Education

• Ph.D in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (2005).Advisor:Prof.S.Ramaprabhu
• M.Sc in Physics, St.Thomas College Trissur, University of Calicut, India (1998).
• B.Sc in Physics, Sir Syed College Taliparamba, University of Calicut, India (1996).

Experience

1. Professor, School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Thiruvananthapuram, India (December 2022 – )
2. Associate Professor, School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Thiruvananthapuram, India (June 2017 – Dec 2022 )
3. Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Thiruvananthapuram, India (May 2010 – May 2017)
4. Post-doctoral Research Fellow (with Prof. Patrice Simon), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (2009-2010).
5. Post-doctoral Research Fellow (with Prof. Pulickel Ajayan), Rice University, Houston, USA (2007-2009).
6. Post-doctoral Research Fellow (with Prof. Pulickel Ajayan), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, USA (2005-2007).

Research Areas

• Multifunctional Hybrid Nanostructures: 2D materials and heterostructures, Nanocomposites, Nano-architectures
• Energy Storage: Rechargeable batteries (Lithium/Sodium/Potassium), Organic electrodes, Solid-state batteries, Supercapacitors, Hybrid-ion capacitors, Dual-ion batteries, Li/Na- Sulphur/Selenium batteries.
• Energy Conversion: Hydrogen generation via water electrolysis- HER/OER, Electro-/photo-catalysis. CO₂ reduction.

Teaching

• Classical Mechanics
• Electronics
• Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics
• Nanoscale Physics
• Materials Synthesis & Characterization
• Electrochemical Energy Systems

Patents

• M. M. Shaijumon, D. Gopalakrishnan and D. Damien, "A method for the synthesis of layered luminescent transition metal dichalcogenide quantum dots" US Patent No: US10260154B2
• M. M. Shaijumon, P. Manikandan and D. Ramasubramonian, "Cathode active material for a sodium ion battery and a process thereof" Indian Patent filed; Application No: 2095/CHE/2015.
• M. M. Shaijumon, D. Gopalakrishnan and D. Damien, "A Single step process for the synthesis of MoS2 quantum dots" Indian Patent filed; Application No: 3309/CHE/2014.
• P. M. Ajayan, F.S.Ou, M. M. Shaijumon, S. R. Gowda, A. L. M. Reddy, "Conformal coating on nanostructured electrode materials for three-dimensional applications" U.S Patent Application no: 61/285,259 [International Application no: PCT/US2010/059946].
• P. M. Ajayan, R. Linhardt, O. Nalamasu, A. Kumar, S. Murugesan, M. M. Shaijumon and P. Vicotor, "Energy storage devices and composite articles associated with the same," U.S Patent filed; 60/818,921 [International Application no: PCT/US2007/015353].
• S. Ramaprabhu and M. M. Shaijumon, "Carbon nanotubes and their synthesis," Indian Patent filed; 1129/CHE/05.
• M. M. Shaijumon, D. Gopalakrishnan and D. Damien, "A method for the synthesis of layered luminescent transition metal dichalcogenide quantum dots" Indian Patent No: 404685

Book Chapters and Reviews

• M. M. Shaijumon and S. Ramaprabhu, "Catalytic synthesis of CNTs from acetylene using alloy hydride materials and their hydrogen storage properties" , Nano-scale Materials: From Science to Technology, ed. S. N. Sahu, R. K. Choudhury and P. Jena, Nova Science Publishers, New York, (2006).
• S. Ramaprabhu and M. M. Shaijumon, "Synthesis of CNTs using novel alloy hydride catalyst using thermal CVD and their energy-related applications," Nanotechnology at the leading edge, ed. Eugene V. Dirote, Nova Science Publishers, New York, (2006).

Refereed Journal Publications (International):

79. Vipin Yadav; Megha; Prasenjit Sen; M. M. Shaijumon (2024) “Electrosynthesis of ruthenium nanocluster incorporated nickel diselenide for efficient overall water splitting”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 12, 5319-5330.

78. Gudla Vardhini; Patoju Dilip; Sreelakshmi Kumar; Shruti Suriyakumar; Mahesh Hariharan; M. M. Shaijumon (2023). Polyimide-based Aqueous Potassium Energy Storage Systems using Concentrated WiSE Electrolyte, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

77. Jahnavi M.S., ‡ Sreelakshmy K.J.,‡ Shruti Suriyakumar, Bhargav Rajbongshi and, M. M. Shaijumon (2023). Carbon spheres with catalytic silver centres as selenium hosts for stable lithium–selenium batteries, Energy Advances, 3, 215-223.

