CURRICULUM VITAE

S. ABRAHAM JOHN

 

Faculty                                               Rural Oriented Sciences

Department                                      Chemistry

Designation                                      Lecturer

Date of Birth                                      22-05-1968

Address for correspondence

   

Office              Department of Chemistry               Residence     3-2-25/4A, Muthamil Nagar

                        Gandhigram Rural Institute                                    Chinnalapatti-624 301

                        (Deemed University)                                                Dindigul

                        Gandhigram-624 302, Dindigul

                        Tamil Nadu, INDIA

                        Phone    91-451-2452371                                          Phone     91-451-2451979

                        e-mail     abrajohn@yahoo.co.in

 

 

Education

                       

1985-1988                                           Bachelor of Science

Bharathidasan University

                      

1988-1990                                          Master of Science                                                                                                                                                   Bharathidasan University

 

1990-1991                                           Master of Philosophy

Madurai Kamaraj University

 

1991-1996                                           Doctor of Philosophy

Title: “Studies on Molecules Absorbed into Nafion Coated Electrodes

Madurai Kamaraj University

1996-1999                                           Doctor of Engineering

Title: “Electrochemical and in situ FT-IR Spectroscopic Studies of Asymmetric Alkylviologens on Electrode Surfaces”

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan


1999-2001                                           JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Japan

Appointments

 

2001-2002                                                                               Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, The American College,   Madurai

 

2002-till date                                  Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Gandhgram Rural Institute (Deemed University), Gandhigram

 

 

Research Experience                                9 years

 

1991-1996                  Ph.D.                           Dr. Ramaraj Laboratory

                                                                        School of Chemistry

                                                                        Madurai Kamaraj University

                                                                        Madurai

 

1996-1999                   D.Eng.                                    Professor Takeo Ohsaka Laboratory

Department of Electronic Chemistry

                                                                        Tokyo Institute of Technology

                                                                        4259 Nagatsuta, Yokohama

                                                                        Japan

 

1999-2001                   Post-Doc                    Professor Noboru Oyama Laboratory    

                                                                        Department of Applied Chemistry

                                                                        Tokyo University of Agri & Tech.

                                                                        Koganei, Tokyo

                                                                        Japan

 

Teaching Experience                               2 years

 

Teaching

 

I am responsible for teaching Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry

Papers in the UG and PG levels

 

Current area of research             

 

Chemically modified electrode surfaces-electrode surface modified with self-assembled monolayers of organosulfur compounds and conducting polymers- sol-gel electrodes-metal nanoparticles-kinetics and mechanisms of electrochemical reactions at electrode surface-electrocatalysis-biosensors-environmental electrochemistry

 

Awards/Fellowship

 

1994                Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.

 

1996                Research Fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and  Culture (MONBUSHO), Japan.

 

1999                                Post-doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan.

 

2003                Young Scientist Project awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, India

 

List of articles published in cited journals                    20

 

20.       Microenvironmental Effects on the Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Properties of Thionine Loaded Nafion Films

            S.A. John and R. Ramaraj

            J. Electroanal. Chem. (in press)

 

19.       Studies on the interaction between underpotentially deposited copper and 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole adsorbed on gold electrode

S.A. John, O. Hatozaki and N. Oyama

Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis (Elsevier) 132 (2001) 943.

 

18.       Multielectrochromic properties of methylene blue and phenosafranine dyes incorporated into Nafion film

V. Ganesan, S.A. John and R. Ramaraj

J. Electroanal. Chem. 502 (2001) 167.

 

17.       Alkanethiol Structure and Supporting Electrolyte Effects on the Electrochemical and in Situ Fourier Transform IR Spectral Properties of Asymmetric Alkyl Viologen on the Electrode Surface

S.A. John, F. Kitamura, K. Tokuda and T. Ohsaka

Langmuir 16 (2000) 876.

 

16.       Structural Effects on the Electrochemical  and Spectroelectrochemical properties of  Asymmetric Viologen on the Electrode Surface

S.A. John, F. Kitamura, K. Tokuda and T. Ohsaka

J. Electroanal. Chem., 492 (2000) 137.

 

15.       Can N-ethyl-N’-octadecyl Viologen Dimerize on Octadecanethiol-coated Gold Electrode?

S.A. John, F. Kitamura, K. Tokuda and T. Ohsaka

Electrochim. Acta 45 (2000) 4041.

14.       Electrochemical and EQCM Studies on the Assembly of Asymmetric Viologen on Bare and Alkanethiol-Coated Au Electrodes

S.A. John and T. Ohsaka

J. Electroanal. Chem. 477 (1999) 52.

 

13.       Stabilization of the Assemblies of Short Chain Asymmetric Viologens Using  Alkanethiol-Coated Electrodes

S.A. John and T. Ohsaka

      Electrochim. Acta  45 (1999) 1127

12.       Use of Alkanethiol Coated Electrodes to Study the Importance of Water Content on the Electrochemical Behavior of N-Ethyl-N-Octadecylviologen on the Electrode Surface

S.A. John, F. Kitamura, N. Nanbu, K. Tokuda and T. Ohsaka

Langmuir 15 (1999) 3816.

