FACULTY PROFILE

1 Name T N RAMESH 2 Present Designation ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 3 Department DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES AND RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY 4 Date of Birth 10-10-1976 5 Date of entry into service in Tumkur 10-05-2010 University 6 Date of entry into the Present Designation 10-05-2010 7 Residential Address No. 3157/A, LAKSHMI PRASANNA, 7TH CROSS, GAYATHRI NAGAR, BANGALORE 8 Mobile Number 9060758318 9 Email ID [email protected] 10 PAN No. AHAPT41648 11 Aadhar Card Id No. 12 Passport No.

1 13 Academic Qualification Degree University Year of Award A Post Graduate Degree Bangalore University 1999 B M.Phil. - - C Ph.D. Bangalore University 2005 Ph.D. Topic: Effect of crystallinity and structural disroder on the reversible discharge capacity of nickel hydroxide electrodes Guided By: Prof. P. Vishnu Kamath, Bangalore University

14 CSIR JRF-NET – Year of Passing 2000 15 SLET/KSET – Year of Passing -

16 Area of Research Specialization Inorganic Solid State Chemistry/Inorganic and Physical Chemistry

17 Teaching Experience Designation From To Place ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 2010 TILL DATE TUMKUR UNIVERSITY

18 Administrative Experience Designation From To Place COORDINATING EDITOR, JUNE 2012 TILL DATE TUMKUR UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE RESEARCH 19 Research Guidance A Ph.D. Name of Student Thesis Year - - - B M.Phil. Name of Student Thesis Year -

