Research
Research Statement:
Professor Aphale's research focus is in developing advanced materials for specific applications such as clean energy systems, multifunctional nanocomposites and sensor technologies. He works on developing fundamental understanding of degradation processes in materials under systems operating conditions, corrosion in presence of complex high-temperature gas environment, electrode/electrolyte interface and bulk electrochemical studies. Use of carbon based nanomaterials in developing electrodes for energy storage systems such as supercapacitor. Adjacency (interdisciplinary) area of application is in the development of biosensor platform and fabrication of nanofibrous scaffolds for artificial tissue engineering.
Research Interests:
- Materials for clean energy technology
- High-temperature oxidation and corrosion study
- Fuel cells and supercapacitors
- Carbon nanomaterials- graphene, CNTs, quantum dots
Recent Research Topics:
- Carbon nanomaterials and conducting polymers for ultracapacitor development.
- High-temperature electrochemical systems for clean energy production.
- Electrical conductivity measurement (ASR) of metallic interconnect for SOFC application.
- Nanocomposite electrodes for heavy metal contaminant detection.
- Numerical simulations for understanding heat transfer and temperature distribution in SOFC.
High-temperature electrochemical systems for clean energy production.
(Aphale et al, 2018)
Carbon nanomaterials and conducting polymers for ultracapacitor development.
(Aphale et al, 2015)
Nanocomposite electrodes for contaminant detection.
(Mawan et al, 2017)
Fabrication of nanofibers using electrospinning.
(Macwan et al, 2020)
Numerical simulations for understanding heat transfer and temperature distribution.
(Duy et al, 2021)
