plastemartjobs.com Email: jobs@plastemart.com, hr@plastemart.com Download Date: 2/6/2025 1:41:54 AM ________________________________________________________________________________________ RefNo: CA - 24359 Gender: Female Age: 41 Designation: Executive Highest Education Level: Doctrate Notice Period: 30 Days Education Details: Ph.D. Department of Chemistry in Polymer Chemistry?From National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India in 2013 Master of Science in Industrial Chemistry?From Kuvempu University, Shimoga, India in 2007 Bachelor of Science in?Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics From?Kuvempu University, Shimoga, India in 2005 Skill Sets: Ability to work both independently and in a group and postulate new synthetic procedure. Expertise in chemical lab management and maintenance. Knowledge of Origin, Gaussian simulation, Chemsketch, Scifinder search software. Good English verbal and written communication skills. Good presentation and mass communication skills. Design new experimental procedures and analytical protocols. Work Experience: 17.8 Work Experience Details: Postdoctoral Fellow-Materials Engineering: Since Jun 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow: April 2013 to April 2015 Company Profile: premier institute for advanced scientific and technological research and education Job Profile: Design, synthesis and structural characterization of high performance conjugated?polymers and small organic molecules having benzodithiophene, benzodifuran, 2, 1, 3-?benzothiadiazole and diketo pyrrolo[3, 4-c]-pyrrole-1, 4-dione derivatives for polymer?solar cells. Device fabrication of organic photovoltaic cells using synthesized materials and study?their photo-physical properties. Postdoctoral Fellow-Chemistry May 2015 to May 2016 Company Name: National University?of Singapore Job Profile: Synthesis and characterization of push-pull type organic dye molecules for dye sensitized solar cells. Fabrication of dye sensitized solar cells of area 0.25 cm2 Research Mentor January 2009 to March 2013 National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal Job Profile: Supervised both undergraduate and graduate students to build their scientific insight and perspective in research Research Scientist-Synthetic Organic Chemistry June 2007 to January 2009 Syngene International?Ltd. (Biocon Company) Company Profile: Job Profile: Synthesis and structural characterization of heterocyclic organic compounds through?multistep reaction methods for various biological applications. Purification of synthesized organic compounds using techniques such as silica gel?column chromatography, re-crystallization, Biotage column etc Doctoral research Company Name: National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal Profile Design and synthesis of new thiophene based polymers having 9,9'-dialkylfluorene?and 1,3,4-oxadiazole/ cyanovinylene/cyanophenylene vinylene units as electron?donors and acceptors, respectively. Structural characterization of polymers using NMR, FTIR, CHNS, GPC, TGA and?DSC techniques. Investigation of optical and electrochemical properties of high performance polymers. Study of electroluminescent behavior of the polymers by fabricating polymer light emitting diodes using various synthesized polymers as e missive layers. Fabrication of bulk hetero-junction solar cells using synthesized narrow bandgap polymers as donor materials. Synthesis of polymer nano-composites using nano-TiO2 and nano-silver particles Areas of Expertise: Synthesis of various polymers using polymerization techniques such as solid state,?free radical polymerization, Suzuki, Stille, Sonogashira, Knoevenagel?polycondensation, Wittig polymerization. Synthesis of small organic molecules through multi-step reaction methods via Suzuki,?Stille, Heck, Sonogashira coupling, Knoevenagel condensation, Wittig reaction,?Vilsmeier haack reaction, Swern oxidation and Reductive amination, etc. Good practical and theoretical knowledge in the purification of organic compounds?using column chromatography technique, re-crystallization, etc. Expertise in handling air sensitive chemicals and reactions Instruments Handled: NMR, FTIR, TGA, DSC, GPC, XRD, UV-Visible, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Gas?chromatography, Cyclic Voltammetry, XRD, AFM, SEM. Solar simulator, Thermal evaporator, Biotage, Microwave initiator, Pressure reactors,?Autoclaves, Spin coater and experience on Glove box. Honors and Awards University grants commission-Dr. D.S. Kothari Post Doctoral Fellowship?