Dr. Raghu Chatanathodi

Dr. Raghu Chatanathodi
Professor
Office Address:
PH206, Computational Materials Science Lab, Department of Physics NIT Calicut Calicut 673601 Kerala
Ph.D. : Indian Institute of Science (2001)
M.Sc. (Physics) : University of Hyderabad (1995)
Educational Qualifications
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Ph.D. : Indian Institute of Science (2001)
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M.Sc. (Physics) : University of Hyderabad (1995)
Journals
Journal Publications
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Shanavas Yoosuf, Rajeena Chennikkad, Raseen Nanakkal, Anju Rajan, Raghu Chatanathodi, Narayanan Kuthirummal, Shalina Begum Tharayil, "A facile method for the preparation of non-metal doped nanotitania featuring visible-region photocatalytic performance", Mater. Sci. Engg. B 294, 116497 (2023)
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Aparna M.P. and Raghu Chatanathodi, "Oxygen Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions on zigzag ReS2 Nanoribbons", App. Surf. Sci. 618, 156677 (2023)
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N. Puthiyottil, S. Kanakkayil, N. P. Pillai, A. R., S.K. Parambath, R G. Krishnamurthy, R. Chatanathodi, M. M. Menamparambath, “In-situ engineering of Au-Ag alloy embedded PEDOT nanohybrids at a solvent/non-solvent interface for the electrochemical enzyme-free detection of histamine”, J. Mater. Chem. B 11, 1144 (2023)
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P. Divya, G. Anagha, Bijoy Nharangatt, Raghu Chatanathodi, H. Sabrin, N. Nourin, K. H. Fausia, K. Padmakumar, Deepthi Jose and K. Sandeep, "Anion Exchange Reaction of CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals: Affinity of Halide Ion Matters", ChemistrySelect 48, e202203868 (2022)
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Bijoy N and Raghu Chatanathodi, "Electronic properties and Magnetism of CrCl3 Nanoribbons", J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 564, 170105 (2022)
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Resmi V. Nair, Muhammed Fasil Puthiyaparambath, Raghu Chatanathodi, Lakshmi V. Nair and Ramapurath S. Jayasree, "A nanoarchitecture of a gold cluster conjugated gold nanorod hybrid system and its application in fluorescence imaging and plasmonic photothermal therapy", Nanoscale 14, 13561 (2022)
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K. Nubla, Muhammed Fasil P, Raghu Chatanathodi and N. Sandhyarani, "Experimental and Theoretical Investigation on the ORR activity of AgVO3", Mater. Chem. Front. 6, 2042 (2022)
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Lakshmikanth K G, Muhammed Fasil P and Raghu Chatanathodi, "Possibility of Chemisorption for Benzene on stepped surface of coinage metals", Surface Science 722, 122084 (2022)
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Aparna M.P. and Raghu Chatanathodi, "Density Functional Theory calculations of the Stability, Electronic Structure, and Magnetism of ReS2 Nanoribbons: An emerging material for Electrocatalytic Reactions", ACS App. Nano. Mater. 5, 2385 (2022)
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P. R. Rasha, N. A. Ramalakshmi, M. F. Puthiyaparambath, G Rajanikant, R. Chathanathodi, M. M. Menamparambath, "Nickel Cobaltite/Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube Flexible Sensor for the Electrochemical Detection of Dopamine Released by Human Neural Cells", J. Mater. Chem. C 10, 3048 (2022)
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Lakshmikanth K G, Muhammed Fasil P, Anoop S and Raghu Chatanathodi, "Adsorption of benzene on defective Pt surfaces: A DFT study", Surface Science 716, 121959 (2022)
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Bijoy N and Raghu Chatanathodi, "Adsorption and Spin Polarization of Pyridine on Fe/W(110) Interface: A DFT Study", Comp. Mater. Sci. 199, 110734 (2021)
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Daughty John, Bijoy N, Srihari Madhav Kastaur and Raghu Chatanathodi, "Blue Phosphorene Nanosheets with Point Defects: Electronic Structure and Hydrogen Storage Capability", App. Surf. Sci. 551, 149363 (2021)
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Daughty John, Bijoy N and Raghu Chatanathodi, “Stabilizing honeycomb borophene by metal decoration: a computational study”, J. Mater. Chem. C 7, 11493 (2019)
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Thulasi Radhakrishnan, Aparna M.P., Raghu Chatanathodi, N. Sandhyarani, "Amorphous Rhenium Disulfide Nanosheets: A Methanol-Tolerant Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction", ACS App. Nano. Mater. 2, 4480 (2019)
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Lakshmikanth K. G, Ishak Kundappaden and Raghu Chatanathodi, " A DFT study of CO adsorption on Pt (111) using van der Waals functionals", Surface Science 681, 143 (2019)
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Daughty John and Raghu Chatanathodi, "Hydrogen adsorption on alkali metal decorated blue phosphorene nanosheets", App. Surf. Sci. 465, 440 (2019)
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Saju K. John, Daughty John, N. Bijoy, Raghu Chatanathodi and Aji A. Anappara, "Magnesium diboride: An effective light-to-heat conversion material in solid-state", Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 033901 (2017)
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K. G. Lakshmikanth, P. K. Ayishabi and Raghu Chatanathodi, "Ab initio DFT studies of adsorption characteristics of benzene on close-packed surfaces of transition metals", Comp. Matr. Sci. 137, 10 (2017)
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P. K. Ayishabi and Raghu Chatanathodi, "Adsorption of benzene on low index surfaces of platinum in the presence of van der Waals interactions", Surf. Sci. 664, 8 (2017)
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P. K. Ayishabi, K. G. Lakshmikanth and Raghu Chatanathodi, “Chemisorption of benzene on Pt (111) surface: A DFT study with van der Waals interaction”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 637, 182 (2015)
Journal Publications (Ph.D research period)
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C. Raghu, Y. Anusooya and S. Ramasesha, ``Density-Matrix Renormalization-Group study of low-lying excitations of Polyacene within a Pariser-Parr-Pople model'', Phys. Rev. B 66, 035116 (2002).
