Specialization

Functional ceramics and Triboelectric devices for energy applications

Email

jayantkolte@thapar.edu

+91-175-2393116

1. PI in an industry-sponsored project entitled “Development of PTC thermistors for industrial applications”, 10.60 Lakhs, 2024-2025.
2. Co-PI in a DST sponsored project entitled “Waste to wealth”, 21 Crores, 2024-2028.
3. Co-PI in a DRDO-sponsored project entitled “Development of non-lead based magnetoelectric nanocomposites films with high magnetoelectric coupling”, 37.63 Lakhs, 2018-2022.
4. PI in a Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology sponsored project entitled “Lead-free Flexible Nanocomposites for Energy Scavenging Systems”, 5 Lakhs, 2018-2020.

SCI

Journal Publication

1. Neha Thakur, Prakash Gopalan and Jayant Kolte, “Structural, electrical, and dynamic scaling behavior of Ba_0.85Ca_0.15Zr_0.10Ti_0.90O₃ nanoceramics synthesized at low temperature by sonochemical method” Ceramics International (2024) 50, 46718.
2. Taranveer Kaur, K. Singh, and Jayant Kolte, “Influence of Sr doping on structural and electrical properties of ceria and performance of a single solid oxide fuel cell” Ionics (2024).
3. Parminder Singh, Radhapiyari Laishram, Puneet Sharma, Jayant Kolte, “Fabrication of efficient magnetoelectric multilayered composites via thermal diffusion bonding” Surfaces and Interfaces (2024) 51, 104759.
4. Parminder Singh, Puneet Sharma, Jayant Kolte, “Enhanced electrostrictive behavior in BNT-based ternary piezoceramics via anti-ferroelectric domain engineering” Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2024) 128, 11915.
5. Chhavi Mitharwal, Anshika Bagla, Jayant Kolte, Supratim Mitra “Temperature-dependent dielectric and electromechanical properties of co-modified calcium bismuth titanate (CaBi₄Ti₄O₁₅) ceramics” Materialia (2024) 36, 102133.
6. S. D. Dhruv, Jayant Kolte, Pankaj Solanki, S. A. Sharko, Vanaraj Solanki, Jiten Tailor, Ketan Chaudhari, Naveen Agrawal, V. A. Patel, J. H. Markna, Bharat Kataria, and D. K. Dhruv “Synthesis, microstructural, Rietveld refinement and optical characterizations of sol-gel grown cerium oxide ceramics” J Mater Sci: Mater Electron (2024) 35:1202.
7. S. D. Dhruv, Jayant Kolte, Pankaj Solanki, Milind P. Deshpande, Vanaraj Solanki, Jiten Tailor, Naveen Agrawal, V. A. Patel, J. H. Markna, Bharat Kataria and D. K. Dhruv “Synthesis, microstructural and optical characterizations of sol-gel grown gadolinium doped cerium oxide ceramics” RSC Adv., (2024) 14, 15455.
8. S. D. Dhruv, Jayant Kolte, Pankaj Solanki, Vanaraj Solanki, J. H. Markna, Bharat Kataria, B. A. Amin, Naveen Agrawal, D. K. Dhruv “Synthesis, Rietveld refinement, and microstructural characterization of bulk zinc gallium telluride” Interactions (2024) 245:99.
9. Parminder Singh Radhapiyari Laishram, Puneet Sharma, and Jayant Kolte “Modulation of magnetoelectric coupling in the low-frequency regime” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in electronics (2024), 35, 593.
10. Taranveer Kaur, Jayant Kolte and K. Singh, “Defect-induced improved structural and electrical properties of Gd-Sr co-doped ceria for solid oxide fuel cell applications” Ceramics International (2024), 50, 17054.
11. Parminder Singh, Radhapiyari Laishram, Jayant Kolte, Puneet Sharma “High magnetoelectric coupling in piezoelectric modified BNT and magnetic NZFO particulate composite”, Solid State Sciences (2024), 148, 107438.
12. Parminder Singh, Radhapiyari Laishram, Jayant Kolte, Puneet Sharma “Electric field and temperature dependent ferroelectric behavior of Bi_0.5Na_0.5TiO₃–Bi_0.5K_0·5TiO₃–BiMg_0.5Ti_0.5O₃ piezoceramics”, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (2023) 167, 107816.
