Physics

Faculty Details

Karthikeyan Jeyakumar Assistant Professor
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Joined the Institute in 29.07.2022
kjeyakumar[dot]phy[at]nitdgp[dot]ac[dot]in
Publication

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Publications

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Sponsored Projects

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Consultancy Projects
Education

1

Doctoral Students

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Continuing Education

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PG Dissertation
Education

Academic Profile

Year Degree College/Department Institution/University
2013 – 2018 Ph.D. Functional Materials Division AcSIR at CECRI, India
2009 – 2011 M.Sc., Physics School of Physics Madurai Kamaraj University, India
2006 – 2009 B.Sc., Physics Department of Physics, VHNSN College Madurai Kamaraj University, India

 

Work Experiences

Research Profile

Year Position College/Department Institution/University
Aug. 2022 – To date Assistant Professor Department of Physics NIT, Durgapur
2020 – July 2022 DST Inspire Faculty Department of Sciences and Humanities RGIPT, Jais, India
2018 – 2020 Post Doctoral Fellow Department of Applied Physics Aalto University, Finland
2011 – 2013 Junior Research Fellow Functional Materials Division CSIR-CECRI, India

                                      

Research Interest
  • Density Functional Thoery Calculations
  • Atomic and Electronic Structure
  • Nanomaterials
  • Physics of Elelectocatalyst
  • Photochemical Reaction
Teachings

NIT Durgapur

At NIT Durgapur, I teach Engineering Physics (1 and 2nd Sem) and Physics of Engineering Materials (3rd Sem) to undergraduate students and Condensed Matter Physics II & III, Physics of Nanomaterials, and Photonics to postgraduate students.

RGIPT Jais
I taught Classical Physics (2 Sem) and Modern Physics (1 Sem) to undergraduate students at RGIPT, Jais, India. I have guided two undergraduate projects at RGIPT, Jais

UG / PG Students

Soumyadeep Bhattacharyya

Soumyadeep Bhattacharyya

PhD at IIT Goa
Electronic Structure of Superatoms
Soumyadeep Bhattacharyya

Soumyadeep Bhattacharyya

PhD at IIT Goa
Electronic Structure of Superatoms
Kaushik Biswas

Kaushik Biswas

CSIR Aspirent
Superatoms, Electronic Structure, Density Functional Theory
Kaushik Biswas

Kaushik Biswas

CSIR Aspirent
Superatoms, Electronic Structure, Density Functional Theory

Doctoral Students

Dolan Acharya

Dolan Acharya

Research Scholar
Electronic Structure, Superatoms, Catalysis
Theoretical Design of Superatom-Based Catalyst From Density Functional Theory Calculations Approach
Dolan Acharya

Dolan Acharya

Research Scholar
Electronic Structure, Superatoms, Catalysis
Theoretical Design of Superatom-Based Catalyst From Density Functional Theory Calculations Approach

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 High Throughput Density Functional Calculations to Develop Electrochemically Active Cluster Compounds for Multifarious Applications. Karthikeyan Jeyakumar NIL Department of Science and Technology 3,500,000 Sponsored Ongoing 2020-09-04 2025-09-03

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 High Throughput Density Functional Calculations to Develop Electrochemically Active Cluster Compounds for Multifarious Applications. Karthikeyan Jeyakumar NIL Department of Science and Technology 3,500,000 Sponsored Ongoing 2020-09-04 2025-09-03

