Physics : Faculty Profile

Qualification :

Sr. No	Degree	University / Institution	Grade	Year of Passing	Specialization
1	B. Sc.	Savitribai Phule Pune University	O	2005	Physics
2	M. Sc.	Savitribai Phule Pune University	A	2007	Physics
3	SET	Savitribai Phule Pune University Maharashtra & Goa States	Qualified	2008	Physics
4	Ph. D.	Savitribai Phule Pune University	-	2013	Physics
5	Postdoctoral Research Associate	Dr. Vijay Kumar Foundation, Gurgaon, India	-	-	Computational Condensed Matter Physics

Experience :

Name & Address of Employer	Post Held	Period of service	Nature of Duties
K. T. H. M. College, Nashik	Assistant Professor	Sept. 2015 --	Teaching
Dr. Vijay Kumar Foundation, Gurgaon	Postdoctoral Research Associate	Aug 2013 - Aug 2015	Research
H. P. T. Arts & R. Y. K. Science College, Nashik	Senior Research Fellow (CSIR-Award)	April 2012 - June 2013	Research
H. P. T. Arts & R. Y. K. Science College, Nashik	Senior Research Fellow (CSIR-Project)	June 2011-March 2012	Research
H. P. T. Arts & R. Y. K. Science College, Nashik	Junior Research Fellow (DST-Project)	Feb 2008 - Feb 2011	Research

Papers In International Refereed Journals :

Sr. No	Name of Author(s)	Full Title of the Paper	Journal Name (Publisher) & Impact Factor (IF)	Volume No	Issue No.	Year of Publication	From Page To Page (pp)
1	Pinaki Saha, Amol B. Rahane, Vijay Kumar, N. Sukumar.	Electronic Origin of the Stability of Transition Metal Doped B14 Drum Shaped Boron Clusters and Their Assembly in to a Nanotube	J. Phys. Chem. C (American Chemical Society) (IF: 4.772)	121	20	2017	10728-10742
2	S. Kumawat, S. Chakraborty, A. B. Rahane, M. Deshpande, R. Ahuja	Time Dependent DFT Investigation of Optical Response in Pristine and Gd Doped Al₂O₃	RSC Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry, London) (IF: 3.289)	6		2016	72537-72543
3	P. Saha, A. B. Rahane, V. Kumar and N. Sukumar	Analysis of the electron density features of small boron clusters and the effects of doping with C, P, Al, Si, and Zn: Magic B₇P and B₈Si clusters	Physica Scripta (Swedish Academy of Sciences) (IF:1.12)	91	5	2016	053005
4	A. B. Rahane, V. Kumar and J. S. Dunn	Carbon Doping in Boron Suboxide : Structure, Energetics, and Elastic Properties	J. Am. Ceram. Soc. (American Ceramic Society) (IF: 2.610)	98	7	2015	2223–2233
5	A. B. Rahane & V. Kumar	B₈₄: A quasi-planer boron cluster stabilized with hexagonal holes	Nanoscale (Royal Society of Chemistry, London) (IF: 7.394)	7		2015	4055-4062
6	A. B. Rahane, P. A. Murkute, M. D. Deshpande, and V. Kumar	Density Functional Calculations of the Structural and Electronic Properties of (Y₂O₃)_n Clusters with n = 1 - 10	J. Phys. Chem. A (American Chemical Society) (IF: 2.693)	117	26	2013	5542-5550
7	M. Bououdina, Y. Oumellal, L. Dupont, L. Aymard, H. Al-Gharni, A. Al-Hajry, T. A. Maark, A. D. Sarkar, R. Ahuja, M. D. Deshpande, Z. Qian, and A. B. Rahane	Lithium storage in amorphous TiNi hydride: electrode for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.	Materials Chem. Phys.(Elsevier) (IF:2.259)	141	1	2013	348-354
8	A. B. Rahane, M. D. Deshpande, and S. Chakraborty	Optical Properties of Gallium Oxide Clusters From First-Principles Calculations	J. Phys. Chem. A (American Chemical Society) (IF: 2,693)	116	43	2012	10559-10565
9	A. B. Rahane, M. D. Deshpande, and V. Kumar	First Principles Calculations for Structural, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Gadolinium doped Alumina clusters	J. Phys. Chem. C (American Chemical Society) (IF: 4.772)	116	10	2012	6115-6126
10	A. B. Rahane and M. D. Deshpande	Structural and Electronic Properties of Neutral and Ionic (Ga₂O₃)_n Clusters with n = 1-10	J. Phys. Chem. C (American Chemical Society) (IF: 4.772)	116	04	2012	2691-2701
11	A. B. Rahane, M. D. Deshpande, and V. Kumar	Structural and electronic properties of (Al₂O₃)_n clusters with n = 1-10 from first principles calculations	J. Phys. Chem. C (American Chemical Society) (IF: 4.772)	115	37	2011	18111-18121
12	A. B. Rahane, M. D. Deshpande, and R. Pandey	Theoretical Study of Small Clusters of Manganese-Doped Gallium Oxide: Mn(GaO)_n and Mn₂(GaO)_n With n = 1 - 7	J. Nanopart. Res. (Springer) (IF: 2.184)	12	3	2010	727-736

