Materials Science Division

Member

        Nalini G Sundaram
Lecturer
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E-mail: nalini .at. poornaprajna dot org
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Curriculum vitae

Educational Qualifications

  • Ph. D in Solid State Chemistry ,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India,2003
  • Post Doctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico and Stanford Synchrotron Laboratory,Stanford, U.S.A 2004-2005
  • Post Doctoral Scholar, University of California Santa Cruz, California, U.S.A 2005-2008


Broad areas of Research

  1. Investigation of photoluminescent oxide nanoparticles for solid state lighting devices
  2. Design of Ceramic Nanomaterial Photocatalysts for Degradation of Organic Dyes
  3. Crystal Structure of Substituted Complexes, {GaxCr1-x}} (acac)3 using Single crystal X-ray diffraction Techniques


Award and Scholorship

  • Awarded a project by DST ,India for three years under the SERC- Fast Track Scheme For Young Scientists (FAST)
  • Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Government of India
  • Recipient of the Joshi award for securing first rank in M.Sc. (Physical Chemistry)


Research Scholors

  1. Ms.Swetha S M (JRF Supported by UGC)
  2. Mr.Srinidhi R (Joint student with Prof.Shivshanker, IISC


Representative publications

  1. Jiang, F. Bridges, N. Sundaram, D.P. Belanger, I.E. Anderson, J.F. Mitchell, and H. Zheng, Phys. Rev. B 80, 144423 2009
  2. N. Sundaram, Y. Jiang, I. E. Anderson, D. P. Belanger, C. H. Booth, F. Bridges, J. F. Mitchell, Th. Proffen and H. Zheng, Physical Review Letters, 2009, 102, 026401
  3. Ombretta Masala; Darin Hoffman; Nalini Sundaram; Katharine Page; Thomas Proffen; Gavin Lawes; Ram Seshadri, Solid State Sciences v.8, No.9, 1015-1022,2006
  4. G.Nalini and T. N. Guru Row, Phase Transitions, 2003, 76, 923
  5. G. Nalini and T. N. Guru Row, Chemistry of Materials, 2002, 14, 4729


Membership of Professional bodies

  1. Member of National crystallographic Association


Relevant skills

  • Presently teaching two courses at PPISR for graduate students as part of their course work for the completion of their Ph.D degree
  • Supervised two graduate students during lab development, project execution and completion.
  • Helped teach basic X-ray diffraction to Undergraduate students at UCSC, CA.
  • Teaching Assistant at IISc Bangalore for the crystallography course taught for freshman doctoral students by Professor Guru Row
  • Training and exposure to federal government laboratories safety standards including Industrial safety regulations (OSHA).
  • Excellent scientific writing skills proven by the acceptance of recent research proposals for beam time at ORNL, Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, LANSCE, Los Alamos National Laboratory­ and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.


Participation in Workshops, Conferences and Training: 14