Dr. Dhirendra Kumar

Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Science & Humanities

9456338758   |   dhiruorganickd37@keck.ac.in   |   dhiruorganickd37@gmail.com

Educational Details
  • PhD (Chemistry), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
  • M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry), University of Lucknow
  • B.Sc. (Chemistry), University of Lucknow
Research Interests
  • Organic dyes for solar cells (DSSCs & OPV)
  • Organic emitters and exciplex molecules for OLEDs
  • Fluorescent Chemosensors
  • Design and Synthesis of Novel Heterocycles
Professional Background
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Researcher, e-Ray Optoelectronics Technology Co., LTD., Taiwan
  • Assistant Professor, CSJM University (Kanpur) affiliated college
  • JRF (DST sponsored project), IIT Roorkee
Awards/Fellowships
  • CSIR-JRF (NET), Chemical Sciences
  • GATE (Chemistry)
Academic Recognition
  • H-Index: 12 (Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar)
  • https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-KblWv8AAAAJ&hl=en
  • https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55581439900
  • https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/C-7236-2009
Research Articles (International, SCI/Scopus-Indexed)
  • Highly twisted dianchoring D-pi-A sensitizers for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2016, 8, 27832-27842. Publisher: American Chemical Society (Impact Factor: 9.5)
  • Organic dianchor dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells. Materials Today Energy 2017, 5, 243-279. Publisher: Elsevier (Impact Factor: 9.3)
  • Co-sensitization promoted light harvesting for organic dye-sensitized solar cells using unsymmetrical squaraine dye and novel pyrenoimidazole-based dye. Journal of Power Sources 2013, 240, 779-785. Publisher: Elsevier (Impact Factor: 9.2)
  • Novel pyrenoimidazole-based organic dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells. Organic Letters 2011, 13, 2622-2625. Publisher: American Chemical Society (Impact Factor: 5.2)
  • Optical properties of pyrene and anthracene containing imidazoles: Experimental and theoretical investigations. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2011, 218, 162-173. Publisher: Elsevier (Impact Factor: 4.3)
  • Regioisomeric effects on the electronic features of indenothiophene bridged D-pi-A-A DSSC sensitizers. Chemistry-A European Journal 2014, 20, 16574-16582. Publisher: Wiley (Impact Factor: 4.3)
  • Pyrenoimidazole-based deep-blue-emitting materials: Optical, electrochemical, and electroluminescent characteristics. Chemistry-An Asian Journal 2013, 8, 2111-2124. Publisher: Wiley (Impact Factor: 4.1)
  • 2-Hydroxyarylimidazole-based colorimetric and ratiometric fluoride ion sensors. RSC Advances 2014, 4, 56466-56474. Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (Impact Factor: 3.9)
  • Organic dyes containing fluorene decorated with imidazole units for dye sensitized solar cells. Journal of Organic Chemistry 2014, 79, 3159-3172. Publisher: American Chemical Society (Impact Factor: 3.6)
  • Plant growth absorption spectrum mimicking light sources. Materials 2015, 8, 5265-5275. Publisher: MDPI (Impact Factor: 3.4)
  • Triarylamine-free pyrenoimidazole-containing organic dyes with different pi-linkers for dye-sensitized solar cells. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015, 4, 164-172. Publisher: Wiley (Impact Factor: 2.7)
  • Synthesis, optical properties, and blue electroluminescence of fluorene derivatives containing multiple imidazoles bearing polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Tetrahedron 2013, 69, 2594-2602. Publisher: Elsevier (Impact Factor: 2.1)
  • Dihydrophenazine-based double anchoring dye for dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society 2020, 67, 361-369. Publisher: Wiley (Impact Factor: 1.8)