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Last Updated: April 28, 2007
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Karuna Kar Nanda
Associate Professor

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E-mail: nanda@mrc.iisc.ernet.in

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Brief Biodata:

Dr. Nanda obtained his Ph. D.. from IOP, Bubhaneshwar. Following a short stint as a research associate at IOP he held post-doctoral positions at the Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany and The Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. He has been a faculty member of MRC since 2005.

Research:
  • Synthesis of nanoparticles, nanowires and carbon nanotubes
  • Electrical, optical and thermodynamic properties of different nanostructures
  • Field emission and gas sensing behavior of different nanostructures
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Publications:
  1. P. J. Grabowska, R. T. Rajendra Kumar, E. McGlynn, K. K. Nanda, S. B. Newcomb, P. J. McNally, L. O'Reilly, J.-P. Mosnier, M. O. Henry, Growth and characterisation of epitaxially ordered Zinc Aluminate domains on c-Sapphire, Thin Solid Film (accepted).
  2. P. Mahanandia, P. N. Vishwakarma, K. K. Nanda, V. Prasad, S. V. Subramanyam, S. K. Dev and P. V. Satyam, Multiwall carbon nanotubes from pyrolysis of tetrahydrofuran, Bull. Mater. Res. 41, 2311 (2006).
  3. S. C. Vanithakumari and K. K. Nanda, Phenomenological predictions of cohesive energy and structural transition of nanoparticles, J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 1033 (2006).
  4. K. K. Nanda, A simple classical approach for the melting temperature of inert-gas nanoparticles, Chem. Phys. Lett. 419, 195 (2006).
  5. K. K. Nanda, Bulk cohesive energy and surface tension from the size-dependent evaporation study of nanoparticles, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 021909 (2005).
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