Education

Experience

Undergraduate

• Corrosion Engineering (CH 202)
• Energy Resources and Utilization (CH 231)
• Universal Human Values (UHV)
• Materials Science (MS 211)
• Universal Human Values (UHV)
• Chemical Engineering Practices

Postgraduate

• Materials and Devices for Energy Application 

Invited Talks

• Delivered an invited talk on –"In-situ morphological and synergism characterization techniques for corrosion inhibitors used in upstream pipelines" in the International Conference on “Advanced Materials for Environmental Protection (ICAME-2022), organized during 19th - 21st October, 2022 under the SPARC Scheme sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi by  Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology and University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Delivered a talk on-‘Modern Understanding on Adsorption using Advanced In- situ Techniques” in The 4th Research and Innovation Conference at IMC-Oman (29th March 2022).
• Delivered a talk on-‘Intellectual Property Rights: In Context of Indian Scenario” in Research Related Solutions for Faculty and Research Scholars (Organized by RGIPT, Jais, Amethi) (31st January-4th February 2022).
• Delivered ‘Sir C V Raman Memorial Lecture” at Raman Science Centre and Planetarium, Nagpur (Organized by Ministry of Culture and Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) (28th February 2020).
• Delivered an invited talk at “International conference on Recent Advances in Materials Science- (ICRAMS-2020)” on “Corrosion Inhibition Investigation Using Modern Scattering Techniques: The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be OR, DÉJÀ VU?” at Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), Thiruvarur, India (25th February 2020).
• Delivered an invited talk on “Bearings on Environmental Pollution (role of scattering techniques in environmental pollution control)” at Erode Arts and Science College, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India (3rd February 2020).
• Delivered an invited talk (under DBT star college scheme) on “Rethinking of Environmental Protection” at Vellalar College for Women, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India (on 3rd February 2020).
• Delivered an invited talk at International Conference (sponsored by University Grant Commission (UGC),New Delhi in“ Challenges to Environment and Health” on the topic of “Modern Techniques for Studying the Heavy Metal Adsorption: Paving the Path for Environmental Protection” at PG and Research Department, Jamal Mohamed College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India (30thJanuary 2019).
• Invited talk at National level Gait Vigyan Mela, BNSD School, Kanpur (1st November 2019).
• Invited talk on National Mathematics Day-2019 at Korba District, Chhattisgarh (23rd December 2019).

Training Programmes

• Delivered a lecture on – Advanced analytical techniques in corrosion science and engineering in AICTE sponsored short-term course "Recent Advances in Oil and Gas Production Enhancement" (Organized by RGIPT, Jais) (14-18 February 2022).
• Coordinator of a short-term course [non-residential program] conducted for Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) Engineers on "corrosion in petroleum refineries and petrochemical industries" which was scheduled from 16th to 20th January 2023 at OIDB Bhawan (board room), Tower C, Plot No. 2, Sector – 73, Noida (U.P).
• Conducted lectures (1.5 hrs each) on
  • Corrosion in Refineries,
  • Corrosion Inhibitors in Refineries and
  • Corrosion in Cooling Towers
    in short-term course [non-residential program] conducted for Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) Engineers on "corrosion in petroleum refineries and petrochemical industries" which was scheduled from 16th to 20th January 2023 at OIDB Bhawan (board room), Tower C, Plot No. 2, Sector – 73, Noida (U.P).
• Conducted lecture on “Case Studies of Corrosion In Refineries” in short-term course organized on “Petroleum Refining Technology” for IOCL officers in 18-22 July 2022.
• Co-coordinator for short-term course organized on “Petroleum Refining Technology” for IOCL officers in 18-22 July 2022.
• Co-coordinator for short-term course organized on “Petroleum Refining Technology” for IOCL officers in 7-11 March 2022.

Workshops / Courses Attended

• Course completed on Synchrotron X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy by attending        Summer School workshop at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, CA, USA (8th -10th September 2020).
• Completed course on “Handle Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Substances” and received a certificate from CPB workplace safety and transport training, certificate number: S2647/12485, course organized by Health and Safety Department, Curtin University, Perth WA Australia (21st November 2017).
• Attended "1st AOF Synchrotron Radiation" school at Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne, Australia (28th May to 3rd June 2017).
• Attended a workshop organized by the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) India and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay on Recent Advances in Corrosion Research and Experimental Techniques at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India (29th -30th September 2013).
• Participated in workshop conducted on Advances in Transmission Electron Microscopy Techniques at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India (25th -26th February 2015).