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C. Raghu, Y. Anusooya and S. Ramasesha, ``Structural and electronic instabilities in polyacenes: Density-matrix renormalization-group study of a long-range interacting model'', Phys. Rev. B 65, 155204 (2002).
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I. Rudra, C. Raghu, S. Ramasesha, ``Exchange interaction in binuclear complexes with rare-earth and copper ions: A many-body model study'', Phys. Rev. B 65, 224411 (2002).
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C. Raghu, Indranil Rudra, S. Ramasesha and Diptiman Sen, ``Properties of low-lying states in some high nuclearity Mn, Fe and V clusters: Exact Heisenberg Model Studies'', Phys. Rev. B 64, 0644191 (2001)
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C. Raghu, Indranil Rudra, S. Ramasesha and Diptiman Sen, `` Evaluation of Low Energy Effective Hamiltonian Techniques for Coupled Spin Triangles'', Phys. Rev. B 62, 9484, (2000).
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C. Meneghini, R. Cimino, S. Pascarelli, S. Mobilio, C. Raghu and D. D. Sarma, ``Temperature Dependence of Non-Debye Disorder in Doped Manganites'', Phys. Rev. B 56, 3520 (1997).
Professional Experience
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Professor, NIT Calicut (2020 onwards)
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Associate Professor, NIT Calicut (2009 -2020)
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Assistant Professor, NIT Calicut (2006-2009)
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Research Engineer, GE Global Research, Bangalore (2004-2006)
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Post-doctoral Fellow, Arizona State University, Tempe (2002-2004)
Current Courses
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PH6308 Electromagnetic Theory - II M.Sc. II sem
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PH1091D Physics Lab (B.Tech I year)
Previous Courses
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Quantum Mechanics and Applied Quantum Mechanics (B.Tech.)
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Electromagnetic Theory - I & II (M.Sc.)
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Quantum Mechanics-I & II (M.Sc.) and Quantum Mechanics (B.Tech.)
Research
Research Area :
Computational Modeling of Materials, Electronic structure computation using DFT, Surfaces and interfaces, Electrochemical catalysts, Energy materials, Magnetism, Strongly correlated electrons, Model Hamiltonian based computations.
Research Funding:
4. “Computational Modelling of Transition Metal Oxides as Electrochemical Catalysts”, DST-SERB-CRG, 2022-2025; PI: Dr. Raghu Chatanathodi, Amount: 34 lakhs, Status: on-going.
3. “Computational investigations on the mechanism of formation of MoSâ‚‚ tribofilm from MoDTC and its degradation with ageing of oil". PI: Dr. Deepthi Jose, Providence College, Calicut; Mentor: Dr. Raghu Chatanathodi, DST-TARE scheme (2019-2022), Amount: 7.5 lakhs, Status: Completed
2. “Electronic Structure Studies of Adsorption of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons on Metal Catalysts”, CSIR, 2012-2015; PI: Dr. Raghu Chatanathodi, Amount: 19 lakhs, Status: Completed.
1. “Electronic Structure of semiconductors and conjugated organic molecules”, NIT Calicut Faculty Research Grant, 2009-2012, PI: Dr. Raghu Chatanathodi, Amount: 5 lakhs, Status: Completed
Research Facilites:
Single node 96 core intel processor (4) based HPC server, supermicro processor based servers, workstations, VASP for Electronic Structure Computation, VNL for visualization.
Research Group (Computational Materials Science Lab) : Four research scholars are currently working in this group:
1. Aparna M P (Full-time Scholar) : DFT based modeling of ORR and HER in ReS2 nanostructures.
2. Muhammed Fasil P P (Full-time Scholar) : DFT based modeling of ORR in transition metal oxides
3. Anju Rajan (Full-time scholar) : DFT based modeling of ORR/HER in Janus 2D materials
4. Athira V (Full-time scholar) : DFT based electronic structure computation & materials modeling
Ph.Ds completed:
1. Dr. Ayshabi P. K. (Assistant Professor, K M M Government Women’s College, Kannur) : Electronic Structure Studies of Adsorption of Aromatic Molecules on Low Index Platinum Surfaces, 2017
2. Dr. Lakshmikanth K. G. (Assistant Professor, Maharajas College, Ernakulam): Computational Studies of Molecular Adsorption on Transition Metal Surfaces: The role of van der Waals interaction, 2019
3. Dr. Daughty John (Assistant Professor, MAMO college, Mukkam) : Computational Studies on Electronic Structure of Borophene and Phosphorene and Hydrogen Storage Capabilities of Phosphorene, 2019
4. Dr. Bijoy N (Post Doctoral Fellow, SNBNCBS) : Computational modeling of organic molecule-ferromagnetic metal interface and electronic structure and magnetism of low dimensional chromium trihalides, 2022
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Gordon, III; Clarence L. (Glenville, NY), Venugopal; Manoharan (Bangalore, IN), Mishra; Debasish (Clifton Park, NY), Chatanathodi; Raghu (Calicut, IN), Bossi; Richard Henry (Renton, WA), Hutchinson; Michael Craig (Kent, WA), "Radiographic inspection system and method", US Patent No. 7,653,175, January 26, 2010.