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Dr. Epsita Kar

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Dr. Epsita Kar
Designation
Assistant Professor
E-mail
epsita123@ncert.nic.in
 
SPECIALIZATION

Material Physics

TEACHING

Electronics (MSE(P)-X.4), (Credit- 4) Atomic and Molecular Physics (MSE V.1 and BSE V.1) (Credit- 3) Mechanics (MSE I.1 and BSE I.1) (Credit-3) Classical and Quantum Mechanics and Special Theory of relativity (MSE VI.1 and BSE VI.1) (Credit-3)

TRAINING
  1. 5-day “Training Programme of the PAC 25.20 titled ‘Training on Experiment Based Learning and Project Method of Learning Science at Middle School Stage” 9th – 13th December, 2024 at RIE-Mysuru.
  2. Three-day workshop under PAC titled “Training of KRPs of Telangana and Karnataka on Experimental and Project Methods of Science Learning at Secondary stage (Classes 9 and 10)” from 8th to 10th January 2025 at RIE-Mysuru.
  3. 5-day “Training on Project and Experimental Based Learning at Secondary Level (Stage-I) Class level for the KRP’s of Telangana and Karnataka” from 24th to 28th February 2025 at RIE-Mysuru.
  4. Half day workshop for content designing and scripting on E-content Development, Keeping in focus NEP 2020, NCFSE & NCF-FS” on 19th October 2024 at RIE-Mysuru.
  5. “Capacity Building Workshop for Master Trainers on Newly Developed Learning Teaching Material (LTM) of Foundational and Preparatory Stages” on 22nd &24th October 2024 at RIE-Mysuru.
  6. 5-day Faculty Induction Programme from 10th to 14th February,2025 at IIM Nagpur.
  7. 21 days Orientation programme for the newly recruited faculty organized by the department of teacher education, NCERT, New Delhi from 3rd to 28th March 2025.
  8. 5 day workshop of the PAC 25.09 titled “E-content Development” from 3rd to 7th June, 2025 at RIE-Mysuru.
  9. 1-day workshop on Rajbhasha Hindi on 16th June 2025 at RIE-Mysuru.
  10. 1-day workshop on Rastriya Karmayogi Bharat on 21st August 2025 at RIE-Mysuru.
 
