May 6, 2020
Dr. Julie Charles – Associate Professor
physics
Dr. Julie Charles received her Ph.D degree in the research area of “Polymers” from University of Madras, Chennai in the year 2010. Her primary research work falls in the domain of Polymer Nanocomposites, Supercapacitors, Spectroscopy and Fiber optic gas sensors. She has 25 peer reviewed International journal publications to her credit, and has also published 31 papers in reputed International/National level conferences. She is a registered Research Supervisor of Anna University and has served as a reviewer in many reputed International journals. Under her research guidance, one student has completed Ph.D degree and four scholars are pursuing research.
Courses Handled
UG courses: Engineering Physics, Physics for Civil Engineering, Optics and Spectroscopy, Electricity and magnetism, Heat and thermodynamics, Quantum mechanics
Research Interests
- Synthesis of Conducting polymer nanocomposites
- Nanotechnology for energy storage and gas sensor applications
- Spectroscopy
- Nanobiotechnology
Research Lab Initiated At SSN
Functional Materials Laboratory
Research Projects Obtained
As PI-Internal:
- “Synthesis and characterization of ternary conducting polymers doped with various concentrations of prussian blue and metal oxides for supercapacitor applications”, funded by SSN Trust, 2016-2019, Rs. 4.25 lakh.
Status: completed
- “Fabrication of high performance electrode materials based on hybrid conducting polymers for supercapacitors”, funded by SSN Trust, 2020-2023, Rs. 4 lakh.
Ph.D Guidance
Scholar Name Status
- Roshini Full time (Ongoing)
- Priyanka Full time (Ongoing)
- Buvana Full time (Ongoing)
- Rashika Full time (Ongoing)
National/International level Conferences/Workshops Organized
- Convener of the ‘International Conference on Multifunctional Materials and Radiation Measurements (ICMMRM-2023)’ organized by the Department of Physics, Sri SivasubramaniyaNadar College of Engineering, Kalavakkam during January 27-28, 2023 in association with the Society for Radiation Research (SRR), India & the Indian Spectrophysics Association (ISPA).
- Convener of the 28th International Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics “Synergies in Computational, Mathematical, Statistical and Physical Sciences (FIM 28: SCMSPS 2020)” organized by Sri SivasubramaniyaNadar College of Engineering, Kalavakkam and Stella Maris College, Gopalapuram, Chennai during November 23-27, 2020.
- Coordinator of the One Day National Workshop on “Underwater Acoustics”organized by the Department of Physics,Sri SivasubramaniyaNadar College of Engineering, Kalavakkam on January 25, 2013.
- Convener of the Two day National Workshop on “Advanced Functional Materials (WAFM 2017)” organized by the Department of Physics, Sri SivasubramaniyaNadar College of Engineering, Kalavakkam on February 3-4, 2017.
Faculty Development Programmes Completed
- “Energy Conversion and Conservation” during December9-10, 2010 organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering, Sri SivasubramaniyaNadar College of Engineering.
- “Frontiers in Scientific Research & Technology” during June11-13, 2020 organized by the Department of Physics & Chemistry, St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology, St. Joseph’s Group of Institutions, OMR, Chennai – 600 119.
- AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on “Green Technology & Sustainability Engineering” during November16-20, 2020 at Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Gitam off Campus, Bengaluru
Awards Received
- Best Teacher award from SSN College of Engineering for the year 2008-09.
- Successfully completed the Online Training Program on Internal Auditor Course from TUV India Training Academy, ISO 9001:2015, Quality Management System.
Professional Memberships
Life Member of ISPA (Indian Spectrophysics Association)
Books Published
Author of a book titled, “Physics for Civil Engineering”, Anuradha Publications, ISBN: 978-93-91677-03-9, 2021.
Selected Research Publications
- Julie Charles and Gunasekaran S. (2008) ‘Dielectric studies on some industrially important rubber and polymeric materials at Microwave frequencies’, Material Science Research India, Vol.5, No.1, pp.161-166.
- Julie Charles and Gunasekaran S. (2008) ‘Spectral measurements and qualitative Analysis of ceftriaxone and cefotaxime’, Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol.20, No.2, pp.1343-1356.
- Julie Charles, Ramkumaar G.R., Azhagiri S. and Gunasekaran S. (2009) ‘FTIR and Thermal studies on Nylon-66 and 30% glass fibre reinforced Nylon-66’, E-Journal of Chemistry, Vol.6, No.1, pp. 23-33.
- Julie Charles and Ramkumaar G.R. (2009) ‘FTIR and Thermal studies on Polyethylene Terephthalate and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene’, Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol.21, No.6, pp.4389-4398.
- Julie Charles and Ramkumaar G.R. (2009) ‘Qualitative analysis of High Density Polyethylene using FTIR Spectroscopy’, Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol.21, No.6, pp. 4477-4484.