Courses Designed/Developed/Introduced

• ERU (UG lab): Manuals for CHNS, Fuel cell and Smoke point analysis have been developed and completed the bomb calorimetry’s installation.

New Courses Prepared and Proposed

• High-Temperature Corrosion [Special attention: power plants, biomass (gas turbines), petrochemical plants]
• Corrosion Control Practices for Industries [Special attention: Case studies from automobile, oil and gas, refinery, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, paper and pulp industries, nuclear and thermal power plant]
• Aqueous Corrosion and its Control [Special attention: materials selection)
• Assessment of Gas Pipeline Failures [CEBE, Petroleum]
• Corrosion in Electronic and Electrochemical Devices [for EE, CSE and CEBE] 

Editorial Board Member

• Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries (Elsevier) (IF: 3.660)
• Scientific Reports (Nature) (IF: 5.134)
• Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology (Taylor and Francis) (IF: 2.087)
• Journal of Pipeline Science and Engineering (Elsevier) (IF: Pending)
• Green Technology, Resilience, and Sustainability (Springer) (IF: Pending)

Academic Accomplishments

• Senior Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge, UK
• Adjunct Lecturer, WASM, Department of Chemical Engineering, Perth, WA Australia
• International Invited Member (Research), Dublin City College, Ireland
• Honorary Regional Secretary, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IICHE)-Amethi Regional Centre, UP, India

Journal Publications

Raj, D., Kumar, A., Singh, R. K., Bhadouria, A. S., Sinha, A. S. K., & Dwivedi, D. (2022). Application of Advanced Nuclear Analytical Techniques for the Electrocatalyst’s Characterization: Paving the Path for Mechanistic Investigations. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 100958. (Corresponding author) [IF: 7.2]

Shah, U., Dwivedi, D., Hackett, M., Al-Salami, H., Utikar, R. P., Blanchard, C., ... & Johnson, S. K. (2021). Physicochemical characterisation of kafirins extracted from sorghum grain and dried distillers grain with solubles related to their biomaterial functionality. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-11. [IF: 5.134]

Sharma, V. B., Tewari, S., Biswas, S., Lohani, B., Dwivedi, U. D., Dwivedi, D., ... & Jung, J. P. (2021). Recent Advancements in AI-Enabled Smart Electronics Packaging for Structural Health Monitoring. Metals, 11(10), 1537. [IF: 2.351]

Dwivedi, D., Mata, J. P., Salvemini, F., Rowles, M. R., Becker, T., & Lepková, K. (2021). Uncovering the superior corrosion resistance of iron made via ancient Indian iron-making practice. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-14. [IF: 5.134]

Dwivedi, D., Rowles, M. R., Becker, T., & Lepkova, K. (2020). The role of ferrite cementite interface in formation of hierarchical film on carbon steel in CO2-saturated brine. Applied Surface Science, 509, 145107. [IF: 6.707]

Dwivedi, D., & Mata, J. P. (2019). Archaeometallurgical investigation of ancient artefacts’ degradation phenomenon. npj Materials Degradation, 3(1), 1-12. [IF: 6.88]

Kumar, N.#, Dwivedi, D.#, Sharma, A., Ahn, B., & Manoj, M. K. (2019). Influence of various heat treatment procedures on the corrosion behavior of Al–Zn–Mg–Cu alloys. Materials Research Express, 6(12), 126554. (# Equal contribution) [IF: 1.620]

Albahri, M., Barifcani, A., Dwivedi, D., Iglauer, S., Lebedev, M., MacLeod, I. D., & Machuca, L. L. (2019). X-ray micro-computed tomography analysis of accumulated corrosion products in deep-water shipwrecks. Materials and Corrosion, 70(11), 19771998. [IF: 2.097]

Dwivedi, D., Patel, T. A., & Panda, E. (2018). Simple, inexpensive way of fabricating high quality Zn(O)S nanoparticles by varying pH. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 79, 1-6. [IF: 3.927]

