Curriculum vitae

Curriculum Vitae Karthik Ramasamy

Education
2011-
Postdoc at The University of Alabama, USA, “Synthesis of Ternary and Quaternary Metal Chalcogenide Nanoparticles for Spintronics” Ph.D at The University of Manchester, UK, “New Molecular Precursors for Metal Sulfides” 2003-2005 M.Sc (Chemistry): Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India B.Sc (Chemistry): Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India First class - 78.09%

Experience
M.Sc. Research “Towards Synthetic Metallohydrolases: Synthesis, Stucture and DNA
Binding Behavior of Mixed Ligand Copper(II) Complexes of a Tetradentate Phenolate
Ligand with certain Diimines” (Prof. M. Palaniandavar, School of Chemistry,
Bharathidasan University). I studied the interactions of metal complexes with DNA and
received an IAS Fellowship to visit and work on metal – DNA chemistry with Prof. A.
R.Chakravarty, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Industrial Research I worked as a Research Executive (Orchid Chemicals and
Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Chennai, India, July, 2005 - September, 2007). I synthesized four
active Pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and developed pilot-level scale up, which
included satisfying safety control and regulatory requirements. Two novel chiral
compounds were prepared and resolved. The development of the APIs involved reduction
reactions using pyrophoric catalysts including: Raney Ni, Pd/C and Rh/Al2O3, and also
handling hazardous chemicals such as: LiAlH4, NaBH4, NaH, Na, K and Vitride. I also
gained knowledge of patent evaluation and submission.

Ph.D Research “New Molecular Precursors for Metal Sulfides” (Prof. Paul O’Brien,
School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, UK). I have been involved in number
of different research projects, practical lab demonstrating to undergraduate students and
outreach activities with young people. The main thrust of my research is to synthesis
metal sulfide thin films and nanoparticles by new routes. I have successfully synthesised
and explored a wide range of novel complexes of thio- and dithio-biurets (producing more
than 20 new or novel compounds see ref. 4). I have also synthesised and characterised
wide range of nanoparticles for various applications including solar cells. Other
opportunities have include participation in international collaborations. Two months were
spent with Prof. Neerish Revaprasadu (University of Zululand, South Africa) working on
novel methods for lead chalcogenide nanostructures. I spent 20 days learning the basic
techniques of high resolution XPS with Prof. D. D. Sarma (Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India). I have hands-on experience with various sophisticated instruments
including: Perkin Elmer FT-IR Spectroscopy, EG & G PAR 273 potentiostat/Galvanostat
cyclic voltammetry, Varian Cary 300 Double Beam UV/Vis Spectrophotometer, Jasco J-
716 Spectroflurometer, Schott – Gerate AVS 310 Automated Viscometer, Gel
Electrophoresis, Bruker PXRD, Philips XL-30 FEGSEM, Philips cm200 TEM, Tecnai
HRTEM.
My work has resulted in a number of peer reviewed journal publications (26 to date),
presentations at conferences and in two granted patents.
Awards
Overseas Research Studentship, The University of Manchester, 2007- 2010
Summer Research Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, May-June, 2004
Holder of all India rank, GATE-2007

Membership of Societies
Member of Royal Society of Chemistry
Member of American Chemical Society
Member of Material Research Society

Oral Presentations
15th May 2009
National Centre for Nano-Structured Materials, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa. ‘Single Molecular Approach to Semiconductor Nanostructures’ Department of Chemistry, University of Zululand, South Africa. ‘Novel Single Molecular Precursors for Semiconductor nanostructures’ CVD meeting, University College of London. ‘Cobalt Sulfide Nanostructures using Single Molecular Precursors’ Solid State and Structural Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, India. ‘Novel Approaches to Semiconductor Thin films or nanostructures’ 21st May 2010 Graduate Research symposium, The University of Manchester, Some Novel Approaches to Inorganic Materials 3rd International Symposia on Material Chemistry, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India. ‘New Molecular Precursors for Metal Sulfide Thin Films and Nanostructures’ Computing
Working programming knowledge of ‘C’
Familiar with Windows OS –98, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7
Manage and handle data routinely with Scifinder Scholar, Origin, Diamond and ISIS draw
Regularly use Chem Office and Chemwind packages

Permanent Address C/o.R.Sritharan,
Aladimariyamman Koil Street, Kidaramkondam

I enjoy reading books, swimming and listening to Indian music.