20 Papers Presented/ Lecturers Delivered/ Sessions Chaired in Conference and Symposia (International) (Tick below) Details Paper Lecture Session Presented Delivered Chaired Luminescent studies of brucite based layered materials,  T N Ramesh, AmreenTaj, International Conference on „Recent Advances in Materials Science- RAMS-2012, 6-8th November 2012, Bangalore, organized by Karnataka State Higher Education Council in association with Mangalore, Gulbarga, Kuvempu and Tumkur University. Adsorption studies of indigo caramine dye by magnesium oxide, T  N Ramesh, D. V. Kirana, T N MohanaKumari and A. Ashwini, International Conference on „Recent Advances in Materials Science- RAMS-2012, 6-8th November 2012, Bangalore, organized by Karnataka State Higher Education Council in association with Mangalore, Gulbarga, Kuvempu and Tumkur University. Antimicrobial activity studies of zinc oxide, zinc acetate and  layered zinc hydroxysalt, R G Sharathchandra, T N Ramesh, Vinod Gubbi Veranna and P. Sadananda Maiya, International Conference on „Recent Advances in Materials Science-RAMS-2012, 6-8th November 2012, Bangalore, organized by Karnataka State Higher Education Council in association with Mangalore, Gulbarga, Kuvempu and Tumkur University. Mechanism of structural transformation during the thermal  decomposition studies of aluminium hydroxide polymorph, International Conference on „Recent Advances in Materials Science- RAMS-2012, 6-8th November 2012, Bangalore, organized by Karnataka State Higher Education Council in association with Mangalore, Gulbarga, Kuvempu and Tumkur University. International Conference on „Recent Advances in Materials Science-  RAMS-2012, 6-8th November 2012, Bangalore, organized by Karnataka State Higher Education Council in association with Mangalore, Gulbarga, Kuvempu and Tumkur University. 21 Papers Presented/ Lecturers Delivered/ Sessions Chaired in Conference and Symposia (National) (Tick below) Details Paper Lecture Session Presented Delivered Chaired Graphite oxide and graphene based nanomaterials‟  Kavya H J and T N Ramesh Knowledge Utsav, Jain University and Tumkur University, August 2010 Thermal evolution studies of calcium hydroxide,  T N Ramesh, B. E. Prasad, AmreenTaj, K. Pallavi, P. SadanadaMaiya, M. Jayaramu and S Sreenivasa, National Conference on „Challenges and opportunities for chemical sciences in 21st century, 2013, Pages 24-29. (ISBN: 978-81-923301-9-8) Adsorption studies of indigocaramine using calcium oxide,  T N Ramesh, A. Ashwini, T N MohanaKumari, D. V. Kirana and Theertha, National Conference on „Challenges and opportunities for chemical sciences in 21st century, 2013, pages 75-83. (ISBN: 978- 81-923301-9-8) Kinetics, thermodynamics and adsorption isotherm of alizarin red  dye using calcium oxide, T N Ramesh, T N MohanaKumari, D. V. Kirana, A. Ashwini and J. M. Prathiba, National Conference on „Challenges and opportunities for chemical sciences in 21st century, 2013, pages 100-108. (ISBN: 978-81-923301-9-8) Adsorption dynamics and equilibrium uptake for the removal of  alizarin red dye using magnesium oxide, T. N. Ramesh, J. M. Prathiba, D. V. Kirana, T. N. MohanaKumari and A. Ashwini, National Conference on „Challenges and opportunities for chemical sciences in 21st century, 2013, pages 113-121. (ISBN: 978-81-923301-9-8); Paper was presented with best poster award. Activated charcoal as an adsorbent for methyl orange dye removal,  T N Ramesh, Omkar Murthy, National Conference on „Biotechnological approaches for sustainable environmental management‟ 2013; pages 94-103. (ISBN: 978-81-923331-7-5) Carbon derived from coconut shell as low cost adsorbent in  removal of methyl orange, T N Ramesh, Omkar Murthy; National Conference on „Biotechnological approaches for sustainable environmental management‟ 2013; pages 94-103. 104-110. (ISBN: 978-81-923331-7-5) Paper was presented with best poster award. Interconversion and polytypic transformation of aminoacids, T N  Ramesh, National conference on „Recent Discoveries in Protein Science‟ held on 31st January 2013 at Karnataka State Higher Education Council, Bangalore, 2013,; Pages 254 (ISBN: 978-81-923331-7-5). Interuniversity subject based conference on materials science,  Mangalore University, Mangalore Ramesh T N, delivered a talk on “Sodium based cathode materials  for energy storage devices‟” during One day seminar on “Discovery and Applications of Innovative Materials” on 13th November 2012 at Karnataka State Higher Education Council, Bangalore. T. N. Ramesh, Removal of water soluble dyes, Department of  Studies and Research in Environmental Science, Tumkur University, Tumkur (2012) T N Ramesh, Structural disorder in layered hydroxides , 22nd June  2013, Centre for Nano and Materials Sciences, Jain University 22 Books 02 Chapters 02 Details Book Materials: Design, synthesis and applications, S. C Sharma, K. S. Girish, H. Nagabushana, R. G Sharathchandra, S. Devaraja, T N Ramesh, Karnataka State Higher Education Council, Bangalore, 2013: (ISBN-978-81-823331-4-4) Book-Edited Modern Aspects of Functional Materials, Editors: Baldevraj, S C Sharma, Wesley Cantwell; Co- Editors: D Shivalingaiah, T N Ramesh and R G Sharathchandra, Tumkur University, 2012 (ISBN: 978-93-82694-08-3) Book Chapters T. N. Ramesh, M. Jayaramu and S Sreenivasa, Nanotechnology in foodscience and nutrition, In: Recent Trends in Food Science & Technology. Tumkur University. P. SadanandaMaiya, Editor-in-Chief (2012) (ISBN 978-93-82694-00-7). T N Ramesh, Sodium based cathode materials for energy storage devices, (chapter) in Discovery and Applications of Innovative Materials. Karnataka State Higher Education Council, Bangalore. K. M. Kaveriappa& S. C. Sharma, editors (2012). (ISBN: 978-81-923301-5-0). 23 Research Publications in Refereed Journals Details Effect of light weight supports on specific discharge capacity of β-nickel hydroxide‟. T. N. Ramesh, R. S. Jayashree, P. V. Kamath, S. Rodrigues and A. K. Shukla, J. Power Sources, 104, 295 (2002).

Disorder in layered hydroxides: DIFFaX simulation of the X-ray powder diffraction patterns of nickel hydroxide‟. T. N. Ramesh, R. S. Jayashree and P. V. Kamath, Clays and Clay Miner., 51, 570 (2003).

The effect of moisture content on the reversible discharge capacity of nickel hydroxide‟. T. N. Ramesh, R. S. Jayashree and P. V. Kamath,J. Electrochem. Soc., 150, 520 (2003).

Ammonia induced precipitation of cobalt hydroxide: observation of turbostratic disorder‟. T. N. Ramesh, M. Rajamathi and P. V. Kamath, Solid State Sciences, 5, (2003)751.

