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From the Desk of the Vice Chancellor

Greetings!

As the Vice Chancellor of this premier university, I am extremely pleased to share this space to converse with all of you. The University of Madras is a post- sesquicentennial institution which has forged a glorious path for itself and has been the site for significant scientific discoveries as well as the beacon for national and regional societal transformation. It has successfully managed to hold aloft its tradition even while keeping up with the emerging trends. One reason for this is the way in which the university has kept alive its interactions with all the stakeholders.

The COVID 19 pandemic has introduced a ‘new normal’ and its impact is felt in the workings of the university as well. The students have been attending the lectures online. While online learning has the advantage of being anytime and anywhere, it has taken away the peer group interaction and peer learning which are integral aspects of the university experience. We look forward to welcoming you to the campus very soon. Meanwhile, our faculty and administration will continue to bring the best to the virtual classrooms. As students, you need to view the restrictions posed by the pandemic as a temporary deterrent. Your focus should be to gain the competencies to conduct application oriented research in order to evolve as useful citizens of our society.

Our university boasts of faculty with a high degree of knowledge and commitment to offer the best in teaching and research. Given the context of the pandemic, we need to redefine our teaching-learning processes to offer the best pedagogic experience to our students. Similarly, the post-pandemic era demands that we hone the employment potential and entrepreneurial capacity of our learners. This necessitates that we focus on sponsored research in cutting edge areas.

Our administrative staff have been the backbone of the university. While we move towards a transparent and complete e-governance model, we need more support from you. When the teaching-learning process at our university – from admission to certification -- is moving into the digital era, your skills and competencies need to keep pace.

At our university, we are gearing up for the final round of NAAC re-accreditation. This has offered us an opportunity to assess our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges. Further, it has made us more determined to reiterate our quality benchmarks in teaching, research and extension activities. We are aware of this responsibility and fully prepared for it because, our university has always encouraged individual thinking within the established frameworks. This is echoed in the words of Tim Burners Lee, who initiated the World Wide Web: “We are forming cells within a global brain and we are excited that we might start to think collectively. What becomes of us still hangs crucially on how we think individually.” Let us unite to make the educational experience at the University of Madras a synergy of the best minds and best thoughts.

Prof.Dr.S.Gowri

Vice-Chancellor
University of Madras

Dr. B. MuthuraamanPh.D

Assistant Professor and Head i/c
Department of Energy
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Awards

57

Publications

23

Seminars / Conference

8

Projects

0

Ph.D Awarded

0

Ph.D Present

Seminar / Conference

National Seminar Participated

S.No Description Year Held
1

Synthesize and characterization of Zinc-Ferrate air cathode material for Zinc-Air battery applications” this work presented as poster in DST-SERB & CSIR-HRDG Sponsored National conference on “ Nanomaterial’s Driven Advances in Chemical and Biosensors-NanoSe-2022”  held at Alagappa University, Karaikudi during 23-25 March 2022.

2022

International Seminar Participated

S.No Description Year Held
1

 

T. Mohana Selvi, S. Brindha, Mathan Kumar P, Maareswaran .V, Arjunan P, Selvam  R, B. Muthuraaman, S. Austin Suthanthiraraj. Compositional effect of ZrO2 Nanofiller on PCL based Polymer Electrolyte System.  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NANOBIOSENSORS (NBS2022), 29th - 30th Sep 2022, Department of Inorganic Chemistry,University of Madras, Chennai, India. [Best Poster Award 3rd Place].

2002
2

S. Latha, S. Anandan, B. Muthuraaman and P. Maruthamuthu.  “Synthesis of ruthenium polypyridyl complexes and their application as sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells fabricated using TiO2 nanoparticles”. International Seminar on Environmental Biotechnology, ENVIROTECH 2006, 5th – 7th July 2006, Chennai, India.

2006
3

S. Latha, S. Anandan, B. Muthuraaman and P. Maruthamuthu.  “Synthesis of ruthenium polypyridyl complexes and their application as sensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells fabricated using TiO2 nanoparticles”. International Seminar on Environmental Biotechnology, ENVIROTECH 2006, 5th – 7th July 2006, Chennai, India.

2006
4

S. Latha, J. Madhavan, R. Chitra Devi, B. Muthuraaman and P. Maruthamuthu. “Direct Conversion of Solar radiation to electricity by fabricated solar cells using Ruthenium polypyridyl complexes”. Asian Conference on Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 14th – 16th June 2006, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

2006
5

  B. Muthuraaman, S. Ganesan, S. Latha, and P. Maruthamuthu. “Comparative studies of Dye-Sensitized solar cells fabricated with Triazine coordinated Ruthenium (II) complexes using different electrodes”. Asian Conference on Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 14th – 16th June 2006, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

2006
6

B. Muthuraaman, S. Ganesan, S. Latha, P. Maruthamuthu, S. Austin Suthanthiraraj, John Bell and Paul Moonie. “Solid-state nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cell using 2-mercapto benzimidazole doped poly (ethylene oxide) as a new polymer electrolyte”. 3rd International Solar Energy Society Conference, Asia Pacific Region, 25th – 28th November 2008, Sydney, Australia.

