Varadharajan Srinivasan

Physical Chemistry
Associate Professor
Phone: +91 755 269 1315, 669 1315
vardha@iiserb.ac.in

  • Associate Professor (August 2018-), Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
  • Adjunct Professor (January 2015-), Department of Physics Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
  • Assistant Professor (February 2010-), Department of 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.
  • Electronic, optical and structural properties of materials for renewable energy conversion and storage such as solar cells and fuels.
  • Chemical and physical phenomena at the nanoscale.
  • Electronic structure at solid surfaces and interfaces.
  • Electronic and structural phase transitions in the solid state.
  • Excited state dynamics in photochemical systems.
  • # Authors Title Journals Year
    1 Manish Kumar
    Manzoor A. Dar
    Ankita Katiyar
    Ravi Agrawal
    Prathamesh M. Shenai
    Role of Magnetization on Catalytic Pathways of Non-Oxidative Methane Activation on Neutral Iron Carbide Clusters Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022
    2 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Satyajit Mandal
    Rationalizing the Unexpected Sensitivity in Excited State Lifetimes of Adenine to Tautomerization by Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics The Journal of Physical Chemistry (A,B, and C) 2022
    3 Simone Piccinin
    Manish Kumar
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Direct and indirect role of Fe doping in NiOOH monolayer for water oxidation catalysis CHEMPHYSCHEM 2022
    4 Sayan Maity
    Suraj Verma
    Lavanya M. Ramaniah
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Deciphering the nature of temperature-induced structural phases of MAPbBr3 by ab initio molecular dynamics Chemistry of Materials 2022
    5 Aritra Das
    Ashwini Danao
    Shubhojit Banerjee
    A. Mohan Raj
    Gaurav Sharma
    Rajeev Prabhakar
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Vaidyanathan Ramamurthy
    Pratik Sen
    Dynamics of Anthracene Excimer Formation within a Water-soluble Nanocavity at Room Temperature Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021
    6 Ravi Agrawal
    Alexander P. van Bavel
    Antonius P. J. Jansen
    Ankita Katiyar
    Manish Kumar
    Gopal Krishna Dixit
    Prathamesh M. Shenai
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Unraveling the Activity of Iron Carbide Clusters Embedded in Silica for Thermocatalytic Conversion of Methane Catalysis Science & Technology 2021
    7 Brahmananda Chakraborty
    Ashwini Anshu
    Rashid Rafeek V. Valappil
    Lavanya M. Ramaniah
    Abhijeet Sadashiv Gangan
    Sayan Maity
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Pressure Induced Topochemical Polymerization of Solid Acryalmide Facilitated by Anisotropic Response of Hydrogen Bond Network Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) 2021
    8 Ishu Saraogi
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Jo S. Kurian
    Purnima Mala
    Bapurao A. Bhoge
    Selective functionalization at N2-position of guanine in oligonucleotides via reductive amination Chemical Communications 2020
    9 Paresh Chandra Rout
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Emergence of a multiferroic half-metallic phase in Bi2FeCrO6 through interplay of hole doping and epitaxial strain Physical Review Letter 2019
    10 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Paresh Chandra Rout
    Exploring the structural , electronic and magnetic properties of cation ordered 3d-5d double perovskite Bi2FeReO6 and Bi2FeIrO6 thin-films from first-principles Physical Review B 2019
    11 Paresh Chandra Rout
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Giant Ferrimagnetism and Polarization in Mixed Metal Perovskite Metal-organic Frameworks Physical Review Materials 2018
    12 Geo Jose
    Rajesh Malla
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Auditya Sharma
    Suhas Gangadharaiah
    Phase diagram for the Harper model of the honeycomb lattice Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 2018
    13 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Aditya Putatunda
    Paresh Chandra Rout
    Origin of lowered magnetic moments in epitaxially strained thin films of multiferroic Bi2FeCrO6 Physical Review B 2016
    14 Himanshu Jain
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Deepak Kumar
    Rituraj Sharma
    K. V. Adarsh
    Engineering the optical response of a-Se thin films by employing morphological disorder Optics Express 2015
    15 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    B K Godwal
    Jeffrey C Grossman
    Raymond Jeanloz
    Electronic Topological Transitions In Cd At High Pressures arXiv 2015
    16 N. Hetkorn
    Z. Hou
    Y. Kanai
    D. Lee
    J. P. Lomont
    A. Majumdar
    S. K. Meier
    K. V. Moth-Poulsen
    R. L. Myrabo
    S. C. Nguyen
    K. P. C Vollhardt
    N. Vinokurov
    W. B. Tolman
    V. Srinivasan
    R. A. Seagalman
    C. B. Harris
    J. Guan
    J. C. Grossman
    V. Gray
    D. Coso
    K. Borjesson
    T. M. Weidman
    Exploring the Potential of Fulvalene Dimetals as Platforms for Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage: Computations, Syntheses, Structures, Kinetics, and Catalysis Chemistry - A European Journal 2014
    17 Debayan Chakraborty
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Ajay Jha
    Jyothishman Dasgupta
    Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Solvated Anthraquinones is Facilitated by Low-frequency Ring Deformations The Journal of Physical Chemistry (A,B, and C) 2013
    18 R. Ramesh
    A. Majumdar
    W. Siemons
    P. B. Rossen
    J. Ravichandran
    V. Srinivasan
    E. Ertekin
    J. C. Grossman
    Interplay between Intrinsic Defects, Doping, and Free Carrier Concentration in Perovskite Oxide Thin Films Physical Review B 2012
    19 J Cho
    L Berbil-Bautista
    I V Pechenezhskiy
    N Levy
    S K Meier
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Yosuke Kanai
    Jeffrey C Grossman
    K P C Vollhardt
    M F Crommie
    Single-Molecule-Resolved Structural Changes Induced by Temperature and Light in Surface-Bound Organometallic Molecules Designed for Energy Storage ACS Nano 2011
    20 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Daniel Sebastiani
    The Isotope-Effect in the Phase Transition of KH2PO4: New Insights from ab-initio Path-Integral Simulations The Journal of Physical Chemistry (A,B, and C) 2011
    21 Yosuke Kanai
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Jeffrey C Grossman
    S K Meier
    K P C Vollhardt
    Mechanism of Thermal Reversal of the (Fulvalene)tetracabonyldiruthenium Photoisomerization: Toward Molecular Solar-Thermal Energy Storage Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2010
    22 J Cao
    Elif Ertekin
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    W Fan
    S Huang
    H Zheng
    J W L Yim
    D R Khanal
    D F Ogletree
    Jeffrey C Grossman
    J Wu
    Strain engineering andone-dimensional organization of metal-insulator domains in single crystal VO2 beams Nature Nanotechnology 2009
    23 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Giancarlo Cicero
    Jeffrey C Grossman
    Adsorption-induced surface stresses in alkanethiolate-Au self-assembled monolayers PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008