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
Indexing

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Journals

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2024 1. Hydroxylamine Promoted In Situ Growth of Fe2O3/Ni3N Nanospikes on a Ni Surface for an Effective Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Arpan Tewary, Santosh Semwal, Renna Shakir, Jeyakumar Karthikeyan, Akhoury Sudhir Kumar Sinha, Umaprasana Ojha ACS Applied Nano Materials 7 & 15923–15931 SCI 10.1021/acsanm.4c02787 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsanm.4c02787 2024
2024 2. Single-Atomic Co–N4 Sites with CrCo Nanoparticles for Metal–Air Battery-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Shadab Saifi, Gargi Dey, Renna Shakir, Jeyakumar Karthikeyan, Ravi Kumar, D Bhattacharyya, ASK Sinha, Arshad Aijaz Inorganic Chemistry 63, 16, 7218–7232 SCI 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c04443 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c04443 2024
2024 3. Unlocking Exceptional CO2 Reduction Selectivity at Neutral Conditions: A First-Principles Study on Chlorinated Single Iron Doped Graphitic Carbon Nitride R Shakir, HP Komsa, K Kumar Paswan, ASK Sinha, J Karthikeyan The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128 (13), 5505-5514 SCI 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c07748 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c07748 2024
2024 4. Metalloid-doping in SMoSe Janus layers: First-principles study on efficient catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction Muthu Vallinayagam, Jeyakumar Karthikeyan, Matthias Posselt, D Murali, Matthias Zschornak Journal of Materials Chemistry A 12 & 7742-7753 SCI 10.1039/D3TA07243F Royal Society of Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TA07243F 2024
2023 5. NiFeOOH-Co9S8-Intercalated Nanostructure Arrays for Energy-Efficient H2 Production and Sulfion Oxidation at High Current Density Santosh Semwal, Renna Shakir, Jeyakumar Karthikeyan, Akhoury Sudhir Kumar Sinha, Umaprasana Ojha ACS Applied Nano Materials 6, 20, 18945–18956 SCI 10.1021/acsanm.3c03438 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsanm.3c03438 2023
2023 6. A DFT study of ammonia decomposition mechanism on electronically modified Fe3N surface by doping molybdenum Diksha Praveen Pathak, Anwesh Kumar, Balathanigaimani Marriyappan Sivagnanam, A. S. K. Sinha, J. Karthikeyan The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127, 33, 16442–16452 SCI 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04207 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04207 2023
2023 7. Electronic Origin of Enhanced Selectivity Through the Halogenation of Single Mn Atom on Graphitic C3N4 for Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 from First Principles Calculations Renna Shakir; Hannu-Pekka Komsa; Akhoury Sudhir Kumar Sinha; Jeyakumar Karthikeyan The Journal of Physical Chemistry 127 & 14694 – 14703 SCI 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c00597 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c00597 2023
2023 8. Coupling Single-Ni-Atom with Ni–Co Alloy Nanoparticle for Synergistically Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction Shadab Saifi, Gargi Dey, J. Karthikeyan, Ravi Kumar, D. Bhattacharyya, A.S.K. Sinha, and Arshad Aijaz Inorganic Chemistry 62 & 8200–8209 SCI https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00584 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00584 2023
2022 9. Origin of Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity in Direct Band Gap g-C3N4 Nanoribbons with Tunable Electronic Properties for Water-Splitting Reaction: A First-Principles Study Anwesh Kumar, Hannu-Pekka Komsa, Diksha Praveen Pathak, Balathanigaimani Marriyappan Sivagnanam, ASK Sinha, J Karthikeyan The Journal of Physical Chemistry C Volume 126 Pages 19627-19636 SCI 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03679 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03679 2022
2022 10. The upsurge of absorption coefficient in CuInS2 thin film with Ru doping: an energetic absorber layer in a superstrate solar cell Logu Thirumalaisamy, Soundarrajan Palanivel, Karthikeyan Jeyakumar, Sethuraman Kunjithapatham, Trystan Watson, Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu Materials Today Chemistry 26 & 101217 SCI 10.1016/j.mtchem.2022.101217 Elsevier https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468519422004463 2022
2022 11. MoS2 and WS2 Nanosheets Decorated on Metal-Organic Framework-Derived Cobalt/Carbon Nanostructures as Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Shadab Saifi, Gargi Dey, Jeyakumar Karthikeyan, A. S. K. Sinha, and Arshad Aijaz ACS Applied Nano Materials 5 & 10696–10703 SCI 10.1021/acsanm.2c02028 ACS https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.2c02028 2022
2021 12. Formation of Highly Doped Nanostripes in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides via a Dislocation Climb Mechanism Yung‐Chang Lin, Jeyakumar Karthikeyan, Yao‐Pang Chang, Shisheng Li, Silvan Kretschmer, Hannu‐Pekka Komsa, Po‐Wen Chiu, Arkady V Krasheninnikov, Kazu Suenaga Advanced Materials 33 & 2007819 SCI 10.1002/adma.202007819 Wiley-VCH GmbH https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202007819 2021
2021 13. Synthesis and Properties of Monolayer MnSe with Unusual Atomic Structure and Antiferromagnetic Ordering Markus Aapro, Md Nurul Huda, Jeyakumar Karthikeyan, Shawulienu Kezilebieke, Somesh C Ganguli, Héctor González Herrero, Xin Huang, Peter Liljeroth, Hannu-Pekka Komsa ACS Nano 15 & 13794–13802 SCI 10.1021/acsnano.1c05532 ACS https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.1c05532 2021
2021 14. Fe-doped CuGaS2 (CuGa1-xFexS2)-Detailed analysis of the intermediate band optical response of chalcopyrite thin films based on first principle calculations and experimental studies S. SubaViveka, T.Logu, N.Ahsan, J.Karthikeyan, P. Murugan, M.Sampath, S.Kalainath and Arunava Gupta, Y.Okada, K.Sethuraman Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 136 & 106133 SCI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2021.106133 Science Direct https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369800121004741 2021
2019 15. dz2 orbital-mediated bound magnetic polarons in ferromagnetic Ce-doped BaTiO3 nanoparticles and their enriched two-photon absorption cross-section P Senthilkumar, S Dhanuskodi, J Karthikeyan, P Murugan Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21 & 4032-4045 SCI 10.1039/C8CP06055J Royal Society of Chemistry https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2019/cp/c8cp06055j 2019