Correlation of structural disorder with the reversible discharge capacity of nickel hydroxide electrode‟. T. N. Ramesh, P. V. Kamath and C. Shivakumara, J. Electrochem. Soc., 152, (2005) 806.

Synthesis of nickel hydroxide: „Effect of precipitation conditions on phase selectivity and structural disorder‟. T. N. Ramesh and P. V. Kamath, J. Power Sources, 156 (2006) 655.

„Classification of stacking faults and their stepwise elimination during the disorder --> order transformation of nickel hydroxide. T. N. Ramesh and P. V. Kamath and C. Shivakumara, Acta.Cryst. B 62, (2006) 532

Anion mediated polytype selectivity in basic salts of Co(II)”. T. N. Ramesh, M. Rajamathi and P. V. Kamath, J. Solid State Chem. 179, (2006) 2386 Planar defects in 'crystalline' -nickel hydroxide‟.layered hydroxides: Simulation and structure refinement, T. N. Ramesh and P. V. Kamath, Mater.Res. Bull. 43 (2008) 3227

The effect of cobalt on the electrochemical performance of -nickel hydroxide electrodes‟. T. N. Ramesh, P. V. Kamath, Electrochim.Acta.53 (2008) 8324

The effect of stacking faults on the electrochemical performance of nickel hydroxide electrodes‟. T. N. Ramesh, P. V. Kamath, Mater. Res. Bull. 43, (2008) 2827. Temperature-induced control over phase selection among hydroxides of nickel. T. N. Ramesh, P. V. Kamath, Bull. Mater. Sci. 31 (2008) 169. Bi2O3 modified cobalt hydroxide as an electrode for alkaline batteries, T. N. Ramesh, P. V. Kamath, Electrochim. Acta. 53 (2008) 4721 Nickel oxyhydroxide/manganese dioxide composite as a candidate electrode material for alkaline secondary cells‟. T. N. Ramesh, P. V. Kamath, J. Power Sources, 175 (2008) 625. The effect of crystallinity and structural disorder on the electrochemical performance of substituted nickel hydroxide electrodes. T. N. Ramesh and P. V. Kamath, J. Solid State Electrochem.13 (2009) 763. Crystallite size effects in stacking faulted nickel hydroxide and its electrochemical behavior. T. N. Ramesh, Mater. Chem. Phys. 114 (2009) 618.

Observation of polytypism among the hydroxysalts of Ni(II) and Co(II). T. N. Ramesh, Inorg.Chem. Comm. 12 (2009) 832

The effect of tap density on the reversible charge storage capacity of nickel hydroxide electrodes. T. N. Ramesh, J. Alloys and Compds. 478 (2009) L12

X-ray diffraction studies on the thermal decomposition mechanism of nickel hydroxide‟. T N Ramesh, J. Phys. Chem. B 113 (2009) 13014

Investigation on the Oxidation Mechanism of Cobalt hydroxide to Cobalt oxyhydroxide, T. N. Ramesh, Ind. and Eng. Chem. Res. 49 (2010) 1530.

Polytypism and Stacking Disorders in Nickel Hydroxide: A First-principles Study, M. N. Tripathi, U. Wagmare, T. N. Ramesh, P. V. Kamath, J. Electrochem. Soc. 157 (2010) A280.

Polytypic transformations during the thermal decomposition of cobalt hydroxide and cobalt hydroxynitrate, T. N Ramesh, J. Solid State Chem. 183 (2010) 1433.

Synthesis and thermal stability study of cobalt hydroxynitrate in different polytypic modifications, T. N. Ramesh, Inorg. Chem. Comm. 14 (2011) 419. Tavorite lithium ironflurophosphate cathode materials: Phase transition and electrochemistry of LiFePO4F-Li2FePO4F. T.N. Ramesh, K. T. Lee, B. L. Ellis and L.F. Nazar, J. Electrochem. Solid State Letters, 13 (2010) A43.

