Enzymatic Biofuel Cells (EBFCs) have emerged as an eco-friendly energy producing technology based on the capacity of naturally available redox enzymes to transform a wide diversity of fuel and oxidants with high specificity and high efficiency. In EBFC fuel (glucose) and oxidant (O2) are the prime sources for the efficient, clean energy generation because they are abundantly available in all organic material especially in human blood, saliva, and urine. Therefore, it could be serve as long lasting, pollution free and efficient energy production source for several low powered devices and sensor. In the present work, the three different device fabrication technology such as Paper based, 3D printing and Soft-lithography with several commercially accessible electrodes material and improved electrochemistry have been used to develop miniaturized MM-EBFC. These techniques not only simple, cost-efficient and user friendly but also offers rapidly analyzed one step fabrication without pre and post processing treatment. This proposed device fabrication technology and adopted electrochemistry has resulted in improved performance and results similar to those reported in the literature and has demonstrated their potential as a viable alternative. Due to their fabrication technology and improved performance, these devices have a significant amount of research and development potential to power a range of portable low-power devices. In addition, these devices can be further used as power hub for wireless data transmission using IoT technology where the low powered sensor (temperature, humidity) will be enable. In addition to tracking environmental parameters, EBFC can also be used as a power hub for wireless data transmission using IoT technology.

Ph.D. (Electrical & Electronics Engineering)-Aug 2017 to May 2020 (Expected)

• • Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences (BITS)-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

  • Topic: “Microfluidic Enzymatic Biofuel Cell”

  • Supervisors: Dr. Sanket Goel

M.Tech (VLSI Design)-July 2014 to Jul 2016

• • Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur

  • Thesis: “Design and Development of PDMS based Channel for Fluid Analysis”

  • Advisor: Dr.Jayu Kalambe

B.Tech (Electronics & Telecommunication)-July 2009 to July 2013

• • Govindrao Wanjari College Of Engineering & Technology

  • Thesis: “Wireless Speech Recognition System”

  • Advisor: Ms. Vrushali Khilche

• Student Member, IEEE

• Worked as JRF in DST sponsored research project titled “Microfluidic diffusivity meter: CO2 diffusivity sensor during carbon sequestration in oil reservoir” under Prof. Sanket Goel, Department of EEE, BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus from 28 February 2017 to 31 December 2017.

• Won the second prize in the DSIR Bright S&T Innovative Idea competition organised by DSIR-PRISM-TOCCIC, held during 27 Jan 2018 at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus.

• Won the best student paper award at 13th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine & Engineering (IEEE-NANOMED) held during 21-24 November 2019 at Gwangju, Korea.

• Attended a Five Days INUP Hands–On Training Workshop Nanofabrication Technologies at IIT Bombay, Mumbai during March 19-23, 2018

• Completed Training of Circuit Designing from Scientech (Basic Knowledge PCB design) 2013.

1. A System and Method for Electric Power and Process thereof for Manufacturing the System

• • • Inventors: Sanket Goel, Prakash Rewatkar, Madhavi Bandapati and Balaji Krishnamurthy

    • Status: Indian Patent Filed (201711046160, 26-July-2019)

Journal Publication

1. Bhaiyya, Manish, et al. "Miniaturized Electrochemiluminescence Platform with Laser-Induced Graphene Electrodes for Multiple Biosensing." IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience (2020).

2. Prakash Rewatkar and Sanket Goel, Realization of Optimized Wax Laminated Microfluidic Paper-based Analytical Devices, ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, vol. 9, article 115025, 2020.

3. Prakash Rewatkar, Jayapiriya U S, Sanket Goel, Optimized Shelf-stacked Paper Origami based Glucose Biofuel cell with Immobilized Enzymes and Mediator, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, vol. 8(32), pp. 12313–12320, 2020.

4. Jayapiriya U S, Prakash Rewatkar and Sanket Goel, Miniaturized Polymeric Enzymatic Biofuel Cell with Integrated Microfluidic Device and Enhanced Laser Ablated Bioelectrodes, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.(2020)

5. Lanka Tata Rao, Prakash Rewatkar, Satish Kumar Dubey, Arshad Javed and Sanket Goel, Automated Pencil Graphite Formation Platform to Realize Uniform and Reproducible Graphite Electrodes on Paper for Microfluidic Fuel Cells, vol. 10, article number 11675, Scientific Reports, 2020.

6. Prakash Rewatkar, Avinash Kothuru and Sanket Goel, PDMS Microfluidic Glucose Biofuel Cell using Customized Laser-induced Flexible Graphene Bioelectrodes, IEEE Transactions for Electron Devices, vol. 67(4), pp. 1832 – 1838, 2020

7. Lanka Tata Rao, Prakash Rewatkar, Satish Kumar Dubey, Arshad Javed, and Sanket Goel, Performance Optimization of Microfluidic Paper Fuel Cell with Varying Cellulose Fiber Papers as Absorbent Pad, International Journal of Energy Research, vol. 44(5), pp. 3893 – 3904, 2020.

8. Lanka Tata Rao, Prakash Rewatkar, Satish Kumar Dubey, Arshad Javed, and Sanket Goel, Performance Optimization of Microfluidic Paper Fuel Cell with Varying Cellulose Fiber Papers as Absorbent Pad, accepted for publication with International Journal of Energy Research, 2020.

9. Prakash Rewatkar, Madhavi Bandapati and Sanket Goel, Miniaturized Additively Manufactured co-laminar Microfluidic Glucose Biofuel Cell with Optimized Grade Pencil Bioelectrodes, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 44(59), pp. 31434-31444, 2019.

