Jayamurugan Govindasamy
Assistant Professor
Department of Science and Technology
Institute of Nanotechnology
India
Biography
Educational Qualification: Ph.D.: Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India (2003-2009) M.Sc.: Organic Chemistry (specialization), University of Madras, Chennai, India (2001-2003) B.Sc.: University of Madras, India (1998-2001) Research Career: : Assistant Professor (Scientist-D): Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, India; June 2015 onwards. Postdoctoral Research Associate (January 2013-May 2015): University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. (PI: Prof. Jonathan R. Nitschke). Postdoctoral Fellow (January 2010-December 2012): ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. (PI: Prof. François Diederich) Research Associate (April 2009-December 2009): Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (PI: Prof. N. Jayaraman) Awards/Fellowships: 2016 Ramanujan Fellowship awarded by DST-SERB-five year research grant (2016-2021). 2016 Early Career Research (ECR) Award by SERB-three year research grant (2016-2019). 2012 Two and half year’s post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by EPSRC at University of Cambridge. 2010 Three years post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by European Research Council (ERC) at ETH-Zurich. 2005 Awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by Council of Scientific Industrial Research. 2003 Secured second place in State level inter collegiate P. G. quiz competition. 2003 Qualified in national eligibility test “CSIR-NET-2003”. Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by Council of Scientific Industrial Research. 2002 Secured 95.5 percentile in national level Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering “GATE-2002”.
Research Interest
Functional Nanomaterials: Development of new methods for the synthesis of highly branched functional nanomaterials as smart vehicles for Drug/Antibody/Gene delivery applications with following goals of cheap, easy to synthesis and versatile system. Framework Materials: Synthesis and studies of porous covalent-organic (COF) and metal-organic framework materials (MOF) based on supramolecular chemistry approach and its applications in view of energy storage, catalysis, bio-sensing, and photovoltaic applications. Donor-Acceptor Compounds: Synthesis and studies of new class of potential push-pull chromophores for optoelectronic, sensing, and high energy related applications.
Publications
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M. L. Böhm, T. C. Jellicoe, J. P. H. Rivett, A. Sadhanala, N. J. L. K. Davis, F. S. F. Morgenstern, K. C. Gödel, G. Jayamurugan, C. G. M. Benson, N. C. Greenham, B. Ehrler, “Size and Energy Level Tuning of Quantum Dot Solids via a Hybrid Ligand Complex†J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 3510−3514.
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G. Jayamurugan, V. Gowri, D. Hernández, S. Martin, A. González-Orive, C. Dengiz, O. Dumele, F. Pérez-Murano, J.-P. Gisselbrecht, C. Boudon, W. B. Schweizer, B. Breiten, A. D. Finke, G. Jeschke, B. Bernet, L. Ruhlmann, P. Cea, F. Diederich, “Design and Synthesis of Aviram–Ratner-Type Dyads and Rectification Studies in Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) Filmsâ€, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 10539-10547. (selected as Hot paper)
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G. Jayamurugan, N. Jayaraman, “Synthesis of large generation poly(propyl ether imine) (PETIM) dendrimersâ€, Tetrahedron 2006, 62, 9582–9588.
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C. Jana, G. Jayamurugan, R. Ganapathy, P. K. Maiti, N. Jayaraman, A. K. Sood, “Structure of poly(propyl ether imine) dendrimer from fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulation and by small angle X-ray scatteringâ€, J. Chem. Phys. 2006, 124, 204719/1–204719/10.
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G. Jayamurugan, C. P. Umesh, N. Jayaraman, “Inherent photoluminescence properties of poly(propyl ether imine) dendrimersâ€, Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 9–12.
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G. Jayamurugan, C. P. Umesh, N. Jayaraman, “Preparation and catalytic studies of palladium nanoparticles stabilized by a dendritic ligand-functionalized Silicaâ€, J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2009, 307, 142–148.
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G. Jayamurugan, N. Jayaraman, “Increased efficacies of an individual catalytic site in clustered multivalent dendritic catalystsâ€, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2009, 351, 2379–2390.
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U. P. Thankappan, S. N. Madhusudana, A. Desai, G. Jayamurugan, Y. B. R. D. Rajesh, N. Jayaraman, “Dendritic poly(ether imine) based gene delivery vectorâ€, Bioconjugate Chem. 2011, 22, 115–119.
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G. Jayamurugan, K. S. Vasu, Y. B. R. D. Rajesh, S. Kumar, V. Vasumathi, P. K. Maiti, A. K. Sood, N. Jayaraman, “Interaction of single-walled carbon nanotubes with poly(propyl ether imine) dendrimersâ€, J. Chem. Phys. 2011, 134, 104507/1–104507/6.
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G. Jayamurugan, J.-P. Gisselbrecht, C. Boudon, F. Schoenebeck, W. B. Schweizer, B. Bernet, F. Diederich, “Expanding the chemical space for push-pull chromophores by non-concerted [2+2] and [4+2] cycloadditions: access to a highly functionalized 6,6-dicyanofulvene with an intense low-energy charge–transfer bandâ€, Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 4520–4522.