Neutral nanosheets that gel: exfoliated layered double hydroxides in toluene, V. V. Naik, T. N. Ramesh, and S. Vasudevan, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2 (2011) 1193

Diffusion method: A simple technique for the synthesis of layered metal hydroxides, hydroxysalts and oxide hydroxides. T. N. Ramesh, J. Struct. Chem. 52 (2011) 910

The effect of bismuth oxide on the electrochemical performance of nickel hydroxide and manganese dioxide electrodes, T. N. Ramesh, Global J. Phys. Chem. 2 (2011) 338. Topochemical synthesis of sodium metal phosphate olivines for sodium-Ion batteries, K. T. Lee, T. N. Ramesh, F. Nan, G. Botton, L. F. Nazar, Chem. Mater. 23 (2011) 3593 6Li 1D EXSY NMR Spectroscopy: A new tool for studying lithium dynamics in paramagnetic materials applied to monoclinc Li2VPO4F, L J. M. Davis, B. L. Ellis, T. N. Ramesh, L. F. Nazar, A. D. Bain, G. R. Goward, J. Phys. Chem. C, 115 (2011) 22603 Structure and Electrochemistry of Two- tron redox couples in lithium metal fluorophosphates based on the tavorite structure, B. L. Ellis, T. N. Ramesh, L. J. M. Davis, G. R. Goward, L. F. Nazar, Chem. Mater. 23 (2011) 5138 Guang He, J. F. Herbst, T.N. Ramesh, F. E. Pinkerton, M. S. Meyer and Linda Nazar, Investigation of hydrogen absorption in Li7VN4 and Li7MnN4, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 13 (2011) 8889–8893.

Scalable Synthesis of Tavorite LiFeSO4F and NaFeSO4F Cathode Materials, Rajesh Tripathi, T. N. Ramesh, Brian L. Ellis, and Linda F. Nazar, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49 (2010) 8738 –8742. Solvothermal synthesis of electroactive lithium iron tavorites and structure of Li2FePO4F, B. L. Ellis, T. N. Ramesh, W. N. Rowan-Weetaluktuk, D. H. Ryanb and L. F. Nazar, J. Mater. Chem., 22 (2012) 4759.

Polytypic transformations of aluminium hydroxide: A mechanistic investigation, T. N. Ramesh, Particuology, 10 (2012) 359-364. Magnetic properties of  and bc nickel hydroxide polymorphs, T N Ramesh, P. SadanandaMaiya, M Jayaramu, S Sreenivasa, International Journal of Science Research (special issue dedicated to Prof. C N R Rao), 01, 2012, 80-82

Thermal evolution studies of polytypic modifications during thermal decomposition studies of magnesium aluminum based layered double hydroxide, International Journal of Science Research (special issue dedicated to Prof. C N R Rao), 01, 2012, 65-67.

Mechanistic investigation on the effect of anions on the phase formation of nickel hydroxide using pH metric titration, International Journal of Science Research, 01, 2012, 139-141. 24 Research Projects A On going Title of Project Funding Agency Duration Amount Sanctioned 1 Electrochemical supercapacitor VGST-DST, Government of 2 Years 4 lakhs application of layered materials Karnataka 2 Colloidal suspension of Layered University Grants 2 Years 1.4 lakhs double hydroxide-An Commission-Minor Research antimicrobial activity study Project scheme 3 Development of Porous Materials Council of Scientific and 3 Years 11 lakhs for Electrocatalytic and Energy Industrial Research (CSIR) Storage Applications 4 ‟Design And Synthesis Of Department of Science and 3 Years 20 lakhs Lithium/Sodium Based Technology (DST) Polyanionic Framework (Fluorosulphates, Phosphates, Borates And Carbonates) For Electrochemical Charge Storage Applications (sanctioned) B Completed (Student projects) Title of Project Funding Agency Duration Amount Sanctioned 1 Synthesis, anion exchange VGST-DST, Government of 6 Months 0.3 lakh and antimicrobial activity Karnataka studies of layered hydroxysalts 2 Application of groundnut Innovation and Entrepreneurship 6 Months 1 lakh shell, coconut shell, its Development Cell decomposed products for purification of water 3 Removal of water soluble VGST-DST, Government of 6 Months 0.3 lakh dyes using magnesium Karnataka oxide and zinc oxide 25 Membership of Professional Organizations Life Member for Electrochemical Society of India, Bangalore. Swadeshi Vignana Jagarana Andolana, Bangalore Member- Chemical Society, University College of Science, Tumkur University Editorial board member: ISRN Electrochemistry, The Scientific World Journal 26 Official Foreign Visits NIL