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Dr. Honey Mittal

Dr. Honey Mittal

Assistant Professor, Physics

honey.mittal9@sharda.ac.in

About

Dr. Honey Mittal is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Environmental Sciences at Sharda University, Greater Noida. She earned her Ph.D. in Nanotechnology from the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Her research interests are primarily focused on energy storage devices, particularly supercapacitors, and environmental remediation through photocatalytic wastewater treatment using advanced nanomaterials.

She has published 18 research articles in reputed peer-reviewed journals, most of which are Q1-ranked, along with 2 book chapters in her area of expertise. She has received 4 best paper presentation awards at various national and international conferences. Her research has received over 610 citations with an h-index of 12 (Google Scholar), demonstrating a strong impact in the field of nanoscience and materials research.

Experience
  • Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, SSBSR, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India-201310 (July 2024-continuing)
  • Peer Reviewer:
    i. J of Water Process Engineering (01 Research paper)
    ii. Physica Scripta (03 Research papers )
  • JRF/SRF at Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Jamia Millia Islamia in a DST Nanomission project.
Qualification
  • Ph.D. (Nanotechnology): Thesis Awarded: Title: Synthesis and Characterization of MoSe2 and its Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Wastewater Treatment
  • M.Sc. Physics
  • B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics
Research

Summary:

Number of SCI journal publications: 15 (first author:09)

Total citations: 602

Number of conference Proceedings: 03

Number of Book Chapters: 02

Best Presentation Awards: 04

h-index: 12

List of Published Research Papers (15):

  1. Sangeeta Rawal, Sunil Chauhan, A Singh, A Kumar, Honey Mittal, Superior Piezophotocatalytic Degradation of Dyes and Antibiotics Using Multiferroic BiFeO₃-Carbon Nanocomposites under Visible Light, Materials Today Communications (2024) 110938, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.110938.
  2. Honey Mittal, Arun Kumar, and Manika Khanuja, Z-Scheme Enabled 1D/2D Nanocomposite of ZnO Nanorods and Functionalized g-C3N4 Nanosheets for Sustainable Degradation of Terephthalic Acid. Chemsuschem (2024) e202401408, doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202401408.
  3. Honey Mittal and Manika Khanuja, Superior Photocatalytic and Electrochemical activity of the MoSe2 Modified ZIF-67 for the Reduction and Detection of Cr (VI), Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 11 (2023) 111442.
  4. Honey Mittal, Maryam Raza and Manika Khanuja, Liquid Phase Exfoliation of MoSe2: Effect of Solvent on Morphology, Edge Confinement, Bandgap and Number of Layers Study, Methods X 11 (2023) 102409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2023.102409.
  5. Arun Kumar, Honey Mittal, and Manika Khanuja, Decoration of 2D acid-etched g-C3N4 nanosheets with 1D ZnO nanorods as the high-power micro-supercapacitor electrode material, Journal of Energy Storage 67 (2023) 1074962.
  6. Nahid Tyagi, Waseem Ashraf, Honey Mittal, Tarab Fatima, Manika Khanuja and Manoj Kumar Singh, A facile synthesis of ternary hybrid nanocomposite of WS2/ZnO/PPy: An efficient Photocatalyst for the degradation of Chromium Hexavalent, Dyes and Pigments 210 (2022) 110998, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2022.110998.
  7. Honey Mittal and Manika Khanuja, MoSe2 Modified ZIF-8 novel Nanocomposite for Photocatalytic Remediation of Textile Dye and Antibiotics contaminated Wastewater, Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30 (2022) 4151-4165, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-22487-x.
  8. Honey Mittal and Manika Khanuja, Optimization of MoSe2 modified conducting polymer as electrode material for high supercapacitor performance, Chemistry Select 7 (2022) e202201623, doi.org/10.1002/slct.202201623,
  9. Arun Kumar, Honey Mittal, Rupali Nagar, and Manika Khanuja, Synergistic Effect of Acid-Etched g-C3N4 Nanosheets and Polyaniline Nanofibers for the Adsorption and Photocatalytic Degradation of Textile Dyes: Study of Charge Transfer Mechanism and Intermediate Products, Material Advances 3 (2022), 5325-5336, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1MA01218E,
  10. Honey Mittal, Manika Khanuja, Hydrothermal in-situ Synthesis of MoSe2-Polypyrrole Nanocomposite for Efficient Photocatalytic Degradation of Dyes Under Dark and Visible Light Irradiation, Separation and Purification Technology 254 (2021) 11750, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2020.117508,
  11. Honey Mittal, Manika Khanuja, Optimization of MoSe2­ Nanosheets by surface modification using conducting polymer for enhanced photocatalytic activity: Photocatalysis mechanism, reaction kinetics, and intermediate product study, Dyes and pigments 175 (2020) 108109, 10.1016/j.dyepig.2019.108109,
  12. Honey Mittal and Manika Khanuja, Nanosheets and nanourchins like nanostructures of MoSe2 for photocatalytic water purification: kinetics and reusability study, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27 (2019) 23477-23489, 10.1007/s11356-019-06275-8,
  13. Honey Mittal, Arun Kumar and Manika Khanuja, In-situ oxidative polymerization of aniline on hydrothermally synthesized MoSe2 for enhanced photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes, Journal of Saudi Chemical Society 23 (2019) 836-845, 10.1016/j.jscs.2019.02.004,
  14. Shreya Saha, Nahid Chaudhary, Honey Mittal, and Manika Khanuja, Inorganic–organic nanohybrid of MoS2‑PANI for advanced photocatalytic application, International Nano Letters 9 (2019) 127-139, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40089-019-0267-5.
  15. Iram Siddiqui, Honey Mittal, Vivek Kr. Kohli, Prakalp Gautam, Mohammad Ali and Manika Khanuja. Hydrothermally synthesized micron-sized, broom-shaped MoSe2 nanostructures for superior photocatalytic water purification, Material Research Express 5 (2018) 125020. doi:10.1088/2053-1591/aae241.

