Assistant Professor

Dr Kamatham Narayanaswamy

Department of Chemistry

Interests

  1. Synthesis of π-conjugated organic semiconductors
  2. Materials for organic solar cells and perovskite solar cells
  3. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)

Faculty Details

Education

2005

Sri Krishnadevaraya University
Andhra Pradesh
India
BSc

2009

Yogi Vemana University
Andhra Pradesh
India
MSc

2017

CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
Hyderabad
India
PhD

Experience

  • March 2021-July 2022 - Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
  • November 2019-January 2021 - Post Doctoral Fellow, Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry, Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie Curie Campus, Paris, France.
  • September 2017-September 2019 - Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials of Strasbourg (IPCMS), CNRS, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.

Research Interest

  • Molecular design and synthesis of functional π-conjugated small molecules for solution-processed organic solar cells
  • Design and synthesis of high mobility p-and n-type polymer semiconductors for organic photovoltaic (OPV) and organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) applications
  • Development of donor-acceptor small molecules and double-cable conjugated polymers for single-component organic solar cells
  • Organic semiconductor-incorporated two-dimensional halide perovskites for low-cost OLEDs
  • Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials

Awards & Fellowships

  • Seal of Excellence from European Commission, Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions call H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 & 2020
  • Best Oral Presentation Award in ICMST-2016 International Conference, Kerala, India
  • 1st Prize in Oral Presentation in National Seminar on Advances in Polymeric Materials (NSAPM 2016), SK University, Anantapur, India
  • Invited Talk at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (19-01-2016)
  • Invited Lecture, Zentrum für Nanosystem chemie, Universität Würzburg, Germany (22-03-2018)
  • UGC - Junior and Senior Research Fellowship: Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi (August 2012- July 2017)

