RESEARCH INTERESTS

Organic (opto-) electronics: Resistive memories, chemical/optical sensors, Electrochemical, ionic and charge storage devices

Education

September 2013 to November 2017: PhD, Materials chemistry, School of Engineering (Electrical and Bio-medical), RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Thesis: 1,4-Dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrroles as active components for electronic and opto-electronic applications

June 2010 to April 2012: M.Sc. (Chemistry) Sri Sathya Sai University, Prashanti nilayam, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India
May 2007 to April 2010: B.Sc. Chemistry Honours, Sri Sathya Sai University, Prashanti nilayam, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, India

Research Experience

C.V. Raman Research Fellow
March 1st 2020 – August 31st, 2020
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSSCU)
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
Project(s): Redox Flow batteries, Electrochemical and Ionic devices

Research Scientist
August 1st 2020 – February 28th, 2021
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSSCU)
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
Project(s): Electrochemical neuromorphic devices

Post-doctoral researcher
April 01st 2018 – May 26th, 2020
Switchable Molecules and Materials (SMM) Group
Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB),
CNRS-University of Bordeaux, LabEx-AMADEus, Cluster for excellence
Project: Polymer spin crossover nanocomposites for organic electronics application

Research and development specialist
June 2017 to August 2017
School of Engineering, RMIT, Australia

Graduate Trainee
Jan 2013 to August 2013
Centre for Solar Energy Materials,
International Advanced Research Centre for Metallurgy and New materials (ARCI), India
Project: Electro-deposition of CZTS thin film photovoltaic absorber layers

Publications

• Ahmad Esmaielzadeh Kandjani, Ylias Mohammad Sabri, Victoria Elizabeth Coyle, Christopher J Harrison, Dilek Korcoban, Ram Kumar C B, Lathe A Jones, Matthew R Field and Suresh Kumar K. Bhargava. Long-ranged ordered Titania/Au hallow urchins: Topology control for maskless electrodeposition. Accepted in J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA07615E IF: 11.30
•  S.A.A.H.R. Sulthan, Ahmad E. Kandjani, Christopher J. Harrison, Ram Kumar C.B., Ylias M.Sabri, Suresh K. Bhargava, Antonio Tricoli, Wojtek Wlodarski, Samuel J. Ippolito. Zinc titanate nanoarrays with superior opto-electrochemical properties for chemical sensing. 2019. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Status: Accepted DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b08704 IF:8.76
• Lorenzo Poggini, Mathieu Gonidec, Ram Kumar C.B., Lorenzo Squillantini, Gilles Pecastaings, Andrea Caneschi and Patrick Rosa. Temperature-induced transport changes in molecular junctions based on a Spin Crossover complex. Accepted. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C8TC06587J IF: 7.1
• Jonnalagadda Gopinath, Ram Kumar C.B., Vundadi Santosh, Sanjay Kumar Swami, D. Kishore Kumar, Saral K Gupta, Viresh Dutta, Kakarla Raghava Reddy, Veera Sadhu, Annadanam V. Sesha Sainath, Tejraj M. Aminabhavi. Novel anisotropic ordered polymeric materials based on metallopolymer precursors as dye sensitized solar cells, Chem. Eng. J. 2019, 358, 1166–1175.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2018.10.090. IF:10.65
• Ram Kumar C.B., Ahmad Esmaielzadeh Kandjani, Lathe Jones, Selvakannan R. Perisamy, Suresh K. Bhargava, Ramanuj Narayan, Samuel J. Ippolito, and Pratyay Basak. Nanostructured Fused Pyrrole Thin Films: Encoding Nano “Bits” with Temporary Remanence. Adv. Elec. Materials 4(8), 2018, 1700626., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201700626 IF: 6.6