Dr Vivekananthan Venkateswaran
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Advanced Technology Institute, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.About
Biography
Venkateswaran Vivekananthan is currently a Research fellow in at Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), University Surrey. Prior to joining in University of Surrey, he worked as a Post Doctoral Associate in the Faculty of Applied Energy Systems (Major in Mechatronics Engineering) at Jeju National University, South Korea. He was a recipient of NRF Creative Challenege Support award as Principal-Investigator with a project funding worth of (USD 45,000/ year). He received his PhD degree in Feb 2020 with President award for outstanding in research and academics. His research focuses on energy harvesting using triboelectric & piezoelectric nanogenerators for self-powered sensor systems.
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Electronic waste produced by plastic, toxic, and semiconducting components of existing electronic devices is dramatically increasing environmental pollution. To overcome these issues the use of eco-friendly materials for designing such devices are attaining great concern. This current work presents a recycled materials-based triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) made of plastic waste and carbon-coated paper wipes (C@PWs), in which the PWs also collected from a waste bin. The resultant C@PWs-based TENG is then used for powering low-power electronic devices, and later, to generate a Morse code from a wearable for autonomous communication. Other end-users in a customized LabVIEW programme decode the Morse code signals and read the transmitted message. With further redesigning, a 9-segment keyboard is developed using nine-TENGs, connected to an Arduino controller to display the 9-segment actuation on a computer screen. Based on the above analysis, our C@PW-TENG device is expected to have an impact on future self-powered sensors and IoT systems.
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33. Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Woo Joong Kim, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Yuvasree Purusothaman, Gaurav Khandelwal, and Sang-Jae Kim. “A highly reliable contact-separation based triboelectric nanogenerator for scavenging bio-mechanical energy and self-powered electronics”. Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology. 2021, 35, 2131–2139. I. F- 1.734
32. Sugato Hajra, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Manisha Sahu, Gaurav Khandelwal, Nirmal Prashanth Maria Joseph Raj, Sang-Jae Kim. "Triboelectric Nanogenerator using Multiferroic Materials: An Approach for Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Magnetic Field Detection". Nano Energy. 2021, 17, 105964. I. F - 17.881
31. Gaurav Khandelwal, Nirmal Prashanth Maria Joseph Raj, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Sang-Jae Kim. "Biodegradable metal-organic framework MIL-88A for triboelectric nanogenerator". Iscience. 2021, 19, 24(2), 102064. I. F- 5.45830. Manisha Sahu, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Sugato Hajra, Dipak Kumar Khatua, Sang-Jae Kim. "Porosity modulated piezo-triboelectric hybridized nanogenerator for sensing small energy impacts". Applied Materials Today, 2021, 1, 22, 100900. I. F – 10.041
29. Manisha Sahu, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Sugato Hajra, KS Abisegapriyan, Nirmal Prashanth Maria Joseph Raj, Sang-jae Kim. "Synergetic enhancement of energy harvesting performance in triboelectric nanogenerator using ferroelectric polarization for self-powered IR signaling and body activity monitoring" Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020, 8, 42, 22257-68. I. F- 12.732
28. Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Gaurav Khandelwal, Kim Woo Joong, Sang-Jae Kim. "Green energy from working surfaces: contact electrification–enabled data theft protection and monitoring smart table". Materials Today Energy, 2020, 1,18, 100544. I. F- 7.311
27. Kim Woo Joong, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Gaurav Khandelwal, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, and Sang-Jae Kim. "Encapsulated Triboelectric– Electromagnetic Hybrid Generator for a Sustainable Blue Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Oil Spill Detection". ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2020, 2, 10, 3100-3108. I. F- 3.314
26. Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Nirmal Prashanth Maria Joseph Raj, Gaurav Khandelwal, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, and Sang-Jae Kim. "Aloe Vera: A Tropical Desert Plant to Harness the Mechanical Energy bt Triboelectric and Piezoelectric Approaches." Nano Energy 2020, 73, 104767. I. F - 17.881
25. Charanya Sukumaran, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Velumani Mohan, Zachariah. C. Alex, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Sang-Jae Kim, Triboelectric Nanogenerators from Reused Plastic: An approach for Vehicle Security Alarming and Tire Motion Monitoring in Rover. Applied Materials Today. 2020 Jun, 19: 100625. I. F – 10.041
24. Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Nirmal Prashanth Maria Joseph Raj, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Yuvasree Purusothaman, and Sang-Jae Kim. " Substantial improvement on electrical energy harvesting by chemically modified/sandpaper-based modification in micro-scale for hybrid nanogenerators", Applied Surface Science, 2020, 514, 145904. I. F - 6.707
23. Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Gaurav Khandelwal and Sang-Jae Kim. "A Sustainable Blue Energy Scavenging Smart Buoy toward Self-Powered Smart Fishing Net Tracker", ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2020. Just Accepted. I. F - 8.198
22. Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Yuvasree Purusothaman, and Sang-Jae Kim, "A Highly Reliable, Impervious and Sustainable Triboelectric Nanogenerator as a Zero-power Consuming Active Pressure Sensor". Nanoscale Advances. 2020. Just accepted. I.F - 4.553
21. Arunkumar Chandrasekhar#, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan#, and Sang-Jae Kim. "A Fully Packed Spheroidal Hybrid Generator for Water Wave Energy Harvesting and Self-powered Position Tracking." Nano Energy, 2020: 104439.(# Authors contributed Equally). I. F - 17.881
20. Vivekananthan, Venkateswaran, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Yuvasree Purusothaman, Gaurav Khandelwal, Rajagopalan Pandey, and Sang-Jae Kim. "Fe2O3 magnetic particles derived triboelectric-electromagnetic hybrid generator for zero-power consuming seismic detection." Nano Energy 2019, 64, 103926. I. F - 17.881
19. Purusothaman, Yuvasree, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Vivekananthan Venkateswaran, and Sang-Jae Kim. "Piezophototronic gated optofluidic logic computations empowering intrinsic reconfigurable switches." Nature communications, 2019, 10, 1-9. I. F - 14.919
18. Vivekananthan Venkateswaran, Woo Joong Kim, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Yuvasree Purusothaman, K. S. Abisegapriyan, and Sang-Jae Kim. "A sliding mode contact electrification based triboelectric-electromagnetic hybrid generator for small-scale biomechanical energy harvesting." Micro and Nano Systems Letters 2019, 7, 1-8.
17. Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Gaurav Khandelwal, and Sang Jae Kim. "A fully packed water-proof, humidity resistant triboelectric nanogenerator for transmitting Morse code." Nano Energy, 2019 60, 850-856. I. F - 17.881
16. Vivekananthan Venkateswaran, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Yuvasree Purusothaman, Woo Joong Kim, Chang-Nam Kang, and Sang-Jae Kim. "A flexible piezoelectric composite nanogenerator based on doping enhanced lead-free nanoparticles." Materials Letters, 2019 249, 73-76. I. F- 3.423
15. Vivekananthan Venkateswaran, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Yuvasree Purusothaman, Aayush Gupta, and Sang-Jae Kim. "Zero- power consuming intruder identification system by enhanced piezoelectricity of K 0.5 Na 0.5 NbO 3 using substitutional doping of BTO NPs." Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2019, 7, 7536-7571. I. F - 7.393
14. Arunkumar Chandrasekhar#, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan#, Gaurav Khandelwal, and Sang-Jae Kim. "Sustainable Human-Machine Interactive Triboelectric Nanogenerator toward a Smart Computer Mouse." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019, 7177-7182. (# Authors contributed Equally). I.F - 8.198
13. Nirmal Prashanth Maria Joseph Raj, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Gaurav Khandelwal and Sang- Jae Kim, "Sustainable yarn type-piezoelectric energy harvester as an eco-friendly, cost-effective battery-free breath sensor", Applied Energy, 2018, 1767-1776. I. F- 9.746
12. Yuvasree Purusothaman, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, and Sang-Jae Kim, "Direct In-Situ Hybridized Interfacial Quantification to Stimulate Highly Flexile Self-Powered Photodetector", The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2018, 12177-12184. I. F- 4.126
11. Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Nagamalleswara rao Alluri, Yuvasree Purusothaman, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Sophia Selvarajan and Sang-jae Kim "Biocompatible collagen-nanofibrils: An approach for sustainable energy harvesting and battery-free humidity sensor applications", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 18650-18656. I. F- 9.229
10. Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Gaurav Khandelwal, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan and Sang-Jae Kim "Battery-Free Electronic Smart Toys: A Step toward the Commercialization of Sustainable Triboelectric Nanogenerators", ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2018, 6110-6116. I. F- 8.198
9. Gaurav Khandelwal, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Nirmal Prashanth Maria Joseph Raj, and Sang- Jae Kim, "Trash to energy: A facile, robust and cheap approach for mitigating environment pollutant using household triboelectric nanogenerator", Applied Energy, 2018, 338-349. I. F- 9.746
8. Yuvasree Purusothaman, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, and Sang-Jae Kim, "Regulation of Charge Carrier Dynamics in ZnO Microarchitecture-Based UV/Visible Photodetector via Photonic-Strain Induced Effects", Small, 2018, 1703044. (Selected as a Journal Back Cover page) I. F - 13.281
7. Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar and Sang-Jae Kim, “Adaptable Piezoelectric Hemispherical Composite Strips using Scalable Groove Technique for Self-powered Muscle Monitoring System”, Nanoscale, 10(3), 2018. (Selected as a Journal Inside fFont Cover page) I. F - 7.790
6. Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Nagamalleswara rao Alluri, Yuvasree Purusothaman, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar and Sang-jae Kim, " A flexible, planar energy harvesting device for scavenging road side waste mechanical energy via synergistic piezoelectric response of K0.5 Na0.5 NbO3- BaTiO3/ PVDF composite films", Nanoscale, 9 (39), 2017. I. F - 7.790
5. Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan and Sang-Jae Kim, “Sustainable Biomechanical Energy Scavenger toward Self-Reliant Kids' Interactive Battery-Free Smart Puzzle”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 5(8), 2017. I. F- 8.198
4. Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Yuvasree Purusothaman, Sophia Selvarajan, Ji Hyun Jeong and Sang-Jae Kim, “Scavenging Biomechanical Energy using High-performance, Flexible BaTiO3 Nanocube/PDMS Composite Films”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 5(6), 2017. I. F- 8.198
3. Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Yuvasree Purusothaman and Sang-Jae Kim, “A sustainable freestanding biomechanical energy harvesting smart backpack as a portable-wearable power source”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4(00):1-224, 2017. I. F - 7.393
2. Gautam Sheel Thool, K Narayanaswamy, A Venkateswararao, Sheerin Naqvi, Vinay Gupta, Suresh Chand, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Rik Rani Koner, Venkata Krishnan and Surya Prakash Singh, “Highly Directional 1D Supramolecular Assembly of New Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Gel for Organic Solar Cell Applications”, Langmuir 32(17), 2016. I. F - 3.882
1. Gourab Dey, Mangili Venkateswarulu, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Avijit Pramanik, Venkata Krishnan and Rik Rani Koner, “Sub-Picomolar Recognition of Cr3+ through Bioinspired Organic–Inorganic Ensemble Utilization”, ACS Sensors, 1 (6), 2016. I. F- 7.711