NMRG Members

Our Research Scholars & Alumni

Khaja Moinudeen S.S

Name: Khaja Moinudeen S S
UG from: The New College (Autonomous), Royapettah, chennai-5.
PG from: The New College (Autonomous), Royapettah, Chennai-5.
Date of Joining: March 2021.
The topic of Research Interest: Synthesis and characterization of atomically precise noble metal nanoclusters.
Project Name: PF MHRD-RI & QI, RUSA 2.0 (2021 – 2024).
Current Position: Research scholar.
Publication List:  Atomically precise Pdm(SR)n nanoclusters for
efficient Hydrogen evolution reaction, IJHE.
E-mail ID: khaja201296@gmail.com

K. Gopalakrishnan

Name: GOPALAKRISHNAN K
UG from: B.Sc. Chemistry, Arignar Anna Government arts and science college, Cheyyar.
B.Ed, Jayam College of Education, Tamil Nadu Teacher Education University.
PG from: M.Sc. Analytical chemistry, University of Madras, Chennai.
Date of Joining: November,2022
Topic of Research: Lead- free Metal Halide Perovskite for Electrochemical Applications
Project Name: NIL
Current Position: NIL
Publication List: NIL
Google Scholar: NIL
E-mail ID: kgopalakrishnachem7@gmail.com

Saliha Amatur Rahman Z

Name: Saliha Amatur Rahman Z
UG from:  Women’s Christian College
PG from: Loyola College
Date of Joining: Month Year format- October 2023
Topic of Research Interest: Atomically precise alloy nanocluster for catalysis, sensors, and energy storage devices
Project Name: None
Current Position: Research scholar, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Madras
Publication List: None
Google Scholar Link: none
E-mail ID: saliha.a.rahman@gmail.com

Harini.S

Name: Harini.S
UG from: Ethiraj College for Women
PG from: School of Chemical Sciences, University of Madras.
Date of Joining: Month Year format- October 2024
Topic of Research Interest: Atomically precise Soll Gell Metal nanocluster for Electrochemical Sensors.
Project Name: None
Current Position: Research scholar, Department of Physical Chemistry,  School of Chemical Sciences, University of Madras
Publication List: NIL
Google Scholar Link: NIL
E-mail ID: sureshhc937@gmail.com

