Amandeep Singh
Responsibilities
-Principal Investigator in 2 EU Horizon projects on Battery research 2024 onwards.
-Project Manager and Battery Scientist in Business Finland's NextGenBat project 2021-2024
-Postdoctoral Research Fellow duties
-Teaching duties for Processing of advanced ceramics course
-Preparation of funding applications (EU-H2020-FET Proposals: ecLIPS 2015, ecLIPS 2016, NanoStencil 2017)
-Master's thesis supervision
-Setting up and providing training of equipment for 'Pulsed laser ablation in supercritical CO2 to synthesize nanoparticles and functionalized surfaces'
Fields of expertise
-Pulsed laser ablation to produce nanoparticles and functionalized surfaces in H2O and supercritical CO2
-PLD coatings
-Laser interference patterning induced nano-micro pattern for making locally functionalized surfaces such as anti-bacterial and photoactive surfaces.
-3D printing of ceramics
-Functional materials
-Engineering ceramics
-Ceramic targets for improved energy density battery technologies
-Highly ordered long range quantum dots for quantum computing and functional applications (NanoStencil-EU-H2020)
Project links
Research topics
-Pulsed laser ablation to produce nanoparticles and functionalized surfaces in H2O and supercritical CO2
-PLD coatings
-Laser interference patterning induced nano-micro pattern for making locally functionalized surfaces such as anti-bacterial and photoactive surfaces.
-3D printing of ceramics
-Functional materials
-Engineering ceramics
Research unit
Research fields
advanced ceramic materials, pulsed laser ablation in liquids (PLAL), pulsed laser deposition (PLD), nanomaterial synthesis, supercritical CO2, processing of advanced ceramics, Clean technology, utilization of CO2
Funding
Research career
2020-Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University
2019-2020 Doctoral Researcher at Tampere University
2019-Present Lecturer for Processing of advanced ceramics course at Tampere University
2015-2018 Towards D.Sc.:: Doctoral Researcher at Tampere University of Technology
2015-2018 Lecturer, course coordinator for Processing of ceramics, Processing of advanced ceramics courses
2013-2014 M.Sc. Materials Science at Tampere University of Technology
Selected publications
1) A. Singh (2020), Nanoparticle Synthesis by Pulsed Laser Ablation: From H2O to pressurized CO2: Possibilities for supercritical fluid as reactive environment, Tampere University. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-1669-3
2) A. Singh, T. Salminen, M. Honkanen, J. Nikkanen, T. Vuorinen, R. Kari, J. Vihinen and E. Levänen, Carbon coated TiO2 nanoparticles prepared by pulsed laser ablation in liquid, gaseous and supercritical CO2, Nanotechnology, Volume 31, Number 8, 31 085602. doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ab53ba.
3) Singh A, Salminen T, Honkanen M, Vihinen J, Hyvärinen L and Levänen E 2019 Multiphase TixOy nanoparticles by pulsed laser ablation of titanium in supercritical CO2 Appl. Surf. Sci. 476 822–7. doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.01.172
4) A. Singh, J. Vihinen, E. Frankberg, L. Hyvärinen, M. Honkanen, E. Levänen, Pulsed Laser Ablation-Induced Green Synthesis of TiO2 Nanoparticles and Application of Novel Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Technique for Nanoparticle Size and Size Distribution Analysis, Nanoscale Res. Lett. 11 (2016) 447. doi:10.1186/s11671-016-1608-1.
5) A. Singh, J. Vihinen, E. Frankberg, L. Hyvärinen, M. Honkanen, E. Levänen, Effect of Laser Power on Yield of TiO2 Nanoparticles Synthesized by Pulsed Laser Ablation in Water.pdf, J. Ceram. Sci. Technol. 8 (2017) 39–44. doi:10.4416/JCST2016-00071.