(No.F.4-2/2006 (BSR)/CH/14-15/0056) for a period of three years. Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Council of Scientific and?Industrial Research (CSIR), India?International travel grant to attend MRS-2014, San francisco, USA, 21-25th, April 2014 Research Publications Murali M.G, Xingzhu Wang, Qing Wang and Suresh Valiyaveettil. ?Design and Synthesis of New Ruthenium Complex for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.?h RSC Advances (Manuscript Communicated). Murali M.G, Xingzhu Wang, Qing Wang and Suresh Valiyaveettil. ?New A.D.?.D.A type organic dyes containing di-anchoring groups for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells.?h Dyes and Pigments (Manuscript Communicated). Murali M.G., Arun D. Rao and P.C. Ramamurthy. ?gNarrow band gap conjugated polymer for improving the photovoltaic performance of P3HT:PCBM ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells?h Polymer Chemistry 6 (2015) 962-972. Murali M.G., Arun D. Rao and P.C. Ramamurthy. ?gNew low band gap 2-(4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)- 1H-benzo[d]imidazole and benzo[1,2-c;4,5-c??] bis[1,2,5]?thiadiazole based conjugated polymers for organic photovoltaics.?h RSC Advances 4 (2014) 44902- 44910. Murali M.G, Vishnumurthy K.A, Sindhu S. and P.C. Ramamurthy. ?gColorimetric anion sensor based on receptor having indole and thiourea binding sites.?h RSC Advances 4 (2014) 20592.20598. Murali M.G., Arun D. Rao and P.C. Ramamurthy. ?gSynthesis and characterization of?trifluoro-methylated ?benzimidazole and benzo[1,2-b:3,4-b']dithiophene based donor-acceptor conjugated polymer for polymer solar cells.?h MRS Proceedings 1668 (2014). Murali M.G. and Udayakumar D. ?gDesign and synthesis of new low band gap organic semiconductors?for photovoltaic applications.?h Proc. SPIE 8987, Oxide-based Materials and Devices V, 898729 (2014) DOI:10.1117/12.2045655. Murali M.G., Vandana Yadav, R. Srivastava, Safakath K and Udayakumar D. ?Thiophene based donor??acceptor conjugated polymer as potential optoelectronic and photonic Material.? Journal of Chemical?Science 125 (2013) 247?257. Murali M.G., Vandana Yadav, R. Srivastava and Udayakumar D. ?New thiophene based donor-acceptor conjugated polymers carrying fluorene and cyano substituted units: synthesis, characterization and electroluminescent properties.? Polymer Engineering and Science 53 (2013) 1161?1170. Murali M.G., Kishore .S and Udayakumar D. ?Synthesis, characterization and nonlinear optical properties of donor-acceptor conjugated polymers and polymer/Ag nanocomposites.? Journal of?Materials Science 47 (2012) 8022?8034. Murali M.G., Naveen P., Udayakumar D., Vandana Yadav and Ritu Srivastava. ?Synthesis and?characterization of thiophene and fluorene based donor?acceptor conjugated polymer containing 1,3,4-?oxadiazole units for light-emitting diodes.? Tetrahedron Letters 53 (2012) 157?161. Murali M.G. and Udayakumar D. ?Synthesis and characterization of a new donor? acceptor?conjugated polymer and polymer/Ag nanocomposites.? Optics: Phenomena, Materials Devices and?Characterization. AIP Conference Proceedings 1391 (2011) 624?626. Murali M.G., Ramya M.G., Lakshmi N.B., R. Philip and Udayakumar D. ?Synthesis and third order?optical nonlinearity studies of the donor-acceptor conjugated polymer, poly(2-[3,4-didodecyloxy-5- (1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)thiophen-2-yl]-5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole) and a polymer/TiO2 nanocomposite.? Synthetic Metals 160 (2010) 2520?2525. Book Chapter: Udayakumar, D., J. Kiran, A., Murali, M.G. and Adhikari, A.V. ?Donor-acceptor conjugated polymers and their nanocomposites for photonic applications.? Book chapter-Nonlinear Optics, Edited by Natalia Kamanina, InTech publisher, ISBN 978-953-51-0131-4, 130?160. Udayakumar, D. and Murali, M.G. ?Thiophene based conjugated polymer for optoelectronic?applications.? LAP LAMBERT Academic publishing, ISBN: 978-3-8473-1740-1. Future Goals: Growth ________________________________________________________________________________________