2008
7

  B. Muthuraaman, S. Ganesan, P. Maruthamuthu, S. Austin Suthanthiraraj, John Bell and Paul Moonie. “Doped Poly (vinylidene fluoride) as Solid Polymer Electrolyte in Nanocrystalline Dye-sensitized solar cell”. 3rd International Conference on the Industrialisation of DSC (DSC-IC 2009), 22nd - 24th April 2009, Nara, Japan.

2009
8

Paul Moonie, John Bell, B. Muthuraaman, Graeme Evans, Paul Murray.
“The Effects of Sintering Profiles on the Resistance and Flatness of Transparent Conducting Oxide Substrates for DSC”.
3rd International Conference on the Industrialisation of DSC (DSC-IC 2009), 22nd – 24th April 2009, Nara, Japan.

2009
9

  B. Muthuraaman, Hongxia Wang, John Bell, Geoffrey Will and Paul Moonie.

“Increased charge transfer of PEO based polymer electrolyte by small molecule and its applications in dye solar cells”. 4th International Conference on
the Industrialisation of DSC (DSC-IC 2010), 2nd - 4th November 2010,
Colorado Springs, United States of America.

2010
10

B. Muthuraaman, E. Viswanathan, N. Vlachopoulos, M. Safdari, J. Gao, J. M. Gardner and L. Kloo. “Quasi-liquid polymer-based cobalt redox mediator electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cells”. HOPV-13, 6th – 8th May 2013, Seville, Spain.

2013
11

J. Gao, B. Muthuraaman, M. Safdari, H. Tian, J. M. Gardner and L. Kloo. “Highly stable and efficient dye-sensitized solar cells using cobalt-based ionic liquid mixture electrolyte”. HOPV-13, 6th – 8th May 2013, Seville, Spain.

2013
12

Lars Kloo, Jiajia Gao, Muthuraaman Bhagavathi Achari, Jiayan Cong. Strategies to improve the performance of one-electron redox systems in electrolytes for dye-sensitized solar cells. 16th March, 2014, Dallas, United States of America, 247th ACS National Meeting and Exposition.

2014
13

Rajagopal P, Mathan Kumar P, Yesu Raj J, Muthuraaman B. Effect of Sintering Temperature on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. 2nd International Conference on Advance in New materials (ICAN-2018), 9th June 2018, Chennai, India

2018
14

Rajagopal P, Mathan Kumar P, Yesu Raj J, Muthuraaman B. Effect of Sintering Temperature on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. 2nd International Conference on Advance in New materials (ICAN-2018), 9th June 2018, Chennai, India

2018
15

 

Muthuraaman B. Polymer electrolyte for Dye Sensitized Solar Cell, ICAMBF 2019, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, October, 2019, Solo, Indonesia.

2019
16

Muthuraaman B. Advanced materials for better future, ICAMBF 2020, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, October, 2020, Solo, Indonesia

2020
17

 

Rajagopal P, Mathan Kumar P, Yesu Raj J, Muthuraaman B. Investigation of Transition Metal Tungstate MWO4 (M = Cu, Zn, Mn, Co) as a Counter Electrodes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs). ICACSEM-2020, 9th -10th Jan 2020. Chennai, India

 

2020
18

 

T. Mohana Selvi, S. Brindha, and Muthuraaman B. Effect of CeO2 filler for improved Zinc ion transportation in Nanocomposite Polymer Electrolytes. ICASEM 2022, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Madras, 28th – 29th March 2022, India.

2022
19

 

S. Brindha, T. Mohana Selvi, and Muthuraaman B. Investigation on Structural and AC Impedance Studies of Nanocomposites Polymer Electrolyte System. ICASEM 2022, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Madras, 28th – 29th March 2022, India.

2022
20

 

Superior Ionic Transfer Polymer Composite Separator cum Electrolytes for Eco-Friendly Secondary Zinc-Air Batteries. P. Arjunan, B. Muthuraaman. ICASEM 2022, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Madras, 28th – 29th March 2022, India.

2022
21

 

Brindha. S, Mohana Selvi. T, Mathan Kumar. P, Mareeswaran.V, Arjunan. P, Selvam. R, Muthuraaman, B, Austin Suthanthiraraj. S. Investigation on Structural and Electrochemical behavior of PCL based Polymer Electrolyte for its application in Energy Storage Device. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NANOBIOSENSORS (NBS2022), 29th - 30th Sep 2022, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Madras, Chennai, India,  [Best Poster Award 1st Place]

2022
22

Superionic transfer  solid state polymer membrane for Zinc-Air battery applications.  2nd ICACSEM-2022, School of Chemical sciences in University of Madras, Chennai, during 28-29 March 2022.

2022
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