Akash Kankane

About

I am a Mechanical Engineer, completed my Master of Technology (post-graduation) from Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Currently, I am pursuing PhD from IIT Indore with PRIME MINISTERS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP. I am working on Lithium and Sodium Ion Battery Technologies. I have worked with the electronic corporation of India as a junior technical officer and also served as an EVM engineer in the 2018 Indian Loksabha election. I use the internet very frequently as a source of knowledge. During my engineering, I have gained basic knowledge of material science since that time I was interested in the crystallography and the structure of nanomaterials. In my course work during MTech, I got broad perspective and research interest in the field of energy storage. I worked on various skills, machinery and software required for the synthesis, characterization, and analysis of the materials for batteries and supercapacitors. I have knowledge about nanomaterial synthesisation methods like Sol-gel method and solid-state method. For the characterization of nanomaterials, I know X ray diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy, thermal gravimetric analysis and electrochemical characterization. I also have good hands-on software like Origin, FullProf, XpertHighscore and Nova. I promise to give my best effort to work for research and to solve the energy crisis by considering the environmental and social causes. I believe that "We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now, we can control our future instead of letting the future control us."

Employment

• Electronic corporation of india Delhi Junior Technical Officer
  2019 - 2019
• Rajshree engineering Quality surveyor
  2017 - 2018
• Votive Technologies Business development executive
  2016 - 2017

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Indore PhD (PMRF)
  2022 - 2026

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (6)

• Interfacial engineering of montmorillonite clay in an electrospun PVdF-co-HFP nanocomposite separator for high-performance sodium ion batteries
  Nanoscale 2026 DOI: 10.1039/D5NR05474E
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• Electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride-ZnO composite fibers for pyrocatalytic wastewater treatment
  Cleaner Water 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.clwat.2025.100108
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• Mechanically Robust and Chemically Stable Separator Membrane Constituted of Electrospun Halloysite-Integrated Core–Shell Nanofibers for Sodium-Ion Batteries
  ACS Applied Nano Materials 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.5c02746
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• Synergistic effects of halloysite nanotubes in electrospun PVDF-HFP separator for advanced sodium ion battery
  Solid State Ionics 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssi.2025.116947
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• Phosphate-based cathode materials to boost the electrochemical performance of sodium-ion batteries
  Sustainable Energy & Fuels 2022 DOI: 10.1039/d2se00475e
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• Transition metal oxides as a cathode for indispensable Na-ion batteries
  RSC Advances 2022 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra03601k
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