Dr. Ashutosh Rath, Scientist-E 8277459184, ashutosh@immt.res.in , https://sites.google.com/site/ashutoshrath1983/
DESCRIPTION :
- Dr. Ashutosh Rath is a Principal Scientist at CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. He obtained his M.Sc. in Physics from Utkal University, Odisha, India 2005. He received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India. Following his Ph.D. in 2012, he held the Postdoctoral research associate position at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He worked for three years as a postdoctoral research associate in Prof. Paul Voyles' electron microscopy group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. After that, he worked for over two years as a postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Stephen Pennycook's electron microscopy group at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore. Dr. Rath is an author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications and a reviewer for several international journals.
EXPERIENCE :
Principal Scientist: CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India (DEC 2023-Present)
Senior Scientist: CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India (DEC 2019-DEC 2023)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (2017-2019)
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Wisconsin, USA (2013-2017)
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Dept. of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (2013)
Visiting Scientist: Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Bremen, Germany
AREA OF INTEREST :
Surface/ interface Physics and Structure-property Correlation
2D Materials
Nanomaterials and thinfilms
In-situ TEM
Focused ion beam (FIB) and advanced electron microscopy.
AWARDS & HONOURS :- Best presentation award at C-spin annual review meeting, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA (2014).
- National Scholarship Award, Govt. of India (2003).
- Lifetime member of the Electron Microscopy Society of India (EMSI).
- Lifetime member of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM)
- Lifetime member of the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI)
- Member of Midwest Microscopy and Microanalysis Society, USA (2014).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS :
[27] "Development of Self-doped Monolayered 2D MoS2 for
Enhanced Photoresponsivity". S .
Mallick, S.Majumder, P. Maiti, K. Kesavan,
A. Rahman, A. Rath *. Small, 20, 2403225 (2024) [26] "Exploring superparamagnetic and
intercalated Ag quantum particles in manganese oxide/graphene oxide
for rapid and scalable organic pollutant removal". R.
Sahoo, P. Gupta, P. Panda A Rath, B. Tripathy, P.Garg, S Bedanta, U. Despande
and S. Varma. Emergent
Materials (2024), Doi: 10.1007/s42247-024-00718-w
[25] " GQD@NiFe-LDH Nanosheets for Photocatalytic
Activity towards Textile Dye Degradation via
Lattice Contraction". M.
Jena, S. Mallick, A. Rath, M.
K. Dalai and D. P. Das. ChemPlusChem
(2023), 10.1002/cplu.202300276
[24] "Formation of L10 Ordering in FeNi by Mechanical Alloying and Field Assisted Heat Treatment: Synchrotron XRD Studies". S. Mandal, A. Panigrahi, A. Rath, M. Bönisch, P. Sengupta, M. Debata, and S. Basu. ACS Omega, 8, 15, 13690 ( 2023)
[23] "Role of Fe3+ doping vis-à-vis secondary phases on the electrical transport of LiTi2(PO4)3 solid electrolyte for all-solid-state battery applications S.Sradhasagar, S. Mallick, A. Rath, S.Pati, A. Roy. Materials Today Communications ,35, 105621 ( 2023)"
[22] "Starch-stabilized biocompatible Bi2S3 nanoparticles for enhanced dielectric and antibacterial applications". I. Uddin , S.M. Abzal , K. Kalyan , S. Janga , A. Rath, R. Patel , D. K. Gupta , T. R. Ravindran , H. Ateeq , M S. Khan, and J. K. Dash. ACS Omega, 7, 42438 ( 2022)
[21] "In-situ Derived Highly Active NiS2 and MoS2 Nanosheets on NiMoO4 Microcuboids via Controlled Surface Sulfidation for High-current- density Hydrogen Evolution Reaction". S. H. Yu, P. K. Gogoi, A. Rath*, H. Dai, Z. Q. C. Ng, K. Suenaga, S.J. Pennycook, D. H.C. Chua ( * Corresponding author) Electrochimica Acta, 389, 138733 (2021)
[20] "Tungsten Suboxide Nanoneedles as Effective Thermal Shield Through Near-infrared Reflection and Absorption". Jiaxin Yan, A. Rath , H. Wang, N. Z. Q. Cavin, S. J. Pennycook and D. H. C. Chua J. Phys. Chem. C , 125 (20), 11115 (2021)
[19] "Direct bandgap like photoluminescence from twisted multilayer MoS2grown on SrTiO3". S. Sarkar, S. Mathew, S. Chintalapati, A. Rath, M. P.-Fard, S. Saha, S. Goswami, S. J. R. Tan, K. P. Loh, M. Scott, T. Venkatesan ACS Nano, 14 (12), 16769 (2020)
