Scientific Officer - H+ with over 36 years of R&D experience in the field of Material Science. I superannuated in May 2021 as Associate Director, Accelerator and Nanoscience Group (A&NG), Material Science Group (MSG), IGCAR and Professor, HBNI. Looking forward to putting my vast experience and expertise to good use.
Date of Birth: 30/05/1961
E-Mail Id: m.kamruddin@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-kamruddin-a5638366
I headed two R&D divisions, namely, Materials Physics Division (MPD) carrying out high energy accelerator based research on reactor materials, their characterization by nuclear techniques supported by simulations and theoretical studies and Surface and Nanoscience Division (SND) specializing on Nanostructured materials studies, tuning their surface, structure and properties for technological applications like hard coatings, energy harvesting & storage, sensing etc. My responsibility was planning, guiding and execution of research activities of more than 60 scientific & technical staff and about 20 PhD students, their performance evaluation, project & capital budget proposals, following expenditure and financial commitments, procurement of state of the art research equipment and setting up of research laboratories with associated infrastructure. As professor, HBNI, I was Co-Chairman of Chemical Sciences Committee, Member of Physical Sciences Committee, Chairman and member of many doctoral committees and guided Ph.D, M.Phil, M.Tech and M.Sc., students.
Some of my achievements are:
In addition to being Associate Director of A&NG, I was the Head of Materials Physics Division (MPD) responsible for directing, guiding and executing research activities on irradiation response of reactor core & structural materials and potential nuclear waste storage materials.
Some of my achievements are:
I headed the Surface and Nanoscience Division (SND) of MSG and Thin Films and Coatings section (TFCS) of SND. I was responsible for planning, co-ordination and execution of research activities, following up and reviewing of capital budget spending and projections.
Some of my achievements are:
As Head of Nanomaterials & Characterization Section (NCS) in SND, I was responsible for planning, coordination and execution of research activities, following up and reviewing the capital budget spending and projections.
Some of my achievements are:
As a member of SSS, I initiated and carried out research activities on nanocrystalline & nanostructured materials, set up laboratories for their controlled synthesis, investigation of reaction mechanism & kinetics and their nanoscale characterisation using multi mode scanning probe microscope (SPM), Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscope (SNOM) with HR spectrometer and Field emission SEM.
Some of my achievements are:
Under bilateral collaborative initiative, I was invited to work as a Guest scientist at Forschungzentrum, Juelich. I worked on developing rare earth (RE) substituted high temperature thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) for turbine applications. Investigated the effect of RE ion addition on the microstructure, adhesion and high temperature oxidation properties TiAl based TBCs.
Under bilateral collaborative initiative, I was invited to work as a Guest scientist at Forschungszentrum, Juelich and worked on developing suitable bond coat material for high temperature thermal barrier coatings for turbine applications.
Carried out research on micro-gamma scanning, micro sampling of active material and setting up associated instrumentation & computer interfaces and programming for their remote operation.
IAEA Training on Gamma ray Spectroscopy at Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
Multi-disciplinary Training at Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai
Chairman, Doctoral Committee (HBNI):
14: Physical Sciences
6: Chemical Sciences
2: Engineering Sciences
Member, Doctoral Committee:
22: HBNI, Kalpakkam
6: SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
2: BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
1: National Institute of Technology, Puducherry
2: Central University of Tamil Nadu,Thiruvarur.
