Dr. R. Padmanaban
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At the outset, I am proud to say I am Alexander von Humboldt fellow, Germany.
I have done my BSc in Chemistry (1999) and MSc in Physical Chemistry (2001) from University of Madras, and then did Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry (2006) from University of Hyderabad. Following, moved to Univ of Potsdam (Germany), ENS Paris (France), and Univ College Dublin (Ireland) for the postdoctoral resear work (till 2010).
In August 2010, I joined herein Pondicherry University as Assistant Professor in Dept of Chemistry, and serving as Full Professor in the department from November 2021. I teach Physical Chemistry courses and focusing theoretical/ computational chemistry research. I have guided 4 PhD students, 45 publicatiins (h-index=14) and 2 funded research projects. Apart, I have organized 2 national level8 chemistry conferences as convener.
Notable & Recent Publications
"Modulating coordination environment of Cu embedded MoX2 (X= S, Se and Te) monolayer for electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CH4: Unveiling the origin of catalytic activity, Doulassiramane, Thamarainathan; Padmanaban, Ramanathan, ACS Langmuir, 41, 329-339 (2025). [IF: 3.9]"
"Orchestrating a Supercapacitive Symphony: Copper–Metal Organic Framework Integrated MXene Nanosheets on Graphite Sheet Electrodes Unveiling Its Synergistic Interactions by Density Functional Theory Study, Sureka Kanthasamy, Thamarainathan Doulassiramane, Ramanathan Padmanaban, Selvaraju Thangavelu, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 7, 9525-9542 (2024). [IF: 5.9]"
"Highly-selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of NO to NH3 using Cu Embedded WS2 Monolayer as Single-atom Catalyst: A DFT Study, Rinu Jacob, Thamarainathan Doulassiramane, Ramanathan Padmanaban, ChemPhysChem, 25, e202400473 (2024). [IF: 3.52]"
"Unveiling the impact of oxygen vacancies in engineered bimetallic oxides for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction: insights from experimental and theoretical approaches, Pratheep Panneerselvam, Chob Singh, Santhosh Kumar Jayaraj, Thamarainathan Doulassiramane, Ramanathan Padmanaban, Akshaya K Samal, Sakar Mohan, Arvind H Jadhav, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 12, 19149 (2024) [Impact Factor: 10.7]"
"An effective strategy for CO2 reduction to C1 products using Cu embedded MoS2 electrocatalyst: DFT study, Thamarainathan Doulassiramane, Natarajan Arumugam, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Almansour, S. M. Mahalingam and Ramanathan Padmanaban, New J. Chem., 47, 6932-6942 (2023). [IF: 3.92]"
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