Prashant Sonar
Prof. Dr. Prashant Sonar | |
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| Professor, School of Chemistry and Physics at Queensland University of Technology | |
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| Born | Prashant M. Sonar |
| Occupation | Scientist and academician |
Prashant Sonar is an Indian-Australian Material Scientist, currently working as a Professor in School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane [1] Prior to joining QUT, Prashant was working as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), [2] Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore [3] for more than 8 years.
Career and Research
Prashant has been conducting research on a wide range of opto-electronics materials (organic semiconductors, conjugated polymers, conjugated molecular materials, carbon quantum dots, oxide electronics, hybrid materials) that are needed for various organic, flexible, printable, stretchable, and wearable functional devices. Organic field effect and electrochemical transistors, organic and perovskite solar cells, organic light emitting diodes, chemical and biosensors, photodetectors, bioelectronics, biodegradable electronics, and sustainable electronics are all applications for such materials/devices.
In Singapore's A*STAR lab, he pioneered work in the area of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) dye-based organic semiconductors [4][5] and continues to research in this area. His work on DPP-based organic semiconductors has received widespread acclaim, and these classes of materials have demonstrated world-class performance in a wide range of functional organic electronics devices. [6][7] DPP polymers, in particular, have achieved extremely high charge carrier mobility in organic transistors.
His work on low-cost anthranothrone dye-based hole transporting materials for energy harvesting perovskite high-performance and stable solar cell devices was featured as a video abstract in the Advanced Energy Materials journal published by Wiley, Germany.[8] This work has received a lot of attention, including a visit from the Energy Minister, which was broadcast on various media outlets. [9]
His research team recently converted human hair waste into highly luminescent carbon quantum dots, which were then used as an active light emitting layer in flexible light-emitting devices.[10] The work was highlighted as a video abstract in Wiley's Advanced Materials journal [11], as well as on more than 70 websites, including Yahoo Finance and other well-known physics web portals. [12]
His recent work on soft organic electrochemical transistors will be important in future bioelectronics technology. [13] His research has been cited over 9000 times, and his H-index is around 50.[14] He holds three US patents, two of which on DPP organic semiconductors have been successfully licensed to a US-based company.
He serves on the Editorial Boards of several leading Material Science journals, including Flexible and Printed Electronics [15] and Materials Research Express [16], both of which are published by the Institute of Physics in London. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of Frontiers in Chemistry, Energies, and Nanomanufacturing.
Honours and Awards
In 2014, he was awarded a prestigious Future Fellowship by the Australian Research Council. [17] He is a recipient of the Award for Excellence-Impact and Translation (2020), Centre for Materials Science, QUT, Australia and IAAM Scientist Award from International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden (2020) respectively. He also received Thiemann Exchange Program Award to visit Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (2017), Israel [18] and Foreign Collaborator Award from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, MEXT, (2016) Japan [19]. He was awarded Vice-Chancellors Performance Award from QUT Australia (2016) and received Long Service Award from IMRE, A*STAR Singapore (2012). He was a finalist for the Deans Outstanding Achievement Awards in 2021 and the Australia-India Science, Research and Development Award in 2019. He was also a nominee for the President's Science and Technology Award (PSTA-2011) and the GSK-SNIC Award in Organic Chemistry (SNIC-2013), both in Singapore.
Personal Life
Prashant was born in Shewali, a small village near Sakri in India's Khandesh region.[20] He went to Shivaji Madhyamik Vidyalaya (Shewali), New English School Junior College (Sakri), Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Jr. College of Education (D.Ed. Boradi 1993), S. G. Patil College (Sakri-received his Bachelor of Sciences degree in Chemistry 1996), and North Maharashtra University's School of Chemical Science in Jalgaon (received his Master of Sciences degree in Polymer Chemistry in 1998). [21] He gained experience in the conjugated polymer field while working as a Research Assistant with Dr. S. Radhakrishnan at India's premier National Chemical Laboratory in Pune.[22] He moved to the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany in 2000 to pursue a PhD in conjugated polymers and oligomers for optoelectronics under world renowned researcher Prof. Klaus Mullene. [23] From 2004 to 2006, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher on dendritic polymers and spin-transition materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.[24] He then relocated to Singapore and joined the Visiting Investigatorship Program group, which was led by Profs. Ananth Dodabalapur and Alan Sellinger.
His mother, Shrimati Kamlabai Sonar, was his primary teacher, and he was inspired by his father, Late Murlidhar Sonar, and his brother, Late Jagadish Sonar. His brother Avinash Sonar is his mentor and strong pillar. He has two children, Maitrey and Dhairya and his wife Yogita Sonar is a great supporter of his professional success. Currently, he lives with his family in Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland.
External Links
https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=wj2kHo4AAAAJ&hl=en
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1119-4897
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8523056200
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References
- ↑ Technology (QUT), Queensland University of. "Professor Prashant Sonar". QUT. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE)". 19. Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE). Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "A*STAR". 00. A*STAR HQ Corporate Website. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Cut-rate chemistry". A*STAR Research. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Organic electronics: A faster way to move electrons". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ Technology (QUT), Queensland University of. "Research turning coloured pigments into electronics". QUT. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ Layt, Stuart (2020-02-29). "The dye that brought us 'Ferrari Red' could turn T-shirts into batteries". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ Anthanthrone Dye for Hole Transport Materials: Dopant‐Free, High‐Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells, retrieved 2022-05-28
- ↑ Greener Technology for Printable Solar Cells | Prashant Sonar, retrieved 2022-05-28
- ↑ Technology (QUT), Queensland University of. "Human hair used to make flexible displays for smart devices". QUT. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ Singh, Amandeep; Wolff, Annalena; Yambem, Soniya D.; Esmaeili, Mostafa; Riches, James D.; Shahbazi, Mahboobeh; Feron, Krishna; Eftekhari, Ehsan; Ostrikov, Kostya (Ken); Li, Qin; Sonar, Prashant (27 January 2020). "Biowaste‐Derived, Self‐Organized Arrays of High‐Performance 2D Carbon Emitters for Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes". Advanced Materials. 32 (10): 1906176. doi:10.1002/adma.201906176. ISSN 0935-9648.
- ↑ Layt, Stuart (2020-06-03). "Researchers see the light by turning human hair into OLED displays". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ Technology (QUT), Queensland University of. "Focus on organic transistors for health sensors within living organisms". QUT. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Prashant Sonar". scholar.google.com.sg. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Editorial board". IOPscience - Publishing Support. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Editorial board". IOPscience - Publishing Support. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT130101337". Research Data Australia. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Technion Australia Inc- Supporting Technion Israel | Powering ISRAEL – Changing The World". Technion Australia Inc. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Types of Grants Programs | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science". www.jsps.go.jp. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Sakri", Wikipedia, 2022-04-17, retrieved 2022-05-28
- ↑ "Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon > Home". www.nmu.ac.in. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "National Chemical Laboratory". www.ncl-india.org. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Emeriti Research Group Müllen". www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "ETH Zurich - Homepage". ethz.ch. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
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