- Julie Charles (2013) ‘Spectroscopic, thermal, impedance and hardness studies on uncured and cured Silicon rubber’, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computational and Applied Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp. 263-268.
- Ramkumaar G.R, Bhoopathy T.J, Gunasekaran S, Gokilan C, Srinivasan S, Julie Charles (2013) ‘Experimental and theoretical investigation and NBO Analysis on the structure of Efavirenz HIV drug’, International Journal of Chem Tech Research, Volume 5, No.5, pp. 2563-2574.
- Ramkumaar G.R, Srinivasan S, Bhoopathy T.J, Gunasekaran S, Julie Charles, Ramesh J (2013) ‘Molecular structure, vibrational spectra, UV-vis, NBO and NMR analyses on nevirapine using ab initio DFT methods’, Journal of theoretical and Applied Physics, Volume 7, No.51, pp. 1-14.
- Julie Charles (2014) ‘Spectroscopic, Dielectric, Thermal and Hardness studies on uncured and cured Hydrogenated Nitrile Butadiene Rubber and Chlorosulphonated monomer’, International Journal of Chem Tech Research, Volume 6, No. 2, pp. 1081-1090.
- Julie Charles (2015) “Dielectric and Microwave Properties of Cured and Uncured Natural Rubber Composites”, International Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 2, No. 1, pp. 182-188.
- Julie Charles, S. Gunasekaran (2016) “Experimental and theoretical investigations of natural rubber(cis-1,4-polyisoprene) using Coloumb attenuating and Hartree–Fock theoretical methods”, Optik- International Journal for Light and Electron optics, Volume 127, No. 1, pp. 279-287.
- Suganthi Muthusamy, Julie Charles, B. Renganathan, D. Sastikumar (2018) “In situ growth of prussian blue nanocubes on polypyrrole nanoparticles: facile synthesis, characterization and their application as fiber optic gas sensor”, Journal of Materials Science, Volume 53, Issue 22, pp. 15401–15417.
- Suganthi Muthusamy, Julie Charles (2019) “In situ synthesis and characterization of polyaniline/prussian blue/zinc oxide nanocomposite”, Polymer Bulletin, Volume 76, Issue 1, pp. 119–137.
- Suganthi Muthusamy, Julie Charles, M.S. Michael, K. Shree Kesavan (2019) “Enhanced specific capacitance of a novel ternary polypyrrole incorporated with prussian blue and mesoporous carbon black for high performance supercapacitor applications”, Materials Research Bulletin, Volume 120, Issue 12, pp. 110587.
- Julie Charles, Suganthi Muthusamy (2019) “Facile Synthesis of Ternary Polypyrrole/Prussian blue/Titanium dioxide Composite and their Performance for Isopropyl Alcohol Sensing at Room Temperature”, AIP Proceedings, Volume 2166, Issue 1, pp. 1-6.
- Suganthi Muthusamy, Julie Charles, B. Renganathan, A.R. Ganesan (2021) “Ternary polypyrrole/prussian blue/TiO2 nanocomposite wrapped poly-methyl methacrylate fiber optic gas sensor to detect volatile gas analytes”, Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Volume 230, Issue 7, pp.166289.
- Suganthi Muthusamy, Julie Charles (2021) “Metal-organic framework of nanostructured polypyrrole incorporated with TiO2 nanoparticles for supercapacitor electrode”, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Volume 32, Issue 6, pp. 7349-7365.
- Suganthi Muthusamy, Julie Charles (2021) “In situ synthesis of ternary prussian blue, hierarchical SnO2 and polypyrrole by chemical oxidative polymerization and their sensing properties to volatile organic compounds”, Optik – International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Volume 241, Issue 1, pp. 166968.
- M. Habib Rahuman, S. Muthu, M. MalarWezhli, Julie Charles, H. Umamahesvari (2022) “Vibrational (FT-IR, FT Raman), electronic and docking studies and wave function analysis with quantum chemical computation on 3-Bromophenyl acetic acid: A potential amidase inhibitor”, Materials today: Proceedings, Volume 50, Issue 7, pp. 2853-2864.
20. RoshiniGunasekaran,Julie Charles (2022)“Synthesis, structural, morphological and optical analyses of new Prussian blue, ruthenium oxide and polyindole (PIn-PB-RuO2) nanocomposite”, Journal of Polymer Research, Volume 29, Issue 9, pp. 1-19.
- Priyanka Elumalai, Julie Charles (2022) “Investigation of structural and optical properties of ternary polyaniline–polypyrrole–nickel oxide (PANI-PPy-NiO) nanocomposite for optoelectronic devices”, Polymer International, Volume 72, Issue 2, 176-188.
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