13. Parminder Singh, Aditi Sharma, Puneet Sharma, Jayant Kolte “Investigation of phase, structural, and electrical properties of BNT–BT solid solutions in the vicinity of MPB regime”, Applied Physics A (2023) 129:643.
14. P Singh, R Laishram, J Kolte, P Sharma “Low Frequency Magnetoelectric Effect in Bi_0.5Na_0.5TiO₃–Ni_0.5Zn_0.5Fe₂O₄ Particulate Composites”, Electronic Materials Letters (2023), 19, 442.
15. Taranveer Kaur, K. Singh and Jayant Kolte “Effect of intrinsic and extrinsic oxygen vacancies on the conductivity of Gd doped CeO₂ synthesized by sonochemical route”, J. Phys. Chem. C (2022) 126, 18018.
16. Taranveer Kaur, Raman Kumar, Savidh Khan, K Singh, and Jayant Kolte “Structural and electrical properties of Gd doped CeO₂ nanoceramics”, Trans. Indian Ceram. Soc. (2022) 81, 127.    
17. Jayant Kolte and P. Gopalan “Growth of heteroepitaxial La and Mn co-substituted BiFeO₃ thin films on Si (100) substrate by pulsed laser deposition”, Appl. Phys. A., (2022).128, 763.
18. Prabal Pratap Singh and Jayant Kolte “Impedance and AC Conductivity analysis of La substituted 0.67BiFeO₃ - 0.33BaTiO₃ solid solution” Appl. Phys. A., (2022) 128, 465.
19. Alka Rani, Jayant Kolte and P. Gopalan “Influence of sintering temperature on structural, electrical, and magnetoelectric properties of multiferroic Fe-substituted BaTiO₃ ceramics”, Appl. Phys. A., (2022) 128, 442.
20. P Singh, Puneet Sharma and Jayant Kolte “Giant magnetocapacitance in magnetoelectric BNT/NFO particulate composites”, J. Mater. Sci.-Mater. Electron., (2021) 32, 21288.
21. Anuj Bansal, Deepak Kumar Goyal, Prabhjot Singh, Anil Kumar Singla, Munish Kumar Gupta, Niraj Bala, Jayant Kolte, Gautam Setia “Erosive wear behavior of HVOF-sprayed Ni-20Cr₂O₃ coating on pipeline materials”, International Journal of Refractory Metals & Hard Materials, (2020) 92, 105332.
22. Alka Rani, Jayant Kolte and P. Gopalan “Investigation on Ni doping on the structural, multiferroic and magnetoelectric properties of BaTiO₃ ceramics”, Ceram.  Int., (2019) 45, 5312.
23. Safna Hussain K.P., Mohamed Shahin Thayil, Jinitha T.V., Jayant Kolte “Development of an ionogel membrane PVA/[EMIM] [SCN] with enhanced thermal stability and ionic conductivity for electrochemical application”, J Mol. Liq., (2019), 274, 402.
24. Alka Rani, Jayant Kolte and P. Gopalan “Structural, Electrical, Magnetic and Magnetoelectric properties of Co-doped BaTiO₃ multiferroic ceramics”, Ceram. Int., (2018) 44, 16703.
25. Jyoti Rani, Varun Kushwaha, Jayant Kolte, and C. V. Tomy, "Strong magnetoelectric effect in pulsed laser deposited [Ba(Zr_0.2Ti_0.8)O₃-0.5(Ba_0.7Ca_0.3)TiO₃]-CoFe₂O₄ bilayer thin film", J Am. Ceram. Soc., (2018) 101, 5651.
26. Ramesh Ade, V. Sambasiva, Jayant Kolte, T. Karthik, Ajit R. Kulkarni and N. Venkataramani, “Room-temperature magnetoelectric and magnetodielectric properties of 2-2 bilayer 0.50Pb(Ni_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-0.35PbTiO₃-0.15PbZrO₃/CoFe₂O₄ thin films”, Scripta Materialia, (2018) 150, 125.
27. Supratim Mitra, T. Karthik, Jayant Kolte, Ramesh Ade, N. Venkataramani,  Ajit Kulkarni  “Origin of enhanced piezoelectric properties and room temperature multiferroism in MnO₂ added 0.90(Li_0.12Na_0.88NbO₃)-0.10BaTiO₃ ceramic”, Scripta Materilia, (2018) 149, 134.
28. Ramesh Ade, V. Sambasiva, Jayant Kolte, T. Karthik, Ajit Kulkarni and N. Venkataramani, “Enhanced magnetoelectric response in 2-2 bilayer 0.50Pb(Ni_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-0.35PbTiO₃-0.15PbZrO₃/NiFe₂O₄ thin films”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., (2018) 51, 114004.
29. Jayant Kolte, A. S. Daryapurkar, Mohit Agarwal, D. D. Gulwade and P. Gopalan “Magnetoelectric properties of microwave sintered BiFeO₃ and Bi_0.90La_0.10Fe_0.95Mn_0.05O₃ nanoceramics”, Mater. Chem. and Phys., (2017) 193, 253.
