K. Vinodgopal
Department of Chemistry
Professor
At IU Northwest since 1990

 SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS


ARTICLES (in refereed journals):

K. Vinodgopal, Yuanhua He, Muthupandian Ashokkumar and Franz Grieser, “Sonochemically Prepared Platinum-Ruthenium Bimetallic  Nanoparticles.”  J. Phys. Chem B., 2006, 110, 3849-3852

Robel, I., Girishkumar, G., Bunker, B. A., Kamat, P. V. and Vinodgopal, K., "Structural changes and catalytic activity of platinum nanoparticles supported on C60 and carbon nanotube films during the operation of direct methanol fuel cells."  Appl. Phys. Lett., 2006, in press.

G. Girishkumar,  Timothy D. Hall, K. Vinodgopal, and Prashant V. Kamat “Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Supports for Portable Direct Methanol Fuel Cells.” J. Phys. Chem. B., 2006, 110 (1), 107 -114.

G. Girishkumar, Matthew Rettker, Robert Underhile, David Binz, K. Vinodgopal, Paul McGinn and Prashant V. Kamat, “Single Wall Carbon Nanotube based Proton Exchange Membrane Assembly for Hydrogen Fuel Cells.” Langmuir,  2005, 21, 8487-8494.

Kristine Drew, G. Girishkumar, K. Vinodgopal and Prashant V. Kamat, “Boosting the Fuel Cell performance with a Photocatalyst.  TiO2/Pt-Ru/C Hybrid Catalyst for Methanol Oxidation.” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2005, 109, 11851-11857.

G. Girishkumar, K. Vinodgopal and Prashant V. Kamat, “Carbon Nanostructures in Portable Fuel Cells:  Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Methanol Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction.” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 19960-19966.

Prashant V. Kamat, K. George Thomas, Said Barazzouk, G. Girishkumar, K. Vinodgopal and Dan Meisel “Self-Assembled Linear Bundles of Carbon Nanotubes and their Alignment in a DC-Field." J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 10757-10762.

K. Vinodgopal,  Vaidyanathan Subramanian, Prashant V. Kamat The Selective Electrochemical Detection of Model Pollutant Species Using Films of Naturally Occurring Humic Acid.”  Environ. Sci. & Technol., 2004 38, 2161-2166.

K. Vinodgopal, Mehul Haria, Dan Meisel, Prashant V. Kamat Fullerene based Carbon Nanostructures for Methanol Oxidation.”  Nanoletters., 2004, 4, 415-418.

Said Barazzouk, Surat Hotchandani, K. Vinodgopal, and Prashant V. Kamat.”Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Films for Photocurrent Generation. A Prompt Response to Visible-Light Irradiation.”  http://pubs.acs.org/cgiin/article.cgi/jpcbfk/2004/108/i44/pdf/jp0458405.pdf J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, pp 17015-17018. 

K. Vinodgopal and Julie Peller, "Hydroxyl Radical Mediated Advanced Oxidation Processes for Textile Dyes: A Comparison of the Radiolytic and Sonolytic Degradation of the Monoazo Dye, Acid Orange 7." Research in Chemical Intermediates, 2003, 29, 307-316.

K. Vinodgopal, Vaidyanathan Subramanian, Sheila Carrasquillo and Prashant V. Kamat, "Electrophoretic Assembly of Naturally Occurring Humic Substances as Thin Films"  Environmental Science & Technology 2003, 37, 761-765.

K. Vinodgopal, Muthupandian Ashokkumar, and Franz Grieser, "The Ultrasonic Degradation of a Polydisperse Nonylphenol Ethoxylate in Aqueous Solution." J. Phys. Chem. B, 2001, 105, 3338-3342.

Muthupandian Ashokkumar, K. Vinodgopal, and Franz Grieser, "The Effect of pH on Multibubble Sonoluminescence and Sonochemistry From Aqueous Solutions of Weak Chlorinated Acids and Aromatics." J. Phys. Chem.B, 2000, 104, 6447-6451.

Naomi Stock, Julie Peller, K. Vinodgopal and Prashant V. Kamat,. "Combinative Sonolysis and Photocatalysis for Textile Dye Degradation", Environ. Sci. Technol. 2000, 34, 1747-1750.

K. Vinodgopal, Julie Peller, Oksana Makogon and Prashant V. Kamat, "Ultrasonic Mineralization of a Reactive Textile Azo Dye, Remazol Black B."  Water Research 1998, 32, 3646-3650.

Kevin E. O’Shea, Ailette Aguila, K. Vinodgopal and Prashant V. Kamat, "Reaction pathways and Kinetic Parameters of Sonolytically Induced Oxidation of Dimethylphosphonate in Air Saturated Aqueous Solutions."  Res. Chem. Inter. 1998, 24, 695-705.

Prashant V. Kamat, Matt Gevaert and K. Vinodgopal, "Photochemical Oxidation of C60 on TiO2 Particles." J. Phys. Chem. B 1997 101, 4422-4427.

Lori Ziolkowski, K.Vinodgopal and Prashant V. Kamat "Photostabilization of Organic Dyes on Polystyrene Capped TiO2 Nanoparticles" Langmuir, 1997 12, 3124-3128.

Chouhaid Nasr, K. Vinodgopal, Surat Hotchandani, A. K. Chattopadhyay, and Prashant V. Kamat, "Photocatalytic Reduction of Azo Dyes Naphthol Blue Black and Disperse Blue 79." Res. Chem. Inter., 1997, 23, 219-232.

Chouhaid Nasr, K. Vinodgopal, Surat Hotchandani, A. K. Chattopadhyay, and Prashant V. Kamat, "Spectral Characterization of Naphthol Blue Black, a Textile Diazo Dye. Laser flash Photolysis and Pulse Radiolysis studies." Rad. Phys. Chem. 1996 49, 159-166.

Prashant V. Kamat and K. Vinodgopal, "Sonochromic Effect in WO3 Colloidal Suspensions." Langmuir, 1996,12, 5739-5741.

K. Vinodgopal, Idriss Bedja, and Prashant V. Kamat, "Nanostructured Semiconductor Films for Photocatalysis.  Photoelectrochemical Behavior of SnO2/TiO2 Coupled Systems and its Role in the Photocatalytic Degradation of a Textile Azo Dye." Chem. Mater., 1996, 8, 2180-2187.

K. Vinodgopal, Darrel Wynkoop, and Prashant V. Kamat, "Environmental Photochemistry on Semiconductor Surfaces.  A Photosensitization Approach for the Degradation of a Textile Azo Dye, Acid Orange 7." Environ. Sci. Technol., 1996, 30, 1660-1666.

K. Vinodgopal and Prashant V. Kamat, "Electrochemically Assisted Photocatalysis." CHEMTECH, 1996, 26, 18-22.

Chouhaid Nasr, K. Vinodgopal, Luke Fisher, Surat Hotchandani, A. K. Chattopadhyay, and Prashant V. Kamat, “Environmental Photochemistry on semiconductor surfaces. Visible Light Induced Degradation of a Textile Diazo Dye Naphthol Blue Black 0n TiO2 Nanoparticles.” J. Phys. Chem., 1996, 100, 8436-8442

CHAPTERS IN SCHOLARLY BOOKS:

Prashant V. Kamat, and K. Vinodgopal, ”Environmental Photochemistry with Semiconductor Nanoparticles.”  Molecular and Supramolecular Photochemistry. Eds. J. Ramamurthy and K. Schanze.  Pub. Marcel Dekker; 1998, 307-350

 


Revised: 03/08/09.