Urvesh Patil joined as a postgraduate student in October of 2016. Before joining he was enrolled in an integrated dual degree program at the department of electrical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India, where he obtained a Btech and a Mtech (Microelectronics) degree.
Urvesh is currently working on understanding the interaction between solvents and two dinemtional (2D) materials from first principles. The aim of his project is to study the solvent depencdence of the liquid phase exfoliation (LPE) procedure and develop a computational methodology that can be used to determine a sutaible solvent for the exfoliation process. For his work he uses accurate high throuput calculations using density functional theory to understand the solvent interaction and determine the applicability of implicit solvent models in these conditions.
Publications
Patil, Urvesh, and Nuala M. Caffrey. Composition dependence of the charge-driven phase transition in group-VI transition metal dichalcogenides. Physical Review B 100.7 (2019): 075424.
Patil, Urvesh, and Nuala M. Caffrey. Adsorption of common solvent molecules on graphene and MoS2 from first-principles, The Journal of chemical physics 149.9 (2018): 094702.
Patil, Urvesh, and Bhaskaran Muralidharan. Resonant enhancement in nanostructured thermoelectric performance via electronic thermal conductivity engineering, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 85 (2017): 27-33.