Papers In National Refereed Journals :

Sr. No	Name of Author(s)	Full Title of the Paper	Journal Name	Volume No	Issue No.	Year of Publication	From Page To Page (pp)

Papers In International Conference :

Sr. No	Name of Author(s)	Full Title of the Paper	Journal Name (Proceedings)	Conference Name	Conference held at	Duration of Conference
1	J. S. Dunn, A. B. Rahane, and V. Kumar	First Principles Calculations of Dopant Effects in Boron Suboxide	Developments in Strategic Ceramic Materials : Ceram. Engg. Sci. Proc. (CESP), Vol 36, Issue 8, Page 131,Year 2015	39^th Inter. Conf. & Expo on Advanced Ceramics & Composites (American Ceramic Society)	Florida, USA	January 25-30, 2015
2	N. Sukumar, Pinaki Saha, Amol B. Rahane , Rudra Agarwal, Vijay Kumar	What does electron density analysis tell us about bonding in transition metal-doped boron and carbon clusters?		Sagamore XIX Conference on Quantum Crystallography,	Halifax, Canada	July 2018
3	N. Sukumar, Pinaki Saha, Amol B. Rahane , Vijay Kumar	Double ring tubular structures of boron clusters stabilized by metal atom doping: M@B14 (M = Cr, Fe, and Ni).		253rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society,	San Francisco, California, USA	April, 2017

Papers In National Conferenc :

Sr. No	Name of Author(s)	Full Title of the Paper	Conference Name	Conference held at	Duration of Conference

Conference/ Workshop Attended :

