Senthilarasu Sundaram
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Dr Senthilarasu Sundaram

Associate Professor

  S.Sundaram@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Senthilarasu Sundaram is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment. He completed his PhD at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India, in 2006. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Chonbuk National University, South Korea (From 2006 to 2008) and the National University of Singapore in 2009. Before join in Edinburgh Napier University, he was a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter, and he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Loughborough University (201-2011) and Heriot-Watt University (2012). Prof. Sundaram is working on sustainable energy technologies to create environmentally sustainable materials for energy generation, storage, building integrated applications, thermal storage, water remediation, and low carbon heating applications. He is involved in various EPSRC, EU, and Innovate UK-funded projects. Published more than 150 journal articles and participated as an editorial member with different journals, including Nature Scientific Reports.

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An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development

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Valsalakumar, S., Roy, A., Mallick, T. K., Hinshelwood, J., & Sundaram, S. (2022)
An Overview of Current Printing Technologies for Large-Scale Perovskite Solar Cell Development. Energies, 16(1), Article 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16010190
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have seen significant performance improvements between 2012 and 2022. PSCs have excellent optoelectro...

Studies on anode mass composition and cathode flow field design for small-scale to large-scale direct methanol fuel cell stack systems

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Kumaresan, T., Palaniswamy, K., Fly, A., & Sundaram, S. (2022)
Studies on anode mass composition and cathode flow field design for small-scale to large-scale direct methanol fuel cell stack systems. AIP advances, 12(12), Article 125316. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0121729
In this research, the performance studies of a single cell Direct Methanol Fuel Cell with three different mass compositions (20%, 40%, and 60%) of platinum at anode infused in...

An enduring in vitro wound healing phase recipient by bioactive glass-graphene oxide nanocomposites

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Nandhakumar, M., Thangaian, D. T., Sundaram, S., Roy, A., & Subramanian, B. (2022)
An enduring in vitro wound healing phase recipient by bioactive glass-graphene oxide nanocomposites. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 16162. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20575-z
Bioactive glass (BG) is an interesting topic in soft tissue engineering because of its biocompatibility and bonding potential to increase fibroblast cell proliferation, synthe...

Soiling mapping through optical losses for Nigeria

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Chanchangi, Y. N., Ghosh, A., Micheli, L., Fernández, E. F., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2022)
Soiling mapping through optical losses for Nigeria. Renewable Energy, 197, 995-1008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.07.019
Soiling consists of the accumulation of dust on the solar panel's surface and has a deleterious effect on solar photovoltaic devices' performance, which varies with location. ...

Phase Stability and Electronic Properties of Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskite Solid Solution (CH(NH2)2)x(CH3NH3)1–xPb(BryI1–y)3 as a Function of Composition

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Chan, T. H., Taylor, N. T., Sundaram, S., & Hepplestone, S. P. (2022)
Phase Stability and Electronic Properties of Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskite Solid Solution (CH(NH2)2)x(CH3NH3)1–xPb(BryI1–y)3 as a Function of Composition. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126(32), 13640-13648. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03555
Compositional mixing provides the means to maintain the structural stability of a hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite for efficient and robust photovoltaic applications. Here ...

Morphology modulated brookite TiO2 and BaSnO3 as alternative electron transport materials for enhanced performance of carbon perovskite solar cells

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Bhandari, S., Roy, A., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2022)
Morphology modulated brookite TiO2 and BaSnO3 as alternative electron transport materials for enhanced performance of carbon perovskite solar cells. Chemical Engineering Journal, 446(5), Article 137378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.137378
Designing alternatives to TiO2 electron-transport layers (ETLs) for facile electron extraction and transport to enhance the efficiency of n-i-p structured carbon perovskite so...

High Open-Circuit Voltage in Double Perovskite Oxide A(2)NdSbO(6) (A = Ba, Sr) Photoanode-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

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Sheikh, M. S., Ghosh, A., Roy, A., Bhandari, S., Sundaram, S., Mallick, T. K., …Sinha, T. (2022)
High Open-Circuit Voltage in Double Perovskite Oxide A(2)NdSbO(6) (A = Ba, Sr) Photoanode-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Journal of Electronic Materials, 51, 4281-4287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-022-09681-w
Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) technology, with its low-cost simple fabrication process and promising photovoltaic performance, has become a potential candidate for solar en...

Experimental study of temperature distribution effect on proton exchange membrane fuel cell using multi-pass serpentine channels

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Ponnaiyan, D., Chandran, M., Kumaresan, T., Ramasamy, J., Palaniswamy, K., & Sundaram, S. (2022)
Experimental study of temperature distribution effect on proton exchange membrane fuel cell using multi-pass serpentine channels. Materials Letters, 320, 132361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2022.132361
The uniform temperature distribution is one of the key features to consider in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) to increase performance and minimize the local hot s...

Scaled up on direct methanol fuel cell under different operating conditions

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Kumaresan, T., Ponniyan, D., Chandran, M., Ramasamy, J., Venkatachalam, V., Palaniswamy, K., & Sundaram, S. (2022)
Scaled up on direct methanol fuel cell under different operating conditions. Materials Letters, 319, Article 132283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2022.132283
A direct methanol fuel cell with an active area of 100 cm2 was tested experimentally under a variety of operating situations to determine its overall performance. Different op...

Review on solar dryers for drying fish, fruits, and vegetables

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Natarajan, S. K., Elangovan, E., Elavarasan, R. M., Balaraman, A., & Sundaram, S. (2022)
Review on solar dryers for drying fish, fruits, and vegetables. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29, 40478-40506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19714-w
India is one of the highly developing countries in the world and it has the second-largest agricultural source of income, which covers 61% of the entire income of the country....