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Dr. B.L. Bhargava
Centre for Molecular Modeling and Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6323, USA
Email: bhargav@sas.upenn.edu
Dr. Bhargava B. L is a post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Michael L. Klein's group at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include modeling of materials and biological systems.
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Dr. Md Showkat Ali
Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284, USA
Email: msali@vcu.edu
Dr. Ali is a post-doctoral researcher in Professor Samy El-Shall’s group at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. He obtained his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from Dhaka University in Bangladesh, and his PhD from Kyungpook National University in South Korea. His research interests include synthesis, characterization and surface modifications of polymers, polymer nanocomposites, and mesoporous materials.
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Dr. K. S. Narayan
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Bangalore 560064, India
Email: narayan@jncasr.ac.in
Website: www.jncasr.ac.in/narayan
K.S. Narayan has been pursuing research activities in the area of organic photolvoltaics over the last decade. He obtained his MSc. Physics from IIT (Bombay) and Ph.D. from - The Ohio State University, USA in the area of Low dimensional Molecular Magnetism in 1991. Subsequently he was a Scientist at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton. Since 1994 he is at JNCASR, Bangalore where he is a professor and heads the molecular electronics laboratory. KSN has been actively involved in studying electronic, optical, and magnetic phenomena and exploring device structures in synthetic polymeric/organic/nanoparticle based systems.
His current research activities is focussed on: (i) Device physics of soft-electronic materials which involves fabrication of FETs, Solar Cells, large area imaging structures (ii) Photophysical and transport studies of conjugated polymers and carbon nanotube systems using quasi-near field scanning and spectroscopic techniques (iii) Electric Field induced instabilities in soft elastic films (iv) Photo-induced charge transport processes in Membrane Proteins and functional biological molecules such as bacteriorhodopsin systems.
He has held Visiting Positions - Univ. of Illinois, Univ. of Michigan and Motorola Labs. He has over 70 publications and a U.S. Patent on Optical Control of Polymer Field Effect Transistors. He is an Editorial Board Member of Pramana Journal of Physics, Journal of Sensors, Synthetic Metals and a Senior IEEE member. He is also actively involved in community efforts related to usage, implementation and information dissemination of alternative energy resources
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Thomas Douglas Bennett
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ
Email: tdb35@cam.ac.uk
After attaining a first class Natural Sciences degree at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, Thomas Bennett joined the Functional Inorganic and Hybrid Materials (FIHM) group of Professor Tony Cheetham. Mr. Bennett possesses a chemistry background, having completed an extended project on lightweight porous hybrid frameworks. Currently, he is focusing on the effect of pressure and temperature on Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs), the synthesis of novel porous hybrid systems and elucidation of the mechanical properties of the above materials.