PUBLICATIONS
  1. Epsita Kar , Arti Singh, Bokyeoung Kang , Jinhwan Yoon, “Cellulose-reinforced natural rubber microfibers with low mechanical hysteresis for wireless physiological monitoring”, Polymer Testing, 2025, 146, 108781. (I.F6.0)
  2. S. Maity, E. Kar, S. Sen, “Post-Transition Metal Dichalcogenide SnS2 Nanoflower/PVDF Composite: A Smart Wearable Self-Powered Mechanosensor” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024, 16, 49, 68294- 68305. (I.F-8.2)
  3. E. Kar, S. Maity, A. Kar, S. Sen,“Agriculture Waste Rice Husk Derived Wearable Triboelectric Energy Harvester for Real-time Smart IoT Applications.”Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, 2024, 3, 7, 87. (I.F- 20.1)
  4. S. Maity, E. Kar, A. Kar, and S. Sen. “Multiphase Coexisted Perovskite/PVDF Composite Derived Wearable Piezo-Tribo Hybrid Energy Harvester for Wireless Smart Applications”. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, 474, 145959. (I.F- 15.1)
  5. S. Maity, A. Sasmal, E. Kar, and S. Sen. “Morphotropic Phase Boundary-Assisted Lead-Free BaTiO3/PDMS Composite-Based Hybrid Energy Harvester: A Portable Power Source for Wireless Power Transmission.” ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2023, 6 (13), 7052-7064 (I.F.-6.4)
  6. E. Kar, P. Ghosh, S. Pratihar, M. Tavakoli, S. Sen, NatureDriven Biocompatible Epidermal Electronic Skin for RealTime Wireless Monitoring of Human Physiological Signals, ACS Appl. Mater.Interfaces. 2023, 15, 20372−20384. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00509 . (I.F-9.5)
  7. E. Kar, N. Bose, S. Das, Submicron graphite platelet incorporated composite: an efficient body motion-based energy harvester for flexible electronics, Carbon Lett. 2023, 33, 751–760.(I.F-4.5)
  8. E. Kar, S. Pratihar, P. Ghosh, M. Tavakoli, S. Sen, SiO2 Nanoparticles Incorporated PVDF Composite for Efficient Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Dual Mode Sensing, Energy Technol, 2022, 2201143. https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.202201143. (I.F-3.8)
  9. S. Pratihar, E. Kar, S. Sen, Aluminum impregnated zinc oxide engineered poly(vinylidene fluoride hexafluoropropylene)-based flexible nanocomposite for efficient harvesting of mechanical energy, Int. J. Energy Res., 2022, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.8682. (I.F4.6)
  10. C. Mitharwal, S. Malhotra, A. Bagla, M. K. Srivastava, S. M.Gupta, C. M. S. Negi, E. Kar, A. R. Kulkarni, S. Mitra, Performance of dopamine modified 0.5 (Ba0. 7Ca0. 3) TiO3-0.5 Ba (Zr0. 2Ti0. 8) O3 filler in PVDF nanocomposite as flexible energy storage and harvester, J. Alloys Compd, 2021, 876, 160141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.160141. (I.F-6.2)
  11. E. Kar, M. Barman, S. Das, A. Das, P. Datta, S. Mukherjee, M. Tavakoli, N. Mukherjee, N. Bose, Chicken Feather Fiber Based Bio-Piezoelectric Energy Harvester:An Efficient Green Energy Source for Flexible Electronics, Sustain. Energy Fuels, 2021, 5, 1857. DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SE01433H. (I.F- 5.6)
  12. B. Dutta, E. Kar, G. Sen, N. Bose, S. Mukherjee, Lightweight, Flexible NiO@SiO2/PVDF Nanocomposite Film for UV Protection and EMI Shielding Application, Mater. Res. Bull., 2020, 124, 110746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2019.110746. (I.F5.4)
  13. E. Kar, N. Bose, B. Dutta, N.Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, UV and Microwave Protecting Flexible e-Skin for Efficient Human Activity Based Energy Harvesting and Tactile Mechanosensation, ACS Appl. Mater.Interfaces. 2019, 11, 17501-17512. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b06452. (I.F-9.5)
  14. E. Kar, N. Bose, B. Dutta, S. Banerjee, N.Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, 2D SnO2nanosheet/PVDF composite based flexible, self-cleaning piezoelectric energy harvester Energy Convers. Manag. 2019, 184, 600-608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.01.073. (I.F10.4)
  15. E. Kar, N. Bose, B. Dutta, N.Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, MWCNT@SiO2 heterogeneous nanofiller based polymer composites: A single key to the high performance piezoelectric nanogenerator and X-band microwave shield, ACS Appl. Nano. Mater. 2018, 8, 4005- 40180. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.8b00770. (I.F-5.9)
  16. B. Dutta, E. Kar, N. Bose, S. Mukherjee, NiO@SiO2/PVDF: A Flexible Polymer Nanocompositefor High Performance Human Body Motion Based Energy Harvester and Tactile e-skin Mechanosensor ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018,6, 10505-10516. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b01851. (I.F8.4)
  17. E. Kar, N. Bose, N. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, Poly(vinylidenefluoride)/submicron graphite platelet composite : A smart light weight flexible material with significantly enhanced β polymorphism, dielectric and microwave shielding properties, Eur. Polym. J. 2017, 90, 442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2017.03.030. (I.F- 6.0)
  18. B. Dutta, N. Bose, E. Kar, S. Das, S. Mukherjee, Smart, lightweight, flexible NiO/poly(vinylideneflouride) nanocomposites film with significantly enhanced dielectric piezoelectric and EMI shielding properties, J. Polym. Res. 2017, 24,220 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-017-1396-z. (I.F- 2.8)
  19. . E. Kar, N. Bose, S. Das, N. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee Temperature dependent dielectric properties of selfstanding and flexible poly(vinylidene fluoride)films infused with Er3+doped GeO2and SiO2nanoparticles, J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2016,133,44016. https://doi.org/10.1002/app.44016. (I.F- 3.0)
  20. E. Kar, N. Bose, S. Das, N. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, Enhancement of electroactive β phase crystallization and dielectric constant of PVDF by incorporating GeO2 and SiO2 nanoparticles, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2015, 17,22784. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CP03975D. (I.F-3.3)
  21. B. Dutta, E. Kar, N. Bose, S. Mukherjee, Significant enhancement of the electroactive β phase of PVDF by incorporating hydrothermally synthesized copper oxide nanoparticles, RSC Adv. 2015, 5,105422. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5RA21903E. (I.F- 3.9)

