Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh
Department Production and Industrial Engineering
Designation Assistant Professor
Qualification M.E. (Thapar University) and Ph.D. (IIT Mandi)
Research Interests High Entropy Ceramics, Electronic Ceramics; Glasses and Glass-ceramics; Multi-Catalysis (Photocatalysis, Piezocatalysis and Pyrocatalysis); Piezoelectric, Ferroelectric and Triboelectric Properties; Water-cleaning; and Bacterial Disinfection.
Email singhgurpreet@pec.edu.in ( Official )
gurpreetsinghc9@gmail.com ( Personal )
Phone Number 0172-2753292 ( Office )
Personal Webpage https://scholar.google.com/citations?authuser=1&user=ukDYUlAAAAAJ

Sr. No. Title
11 Gurpreet Singh, Moolchand Sharma, and Rahul Vaish. Vibration induced waste-water cleaning and bacterial disinfection using glass-ceramics containing piezoelectric crystals. Patent application No. 201911045685, Patent No. 498160, Date of Grant: 11/01/2024
12 Moolchand Sharma, Gurpreet Singh, and Rahul Vaish. A rapid and efficient strategy for creating economical antibacterial surfaces on portland cement based structures. Patent application No. 202011006402, Patent No. 415173, Date of Grant: 22/12/2022
13 Sharma M, Singh G, Vaish R. Transparent glass nanocomposites possessing piezoelectric ZnO/Zn2SiO4 nanocrystallites for piezocatalytic dye degradation. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology 2023;9:533-541.
14 Sharma M, Singh G, Vaish R. Piezocatalysis in ferroelectric Ba0.85Ca0.15Ti0.9Zr0.1O3 /polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) composite film. Journal of Applied Physics. 2021;130(8):085107.
15 Singh G, Sharma M, Vaish R. Polar glass-ceramics for piezocatalytic applications. Journal of Applied Physics. 2021;130(12):125101.
Sr. No. Title Agency Duration of Years
1 Laser Induced Crystallisation of glasses for photocatalytic applications PEC Research Initiation Grant 2 years
2 Sustainable Technologies for Biomaterials and Diagnostic Devices for Healthcare, Funding: ~7.14 Crores, Status: Ongoing DST PURSE 5 years
3 Nature Inspired Laser Surface Texturing Centre to develop innovative functional materials (Project No. SR/FST/ET-I/2023/1191), Funding: ~2.06 Crores, Status: Ongoing DST-FIST 5 years
4 High entropy Lead-free Relaxor-ferroelectric perovskite ceramics with superior energy storage and electrocaloric performance (Project No. SRG/2023/001514), Funding: ~30 Lakhs, Status: Ongoing SERB-Startup Research Grant (SRG) 2 years
Sr. No. Society Duration
1 Indian Ceramic Scoeity (InCerS) Lifetime Membership
2 Additive Manufacturing Society of India (AMSI) Lifetime Membership
Sr. No. Recent Books
1 Book Chapter
Kumar S, Singh K, Sharma M, Sharma JD, Vaish R, Chauhan VS, Singh G. High-Entropy Ferroelectric 20 Ceramics/Thin Films for Capacitor Energy Storage Applications. High-Entropy Alloy Coatings: Fundamentals and Applications. 2025 Nov 14:404.
2 Book Chapter
1. Title: Chapter 12: Ferroelectric ceramics and glass ceramics for photocatalysis.
Authors: Gurpreet Singh, Moolchand Sharma, Chris Bowen and Rahul Vaish
Book Name: Ceramic Science and Engineering: Basics to Recent Advancements
Editors: Kamakhya Prakash Misra, R.D.K. Misra
ISBN: 0323886035, 9780323886031
Publisher: Elsevier
Year of Publication: 2022