Dwivedi, D., Lepková, K., & Becker, T. (2017). Carbon steel corrosion: a review of key surface properties and characterization methods. RSC advances, 7(8), 4580-4610. [IF: 3.361]

Dwivedi, D., Lepkova, K., & Becker, T. (2017). Emerging surface characterization techniques for carbon steel corrosion: a critical brief review. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 473(2199), 20160852. [IF: 3.148]

Dwivedi, D., Lepkova, K., Becker, T., & Rowles, M. R. (2017). Elucidating “screw dislocation”-driven film formation of sodium thiosulphate with complex hierarchical molecular assembly. Faraday discussions, 204, 251-269. [IF: 4.008]

Dwivedi, D., & Lepková, K. (2017). SAXS and SANS Techniques for Surfactant Characterization: Application in Corrosion Science. Application and Characterization of Surfactants, 287.

Dwivedi, D. (2018). Reduction kinetics of iron ore pellets with coal and coal dust: reduction relation with crystalline phases. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy, 127(4), 189-194. (*Corresponding author) [SC:1.6]

Dwivedi, D., Randhawa, N. S., Saroj, S., & Jana, R. K. (2017). An overview of manganese recovery by hydro and pyro-metallurgical routes. Journal of the Institution of Engineers (india): Series D, 98(1), 147-154 (*Corresponding author)

Randhawa, N. S., Dwivedi, D., Prajapati, S., & Jana, R. K. (2015). Application of manganese nodules leaching residue for adsorption of nickel (II) ions from aqueous solution. International journal of environmental science and technology, 12(3), 857-864. [IF: 3.083]

Mishra, Y., Nigam, K.D.P., Sinha, A. S. K., Dwivedi, D.* & Sangwai, J.* (2023). Functionalized Nanoparticles: Tailoring Properties through Surface Energetics and Coordination Chemistry for Advanced Biomedical Applications [Recently accepted in RSC Nanoscale)] (IF: 8.3) (*Corresponding author)

Books / Book Chapters

Dwivedi, D., & Lepková, K. (2017). SAXS and SANS Techniques for Surfactant Characterization: Application in Corrosion Science. Application and Characterization of Surfactants, 287.

Dwivedi D. et al. Current advances, challenges and prospects of CO2 capture, storage and utilization’ (corresponding author: Dwivedi D.) in Nanotechnology for CO2 Utilization in Oilfield Applications. (In press) (Book publisher: Elsevier); Editors: Prof. Japan Trivedi and others.

Dwivedi D. et al. Corrosion Mitigation in Oil Reservoirs during CO2 Injection using Nanomaterials’ (corresponding author: Dwivedi D.) in Nanotechnology for CO2 Utilization in Oilfield Applications. (In press) (Book publisher: Elsevier); Editors: Prof. Japan Trivedi and others.

Shinde, Y., Dwivedi, D., Khatri, P., & Sangwai, J. S. (2018). Biomass and Solar: Emerging Energy Resources for India. In Sustainable Energy Technology and Policies (pp. 297-334). Springer, Singapore (*Corresponding author).

General Articles

Dwivedi D.*, Synchrotron Techniques for Corrosion Scientists and Industries, (discussion from the 1st AOF school), Australian X-ray Analytical Association (Newsletters, 2017, Issue 2 @ http://www.axaa.org/newsletters.html).

Dwivedi D*, How well we delivered in the front of international relations? In context of BRICS meeting-2014, News-paper article in Tarun Chhattisgarh (15th July 2014).

Dwivedi D*, policy article on, Redesigning Science Education Is Essential for India, published in Fair Observer (USA’s magazine, an online journal: ISSN 2372-9112) (30th June 2020).