Referees
1. Prof. Paul O’Brien
2. Prof. Neerish Revaprasadu
3. Prof. P. Venuvanalingam Phone: 91-431-240 7053 (Off)
School of Chemistry Fax: 91-431-240 7043, 240 7020
Bharathidasan University
Tiruchirapalli 620 024 Email: venuvanalingam@yahoo.com
India
List of Publications (Peer Reviewed Journals)
1. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad A. Malik, Madeline Helliwell, Fluriona Tuna and Paul O’Brien,
“Iron Thiobiurets: Single Source Precurosrs for Iron Sulfide Thin Films”, Inorg. Chem, 2010, 49,
2. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad A. Malik, James Raftery, Fluriona Tuna and Paul O’Brien,
“Selective Deposition of Cobalt Sulfide Nanostructured Thin Films from Single Source
Precursors”, Chem. Mater, 2010, 22, 4919
3. Karthik Ramasamy, Weerakanya Maneerprakorn, Mohammad A. Malik and Paul O’Brien,
“Single Molecular Precursor Based Approaches to Cobalt Sulfide Nanostructures”, Phil.Trans.
R. Soc. A, 2010, 368, 4249
4. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad A.Malik, Paul O’Brien and James Raftery, “Metal Complexes
of Thiobiurets and Dithiobiurets: Novel Single Source Precursors for Metal Sulfide Thin Film
Nanostructures”, Dalton Trans, 2010, 1460
5. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad A.Malik, Paul O’Brien and James Raftery, “The Synthesis and
Structure of Cadmium Complex of Dimorpholino dithioacetylacetonate and their use as Single
Source Precursor for CdS Thin films or Nanorods”. Dalton Trans, 2009, 2196
6. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad A. Malik, Paul O’Brien and James Raftery, “Nickel Sulfide
Thin Films from Thio and Dithio-biuret Precursors”, Chem.Mater, 2010, 22, 6328.

7. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad Malik, Paul O'Brien, James Raftery, “ZnS, CdS and ZnxCd1-xS
Thin Films from Zn(II) and Cd(II) Complexes of 1, 1, 5, 5-Tetramethyl -2-4-dithiobiuret As Single
Molecular Precursors”, Mater. Res. Soc Proc, 2009, 1145, MM, 4.40
8. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad A. Malik, Paul O’Brien and James Raftery, “Single Source
Precursors for Zinc Sulfide, Cadmium Sulfide and Zinc Cadmium Sulfide”. Chem. Mater, 2011,
23, 1471.
9. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad. A. Malik, Paul O’Brien, “The Chemical Vapor Deposition of
Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films”, Chem. Sci, 2011, 2, 1170.

10. Karthik Ramasamy, Weerakanya Maneerprakorn, Nasir Iqbal, Mohammad Azad Malik, Paul
O’Brien, “Cobalt(II)/Nickel(II) complexes of dithioacetylacetone [M(SacSac)2] (M = Co, Ni), as
Single Source Precursors for cobalt/Nickel Sulfide Nanostructures”, International Journal of
Nanoscience (DOI: 10.1142/S0219581X11009234)
11. Karthik Ramasamy, Nonto Ziqubu, Pullabhotla. V. S. R. Rajasekhar, Neerish Revaprasadu,
Paul O’Brien, “New Route to Lead Chalcogenide Nanocrystals”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem
(DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201100829)
12. Venugopal Rajendiran, Ramasamy Karthik, Mallayan Palaniandavar, Helen Stoeckli-
Evans, Vaiyapuri Subbarayan Periasamy, Mohammad Abdulkader Akbarsha, Bangalore
Suresh Srinag and Hanumanthappa Krishnamurthy, “Mixed-Ligand Copper(II)-phenolate
Complexes Effect of Co-ligand on Enhanced DNA and Protein Binding, DNA Cleavage,
and Anticancer Activity”, Inorg. Chem, 2007, 46, 8208
13. Nanto Ziqubu, Karthik Ramasamy, Pullabhotla. V. S. R. Rajasekhar, Neerish Revaprasadu,
Paul O’Brien, “Simple Route to Dots and Rods of PbTe Nanocrystals”. Chem. Mater, 2010, 22,
3817
14. Xiaoheng Liu, Mohammad Afzaal, Karthik Ramasamy, Paul O’Brien and Javeed Akhtar,
“Synthesis of ZnO Hexagonal Single – Crystal Slices with Predominant (0001) and (000Ī) Facets by Poly(ethyleneglycol)-Assisted Chemical Bath Deposition”, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2009,
131(42), 15106
15. Arunkumar Panneerselvam, Ganga Periyasamy, Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad Afzaal,
Mohammad. A. Malik, John Waters, Van Dongven Bart, Paul O’Brien, Neil Burton, “Factors
Controlling Material Deposition in the CVD of Nickel Sulfide, Selenides or Phosphides from
Dichalcogenoimidodiphosphinato complexes: Deposition, Spectroscopic and Computational
Studies”. Dalton Trans, 2010, 39, 6080
16. Ncami Maseko, Neerish Revaprasadu, Rajasekhar V. Pullabhotla, Karthik Ramasamy, Paul
O’Brien, “The Influence of the Cadmium Source on the Shape of CdSe Nanoparticles”, Mater
Lett., 2010, 64(9), 1037