2019 16. Fluorine-enriched mesoporous carbon as efficient oxygen reduction catalyst: understanding the defects in porous matrix and fuel cell applications V Parthiban, B Bhuvaneshwari, J Karthikeyan, P Murugan, AK Sahu Nanoscale Advances 1 & 4926-4937 SCI 10.1039/C9NA00572B Royal Society of Chemistry https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/na/c9na00572b 2019
2019 17. Integration of phenylammoniumiodide (PAI) as a surface coating molecule towards ambient stable MAPbI3 perovskite for solar cell application KO Ogunniran, G Murugadoss, R Thangamuthu, J Karthikeyan, P. Murgan Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 191 & 316-328 SCI 10.1016/j.mtchem.2022.101217 North-Holland https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927024818305646 2019
2019 18. Room‐Temperature Ferromagnetism in MoTe2 by Post‐Growth Incorporation of Vanadium Impurities Paula Mariel Coelho, Hannu‐Pekka Komsa, Kinga Lasek, Vijaysankar Kalappattil, Jeyakumar Karthikeyan, Manh‐Huong Phan, Arkady V Krasheninnikov, Matthias Batzill Advanced Electronic Materials 5 & 1900044 SCI 10.1002/aelm.201900044 American Chemical Society https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/aelm.201900044 2019
2019 19. Which Transition Metal Atoms Can Be Embedded into Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Dichalcogenides and Add Magnetism? J Karthikeyan, Hannu-Pekka Komsa, Matthias Batzill, Arkady V Krasheninnikov Nano Letters 19 & 4581-4587 SCI 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01555 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01555 2019
2018 20. Exploring the Mechanism of Spontaneous and Lithium-Assisted Graphitic Phase Formation in SiC Nanocrystallites of a High Capacity Li-Ion Battery Anode TK Bijoy, J Karthikeyan, P Murugan The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121 & 15106-15113 SCI 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04489 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04489 2018
2018 21. Unveiling the multifunctional roles of hitherto known capping ligand oleic acid as blue emitter and sensitizer in tuning the emission colour to white in red-emitting phosphors S Sekar, J George Muller, J Karthikeyan, P Murugan, N Lakshminarasimhan Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20 & 19087-19097 SCI 10.1039/C8CP02954G Royal Society of Chemistry https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2018/cp/c8cp02954g 2018
2018 22. Borophene layers on an Al(111) surface – the finding of a borophene layer with hexagonal double chains and B9 nonagons using ab initio calculations J Karthikeyan, Yashasvi S Ranawat, P Murugan, Vijay Kumar Nanoscale 10 & 17198-17205 SCI 10.1039/C8NR04638G Royal Society of Chemistry https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2018/nr/c8nr04638g 2018
2017 23. Tuning of intrinsic antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic ordering in microporous α-MnO2 by inducing tensile strain G Kruthika, J Karthikeyan, P Murugan Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19 & 3770-3776 SCI 10.1039/C6CP07259C Royal Society of Chemistry https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/cp/c6cp07259c 2017
2017 24. Manifestation of Concealed Defects in MoS2 Nanospheres for Efficient and Durable Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Sakkarapalayam Murugesan Senthil Kumar, Karuppiah Selvakumar, Jeyakumar Karthikeyan, Rangasamy Thangamuthu, Palanichamy Murugan, Parasmani Rajput, Shambhu Nath Jha, Dibyendu Bhattacharyya, Nuria Navascues, Silvia Irusta Chemistry Select 2 & 4667-4672 SCI 10.1002/slct.201700103 Chemistry Europe https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/slct.201700103 2017
2016 25. First principles modeling of Mo6S9 nanowires via condensation of Mo4S6 clusters and the effect of iodine doping on structural and electronic properties Iflah Laraib, J Karthikeyan, P Murugan Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18 & 5471-5476 SCI 10.1039/C5CP06085K Royal Society of Chemistry https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2016/cp/c5cp06085k 2016
2016 26. Corrosion inhibition effect of novel methyl benzimidazolium ionic liquid for carbon steel in HCl medium Perumal Kannan, Jeyakumar Karthikeyan, Palanichamy Murugan, Toleti Subba Rao, Nallaiyan Rajendran Journal of Molecular Liquids 221 & 368-380 SCI 10.1016/j.molliq.2016.04.130 Elsevier https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167732216302914 2016
2015 27. Structural stability and bonding nature of Li–Sn–carbon nanocomposites as Li-ion battery anodes: first principles approach TK Bijoy, J Karthikeyan, P Murugan RSC advances 5 & 123-129 SCI 10.1039/C4RA11187G Royal Society of Chemistry https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015/ra/c4ra11187g 2015
2015 28. The Role of Valence Electron Concentration in Tuning the Structure, Stability, and Electronic Properties of Mo6S9–xIx Nanowires J Karthikeyan, Vijay Kumar, P Murugan The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119 & 13979-13985 SCI 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b04663 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b04663 2015
2015 29. Nitrogen and fluorine co-doped graphite nanofibers as high durable oxygen reduction catalyst in acidic media for polymer electrolyte fuel cells S Gouse Peera, AK Sahu, A Arunchander, SD Bhat, J Karthikeyan, P Murugan Carbon 93 & 130-142 SCI 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.05.002 Pergamon https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000862231500398X 2015
2014 30. Influence of Structural Polymorphs on Tunable White Light Generation from Orange-Red-Emitting BiPO4:Eu3+ Phosphor by Surface Modification J George Muller, J Karthikeyan, P Murugan, N Lakshminarasimhan The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118 & 19308-19314 SCI 10.1021/jp505454n American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jp505454n 2014
2013 31. Atomic structure and edge magnetism in MoS 2+ x parallelogram shaped platelets J Karthikeyan, Vijay Kumar, P Murugan Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15 & 13077-13082 SCI 10.1039/C3CP51499D Royal Society of Chemistry https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2013/cp/c3cp51499d 2013
2019 32. Computational Approach To Reveal the Structural Stability and Electronic Properties of Lithiated M/CNT (M = Si, Ge) Nanocomposites as Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries T. K. Bijoy, Karthikeyan J, and P. Murugan* ACS Omega 4 & 4153–4160 SCI 10.1021/acsomega.8b03433 American Chemical Society https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsomega.8b03433 2019