Sr. No	Name of the Conference/ Symposium / Workshop	International/ National	Place	Date	Paper / poster Presentations (Give Title) / attended
1	Two days Online “National Conference on Advance Trends in Material Science & Applications”	National	KTHM College, Nashik (Online)	30^th to 31^th August, 2021	Presented Paper (Oral)
2	Physico Chemical Applications of Nanotechnology	State	Pravara Rural Education Societies ACS College, Kolhar, Dist. A. Nagar	9 Feb. 2018	Given Talk
3	International Conference of Advances in Functional Materials (ICAFM-2018)	International Conference	K. T. H. M. College, Nashik	12 to 13 Jan. 2018	Presented Paper (Poster)
4	International Conference on Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems (CMPCS)	International Conference	Dept. of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune	30 Oct. to 1 Nov. 2017	Presented Paper (Poster)
5	Symposium on Size Selected Clusters	International Symposium	Davos, Switzerland	28 Feb. 2016 to 4 March 2016	Given Talk
6	8th USPEX Workshop	International	Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi	20 Jan. to 24 Jan 2015	Attended
7	Scientific Applications on PARAM YUVA II	National	CDAC, Pune, India	8 Jan. to 9 Jan 2015	Given Talk
8	JuDFT: Hands-on DFT codes from Juelich	International	Forschungszentrum Jeulich GmbH, Juelich, Germany	22 Sept to 26 Sept 2014	Attended
9	Workshop on Computational Nanoscience	International	Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi	30 March to 5 April 2014	Attended
10	International Symposium on Science of Clusters, Nanoparticles and Nanoscale Materials (SOCNAM)	International	Hotel Holiday Inn, Jaypur, India	4 March to 8 March 2013	Attended
11	Science Academies' Lecture Workshop on Advanced Spectroscopic Techniques	University	Dept. of Chemistry, H. P. T. Arts & R. Y. K. Science College, Nashik, India	2 Feb. to 3 Feb. 2013	Attended
12	An Advanced School on Modelling Complex Oxides (ATHENA-2012)	International	S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India,	9th - 12th April 2012	Attended
13	17th Raman Memorial Conference (RMC-2012)	National	Dept. of Physics, University of Pune, Pune, India	2 March to 3 March 2012	Presented Paper (Oral)
14	International Symposium On Clusters, Clusters Assemblies and Nanoscale Materials (ISCANM-2011)	International	Harishchandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad	28 Nov to 1 Dec. 2011	Attended
15	The Third International Conference on Frontiers in Nanoscience and Technology (Cochin Nano-2011)	International	Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India	14 Aug. to 17 Aug 2011	Presented Paper (Poster)
16	DST-RFBR sponsored Indo-Russian Workshop on, High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering	International	CDAC, Pune, India	17 Nov to 19 Nov 2010	Attended
17	International Workshop on Frontiers in Electronic Structure Calculations : Techniques and Applications	International	Dept. of Physics, University of Pune, Pune, India	15 Feb to 17 Feb 2010	Presented Paper (Poster)
18	International Workshop on Nanotechnology and Advanced Functional Materials (NTAFM-2009)	International	National Chemical Laboratory, NCL, Pune, India	9 July to 11 July 2009	Presented Paper (Poster)
19	2nd DAE-BRNS International Conference on Materials Chemistry (ISMC-2008)	International	Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai, India	2 Dec. to 6 Dec. 2008	Presented Paper (Poster)

Ph.D. Guidance :

Currently Three Students registered for PhD Under My Guidance.

Sr. No.	Name of the Scholar	Registered/ Awarded	Name of the University	Month and Year Registration	Month and Year Awarded
1	Kiran Sudam Bodke	Registered	SPPU	29/03/2022	-
2	Priyanka Jaywant Gare	Registered	SPPU	01/09/2022	-
3	Vikram Anil Joshi	Registered	SPPU	01/08/2023	-

Major/ Minor Research Project :

Sr. No	Name of the faculty	Title of Project and File No.	Name of funding agency	Grant received (Rs)	Minor/ Major	Period

Books Published :

Sl. No.	Title of the Book	Author Co-Author(s)	Name of the Publisher	Month, Year	ISBN No./ ISSN No.	State / National /International /
1	Condensed Matter Physics	A. B. Rahane	Yashvantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), Nashik	October 2023	978-81-19791-77-4	National
2	Atomic & Molecular Physics	A. B. Rahane	Yashvantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), Nashik	March 2023	978-93-95855-95-2	National
3	C-Programming and Computational Methods	A. B. Rahane	Yashvantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), Nashik	Sept 2022	978-93-95855-05-1	National
4	C-Programming Practical	A. B. Rahane	Yashvantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), Nashik	Oct 2022	-	National
5	Mechanics & Properties of Matter	M. K. Deore, A. B. Rahane, S. Shinde, P. B. Chaudhari, C. G. Dighavkar	Prashant Publications, Jalgaon	July 2019	978-93-85664-72-4	State
6	Physics Principles & Applications	M. K. Deore, A. B. Rahane, S. Shinde, P. B. Chaudhari, C. G. Dighavkar	Prashant Publications, Jalgaon	July 2019	978-93-85664-73-1	State
7	Heat & Thermodynamics	M. K. Deore, A. B. Rahane, S. Shinde, P. B. Chaudhari, M. Sarode, V. G. Wagh	Prashant Publications, Jalgaon	July 2019	978-93-89501-13-1	State
8	Electricity & Magnetism	M. K. Deore, A. B. Rahane, S. Shinde, M. Sarode, K. M. Sanawane	Prashant Publications, Jalgaon	July 2019	978-93-89501-14-8	State
9	Book Chapter: First Principles Calculations Of Dopant Effects In Boron Suboxide	J. S. Dunn, A. B. Rahane, Vijay Kumar	The American Ceramic Society, USA	25 December 2015	Print ISBN:9781119211730 Online ISBN:9781119211747	International Link
10	Book Chapter: Stabilization of Boron and Carbon Clusters with Transition Metal Coordination – An Electron Density and DFT Study	A. B. Rahane, R. Agarwal, P. Saha, N. Sukumar, V. Kumar	John Wiley & Sons Ltd.	05 July 2024	Print ISBN:9781394217625 Online ISBN:9781394217656	International Link

