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Name: Dr. Varadharajan Srinivasan
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Chemistry
E-Mail: vardha@iiserbhopal.ac.in
Phone: +91-755-4092317
Fax: +91-755-4092392
Academic Profile:
- Assistant Professor (February 2010-),Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
- Post-doc (Sep. 2009-Dec. 2009) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
- Post-Doc (Jan. 2007-Aug. 2009) University of California, Berkeley, CA.
- Ph.D. Chemistry (2001- 2006) Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
Research Interest:
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Electronic, optical and structural properties of materials for renewable energy conversion and storage such as solar cells and fuels.
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Chemical and physical phenomena at the nanoscale.
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Electronic structure at solid surfaces and interfaces.
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Electronic and structural phase transitions in the solid state.
- Excited state dynamics in photochemical systems.
Selected Publications:
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J. Cao, E. Ertekin, Varadharajan Srinivasan, W. Fan, S. Huang, H. Zheng, J. W. L. Yim,D. R. Khanal, D. F. Ogletree, J. C. Grossman, and J. Wu, “Strain engineering and
one-dimensional organization of metal-insulator domains in single crystal VO2 beams” Nature Nanotechnology Nature Nanotechnology 4, 732 (2009).
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Varadharajan Srinivasan, Giancarlo Cicero, and Jeffrey C. Grossman, “Adsorption-induced surface stresses in alkanethiolate-Au self-assembled monolayers” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 185504 (2008).
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J. Morrone, Varadharajan Srinivasan, Daniel Sebastiani, and Roberto Car, “The ProtonMomentum Distribution in Water: An Open Path Integral Molecular Dynamics Study”, J.Chem. Phys. 126, 234504 (2007).
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