User:Dr. Yuvraj Patil

Dr. Yuvraj Patil (born 29 November 1990), is an Indian chemist with doctorate degree and works in the area of design and synthesis of near-Infrared Absorbing pi-conjugated materials for optoelectronics specially in organic solar cells. He has published around 27 research publications with 20 as a first author publications in reputed international journals. Currently he is working as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the North Dakota State University in Fargo, USA on the development of new inorganic semiconducting materials/Quantum Dots for efficient, low cost solar cells.

Early life and education
Dr. Yuvraj was born in a small village Nimbavade in Atpadi Tahsil. His father was Farmer. He graduated from Shrimant Babasaheb Deshmukh Mahavidyalay Atpadi (Shivaji University, Kolhapur) followed by Post Graduation in Organic Chemistry with 1st class from Shivaji University, Kolhapur India. During the last semester of his Post Graduation, he cleared the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Chemistry (CY) for doctoral studies and joined the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore) in 2014 for his Ph.D. Dr. Yuvraj has completed his PhD at IIT Indore (India) under supervision of Prof. Rajneesh Misra in Oct. 2018. His doctoral research involved the design and synthesis of pi-conjugated Donor-Acceptor Organic Dyes organic solar cell applications. After completion of PhD degree, he has continued his research as postdoctoral fellow for one year in the same lab. Then he moved to Japan at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan for the further research studies as a Postdoctoral Researcher. After completion of postdoc research at Japan he joined as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Rennes Institute of Chemical Sciences (ISCR), Université de Rennes 1, France (Europe) in December 2021 to work on development of chiral organic molecules with intense chiroptical properties and their optoelectronic applications. Currently he is working as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the North Dakota State University in Fargo, USA since November 2022 on the development of new inorganic semiconducting materials/Quantum Dots (especially Si, Sn, Ge, Pb and Cd) for efficient, low cost solar cells.

Scientific contribution
Dr. Yuvraj worked in the area of organic electronics and organic photonics. He has acquired extensive experience in synthetic aspects of different organic dyes particularly diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP). The research carried out by the fellow mainly focused on DPP derivatives with applications in organic solar cells. Apart from this, he has been involved in the synthesis of other dyes involving Aza-BODIPYs, Perylenediimide , benzothiadiazole, Pyrazabole. He is having experience in the design, synthesis, purification and structural elucidation (using various spectroscopic methods) of p-conjugated materials, NIR absorbing dyes, dyes with metal complexes. He worked on the development of several chromophores based on diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)    , Aza-BODIPY, Perylenediimide (PDI), Benzothiadiazole (BTD) dyes, Pyrazabole  , Tetracyanobutadiene, Ferrocene, Triphenylamine, Carbazole, Cobalt based complexes for Ultra-fast studies and Solar Cell applications.

Recently, Dr. Yuvraj has completed his 1.5 year Postdoctoral Research at the National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan with Dr. Nakanishi’s lab, where he is involved in the design and synthesis of donor-acceptor based functional molecular liquids for electret applications.

Currently Dr. Yuvraj is working as a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Rennes Institute of Chemical Sciences (ISCR), University of Rennes 1 (France) with Dr. Ludovic on development of chiral organic molecules with intense chiroptical properties and their optoelectronic applications.

The results obtained during his career have been published in reputed scientific journals such as Angewandte Chemie, Journal of Material Chemistry A and others.