods Appl. Fluoresc.,

 

5, 014003– 014013

 

 

2017

SCI

3.849

Bhattacharya, S.; Sharma, D. K.; S.; De, S.; Mahato, J.; Chowdhury, A.

Heterogeneity during Plasticization of Poly(vinylpyrrolidone): Insights from Reorientational Mobility of Single Fluorescent Probes

 

J. Phys. Chem. B

 

 

 

120, 12404–12415

 

2016

SCI

3.466

Irfanullah, M.; Sharma, D. K.; Chulliyil., R; Layek, A.; De, S.; Chowdhury, A.

Heterogeneity in optical properties of near white-light emissive europium complex species revealed by spectroscopy of single nanoaggregates

 

Chem. Phys. Lett.

 

 

667, 247-253

2016

SCI

2.719

Pandey, B.; Mahato, J.; Cotta, K. B.; Das, S.; Sharma, D. K.; Gupta, S. S.; Chowdhury, A.

Glycopeptide-Grafted Bioactive Polyionic Complex Vesicles (PICsomes) and Their Specific Polyvalent Interactions

 

ACS Omega

1, 600-612

 

2016

SCI

4.132

Sharma, D. K.*; Hirata, S.; Bujak, L.; Biju, V.; Kameyama, T.; Kishi, M.; Torimoto, T.; Vacha, M.

Single-particle spectroscopy of I–III-VI semiconductor nanocrystals: spectral diffusion and suppression of blinking by two-color excitation

 

 

  •  

8, 13687- 13694

2016

 

SCI

8.307

Sonawane, K. G.; Agarwal, K. S.; Phadnis, C.; Sharma, D. K.; Layek, A.; Chowdhury, A., Mahamuni, S.

Manifestations of Varying Grading Level in CdSe/ZnS Core-Shell Nanocrystals

  1. ,

120, 5257–5264

 

 

2016

SCI

4.177

Agarwalla, H.; Gangopadhyay, M.; Sharma, D. K.; Basu, S. K.; Jadhav, S.; Chowdhury, A.; Das, A.

Fluorescent Probes for the Detection of Cyanide Ions in Aqueous Medium: Cellular Uptake and Assay for β-Glucosidase and Hydroxynitrile Lyase

J. Mater. Chem. B

 

 

3, 9148–9156

2015

SCI

7.571

Niko, Y.; Sasaki, S.; Narushima, K.; Sharma, D. K.; Vacha, M.; Konishi, G. I.

1-, 3-, 6-, and 8- Tetrasubstituted Asymmetric Pyrene Derivatives with Electron Donors and Acceptors High Photostability and Regioisomer-Specific Photophysical Properties.

J. Org. Chem.

 

 

80, 10794–10805.

2015

SCI

4.198

Das, S.#; Sharma, D. K.#; Chakrabarty, S.; Chowdhury, A.; Gupta, S. S.

Bioactive Polymersomes Self-Assembled from Amphiphilic PPO-GlycoPolypeptides: Synthesis, Characterization, and Dual-Dye Encapsulation

  •  

31, 3402-3412

2015

 

SCI

4.331

Irfanullah, M.; Sharma, D. K.; Chulliyil., R; Chowdhury, A.

Europium doped LaF3 nanocrystals with organic 9-oxidophenalenone capping ligands that display visible light excitable steady-state blue and time-delayed red emission

 

  •  
  •  

 

44, 3082-3091

2015

SCI

4.569

Sharma, D. K.*, Chowdhury, A.

Spectrally resolved optical microscopy using a transmission grating spectrograph: importance of spatial selection

  •  

 

 

 

139, 473-481

 

 

 

2014

SCI

5.227

 

 

Madhu, S.; Sharma, D. K.; Basu, S. K.; Jadhav, S.; Chowdhury, A.; Ravikanth, M.

Sensing Hg (II) in vitro and in vivo using a benzimidazole substituted BODIPY

  •  
  •  

 

52, 11136–11145

2013

SCI

5.436

Bhattacharya, S.; Sharma, D. K.; Saurabh, S.; De, S.; Sain, A.; Nandi, A.; Chowdhury, A.

Plasticization of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) thin films under ambient humidity: Insight from single-molecule tracer diffusion dynamics

Journal of

  •  

Chemistry B

 

117, 25, 7771–7782

 

 

2013

SCI

3.466

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