Varadharajan Srinivasan

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

Varadharajan Srinivasan

Physical Chemistry
Professor
Phone: +91 755 269 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.
  • Varadharajan Srinivasan

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

  • 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.
  • Varadharajan Srinivasan

    Professor
    Physical Chemistry

    # Authors Title Journals Year
    1 Pradhi Srivastava
    Sayan Maity
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Role of Host/Guest Coupling in Stabilizing the Phases of the Overtolerant Hybrid Perovskite MHyPbX3 The Journal of Physical Chemistry (A,B, and C) 2025
    2 Pradhi Srivastava
    Sayan Maity
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Unveiling the Role Reversal of Guest and Host in Over-Tolerant Hybrid Perovskites Small 2025
    3 Pramod K. Verma
    Vignesh Balaji Kumar
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Plasmon Induced Charge Transfer Dynamics in Metallic Nanoparticle-MoSe2 Nanoflake Heterostructures Advanced Optical Materials 2025
    4 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Mansi Bhati
    Elious Mondal
    Chakradhar Rangi
    Pramod K Verma
    Ritesh Pant
    Sebastian Wuester
    Universal Measure for the Impact of Adiabaticity on Quantum Transitions Physical Review Letters 2024
    5 Abhijit Dutta
    Sujit Kumar Ghosh
    Satyajit Mandal
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Vaidyanathan Ramamurthy
    Pratik Sen
    Ultrafast Processes in Upper Excited Singlet States of Free and Caged 7-Diethylaminothiocoumarin The Journal of Physical Chemistry (A,B, and C) 2024
    6 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Lavanya M. Ramaniah
    Suraj Verma
    Sayan Maity
    Cooperative Octahedral Tilt Modes Drive Coexisting Displacive and Order–Disorder Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in MAPbBr3 Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2024
    7 Sujit K Ghosh
    Shreya Chatterjee
    Paras P Boruah
    Satyajit Mandal
    Jose P. Da Silva
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy
    A supramolecular approach towards the photorelease of encapsulated caged acids in water: 7-diethylaminothio-4-coumarinyl molecules as triggers Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 2024
    8 Sayan Maity
    Sure Verma
    Lavanya M Ramaniah
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Stabilizing Polar Domains in MAPbBr3 via the Hydrostatic Pressure-Induced Liquid Crystal-like Transition The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2023
    9 Pradhi Srivastava
    Sayan Maity
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Guest-induced phase transition leads to polarization enhancement in MHyPbCl3 arXiv preprint 2023
    10 Shalini Tomar
    Nesta Benno Joseph
    Vignesh Balaji Kumar
    Paresh Chandra Rout
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Size and Composition Dependence of Plasmonic Properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanoflakes Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2023
    11 Prathamesh M. Shenai
    Ravi Agrawal
    Ankita Katiyar
    Manzoor A. Dar
    Manish Kumar
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Role of Magnetization on Catalytic Pathways of Non-Oxidative Methane Activation on Neutral Iron Carbide Clusters Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022
    12 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
    13 Simone Piccinin
    Manish Kumar
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Direct and indirect role of Fe doping in NiOOH monolayer for water oxidation catalysis CHEMPHYSCHEM 2022
    14 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
    15 Rashid Rafeek V. Valappil
    Sayan Maity
    Ashwini Anshu
    Lavanya M. Ramaniah
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Polymer polymorphs from crystalline acrylamide with high pressure: an ab initio investigation ChemRxiv 2022
    16 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
    17 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
    18 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
    19 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
    20 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
    21 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
    22 Paresh Chandra Rout
    Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Giant Ferrimagnetism and Polarization in Mixed Metal Perovskite Metal-organic Frameworks Physical Review Materials 2018
    23 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
    24 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Aditya Putatunda
    Paresh Chandra Rout
    Origin of lowered magnetic moments in epitaxially strained thin films of multiferroic Bi2FeCrO6 Physical Review B 2016
    25 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
    26 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    B K Godwal
    Jeffrey C Grossman
    Raymond Jeanloz
    Electronic Topological Transitions In Cd At High Pressures arXiv 2015
    27 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
    28 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
    29 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
    30 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
    31 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
    32 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
    33 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
    34 Varadharajan Srinivasan
    Giancarlo Cicero
    Jeffrey C Grossman
    Adsorption-induced surface stresses in alkanethiolate-Au self-assembled monolayers PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008