Raju V. Ramanujan

Raju V. Ramanujan is currently on the faculty of the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His group’s current research activities at NTU include nanomaterials, especially magnetic nanomaterials for energy, bioengineering, and information storage applications. He is a member of the Phase Transformations Committee of both TMS (USA) and ASM (USA), the European Union-India Grid and an Editor or Associate Editor of several international journals, including nanomedicine, Materials Science, and Engineering B and C, and Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. He earned his B.S. degree (First Class Honors) from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and his Master of Engineering and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgical engineering and materials science from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He was a recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation Fellowship during his studies at Carnegie Mellon. He was a staff scientist at Advanced Devices and Materials, USA. Subsequently, at the University of Birmingham, England he developed a program for processing and characterization of high performance energy efficient materials. His group carried out detailed studies of intermetallic and thin film systems at the Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has received the Excellence in Teaching award from his university and has organized a number of international conferences related to advanced functional materials.

Biography Updated on 12 October 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Symposium on Phase Transformations in Magnetic Materials Foreword
    Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 716–716, 2007
  2. Templated Assembly of Magnetic Cobalt Nanowire Arrays
    Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 717–724, 2007
  3. Magnetic PNIPA hydrogels for hyperthermia applications in cancer therapy
    Materials Science and Engineering: C, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 347–351, 2007
  4. Processing and characterization of activated carbon coated magnetic particles for biomedical applications
    Materials Science and Engineering: C, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 659–664, 2007
  5. The effect of aspect ratio scaling on hydrostatic stress in passivated interconnects
    Thin Solid Films, vol. 515, no. 6, pp. 3246–3252, 2007
  6. Magnetic trapping induced low temperature phase transition from fcc to fct in pulsed laser deposition of FePt:Al[sub 2]O[sub 3] nanocomposite thin films
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, no. 6, p. 063120, 2007
  7. Synthesis of Fe3O4 nanostructures by backward plume deposition and influence of ambient gas pressure on their morphology
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 2548–2554, 2007
  8. Coarsening of the Nanolamellar Structure in a Soft Magnetic Alloy
    IEEE Transactions On Nanotechnology, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 177–185, 2007
  9. Cobalt?ferrite nanobowl arrays: Curved magnetic nanostructures
    Journal of Materials Research, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 1250–1254, 2007
  10. Solid state dendrite formation in an amorphous magnetic Fe[sub 77.5]Si[sub 13.5]B[sub 9] alloy observed by in situ hot stage transmission electron microscopy
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 88, no. 18, p. 182506, 2006
  11. The mechanical behavior of smart magnet–hydrogel composites
    Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 952–956, 2006
  12. Quantitative transmission electron microscopy analysis of the nanocrystallization kinetics of soft magnetic alloys
    Physical Review B, vol. 74, no. 22, 2006
  13. Nanolamellar Structure Obtained by Simple Crystallization of an Amorphous Cobalt-Based Magnetic Alloy
    IEEE Transactions On Nanotechnology, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 295–300, 2006
  14. Nanocrystallisation of an Fe 44.5 Co 44.5 Zr 7 B 4 amorphous magnetic alloy
    Philosophical Magazine, vol. 86, no. 10, pp. 1355–1372, 2006
  15. Effect of thermal annealing on Fe40Ni38B18Mo4 thin films: modified Herzer model for magnetic evolution
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 1993–2000, 2006
  16. Characteristics of FeCo nano-particles synthesized using plasma focus
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 2212–2219, 2006
  17. In situ hot stage transmission electron microscopy observations of nanocrystal formation in a Co65Si15B14Fe4Ni2 amorphous magnetic alloy
    Thin Solid Films, vol. 514, no. 1-2, pp. 316–322, 2006
  18. The processing and characterization of magnetic nanobowls