Publications

  • Liu, X.; Narayanaswamy, K.; Shi, Z.; Yu, S.; Ren, Q.; Imaoka, K.; Chan, C.-Y.; Heinrich, B.; Troiville-Cazilhac, R.; Chamoreau, L.-M.; Vargas, L. S.; Kreher, D.; Tsuchiya, Y.; Matsushima, T.; Chen, X.; Mathevet, F.; Adachi, C. Investigation of Charge Transport Properties in a 2D Dion-Jacobson Halide Perovskite Based on Terphenyl Dications. ACS Materials Lett. 2023, 5 (8), 2148–2155. (IF: 11.4).
  • Bommaramoni, Y.; Narayanaswamy, K.; Sharma, G. D.; Singh, S. P. Efficient Medium Bandgap Electron Acceptor Based on Diketopyrrolopyrrole and Furan for Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14 (16), 18751–18763. (IF: 9.4).
  • Narayanaswamy, K.; Ibraikulov, O.; Durand, P.; Heinrich, B.; Heiser, T.; Lévêque, P.; Leclerc, N.; Méry, S. On the Impact of Linear Siloxanated Side-Chains on the Morphology and Charge Transport Properties of Conjugated Polymers. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 31 (2007734). (IF: 18.4).
  • Narayanaswamy, K.; Venkateswararao, A.; Nagarjuna, P.; Bishnoi, S.; Gupta, V.; Chand, S.; Singh, S. P. Organic Dyad Composed of Dithiafulvalene Functionalized Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Fullerene for Single Component Organic Solar Cells Achieved Highest Efficiency. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55 (12334-12337). (IF: 16.6).
  • Bommaramoni Yadagiri, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Ganesh D. Sharma, Surya Prakash Singh “Efficient Medium Bandgap Electron Acceptor Based on Diketopyrrolopyrrole and Furan for Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces., 2022, 14, 16, 18751–18763. (Citations = 0, IF=10.4)
  • Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Olzhas Ibraikulov, Pablo Durand, Benoît Heinrich,Thomas Heiser, Patrick Lévêque, Nicolas Leclerc, Stéphane Méry, “On the impact of linear siloxanated side-chains on the morphology and charge transport properties of conjugated polymers” Adv. Funct. Mater., 2021, 31, 2007734. (Citations = 8, IF=18.8)
  • Bommaramoni Yadagiri, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Ganesh D. Sharma, Surya Prakash Singh,“ Carbazole core derived dyes: New non-fullerene acceptor for all small-molecule organic solar cells with very high open-circuit voltage of 1.12 V” Dyes Pigm., 2021, 194, 109606. (Citations = 2, IF=4.9)
  • Bommaramoni Yadagiri, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Towhid H. Chowdhury, Ashraful Islam, Vinay Gupta, Surya Prakash Singh, “Application of small molecules based on a dithienogermole core in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells and perovskite solar cells” Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4, 2168-2175 (Citations = 9, IF=6.05)
  • Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Bommaramoni Yadagiri, Towhid H. Chowdhury, Thokala Swetha, Vinay Gupta, Ashraful Islam, Surya Prakash Singh, “Impact of A-D-A structured dithienosilole and phenoxazine based small molecular material for bulk heterojunction and dopant-free perovskite solar cells” Chem. Eur.J. 2019, 25,16320 –16327, (Citations = 6, IF= 5.2)
  • Olzhas Ibraikulov, Jing Wang, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Benoît Heinrich, Stéphane Méry, Stéphanie Ferry, Markus Kohlstädt, Uli Würfel, Nicolas Leclerc, Thomas Heiser, Patrick Lévêque, “ITO free organic photovoltaic modules based on fluorinated polymers deposited from non-halogenated solution: a major step towards large-scale module production” Sol. RRL, 2019, 3, 1900273. (Citations = 13, IF=9.1)
  • Bommaramoni Yadagiri, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Srikanth Revoju, Bertil Eliasson, Ganesh D. Sharma, Surya Prakash Singh, “An all-small-molecule organic solar cell derived from naphthalimide for solution-processed high-efficiency nonfullerene acceptors” J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 709-717. (Citations = 12, IF=7.39)
  • Bommaramoni Yadagiri, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Ravulakollu Srinivasa Rao, Anirban Bagui, Ram Datt, Vinay Gupta, Surya Prakash Singh, “D-π-A-π-D structured diketopyrrolopyrrole-based electron donors for solution-processed organic solar cells” ACS Omega, 2018,3, (10),13365-13373. (Citations = 12, IF=3.5)
  • Bheerappagari Ramakrishna, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Surya Prakash Singh, Prakriti Ranjan Bangal, “Reversible fluorescence modulation in a dyad comprising phenothiazine derivative and spiropyran” Asian J. Org. Chem., 2018, 7, (11), 2254-2262. (Citations = 1, IF=3.3)
  • G. Hanumantha Rao, Manish Pandey, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Ravulakollu Srinivasa Rao, Shyam S. Pandey, Shuzi Hayase, Surya Prakash Singh, “Synthesis and optoelectrical characterization of novel squaraine dyes derived from benzothiophene and benzofuran” ACS Omega, 2018,3, (10),13919-13927. (Citations = 6, IF=3.5)
  • Caitlin McDowell, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Bommaramoni Yadagiri, Thumuganti Gayathri, Martin Seifrid, Ram Datt, Sean M. Ryno, Michael C. Heifner, Vinay Gupta, Chad Risko, Surya Prakash Singh, Guillermo C. Bazan, “Impact of rotamer diversity on the self-assembly of nearly isostructural molecular semiconductors” J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 383-394. (Citations = 17, IF=12.7)
  • Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Bommaramoni Yadagiri, AnirbanBagui, Vinay Gupta, Surya Prakash Singh, “Multichromophore donor materials derived from diketopyrrolopyrrole and phenoxazine: design, synthesis, and photovoltaic performance” Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2017, 33, 4896-4904. (Citations =3, IF=3.0)
  • Bheerappagari Ramakrishna, Yeduru Venkatesh, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Venkatesan Munisamy, Haraprasad Mandal, Surya Prakash Singh, Prakriti Ranjan Bangal, “Ultrafast fluorescence photoswitch incorporating diketopyrrolopyrrole and benzo[1,3]oxazine” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2017, 121 (49), 27313-27326.(Citations = 3, IF=4.12)
  • Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Addanki Venkateswararao, Puvvala Nagarjuna, Swati Bishnoi, Vinay Gupta, Suresh Chand, and Surya Prakash Singh, “Organic dyad composed of dithiafulvalene functionalized diketopyrrolopyrrole-fullerene for single component organic solar cells achieved highest efficiency” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 12334-12337. (Citations = 43, IF=15.3)
  • Kamatham Narayanaswamy, AddankiVenkateswararao, Vinay Gupta, Suresh Chand, Surya Prakash Singh, “NIR absorption D-π-A-π-D structured diketopyrrolopyrrole-dithiafulvalene based small molecule for solution processed organic solar cells” Chem. Commun. 2016,52, 210-213. (Citations = 25 , IF=6.22)
  • Gautam Sheel Thool, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Addanki Venkateswararao, Sheerin Naqvi, Vinay Gupta, Suresh Chand, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Rik Rani Koner, Venkata Krishnan, Surya Prakash Singh, “Highly directional 1D-supramolecular assembly of new diketopyrrolopyrrole based gel for organic solar cell applications” Langmuir, 2016,32, 4346-4351. (Citations = 33, IF=3.9)
  • Siva Doddi, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Bheerappagari Ramakrishna, Surya Prakash Singh, Prakriti Ranjan Bangal, “Synthesis and spectroscopic investigation of diketopyrrolopyrrole - spiropyran dyad for fluorescent switch application” Journal of Fluorescence, 2016, 26, 1939-1949. (Citations = 13, IF=2.2)
  • Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Thokala Swetha, Gaurav Kapil, Shyam Sudhir Pandey, Shuzi Hayase, Surya Prakash Singh, “Simple metal-free dyes derived from triphenylamine for DSSC: A comparative study of two different anchoring group” Electrochimica Acta,2015, 169, 256-263. (Citations = 22, IF=6.9)
  • Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Amritanjali Tiwari, Indranil Mondal, Ujjwal Pal, Surukonti Niveditha, K. Bhanuprakash, Surya Prakash Singh, “Dithiafulvalene functionalized diketopyrrolopyrrole based sensitizers for efficient hydrogen production” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2015,17, 13710-13718. (Citations = 24, IF=3.67)
  • Puvvala Nagarjuna, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, Thokala Swetha, G. Hanumantha Rao, Surya Prakash Singh, G.D. Sharma, “CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite sensitized solar cells using a D-A copolymer as hole transport material” Electrochimica Acta, 2015, 151, 21-26. (Citations = 53, IF=6.9)
  • CH. Pavan Kumar, Valaboju Anusha, Kamatham Narayanaswamy, K. Bhanuprakash, Ashraful Islam, Liyuan Han, Surya Prakash Singh, M. Chandrasekharam, “New ruthenium complexes (Ru [3+ 2+ 1]) bearing π-extended 4-methylstyryl terpyridine and unsymmetrical bipyridine ligands for DSSC applications” Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2015, 435, 46-52. (Citations = 6, IF=2.54)

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