Dr. Darpan Vijaykumar Bhuse

• Ph. D. in Chemistry, Vellore Institute of Technology, VIT, Vellore, 2023
• M. Sc. in Analytical Chemistry, Jaisingpur College Jaisingpur, 2017
• B. Sc. in Chemistry, Rajaram College, Kolhapur, 2015

• Teaching Research Assistant, Vellore Institute of Technology, VIT, Vellore, 2019-2021
• Assistant Professor, JSPM University, August 2023 to Present

• Dye Sensitized Solar Cell
• Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine (Photocatalyst and Dye) Synthesis
• Heterogenous Photocatalysis
• Supercapacitor
• Organic Transformations

1) Star-type Melamine Based Conjugated Carboxy Functionalized Porphyrin Trimer for DSSCs: An efficient Approach to Clean, Aggregation Free and True Energy Generation

Materials Chemistry and Physics, 287, 126312, 2022, IF- 4.778

2) Synthesis and Characterization of Conjugated Porphyrin Dyad Entangled with Carboxyl Functionalized Benzimidazolium: An Efficient Metal Free Sensitizer for DSSC.

New Journal of Chemistry, 45, 3430, 2021, IF- 3.952

3) Evolution of waste iron rust into α-Fe₂O₃/CNF and α-Fe₂O₃/PANI composites as an efficient positive electrode for sustainable hybrid super-capacitor.

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 32, 13787, 2021, IF-2.779

4) Ant-like small molecule metal-free dimeric porphyrin sensitizer for true energy-generating DSSC with 9.3% efficiency.

 Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 33, 14305, 2022, IF-2.779

5) Visible-Light Aided C-H activation: Metal/Base-Free Generation of C-C bonds using Porphyrin Photocatalyst.

Chemistry Select, 7, e202201180, 2022, IF-2.307

6) Visible Light Mediated Heck Coupling of Inactivated Aryl Fluoride/Chloride Over a Sulfonic Acid Functionalized, Melamine-based Metal-free Porphyrin Photocatalyst

Chemistry Select, 7(29), e202200328,2022, IF- 2.307

7) Melamine-Based Porphyrin Photosensitizer Comprising Sulphonic Acid Moieties for Efficient Aerobic Oxidative Acetalization of Furfuryl Alcohol: An Access to Octane Booster Under Visible Light,

Fuel, Volume 353, 1 Dec 2023, 129209, IF-8.035

8) Simplest synthesis and characterization study of flower-like Cu₂ZnSnS₄ thin films

Materials Today: Proceedings, IF- 2.59

9) Chemical Bath Deposition of Bi-doped Titanium Oxide thin films and their Dye Synthesized Solar cell application, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 152-2023, 110681, IF- 3.428

Patent Published-Title- DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF STEEPED M-SHAPE BASIN SINGLE SLOPE SOLAR STILL USING BIO-NANO-PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL

Application number- 202341068585

• Young Researcher Award from InSc (Institute of Scholars) Award ID: 20232YRA88
• Featured Speaker (Virtual) for the 5^th ADVANCED MATERIALS SCIENCE WORLD CONGRESS held in Barcelona, Spain.
• International e-Conference Emerging Trends in Medicinal and Green Chemistry. ETMGC 2021- Oral presentation (Synthesis of metal free porphyrin dimer: An efficient dye for application in DSSC) BEST PAPER PRESENTATION AWARD

Life time member of InSc

Teaching Research assistant at VIT, Vellore- Chemistry Lab- July 2019 to 2022

• On board Reviewer for Royal Society of Chemistry
• Acting as Research Paper Reviewer for Elsevier Publication House (Journal-Material Science in Semiconductor Processing)
• Acting as Research Paper Reviewer for Elsevier Publication House (Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry).
• Acting as a reviewer for InSc International Publishing Platforms

Office Address: B Building, Faculty of Science and Technology. B-017

 Email: dvb.sbas@jspmuni.ac.in

Phone: 7768851367

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-darpan-vijaykumar-bhuse-2ba5b3a2

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CL_W89MAAAAJ&hl=en