    Thin Solid Films, vol. 505, no. 1-2, pp. 93–96, 2006
  19. Microstructural observations of the crystallization of amorphous Fe–Si–B based magnetic alloys
    Thin Solid Films, vol. 505, no. 1-2, pp. 97–102, 2006
  20. Effect of deposition parameters on morphology and size of FeCo nanoparticles synthesized by pulsed laser ablation deposition
    Applied Surface Science, vol. 252, no. 8, pp. 2806–2816, 2006
  21. Nano-structured Fe thin film deposition using plasma focus device
    Applied Surface Science, vol. 253, no. 3, pp. 1611–1615, 2006
  22. The effect of Copper alloying additions on the crystallization of an amorphous Fe–Si–B alloy
    Journal of Materials Science, vol. 41, no. 16, pp. 5292–5301, 2006
  23. Characterization of the effect of alloying additions on the crystallization of an amorphous Fe73.5Si13.5B9Nb3Cu1 alloy
    Intermetallics, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 710–714, 2006
  24. Nanocrystalline structures obtained by the crystallization of an amorphous Fe40Ni38B18Mo4 soft magnetic alloy
    Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 425, no. 1-2, pp. 251–260, 2006
  25. A study of the crystallization behavior of an amorphous Fe77.5Si13.5B9 alloy
    Materials Science and Engineering: A, vol. 416, no. 1-2, pp. 161–168, 2006
  26. Hydrostatic stress and hydrostatic stress gradients in passivated copper interconnects
    Materials Science and Engineering: A, vol. 423, no. 1-2, pp. 157–165, 2006
  27. Superplastic deformation studies in Fe–28Al–3Cr intermetallic alloy
    Materials Science and Engineering: A, vol. 419, no. 1-2, pp. 144–147, 2006
  28. Synthesis and characterisation of polymer-coated metallic magnetic materials
    Materials Science and Engineering: C, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 39–41, 2005
  29. Mechanical alloying of Fe?Ni based nanostructured magnetic materials
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 292, pp. 286–298, 2005
  30. Crystallization and magnetic properties of FeNiBMo amorphous alloy
    Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 351, no. 37-39, pp. 3105–3113, 2005
  31. The effect of niobium alloying additions on the crystallization of a Fe–Si–B–Nb alloy
    Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 403, no. 1-2, pp. 197–205, 2005
  32. In-situ TEM observations of the coarsening of a nanolamellar structure in a cobalt based magnetic alloy
    Journal of Materials Science, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 1901–1907, 2005
  33. Indentation creep studies of iron aluminide intermetallic alloy
    Intermetallics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 47–53, 2005
  34. Template assisted assembly of cobalt nanobowl arrays
    Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 15, no. 41, p. 4424, 2005
  35. The synthesis and characterization of polymer coated iron oxide microspheres
    Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 901–908, 2004
  36. Magnetic and hydrogel composite materials for hyperthermia applications
    Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 1061–1064, 2004
  37. The precipitation sequence obtained during crystallization of an amorphous Co65Si15B14Fe4Ni2 magnetic alloy
    Intermetallics, vol. 12, no. 7-9, pp. 803–807, 2004
  38. Characterisation of Fe40Ni38B18Mo4 nanomagnetic alloy
    Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 375-377, pp. 1040–1043, 2004
  39. Crystallization behavior of the cobalt based metallic glass Co65Si15B14Fe4Ni2
    Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 375-377, pp. 1087–1091, 2004
  40. Dry-sliding wear studies of FeAl-ordered intermetallic alloy
    Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 386, no. 1-2, pp. 408–414, 2004
  41. Discrete lattice plane broken bond interfacial energy calculations and the use of the dividing surface concept
    Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 359, no. 1-2, pp. 350–355, 2003
  42. In situ TEM studies of the mechanisms of crack nucleation and propagation in fully lamellar microstructures
    Materials Science and Technology, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 902–906, 2003
  43. Journal of Materials Science, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 2203–2214, 2002
  44. Structural relaxation in metallic glasses
    Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 304-306, no. 1-2, pp. 499–504, 2001
  45. Journal of Materials Science, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 271–283, 2001
  46. Instability mechanisms in lamellar microstructures
    Acta Materialia, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 875–889, 2000