Balasubramanian Sundaram
Professor
Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
India
Biography
Balasubramanian Sundaram worked as: Since November 2009: Professor, Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India; May 2004-November 2009: Associate Professor, Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India; Aug 1998-May 2004: Faculty Fellow (Assistant Professor), Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India; July 1994-July 1998: Post doctoral research fellow at the Center for Molecular Modeling, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US, with Professor M.L. Klein; 1988-1994: Doctoral thesis on "Molecular dynamics studies of structure and transport in some inorganic glasses" at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. (Thesis Advisor: Professor K.J. Rao); 1986-1988: Master of Science in Physics at the University of Pune, Pune, India (University of Poona-TIFR Joint Program) 1983-1986: Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) in Applied Sciences, Anna University, Chennai (Madras), India; 1981-1983: Higher Secondary, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Higher Secondary School (Main), Thyaagaraaya Nagar, Chennai (Madras), India; 1977-1981: SSLC, Saint Thomas Higher Secondary School, Butt Road, Chennai (Madras), India.
Research Interest
Balasubramanian Sundaram research interest include Room Temperature Ionic Liquids, Framework Solids, Development of Monte Carlo Codes for Gas Adsorption Studies, Understanding Mechanisms of Supramolecular Aggregation, Computer Simulations of Biological Systems, Carbonic Acid, Computer Simulations of Hydrocarbons under Extreme Conditions, Computer Simulations of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (a Green solvent).
Publications
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P Ray, S Bonakala, S. Balasubramanian, Modelling adsorption in fluorinated TKL MOFs (weblink), Molecular Simulation, 43, 213 - 221 (2017).
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Karteek K. Bejagam , RC Remsing , Michael L. Klein , and S. Balasubramanian, Understanding the self-assembly of amino ester-based benzene-1, 3, 5-tricarboxamides using molecular dynamics simulations (weblink), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19, 258 - 266 (2017).
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Sudip Das, Anirban Mondal and S. Balasubramanian, Recent Advances in Modeling Green Solvents, Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 5, 37 - 43 (2017).