76. Bindumadhavan, K., Surendran, V., Suriyakumar, S., Rajasekharan, R., Sivasubramanian, K., Nair, S., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2024). Dual-functional trisiloxane as binder additive for high volume expansion Li-ion battery electrodes. Journal of Energy Storage, 77, 109931.

75. Pattavathi, B., Surendran, V., Palani, S., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2023). Artificial neural network-enabled approaches toward mass balancing and cell optimization of lithium dual ion batteries. Journal of Energy Storage, 68, 107878.

74. Prodhan, S., Chauhan, K. K., Singha, T., Karmakar, M., Maity, N., Nadarajan, R., ... & Datta, P. K. (2023). Comprehensive excited state carrier dynamics of 2D selenium: One-photon and multi-photon absorption regimes. Applied Physics Letters, 123(2).

73. Suriyakumar, S., Pattavathi, B., Jojo, A., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2023). Upcycling of Spent LiCoO2 Cathode to Lithium Dual‐Ion Battery Anode. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2300052.

72. Suriyakumar, S., Mazumder, A., Dilip, P. S., Hariharan, M., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2023). Synergistically Improving the Stability and Operating Potential of Organic Cathodes for Sodium‐Ion Battery. Batteries & Supercaps, e202300111.

71. Aparna, R. K., Surendran, V., Roy, D., Pathak, B., Manikoth M Shaijumon, & Mandal, S. (2023). Silver Nanoparticle-Decorated Defective Zr-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks for Efficient Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction with Ultrahigh Mass Activity. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 6(7), 4072-4078.

70. Nadarajan, R., Gopinathan, A. V., Dileep, N. P., Sidharthan, A. S., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2023). Heterointerface engineering of cobalt molybdenum suboxide for overall water splitting. Nanoscale, 15(37), 15219-15229.

69. Dileep, N. P., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2023). Electrochemically exfoliated β-Co (OH) 2 for energy conversion reactions. In Ceramic Catalysts (pp. 107-124). Elsevier.

68. Surendran, V., Hema, R. K., Hassan, M. S. O., Vijayan, V., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2022). Open or Closed? Elucidating the Correlation between Micropore Nature and Sodium Storage Mechanisms in Hard Carbon. Batteries & Supercaps, 5(11), e202200316.

67. Dileep, N. P., Kollenchery Puthenveettil, L., Nagaraju Myakala, S., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2022). Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction from Electrophoretically-Deposited BiSbSe3 Nanoparticles. In Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts 242 (No. 23, pp. 964-964). The Electrochemical Society, Inc..

66. Aswathy, P., Suriyakumar, S., Kumar, S. A., Oliyantakath Hassan, M. S., Vijayan, V., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2022). Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Sulfide Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Sodium Batteries. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 5(10), 12592-12601.

65. Kayal, A., Barman, P. K., Sarma, P. V., Manikoth M Shaijumon, Kini, R. N., & Mitra, J. (2022). Symmetric domain segmentation in WS2 flakes: correlating spatially resolved photoluminescence, conductance with valley polarization. Nanotechnology, 33(49), 495203.

64. Vardhini, G., Suriyakumar, S., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2022). All-Organic Potassium Ion Hybrid Capacitor. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 5(8), 9595-9604.

63. Sarma, Prasad V., Renjith Nadarajan, Ritesh Kumar, Riya Mol Patinharayil, Navya Biju, Sreevidya Narayanan, Guanhui Gao et al. "Growth of highly crystalline ultrathin two-dimensional selenene." 2D Materials 9, no. 4 (2022): 045004.

62. Dileep, N. P., Puthenveettil, L. K., Myakala, S. N., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2022). Electrophoretically-deposited BiSbSe3 nanoparticles as highly efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction. Applied Materials Today, 27, 101502.

61. Barman, P. K., Sarma, P. V., Manikoth M Shaijumon, & Kini, R. N. (2022). Resonant-Raman study of Fröhlich exciton–phonon interaction in WS2 nanostructures. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 231(4), 743-748.

