ASSSTANT PROFFESOR (OG)

Nano Electronics, MEMS & NEMS

Gas Sensors, Nano Fabrication

1. M. Amarnath, A. Heiner, K. Gurunathan, Highly Sensitive Room Temperature Liquefied Petroleum Gas Sensor based on CoSnO2 Nanotetragonals Deposited Graphene Layers, Syn. Met., 270 (2020) 116607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2020.116607 (I.F - 4.000)
2. M. Amarnath, A. Heiner, K. Gurunathan, Size controlled V2O5-WO3 Nano-Islands Coated Polypyrrole Matrix: A Unique Nanocomposite for Effective Room Temperature Ammonia Detection, Sens. & Act. A: Phy., 313 (2020) 112211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2020.112211 (I.F - 4.291)
3. Heiner Albaris, Gurunathan Karuppasamy, Inspection of Room Temperature Hydrogen Sensing Property of Nanostructured Polypyrrole/Polyaniline Hetero-junctions Synthesized by One-pot Interfacial Polymerization, Mat. Chem. & Phy. 250 (2020) 123153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2020.123153 (I.F - 4.778)
4. Heiner Albaris, Gurunathan Karuppasamy, Investigation of NH3 Gas Sensing Behavior of Intercalated PPy – GO – WO3 Hybrid Nanocomposite at Room Temperature, Mat. Sci. & Engg. B 257 (2020) 114558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2020.114558 (I.F - 3.407)
5. M. Amarnath, A. Heiner, K. Gurunathan, Surface bound nanostructures of ternary r-GO / Mn3O4/V2O5 system for room temperature selectivity of hydrogen gas, Cera. Int. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2019.11.229 (I.F - 5.532)
6. Heiner Albaris, Gurunathan Karuppasamy, CuO–ZnO p–n junction enhanced oxygen sensing property of polypyrrole nanocomposite at room temperature, J. of Mat. Sci.: Mat. in Elec. 30 (2019) 9989–9998. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-019-01341-w (I.F - 2.779)
7. Heiner Albaris, Gurunathan Karuppasamy, Fabrication of room temperature liquid petroleum gas sensor based on PAni–CNT–V2O5 hybrid nanocomposite, Appl. Nanosci. 9(8) (2019) 1719 – 1729. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-019-00967-w (I.F - 3.869)

1. Presented a paper entitled “Room Temperature CO Gas Sensor based on CuO-ZnO loaded Polypyrrole Nano Composite” in International Conference on “Frontier Areas in Chemical Technologies – 2016 (FACTs 2016)” held at Alagappa University, Karaikudi during March 21 – 23, 2016.
2. Presented a paper entitled “Mixed Metal Oxide loaded Polypyrrole Nano Composite for Room Temperature Oxygen Sensing Application” in National Seminar on “Hydrogen Energy and Related Advanced Materials (HEAM 2017)” held at University of Kerala, Trivandrum during March 16 – 17, 2017.
3. Presented a paper entitled “A Study of LPG Sensor Using Nano-Structured Polypyrrole Composite as a Sensing Material” in International Conference on “Frontier Areas in Chemical Technologies – 2017 (FACTs 2017)” held at Alagappa University, Karaikudi during July 06 – 08, 2017.
4. Presented a paper entitled “Reducing gas sensing property of polypyrrole/polyaniline conducting polymer blends synthesized by interfacial polymerization” in National Symposium on “Advances in Functional and Exotic Materials” held at SRM Hotel, Thiruchirappalli during February 14 – 16, 2018.
5. Presented a paper entitled “CuO-ZnO p-n Junction Enhanced Oxygen Sensing Property of Polypyrrole Nanocomposite at Room Temperature” in International Conference on “Advanced Nanomaterials (ICAN – 2018)” held at Alagappa University, Karaikudi during February 26 – 27, 2018.
6. Presented a paper entitled “Fabrication of Room Temperature Liquid Petroleum Gas Sensor based on PAni – CNT – V2O5 Hybrid Nanocomposite” in International Conference on “Advancements in Polymeric Materials (APM 2019)” held at CIPET, Chennai during January 22 – 24, 2019.
7. Presented a paper entitled “Investigation of NH3 Gas Sensing Behavior of Intercalated PPy – GO – WO3 Hybrid Nanocomposite at Room Temperature” in International Conference on “Applied Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICANN – 2019)” held at Alagappa University, Karaikudi during February 18 – 19, 2019.
8. Presented a paper entitled “Room Temperature Hydrogen Sensing Property of Polypyrrole/Polyaniline Conducting Polymer Blends Synthesized by Interfacial Polymerization” in International Conference on “Frontier Areas in Chemical Technologies – 2019 (FACTs 2019)” held at Alagappa University, Karaikudi during July 25 – 26, 2019.
9. Presented a paper entitled “Fabrication of Room Temperature Liquid Petroleum Gas Sensor based on PAni – CNT – V2O5 Hybrid Nanocomposite” in International Conference on “Advanced Materials for Sustainable Energy and Sensors (INCAMSES - 2019)” held at Alagappa University, Karaikudi during September 16 – 17, 2019 and has won The “BEST POSTER PRESENTER AWARD”.
10. Presented a paper entitled “Investigation of NH3 Gas Sensing Behavior of Intercalated PPy – GO – WO3 Hybrid Nanocomposite at Room Temperature” in International Conference on “Advances in Chemical Sciences and Technologies (ACST – 2019)” held at NIT, Warangal during September 23 – 25, 2019.
11. Presented a paper entitled “Investigation of NH3 Gas Sensing Behavior of Intercalated PPy – GO – WO3 Hybrid Nanocomposite at Room Temperature” in International Conference on “Advanced Materials Congress (AMC – 2019)” held at Hotel Holiday Inn, Singapore during October 21 – 22, 2019.
12. Presented a Paper entitled “CuO-ZnO p-n Junction Enhanced Oxygen Sensing Property of Polypyrrole Nanocomposite at Room Temperature” in International Conference on “Nanomaterials Driven Advances in Chemical and Biosensors (NANOSE – 2019)” held at Alagappa University, Karaikudi during November 27 – 29, 2019.
13.  Demonstrated a project entitled “Fabrication of Room Temperature LPG Sensor Device using PAni – CNT – V2O5 Hybrid Nanocomposite as Sensing Material” in “South Zone Student Research Convention (Anveshan – 2020)” held at Bharathidasan Univesity, Tiruchirappalli during January 21-23, 2020.

