Palanisami N

Dr. Palanisami is a professor at the centre for Functional Materials. He obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Mumbai in 2006 and then moved to Institüt für Anorganische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany until 2010. He was visiting research professor-Brain Pool Fellowship (2013-2014) at Korean Federation of Science and Technology (KOFST), Suncheon National University in South Korea. He has been awarded with outstanding Reviewer by The Editors of Inorganic Chemistry Communications, Elsevier publications and from Dec 2006-Nov 2007, he was awarded the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung postdoctoral Fellowship, Germany.

Dr. Palanisami works mainly in the areas of Optical and non-linear optical studies of main group borasiloxanes, Non-linear optical studies on ferrocene appended X, Y and H-shaped donor-π-acceptor chromophores and AIE-active ferrocene/non-ferrocene conjugated heterocyclic chromophores for sensor applications.

His research group has successfully finished two funded projects from DST-SERB Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists, CSIR-Extramural Research Grant. Currently, Dr. Palanisamy’s research group is funded with three projects from agencies like DST-Italian bilateral project, CSIR-Extramural Research Grant and DST-SERB Extramural Research.