M.Phil., M.Tech and M.Sc Projects supervised: about 30
Google Scholar citations: 1711 (Since 2017)
i10 index: 49
h-index: 22
1. Effects of Grain Size and Crystallographic Orientation on the Thermal Stability of Electrodeposited Nanocrystalline Nickel: X-ray diffraction studies, Julie, S, Wasekar, Nitin P; Parida, Pradyumna Kumar, Santra, Sumita; David, C.; Kamruddin, M., Thin Solid Films, 745 (2022) 139114, DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2022.139114 (AF : 2.2)
2. Engineering the edge-terminations and defect-density to enhance the electrochemical capacitance performance of vertical graphene nanosheets, S. R. Polaki, Gopinath Sahoo, N. G. Krishna, and M. Kamruddin, Applied Surface Science, 546 (2021) 149045(IF:6.2)
3. Structural properties of TiN thin films prepared by RF reactive magnetron sputtering, Author links open overlay panel, R.Dhanaraj, S.B.Mohamed, M.Kamruddin, K.Kaviyarasu and P.A.Manojkumar, Materials Today – Proc.,36, (2), 2021, 146
4. Synergetic effect of NiOx decoration and oxygen plasma treatment on electrochemical capacitor performance of vertical graphene nanosheets, Sahoo, Gopinath; Polaki, S R; Pazhedath, Anees; Krishna, D. Nanda; Mathews, Tom and Kamruddin, Mohammed, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 4 (1) 2021, 791 https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c02683, (I.F = 4.47)
5. Development of instrumentation and automation of a versatile PC based field emission measurement set up, K.Suresh, J.Navas, B.Sundaravel, Jagnaseni Pradhan, C.David, R.Govindaraj, M.Kamruddin, B.K.Panigrahi and Shaju.K.Albert, Journal of Instrumentation, 15 (2020) 11009, (IF:1.366)
6. Electrochemical properties of vertically aligned graphenes: tailoring heterogeneous electron transfer through manipulation of the carbon microstructure, Garcia-Miranda Ferrari, Alejandro, Mohammed, Kamruddin and Banks, Craig, Nanoscale Advances, 2, 2020. 5319 (IF : 7.23)
7. Geometrically Controlled Au Decorated ZnO Heterojunction Nanostructures for NO2 Detection, Ponnuvelu, Dinesh; Dhakshinamoorthy, Jayaseelan; Prasad, Arun; Dhara, Sandip; Kamruddin, Mohammed; Pullithadathil, Biji, ACS Applied Nano Materials (2020) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.0c01053 (IF : 5.1)
8. Development of a PC based virtual instrument automation of ion beam analysis and ion implantation experiments", K.Suresh, J.Navas, B.Sundaravel, Jagnaseni Pradhan, C.David, R.Govindaraj, M.Kamruddin and Shaju K Albert, Journal of Instrumentation, 15 (2020) 05008, (IF:1.37)
9. Electrical Tunability of Surface Tension of Vertical Graphene Nanosheets, Akbari, Mahmood; Kamruddin, Mohammed; Morad, Razieh and Maaza, Malik; MRS Advances (2020), 1-8
10. Synthesis of silicon nanowalls exhibiting excellent antireflectivity and near super-hydrophobicity, AK Behera, RN Viswanath, C Lakshmanan, T Mathews, M Kamruddin, Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects 21 (2020), 100424 (IF : 5.5)
11. Engineering high-defect densities across vertically-aligned graphene nanosheets to induce photocatalytic reactivity, Ludovic Dumée, Albert Guirguis; Shyam Polaki; Gopinath Sahoo; Subrata Gosh; Mohammed Kamruddin; Andrea Merenda; Xiao Chen; James Maina; Gyorgy Szekely; CARBON, 168 (2020) 32 – 41, (IF: 8.82)
12. Characterization of Vertically-Oriented Graphene Nanosheets Grown on Copper Substrate, Materials Today: Proceedings (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.03.305
13. Structural properties of TiN thin films prepared by RF reactive magnetron sputtering, R.Dhanaraj, S.B.Mohamed, M.Kamruddin, K.Kaviyarasu and P.A.Manojkumar, Materials Today Proc.,(2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.02.668 (IF : 1.5)
14. Synthesis of silicon nanowalls exhibiting excellent antireflectivity and near super-hydrophobicity, Anil K. Behera, R. N. Viswanath, C. Lakshmanan, Tom Mathews, M. Kamruddin, Nano-structures & Nano-Objects, 21, 20, 100424, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoso.2020.100424 (IF : 4.25)
