DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Chemistry
Dr. M.Asha Jhonsi
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| Designation | : | Associate Professor |
| Nature of Employment | : | Regular |
| Qualification | : | M.Sc.,Ph.D |
| Email ID | : | asha@crescent.education |
Teaching
Educational Background
| Programme | Discipline | University | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Chemistry | Bharathidasan University | 2010 |
| M.Sc. | Chemistry | Bharathidasan University | 2006 |
| B.Sc. | Chemistry | Bharathidasan University | 2004 |
Teaching Experience
| Designation | Employer | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor | BSACIST | 10.07.2023 – till date |
| Assistant Professor (Selection Grade) | BSACIST | 11.07.2020 – 09.07.2023 |
| Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) | BSACIST | 12.07.2015 – 10.07.2020 |
| Assistant Professor | BSACIST | 20.06.2011 – 11.07.2015 |
Industrial Experiance
| Designation | Employer | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Post-doctoral Consultant | General Electronics,Bangalore | July 2010-June 2011 |
Research
Areas of Research Interest
- Photoinduced interaction studies of luminescent molecules
- Surface functionalization of nanoparticles and Quantum Dots
- Carbonaceous nanomaterials from green resources for diverse applications
- Optimization of materials for DSSCs, QDSSCs and Perovskites solar cells.
- Waste to value added product conversion
Sponsored Research Project
| S.No. | Agency | Title of the project | Amount | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DST-SERB (for young scientists) | Synthesis, Characterization and Optimization of Quantum Dots on TiO2 surface for Quantum dot solar cells | 19.76 lakhs | 2014-2017 |
| 2 | SERB-TARE (Teachers Associateship for Research Excellence) | Light induced process of Hierarchical electron cascade system, Materials and Devices for Solar energy conversion | 18.30 laksh | 2018-2021 |
| 3 | TNSCST-SPS | Carbonaceous nanomaterial derived from Tridax procumbens for Bandage tape manufacturing with high Wound Healing Efficiency | Rs. 7,500/- | 2021-22 |
| 4 | TNSCST-SPS | Development of Aggregation Induced Emission active fluorescent powder for forensic applications | Rs. 7,500/- | 2022-23 |
| 5 | Crescent Seed Grant | “Light-Induced process of Carbonaceous nanomaterial/Semiconductor composite an electron transport system:Material and devices for quantum dot solar cell” | Rs. 50,000/- | 2022-23 |
Research Supervision
| Course | Ph.D |
|---|---|
| Completed | 02 |
| Ongoing | 01 |
| Course | M.Sc. Chemistry |
| Completed | 23 |
| Ongoing | 02 |
Research Publications
| Total No. of Journal Publications | 50 |
| Conference Proceedings | 02 |
| Book Chapter | 01 |
| Highest Impact Factor | 17.6 |
| Average Impact Factor | 2.5 |
| Scopus H-Index | 20 |
| i-10 Index | 28 |
| Total no. of Citations | 1275 |
Awards and Distinctions
| IASc-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellowship, Science Academies (2023) |
| Best Faculty Female Award, BSACIST (2021) |
| Best Young Faculty Award – 2019 (Crescent Institute) |
| TARE Fellowship – 2018-21 (SERB INDIA) |
| Young Scientist Start – Up Research Grant – 2014-17 (DST-SERB) |
Publications of last 5 years (2020-2024)
- Venkatramanan Kumar, Arunkumar Kathiravan, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Beyond lead halide perovskites: Crystal structure, bandgaps, photovoltaic properties and future stance of lead-free halide double perovskites, Nano Energy 125 (2024) 109523.
- Venkatesan Srinivasan, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Highly luminescent heteroatom codoped carbon dots for multitudinous applications, Materials Today Communications 38 (2024) 107895.
- Rekha Yamini Kosuru, Venkatesan Srinivasan, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Biomass-derived potential nano-biomaterials: Protein binding, anti-biofilmactivity and bio-imaging, J. Mol. Struc. 1300 (2024) 137155.
