Selected Publications
1. Thirunavukkarasu Somanathan, Narasimhan Gokulakrishnan and Arumugam Pandurangan, 'Low temperature growth of double walled carbon nanotubes using FeMoMgo catalyst by chemical vapour deposition techniques', J. Nanosci. Nanotech. Vol. 14, pp. 3272-3276 (2014).
2. Thirunavukkarasu Somanathan, Jean Dijon, Adreline Fournier and Hanako Okuno, 'Effective supergrowth of single and double walled carbon nanotubes at low temperature and pressure', J. Nanosci. Nanotech. Vol. 14, pp. 2520-2526 (2014).
3. V. Mohana Krishna, T. Somanathan, N. Gokulakrishnan, 'Effective synthesis of well graphitized high yield bamboo-like multi-walled carbon nanotubes on copper loaded a-alumina nanoparticles', Diamonds and Related Materials, Vol. 50, pp. 20-25 ((2014).
4. Raju Kumar, Narasimhan Gokulakrishnan, Randhir Kumar, Vemula Mohana Krishna, Arumugam Saravanan, Subrahmanian Supriya, Thirunavukkarasu Somanathan, 'Can be a bimetal oxide ZnO-MgO Nanoparticles Anticancer Drug Carrier and Deliver? Doxorubicin/Adsorption/Release Study', Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 15, pp. 1543-1553 (2015).
5. T. Somanathan, Karthika Prasad, Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov, A. Saravanan,
V. Mohana Krishna, "Graphene oxide synthesis from agrowaste", Nanomaterials., Vol. 5, pp. 826-834 (2015).
6. V. Mohanakrishna and T. Somanathan, 'An efficient strategy to Cu/Si catalyst into vertical aligned carbon nanotubes with bamboo shape by CVD technique' Bulletin of Materials Science Vol 39 (4) pp 1079-1084, (2016).
7. T. Somanathan, V. Mohana Krishna, V. Saravanan, Rajkumar, Randhir Kumar, 'MgO Nanoparticles for Effective Uptake and Release of Doxorubicin Drug: pH Sensitive Controlled Drug Release Study', Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 16, 9421-9431 (2016).
8. Kiruthika Naganathan and Somanathan Thirunavukkarasu, "Green way genesis of silver nanoparticles using multiple fruit peels waste and its antimicrobial, anti-oxidant and anti-tumor cell line studies", IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 191 pp. 012009 (2017).
9. Vemula Mohana Krishna, T. Somanathan, and Kiran Kumar Tadi, Voltammetric Assessment of Dopamine by Coiled Carbon Nanotubes Improved Glassy Carbon Electrode, Sensor Lett. Vol.15, Issue 11, pp. 896-901 (2017).
10. Vemula Mohana Krishna, T. Somanathan, E. Manikandan, A. Umar, M. Maaza, Large-scale Synthesis of Coiled-Like Shaped Carbon Nanotubes By Using of Bi-metal Catalyst, Applied Nanoscience (2018).
11. Vemula Mohana Krishna, T. Somanathan, E. Manikandan, Kiran Kumar Tadi, and S. Uvarajan, Neurotransmitter Dopamine Enhanced Sensing Detection Using Fibre-Like Carbon Nanotubes by Chemical Vapor Deposition Technique, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol.18 (8), 5380-5389 (2018).
Awards if any
Sl.No |
Descriptions of the Award |
Award Details (Certificates, Medal, etc) |
Received Date |
1 |
Senior Research Fellow by CSIR, New Delhi, India, |
Certificates |
April 2007 - March 2009 |
2 |
Postdoctoral Fellowship in CEA-LITEN/DTNM/LCRE, France |
Certificates |
May 2009 - December 2010 |
3 |
DST Fast Track Young Scientist Award, New Delhi, India, December 2011 |
Certificates |
December 2011 |
Projects completed / ongoing
Sl.No |
Status(Completed / Ongoing / Approved / Submitted) |
Project Title |
Name of the Funding Agency |
Sanctioned Date |
Duration |
Date of Completion |
Value (Rs) |
1 |
Completed |
Fabrication of novel biosensing system based on super growth vertical aligned single walled carbon nanotubes |
SERB, DST, New Delhi |
26.07.2012 |
4 yrs |
31.03.2016 |
Rs. 20 Lakhs |