User:Prashant Vijay Gaikwad

Dr. Prashant Vijay Gaikwad is an Indian physicist, and is working in the field of material sciences. Born and brought up in the small town Dehuroad, western side of Pune district, he is the son of farmers family, Mrs. Kamal and Mr. Vijay Narayan Gaikwad. He has completed his doctoral degree in physics from Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University and Radiochemitry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre under joint MoU collaboration in 2019. His doctoral research work includes theoretical and experimental research on electronic structure investigation of confined systems. Wherein, apart from his doctoral work publications, he holds the record in the history of department of physics, SPPU (and probably Pune district) of publishing most number of sole author articles before award of his doctoral degree (communication of articles after thesis submission). These articles are published in the various prestigious international journals known in the field of material sciences (The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, ACS Omega , MRX IOP ). Presently he is pursuing post-doctoral research work as a research associate at the Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India.

The research work of Dr. Prashant has contributed to the topic of confined systems of material. Especially, investigation of fundamental properties of nano-sized clusters and 2D materials, and their applications. His theoretical work is mostly in the field of computational material sciences. His principle scientific contributions are;


 * Prediction of highest band gap (2.94 eV by GGA, 3.97 eV by HSE06 functional), stiffest (by Young’s modulus) next to graphene, 2D twisted octagonal (TO)-C10 allotrope of carbon[ ].
 * Prediction of free standing sub-nano 2D assemblies of nitrogen terminated Lonsdaleite and diamond phase carbon having bulk-like simultaneous electronic, thermo-mechanical and dynamical properties.
 * Prediction of thermo-mechanically and dynamically stable octagonal 2D monolayer of ZnO with the highest band gap in family and topology assisted direct exchange interaction driven magnetic properties,.
 * Introduction of a new method of "high coordination cluster assembly route" to predict 2D materials and a new parameter average binding energy per atom "ABE-number" which can be used along with BE/ atom to compare stability of non-stoichiometric bulk-like clusters of II-VI semiconductor compounds [4].
 * Confinement of polymer chains by Au nanoparticles with non-hydrogen bonding governed variation in mechanical properties of Au-PVA nanocomposites.
 * Report of decrease in S-parameter because of point vacancy defects and investigation of defects mediated Li cluster formation mechanism in alumina.