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Prof. Sandeep Chhoker
Professor
sandeep.chhoker@jiit.ac.in
Biography

Prof. Sandeep Chhoker has completed his post-graduation from I.I.T. Roorkee. He is also a recipient of JRF and SRF awards from CSIR. He joined the material science research group of Prof V. D. Vankar at Thin Films Lab, Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi for PhD and completed his doctoral thesis on topic “Growth and field emission properties of carbon nanostructures synthesized by microwave plasma enhanced CVD process” successfully. Prof. Chhoker Chhoker joined JIIT during July 2010 as lecturer in Department of Physics and Material Science and Engineering. He has published several peer reviewed articles in high impact journals like Journal of Energy Storage, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, ACS Applied Nanomaterials, Ceramic International etc. He has also been invited as resource person in several International and National conferences. He is a reviewer in ELSEVIER, Springer and ACS journals along with life membership of scientific societies like Semiconductor Society of India, Society of Material Chemistry etc. He has active collaborations in India and abroad.

Research Highlights

Believing in the statement by Buckminster Fuller “There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance” our research group at JIIT also focuses on different areas of energy material (bulk as well as nanomaterials). Currently we are targeting applications like catalysis (for waste water remedy, water splitting, CO2 reduction), energy materials (energy generation & storage, supercapacitor, fuel cell membrane) as well as thin films of TMDs and oxide materials for ultrasensitive photodetection as well as sensing applications. We utilize high temperature CVD, Sputtering and other method of synthesis while testing the suitability of material using microscopy and spectroscopic methods. We have demonstrated 100% degradation efficiency for textile and pharmaceutical dyes, 2D MXene and polymer film for proton exchange membrane in fuel cell technology, hydrogen production using all inorganic perovskite, optoelectronic application of ternary chalcogenide films etc. We further utilize assembly of nanostructures in composite form for heterostructure formation leading to catalysis, sensing, energy generation/storage and photodetection applications.

Areas Of Interest
  • Thin Films synthesis
  • 2D and 1D nanomaterials for Energy and Catalysis
Publications
  1. Ambika Pathak and Sandeep Chhoker “2D MXene/g-C3N4 engineered carboxymethyl cellulose film for improved dielectric behaviour and as a suitable proton exchange membrane”, Materials Today Communication, vol. 46, pp.112851, May 2025.
  2. Ambika Pathak and Sandeep Chhoker, “Multi-pollutant degradation from 2D MoO3/g-C3N4/functional carbon nanomaterial based composite utilizing Z-scheme photocatalysis”, Ceramics International, Vol. 50, no. 24, pp. 52927-52940 Dec. 2024
  3. Saurabh Rawat, Sandeep Chhoker, et al., “Light assisted Ag and Pd MoS2 hybrid gas sensors for room temperature detection of Ammonia”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater., Vol.7, no.1, pp. 746–755, Feb 2024
  4. Tanushree Ghosh, Sandeep Chhoke, et al., “Multifunctional Electrochromic Hybrid PANI@WO3 Core-Shell for Energy Generation and Storage”, Journal of Energy Storage, Vol. 72, pp. 108640, June 2023
  5. Love Bansal, Sandeep Chhoker, etc., “Fluorane Sensitive Supercapacitive Microcrystalline MoO3: Dual Application in Energy Storage and HF Detection”, Material Advances, Vol. 4 (20), pp. 4775-4783, Aug. 2023.