60. Varghese, S. P., Babu, B., Surendran, V., Damien, D., Antony, R., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2022). γ-MnOOH-graphene nanocomposite as promising anode material for Li-ion capacitors. Journal of Energy Storage, 47, 103636.

59. Suriyakumar, S., Varma, A., Surendran, V., Jasuja, K., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2022). Nanosheets Derived through Dissolution‐Recrystallization of TiB2 as Efficient Anode for Sodium‐Ion Batteries. Batteries & Supercaps, 5(2), e202100243.

58. Surendran, V., Lal, A., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2021). Mass balancing of hybrid ion capacitor electrodes: a simple and generalized semiempirical approach. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(44), 52610-52619.

57. Dileep, N. P., Sarma, P. V., Prasannachandran, R., Surendran, V., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2021). Electrostatically coupled nanostructured Co (OH) 2–MoS2 heterostructures for enhanced alkaline hydrogen evolution. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4(7), 7206-7212.

56. Babu, B., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2021). Front Cover: Understanding How Degree of Crystallinity Affects Electrochemical Kinetics of Sodium‐Ion in Brown TiO2 Nanotubes (ChemElectroChem 12/2021). ChemElectroChem, 8(12), 2150-2150.

55. Babu, B., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2021). Understanding How Degree of Crystallinity Affects Electrochemical Kinetics of Sodium‐Ion in Brown TiO2 Nanotubes. ChemElectroChem, 8(12), 2180-2185.

54. Lakshmi, K. P., Deivanayagam, R., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2021). Carbon nanotube ‘wired’octahedral Sb2O3/graphene aerogel as efficient anode material for sodium and lithium ion batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 857, 158267.

53. Surendran, V., Arya, R. S., Vineesh, T. V., Babu, B., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2021). Engineered carbon electrodes for high performance capacitive and hybrid energy storage. Journal of Energy Storage, 35, 102340.

52. Rai, B., Sarma, P. V., Srinivasan, V., Manikoth M Shaijumon, & Ramamurthy, S. S. (2021). Engineering of Exciton–Plasmon Coupling Using 2D-WS2 Nanosheets for 1000-Fold Fluorescence Enhancement in Surface Plasmon-Coupled Emission Platforms. Langmuir, 37(5), 1954-1960.

51. Rai, B., Sarma, P. V., Srinivasan, V., Manikoth M Shaijumon, & Ramamurthy, S. S. (2021). Engineering of Exciton–Plasmon Coupling Using 2D-WS₂ Nanosheets for 1000-Fold Fluorescence Enhancement in Surface Plasmon-Coupled Emission Platforms.

50. Mol, P. R., Barman, P. K., Sarma, P. V., Kumar, A. S., Sahu, S., Manikoth M Shaijumon, & Kini, R. N. (2021). Anomalously polarised emission from a MoS 2/WS 2 heterostructure. Nanoscale Advances, 3(19), 5676-5682.

49. Jha, M. K., Babu, B., Parker, B. J., Surendran, V., Cameron, N. R., Manikoth M Shaijumon, & Subramaniam, C. (2020). Hierarchically engineered nanocarbon florets as bifunctional electrode materials for adsorptive and intercalative energy storage. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12(38), 42669-42677.

48. Veettil Vineesh, T., Vijayakumar Anagha, U., Purayil Dileep, N., Cheraparambil, H., Nambeesan, J., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2020). Enhanced Bifunctional Catalytic Activity of Cobalt Phosphide Flowers Anchored N‐Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution. ChemElectroChem, 7(15), 3319-3323.

47. Babu, B., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2020). Studies on kinetics and diffusion characteristics of lithium ions in TiNb2O7. Electrochimica Acta, 345, 136208.

46. Sarma, P. V., Vineesh, T. V., Kumar, R., Sreepal, V., Prasannachandran, R., Singh, A. K., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2020). Nanostructured tungsten oxysulfide as an efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction. ACS Catalysis, 10(12), 6753-6762.

45. Anjana, P. K., Babu, B., Manikoth M Shaijumon, & Thirumurugan, A. (2020). Lithium‐Ion‐Based Electrochemical Energy Storage in a Layered Vanadium Formate Coordination Polymer. ChemPlusChem, 85(6), 1137-1144.

44. Dileep, N. P., Vineesh, T. V., Sarma, P. V., Chalil, M. V., Prasad, C. S., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2020). Electrochemically exfoliated β-Co (OH) 2 nanostructures for enhanced oxygen evolution electrocatalysis. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(2), 1461-1467.