Alumni

Dr.Ramadurai Murugan

Name: Dr. Ramadurai Murugan
UG from: The New College (Affiliated by University of Madras)
PG from: University of Madras
Date of Joining: February 18, 2018
Topic of Research Interest: Material Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Biosensor,
Project Name: DST-SERB-ECR
Project Title: “SYNTHESIS OF THIOLATED PHENYLBORONIC ACID DERIVATIVES STABILIZED NICKEL (II) NANOPARTICLES AND ITS IONIC LIQUIDS FILM MODIFIED ELECTRODES FOR THE DETERMINATION OF HEMOGLOBIN VARIANTS (HbA1a₁,₂, HbA1b and HbA1c)
Project Duration: February 20, 2017 to February 19, 2020
Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Saveetha Medical College and Hospitals, SIMATS
Publication List:
Ligand-mediated self-assembly of cobalt nanoclusters for tunable supercapacitors Ramadurai Murugan, Vinitha Packirisamy, Prabhu Pandurangan* Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 179, 108496. (Impact factor: 4.1)
Sustainable carbon quantum dots enhanced photoluminescence for bioimaging applications: An in vitro and in silico analysis. Ramadurai Murugan*, Silambarasan Tamil Selvan, Raghunandhakumar Subramanian, Chitra S, Saheb Ali. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 453, 115669. (Impact factor: 4.3)
Tenacious copper nanoclusters shielded by aromatic thiol for use in antibacterial, bioimaging, and dye degradation applications. Ramadurai Murugan*, Kiren Raj Gunasekar, Saheb Ali, Chitra Sivalingam, Raghunandhakumar Subramanian, Kumar Venkatesan, Manickam Selvaraj, Suresh Malakondaiah Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiec.2024.03.031) (Impact factor:6.1)
Synthesis And Characterization of Monodispersed Uniform-Size Aromatic Thiolate-Protected Cobalt Nanoclusters for Antibacterial and Dye Degradation Studies M. Ramadurai* et al., Journal of Crystal Growth, 634, 127688.- (Impact factor: 1.830)
Ligand Effects on Thiols Protected Iron Nanoclusters Towards Photoluminescence and Antibacterial Studies. Ramadurai M, Raghunandhakumar S and Prabhu P* Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 446, 115178. (Impact factor: 4.3)
Comparative Antioxidant Efficacy of Green-Synthesised Selenium Nanoparticles From Pongamia pinnata, Citrus sinensis, and Acacia auriculiformis: An In Vitro Analysis Archana Behera, Mukesh Kumar Dharmalingam Jothinathan*, Iadalin Ryntathiang, Saantosh Saravanan, Ramadurai Murugan Cureus 16(4): e58439. DOI-10.7759/cureus.58439 (Impact factor: 1.2).
Analysing the Anticancer Properties of Pterostilbene Through Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion (ADME) and Molecular Docking Studies Monisha Prasad, Silambarasan Tamil Selvan, Rajeshkumar Shanmugam, Ramadurai Murugan, Mohammad Fareed Cureus 16(4): e58425. DOI 10.7759/cureus.58425. (Impact factor: 1.2)
Comparative bioactivity analysis of green-synthesized metal (cobalt, copper, and selenium) nanoparticles Iadalin Ryntathiang, Mukesh Kumar Dharmalingam Jothinathan, Archana Behera, Saantosh Saravanan, Ramadurai Murugan Cureus 16(3): e55933. DOI 10.7759/cureus.55933. (Impact factor: 1.2) 4
Herbal-Based Green Synthesis of TB-ZnO-TiO (II) Nanoparticles Composite From Terminalia bellirica: Characterization, Toxicity Assay, Antioxidant Assay, and Antimicrobial Activity Chitra Shivalingam, Kaarthikeyan Gurumoorthy, Ramadurai Murugan, Saheb Ali, S Chitra, G Karthikeyan, Saheb Ali Sr Cureus 16(3): e55686. DOI-10.7759/cureus.55686. (Impact factor: 1.2)
Molecular Docking and Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion (ADME) Analysis: Examining the Binding Modes and Affinities of Myricetin With Insulin Receptor, Glycogen Synthase Kinase, and Glucokinase Ramadurai Murugan*, Silambarasan Tamil Selvan, Mukesh Kumar Dharmalingam Jothinathan, Guru Prasad Srinivasan, Remya Rajan Renuka, Monisha Prasad Cureus 16(2): e53810. DOI 10.7759/cureus.53810. (Impact factor: 1.2)
Gold-like Thiolate-Protected Ultrasmall Cubic Copper Nanocluster- Based Metal−Organic Framework as a Selective Catalyst for Stepwise Synthesis of Unsymmetric Bistriazole by Click Reaction. M. Ramadurai, M. Bhargav Reddy, R. Anandhan* and P. Prabhu*, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 56004−56016. (Impact factor: 10.38)
Light-harvesting property from Self-Assembly of Cobalt Nanocluster Aggregates for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution. M. Ramadurai, Rajagopal Peri, B. Muthuraman* and P. Prabhu*, J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124, 2258−2264. (Impact factor: 4.189)
Biocompatible thiolate protected copper nanoclusters for an efficient imaging of lung cancer cells. M. Ramadurai, G. Rajendran, T. Sathya Bama, P. Prabhu* and Krishnan Kathiravan*, Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, B: Biology 205 (2020) 111845. (Impact factor: 6.814)
Ultra-radiant Photoluminescence of Glutathione Rigidified Reduced Carbon Quantum Dots (r-CQDs) derived from Ice-biryani for In vitro and In vivo Bioimaging Applications. A. Ancy Milrad, M. Ramadurai, S. Raghunandhakumar, S. Gokul Krishna, P. Prabhu*, D. Anuradha and Sohrab Abbas, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2020, 586, 124266. (Impact factor: 5.518)
An approach to develop high performance supercapacitors using Bi2O3 based binary and ternary nanocomposites. S. Veeralakshmi, S. Kalaiselvam, M. Ramadurai, P. Prabhu, S. Nehru, S. Sakthinathan, and T. W. Chiu, (2020). Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 31(24), 22417-22426. (Impact factor: 2.478)
Size-Dependent Photoluminescence from Thiolate- Protected Water-Soluble Cobalt Nanoclusters. M. Ramadurai, P. Vinitha, P. Prabhu*, S. Komathi and R. Suresh Babu, ChemistrySelect 2020, 5, 2263 –2270. (Impact factor: 2.307).
Immobilization of Glutathione Stabilized Silver Nanoparticles on Zinc Oxide Nanorods for an Effective Spectrophotometric Sensing of Riboflavin, P. Prabhu,* D. R. Komathi and M. Ramadurai, Advances in Central Science, 2 (1), (2017), 1-5. (Online)
Phosphine and thiol-protected metal nanoclusters. P. Prabhu, P. Vinitha, A. Ancy Milrad, and M. Ramadurai (2022): 187.
Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=AXIqZOoAAAAJ&scilu=&scisig=APQ9KKMAAAAAZ6Ga1mTd8q5Q7f63zCErQHP4bqY&gmla=AGd7smFs2pEDLcTwZfZZfYohFPjFHTY8Qc5Ue00ZpdM8A1CQc6ycivi0vDXLoQ5q9nRI9GThrQDqEpzKlq8vjqTzKUyiUJbXTjT57AwZjY4&sciund=2232184046596286866
E-mail ID: drramadurai92@gmail.com

Dr.A.Ancy Milard

Name: Dr. A.ANCY MILRAD
UG from: Annai Velankanni College, Tholayavattam, KK Dist.
PG from: Scott Christian College, Nagercoil, KK Dist.
Date of Joining: May 2018
The topic of Research Interest: QDs synthesis, photoluminescence, electrochemistry, sensing, and bioimaging applications
Project Name:
Current Position: Assistant professor, St.Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering, Nagercoil.
Publication List:
Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oa-cubsAAAAJ&hl=en
Emailancy@sxcce.edu.in

Dr.P.Vinitha

Name: Dr. P. Vinitha
UG from: Justice Basheer Ahmed Syed College for Women, Teynampet
PG from: University of Madras
Date of Joining: March, 2018
Topic of Research Interest: Metal Nanoclusters synthesis, Nanocluster-Protein interaction studies, Fluorescence sensing
Project Name: DST-INSPIRE
Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, SIMATS
Publication List:
Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=EnN65cgAAAAJ&scilu=&scisig=APQ9KKMAAAAAZ6GDhOdaBVCI16vOKtPHV_3zAis&gmla=AGd7smGgTABV2JqvmNwW8JWg-90eKyPd2QycAM67YFr6II9z3MSbhBFl2UxzxA8qgbC57txc73HMoXZJIE9NBdclRNFp3OYQxHXnDrQ&sciund=1435520667123019496
 
E-mail ID: vinithaprs18@gmail.com