Understanding chemical phenomena using
Statistical
and Quantum Mechanics
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Barrier Crossing by a Polymer Molecule |
Prof. K.L. Sebastian
Tel: (Office) +91 80
2293 2385 |
Research Interests
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Polymers: equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics |
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Can one have chemisorbed molecules which diffuse on the surface by rolling as in the animation? See our design of a "Molecular Roller" |
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Umbrella Inversion of a Molecular Rattle
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Recent Publications and Brief CV
Publications from my students, resulting from their work in my group
Some
of my students have written papers on their own, based on the work carried out
in my group:
1) Aniruddha Chakraborty : Curve crossing effects on absorption and resonance Raman
spectra: Analytical treatment for a delta-function coupling
in parabolic potentials, Mol. Phys. 107, 165 (2009).
2) Rajarshi Chakrabarti:
Exact analytical evaluation of time
dependent transmission coefficient from the method of reactive flux for an
inverted parabolic barrier, J. Chem. Phys. 126, 134106 (2007);
DOI:10.1063/1.2713108
3) Rajarshi Chakrabarti: Transient
state work fluctuation theorem for a classical harmonic oscillator linearly
coupled to a harmonic bath, PRAMANA 72,
665 (2009)
4) Priyadarshi Satpati: Dcab(2-) – substituted manganese vinylidene
complexes as better electron reservoirs: A DFT study ORGANOMETALLICS, 26, 4771
(2007).
5) Priyadarshi Satpati: Structure and bonding of MCB5H7 and its sandwiched
dimmer CB5H6M-MCB5H6 (M=Si, Ge,
Sn): Isomer stability and
preference for slip distorted structure, Journal of Organometallic
Chemistry, 693, 1159-1165 (2008).
My
Guru:
The
person who had influenced me the most was Professor S.K. Rangarajan (SKR).
He
was a wonderful person, and an outstanding scientist. He passed away in April
2008.
Please
have a look at the following to know more about him:
1)
Obituaries:
by: a) myself b) Arunachalam,
Baskaran and myself c) de Levie
and myself
2)
An issue of Resonance
which contains articles and editorial on SKR
3) Rama
Kant’s web pages that contain information on SKR
Graduate
Students
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Former
graduate Students
P.
Narayanan (Govt. College, Pattambi)
P. Ananthapadmanabhan (Govt. College, Kozhikode)
K. Sumithra (University of Halle)
G. Nalini (CUSAT, deceased)
Alok K.R. Paul
(CECRI, Karaikudi)
Rosabella Puthur (St. Joseph’s College, Irinjalakuda)
Bidisa Das
(IACS, Kolkata)
Aniruddha
Chakraborty (Univ. Oregon)
K.P. Santo
(University of Alberta)
Student Visitors
I have had a few student visitors to my lab. Typically these are students who are at the first or second year of their Masters degree and they spend about two months in the lab. Some have been supported by the Indian Academy of Sciences/IISc
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Most of them have chosen to continue in Research. Some of the former
visitors are:
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Mathematics
in Kerala between 1350-1659 AD
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Molecular
Garage (My
article on motors)
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Animations
of physical processes
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Molecules
with funny (silly) names