43. Prasannachandran, R., Vineesh, T. V., Lithin, M. B., Nandakishore, R., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2020). Phosphorene-quantum-dot-interspersed few-layered MoS 2 hybrids as efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution. Chemical Communications, 56(61), 8623-8626.

42. Lakshmi, K. P., Janas, K. J., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2019). Antimony oxychloride embedded graphene nanocomposite as efficient cathode material for chloride ion batteries. Journal of Power Sources, 433, 126685.

41. Sarma, P. V., Kayal, A., Sharma, C. H., Thalakulam, M., Mitra, J., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2019). Electrocatalysis on edge-rich spiral WS2 for hydrogen evolution. ACS nano, 13(9), 10448-10455.

40. Varghese, S. P., Babu, B., Prasannachandran, R., Antony, R., & Manikoth M Shaijumon (2019). Enhanced electrochemical properties of Mn3O4/graphene nanocomposite as efficient anode material for lithium ion batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 780, 588-596.

39. Barman, P. K., Sarma, P. V., Manikoth M Shaijumon, & Kini, R. N. (2019). High degree of circular polarization in WS2 spiral nanostructures induced by broken symmetry. Scientific reports, 9(1), 2784.

38. KP Lakshmi, KJ Janas, Manikoth M Shaijumon “Antimony oxychloride embedded graphene nanocomposite as efficient cathode material for chloride ion batteries.” Journal of Power Sources 433, 126685 (2019).

37. Prasad V Sarma, Arijit Kayal, Chithra H Sharma, Madhu Thalakulam, J Mitra, Manikoth M Shaijumon. “Electrocatalysis on Edge-Rich Spiral WS2 for Hydrogen Evolution.” ACS nano 13 (9), 10448-10455 (2019).

1. D. Damien, P. M. Sudeep, T. N. Narayanan, M. R. Anantharaman, P. M. Ajayan* and M. M. Shaijumon*, ‘Fluorinated graphene based electrodes for high performance primary lithium batteries’ RSC Advances, (2013), accepted
2. P. Sharma, D. Damien, K. Nagarajan, M. M. Shaijumon* and M. Hariharan*, ‘Perylene-polyimide-Based Organic Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries’, J. Phys. Chem. Lett.,4, 3192-3197 (2013)
3. P. M. Sudeep, T.N. Narayanan, Aswathi G, M. M. Shaijumon, P. M. Ajayan et al., 'Covalently interconnected 3-D Graphene Oxide solids', ACS Nano, 7, 7034-7040 (2013)
4. Dijo Damien, Binson Babu, T. N. Narayanan, A.L.M.Reddy, P. M. Ajayan and M. M. Shaijumon*, ‘Eco-efficient synthesis of graphene nanoribbons and their application in supercapacitors’ Graphene, 1, 37-44 (2013)

Achievements

• Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) medal, 2019
• Academic Editor, PLOS ONE (2022- )
• Editorial Board Member, Infomat, Infoscience (Wiley)
• DAE Young Scientist Research Award (2012)
• Member, Electrochemical Society, MRSI
• SERB Science Technology Research Award, Govt. of India, 2023

Dr. M M Shaijumon
Professor
School of Physics
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Maruthamala P.O, Vithura
Thiruvananthapuram - 695551
Kerala, India

Phone: 0471-2778122
Email: shaiju[at]iisertvm[dot]ac[dot]in

Education

• Ph.D in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (2005).Advisor:Prof.S.Ramaprabhu
• M.Sc in Physics, St.Thomas College Trissur, University of Calicut, India (1998).
• B.Sc in Physics, Sir Syed College Taliparamba, University of Calicut, India (1996).

Experience

1. Professor, School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Thiruvananthapuram, India (December 2022 – )
2. Associate Professor, School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Thiruvananthapuram, India (June 2017 – Dec 2022 )
3. Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Thiruvananthapuram, India (May 2010 – May 2017)
4. Post-doctoral Research Fellow (with Prof. Patrice Simon), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (2009-2010).
5. Post-doctoral Research Fellow (with Prof. Pulickel Ajayan), Rice University, Houston, USA (2007-2009).
6. Post-doctoral Research Fellow (with Prof. Pulickel Ajayan), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, USA (2005-2007).