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Dr. Chinnakonda S. Gopinath
Curriculum Vitae:
2000-present: Scientist at NCL.
1997-2000: Post Doctoral Fellow at University of California at Riverside with Prof. Francisco Zaera on molecular beam studies of three way catalytic converter reactions on Rh(111) surfaces.
1995-1997: AvH fellow at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany with Drs. N. Nücker and S. Schuppler on Angle resolved photoemission studies of one and two dimensional materials.
1993-1995: Research Associate at RSIC, IIT Madras.
1989-1993:PhD at RSIC, IIT Madras with Prof. S. Subramanian. Thesis Title 'Photoelectron spectroscopic studies of high Tc cuprate superconductors.
1987-1989: Project Associate at Dept of Chemistry, IIT Madras.
1984-1986: M.Sc. Chemistry(Physical Chemistry special) Madurai Kamraj University.
1981-1984: B.Sc. Chemistry, Madurai Kamraj University.
Full CV in pdf format. |
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| Awards: |
| Dr. S.S. Deshpande National Award, Holkar College, Indore. |
| Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore from 2011. |
| Council Member of the Chemical Research Society of India 2011-14. |
| Visiting CNRS Professor at UCCS, Univ. Lille1, Lille, France between Sept. - Nov. 2010 |
| Bronze medal from CRSI on 11th National Symposium in Chemistry at NCL,Pune, Feb. 2009. |
| Scientist of the year Award at National Chemical Lab., Pune for 2006. |
| Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Research Fellowship from AvH Foundation, Germany on 1995. |
| Dr. T.P. Meenakshisundaranar GoldMedal for securing the First rank in M. Sc. (Chemistry) at Madurai Kamaraj University on 1986. |
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| Affiliation: |
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| Life Member of the Chemical Research Society of India. |
| Life Member of the Catalysis Society of India. |
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| Recent Invited Talks: |
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| 1) 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, California on March 27-31, 2011 on (a) Electronic decoupling of surface layers and its influence in oxidation catalysis: More wine in old bottle, and (b) Combustion synthesis to incorporate Nitrogen in ZnO and TiO2 and their applications in solar energy harvesting. |
| 2) Simple Synthesis Strategy to Incorporate Nitrogen in ZnO and TiO2 and Their Applications in Solar Energy Harvesting, 3rd International symposium on materials chemistry, BARC, Mumbai, Dec. 7-11, 2010 . |
| 3) Development of New Materials for Solar Energy Harvesting: Nitrogen doped ZnO and TiO2, Solid solution of GaN in ZnO, Mesoporous TiO2, Van't Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences, Univ. Amsterdam, Nov.15, 2010. |
| 4) Band Gap Engineered ZnO-based Multifunctional Solid Solution Materials for Visible Light Photocatalysis,Development of novel materials for hydrogen production and photocatalysis (DNHP-2010), 26-27th March, 2010 at IMMT, Bhubaneswar (Invited). |
| 5) A Revisit to CO Oxidation on Palladium Surfaces: A Molecular beam study, 4th Mid-Year CRSI symposium in Chemistry, Indore, July 23-24, 2009 |
| 6)Electronic decoupling of surface layers from bulk and its influence in carbon monoxide oxidation catalysis: A Molecular beam study, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 17, 2009. |
| 7) Influence of subsurface oxygen on Palladium towards oxidation catalysis, Science and Technical Univ. Lille, France, June 15, 2009. |
| 8) Electronic decoupling of surface layers from bulk and its influence in CO oxidation catalysis: A Molecular beam study, 2nd Intern. Conf. Physics at Surfaces and Interfaces, Puri, Feb. 2009 |
| 9) Synthesis, electronic structure and catalytic studies of multifunctional ZnO1-xNx and Zn1-zGazO1-xNx materials, 11th CRSI NSC, NCL, Pune, Feb. 6-8, 2009. (Bronze Medal Lecture) |
| 10) Influence of subsurface oxygen on palladium surfaces towards CO oxidation at high temperatures, CATWORKSHOP-2008, IMMT, Bhubaneshwar, Feb. 17-20, 2008 |
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| Review/Chapter in Books: |
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| 1) M. Vijayaraj, T. Mathew and C.S. Gopinath,* Selective alkylation of organic substrates on spinels, Heterogeneous Catalysis Research Progress, Ed. Mathias B. Gunther, pp. 145-191, (2008), Nova Science, New York. |
| 2) S. Nagarajan and C.S. Gopinath,* Diffusion of chemisorbed oxygen into Pd-sub-surfaces and its influence in catalysis, J. Indian Institute of Science, Vol. 90, 245-260 (2010) (Invited). |
| 3) M. Mapa and C.S.Gopinath,* Recent trends in materials towards visible light photocatalysis, Spl. Volume on the occasion of Diamond jubilee of NCL on Chemistry of and Advanced Functional Materials, Ed. by S.B. Ogale, 2010. |
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