Dr. S. Manivannan

Biography

Dr. S. Manivannan received his Ph.D., from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India in the year 2006. He completed postdoctoral research in the Department of Information Display & Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. His research area of interest includes on carbon nanotubes, graphene, gas sensors, organic and semi-organic nonlinear optical (NLO) materials and polymer composites. He joined as a faculty in Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli on December 2008. To his credit, Dr.Manivannan published about 43 papers in peer reviewed international journals and 62 papers in national/international conference proceedings/abstracts and successfully completed a sponsored research project. Currently, he has two sponsored research projects from CSIR and DRDO, India and filed two Indian patents. He also received Junior and Senior Research Fellowships from DST and CSIR. He is the recipient of Brain Korea 21 postdoctoral fellowship during the year 2007-2008. He won many best paper awards, notably from European Materials Research Society in the year 2008, session’s best presentation award from International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2016 at Colombo, Sri Lanka, IUMRS-ICYRAM 2016 at IISc, Bangalore. He has been honored with faculty achiever’s award at NIT, Tiruchirappalli in the year 2017. He received Young Scientist Research Grant of Rs.20.00 lakhs from DST, India in the year 2010.

Research Interest

Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs), Transparent Conducting Films, Organic and Semiorganic Nonlinear Optical Materials, Sensors and Display Materials