Dr. T. Pandiyarajan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Sciences,
IIITDM Kurnool.
Education
Qualifications:
Ph.D.
in Physics from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.
Areas
of Interest/Specialization:
Optical
nanomaterials, Bioactive nanostructured materials, Thin film fabrication, Raman
spectroscopy, Photocatalysis
Professional
/ Teaching Experience:
Dr. T.
Pandiyarajan worked as Post-Doctoral Research fellow at Department of Materials
Science, University of Concepcion, CHILE, South America from January 2014 to
October 2017. He was a visiting
scientist at Faculty of Physics and Mathematical Sciences, University of
Autonoma Nueva Leon, Mexico and Functional Materials Division School of Information
and Communication Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. At the
beginning of his teaching career, he worked as Assistant Professor (On
contract) at Central university of Tamilnadu from August 2013-December 2013.
Also, he worked as Adhoc faculty at Department of Physics, National Institute
of Technology, Calicut, Kerala from December 2017 to August 2020.
Publication Profiles:
1. Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=YaFfr7QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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4. ORCID Id: 0000-0002-3394-8186
5. Researcher Id: S-8251-2017
Important
Research Publications:
1.
Pandiyarajan Thangaraj,
Mangalaraja Ramalinga Viswanathan, Karthikeyan Balasubramanian, Héctor D.
Mansilla, David Contreras, Selene Sepulveda-Guzman, M.A. Gracia-Pinilla (2017)
Ultrasound assisted synthesis of morphology tunable rGO:ZnO hybrid
nanostructures and their optical and UV-A light driven photocatalysis, Journal
of Luminescence 186, 53-61
2.
Thangaraj Pandiyarajan,
Ramalinga Viswanathan Mangalaraja,
Balasubramanian Karthikeyan, Selene Sepulveda-Guzman, Hector D. Mansilla, David
Contreras, Nestor Escalona and M. A. Gracia-Pinilla (2016) Microstructure,
vibrational and visible emission properties of low frequency ultrasound (42
kHz) assisted ZnO nanostructures, RSC Adv., 6, 20437-20446
3.
B. Karthikeyan, T. Pandiyarajan,
S. Hariharan, Muhamed Shafi Ollakkan (2016) Wet chemical synthesis of diameter
tuned NiO microrods: micro structural, optical and optical power limiting
applications, Crystal Engineering Communications 18, 601-607.
4.
T. Pandiyarajan and
B. Karthikeyan (2013) Birth of room temperature Magnons and Raman line
enhancement in ZnO nanostructures containing Cobalt oxide Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 44, 1534–1539
5.
T. Pandiyarajan,
R. Udayabhaskar, S. Vignesh, R. Arthur James, B. Karthikeyan (2013) Synthesis
and concentration dependent antibacterial activities of CuO nanoflakes, Materials
Science & Engineering C (Materials for Biological Applications) 33,
2010-2024
6. T. Pandiyarajan, R. V. Mangalaraja, B. Karthikeyan (2015) Enhanced ultraviolet fluorescence in surface modified ZnO nanostructures: Effect of PANI Spectrochimica Acta Part A 147, 280–285.
7.
R. Udayabhaskar, R.V. Mangalaraja, T.
Pandiyarajan, B. Karthikeyan, Héctor D Mansilla, David Contreras (2017)
Spectroscopic investigation on graphene-copper nanocomposites with strong UV
emission and high catalytic activity. CARBON 124, 256-262
8.
R.
Udayabhaskar, Saeed Farhang Sahlevani, T. Prabhakaran, T. Pandiyarajan,
B. Karthikeyan, David Contreras, R. V. Mangalaraja (2019) Modulation of Optical
and Photocatalytic Properties by Morphology and Microstrain in Hierarchical
Ceria Nanostructures, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 195, 106-113
9.
N. Pugazhenthiran, R.V. Mangalaraja, P.
Sathishkumar, S. Murugesan, T. Muneeswaran, T. Pandiyarajan, S.
Naveenraj, D. Contreras, S. Anandan (2018) Green synthesis of porous Au-Nx-TiO2
nanospheres for solar light induced, photocatalytic degradation of diazo,
triazo dyes and their eco-toxic effects, New Journal of Chemistry 42,
18717-18728.
10.
B.
Karthikeyan, S. Hariharan, R.V. Mangalaraja, T. Pandiyarajan, R.
Udayabhaskar, P. Sreekanth (2018) Studies on NiO-PVA composite films for
opto-electronics and optical limiters, IEEE Photonic Technology Letters 30,
1539-1542
Complete list of publications
Link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=YaFfr7QAAAAJ&hl=en
Patent:
Title of the invention: “Proceso de sintesis para
la obtencion de materiales nucleo- coraza ZnO-CeO2 de espesor regulable, para
aplicaciones de proteccion ultraviolet”
Name of the Inventor:
THANGARAJ Pandiyarajan, F. S. Saeed, S.G. Felipe Abner, L. P. Marta, C. R. Von Plessing, R.V.
Mangalaraja
Chilean Patent Application No.: 2995-17 (Ministerio de Economia, Fomento
y Turismo, Gobierno de Chile)
Date of Filing: 27-11-2017
Applicant: Universidad de Concepcion, CHILE, South America
Funded
Projects:
Principal Investigator in POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH PROJECT (No 3140178) titled “Development of Graphene-ZnO composite nanostructure thinfilms for solar cells” funded by FONDECYT, Government of Chile, 2013-2016 (7168800 INR)
1. Principal Investigator
in FONDECYT- INICIACIÓN 2016 research project (No 11160849) titled
“Development of ultrathin graphene oxide free-standing filters for the removal
of heavy metals in water purification” funded by FONDECYT, Government of Chile,
2016- 2017 (3498100 INR).
Contact:
Email: pandiyarajan (at) iiitk (dot) ac (dot) in
Office: 08518 289118