M.Sc., Ph.D
At Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan, May 2015
At Department of Organic material and polymer engineering, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea, January 2013, 2014
At (WPI-MANA) World Premier Institute-Center for Materials Nano Architectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan June-July, 2008
Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, USA, (Dec-Feb 2008)
At Fuel Cell Materials Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan May-July-2007
At Research Institute for Innovations in Sustainable Chemistry, Advanced Polymer Group, National Institute of Advanced Industrial science and Technology, AIST Central 5-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan(2003 –2006)
Sensors
Catalysis and photocatalysis
Porous materials
Organic Synthesis
Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
Member of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad (MNASc)
Fellow of Tamilnadu Academy of Sciences (FASCh)
Received the Faculty achiever award in the NITT institute day for three consecutive years 2016, 2017, 2018 for the contribution in terms of research publications and citations
Chaired a session in the International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Technologies (IMMT-2017), Organised by Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS, Pilani Dubai Campus 28-29 November, 2017
Selected for the INSA Bilateral Exchange Fellowship to Visit Taiwan, May 2015
Received the prestigious Tamil Nadu Young Women Scientist Award-2012 for Chemical Sciences
Received International Travel grant from DST, to visit South Korea for presenting a paper in the 14th Tetrahedron symposium held at Seoul, South Korea, Oct 21-24, 2013
Chaired a session in the International Conference on Key Engineering materials ICKEM 2012, Held at Singapore Feb 26-28, 2012
Editorial Board member in the journal ISRN Analytical Chemistry
International Travel grant from DST, to visit Australia for presenting a paper in the International Conference of 11th Pacific Polymer Conference held at Cairns, Australia, Dec 06-10, 2009
DST-SERC Fast Track Young Scientist Award –2007 Research Grant of 20 lakhs
Received the best poster award in the 5th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Network symposium held at Tokyo, Japan, March 7-8, 2005
Senior Research Fellowship (Extended), CSIR, India-April 2001
Senior Research Fellowship of CSIR, India – April 1998
Far red to NIR emitting ultra-sensitive probe to detect the endogenous HOCl and fluorescence imaging in zebra fish and Raw cell 264.7, N.Vijay, N. Thirumalaivasan, Shu-Pao Wu, S. Velmathi* Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2019, 17, 3538-3544
Indium (III) Triflate-Catalyzed Reactions of Aza-Michael Adducts of Chalcones with Aromatic Amines: Retro-Michael Addition versus Quinoline Formation, T Selvi, S Velmathi, The Journal of Organic Chemistry 83 (7), 4087-4091, 2018
Quinoxaline based redox relay receptor for iodide ions and its application towards real sample analysis and logic gate function B Gopal, S Velmathi, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 256, 126-134, 2018
New Zinc functionalized metal organic Framework for selective sensing of chromate ion
R Minmini, S Naha, S Velmathi Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 251, 644-649, 2017
High-efficiency new visible light-driven Ag2MoO4–Ag3PO4 composite photocatalyst towards degradation of industrial dyes, R Dhanabal, S Velmathi, AC Bose, Catalysis Science & Technology 6 (24), 8449-8463, 2016
A highly fluorescent zinc complex of a dipodal N-acyl hydrazone as a selective sensor for H2PO4− ions and application in living cells S Suganya, S Velmathi, P Venkatesan, SP Wu, MS Boobalan, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers 2 (7), 649-656, 2015
Photocatalytic Application of Wide Band Gap CuO Nanoparticles Synthesized by Microwave Assisted Quick Precipitation, NS Sanjini, R Dhanalakshmi, S Velmathi, Science of Advanced Materials, 6 (7), 1399-1405, 2014
Iron impregnated SBA-15, a mild and efficient catalyst for the catalytic hydride transfer reduction of aromatic nitro compounds NS Sanjini, S Velmathi, RSC Advances 4 (30), 15381-15388, 2014
Received the DST-SERC Fast Track Young Scientist Project Research Grant of 20 lakhs. Project title- Studies towards the development of reusable chiral catalysts for asymmetric synthesis 2007-2010 SR/FTP/CS-142/2006. This project is rated as GOOD by the PAC
Joint Research project between Dr. A. V. Adhikari, Dept. of Chemistry NITK has been sanctioned under TEQIP networking (4 lakhs). Project title –Development of new biodegradable polymers using microwaves 2007-2008
A MOU has been signed between Fuel cell Materials center, NIMS-Japan and NITT (2007-2012)
Received the CSIR Project on Studies towards the application of new tridentate ligands for ring opening polymerization of lactides (2008-11) 12.64 lakhs 01(2282)/08/EMR-II dated 20 th November 2008
Received the DRDO Project Research Grant of 30.43 lakhs. Project title- Studies towards the development of colorimetric and fluorescent on-off receptors for cation/anion sensing (2011-2014) ERIP/ER/1006004/M01/1333 dt. 23-05-2011
Received the DST Project Research Grant of 47 lakhs (2011-2014). Project title- Chiral Hybrid Organic-Inorganic three dimensional Mesoporous Materials for Enantioselective synthesis- SR/S1/OC-06/2011
Coordinator for the MHRD-GIAN sponsored course on supramolecular photochemistry-Research grant of Rs. 5,50,000, 2017
Mentor for the project entitled Carbon-Carbon coupling reactions in water- sanctioned by DST-NPDF-Dr. T. Selvi 2016-2018, PDF/2015/000012 dt. 10.03.2016 Research grant: Rs. 19,20,000
Mentor for the project entitled - Rhodium Catalyzed C-H activation: Alkylative/Arylative Cyclization of 1,6-Enyne for the synthesis of biologically important fused cyclic frameworks sanctioned by DST-NPDF-Dr. S. Periyaraja 2017-2018, PDF/2016/003908,dt.17.02.2017 Research grant: Rs. 19,20,000
Co-Investigator in the DST Nano Mission project (2009-12) grant of 5.8 crores Project title- Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for engineering applications SR/NM/NS-27/2008
CSIR project on "Sense and Separate" strategy for the detection of toxic analytes using Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Mesoporous Materials (2018-21) 01(2949)/18/EMR-II dated 01.05.2018
Benzimidazoles: Smart Chemosensors for toxic metal ions and anions By Sivan Velmathi And Gopal Balamurugan Lambert Academic Publishing, 2018 ISBN (978-613-8-33401-9)
A Special Issue on Synthesis and Applications of Porous Materials
Guest Editor: S. Velmathi, Adv. Porous Mater. 3, 1 (2015) pp.1-74
Guided (9) Students
Ongoing Ph.D. Students (8)
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Life member of Catalysis Society of India (CSI).
Life member of Materials Research Society of INDIA (MRSI).
Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Life Member of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI).
135 Full length articles in international journals
10 full papers published in conference proceedings
3 Japanese patents
70 papers presented in International/National Conferences
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National Institute of Technology
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