Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare

@jncasr.ac.in

Professor, Theoretical Sciences Unit
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)

Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare

EDUCATION

PhD (Yale)
BTech (IIT Bombay)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computational Materials Science, Ferroelectrics, Shape Memory Alloys, Nanomaterials, Catalysis, Themoelectrics, Geometric Phases and Electronic Topology
451

Scopus Publications

48732

Scholar Citations

91

Scholar h-index

344

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Incommensurate Moiré stacking and Landau quantization without external magnetic field in turbostratic graphene
    M Garg, A Kumar, D Rana, A Arya, A R, U Waghmare, GU Kulkarni, ...
    2D Materials 13 (2), 025023 , 2026
    2026
  • Donor‐Acceptor Stacks in Flexible Porous Coordination Polymers Toward Room‐Temperature Ferroelectricity
    A Ghosh, S Menon, S Sahoo, D Surendran, N Deka, JK Zaręba, ...
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition 65 (21), e3779576 , 2026
    2026
  • Intrinsic correspondence between monoclinic and orthorhombic via mutual induction of lattice modes on the domain wall
    HJ Lee, P Kumar, CH Kim, J Choi, U Waghmare, JH Lee
    Physical Review B 113 (17), 174116 , 2026
    2026
  • Modulation of quantum geometry and its coupling to pseudo-electric field by dynamic strain
    S Layek, MA Hingankar, A Mukherjee, A Chakraborty, DA Jangade, ...
    Nature Communications , 2026
    2026
  • Nitrogen-Vacancy-Mediated Magnetism in Sputtered GdN Thin Films
    P Bhardwaj, J Sarkar, B Biswal, SK Negi, A Sinha, A Venugopalrao, ...
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.13817 , 2026
    2026
  • Accelerating the search for superconductors using machine learning
    S Adiga, UV Waghmare
    Computational Materials Science 263, 114453 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Defect engineering and triangular copper as key drivers for ultralow thermal conductivity in Cu 2 ZrS 3 polytypes
    L Le Gars, S Verma, M Tiadi, C Prestipino, A Das, B Zhang, O Perez, ...
    Journal of Materials Chemistry A 14 (23), 14224-14240 , 2026
    2026
  • Origins of electrostriction of MoS 2 and HfS 2 in 2 and 3 dimensional 1T and 2H structures
    K Debnath, AK Sood, UV Waghmare
    Nanoscale , 2026
    2026
  • Vector Spin Chirality Switching in Noncollinear Antiferromagnets
    A Dey, R Bhuvaneswari, S Chowdhury, S Banerjee, M Bansal, S Ghosh, ...
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.17248 , 2025
    2025
  • Intrinsic Relaxor Ferroelectric Driven Ultralow Glassy Thermal Conductivity in AgPbSbSe 3
    V Taneja, S Semwal, D Sarkar, A Ahad, M Bhakar, M Dutta, D Swain, ...
    Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (52), 48361-48371 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Mechanisms of piezoelectricity of hybrid perovskites α-FASnX3 (X= Br, I): First-principles analysis
    A Sinha, UV Waghmare
    Journal of Applied Physics 138 (21) , 2025
    2025
  • Correction to “Surface Tailoring-Modulated Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis with CoP for Rechargeable Zn–Air Battery and Water Splitting”
    MM Kumar, C Aparna, AK Nayak, UV Waghmare, D Pradhan, CR Raj
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 17 (50), 68814-68814 , 2025
    2025
  • Investigation of Electron-Irradiation Induced Oxygen Vacancies in Hydroxyapatite via Bandgap Analysis and Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy
    AKV Raj, RH Banerjee, D Das, C Aparna, U Waghmare, P Sengupta
    Materials Today Communications, 114335 , 2025
    2025
  • Origin of ferromagnetism in a two-dimensional dilute magnetic semiconductor
    S Chaturvedi, UV Waghmare
    Physical Review B 112 (9), 094437 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Ferroelectric Instability Driven Unusual Thermal Transport and High Thermoelectric Performance
    V Taneja, S Mishra, UV Waghmare, K Biswas
    ACS Energy Letters 10 (8), 3866-3875 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Ferrielectric dipolar ordering in a donor–acceptor based covalent–organic framework for piezocatalytic water splitting
    A Ghosh, S Menon, S Biswas, S Sahoo, A Dey, R Boomishankar, ...
    Advanced Functional Materials 35 (30), 2502787 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 16
  • Electronic Structure Modulation in GeTe by Hg and Sb Codoping Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance
    P Acharyya, A Das, R Arora, M Samanta, S Das, T Ghosh, UV Waghmare, ...
    Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (22), 19296-19304 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 13
  • Pressure dependence of ultrafast carrier dynamics in excitonic insulator Ta 2 NiSe 5
    V Arora, DVS Muthu, A Sinha, L Harnagea, UV Waghmare, AK Sood
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 37 (18), 185403 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Site-selective polar compensation of mott electrons in a double-perovskite heterointerface
    N Bhattacharya, A Sen, K Qu, A Sinha, RK Patel, S Kumar, J Zhang, ...
    Physical Review Letters 134 (17), 176201 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Diverse electronic phases correlated with twist-angle distribution and pseudomagnetic field in turbostratic graphene
    M Garg, A Kumar, D Rana, A Arya, U Waghmare, GU Kulkarni, G Sheet
    arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2505.05854 , 2025
    2025