30. Safna Hussain K.P, Mohamed Shahin Thayyil , S.K Deshpande, Jinitha T.V, Jayant Kolte “Development of ion-conducting ionic liquid-based gel polymer electrolyte
    membran1e PMMA/BMPyr.TFSI- With improved electrical, optical, thermal
    and structural properties”, Solid State Ionics, (2017) 310, 166.
31. Jyoti Rani, Varun Kushwaha, Jayant Kolte and C. V. Tomy “Structural, dielectric and magnetoelectric studies of [0.5Ba(Zr_0.2Ti_0.8)O₃-0.5(Ba_0.7Ca_0.3)TiO₃]-Ni_0.8Zn_0.2Fe₂O₄ multiferroic composites”, J Alloys Compd., (2017) 696, 266.
32. Gajula Ganapathi Rao, Buddiga Lakshmi Rekha, Ch. Arun Kumar, Kolte Jayant, K. Samatha, Dasari Madhava Prasad “Studies on structural and dielectric properties of Li_0.5Fe_2.5O₄ doped in BaTi_0.9Zr_0.1O₃ at higher frequency region”, Appl. Phys. A, (2017) 123, 624.
33. John Paul Praveen, Monaji Vinitha Reddy, Jayant Kolte, Sakthivel Dinesh Kumar,
    Venkatachalam Subramanian, and Dibakar Das “Synthesis, characterization, and magneto-electric properties of (1  x)BCZT- xCFO  ceramic particulate composites”, Int J Appl Ceram Technol., (2017), 14, 200.
34. G. Ganapathi Rao, B. Lakshmi Rekha, M.P. Dasari, Ch. Arun Kumar, Jayant Kolte,
    K. Samatha  “Structural and Magnetic properties of lithium ferrite substituted BaTi_0.9Zr_0.1O₃ composite ceramics”, J. Asian Ceram. Soc., (2017) 5, 109.
35. Jayant Kolte, A. S. Daryapurkar, D. D. Gulwade, Mohit Agarwal and P. Gopalan “Effect of substrate temperature on the structural and electrical properties of La and Mn co-doped BFO thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition”, Thin Solid Films, (2016) 619, 308.
36. Jayant Kolte, A. S. Daryapurkar, D. D. Gulwade and P. Gopalan “Microwave sintered Bi_0.90La_0.10Fe_0.95Mn_0.05O₃ nanocrystalline ceramics: Impedance and Modulus spectroscopy”, Ceram. Int., (2016) 42, 12914.
37. Alka Rani, Jayant Kolte, Samba Siva Vadla and Prakash Gopalan “Structural, electrical, magnetic and magnetoelectric properties of Fe doped BaTiO₃ ceramics” Ceram. Int., (2016) 42, 8010.
38. Rajesh R. Raut, Paresh H. Salame, Jayant T. Kolte, Chandrakant S. Ulhe and Prakash Gopalan “Giant dielectric response and magnetoelectric behavior of 95BiFeO₃–5BaTiO₃ (95BFO–5BT) ceramics”, J. Mater. Sci.- Mater. Electron., (2016) 27, 730.
39. Jayant Kolte, Paresh H. Salame, A. S. Daryapurkar and P. Gopalan “Impedance and AC conductivity study of nanocrystalline, fine-grained multiferroic bismuth ferrite (BiFeO₃), synthesized by microwave sintering” AIP Adv., (2015) 5, 097164.
40. A. Rani, J. Kolte, P. Gopalan “Phase formation, microstructure, electrical and magnetic properties of Mn substituted barium titanate”, Ceram. Int., (2015) 41, 14057.
41. A. S. Daryapurkar, J. T. Kolte and P. Gopalan “Influence of oxygen gas pressure on phase, microstructure and electrical properties of sodium bismuth titanate thin films grown using pulsed laser deposition”, Thin Solid Films, (2015) 579, 44.
42. Jayant Kolte, Aatish Daryapurkar, Prakash Apte and Prakash Gopalan “Structural and Electrical Characterization of La and Mn Co-Substituted Bismuth Ferrite Thin Films”, Ferroelectrics, (2013) 448, 42.
43. A. S. Daryapurkar, J. T. Kolte and P. Gopalan “Growth of pseudocubic perovskite-type SrRuO₃ thin films on quartz substrate using pulsed laser deposition method”, J. Mater. Sci.-Mater. Electron., (2013) 24, 4698.
44. A. S. Daryapurkar, J. T. Kolte, P. R. Apte and P. Gopalan “Structural and electrical properties of sodium bismuth titanate (Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃) thin films optimized using the Taguchi approach”, Ceram. Int. (2013) 40B, 2441.
45. A. S. Daryapurkar, J. T. Kolte and P. Gopalan “Growth and Characterization of Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃ Thin Films with BaTiO₃ Buffer Layer”, Ferroelectrics, (2013) 447, 46.