15. Electrochemical capacitor performance of TiO2 decorated vertical graphene nanosheets electrode", Gopinath Sahoo, S R Polaki, N G Krishna, and M Kamruddin, JPhysD-Appl. Phys. 52 (2019) 375501 (IF: 3.17)
16. Insights into the electrochemical capacitor performance of transition metal-vertical graphene nanosheets hybrid electrodes, Gopinath Sahoo, S R Polaki, P. Anees, Subrata Ghosh, Sandip Dhara and M. Kamruddin, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(2019) 25196 (IF: 3.6)
17. Influence of Particulate on Surface Energy and Mechanical Property of Diamond-like Carbon Films Synthesized by Pulsed Laser Deposition, M.Panda, R.Krishnan, kishore Kumar Madapu, Padmalochan Panda, Madhusmita Sahoo, R. Ramaseshan, Tripura Sundari and Mohammed Kamruddin, Applied Surface Science, 484 (2019) 1176, 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.04.097 (IF:6.2)
18. Development of a Dual Ion Irradiation Platform for Studies of Radiation Response in Fission and Fusion Reactor Materials, K. Suresh, S. Balaji, S. Chinnathambi, Sachin Srivastava, J.Navas, Julie S, P. Magudapathy ,C. David, B.K. Panigrahi, R. Govindaraj, M. Kamruddin, G. Amarendra, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, B 447, 2019, 92 (IF: 1.34)
19. Tuning the tribological property of PLD deposited DLC-Au nanocomposite thin films, M.Panda, R.Krishnan, N.G, .Krishna S.Amirthapandian, P.Magudapathy, M.Kamruddin, Ceramics International, 45, (7) 2019, 8847 (IF : 3.6)
20. Synthesis, microstructure and visible luminescence properties of vertically aligned lightly doped porous silicon nanowalls, Anil K. Behera, R.N. Viswanath, C. Lakshmanan, K.K. Madapu, M. Kamruddin, Tom Mathews, Microporous & Mesoporous Materials 273 (2019) 99 (IF: 4.5)
21. Role of microstructure and structural disorder on tribological properties of polycrystalline diamond films, P.K. Ajikumar, K. Ganesan, N. Kumar,T.R. Ravindran, S. Kalavathi, M. Kamruddin, Appd Surf Sci., 469 (2019) 10 (IF:6.2)
22. Aging Effects on Vertical Graphene Nanosheets and their Thermal Stability, Subrata Ghosh, S.R. Polaki, P. K. Ajikumar, Nanda Gopala Krishna and M. Kamruddin, Indian Journal of Physics 92 (3) 337, 2018
23. Designing Metal Oxide-Vertical Graphene Nanosheets Structures for 2.6 V Aqueous Asymmetric Electrochemical Capacitor, Gopinath Sahoo, Jung Sang Cho, Kamruddin Md, Subrata Ghosh, En Mei Jin, S R Polaki, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (2018), 10.1016/j.jiec.2018.12.008 (IF : 5)
24. Temporal-stability of plasma functionalized vertical graphene electrodes for charge storage, Gopinath Sahoo, S. R. Polaki, Subrata Ghosh, N. G. Krishna and M. Kamruddin, Journal of Power Sources 401 (2018) 37 (IF: 8.24)
25. Influence of nitrogen on the growth of vertical graphene nanosheets under plasma, Subrata Ghosh, S. R. Polaki, Nanda Gopala Krishna and M. Kamruddin, J Mater Sci 53 (2018) 7316 (IF : 3.4)
26. Plasma-electric field controlled growth of oriented graphene for energy storage applications, Subrata Ghosh, S R Polaki, M Kamruddin, Sang Mun Jeong and Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 51 (2018) 145303 (IF: 2.72)
27. Plasma-tuneable oxygen functionalization of vertical graphenes enhanced electrochemical capacitor performance, Gopinath Sahoo, S.R. Polaki, Subrata Ghosh, N.G. Krishna, M. Kamruddin and Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov, Energy Storage Materials, 14 (2018) 297-305 (IF: 16.28)
28. Enhanced tribo-chemical properties of oxygen functionalized mechanically exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride nanolubricant additives, Jayakrushna Sahu, Kalpataru Panda, Bhavana Gupta, Niranjan Kumar, P.A. Manojkumar and M. Kamruddin, Materials Chemistry and Physics 207 (2018) 412- 422 (IF: 3.4)