- Arunkumar Kathiravan,Suguna Premkumar and Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Nanoarchitectonics of Melia Dubia flowers to fluorescent carbon dots and its Ferritin sensing, Colloids and Surfaces A 681 (2024) 132824.
- Arunkumar Kathiravan, Mahalakshmi Narayanan, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi,
- Venkattappan Anbazhagan, Receptor-free phenothiazine derivative as fluorescent probe for picric acid: Investigation of the inner filter effect channel, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 303 (2023) 123166
- Arunkumar Kathiravan, Sekar Thulasi, Trevor A. Smith, Muthupandian Ashokkumar and Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Nanoarchitectonics of Congo red dye to biocompatible fluorescent carbon dots for highly sensitive Fe3+ and ferritin detection, Analyst, (2023), 148, 137
- Arunkumar Kathiravan, Tamilvelan Manjunathan, Marappan Velusamy, Ajay Guru, Jesu Arockiaraj, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Pushparathinam Gopinath, Nano-sized aggregation induced emissive probe for highly sensitive hypochlorous acid detection, Dyes and Pigments 210 (2023) 111016
- Winaki P Sohtun, Arunkumar Kathiravan, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Md. Aashique, Arunkumar Kathiravan, IoT Enabled Dye Sensitized Solar Soumen Bera, MarappanVelusamy, Synthesis, crystal structure, BSA binding and antibacterial studies of Ni(II) complexes derived from dithiocarbazate based ligands, Inorg. Chim. Acta 536 (2022) 120888.
- Arunkumar Kathiravan, Selvaraj Sengottiyan, Tomasz Puzyn, Pushparathinam Gopinath, Kanagachidambaresan Ramasubramanian, Praveen Ayyappan Susila, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Rapid Colorimetric Discrimination of Cyanide Ions – Mechanistic Insights and Applications, Anal. Methods 14 (2022) 518-525.
- Arunkumar Kathiravan and Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Immersion Solvent Dependent Photophysical and Photovoltaic Properties of Porphyrin/TiO2 Interface, Chem. Phys. Lett. 781 (2021) 138963.
- Selvakumar Murugesan, Srinivasan Venkatesan, Dinesh Kumar L, Meenakshi RV, Sasidharan J, Arunkumar Kathiravan, Meenakshi Subbaraman Adyanpuram Muthukumar Nadar, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Sivasudha T and Suresh Kumar, Evaluation of anti- rheumatic properties of thymol using carbon dots as nanocarrier on FCA induced arthritic rats, Food & Function 12 (2021) 5038-5050.
- Srinivasan Venkatesan, Jagadeeswari Sivanadanam, Kothandaraman Ramanujam and Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Delineating the Enhanced Efficiency of Carbon Nanomaterials Included Hierarchical Architecture of Photoanode of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, Mater. Adv. 1 (2020) 2964-2970.
- Themmila Khamrang, Marappan Velusamy, Mohan Ramesh, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Madhavan Jaccob, Kanagachidambaresan RamasubramanianCells –An effective embedded tool toward monitoring the outdoor device performance, RSC Adv. 10 (2020) 35787–35791.
- Venkatesan Srinivasan, Themmila Khamrang, Chairman Ponraj, Dhandayutham Saravanan, Rekha Yamini, Soumen Bera, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Pyrene based Schiff Bases: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Antibacterial and BSA binding studies, J. Mol. Struc. 1225 (2021) 129153.
- Venkatesan Srinivasan, Arunkumar Kathiravan, Murugavel Kathiresan, Giribabu Krishnan, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 403 (2020) 112855.
- Arunkumar Kathiravan, Annasamy Gowri, Venkatesan Srinivasan, Trevor A. Smith, Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, A Simple and Ubiquitous Device for Picric Acid Detection in Latent Fingerprints using Carbon Dots, Analyst 145 (2020) 4532–4539.
- Sekar Thulasi, Arunkumar Kathiravan, and Mariadoss Asha Jhonsi, Fluorescent Carbon Dots Derived from Vehicle Exhaust Soot and Sensing of Tartrazine in Soft Drinks, ACS Omega 12 (2020) 7025-7031.