Conference Proceedings

1. Taranveer Kaur, K. Singh, Jayant Kolte “Process parameters and their effect on the structure and morphology of gadolinium-doped ceria” Materials today proceedings (2022).
2. P Singh, J. Kolte, P Sharma “Structural and electrical properties of lead-free (1-x)Bi_0.5Na_0.5TiO₃-xNi_0.5Zn_0.5Fe₂O₄ based magnetoelectric composites”, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF), 1-4, (2021).
3. Utpal Singh, Anal K. Jha, K.P. Chandra, Jayant Kolte, A.R. Kulkarni, and K. Prasad “Electrical Conduction in PVDF/ZnO-Ag nanocomposites” AIP Conference Proceedings 1953, 030110 (2018).
4. Bablu K Pandey, K.P. Chandra, Jayant Kolte, A.R. Kulkarni, S. K. Jayaswal and K. Prasad “Dielectric properties of PVDF/0.5(Ba_0.7Ca_0.3)TiO₃-0.5Ba(Zr_0.2Ti_0.8)O₃ composites” AIP Conference Proceedings 1953, 090014 (2018).
5. Utpal Singh, Niraj Kumari, Anal K. Jha, K. P. Chandra, Jayant Kolte, A. R. Kulkarni, and K. Prasad “Silver nanoparticles added PVDF/ZnO nanocomposites: Synthesis and characterization” AIP Conference Proceedings 1953, 030056 (2018).
6. A. Rani, J. Kolte and P Gopalan “Effect of Cobalt substitution on the structural, electrical and magnetic properties of BaTiO₃ ceramics” Pg. No. 171-174, doi: 10.1109/ISAF.2015.7172697 proceedings of 2015 Joint IEEE International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectric (ISAF), International Symposium on Integrated Functionalities (ISIF), and Piezoelectric Force Microscopy Workshop (PFM) May 24 - 27, 2015 held at Singapore.
7. Jayant Kolte, Aatish Daryapurkar, Prakash Apte and Prakash Gopalan “Effect of oxygen pressure on the structural, electrical properties of Bi_0.9La_0.1Fe_0.95Mn_0.05O₃ thin films and characterization for memory applications” Pg. No. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ISAF.2012.6297800, Proceedings of 2012 International Symposium on Application of Ferroelectrics (ISAF) held jointly with 2012 European Conference on the Applications of Polar Dielectrics (ECAPD) and 2012 Piezo response Force Microscopy (PFM) and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials July 9 - 13, 2012 held at Aveiro Portugal.
8. A. S. Daryapurkar, J. T. Kolte and P. Gopalan “Effect of Barium Titanate buffer layer on dielectric properties of Sodium Bismuth Titanate thin films grown using Pulsed Laser Deposition” Pg. No. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ISAF.2012.6297774, Proceedings of 2012 International Symposium on Application of Ferroelectrics (ISAF) held jointly with 2012 European Conference on the Applications of Polar Dielectrics (ECAPD) and 2012 Piezo response Force Microscopy (PFM) and Nanoscale Phenomena in Polar Materials July 9 - 13, 2012 held at Aveiro Portugal.
9. Jayant Kolte, Devidas Gulwade, Aatish Daryapurkar and Prakash Gopalan “Microstructural characterization of ferroelectric Bismuth Ferrite (BiFeO₃) ceramic by Electron Backscattered Diffraction” Materials Science Forum 702-703 (2012) Pg. No. 1011-1014, Proceedings of International Conference on Textures of Materials 16 (ICOTOM 16) December 12 - 17, 2011, held in Mumbai, India.

• 3rd in merit in the M.Sc. (Physics) examination held by Amravati University, Amravati, India.

• Sumatidas Soitkar prize in the M. Sc. (Physics) Amravati University, 2005.

• 1st Place poster award in "The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society" (TMS) International Conference, Feb 27 - March 3, 2011 held in San Diego, California, USA.

• Piezoelectric ceramics for industrial applications.

• Triboelectric materials and devices for energy harvesting and sensor applications.

• Charge carrier transport study of ceramics as well as thin films.

• Fabrication and performance evaluation of Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cell.