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Rajeev Ahuja

Rajeev Ahuja

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Materials Science
Sweden
2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
111
Citations
50997
World Ranking
681
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to the design and understanding of energy storage materials and computational studies of condensed matter under high pressure

Overview

Rajeev Ahuja is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden, conducting extensive research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their scholarly output encompasses 545 publications in Materials Science and 217 in Engineering.

The scientist's work spans specific subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Condensed Matter Physics. This broad scope reflects contributions to both fundamental and applied research areas.

Key research topics covered by Rajeev Ahuja include:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

The scientist has published frequently in several scientific journals, indicating a consistent presence in multidisciplinary research publications. These venues include:

  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Applied Surface Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nano Energy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among notable publications are:

  • "How to avoid dendrite formation in metal batteries: Innovative strategies for dendrite suppression" (2021, Nano Energy)
  • "High Thermoelectric Performance in Two-Dimensional Janus Monolayer Material WS-X (X = Se and Te)" (2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)
  • "Core-shell nanostructures: perspectives towards drug delivery applications" (2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry B)
  • "Structure-based drug designing and immunoinformatics approach for SARS-CoV-2" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "Toroidal Metaphotonics and Metadevices" (2020, Laser & Photonics Review)

Rajeev Ahuja has collaborated frequently with several coauthors across many publications, including Deobrat Singh, Wei Luo, Pritam Kumar Panda, Tanveer Hussain, and A. Ainane. The counts of coauthored works underscore long-term research partnerships essential to interdisciplinary progress.

In recognition of their contributions to energy storage materials and computational condensed matter studies, they received the distinction of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2019, highlighting their role in advancing knowledge within these areas of materials science.

Best Publications

  • Ferromagnetism above room temperature in bulk and transparent thin films of Mn-doped ZnO

    Parmanand Sharma;Parmanand Sharma;Amita Gupta;K. V. Rao;Frank J. Owens

  • Calculated elastic properties of M2AlC M = Ti, V, Cr, Nb and Ta

    Zhimei Sun;Sa Li;Rajeev Ahuja;Jochen M. Schneider;Jochen M. Schneider

  • Electronic, bonding, and optical properties of CeO 2 and Ce 2 O 3 from first principles

    N. V. Skorodumova;Rajeev Ahuja;S. I. Simak;I. A. Abrikosov

  • Defect Engineered g-C3N4 for Efficient Visible Light Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production

    Qiuling Tay;Pushkar Kanhere;Chin Fan Ng;Shi Chen

  • Materials Science - The hardest known oxide

    Leonid S Dubrovinsky;Natalia A Dubrovinskaia;Varghese Swamy;Joseph Muscat

  • Experimental evidence for sub-3-fs charge transfer from an aromatic adsorbate to a semiconductor

    Joachim Schnadt;Paul A. Brühwiler;Luc Patthey;James N. O'Shea

  • Strain Engineering for Phosphorene: The Potential Application as a Photocatalyst

    Baisheng Sa;Yan-Ling Li;Jingshan Qi;Rajeev Ahuja;Rajeev Ahuja

  • Review of two-dimensional materials for photocatalytic water splitting from a theoretical perspective

    Yunguo Li;Yunguo Li;Yan-Ling Li;Baisheng Sa;Rajeev Ahuja

  • Phonon related properties of transition metals, their carbides, and nitrides: A first-principles study

    Eyvaz I. Isaev;S. I. Simak;I. A. Abrikosov;Rajeev Ahuja

  • Cubic Hf 3 N 4 and Zr 3 N 4 : A class of hard materials

    M. Mattesini;Rajeev Ahuja;Börje Johansson;Börje Johansson

  • Hydrogen Storage Materials for Mobile and Stationary Applications: Current State of the Art

    Qiwen Lai;Mark Paskevicius;Mark Paskevicius;Drew A. Sheppard;Craig E. Buckley

  • Structure of phase change materials for data storage.

    Zhimei Sun;Jian Zhou;Rajeev Ahuja;Rajeev Ahuja

  • The importance of strong carbon-metal adhesion for catalytic nucleation of single-walled carbon nanotubes

    Feng Ding;Peter O. Larsson;Andreas Larsson;Rajeev B. Ahuja

  • Design of high-efficiency visible-light photocatalysts for water splitting: MoS2/AlN(GaN) heterostructures

    Jiamin Liao;Baisheng Sa;Jian Zhou;Rajeev Ahuja

  • Physisorption of nucleobases on graphene : Density-functional calculations

    S. Gowtham;Ralph H. Scheicher;Ralph H. Scheicher;Rajeev Ahuja;Rajeev Ahuja;Ravindra Pandey

  • Structural, elastic, and high-pressure properties of cubic TiC, TiN, and TiO.

    R. Ahuja;O. Eriksson;J. M. Wills;B. Johansson

  • Terahertz plasmonics: The rise of toroidal metadevices towards immunobiosensings

    Arash Ahmadivand;Burak Gerislioglu;Rajeev Ahuja;Yogendra Kumar Mishra

  • Theoretical investigation of the bonding and elastic properties of nanolayered ternary nitrides

    Zhimei Sun;Denis Music;Rajeev Ahuja;Jochen M. Schneider;Jochen M. Schneider

  • Quasi-Ab initio molecular dynamic study of Fe melting

    Anatoly B. Belonoshko;R. Ahuja;Börje Johansson

  • Mn+1AXn phases in the Ti-Si-C system studied by thin-film synthesis and ab initio calculations

    Jens-Petter Palmquist;Sa Li;Per Persson;Jens Emmerlich

  • Single-layer MoS2 as an efficient photocatalyst

    Yunguo Li;Yunguo Li;Yan-Ling Li;Yan-Ling Li;Carlos Moyses Araujo;Wei Luo

Frequent Co-Authors

Olle Eriksson
Olle Eriksson Uppsala University
Zhimei Sun
Zhimei Sun Beihang University
Biswarup Pathak
Biswarup Pathak Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Clas Persson
Clas Persson University of Oslo
Levente Vitos
Levente Vitos Royal Institute of Technology
Ho-kwang Mao
Ho-kwang Mao Carnegie Institution for Science
Amitava Banerjee
Amitava Banerjee University College London
Jochen M. Schneider
Jochen M. Schneider RWTH Aachen University
Baisheng Sa
Baisheng Sa Fuzhou University
Leonid Dubrovinsky
Leonid Dubrovinsky University of Bayreuth

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