29. Supercapacitive vertical graphene nanosheets in aqueous electrolytes, Subrata Ghosh, Tom Mathews, Bhavana Gupta, A Das, Nanda Gopala Krishna, M Kamruddin, Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects, 10 (2017) 42-57 (IF : 4.25)
30. Scalable Transfer of Vertical Graphene Nanosheets for Flexible Supercapacitor Applications", Sahoo, Gopinath; Ghosh, Subrata; Polaki, S; Mathews, Tom; Kamruddin, M, Nanotechnology, 28 (2017) 415702, (IF: 3.55) India “Top Cited paper award 2017-2019”, IOP Publishing
31. PFM studies of Hydroxyapatite-Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite, A. Rajesh, T. N. Sairam, P. K. Sahoo, M. Kamruddin, and G. Mangamma, FERROELECTRICS, 519, 2017, 164–169, https://doi.org/10.1080/00150193.2017.1361252
32. Enhanced supercapacitance of activated vertical graphene nanosheets in hybrid electrolyte, Subrata Ghosh, Gopinath Sahoo, S. R. Polaki, Nanda Gopala Krishna, M. Kamruddin, and Tom Mathews, Journal of Applied Physics, 122, (2017) 214902 (AF : 2.88)
33. Ferroelectric and Dielectric Behavior of Samarium-Substituted Bi4Ti3O12 Nanomaterials Synthesized by Gel Combustion Method, V Selvamurugan, A Marikani, G Mangamma, D Madhavan, M Kamruddin, Sitaram Dash, AK Tyagi, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals 70 (4),(2017) 903
34. Microwave plasma induced surface modification of diamond-like carbon films, Shyamala Rao Polaki, Niranjan Kumar, Nanda Gopala Krishna, Kishore Madapu, Mohamed Kamruddin, Sitaram Dash and Ashok Kumar Tyagi, 2017 Surf. Topogr.: Metrol. Prop. 5 045005 https://doi.org/10.1088/2051-672X/aa806f (IF : 2.4)
35. Identification of polar and nonpolar faces in ZnO nanostructures using conductive atomic force microscopy, P. K. Sahoo, G. Mangamma, A. Rajesh, M. Kamruddin and S. Dash, Ferroelectrics, 519 (2017) 157
36. Highly Sensitive, Atmospheric Pressure Operatable Sensors Based on Au Nanoclusters Decorated TiO2@Au Heterojunction Nanorods for Trace Level NO2 Gas Detection, Dinesh Veeran Ponnuvelu, Biji P, Arun K Prasad, Sandip Dhara, Kamruddin Mohamed, Ashok K Tyagi, and Baldev Raj, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 28 (2017) 9738 (IF : 2.48)
37. The role of substrate bias and nitrogen doping on the structural evolution and local elastic modulus of diamond-like carbon films" by Polaki, S; Ganesan, karuppiah; Srivastava, S K; Kamruddin, M; Tyagi, A, JPhysD - Appl. Phys. 50 (2017) 175601 (IF : 3.4)
38. Physicochemical Properties of Nanocomposite: Hydroxyapatite in Reduced Graphene Oxide, A Rajesh, G Mangamma, T.N Sairam, S Subramanian, S Kalavathi, M Kamruddin, S Dash, Materials Science & Engg C, 76 (2017) 203 (IF : 7.33)
39. Robust water repellent ZnO nanorod array by Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation: Effect of Electronic Excitation Induced Local Chemical State Modification, Kugalur Shanmugam Ranjith, Lalitha Raveendran Nivedita, Kandasami Asokan, Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Ramanathaswamy Pandian, Mohammed Kamruddin, Devesh Kumar Avasthi & Ramasamy Thangavelu Rajendra Kumar, Scientific Reports | 7: 3251 (IF : 4)
40. Process-specific Mechanisms of Vertically Oriented Graphene Growth in Plasmas, Subrata Ghosh, Shyamal R. Polaki, Niranjan Kumar, Sankarakumar Amirthapandian, Mohamed Kamruddin and Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 8 (2017) 1658 – 1670 (IF : 2.6)
41. A route towards controlling the morphology of vertical graphene nanosheets, Subrata Ghosh, K. Ganesan, S.R. Polaki, M. Kamruddin and A.K. Tyagi, arXiv:1603.08322 2016
42. Influence of aqueous electrolytes on electrochemical performance of vertical graphene nanosheets supercapacitor electrode, Subrata Ghosh, B. Gupta, Tom Mathews, A. Das and M. Kamruddin, arXiv:1603.08320 2016
43. Ferroelectric and dielectric behavior of samarium substituted bi4ti3o12, Nanomaterials synthesized by gel combustion method, V.Selvamurugan, A.Marikani, G.Mangamma, D.Madhavan, M.Kamruddin, Sitaram Dash, and A.K. Tyagi, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals 70(4), 2016, DOI:10.1007/s12666-016-0883-y