 

CONFERENCE / SEMINAR
  1. E. Kar, S. Mukherjee, Preparation and characterization of GeO2 doped PVDF film, Proceedings of RDE3P-2013, Page no- 190, 26th -27th October, 2013, MCKV Institute of Engineering.
  2. E. Kar, B. Dutta, N. Bose, N. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, Enhancement of dielectric properties of flexible poly(vinylidene fluoride) thin films by loading Er3+ ions incorporatedSiO2 nanoparticles, ICMDA-2016, 26th-28th October, 2016, NIT Patna.
  3. E. Kar, B. Dutta, N. Bose, N. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, Effect of solvents on the structural and dielectric properties of bare and SiO2 nanoparticles loaded PVDF Film, Proceedings of YSC-2017, MRSI Kolkata Chapter, Page no-113-114, 11th October 2017, IIEST, Shibpur.
  4. E. Kar, B. Dutta, N. Bose, N. Mukherjee, S. Mukherjee, Self-polarized flexible SiO2 encapsulated SnO2 nanosheet/PVDF nanocomposite: an excellent material for piezoelectric energy harvester, ISFM2018, 13th -15th April 2018.
  5. B. Dutta, E. Kar, N. Bose, S. Mukherjee, Enhanced dielectric properties of hydrothermally synthesized copper oxide nanoparticles loaded self-standing flexible PVDF films, ICMDA-2016, 26th-28th October, 2016, NIT Patna.
  6. B. Dutta, E. Kar, N. Bose, S. Mukherjee, PVDF/NiO nanocomposite films: an excellent piezoelectric based nanogenerator, Proceedings of YSC2017, M RSI Kolkata Chapter, 11th October 2017, IIEST, Shibpur.
  7. B. Dutta, E. Kar, N. Bose, S. Mukherjee, PVDF/CuO Nanocomposites film: an excellent lightweight flexible material for microwave shielding application, CTMSE2018, Manuscript ID-58, Page No-75, 19th-20th January 2018, , S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.
  8. B. Dutta, E. Kar, N. Bose, S. Mukherjee, Enhanced dielectric properties of hydrothermally synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles loaded self-standing flexible poly(vinylidene fluoride) films, FBSA-2018, 5th-7th February,2018, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College, Howrah.
  9. B. Dutta, E. Kar, N. Bose, S. Mukherjee, A high performance PVDF/ZnO nanocomposite based piezoelectric nanogenerator, ISFM-2018, 13th -15th April 2018.
  10. E. Kar, S. Sen, A Bio-waste Engineered, Flexible and Wearable e-skin for Efficient Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Mechanosensing, YSC-2022, Materials Research Society of India (MRSI, Kolkata Chapter), 16th December 2022.
  11. E. Kar, S. Sen, Flexible and Wearable E-skin for Efficient Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Mechanosensing based on Bio-Waste Engineered, BIOCOM 2022, 20th December 2022, Physics Association, and American Ceramic Society India Chapter.
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EXTENSION
  1. National Girl Child Day on 24th January at RIE-Mysuru
  2. National Science Day on 28th February at RIE-Mysuru
Faculty Terms
Department of Education in Science and Mathematics (DESM)

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