Faculty Profile

About

Dr. Rafiq Mulla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru. He obtained his Ph.D. in Thermoelectric Materials from Karnatak University, Dharwad, in 2018, and subsequently pursued postdoctoral research at Swansea University, UK, from 2019 to 2023. His research focuses on the development of cost-effective thermoelectric materials and synthesis techniques for energy-related applications.

Education

• Ph.D. - Physics- Thermoelectric materials
  Karnatak University Dharwad
  Passed Year: 2018 | Program Type: FullTime
• CSIR NET Lectureship - Physics
  UGC CSIR
  Passed Year: 2013 | Program Type: FullTime
• M.Sc - Physics- Solid state physics
  Karnatak University Dharwad
  Passed Year: 2012 | Program Type: FullTime

Selected Publications

• Journal | Published On : 18-08-2026
  Rafiq Mulla
  Progress in high ZT materials for low-grade heat harvesting, Physica Scripta (IOP), 101, 33, 2026
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• Journal | Published On : 16-06-2026
  Rafiq Mulla
  Porous bismuth: fabrication of 3D porous bismuth solids using bismuth coated cotton fibers and their thermoelectric properties, Physica Scripta (IOP), 101, 27, 2026
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• Patents | Published On : 23-04-2026
  Rafiq Mulla & Sharanappa Chapi
  Invention title: “A THERMOELECTRIC ELEMENT FOR SURFACE MOUNTING AND A METHOD THEREOF” (Indian Patent Office)
• Journal | Published On : 03-09-2025
  Rafiq Mulla
  Construction of a floating thermoelectric generator using thin films, Smart Materials and Structures, 34, 095011, 2025
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• Journal | Published On : 23-06-2025
  Rafiq Mulla
  What’s new in PEDOT: PSS thermoelectrics? Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 10878-10897
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• Journal | Published On : 23-09-2024
  Rafiq Mulla
  Progress in transparent thermoelectrics, Smart Materials and Structures (IOP), 33, 103002, September 23rd, 2024
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• Journal | Published On : 29-08-2024
  Rafiq Mulla & Sharanappa Chapi
  Recent advances in enhancing thermoelectric performance of polymeric materials, Polymers from Renewable Resources (SAGE), 15, 344, August 29th, 2024
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• Journal | Published On : 21-05-2024
  Rafiq Mulla
  A simple DIY electrical resistivity apparatus for students, Physics Education (IOP), 59, 043004, 2024
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• Book Chapter or Books | Published On : 08-03-2024
  Vismitha S Patil, SC Sharath, NI Sattigeri, RM Hodlur, IM Ikram, Rafiq Mulla, BG Mulimani, MK Rabinal, MN Kalasad
  Book Chapter: Chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals—optoelectronic applications, in the Book: Handbook of Emerging Materials for Sustainable Energy, Publisher: Elsevier, Pages: 779-823, Year: 2024
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• Journal | Published On : 30-01-2024
  Rafiq Mulla, Aleksandar Živkovic, Michael E. A. Warwick, Nora H. de Leeuw, Charlie Dunnill and Andrew R. Barron
  High performance thermoelectrics from low-cost and abundant CuS/CuI composites
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• Journal | Published On : 23-03-2023
  Rafiq Mulla, Alvin Orbaek White, Charlie Dunnill and Andrew Ross Barron
  The Role of Graphene in New Thermoelectric Materials, Energy Advances (RSC)
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• Journal | Published On : 01-02-2023
  Rafiq Mulla, Sajad Kiani, Alvin Orbaek White, Charles W. Dunnill, Andrew R. Barron
  Enhanced thermoelectricity in Bi-sprayed bismuth sulphide particles, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 162, 107528, 2023.
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• Journal | Published On : 31-10-2022
  C Manjunatha, Rafiq Mulla, Hari Krishna R, Sachith Nayak, Yashaswini N, Suraj L, Manickam Selvaraj, Vishal Chaudhary, and Ajit Khosla
  Insights into structural features and thermoelectric properties of layered oxychalcogenides, BiCuOCh (Ch = S, Se, Te): promising green materials for energy conversion, Materials Research Innovations, 27, 267, 2022.
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• Journal | Published On : 11-07-2022
  Manjunatha Channegowda, Rafiq Mulla, Yashaswini Nagaraj, Suraj Lokesh, Sachith Nayak, Sudeep Mudhulu, Chandresh Kumar Rastogi, Charles William Dunnill, Hari Krishna Rajan, and Ajit Khosla
  Comprehensive Insights into Synthesis, Structural Features, and Thermoelectric Properties of High-Performance Inorganic Chalcogenide Nanomaterials for Conversion of Waste Heat to Electricity, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 5 (7), 7913-7943, 2022.
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• Journal | Published On : 16-12-2021
  Rafiq Mulla, Charlie Dunnill
  Sensors-on-paper: Fabrication of graphite thermal sensor arrays on cellulose paper for large area temperature mapping, HardwareX, 11, e00252, 2022
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• Journal | Published On : 01-12-2021
  Rafiq Mulla, DR Jones, CW Dunnill
  Thin-films on cellulose paper to construct thermoelectric generator of promising power outputs suitable for low-grade heat recovery, Materials Today Communications, 29, 102738, 2021.
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• Journal | Published On : 25-11-2021
  Rafiq Mulla and Charlie Dunnill
  Core-Shell Nanostructures for Better Thermoelectrics, Materials Advances, 3, 125-141, 2022.
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• Journal | Published On : 30-07-2021
  Rafiq Mulla, CW Dunnill
  Enhanced Thermal Sensitivity in Single Metal Thermocouple: Significance of Thickness-Engineering of the Metal Layers, Engineering Research Express, 3, 035015, 2021.
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• Journal | Published On : 20-06-2021
