Publications   Citations: 852      h-index: 15

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First and Corresponding Author Publications: 

1. Semi-transparent dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) for energy-efficient windows with microwave-prepared TiO2 nanoparticles as photoanodes, M.R. Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, G. Rajesh, S. Rajkumar, M.R. Ananthan, G. Balaji, Materials Letters, Volume 360, 1 April 2024, 135953.  

2. TiO2/AgO composites by one step photo reduction technique as electron transport layers (ETL) for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, Agilan Santhanam, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, Chemosphere, Volume 305, Pages 134953, (2022).   

3. Bio-Inspired Graphitic Carbon-Based Large-Area (10 × 10 cm2 Perovskite Solar Cells: Stability Assessments under Indoor, Outdoor, and Water-Soaked Conditions, P. Selvakumar, Nandhakumar Eswaramoorthy, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 38, Pages 43050–43066, (2022). 

4. Performance of simple green synthesized Ag incorporated TiO2 nanoparticles based photoanodes by doctor-blade coating as working electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells, S. Rajkumar, M.R. Venkatraman, Balraju Palanisamy, K. Suguna, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, Progress in Organic Coatings, Volume 164, Pages 106697, (2022).

5. UV-aided Graphene Oxide Reduction by TiO2 towards TiO2/Reduced Graphene Oxide (RGO) Composites for Dye-sensitized solar cells, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, P. Selvakumar, Agilan Santhanam, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, International Journal of Energy Research, Volume 45, Issue 12, Pages 17220-17232, (2021).

6. Transformation of TiO2 nanoparticles to nanotubes by simple solvothermal route and its performance as Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) photoanodes, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, P. Balraju, P. Selvakumar, Agilan Santhanam, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 45, Issue 31, Pages 15441-15452, (2020).

7. Microwave Assisted Solvothermal Synthesis of Quasi Cubic F Doped TiO2 Nanostructures as Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells photoanodes, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, Agilan Santhanam, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, International Journal of Energy Research Volume 45, Issue 12, Pages 17259-17268, (2021)

8. Performance of TiO2 nanoparticles synthesized by microwave and solvothermal methods as photoanodes for Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, P. Selvakumar, N. Muthukumarasamy, Kristin Kvamme, G. Rajesh, S. Agilan, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 45, Issue 51, Pages 27036-27046, (2020).

09 Microwave-Assisted Solvothermal synthesis of worms-like TiO2 Nanostructures in Submicron Regime as Light Scattering Layers for Dye- Sensitized Solar Cells, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Sondre Sandberg, N. Muthukumarasamy, Kristin Kvamme, P. Balraju, S. Agilan, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Materials Letters, Volume 236, Pages 747-751, (2019).

10. Size controlled synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles by modified solvothermal method towards effective photo catalytic and photovoltaic applications, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, Agilan Santhanam, Vijayshankar Asokan, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Materials Research Bulletin, Volume 97, Pages 351-360, (2018).

Other Publications

1. Micro-Raman spectroscopy of laser induced changes in polycrystalline CuInTe2, Ananthan Mevani Raju, M.R. Venkatraman, Results in Optics, Volume 13, Pages 100577, (2023). 

2. PbS quantum dots-sensitized ZnO nanorods-based third generation solar cells, D. Vinoth Pandi, V. Saraswathi, M.R. Venkatraman, N. Muthukumarasamy, S. Agilan, D. Velauthapillai, K. Brindhadevi, A. Pugazhendhi, Materials Today Chemistry, Volume 29, April 2023, 101444, 2023.

3. Investigation on rod like SnO2@CdCO3 nanocomposite-based electron transport layer for CsPbBr3 heterojunction perovskite solar cell applications, E. Nandhakumar, P. Selvakumar, A. Arulraj, E. Vivek, M.R. Venkatraman, A. Sasikumar, M. Prem Kumar, R.V. Mangalaraja, R. Kamatchi, N. Senthilkumar, Materials Letters, Volume 330, Pages 133396, (2023).  

4. Perovskite solar cells: investigation of structural, optical and device performance analysis of Al–Sn co-doped ZnO electron transport layer, A. Pramothkumar, N. Senthilkumar, Selvakumar Pitchaiya, Nandhakumar Eswaramoorthy, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan & I. Vetha Potheher, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Issue 34, Article number: 627 (2023).  

7. Comparison of three different structures of Zeolites prepared by template-free hydrothermal method and its CO2 adsorption properties, Jayaprakash Madhu, M.R. Venkatraman, Pavithrakumar Palanichamy, Agilan Santhanam, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, Balraju Palanisamy, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Nguyen Thuy Lan Chi, Environmental Research, Volume 214, 113949, (2022).

8. Synthesis and characterization of Nickel doped TiO2 nanoparticles by green method and its performance as dye-sensitized solar cells photoanodes, Rajkumar Senthamarai, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Prabhu Murugan, Anbarasan Ponnusamy Munusamy, Suguna Kulandhaivel, International Journal of Energy Research, Volume 46, Issue 6, Pages 7749-7757, (2022).