17. P. L. Musetha, N. Revaprasadu, G. A. Kolawole, P. V. S. R. Pullabhotla, K. Ramasamy and P.
O’Brien “Homoleptic Single Source Precursors for the Deposition of Platinum and Palladium
Chalcogenide Thin Films”, Thin Solid Films, 2010, 519, 197.
18. Ahmed Lutfi Abdulhady, Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad A. Malik, Paul O’Brien, Sarah J.
Haigh and James Raftery, “New Routes to Copper Sulfide and Nanostructures and Thin Films”
J. Mater. Chem (DOI: 10.1039/c1jm13277f)
19. John C. Newton, Karthik Ramasamy, Manik Mandal, Amar Kumbhar and Rajesh Sardar,
“Low Temperature Synthesis of Various Ligand Protected magic-Sized CdSe Nanoclusters’
J. Phys.Chem. C (accepted)
20. Karthik Ramasamy, Dipanajan Mazumdar, Ziyou Zhou, Y.H.A. Wang, Arunava Gupta,
“Colloidal Synthesis of Magnetic CuCr2S4 Nanocrystals and Nanoclusters” J. Am. Chem. Soc
(Submitted)
21. Karthik Ramasamy, Pullabhotla. V. S. R. Rajasekhar, Neerish Revaprasadu, Paul O’Brien,
“New Route to Bismuth Selenide and Telluride Nanostructures”, Manuscript In
Preparation
22. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad. A. Malik, Paul O’Brien, James Raftery, “Organotin
Dithiocarbamates: Single Source Precursors for Tin Sulfide Thin Films by
AACVD”, Manuscript In Preparation
23. Arunkumar Panneerselvam, Ganga Periyasamy, Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad. A. Malik,
Van Dongven Bart, Paul O’Brien, Neil Burton, “CVD of Cobalt Sulfide, Selenides or
Phosphides from Dichalcogenoimidodiphosphinato Complexes: Deposition, Spectroscopic and
Computational Studies”. Manuscript In Preparation
24. Gemma Stansfield, Karthik Ramasamy, John P. Thomas, Paul O’Brien, “ZnS and CdS Thin
Films at Water/Toluene Interface Using Zinc and Cadmium Thio-biurets” Manuscript In
Preparation
25. Ahmed L. Abdelhady, Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad A. Malik and Paul O’Brien, “A Facile
Synthesis of In2S3 Nanorods and Nanowires from a Single Source Precursor” Manuscript In
Preparation
26. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad A. Malik and Paul O’Brien, “The Potential of Copper Zinc Tin
Sulfide Cu2ZnSnS4 in Solar Cell Applications” Manuscript In Preparation

Book Chapter(s)
1. Mohammad A. Malik, Karthik Ramasamy, Paul O’Brien, “Selenium and Tellurium Containing
Precursors for Semiconducting Materials” Edited by J. D. Woollins and R. Laitinen, Selenium
and Tellurium Chemistry, (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20699-3_9 Springer-Verlag Berlin
Heidelberg, 2011

Patents
1. Ramasubbu Chandrasekaran, Mamidala Rajanikanth, Arjunan Desinghu, Ramasamy Karthik,
Siripragada Mahender Rao, “An Improved process for the preparation of Clopidogrel”, WO
2007/144729 A1; IN200601018-14
2. Thangavel Arulmoli, Mahender Rao Siripragada, Muthulingam Arunagiri, Karthik Ramasamy,
“Method for the Preparation of an Intermediate of Duloxetine Hydrochloride”, 1472/CHE/2007;
IN 200701472-14
Conference Abstracts
1. ZnS, CdS and ZnxCd1-xS Thin Films from Zn(II) and Cd(II) Complexes of 1, 1, 5, 5-Tetramethyl- 2-4-dithiobiuret as Single Molecular Precursors. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad Malik, Paul
O'Brien, James Raftery, Graduate Research Conference, the University of Manchester, 17th
Sept, 2008.
2. ZnS, CdS and ZnxCd1-xS Thin Films from Zn(II) and Cd(II) Complexes of 1, 1, 5, 5-Tetramethyl - 2-4-dithiobiuret As Single Molecular Precursors. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad Malik, Paul
O'Brien, James Raftery,MM.4.40, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA.
2-6, Dec- 2008.
3. Cobalt Sulfide Nanostructures from Single Molecular Precursors. Karthik Ramasamy,
Mohammad Malik, Paul O’Brien, P609_004, 42nd IUPAC international congress, Glasgow, 2-7, Aug-2009. 4. A Greener Route to Metal Selenide and Telluride Nanoparticles. Neerish Revaprasadu, Olawatobi S. Oluwafemi, Nhlankipho Mntungwa and Karthik Ramasamy, P608_12, 42nd
IUPAC international congress, Glasgow, 2-7, Aug-2009
5. The Deposition of Nickel Sulfide or Copper Sulfide Thin Film Nanostructures by AACVD. Karthik Ramasamy, Mohammad Malik, Paul O’Brien, P33, Nanoparticles-2009, Liverpool, 2-4,
Sept-2009.
6. Novel Methods for Metal Chalcogenide Thin Films or Nanostructures, Karthik Ramasamy,
Mohammad Malik, Neerish Revaprasadu, Paul O’Brien, NS 13, ICONSAT-2010, Mumbai, India, 17-20 Feb-2010 Media Article
1. Article mentioning my work in South Africa, SA Mail & Guardian, 2010, Feb12-18, p32.

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