  Rafiq Mulla, CW Dunnill
  Single Material Thermocouples from Graphite Traces: Fabricating Extremely Simple and Low Cost Thermal Sensors, Carbon Trends, 100077, 2021.
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• Journal | Published On : 21-05-2021
  Rafiq Mulla, CW Dunnill
  Fabrication of wooden thermoelectric legs to construct a generator, Green Materials, 40, 1-8, 2021.
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• Journal | Published On : 30-01-2021
  Rafiq Mulla, MK Rabinal
  CuO/CuxS composites fabrication and their thermoelectric properties, Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 10 (1), 1-7, 2021.
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• Journal | Published On : 26-11-2020
  Rafiq Mulla, MK Rabinal
  A Low-cost Apparatus to Measure the Seebeck coefficient, Physics Education, 56 (1), 015006, 2020
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• Journal | Published On : 03-09-2020
  Rafiq Mulla, Katherine Glover, Charles W Dunnill
  An easily constructed and inexpensive tool to evaluate the Seebeck coefficient, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
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• Journal | Published On : 20-08-2020
  Rafiq Mulla, DR Jones, CW Dunnill
  Economical and Facile Route to Produce Gram-Scale and Phase-Selective Copper Sulfides for Thermoelectric Applications, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 8 (37), 14234-14242, 2020.
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• Journal | Published On : 01-08-2020
  BK Murgunde, Rafiq Mulla, MK Rabinal
  A Rapid Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticle Foam by Ultrasonication, Journal of Porous Materials, 27 (6), 1727-1733, 2020.
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• Journal | Published On : 01-08-2020
  Rafiq Mulla and CW Dunnill
  Graphite-Loaded Cotton Wool: A Green Route to Highly-Porous and Solid Graphite Pellets for Thermoelectric Devices, Composites Communications, 20, 100345, 2020
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• Journal | Published On : 26-05-2020
  Rafiq Mulla, DR Jones, CW Dunnill
  Thermoelectric Paper: Graphite Pencil Traces on Paper to Fabricate a Thermoelectric Generator, Advanced Materials Technologies, 5, 2000227, 2020.
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• Book Chapter or Books | Published On : 16-04-2020
  S Shaikh, Rafiq Mulla, MN Kalasad, MHK Rabinal
  Chapter: Quantum Dot Interfaces for Memristor, in the Book: Quantum Dot Optoelectronic Devices, Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, vol 27. Springer, Cham. 253-313, 2020.
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• Journal | Published On : 07-08-2019
  Rafiq Mulla and MK Rabinal
  A Tweezer as a Thermoelectric Tester, Physics Education, 54, 055032, 2019
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• Journal | Published On : 17-07-2019
  Rafiq Mulla and CW Dunnill
  Powering the Hydrogen Economy from Waste Heat: A Review of Heat-to-Hydrogen Concepts, ChemSusChem, 12, 3882, 2019.
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• Journal | Published On : 10-10-2018
  Rafiq Mulla and MHK Rabinal
  Copper Sulfides: Earth-Abundant and Low-Cost Thermoelectric Materials, Energy Technology, 7, 1800850, 2019
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• Journal | Published On : 01-06-2018
  Rafiq Mulla and MK Rabinal
  Defect-Controlled Copper Iodide: A Promising and Ecofriendly Thermoelectric Material, Energy Technology, 6, 1178-1185, 2018
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• Journal | Published On : 01-11-2017
  Rafiq Mulla and MK Rabinal
  Large-scale Synthesis of Copper Sulfide by using Elemental Sources via Simple Chemical Route, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 39, 528-533, 2017.
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• Journal | Published On : 01-03-2017
  Rafiq Mulla, MK Rabinal
  Ambient Growth of Highly Oriented Cu2S Dendrites of Superior Thermoelectric Behaviour, Applied Surface Science, 397, 70-76, 2017.
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• Journal | Published On : 11-04-2016
  Rafiq Mulla and MK Rabinal
  A Simple and Portable Setup for Thermopower Measurements, ACS Combinatorial Science, 18, 177-181, 2016
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Other Information

Awards and Recognition:

• Received “KVRSS Research Award” (Runner Up-II) from Dr. K.V. Rao Scientific Society, Hyderabad, India (2018)
• Received “Best Poster Presentation Award” at ICFNN Conference, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India (2016)
• Received the “Innovative Research Work” Award at the International Conference, Vivekanandha College of Arts and Science, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu (2021)
• Received “Best Oral Presentation Award” at the International Conference, PSGR Krishnammal College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (2021)
• Research paper on “Cellulose paper based thermoelectric generators” highlighted by Materials Today News
• Review paper on “Core-Shell thermoelectric materials” (RSC Mat. Advances) selected as a Popular Article by the journal
• Research paper on “Graphite-loaded cotton wool” published in Composites Communications appeared in the “Most Popular” section of the journal
• A recent research paper featured as a “Cover Art” of an issue in the ACS Journal (ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering)

Number of Conference Papers: 10
Number of Book Chapters: 2
Number of Invited Talks: 10
Number of Patents: 01

Reviewer for highly reputed journals (Nature Communications, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, & IOP and Springer journals)


Link for all Research papers:
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2474-8676
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=05prde0AAAAJ&hl=en

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