Biography

Dr. Pankaj Kumar Tripathi is currently working as an assistant professor in department of physics, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab. He completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree from the Dr. R. M. L. Avadh University Faizabad, India. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics, University of Lucknow India, in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Rajiv Manohar. During this period, he was a recipient of JRF and SRF fellowship sponsored by Indian Space Research Organisation. He was post-doctoral fellow (Dr. D.S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellow, University Grant Commission, New Delhi, India) in department of physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi from 2014 to 2017. The Post- doctoral research work has been completed with mentorship of Prof. Shri Singh. He is a life member of Indian Liquid Crystal Society, International Liquid Crystals Society, British Liquid Crystal Society and Indian Science Congress, Kolkata. He is reviewer to various refereed journals.
His thesis investigated successfully how to improve the various material parameters needed in liquid crystal devices. His research interests include characterization of the pure and dispersed liquid crystals composites such as nanomaterial-liquid crystal composite, polymer liquid crystal composite.
His ongoing research focus on the liquid crystals and their nanocomposites for photovoltaic and photonic applications, nematic liquid crystal for display applications, thermoelectric and ferroelectric materials, advanced functional materials, carbon nanotubes (CNT), quantum dots (QD) and graphene and two-dimensional nanomaterial, Alignment of Liquid Crystals (LC) molecules at the nanoscale, Development of LC-CNT / LC-graphene based nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS), electro-optic devices, micro-switching devices, and electromechanical memory functions; Order-disorder phenomena in soft-matter systems; Chirality; CNT / DNA / graphene induced chirality based phenomena in soft-matter systems; Liquid crystal phases and phase transitions.
He is research work involves on the borderline between Physics and Soft Condensed Matter with the goal of connecting these two broad areas of science. He has used the various experimental methods to study the applications of liquid crystal-based devices. This work involves characterization of liquid crystals composite which deform easily under the influence of external parameters - electric fields, temperature, wavelength, etc. He has published more than 35 research papers in repute journals describing the properties of liquid crystals and role of various nanoparticles, polymers, dyes disperse in LC materials. He was visited abroad twice to present his original research works--14th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (FLCC-2013) held at Otto-Von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany in 2013 and Advanced Materials World Congress organised by International Association of Advanced Materials, Linköping University Stockholm Sweden in 2015.