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Epitaxial BiFeO 3 Multiferroic Thin Film Heterostructures
    J Wang, JB Neaton, H Zheng, V Nagarajan, SB Ogale, B Liu, D Viehland, ...
    science 299 (5613), 1719-1722 , 2003
    2003
    Citations: 8069
  • Monitoring dopants by Raman scattering in an electrochemically top-gated graphene transistor
    A Das, S Pisana, B Chakraborty, S Piscanec, SK Saha, UV Waghmare, ...
    Nature nanotechnology 3 (4), 210-215 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 4414
  • Synthesis, structure, and properties of boron‐and nitrogen‐doped graphene
    LS Panchakarla, KS Subrahmanyam, SK Saha, A Govindaraj, ...
    Advanced Materials 21 (46), 4726-4730 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 2175
  • First-principles study of spontaneous polarization in multiferroic
    JB Neaton, C Ederer, UV Waghmare, NA Spaldin, KM Rabe
    Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 71 (1), 014113 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 1834
  • Sensing Behavior of Atomically Thin-Layered MoS 2 Transistors
    DJ Late, YK Huang, B Liu, J Acharya, SN Shirodkar, J Luo, A Yan, ...
    ACS nano 7 (6), 4879-4891 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 1543
  • Symmetry-dependent phonon renormalization in monolayer MoS transistor
    B Chakraborty, A Bera, DVS Muthu, S Bhowmick, UV Waghmare, ...
    Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 85 (16), 161403 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 1390
  • Accurate first-principles structures and energies of diversely bonded systems from an efficient density functional
    J Sun, RC Remsing, Y Zhang, Z Sun, A Ruzsinszky, H Peng, Z Yang, ...
    Nature chemistry 8 (9), 831-836 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 1130
  • Graphene analogues of BN: novel synthesis and properties
    A Nag, K Raidongia, KPSS Hembram, R Datta, UV Waghmare, CNR Rao
    ACS nano 4 (3), 1539-1544 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 898
  • Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe2
    S Roychowdhury, T Ghosh, R Arora, M Samanta, L Xie, NK Singh, A Soni, ...
    Science 371 (6530), 722-727 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 645
  • Lattice dynamics of BaTiO 3, PbTiO 3, and PbZrO 3: A comparative first-principles study
    P Ghosez, E Cockayne, UV Waghmare, KM Rabe
    Physical Review B 60 (2), 836 , 1999
    1999
    Citations: 583
  • First Principles Based Design and Experimental Evidence for a ZnO-Based Ferromagnet<? format?> at Room Temperature
    MHF Sluiter, Y Kawazoe, P Sharma, A Inoue, AR Raju, C Rout, ...
    Physical review letters 94 (18), 187204 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 561
  • Scale-free ferroelectricity induced by flat phonon bands in HfO2
    HJ Lee, M Lee, K Lee, J Jo, H Yang, Y Kim, SC Chae, U Waghmare, ...
    Science 369 (6509), 1343-1347 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 557
  • Emergence of Ferroelectricity at a Metal-Semiconductor Transition in a Monolayer of
    SN Shirodkar, UV Waghmare
    Physical review letters 112 (15), 157601 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 511
  • Mg alloying in SnTe facilitates valence band convergence and optimizes thermoelectric properties
    A Banik, US Shenoy, S Anand, UV Waghmare, K Biswas
    Chemistry of Materials 27 (2), 581-587 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 491
  • Near-Room-Temperature Colossal Magnetodielectricity and Multiglass Properties <?format ?>in Partially Disordered
    D Choudhury, P Mandal, R Mathieu, A Hazarika, S Rajan, A Sundaresan, ...
    Physical review letters 108 (12), 127201 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 472
  • Theoretical prediction of new high-performance lead-free piezoelectrics
    P Baettig, CF Schelle, R LeSar, UV Waghmare, NA Spaldin
    Chemistry of materials 17 (6), 1376-1380 , 2005
    2005
    Citations: 418
  • An improved d-band model of the catalytic activity of magnetic transition metal surfaces
    S Bhattacharjee, UV Waghmare, SC Lee
    Scientific reports 6 (1), 35916 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 415
  • First-principles indicators of metallicity and cation off-centricity in the IV-VI rocksalt chalcogenides of divalent Ge, Sn, and Pb
    UV Waghmare, NA Spaldin, HC Kandpal, R Seshadri
    Physical Review B 67 (12), 125111 , 2003
    2003
    Citations: 412
  • Ab initio statistical mechanics of the ferroelectric phase transition in PbTiO 3
    UV Waghmare, KM Rabe
    Physical Review B 55 (10), 6161 , 1997
    1997
    Citations: 377
  • Thermal Expansion, Anharmonicity and Temperature‐Dependent Raman Spectra of Single‐ and Few‐Layer MoSe 2 and WSe 2
    DJ Late, SN Shirodkar, UV Waghmare, VP Dravid, CNR Rao
    ChemPhysChem 15 (8), 1592-1598 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 326