Raghavan Ranganathan
Department : Materials Engineering
Research Interests
● Atomistic/Molecular simulations of structure-property relations (mechanical, thermal and dynamic properties)
● Dynamics of soft matter including polymer blends and nanocomposites
● Viscoelasticity of hard inorganic materials and composites
● Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations in materials
● Modeling reactive processes in materials subjected to extreme conditions
Professional Summary
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Jul 2019 to present)
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sep 2016 – Apr 2019)
Publications
1. R. Ranganathan, V. Kumar, A. L. Brayton, M. Kroger, and G. C. Rutledge, “Atomistic modeling of plastic deformation in semicrystalline polyethylene: role of interphase topology, entanglements, and chain dynamics”, Macromolecules, 53, 4605, 2020.
2. W. Peng, R. Ranganathan, P. Keblinski, P. Akcora and R. Ozisik, “Viscoelastic and dynamic properties of polymer grafted nanocomposites with high glass transition temperature graft chains”, Journal of Applied Physics, 126, 195102, 2019.
3. R. Ranganathan, Y. Shi, P. Keblinski, “Commonalities in frequency-dependent viscoelastic damping in glasses in the MHz to THz regime”, J. Appl. Phys., 122, 145103, 2017.
4. R. Ranganathan, R. Ozisik, and P. Keblinski, “Frequency-dependent mechanical damping in alloys”, Phys. Rev. B, 95, 214112, 2017.
5. R. Ranganathan, S. Rokkam, T. Desai, P. Keblinski, P Cross, and R Burnes, “Generation of amorphous carbon models using liquid quench method: A reactive molecular dynamics study”, Carbon, 113, 87, 2017.
6. W. Peng, R. Ranganathan, P. Keblinski, R. Ozisik, “Viscoelastic and dynamic properties of well-mixed and phase separated binary polymer blends: A molecular dynamics simulation study”, Macromolecules, 50, 6293, 2017.
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