Course Conducted :

Academic Year	Class	Term / Semester	Title of the Course	Theory / Practical
2015-16	F. Y. B. Sc.	Term I & II	Physics Laboratory	Practical
	T. Y. B. Sc.	Sem III	Quantum Mechanics	Theory
	M. Sc.	Sem II	Lasers	Theory
	M. Sc.	Sem III	Computational Physics Lab	Practical
	T. Y. B. Sc.	Sem III & IV	Project	Project
	M. Sc.	Sem IV	Project	Project
2016-17	F. Y. B. Sc.	Term I & II	Physics Laboratory	Practical
	S. Y. B. Sc.	Sem I	Mathematical Methods in Physics	Theory
	T. Y. B. Sc.	Sem IV	Lasers	Theory
	M. Sc.	Sem I	Atoms & Molecules	Theory
	M. Sc.	Sem III	Computational Physics Lab	Practical
	M. Sc.	Sem II	Quantum Mechanics - I	Theory
	T. Y. B. Sc.	Sem III & IV	Project	Project
	M. Sc.	Sem IV	Project	Project
	F. Y. B. Sc. Biotech	Term I & II	Bio-Physics & Instrumentation	Theory
	F. Y. B. Sc. Biotech	Term I & II	Basic Physics & Bio-Physics Laboratory	Practical
2017-18	F. Y. B. Sc.	Term I & II	Physics Paper - II	Theory
	F. Y. B. Sc.	Term I	Physics Laboratory	Practical
	M. Sc.	Sem I	Atoms & Molecules	Theory
	M. Sc.	Sem III	Computational Physics Lab	Practical
	T. Y. B. Sc	Sem III & IV	Project	Project
	F. Y. B. Sc. Biotech	Term I	Bio-Physics & Instrumentation	Theory
	F. Y. B. Sc. Biotech	Term I	Basic Physics & Biophysics Laboratory	Practical
	T. Y. B. Sc.	Sem IV	Lasers	Theory
	M. Sc.	Sem II	Quantum Mechanics - I	Theory
	M. Sc.	Sem IV	Project	Practical
2018-19	F. Y. B. Sc.	Term I & II	Physics Paper - II	Theory
	F. Y. B. Sc.	Term I & II	Physics Laboratory	Practical
	T. Y. B. Sc.	Sem III & IV	Project	Practical
	M. Sc.	Sem I	Atoms & Molecules	Theory
	M. Sc.	Sem III	Computational Physics Lab	Practical

Other :

ACTIVITIES OTHER THAN TEACHING:

(a) Other Publications (Technical Reports):

1) Amol B. Rahane, Jennifer S. Dunn and Vijay Kumar. First Principles Atomistic Model for Carbon-Doped Boron Suboxide, ARMY RESEARCH LAB, USA,Report No.:ADA611091, Issue : ARL-TR-706, [Sept. 2014].

2) Amol B. Rahane, Vijay Kumar Jennifer S. Dunn. Effect of Carbon Doping on the Electronic Structure and Elastic Properties of Boron Suboxide, ARMY RESEARCH LAB, USA, Report No.: ADA623668, Issue : ARL-TR-7318 [June 2015].

