Dr. RAMAKANTH ILLA

Dr. Ramakanth Illa, Ph.D

	Dr. Ramakanth Illa Ph.D. (IIT Madras) Lecturer, Chemistry
	Dr. Ramakanth Illa joined the Institute in 2010

Contact Address


Phone	040 - 23001830
Fax	040 - 23001830
email	iramakanth@rgukt.in

Awards and Recognitions

GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering in Chemistry, March 2002)
CSIR/UGC-NET in Chemical Sciences (June 2003)
Secured Academic Prize/ Performance Award in Ph.D Comprehensive Examination (Written & Oral) at Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, Chennai (2004)
DRDO Fellowship: Junior Research Fellow (August 2003 - August 2005)
IIT Madras HTRA Fellowship: Senior Research Fellow (September 2005 - June 2008)
Awarded CSIR Fellowship: Senior Research Fellow (October 2008 - June 2010)

Research Areas

Physical, Materials and Analytical Chemistry
Colloid and Interface Science
Soft Materials and Self-Assembly
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Research Publications

Refereed International Journals

Illa Ramakanth, Nivarthi Ramesh and Archita Patnaik, "Fibrous Gels of Cetylpyridinium Chloride in Binary Solvent Mixtures: Structural Characteristics and their Phase behaviour", J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 17842 - 17847.
Illa Ramakanth and Archita Patnaik, "Novel Two-Component Gels of Cetylpyridinium Chloride and the Bolaamphiphile 6-amino Caproic acid: Phase Evolution and Mechanism of Gel Formation", J. Phys. Chem. B, 2012, 116, 2722 - 2729.
Illa Ramakanth, B.V. Shankar and Archita Patnaik, "Unilamellar composite vesicles and Y-junctions from pristine fullerene C₆₀", Chem. Commun., 2008, 4129 - 4131.
Illa Ramakanth and Archita Patnaik, "Characteristics of solubilization and encapsulation of fullerene C₆₀ in non-ionic Triton X-100 micelles", Carbon, 2008, 46, 692 - 698.
Illa Ramakanth and T. Vishwam, "Additive assisted Micelle -to- Vesicle Transition in non-ionic mixed surfactant systems: Niosomes for Fullerene C₆₀ encapsulation" Journal of Nano Research, 2013 (Accepted).
Illa Ramakanth and Archita Patnaik, "Phase behavior of cetylpyridinium chloride gels in binary solvent mixtures", Energy and Eco-friendly Materials, 2011, 288 - 291.

International Conference Proceedings

Illa Ramakanth and T. Vishwam, "Micelle -to- Vesicle Transition in non-ionic mixed surfactant systems",Nanocon 012 Proceedings, 2012, 353 - 362..
T. Vishwam, Illa Ramakanth and V.R.K. Murthy, Technique for Measuring the Frequency Dependent Complex Dielectric Permittivity of Egg Yolk and White at Different Temperatures in the Microwave Frequency Region, ICIECE Proceedings, 2012, 1-6.

Presentations in International Conferences

Illa Ramakanth and T. Vishwam, "Additive assisted Micelle -to- Vesicle Transition in non-ionic mixed surfactant systems: Niosomes for Fullerene C60 encapsulation", (Oral presentation), International Conference on Nanotechnology - Innovative Materials, Processes, Products and Applications (NANOCON 012), Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune, Maharashtra, India, October 18-19, 2012..
Illa Ramakanth and Archita Patnaik, "Phase behavior of Cetylpyridinium chloride gels in binary solvent mixtures", (Oral presentation), International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM-2011), PSG Tech., Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, December 12-16, 2011.
Illa Ramakanth and Archita Patnaik, "Fluorescence behavior of CPC gels in alkaline medium", (Oral), "International Conference on Luminescence and its Applications (ICLA-2012)", Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT), Hyderabad & Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India, February 7-10, 2012.
Illa Ramakanth and Archita Patnaik, "Molecular gels of mixed surfactant systems of Cetylpyridinium chloride and 6-aminocaproic acid for fullerene C₆₀ encapsulation" 13^th IACIS International Conference on Surface and Colloid Science and the 83^rd ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium (ICSCS 2009), Columbia University, New York, USA, June 14-19, 2009.
Illa Ramakanth and Archita Patnaik, "Self-organization of 3, 4-di(dodecyloxy)benzoic acid-4-hydroxy phenyl ester (DDBE) in binary solvent mixtures" International Conference on Soft Systems (ICSS-2008), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, February 13-15, 2008.
Illa Ramakanth and Archita Patnaik, "Unilamellar vesicles from Fullerene C₆₀" International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM-2008), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, February 18-21, 2008.
Illa Ramakanth and Archita Patnaik, "Encapsulation characteristics of Fullerene C₆₀ in aqueous micellar solutions" International Conference on Molecules to Materials (ICMM-2006), Longowal, Punjab, India, March 3-4, 2006.

Conferences/Seminars/Workshops attended

"International Conference on Functional Materials (FM 2008)", IIT Madras, Chennai, India, November 27-29, 2008.
"The First Mid-Year meeting of the CRSI and Annual IIT Madras Chemistry Symposium", IIT Madras, Chennai, India, July 12-13, 2006.
"Workshop & Short Term Course on Optical Spectroscopy", Sophisticated Analytical Instruments Facility (SAIF), IIT Madras, Chennai, India, March 1- 4, 2005.
"National Seminar on the Role of Computers in Physical Sciences (NSRCP Sciences 2002)", Acharya Nagarjuna University, Dr. M.R. Appa Row Campus, Nuzvid, India, February 14-16, 2002.