Gopinadhan Kalon
Department : Materials Engineering
Research Interests
● Experimental (soft) condensed matter physics
● Graphene based nanofluidics/desalination techniques
● Ion/Proton transport through confined structures
● Device functionalities utilizing surface and interface physics
● Two-dimensional heterostructures
Professional Summary
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (July 2018 to Present)
Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester (2015)
Research Scientist (Senior), NUSNNI-NanoCore, National University of Singapore (2013 – 2015)
Visiting Scientist, Dept of Physics, University of Manchester (2013)
Research Scientist, Dept. of ECE., National Un. Singapore (2011 – 2013)
Research Scientist (A), Dept. of ECE, National Un. Singapore (2008 – 2011)
Project Scientist, IIT Delhi (2007 – 2008)
Publications
1. Selective transport of water molecules through interlayer spaces in graphite, Lalita Saini, Siva Sankar Nemala, Aparna Rathi, Suvigya Kaushik, & K. Gopinadhan* (Corresponding Author), Nature communications 13, 498(2022).
2. Complete steric exclusion of ions and proton transport through confined monolayer water, K. Gopinadhan, S. Hu, A. Esfandiar, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, F. C. Wang, Q. Yang, A. Tyurnina, A. Keerthi, B. Radha & A. K. Geim, Science 363,145 (2019).
3. Transport of hydrogen isotopes through interlayer spacing in van der Waals crystals, S. Hu, K. Gopinadhan, A. Rakowski, M. Neek-Amal, T. Heine, I. V. Grigorieva, S. J. Haigh, F. M. Peeters, A. K. Geim & M. Lozada-Hidalgo, Nature Nanotechnology 13, 468 (2018).
4. Size effect in ion transport through Angstrom-scale slits, A. Esfandiar, B. Radha, F. C. Wang, Q. Yang, S. Hu, S. Garaj, R. R. Nair, A. K. Geim & K. Gopinadhan (corresponding author), Science 358, 511 (2017).
5. Tunable sieving of ions using graphene oxide membranes, J. Abraham, K. S. Vasu, C. D. Williams, K. Gopinadhan, Y. Su, C. Cherian, J. Dix, E. Prestat, S. J. Haigh, I. V. Grigorieva, P. Carbone, A. K. Geim & R. R. Nair, Nature Nanotechnology 12, 546 (2017).
6. Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision, B. Radha, A. Esfandiar, F. C. Wang, A. P. Rooney, K. Gopinadhan, A. Keerthi, A. Mishchenko, A. Janardanan, P. Blake, L. Fumagalli, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, S. J. Haigh, S. Garaj, I. V. Grigorieva, H. A. Wu & A. K. Geim, Nature 538, 222(2016).
7. Surface energy and wettability of van der Waals structures, Meenakshi Annamalai, K. Gopinadhan (*corresponding author), S. A. Han, S. Saha, H. J. Park, E. B. Cho, B. Kumar, A. Patra, S. W. Kim & T. Venkatesan, Nanoscale 8, 5764 (2016).
8. Extremely large magnetoresistance in few-layer graphene/boron-nitride heterostructures, K. Gopinadhan, Y. J. Shin, R. Jalil, T. Venkatesan, A. K. Geim, A. H. Castro Neto & H. Yang, Nature Communications 6, 8337 (2015).
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