(b) Preprints:

1) Smallest Fullerene-like Structures of Boron with Cr, Mo, and W Encapsulation. Amol B. Rahane, Pinaki Saha, N. Sukumar, Kumar Vijay.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12611

(c) Talks Given (Scientific):

1) Worked as a Resource Person at the state level seminar on "Physio-Chemical Applications of Nanotechnology" at Arts, Commerce and Science College, Kolhar, Tal: Rahata, Dist: A. Nagar, Maharashtra sponsored by Savitribai Phule Pune University on 9th-10th February 2018.

2) Hot topic talk on “Smallest Boron Fullerenes with Cr, Mo, and W Encapsulation” at the “Symposium on size selected clusters (S3C)” at Davos, Switzerland, during 28th February – 4th March 2016.

3) Invited Talk on “Ab initio studies on nanoclusters, nanoparticals, and their assembled materials" at the Conference on “Scientific Applications on PARAM Yuva II" at NPSF, CDAC, Pune, India, in January 2015.

4) Given talk on “Theoretical study of structural, magnetic and optical properties of metal oxide nanostructures." at Harishchandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad, India, in November 2012.

(d) Workshops Conducted (Resource Person):

1) Conducted One Day Workshop on “Linux Operating System and GNUPLOT Software” for T. Y. B. Sc. (Physics) Students at Department of Physics, K. T. H. M. College, Nashik on 2nd November 2015 under DBT STAR College, Scheme.

2) Conducted One Day Workshop on “Basics of Linux and GNUPLOT” at Department of Physics, K. T. H. M. College, Nashik on 28th December 2016 under DBT STAR College, Scheme.

3) Conducted One Day Workshop on “ROBOTICS with Arduino” for M. Sc. (Physics) Students at Department of Physics, K. T. H. M. College, Nashik on 12th April 2017 under Skill Developement Programme.

(e) Conferences / Workshops Organized:

1) Worked as a member of organizing committee for the "International Conference of Advances in Functional Materials (ICAFM-2018)" which was held at K. T. H. M. College, Nashik during 12-13 January 2018.

AWARDS & HONOR:

1) International Travel Support (ITS) provided by SERB, Govt. of India to attend an international symposium at Davos, Switzerland, during 28 Feb. 2016 - 4 March 2016.

2) International Travel Assistance provided by CECAM, Switzerland to attend a training program at Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany. Sept 2014.

3) Post Doctoral Research Fellowship awarded by Dr. Vijay Kumar Foundation, Gurgaon, India. Aug 2013 to Aug 2015.

4) Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) awarded by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - (CSIR), Govt. of India. April 2012 to June 2013.

5) Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), on CSIR Sponsored Research Project, Title: Computational studies on structural and electronic properties of nanomaterials in Lithium rechargeable batteries. June 2011 to March 2012.

6) Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), on Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, Sponsored Research Project, Title:Theoretical study of structural and electronic properties of metal-oxide nano-clusters. Feb. 2008 to Feb. 2011.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

1) Knowledge of application of quantum physics / chemistry methods such as density-functional theory (DFT), time dependent DFT, pseudopotential methods to atomic clusters, nanostructures, surfaces and bulk systems.

2) Experience in using and porting DFT based packages such as VASP, PARSEC, RGWBS (TDDFT), Quantum Espresso, Guassian 09, FHI-AIIMS, etc. on a range of Unix and GNU Linux platforms.

3) Experience in building and maintaining High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster at the administrator level.

4) Proficiency in C, Fortran (F77, F90), Bash-shell programming, MATLAB and LATEX.

5) Web Designing : HTML, Wordpress, Joomla etc.

6) Arduino Based Projects, ROBOTICS etc.

Meberships of Committees

1) Head, Starup & Innovation Cell, KTHM College, Nashik

2) Convener, Institutions Innovation Council (IIC), (An MHRD initiative), KTHM College, Nashik

3) Member, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

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