• Assistant Dean (Research and Development)
• In-charge of Corrosion Engineering Lab
• Co-Incharge for the following instruments of Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) of RGIPT: XRD, AFM, SAXS and Pulse Chemisorption
• Member of committee constituted at institute level for assisting Dean (Research and Development) for setting up incubation centre, IPR cell, and other R&D related activities
• Member of committee constituted at institute level for assessing the functioning and non- functioning instruments at different labs of RGIPT including CRF.
• Mentor for BTech [EE, CSE and IT students].
• Member, Departmental Post Graduate Committee, CEBE.
• One of the co-ordinators of Cheminar, Departmental Post Graduate Students’ weekly presentation, CEBE.
• Department’s candidate selection committee for MTech and PhD intakes (DPGC-CEBE department)
• Served as one of the members of Design and Innovation Centre (DIC)
• Member, Department Lecture Series (DLS)
• Honorary Joint Secretary-IICHE Amethi Regional Centre.
• Served as a member for New Course Launch Committee for Digital Engineering
• Served as a member for New Course Launch Committee for Electric Vehicle Technology
• Coordinating team member for preparing FIST-2021 and FIST-2023 proposals.
• Chairman (purchase committee)-P-2108.
• Member (purchase committee)-P 2113
• Member (purchase committee)- P 2121
• Member (purchase committee)-P 2102
• Member (Department marksheet tabulation committee)
• Member course coordinating committee for corrosion engineering, materials science, energy resources and utilization etc.
• Member in “Institute’s Annual Report” for the year 2021-22

• Accepted as a Visiting Student at University of Cambridge, UK and received funding for research experiments (17th September 2018).
• Bursary for attending International Youth Nuclear Science 2018, Argentina (23rd November 2017).
• Bursary award for attending the Neutron school at Berlin during 1-9 March 2018 at Berlin Germany (11th November 2017).
• Australian Nano Technology Network Fellowship 2018 (Received 5000 AUD as award) (10th November 2017).
• Prestigious "Rideal travel bursary" by Royal Society of Chemistry – Society of Chemical Industries (Awarded with 500 euro) (01st October 2017).
• Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organization’s Post Graduate Research Award (AINSE PGRA-2017-19)- awarded with 7500 AUD per year for entire duration of PhD with 5000 AUD per year as a travel support (01st July 2017).
• A scholarship of 25000 INR by Chhattisgarh Government, Public Administration Department for education (15th March 2016).
• Curtin International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (CIPRS) (2016-2019 for PhD)
• Nominated for Japanese Govt.’s MEXT scholarship (single person selected from all over India for MS in Materials Science, based on the performance in written test and Interview) by Ministry of Human Resource, Govt. of India (07th July 2015).
• Selected (but not availed) for PhD positions in Utah University (recommended for external scholarships) (1st December 2015), USA, York University (29th April 2015), UK and Coventry University, UK (November 2016).
• Science Education and Research Board (SERB)-Department of Science and Technology (DST) Govt. of India’s Junior Research Fellowship (2014-16) at IIT Gandhinagar (27th January 2014).
• Central Government’s Merit Scholarship by Ministry of Human Resource, Govt. of India during the Bachelor of Engineering studies (for entire four years i.e. 2009-2013, an amount of 50000 INR was sanctioned) for securing merit position in the state with 94% at Higher Secondary Certificate Examination, around 100000 students were appeared in the exam) (2009-13) (applied on 15th March 2012).
• Sahu Jain Trust (Times of India group) scholarship for Bachelor of Engineering education (30,000 INR was sanctioned as scholarship amount) (letters dated 15th November 2010, 21st December 2010, 29th September 2011 and 17th October 2012).
• O P Jindal Educational society fellowship (complete fee waiver) for my Bachelor of Engineering course with additional top up scholarship (2009-13) (30th December 2010).
• State (Chhattisgarh) Government Scholarship for securing state merit rank position in High School Certificate Examination with 95.5% for 2 years (2007-2009) (15th September 2009).
• Chacha Nehru Scholarship for creativity and Innovation was awarded by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi , Government of India for class 9th to 12th (25th June 2007).
• Full tuition fee waiver award for class 9-10 (2005-2007) after securing first rank in district in District Middle Board Examination (class 8th), secured 98.6% (24th March 2006).
• District merit scholarship for securing 98.6% with first position in District Middle School Board Examination- 2005. (Awarded by district collector (DM) on 26th January 2006).
• District merit position in Primary Board Examination-2002 with 96%, certificate is awarded by District Education Officer, Korba, Chhattisgarh and a cash award with gold medal is received as a scholarship which was sponsored by Chhattisgarh Electricity Board (26th January 2003).