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Biography

Dr. Subbiah Alwarappan

CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India
Email: salwarap@gmail.com

Qualifications

2007  Ph.D., Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences
2001  M.Sc., Presidency College, Chennai, India, Chemistry
1999  B.Sc., Alagappa Government Arts College, Karaikudi, India, Chemistry

Publications (Selected)

  1. Nayak, S. K., Barman, C., Sireesha, L., Sakthivel, A., Moram, S. S. B., Alwarappan, S., ... & Raavi, S. S. K. (2025). Critical Role of Carrier Cooling Mechanism in WS2/CsPbBr3 Hybrid Nanocomposites for Enhanced Photodetector Performances. Small, 21(18), 2410099.
  2. Kumar, L. A., Kathiresan, M., Alwarappan, S., Bella, F., & Stephan, A. M. (2025). Fast Charging of Lithium-Ion Batteries by the Effective Formulation of Nonaqueous Liquid Electrolytes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
  3. Liu, J., Liu, K., Liu, X., Zhu, X., Liu, X., & Alwarappan, S. (2025). Self‐Powered Biosensor Driven by a Hybrid Biofuel Cell with CuCoP‐Polyoxometallate Composite as Both Cathode Catalyst and Sensing Interface. Small, 2500451.
  4. Mandal, S., Tom, C., Singh, Y., Khoder, H., Launois, P., Paineau, E., ... & Pillai, V. K. (2025). Domain Size Modulation of Clay–Nanocellulose Composites for Enhanced Na-Ion Transport. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 8(9), 6071-6086.
  5. Behera, G. C., Biswal, B., Bidika, J. K., Nanda, B. R. K., Alwarappan, S., Rath, J. K., & Roy, S. C. (2025). Fe2O3 Nanoflakes‐WS2 Nanosheets Heterojunctions for Multi‐Fold Enhancement in Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy Conversion. Small, 21(8), 2406715.
  6. Gupta, G., Hossain, S., Khatun, N., Gaurav, K., Alwarappan, S., & Roy, S. C. (2025). Photoassisted Enhancement of Capacitance in the rGO–g-C3N4–ZnCo2O4 Heterojunction-Based Supercapacitor. ACS omega.
  7. Rasheed, P. A., Ankitha, M., Pillai, V. K., & Alwarappan, S. (2024). Graphene quantum dots for biosensing and bioimaging. RSC advances, 14(23), 16001-16023.
  8. Zhao, D., Jiang, R., Liu, X., & Alwarappan, S. (2024). Flexible enzyme-like platform based on a 1-D CeVO4/2-D rGO-MCC heterostructure as sensor for the detection of intracellular superoxide anions. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 400, 134863.
  9. Soosaimanickam, C., Murugavel, K., & Alwarappan, S. (2024). Bimetallic MOFs-based electrodes for the simultaneous electrochemical detection of epinephrine and nor-epinephrine. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 171(9), 097501.
  10. Verma, S., Santra, B., Sakthievel, A., Alwarappan, S., Katharria, Y. S., & Kanjilal, A. (2024). Two step synthesis of g-C3N4@ GO composites with enhanced photoluminescence response. Physica Scripta, 99(11), 115970.
  11. Sakthivel, A., & Alwarappan, S. (2024). Phosphorous Doped Graphitic Carbon Nitride (P‐g‐C3N4) as an Electrochemical Platform for the Simultaneous Detection of Xanthine and Caffeine. ChemNanoMat, 10(12), e202400327.
  12. Annamalai, M., Balu, M., Alwarappan, S., & Lakshmanan, R. (2024). A Theoretical Approach to Understand the Nonlinear Processes in Enzymatic Electrochemical Biosensors. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128(26), 6308-6316.
  13. Nathiya, D., Agarwal, D. K., Gurunathan, K., Alwarappan, S., & Wilson, J. (2024). Tin disulfide nanoflowers and nitrogen doped graphene oxide based extended gate field effect transistor as immunosensors. Microchemical Journal, 199, 109904.
  14. Ragulkrishnan, V., Fawzi, T., Alwarappan, S., Thomas, T., Lee, H., & Roy, S. C. (2024). Addressing the competing adsorption bottleneck in photoreduction of CO2 using a hydrophilic-hydrophobic heterojunction photocatalyst. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, 21, 100236.
  15. Hossain, M. M., Morshed, J., Nomoto, A., Tsujimura, S., & Alwarappan, S. (2024). Porous carbon‐based electrochemical platform for direct electron transfer in myoglobin. Electroanalysis, 36(6), e202300388.
  16. Nair, S. S., Isaac, B. R., Alwarappan, S., Sreedeep, S., & Pillai, V. K. (2024). Electrofluorination and Room-Temperature Doping of Graphene Nanoribbons for Energy Storage Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7(7), 7337-7344.
  17. Zhao, D., Geng, C., Liu, X., Jin, X., Zhao, Z., Liu, Y., & Alwarappan, S. (2023). Photoelectrochemical detection of superoxide anions released from mitochondria in HepG2 cells based on the synergistic effect of MnO2@ Co3O4 core-shell pn heterojunction. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 237, 115368.
  18. Thenrajan, T., Alwarappan, S., & Wilson, J. (2023). Molecular diagnosis and cancer prognosis—a concise review. Diagnostics, 13(4), 766.
  19. Soosaimanickam, C., Sakthivel, A., Murugavel, K., & Alwarappan, S. (2023). Zeolite imidazolate framework-based platform for the electrochemical detection of epinephrine. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 170(10), 107504.
  20. Krishnan, P. R. M., Sakthivel, A., & Alwarappan, S. (2023). Sulfur doped graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets for the electrochemical detection of DNA bases. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 170(9), 097511.
  21. Sharma, N., Sakthivel, A. K., Alwarrapan, S., Gupta, A., Razeen, A. S., Patil, D. S. K., ... & Kumar, M. (2023). Ultrasensitive Real-Time Detection of Pb 2+ Ions Using gC 3 N 4 Nanosheets. IEEE Sensors Journal, 23(10), 10308-10315.
  22. Thenrajan, T., Girija, S., Sangeetha, S., Alwarappan, S., & Wilson, J. (2023). Electrochemical detection of melatonin at tungsten oxide nanospheres decorated chitosan electrode. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 170(7), 077510.
  23. Isaac, B. R., Alwarappan, S., & Pillai, V. K. (2023). Van Der Waals Gap engineering of multiwalled carbon nanotubes in ionic liquids at room temperature. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 11(46), 16641-16649.
  24. Sellaiyan, S., Ajaykumari, P., Vimaladevi, L., Avinash, M., Subbiah, A., & Sivaji, K. (2023). Li and Na metal ion-induced defects in CuO nanocrystallites studied by positron annihilation spectroscopy. Applied Physics A, 129(9), 629.
  25. Sakthivel, A., Subramanian, M. P., Prabhakaran, D., Bhat, S. D., & Alwarappan, S. (2023). One-pot synthesis of MoS2–CN x–metal oxide hetero structures and their synergistic role towards efficient oxygen reduction reaction. Journal of Materials Research, 38(7), 1824-1831.

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