electrochemist
I'm P. Esakki Karthik, currently working as a research scientist in RISE-TCG-CREST, India.
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Awards & Fellowships
February 9 ,2010
UGC-JRF and NET
I have been awarded UGC-JRF and NET lecturership
November 28, 2015
Doctorate in Chemistry by BharathidasanUniversity
Doctoral degree was awarded in the area of chemistry, specifically electrochemical interface at nano scale regime
January 28, 2016
Institute postdocotral fellowship by IISER-Mohali, India
My knowledge in electrochemical science has been appreciated by Prof. Ujjal Gautam at IISER Mohali, Punjab, India. With the help of his appreciation, IISER-Mohali provided postdoctoral and teaching opportunity to BS-MS students in IISER-Mohali, India
February 4, 2017 to now
National Postdoctoral Fellow at IISER-Mohali, Punjab, India
I have recently been awarded NPDF fellowship from DST, India on the proposed a research entitled of 'Enhance the stability of photocatalytic material for energy conversion reactions'. At present, I am working in that project
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Education
July 20, 2007
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Chemistry
I have pursued my bachelor degree from M.D.T. Hindu College, Tirunelveli, India. I have secured first class with distinction.
July 25, 2009
Master of Science (M.Sc) in Chemistry
After securing bachelor degree in chemistry, the subject motivated me to pursue a master degree. I have completed my masters from Manonmanium Sundaranar University campus Tirunelveli. There I have secured University third Rank.
May 20, 2010
Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in Electrodics Electrocatalysis Division, CECRI
My passion on the subject had enormously been motivated by my reading and hearing new discovery like graphene. Hence I was planning to do research on my subject. Fortunately, I qualified UGC-JRF examination, with the help of UGC financial assistance I joined as a JRF
May 20, 2012
Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in Electrodics Electrocatalysis Division, CECRI
My activity and curiosity have upgraded my JRF fellowship to SRF. With that Period I have finished my doctoral program
November 20, 2015
I have been awarded Doctorate of Philosophy in Chemistry from Bharathidasan University, Tamilnadu, India
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Teaching
Experimental Electrochemistry
March 2013,
During my Ph.D. period, I have framed experimental electrochemistry with my Ph.D. guide and tutored my immediate junior at CSIR-CECRI Karaikudi, Tamilnadu
June 20, 2016
Invited lectures
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I have contacted three days course to M.Sc students for introducing fundamental electrochemistry at MCM DAV women's college, Punjab.
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Invited basic electrochemical lecture at DCS Debashish Adhikari group at IISER-Mohali, India
January 2016 to now
Research level class at Department of Chemical Science, IISER-Mohali
In IISER-Mohali, I am teaching research level electrochemical science and technology to research scholar Moreover, I am curious to discuss electrochemical research area IISER-Mohali scholars.
Conference and proceedings
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P. E. Karthik, C. Jeyabharathi, K. L.N. Phani, ‘Catalytic Deactivation of Gold Surface as a Consequence of Prussian Blue Electrodeposition and Removal’, 2011-ECS Meeting abstract MA2011-02 2429 at Boston.
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P. E. Karthik, K.L.N. Phani., 'Erosion of Electrochemically Generated Metastable Metal Surfaces (MMS) on Gold and Platinum Electrodes' 225th ECS Meeting at Orlando, Abstract:1620
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P. E. Karthik, K.L.N Phani, Poster presentation on hydrogen evolution on a porous gold surface, ICONSAT-2014, Punjab University, India. ​
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Publications
From 2010 to present
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Oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalyzed on a Fenton-treated gold surface, P. Esakki Karthik, C. Jeyabharathi, K. L. N. Phani, Chem. Commun., (RSC) 2014,50, 2787-2790.
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Facile electrochemical co-deposition of a graphene–cobalt nanocomposite for highly efficient water oxidation in alkaline media: direct detection of underlying electron transfer reactions under catalytic turnover conditions S. Guo, Y. Liu, A. Bond, J. Zhang, P. Esakki Karthik, I. Maheshwaran, S. Senthil Kumar and K. L. Phani, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., (RSC) 2014,16, 19035-19045.
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Electroless deposition of iridium oxide nanoparticles promoted by condensation of [Ir(OH)6]2− on an anodized Au surface: application to electrocatalysis of the oxygen evolution reaction, P. Esakki Karthik, Alagar Raja, Shanmugam Senthil Kumar, Phani KLN, Yuping Liu, Si-Xuan Guo, Jie Zhang, Alan Bond, RSC Adv., (RSC) 2015, 5, 3196 - 3199.
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Catalytic deactivation of gold surface as a consequence of Prussian blue electrodeposition and removal, P. Esakki Karthik, C. Jeyabharathi, S. Senthilkumar, K. L. N. Phani, J. Solid State Electrochem., (Springer) 2013, 17, 3055-3061.
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Stable gold nanoparticle synthesis using but-2-yne-1,4-diol – a simple approach, C.Jeyabharathi, P. Esakki Karthik, K. L. N. Phani, RSC. Adv., (RSC) 2014, 4,7780-7785.
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Synthesis and XRD Characterization of the Organic Cocrystals, β-Phenylthiopropionic Acid :Caffeine and Benzilic Acid-4,4'-bipyridine, S.Kumaresan, M. Indrani, R. Ramasubramanian, R. Subha, P. Esakki Karthik, S. Athavan, and F.R. Fronzcek Int. J. Curr. Chem., 2010,1, 163-1 74.
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Self-Assembeld IrO2 nanop articles on DNA scaffold with enhanced catalytic and Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) activities, S. Anantharaj, P. Esakki Karthik, Subrata Kundu, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 24463-24478.
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Pt Nanoparticle Anchored Molecular Self-Assemblies of DNA: An Extremely Stable and Efficient HER Electrocatalyst with Ultralow Pt3Content, , Sengeni Anantharaj, P. E. Karthik, Balasubramanian Subramanian, Subrata Kundu, ACS Catalysis (A CS) Accepted Manuscripy, DOI: 10.1021/ cscatal.6b00965
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Petal-like hierarchical array of ultrathin Ni (OH) 2 nanosheets decorated with Ni (OH) 2 nanoburls: a highly efficient OER electrocatalyst, S Anantharaj, P. E Karthik, Subrata Kundu, Cat. Sci. Tech., 2017 , 7, 882-893.
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Self-assembled molecular hybrid of CoS- DNA for enhanced water oxidation with low cobalt content, K. Karthik, S. Anantharaj, P. E. Karthik, B. Subramnian, S. Kundu, Inorganic chemistry, DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00855