SANJEEV K. MANOHAR
Associate Professor
Dept. of Chemical
Engineering
University of
Massachusetts
Lowell, MA 01854
Nanostructured Materials
for Energy and Biomedical Applications
Contact
sanjeev_manohar@uml.edu
978-934-3162
Education
M.Sc. Univ. of Madras 1981 Chemistry
M.S. Southern Illinois Univ. 1986 Organic Chemistry
Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania 1992 Organic/Polymer Chemistry
Corporate Experience
Procter & Gamble Co.
(Technology Development) 1992-1997
Research Summary
Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials for energy
storage and medical applications. Optically transparent, conducting
films of carbon nanotubes on flexible substrates with performance that
can rival commercial indium-tin-oxide conducting coatings. Chemical
warfare agent sensing using carbon nanotube coatings on flexible
substrates. Photocapacitors and batteries from dye-sensitized solar
cells using a completely new design strategy involving plant extracts,
and nanocarbons. Green chemistry approaches to polymer/metal catalysts
for fuel cells. Synthesis and characterization of conducting polymer
nanotubes/fibers and composites with noble metals. Controlled and
targeted drug delivery across the blood-brain-barrier for treatment of
Alzheimer's disease using nanoparticulate drug carriers.
Selected
Publications
Parent polythiophene nanofibers.
Chemistry Letters 37
526 (2008). X. Zhang,
S.P. Surwade, V. Dua, R. Bouldin, N. Manohar, and S.K. Manohar.
Faradaic effects in all-organic transistors.
Journal of Applied Physics
103 194501 (2008). S.K. Manohar, C. Fafadia, N. Saran, R. Rao.
Fibrillar Growth in
Polyaniline,
Advanced Functional Materials 16 1145 (2006). X. Zhang, H.S.
Kolla, X. Wang, K. Raja, and S.K. Manohar.
Narrow Pore-diameter
Polypyrrole Nanotubes,
Journal of the American
Chemical Society
127
14156
(2005). X. Zhang, and S.K. Manohar.
Bulk Synthesis of
Polypyrrole Nanofibers by a Seeding Approach,
Journal of the American
Chemical Society 126
12714 (2004). X. Zhang,
and S.K. Manohar.
Fabrication and
Characterization of Thin Films of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube
Bundles on Flexible Plastic Substrates,
Journal of the American
Chemical Society 126
4462 (2004). N. Saran,
K. Parikh, D-S. Suh, E. Muñoz, H.S. Kolla, and S.K. Manohar.
Mailing
Address
University
of Massachusetts Lowell
Department of Chemical Engineering
One
University Avenue
Lowell,
MA 01854
Tel:
978-934-3162
Fax:
978-934-3047
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