CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (CRFM)
Contact Us First floor, Fire Lab Building, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University)JAIN Global Campus, Jakkasandra Post, Kanakapura Tq Ramanagara District-562 112, Karnataka, India +91 9449293499 [email protected]| Sept 2016 – Oct 2020 |
Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Ph.D. Secondment Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan |
| May 2012 – May 2014 |
Master of Science Christ University, Bengaluru, India |
| May 2008 – May 2011 |
Bachelor of Science Bengaluru University, Bengaluru, India |
Faculty Room, First floor, Fire Lab Building, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), JAIN Global Campus, Jakkasandra Post, Kanakapura Tq, Ramanagara District-562 112, Karnataka, India
| Mar 2023 – Present |
Assistant Professor CRFM, JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), India |
| Apr 2021 – Feb 2023 |
Postdoctoral fellow Ariel University, Israel |
| Sept 2016 – Oct 2020 |
Research Assistant (part time) Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland |
Dr. Vishwanath R. S investigates new functional materials for electrochemical applications. The emphasis is on sustainable electrochemical energy conversion and storage methods (photo/electrochemical water splitting, supercapacitor and battery studies), electrochemistry at liquid-liquid interfaces (three-phase, thin-film, and four-electrode configurations) and retrieving energy with water treatment (capacitive/battery desalination). This range of applications is made attainable by an essential pillar of his work: the synthesis and characterization of organometallic complexes, metal-organic frameworks, and organic-inorganic composite materials, whose chemical, morphological and electrical properties can be tuned.
Dr. Vishwanath R. S joined the Centre for Research in Functional Materials (CRFM), JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), in March 2023. Before joining CRFM, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemical Sciences, Ariel University, Israel, supported by the Ariel University International Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Vishwanath earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Science at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, where he was supported by a Ph.D. scholarship from the National Science Centre (Govt. of Poland), Doctoral Scholarship by Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland and Secondment opportunity from Department of Applied Chemistry, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. His Ph.D. research has been recognized with honours, including an outstanding Ph.D. student award and the First Poster award in the 9th ‘International Workshop on Surface Modification for Chemical and Biochemical Sensing’ held in November 2019 in Poland.
Vishwanath enjoys meeting up with friends and family, going to the cinema and visiting places in his spare time.
| 2021-2023 | International Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ariel University, Israel |
| 2016-2020 | Ph.D. scholarship by National Science Centre, Government of Poland under grant no NCN 2015/18/E/ST4/00319 |
| 2019 | First poster award in 9th international workshop on surface modification for chemical and biochemical Sensing, Poland |
| 2019-2020 | Doctoral Scholarship by Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland |
| 2019-2020 | Scholarship for outstanding Ph.D. students by the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland |
| 2015-2016 | Junior Research Fellowship, SERB-DST (No. CS198), REVA University, India |
Poulami Mukherjee, Vishwanath R. S, Arie Borenstein, and Tomer Zidki, “Compositing redox-rich Co-Co@Ni-Fe PBA nanocubes into cauliflower-like conducting polypyrrole as electrode material in supercapacitors” Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2023, 7, 1110-1119.
Poulami. M, K. Sathiyan, Vishwanath R. S, and T. Zidki, “Anchoring MoS2 on Ethanol-Etched Prussian Blue Analog for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Efficiency for Oxygen Evolution Reaction” Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2022, 6, 1770-1778.
R. S. Vishwanath, Masa-aki Haga, Takumi Watanabe, E. Witkowska Nery, M. Jönsson-Niedziółka, “Three-phase electrochemistry of a highly lipophilic neutral Ru-complex having tridentate bis(benzimidazolate)pyridine ligand” Electrochimica Acta, 2020, 362, 137090, 2020.
Vishwanath R. S, Emilia Witkowska-Nery, and Martin Jönsson-Niedziółka, “Electrochemical reduction of 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane at the n-octyl pyrrolidone/water/electrode three-phase junction” Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2019 113558.
Vishwanath R. S, Emilia Witkowska-Nery, and Martin Jönsson-Niedziółka, “Electrochemistry of selected quinones at immiscible n-octyl-2-pyrrolidone/aqueous interface using a three-phase electrode system” Electrochimica Acta, 2019, 306, 54-60.
Iranna Udachyan, R.S. Vishwanath, C.S. Pradeepa Kumara, Sakthivel Kandaiah, “Potential dependent growth of Cu(OH)2 nanostructures on Cu and their thermal conversion to mixed-valent copper oxides p-type photoelectrode” Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Volume 44, 2019, 7181-7193.
Iranna Udachyan, R.S. Vishwanath, C.S. Pradeepa Kumara, Sakthivel Kandaiah, “Anodic fabrication of nanostructured CuxS and CuNiSx thin films and their hydrogen evolution activities in acidic electrolytes” New J. Chem., 2019, 43, 7674-7682
Iranna Udachyan, Pradeepa kumara C.S, Vishwanath R. S, and Sakthivel Kandaiah, “Visible-Light Active Mixed-valent Copper ions Coordinated 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-Thiadiazole based p-type Metallopolymer” ChemElectroChem 2018, 5, 1–8
Iranna Udachyan, R.S. Vishwanath, C.S. Pradeepa Kumara, Sakthivel Kandaiah, “Ruthenium ion containing N and S rich triazine based metallopolymer as a low overpotential acid stable electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution” Journal of Catalysis, 2018, 357, 138–146.
Vishwanath R. S and Sakthivel Kandaiah, “Metal ion-containing C3N3S3 coordination polymers chemisorbed to a copper surface as acid stable hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017, 5, 2052-2065.
Vishwanath R. S and Sakthivel Kandaiah, “Electrochemical growth of triazine based metal ion containing polymers on nanostructured nickel electrodeposits and their hydrogen evolution activities in acidic condition” Int. J. Hydrogen Energy., 2016, 41, 8829-8838.
Vishwanath R. S and Sakthivel Kandaiah, “Chemically immobilised Triazine based CuIIS3C3N3 metallopolymer on copper as a photocathode for photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution” J. Electrochem. Soc., 2016, 163, H402-H409. 10.1149/2.0791606jes
R. S. Vishwanath and Sakthivel Kandaiah, “Electrochemical preparation of crystalline γ-CuI thin-films through potential controlled anodisation of copper and its photoelectrochemical investigations” J Solid State Electrochem. 20 (2016), Issue 7, 2093-2102.
R. S. Vishwanath and Sakthivel Kandaiah, “Facile electrochemical growth of nanostructured copper phthalocyanine thin film via simultaneous anodic oxidation of copper and dilithium phthalocyanine for photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution” J Solid State Electrochem (2016) 20:767-773.