• Investigation of Sensing Parameters of Highly Sensitive PPy/SnO2 Nano Composites towards Ammonia Gas at Room Temperature (Under Review)
• Review Article on MXene Hybrid Nanocomposites Based Gas Sensors (Under Process
• Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene Oxide Anchored with PAni/SnO2 Nano Composites for Room Temperature LPG Gas Sensing Application (Under Review)
• Synthesis and Characterization of Polypyrrole - CeO2 Nano Composite for LPG Sensing Application (Under Review)

• An Innovative Flexible Lab on Paper (LoP) as Wearable Device Based on 2-D Ti3C2 MXene - MO Layered Hetero-junction to Detect Hazardous Gases (Under Review)
• Development of innovative PPy-CNT-MO hybrid nanocomposites printed flexible gas sensing electrodes to detect hazardous gases (Under Review)
• A Study on impact of the bending angle in the sensitivity of 2-D MXene - MO based flexible gas sensing electrodes  (Under Process)
• Smart wearable bio-compatible graphene oxide - TiO2 gas sensing electrodes to monitor the quality of air in the environment  (Under Process)

A

• Working as Assistant Professor in Saveetha Engineering College from February 2023 to till now.
• Patents Published
• Gurunathan Karuppasamy, Heiner Albaris, A Gas Sensing Device And Implementations 
• Thereof 

• One week Faculty Development Program on “Computational Modelling of Materials”  from May 08, 2023 to May 12, 2023 Organized by Department of Physics, Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science, Andhra Pradesh
• FDP on ‘Sensors and Measurements’ department of Biomedical Engineering, Alpha College of Engineering from 03/08/2023 to 05/08/2023
• Short term course on ‘Refresher Course in Nanoscience and Instrumentation’ scheduled from 11/09/2023 to 22/09/2023 to be conducted by NITTTR, Chandigarh.

• Involved in process optimization on various tools inside the clean room and device characterization of gas sensors to build a novel gas sensing device/prototype at CeNSE, IISc and air quality monitoring during PSLV - C51 launch at SDSC - SHAR (ISRO), Sriharikotta. 
• Organized a National Workshop on “Advanced Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy 
• and Sensors Applications (AN-SEA 2020)” as Organizing Secretary held at Alagappa 
• University, Karaikudi during 4 - 6 March, 2020.
•  Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), MHRD, Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. 
• Of India sponsored to present a paper entitled “Investigation of NH3 Gas Sensing 
• Behavior of Intercalated PPy – GO – WO3 Hybrid Nanocomposite at Room Temperature” 
• in International Conference on “Advanced Materials Congress (AMC – 2019)” held at 
• Hotel Holiday Inn, Singapore during October 21 – 22, 2019. 
• Best Poster Award in “International Conference on Advanced Materials for Sustainable 
• Energy and Sensors INCAMSES – 2019” held at Alagappa University, Karaikudi during 
• September 16 & 17, 2019. Awardee of RUSA PhD Fellowship from MHRD, Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. of India during April - 2019 - March 2020. 
• Indian Nano Users Program (INUP), A Project of MeitY, Govt. of India sponsored to 
• participate “INUP Hands-on Training Workshop on Nanofabrication Technologies”, held 
• at IIT Bombay, Mumbai during September 24 - 28, 2018. 
• Awardee of DST - PURSE Fellowship from MHRD, Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. of 
• India during Sep - 2017 - April 2019. 
• Best Poster Award in National Conference on “Physics of Bulk and Nano Materials & 
• Devices PBAND – 2015” held at Anna University, BIT Campus, Thiruchirappalli during 
• March19 & 20, 2015