10. Prakash Rewatkar and Sanket Goel, 3D Printed Bioelectrodes for Enzymatic Biofuel cell: Simple, Rapid, Optimized and Enhanced Approach, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, vol. 19(1), pp. 4-10, 2020 (online Sept 2019)

11. Prakash Rewatkar and Sanket Goel, Next-Generation 3D Printed Microfluidic Membraneless Enzymatic Biofuel Cell: Cost-Effective and Rapid Approach, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices vol. 66 (8), pp. 3628-3635, 2019

12. Prakash Rewatkar, Vivek Pratap Hitaishi, Elisabeth Lojou and Sanket Goel, Enzymatic fuel cells in microfluidic environment: status and opportunities. A mini review, Electrochemistry Communications, vol. 107, 10653, 2019.

13. Prakash Rewatkar and Sanket Goel, Microfluidic Paper based Biofuel Cell to Harvest Energy from various Beverages, Journal of Electrochemical Science and Engineering, vol. 10(1), pp. 49-51, 2019.

14. Dipankar Nath, Pichkari Sai Kiran, Prakash Rewatkar, Balaji Krishnamurthy, P. Sankar Ganesh and Sanket Goel, Escherichia coli fed Paper based Microfluidic Microbial Fuel Cell with MWCNT Composed Bucky Paper Bioelectrodes, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 510-515, 2019.

15. Chaitali Mankar, Prakash Rewatkar, Mayuri Dhone, Suresh Balpande, Jayu Kalambe, Rajesh Pande, Sanket Goel, Paper based Microfluidic Microbial Fuel Cell to Harvest Energy from Urine, Sensors Letters, vol. 17, pp. 69–74, 2019.

16. Mary Salve, Mayuri Dhone, Prakash Rewatkar, Suresh Balpande, Jayu Kalambe, Design and Sensitivity Analysis of Micro-Cantilever Based Biosensor for Tumor Detection, Sensor Letters 17 (1), pp. 64-68, 2019.

17. Mary Salve, Sakshi Rana, Gurushree Dindorkar, Prakash Rewatkar, and Jayu Kalambe. "Development of Microfluidics-Based Quantitative Adulteration Detection Platform." Sensor Letters 17, no. 1 (2019): 41-45.

18. Madhavi Bandapati, Prakash Rewatkar and Balaji Krishnamurthy and Sanket Goel*, Functionalized and Enhanced HB Pencil Graphite as Bioanode for Glucose - O2 Biofuel, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 19 (3), pp. 802-811, 2018

19. Prakash Rewatkar and Sanket Goel, Paper based Membraneless Co-Laminar Microfluidic Glucose biofuel cell with MWCNT fed Bucky Paper Bioelectrodes, IEEE Transaction on Nanobioscience, vol. 17(4), pp. 374-379, 2018.

20. Prakash Rewatkar, Madhavi Bandapati and Sanket Goel, Optimized Bucky paper based Anode and Cathode Using Biocompatible Redox Mediator for Enzymatic Biofuel Cells, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 18. No. 13, pp. 5395-5401, 2018

21. Prakash Rewatkar, Suresh Balpande, Jayu Kalambe, Design and Development of PDMS based Channel for Fluid Analysis, Indian Journal of Science and Technology vol.11 (36),pp.1-6, 2018

Conference Papers

1. Prakash Rewatkar and Sanket Goel, Microfluidic Enzymatic Glucose Biofuel Cell with MWCNT patterned Printed Circuit Board Electrodes, accepted to present as posted at IEEE NEMS, 2020

2. Dipankar Nath, Prakash Rewatkar and Sanket Goel, Origami Microfluidic Microbial Fuel Cell for Powering IoT Node with IoT Cloud Platform, accepted for presentation at ECS PRiME 2020, to be held during Oct 2020.

3. Jayapiriya U S, Prakash Rewatkar and Sanket Goel, Completely Additive Manufactured and Reusable Microfluidic Device As Enzymatic Glucose Biofuel Cell, accepted for presentation at ECS PRiME 2020, to be held during Oct 2020

4. Madhavi Bandapati, Prakash Rewatkar, Balaji Krishnamurthy, Sanket Goel, Electrocatalyst Evaluation of 3D Printed Microfluidic Membraneless Glucose Biofuel Cell with Integrated Pencil Graphite Electrodes, ACS Meeting abstract.

5. Prakash Rewatkar, Madhavi Bandapati, Balaji Krishnamurthy, Sanket Goel, Microfluidics Membraneless Enzymatic Biofuel cell for Energy Harvesting and Glucose sensing, Carbon MEMS: New Horizons, IIT Hyderabad, December 05-07,2018

6. Prakash Rewatkar, Avinash Kothuru and Sanket Goel, PDMS Microfluidic Glucose Biofuel Cell using Customized Laser-induced Flexible Graphene Bioelectrodes, in The 13th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine & Engineering (IEEE-NANOMED 2019) , Gwangju, Korea, 21-24 November 2019. (Orally Presented)

7. Prakash Rewatkar Jayapiriya U S, and Sanket Goel, Microfluidic EBFC with Integrated Laser Pyrolyzed Bioelectrodes in 14th International Conference on Electrochemistry in Industry, Health & Environment (EIHE-2020) organized by ISEAC in association with DAE, BARC & BRNS Mumbai, January 21-25 2020 (Orally Presented)

Prakash Rewatkar

MEMS, Microfluidics & Nanoelectronics Lab

J-204, J-Block, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal

Hyderabad-500078, Telangana, India

Email: p20170012@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in