Nano Science and Materials for Renewable Energy

Influence and Lithium doping on orange emission in Mn.-doped ZnO, T.Anto Johny, and V.Kumar, J.Mat.Sci.: Mat. Elec.,25(3)1456-59(2014)

1. Transverse piezoelectric properties of {100}- oriented PLZT[x/65/35] thin films, S. Laxmipriya, V. Kumar* , Fumiya Kurokawa , Isaku Kanno, Mat. Chem. and Phys.151,308(2015)

1. Influence of Fe³⁺ substitution on the dielectric and ferroelectric characteristics of Lead Indium Niobate, A.S. Divya and V.Kumar, J. Alloys Compounds, 637,426-430(2015).

Influence of lithium doping on the correlated ferromagnetic ordering and red shift of band gap in weakly Mn.-doped ZnO nanoparticles, M.K. Satheesan and Viswanathan Kumar, J.Mater.Sci:Mater.Electron. DOI:10.1007/s10854-016-4595-1

Titania Nanotube Arrays surface- modified with ZnO for enhanced photocatalytic applications, N.Manoj, K.V.Vijila, K.V.Baiju and V.Kumar, Mat.Res.Bull.77,35-40(2016)

Pd loaded TiO₂ nanotubes for the effective catalytic reduction of p-nitrophenol, Divya C.M.; Vijila Kalarivalappil; Wilfried Wunderlich; Suresh Pillai; Steven Hinder; Viswanathan Kumar, K.V.Baiju , Cat.Lett. 146,474-82(2016)

Stability studies of PbS sensitised TiO2 nanotube arrays for visible light photocatalytic applications by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)  Materials science in semiconductor Processing     N.B.Rahna, Vijila Kalarivalappil, Manoj Nageri, Suresh.C.Pillai, Steven. J. Hinder. V.Kumar, Baiju.K.Vijayan, Volume 42, Part 3, February 2016,  Pages 303-310

V Vinith, K R Sumesh, Abhisekh Chowdhury, Pooja Bhaskar M, Vasanth Mohan, Athul Krishnan MB, N Rani Panicker, P A Abraham, K Stanley Jacob and N C Pramanik*, “Supercapacitor based Smart Solar Emergency Lighting System”, — 7^th National Conference on “New & Renewable Energy Technology (NRET 2016)”, held at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore (April 22, 2016)

J Vigneshwaran, Swathy K S, Nisha K S, Pooja Bhaskar M, Abhisekh Chowdhury, N Rani Panicker, P A Abraham, Shantanu Das and N C Pramanik*, “Preparation of high surface area porous carbon from banana stem fibre for EDLC electrode applications”, — 7^th National Conference on “New & Renewable Energy Technology (NRET 2016)”, held at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore (April 22, 2016)

Swathy K. S, P A Abraham, Rani Panicker N, S Rajashekaran,  N C Pramanik and  Stanly Jacob. K, “Titania aerogel based photo anodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” — Int’l Conference on “Cochin NANO 2016”, held at Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin (February 21-23, 2016) Received Best Paper presentation Award