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Awards and Recognitions

Research Grants Awarded

  • DST-Inspire Faculty Award (Award No. DST/INSPIRE/04/2019/000283). This award carries a monthly salary of Rs. 1.25 Laks and a yearly project grant of Rs. 7,00,000 for the next five years (2020-2025).
  • CSIR selected me for the Senior Research Fellowship (Grant No. 31/20(145)/2015-EMRI). This fellowship covers a monthly stipend of Rs. 28,000 with a 10% housing rent allowance and a yearly contingency grant of Rs. 20,000 for three years (2015-2018).
  • Department of Science and Technology, Science and Engineering Research Board awarded me an international travel grant to participate in the IUMRS-ICEM-2016 conference held in Singapore. (Grant No. ITS/1366/201617). Rs. 55,000 was allocated for my travel.

Academic Awards Received

  • Selected as DST-Inspire Faculty for five years (2020-2025) to establish an independent research group in India.
  • Selected as CSIR-Senior Research Fellow (SRF) for three years (2015 – 2018) to continue my research at CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India.
  • Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Electronic Materials-2016, organized in Singapore by the International Union of Materials Research Society.
  • Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Advanced Materials for Power Engineering-2015 conference held in India.
  • Best Poster Award at the Winter School on “Frontier in Materials Science” – 2014 at India.
  • Best Poster Award at the IUMRS- International Conference on Advanced Materials – 2013 held in India.
  • Qualified in Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) exam – 2011 and joined as Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at CSIR- Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India.

B.Sc., Physics Gold Medal (College Level) – 2009.

Contact

Department of Physics
NIT Durgapur,
Mahatma Gandhi Avenue,
Durgapur - 713209,
West Bengal,
India.

Mobile: 9434789059

E-mail: kjeyakumar.phy@nitdgp.ac.in

Academic Identity

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0000-0002-1781-8357
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