 

11.       A Monomer-Dimer Equilibrium in Self-Assembled Monolayers of N-Ethyl-N-Octadecylviologen on the Electrode Surface.  Influence of Water Content and Hexafluorophosphate Ion

S.A. John, T. Okajima and T. Ohsaka

J. Electroanal. Chem. 466 (1999) 67.

 

10.       Electrocatalytic Reduction of Dioxygen by the Assembly of Asymmetric Viologen on Gold Electrodes

S.A. John and T. Ohsaka

J. Deuterium Sci. 8 (1999) 17.

 

9.         Comparative Electrochemistry of Phenothiazine Dyes Incorporated into Nafion and Poly(styrencesulfonate) Films

S.A. John and R. Ramaraj

Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 110 (1998) 115.

 

8.         Electrochemical Study on Monomer-Dimer Equilibria of a Series of Monolayers of Asymmetric Viologens on the Electrode Surface in the Presence of Hexafluorophosphate Ion

      S.A. John, H. Kasahara, T. Okajima, K. Tokuda and T. Ohsaka

      J. Electroanal. Chem. 436 (1997) 267.

 

7.      Regulation of Dye Assembly within Wet and Dry Nafion Films

S.A. John and R. Ramaraj

J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 65 (1997) 777.

 

6.         Electrochemical, In-Situ  Spectrocyclic Voltammetric and Electrochromic Stuides of Phenosafranine in Nafion Film

      S.A. John and R. Ramaraj

      J. Electroanal. Chem. 424 (1997) 49.

 

5.         Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Studies of Phenothiazine Dyes Immobilized in Nafion Films

S.A. John and R. Ramaraj

Langmuir 12 (1996) 5689.

 

4.         Role of Acidity on the Electrochemical Behavior of Prussian Blue at Nafion Coated Electrodes

S.A. John and R. Ramaraj

Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 107 (1995) 371.

 

3.         Influence of Polymer Structure on the Electrochemistry of Phenothiazine Dyes           Incorporated into Nafion Films

S.A. John and R. Ramaraj

J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 90 (1994) 1241.

 

2.         Photoelectrochemical Studies of Methylene Blue and Tris(2,2-       bipyridine)ruthenium(II) Molecules at Chemically Modified Electrodes

S.A. John, K.V. Gobi  and R. Ramaraj

Bull. Electrochem. 9 (1993) 269.

 

1.         Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactions at Methylene Blue Adsorbed Nafion and Clay Coated Electrodes

S.A. John, K.V. Gobi, A. Ramasubbu and R. Ramaraj

Res. Chem. Intermedi. 18 (1992) 203.

 

 

Papers presented at International/National Conferences/Seminar            

 

1.      Influence of Nafion film structure on the photophysical and photoelectrochemical properties of phenothiazine dyes bound to tetrabutylammonium ion-exchanged Nafion films

S.A. John and R. Ramaraj

Eleventh International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy, IPS 11, Bangalore, India, 1996

 

2.      Electrochemical and EQCM Studies on SAMs of Asymmetric Viologens on theElectrode Surface

S.A. John, T. Okajima, K. Tokuda and T. Ohsaka

International Society of Electrochemistry, 49th Annual Meeting, Kitakyushu, Japan, 1998.

 

3.      Selective Electrochemical Detection of Electroinactive Anion Using the Assembly of Asymmetric Viologen on the Electrode Surface

S.A. John, T. Okajima, K. Tokuda and T. Ohsaka

Joint International Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, October, 1999.

 

     4.    Studies on the interaction between underpotentially deposited copper and 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole adsorbed on gold electrode

S.A. John, O. Hatozaki and N. Oyama

International Conference on Colloid and Interface Science, Arcadia Ichigaya, Tokyo, November 2000.

 

     5.    Self-assembled monolayers of 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole on underpotentially copper-deposited gold electrodes

S.A. John and N. Oyama

International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2000.

 

6.     Copper-catalyzed Organosulfur Cathodes for Lithium Rechargeable Batteries

S.A. John, O. Hatozaki and N. Oyama

2nd Battery Materials Meeting, Chuo University, Tokyo, June 2000.

 

7.      Mediated Underpotential  Deposition of Cu Using the Self-assembled Monolayers of Hetrocyclic Thiol

         S.A. John, O. Hatozaki and N. Oyama

         Current Trends in Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University, July 2003

 

 

List of Projects Operating                          

           

Name of the project

Supporting Agency

Amount (Rs)

Period

Young Scientist

Department of Science & Technology

9.6 lakhs

3 years (2003-2006)

 

Membership in National/International Bodies

 

Member of the Chemical Society of Japan

Life Member of Council of Research Society of India (CRSI)

Member of the SAEST, Karaikudi

 

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