9. Rubik’s cube shaped organic template free hydrothermal synthesis and characterization of zeolite NaA for CO2 adsorption, Jayaprakash Madhu, M.R. Venkatraman, Pavithrakumar Palanichamy, Agilan Santhanam, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, Peulakumari Ponnaian, Kathirvel Brindhadevi, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Fuel, Issue 317, Pages 123492, (2022).

11. Synthesis of Ag-incorporated TiO2 nanoparticles by simple green approach as working electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells, S. Rajkumar, M. R. Venkatraman, K. Suguna, P. Karuppasamy, M. Senthil Pandian & P. Ramasamy, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Volume 33, Pages 4965–4973, (2021).

18. Synthesis of TiO2 nanostructures by green approach as photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells, Rajkumar Senthamarai, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Balraju Palanisamy, Suguna Kulandhaivel, International Journal of Energy Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, Pages 3089-3096, (2021).

19. Interfacing green synthesized flake like-ZnO with TiO2 for bilayer electron extraction in perovskite solar cells, Selvakumar P, Nandhakumar E, Muthukumarasamy N, Agilan Santhanam, Vijayshankar Asokan, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Balraju P, Anandhi K, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, New Journal of Chemistry, Volume 44, Issue 20, Pages 8422-8433, (2020).

20. Perovskite Solar Cells: A Porous Graphitic Carbon-based Hole Transporter/Counter Electrode Material Extracted from an Invasive Plant Species Eichhornia Crassipes, Selvakumar P, Nandhakumar E, Muthukumarasamy N, Agilan Santhanam, Vijayshankar Asokan, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Balasundaraprabhu Rangasamy, Senthilarasu Sundaram, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Scientific Reports, 10, Article number: 6835, (2020).

21. A Review on the Classifications of Organic/Inorganic/Carbonaceous Hole Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cell Application, Selvakumar Pitchaiya, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, Agilan Santhanam, Vijayshankar Asokan, Akila Yuvapragasam, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Subramaniam E Palanisamy, Senthilarasu Sundaram, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Arabian Journal of Chemistry, Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 2526-2557, (2020).

22. The Performance of CH3NH3PbI3- Nanoparticles based – Perovskite Solar Cells Fabricated by Facile Powder press Technique, Selvakumar P, N. Muthukumarasamy, Agilan Santhanam, Vijayshankar Asokan, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Selvaraj Yuvaraj, Akila Yuvapragasam, Balasundaraprabhu Rangasamy, Senthilarasu Sundaram, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Materials Research Bulletin, Volume 108, Pages 61–72, (2018).

23. Nickel sulphide-carbon composite hole transporting material for (CH3NH3PbI3) planar heterojunction perovskite solar cell, Selvakumar Pitchaiya, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, Agilan Santhanam, Venkatraman Madurai Ramakrishnan, Vijayshankar Asokan, Pavithrakumar Palanichamy, Balasundaraprabhu Rangasamy, Senthilarasu Sundaram, Dhayalan Velauthapillai: Materials Letters, Volume 221, Pages 283–288, (2018).

24. Investigations on Hot-wall deposited Cadmium Sulphide buffer layer for thin film solar cell, G. Balaji, R. Balasundaraprabhu, S. Prasanna, N. Prabavathy, M.R. Venkatraman, Vijayshankar Asokan, N. Muthukumarasamy, M.D. Kannan, K. Sivakumaran, Materials Letters, Volume 222, Pages 82–87, (2018).

25. The performance of CdS quantum dot sensitized ZnO nanorod-based solar cell, D. Vinoth Pandi, N. Muthukumarasamy, S. Agilan, M. R. Venkat Raman, Y. Akila, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, Volume 80, Pages 867–872, (2016). 

26. Structural, optical and magnetic properties of undoped NiO and Fedoped NiO nanoparticles synthesized by wet-chemical process, P.M. Ponnusamy, S. Agilan, N. Muthukumarasamy, T.S. Senthil, G. Rajesh, M.R. Venkatraman, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Materials Characterization, Volume 114, Pages 166-171, (2016). 

27. Solution based synthesis of high yield CZTS (Cu2ZnSnS4) spherical quantum dots, G. Rajesh, N. Muthukumarasamy, E.P. Subramanian, M.R. Venkatraman, S. Agilan, V. Ragavendran, M. Thambidurai, S. Velumani, Junsin Yi, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Superlattices and Microstructures, Volume 77, Pages 305-312, (2015).

BOOK CHAPTER:

1)  Recent Progress of Carbonaceous Materials in Third Generation Solar Cells: DSSCs, Nandhakumar Eswaramoorthy, Ravuri Syamsai, Senthilkumar Nallusamy, Selvakumar Pitchaiya, MR Venkatraman*, Springer Nature Singapore Publications, Handbook of Porous Carbon Materials, Pages 165-188 (2023).

Conference Proceedings:

1.  Solvothermal synthesis of TiO2/CNT composites and its physical and chemical properties, M.R. Venkatraman, N. Muthukumarasamy, R. Balasundaraprabhu, S. Agilan, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, AIP Conference Proceedings 1665, 050166, (2015), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4917807.