Mr Vijayaraghavan Ranganathan - Researcher Profile

Biography

Vijay works in the School of Chemistry at Monash University as a Research Fellow

 

 

Vijay’s research areas of interest are:

• Synthesis and Characterization of Biocompatible Ionic Liquids
• Novel Ionic Biomaterials for Biomedical Devices
• Synthesis of Biocompatible Ionic gels and Enzyme Encapsulation
• Stabilization of Biomacromolecules in Biocompatible Ionic Liquids
• Ionic Liquids as Alternate Solvents in
• Charge Transfer Polymerization
• Ionic Polymerization
• Extraction of Tannins from plant sources using Distillable Ionic Liquids
• Ionic Liquids as Moderators in Exothermic Reactions
• Ionic Liquids in Chemical Process Safety

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2007

Publications

Journal Articles

Sekar, S., Mahadevan, S., Ranganathan, V., Mandal, A.B., Macfarlane, D.R., 2013, Bioenergetics for the growth of staphylococcus lentus in biocompatible choline salts, Applied Microbiology And Biotechnology [P], vol 97, issue 4, Springer, Germany, pp. 1767-1774.

Rana, U.A., Ranganathan, V., Macfarlane, D.R., Forsyth, M., 2012, Plastic crystal phases with high proton conductivity, Journal Of Materials Chemistry [P], vol 22, issue 7, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge UK, pp. 2965-2974.

Chowdhury, S., Dean, P., Ranganathan, V., Macfarlane, D., 2011, Efficient synthesis of ellagic acid salts using distillable ionic liquids, Australian Journal of Chemistry [E], vol 64, issue 12, CSIRO, Melbourne Australia, pp. 1624-1627.

Sundar, S., Ranganathan, V., Subramaniam, J., Surianarayanan, M., Mandal, A., 2011, Role of choline formate ionic liquid in the polymerization of vinyl and methacrylic monomers, Journal Of Applied Polymer Science [P], vol 120, issue 6, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden Massachusetts USA, pp. 3733-3739.

Chowdhury, S., Ranganathan, V., Macfarlane, D., 2010, Distillable ionic liquid extraction of tannins from plant materials, Green Chemistry [P], vol 12, issue 6, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge England, pp. 1023-1028.

Macfarlane, D.R., Vijayaraghavan, R., Ha, H.N., Izgorodin, A., Weaver, K.D., Elliott, G.D., 2010, Ionic liquid "buffers" - PH control in ionic liquid systems, Chemical Communications [P], vol 46, issue 41, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge England, pp. 7703-7705.

Ranganathan, V., Izgorodin, A., Ganesh, V., Surianarayanan, M., Macfarlane, D., 2010, Long-term structural and chemical stability of DNA in hydrated ionic liquids, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition [P], vol 49, issue 9, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Germany, pp. 1631-1633.

Rana, U., Bayley, P., Vijayaraghavan, R., Howlett, P., Macfarlane, D., Forsyth, M., 2010, Proton transport in choline dihydrogen phosphate/H3PO 4 mixtures, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics [P], vol 12, issue 37, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, pp. 11291-11298.

Ranganathan, V., Surianarayanan, M., Armel, V., Macfarlane, D.R., Sridhar, V.P., 2009, Exothermic and thermal runaway behaviour of some ionic liquids at elevated temperatures, Chemical Communications [P], Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, pp. 6297-6299.

Winther-Jensen, O., Ranganathan, V., Sun, J., Winther-Jensen, B., Macfarlane, D.R., 2009, Self polymerising ionic liquid gel, Chemical Communications [P], Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, pp. 3041-3043.

Ranganathan, V., Pringle, J.M., Macfarlane, D.R., 2008, Anionic polymerization of styrene in ionic liquids, European Polymer Journal, vol 44, Elsevier, U K, pp. 1758-1762.

Ranganathan, V., Macfarlane, D.R., 2006, Effect of hydrophobic and hydrophilic organic salts on charge transfer polymerisation of styrene, European Polymer Journal, vol 42, issue 8, Pergamon, UK, pp. 1830-1835.

Ranganathan, V., Vedaraman, N., Surianarayanan, M., Macfarlane, D.R., 2006, Extraction and recovery of azo dyes into an ionic liquid, Talanta, vol 69, issue 5, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 1059-1062.

Macfarlane, D.R., Ranganathan, V., 2006, Synthesis, reactivity ratios and characterization of hydroquinone promoted CT co-polymerization of styrene and methyl methacrylate in a room temperature ionic liquid, European Polymer Journal, vol 42, issue 10, Pergamon, UK, pp. 2736-2742.

Ranganathan, V., Macfarlane, D.R., 2005, Group transfer polymerisation in hydrophobic ionic liquids, Chemical Communications, issue 9, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge England, pp. 1149-1151.

Ranganathan, V., Macfarlane, D.R., 2004, Charge transfer polymerization in ionic liquids, Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol 57, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood Vic Australia, pp. 129-133.

Ranganathan, V., Surianarayanan, M., Macfarlane, D.R., 2004, Ionic liquids as moderators in exothermic polymerization reactions, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, vol 43, issue 40, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Berlin Germany, pp. 5363-5366.

Ranganathan, V., Macfarlane, D.R., 2004, Living cationic polymerisation of styrene in an ionic liquid, Chemical Communications, issue 6, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge England, pp. 700-701.