• Education
    1/1/1994 - Ph.D. in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    1/1/1988 - M.S. in Chemistry from Magadh University
    1/1/1985 - B.S. in Chemistry from Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University
  • Positions
    4/1/2001 - Present - Professor , North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Biography

Dr. Dhananjay Kumar is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University (NCAT). He also holds a joint faculty position with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He has developed a pulsed laser deposition assisted synthesis method for self-assembly of nanophase materials. This method is generic in nature and has been applied to the self-assembly of magnetic, superconducting, optical, and super-hard nanomaterials. He is actively engaged in professional societies such as MRS, APS, and EMRS.

Research

Thin films, Condensed matters, Nanoscale materials, Alternative Energy

Publications
Kaushik Sarkar, Madison Jordan, Abebe Kebede, Steve Kriske, Frank Wise, Dhananjay Kumar
Enhanced Magnetic Cooling through Tailoring the Size-Dependent Magnetocaloric Effect of Iron Nanoparticles Embedded in Titanium Nitride Thin Films
Magnetochemistry 9 (2023)
Find more about Dhananjay here.
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