44. Interpretation of Friction and Wear in DLC Film: Role of Surface Chemistry and Test Environment, Polaki, Shyamala; Kumar, Niranjan; Madapu, Kishore K; Ganesan, K; Krishna, Nanda ; Srivastava, N.G. ; Abhaya, Sekar; Kamruddin, Mohammed; Dash, Sitaram; Tyagi, Ashok, Journal of Physics D: Applied physics49 (2016) 445302 (IF: 3.17)
45. Effect of annealing on the structural properties of vertical graphene nanosheets, Subrata Ghosh, K. Ganesan, S. R. Polaki, A. K. Sivadasan, M. Kamruddin and A. K. Tyagi, Adv. Science, Engineering and Medicine. 2016; 8,146 (IF : 15.8)
46. Piezoelectric Domains in the AlGaN Hexagonal Microrods: Effect of Crystal Orientations, A.K. Sivadasan, G. Mangamma, Santanu Bera, M. Kamruddin and S. Dhara, Journal of Applied Physics 119 (2016) 174304 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4948695 (AF : 2.88)
47. Ferroelectric and dielectric behavior of samarium substituted Bi4Ti3O12 nanomaterials synthesized by gel combustion method, V. Selvamurugan, G. Mangamma, S. Ravi, M. Kamruddin, D. Madhavan and A. Marikani, Prog. In Natural Science : Materials International, 26 (2016) 528 (IF : 3.61)
48. Thermal Conductivity and Pressure Dependent Raman Studies of Vertical Graphene Nanosheets, Mishra, Karuna; Ghosh, Subrata; Thoguluva, Ravindran; Amirthapandian, Sankarakumar; Kamruddin, Mohammed; The Journal of Physical Chemistry: Section C 120 (2016) 25092, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b08754 (IF : 4.2)
49. Hybrid gas sensing and transport properties of few walled CNTs decorated with discrete SnO2 nanoparticles, Kamalakannan Ranganathan, Ilango Shanmugam, Kamruddin Mohammed and Ashok K. Tyagi, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 16 (1) 2016, 1211-15 (IF : 1.1)
50. A comparative study on defect estimation using XPS and Raman spectroscopy in few layer nanographitic structures, K Ganesan, S Ghosh, NG Krishna, S Ilango, M Kamruddin, AK Tyagi, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18 (32) 2016, 22160-22167 (IF : 3.57)
51. Types of nitrogen incorporation in reactively sputtered titania thin films: Influence on UV–visible, photocatalytic and photoconduction properties, Ramanathaswamy Pandian, Gomathi Natarajan, Nanda Gopala Krishna Dhaipule, Arun K. Prasad, M. Kamruddin, A.K. Tyagi, Thin Solid Films 616 (2016) 466–476 (IF : 2.18), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2016.08.067
52. Shallow nitrogen ion implantation: Evolution of chemical state and defect structure in titanium, P. A. Manojkumar, V. A. Chirayath, A. K. Balamurugan, Nanda gopala Krishna, S. Ilango, M. Kamruddin, G. Amarendra, A. K. Tyagi and Baldev Raj, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 383 (2016) 6-13. DOI:10.1016/j.nimb.2016.06.002
53. MnO2-Vertical graphene nanosheets as active materials for energy storage, Subrata Ghosh, Bhavana Gupta, A. Das, K. Ganesan, M. Kamruddin, S. Dash, A. K. Tyagi, Materials Today Proc., 3, 2016, 1686
54. Microstructural Studies on Ti–Y2O3 Interface Reaction Products, Pragna Bhaskar, Arup Dasgupta, M. Kamruddin, S. Saroja, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 69 (4) 2016, 901-905
55. Thermal conductivity and pressure-dependent Raman studies of vertical graphene nanosheets, KK Mishra, S Ghosh, TR Ravindran, S Amirthapandian and M Kamruddin, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120 (43), 2016, 25092 (IF : 4.1)
56. Low-temperature growth and characterization of neodymium-substituted bismuth titanate nanowires in a highly ordered anodic aluminum oxide template by an AC electrodeposition method on the platinum substrate for ferroelectric applications, V. Selvamurugan, G. Mangamma, S. Ravi, M. Kamruddin, D. Madhavan and A. Marikani, Ceramic International, 42 (2016) 10317 (IF : 4.53)