[18] "Fabrication and Growth Mechanism of Ultra-crystalline C60 on Silicon Substrate in Vacuum", H. Wang*, A. Rath*, Shu Hearn Yu, M.S. Tan, S.J. Pennycook and D. H.C.Chua ( *Equal contribution) Carbon Letter, doi:10.1007/s42823-020-00167-5 (2020)[17] " Effect of random anisotropy on magnetization reversal in dipolarly coupled layered thin films" N. Chowdhury, S. Bedanta, G. S. Babu, A. Weber, S. Mattauch, A. Rath, M. Dalai, T. Brückel, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 503, 166611(2020)
[16] " Energy-Efficient Stacks—Covellite (CuS) on Polyethylene Terephthalate Film: A Sustainable Solution to Heat Management" N. Z. Q. Cavin, A. Rath, S. Teng, C. S. Okano, A. T. S. Wee, S. J. Pennycook, K. Okano and D. H. C. Chua, J. Phys. Chem. C , 124, (5), 3314-3321(2020)
[15] "Atypical thermal transport across amorphous region embedded in crystalline silicon nanowire". Y. Zhao, X. Liu, A. Rath, J. Wu, B.Li, Wu. Zhou, G.Xie, G.Zhang, J.T. L. Thong, Scientific Report, 10 (1), 1-8 (2020)
[14] "From Thin Film to Nanopillars: Tunable Morphology of Covellite via RF Magnetron Sputtering for Cost-Effective Photothermal Vaporization". N. Z. Q. Cavin, A. Rath, A. T. S. Wee, S. J. Pennycook and D. H. C. Chua, ACS Applied Nano Materials 2 (11), 7441-7448(2019)
[13] "Growth of Molybdenum Trioxide Nanoribbons on Oriented Ag and Au Nanostructures: A Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) Study". P. Maiti, A. Mitra, R. R. Juluri, A. Rath and P.V Satyam, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 1-8 (2019); doi.:10.1017/S1431
[12] "Study of unique and highly crystalline MoS2/MoO2 nanostructures for electrochemical applications". Jiaxin Yan*, A. Rath *, H. Wang, Y. S. Hearn, Stephen Pennycook and Daniel Chua, Materials Research Letters, 7 (7), 275-281 (2019). ( *Equal contribution)
[11] "Ferromagnet/Two-Dimensional Semiconducting Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Interface with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy". W. Zhang, P. K. J. Wong, X. Zhou, A. Rath, ....D. H. C. Chua, Y. Feng, G. Laan, S. J. Pennycook, Y. Zhai and A.T.S. Wee, ACS nano, 13 (2), 2253-2261 (2019)
[10] "Temperature-controlled Vapor deposition of Highly Conductive p-type Reduced Molybdenum Oxides by Hydrogen Reduction". D. Haiwen*, A. Rath*, Y. S. Hearn, S.J. Pennycook and D. H.C.Chua , J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9, 7185–7191(2018). (* Equal contribution)
[9] "Reduced interface spin polarization by antiferromagnetically coupled Mn segregated to the Co2MnSi/GaAs (001) interface". A. Rath, C. Sivakumar, C. Sun, S. Patel, J. Feng, J. Jeong, G. Stecklein, P. A. Crowell C. J. Palmstrom, W. H. Butler and P. M. Voyles, Phys. Rev. B, 97, 045304 (2018)
[8] "Self-Assembled 2D Finned Covellite (CuS) for Resistive RAM". Z. Q. Cavin Ng, R. K. K. Tan, A. Rath, A. T. S. Wee, D. H. C. Chua, Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 063102 (2018)
[7] "Understanding the unusual photoluminescence properties of SiOx nanoropes prepared by thermal evaporation method".S. Senapati*, A. Rath* and K. K. Nanda, Applied Physics A, 124: 61 (2018). ( *Equal contribution)
[6] "Local dielectric breakdown path along the c-axis planar boundaries in the Cr2O3/Al2O3 thin film systems". C. Sun, Z. Song, A. Rath, M. Street, W. Echtenkamp, C.H. Binek, D. Morgan, P.M. Voyles, Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 4, 1700172 (2017)
[5] "Spin injection and detection up to room temperature in Heusler alloys/ n-GaAs spin valves". T. A. Peterson, S.J. Patel, C.C. Geppert, K. D. Christie, A. Rath, D. Pennachio, M.E. Flatte, P.M. Voyles, C.J Palmstrom and P.A. Crowell, Phys. Rev. B, 94, 235309 (2016)
[4] "Atomic Layer Epitaxy of h-BN(0001) multilayers on Co(0001) and Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Graphene on h-BN(0001)/Co(0001)". M. Driver, J. Beatty, O.Olanipekun, K. Reid, A. Rath, Paul M. Voyles and Jeffry Kelber, Langmuir, 32 (11), 2601–2607(2016)
[3] "Thermal resistance of transferred silicon nanomembrane interfaces". D. P. Schroeder, Z. Aksamija, A. Rath, P. M. Voyles, I. Knezevic, M. G. Lagally, and M. A. Eriksson. Phys. Rev. Lett. , 115, 256101 (2015)
[2] "Morphological variations in AuxSiy nanostructures under variable Pressure and annealing Conditions". A. Rath, J. K. dash, R. R. Juluri and P. V. Satyam, Applied Physics A. 118 (3), 1079-1085 (2015)
[1] "Real-time nanoscale structural evaluation of gold structures on Si (100) surface using in-situ Transmission electron microscopy". A. Rath *, R. R. Juluri, and P.V. Satyam, J. Appl. Phys. 115, 184303 (2014)
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