Dr. P. Logesh Kumar

Assistant Professor (Research)

Mobile: +91-8489612970
Email ID (Personal) : logesh1297@gmail.com
Email ID (Official) : logeshkumar.p.irc@sathyabama.ac.in

Degree	Major	University	Year	Research Area/Title
B.Tech	Chemical Engineering	St. Joseph’s College of Engineering Chennai / Anna University	2012
M.Tech.	Chemical Engineering	A C Tech Campus / Anna University	2014
Ph.D.	Soft Matter (Polymers, Colloids, Dispersions)	Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai	2023	Patterns from Drying Drops - Role of Substrate Orientation, Surface Wettability and Particle Size

Synthesis of Anisotropic Colloidal and Nano Particles (Hematite, Polystyrene, PNIPAM, and Silica).
Evaporative Self - Assembly of Isotropic and Anisotropic Particles (Hematite, Polystyrene, PNIPAM, and Silica).
Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations of Particle Self - Assembly (Surfactants, proteins, Hematite, Polystyrene, PNIPAM and Silica Particles).
Biomolecular Self-Assembly (Blood Plasma, Proteins, etc..,).
Development of Wearable Sensors from Polymeric Particles.
Self - Assembly of Particles in an Ionic Liquid System (Hematite, Polystyrene, PNIPAM, and Silica in Ethyl Ammonium Nitrate).

Kumar, P. L., Thampi, S. P., & Basavaraj, M. G. (2021). Patterns from drops drying on inclined substrates. Soft Matter, 17(33),7670-7681. DOI:10.1039/d1sm00714a.
Konda, K., Moodakare, S. B., Kumar, P. L., Battabyal, M., Seth, J. R., Juvekar, V. A., & Gopalan, R. (2020). Comprehensive effort on electrode slurry preparation for better electrochemical performance of LiFePO4 battery. Journal of Power Sources, 480, 28837. DOI:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2020.228837.
Kumar, P. L., Thampi, S. P., & Basavaraj, M. G. (2020). Particle size and substrate wettability dependent patterns in dried pendant drops. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 33(2), 024003. DOI:10.1088/1361-648x/abb64e.
Kumar, P. L., Mondal, R., Thampi, S. P., & Basavaraj, M. G. (2019). Reply to comment on patterns in drying drops dictated by curvature-driven particle transport. Langmuir, 35(30), 9991-9993. DOI:10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b02139.
Mondal, R., Semwal S, Kumar, P. L., Thampi, S. P., & Basavaraj, M. G. (2018). Patterns in drying drops dictated by curvature-driven particle transport. Langmuir, 34, 11473-11483. DOI:p10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02051.

2021 : Designed the inside cover for 33rd issue of soft matter journal.
2017 : Second position in oral presentation in the conference ICN:3I at IIT Roorkee, India.
2012 : Departmental best outgoing student award for the chemical engineering batch 2008-2012.

Skills

Coding: Basics of Matlab, LATEX
Open Source Softwares: Gimp (a free and open source raster graphics photo editor), Inkscape (a free and open source vector graphics software), Blender (a free and open source 3D graphics software), and ImageJ (a free and open source java based image analysis software for scientists).