Assist. Prof. Dr. Rajendra Kumar Konidena | Chemistry | Best Researcher Award
Indian Institute of Technology, Patna | India
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Konidena is an accomplished researcher in the field of organic functional materials, with a strong focus on π-conjugated organic molecules for optoelectronic applications including OLEDs, solar cells, biomedicine, and molecular sensors. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, specializing in carbazole-based functional materials for light-emitting and photovoltaic devices, following his Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry from VIT University and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics from Acharya Nagarjuna University. His academic journey has been complemented by international research experiences as a postdoctoral fellow and faculty member in leading institutions across India, South Korea, Germany, Japan, and Lithuania, before joining IIT Patna as an Assistant Professor. He has authored more than 39 peer-reviewed publications, with over 1,300 citations, an h-index of 20, and more than 40 documents indexed in reputed databases. His research excellence has been recognized through prestigious fellowships and awards including JSPS, Marie-Curie Seal of Excellence, NRF Korea, Ramanujan Fellowship, and SERB National Postdoctoral Fellowship. He also contributes actively as a reviewer for leading journals in chemistry and materials science. His career reflects a commitment to innovating sustainable molecular designs that advance the performance of optoelectronic devices.
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Featured Publications
” A guide to mastering multi-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence: from challenges to strategies for high-performance OLEDs”
” Leveraging quinoxaline functionalization for the design of efficient orange/red thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters”
” Overcoming the 5% EQE ceiling in deep-blue fluorescent OLEDs with hybridized local and charge transfer featured phenanthroimidazole-carbazole emitters”
” Recent advances in the molecular designs of near ultraviolet emitters for efficient organic light emitting diodes”
” Strategic molecular design of efficient solution- and vacuum-processable deep-red thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters featuring remarkable color saturation”