List of Conference Papers (03):

  1. Fatima Zehra, Nahid Tyagi, Honey Mittal, Manoj Kumar, Manika Khanuja, Synthesis and comparative study of Zeolite Imidazole Framework for the removal of textile dyes, Materials Today Proceedings (2023).
  2. Honey Mittal and Manika Khanuja, Interfacial charge carrier dynamics of the MoSe2-conducting polymer (MoSe2-PANI) heterojunction, Material Today: Proceedings 28 (2020) 314-316.
  3. Nahid Chaudhary, Karthick raj AG, Anjali Harikumar, Honey Mittal and Manika Khanuja, Comparative study of photocatalytic activity of hydrothermally synthesized ultra-thin MoS2 nanosheets with bulk MoS2, AIP Conference Proceedings 2276 (2020) 020030.

List of Papers under Review (03):

  1. Honey Mittal, Arun Kumar, and Manika Khanuja, High-Performance Supercapacitors Based on 2D/3D MoSe2@ZIF-67 Nanocomposites: Role of Electrolyte Variations, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (2024) Under Review
  2. Honey Mittal, Mohd Sharique, Waseem Ashraf and Manika Khanuja, Synergistic Effect of MXene and V2O5 Nanocomposites: A Sustainable Approach for High-Energy Supercapacitors, Materials Today Chemistry (2024) Under Review
  3. Priyanka Dutta, Honey Mittal, Yashswi Raj, and Govind Gupta, Fabrication of Copper-doped ZnO-based porous nanocomposites for ultrasensitive detection of NO2 at ppb level, Sensors, and Actuators B: Chemical (2024) Under Review

List of Book Chapters:

  1. Shikha Bansal, Waseem Ashraf, Honey Mittal, and Manika Khanuja, Aerogels for Photocatalytic Degradation of Air and Water Pollutants: Research Trends, Aerogels: Properties and Applications, Nova Science Publishers (2022)  https://doi.org/10.52305/WJOG8919.
  2. Honey Mittal and Manika Khanuja, Quantum Dots in Photovoltaics Technology, Multifunctional Quantum Dots-Biological, Environment, and Energy Applications, Springer, Nature (2025), Submitted

Patents

  1. Honey Mittal and Manika Khanuja, Method of synthesis of MoSe2/ZIF-L Nanocomposite for Photocatalytic Degradation of Mixed Dyes (2025), Submitted

Research Achievements:

  1. Special Mention for poster presentation at 1st International Conference on thin films and Nanotechnology-Knowledge, Leadership, and Commercialization (ICT-KLC 2021), 24th-26th August 2021, IIT Delhi (virtually) (Poster PPT)
  2. The third best prize for oral presentation on National Science Day, 28th Feb 2021 at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India (Oral PPT)
  3. Best prize for Poster presentation at International Conference on Advanced Material and Nanotechnology (AMN-2020) Feb 20-22, 2020, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India (Poster PPT)
  4. Best prize for Poster presentation at National Conference on Emerging Trends in Applied Materials Science and Surface Engineering, (ETAMS2020) Jan 16-17, 2020, BML Munjal University, Haryana, India (Poster PPT)

Area of Interest

  • Developing 2D materials and their nanocomposites, Photoelectrochemical characterization study, Electrochemical sensing, Photocatalytic wastewater treatment, and Energy Storage