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Ramesh Adhikari

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Ramesh Adhikari

Assistant Professor of Physics

Department/Office Information

Physics and Astronomy
334 Ho Science Center
  • M 9:30am - 11:30am (334 Ho Science Center)
  • R 2:45pm - 4:45pm (334 Ho Science Center)

 

 

Ph.D. in Physics (2016) University of Massachusetts Amherst

M.S. in Physics (2014) University of Massachusetts Amherst

B.A. in Physics & Mathematics (2011) Berea College

Courses taught at 51风流:

Courses Taught

Semesters

FSEM 133/CORE S194: Electrons & Our Civilization Fall 2021, 2022, 2024

PHYS 233: Introductory Electricity & Magnetism

Fall - 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024

PHYS 334: Speical Relativity & Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

Spring - 2021, 2022, 2023

PHYS 336: Electronics

Spring - 2024

PHYS 432: Electromagnetism

Spring - 2021, 2022, 2023

PHYS 410: Advanced Topics & Experiments

Fall - 2020, 2022, 2024

 

Bio-derived materials, electronics, conducting polymers and biomaterials, charge transport mechanism.

(Undergraduate student authors are underlined. R.Y. Adhikari as the corresponding author is indicated by *. )

  1. Noah Hann-Deschaine, Neha M. Viradia, Jeiko J. Pujols, Sarah Miller and Ramesh Y. Adhikari*. "Vertically grown bioinspired diphenylalanine nanowire-coated fabric for oil-water separation", ACS Applied Engineering Materials (2024).
  2. Div Chamria, Christopher Alpha, Ramesh Y. Adhikari*. "Phenylalanine-assisted conductivity enhancement in PEDOT:PSS films", ACS Omega, 8, 8 (2023).
  3. K. Paige Williams, Noah Hann-Deschaine, Div Chamria, Hand T. Benz and Ramesh Y. Adhikari*. "Facile fabrication of triboelectric nanogenerators based on paper and natural rubber as low-cost bio-derived materials", Discover Materials, 3, 1 (2023).
  4. N.G. Hallfors, D. Maksimovski, I.A.H. Farhat, M.A. Jaoude, A.R. Devarajan, K. Liao, M. Ismail, H. Pade, R.Y. Adhikari and A.F. Isakovic. "Layered tunable graphene oxide-nylon composite heterostructures for wearable electrocardiogram", Applied Physics Letters, 122, 013701 (2023).
  5. Ramesh Y. Adhikari* and Jeiko J. Pujols. 鈥 Highly rigid & transparent supramolecular fibrils of tyrosine鈥, Nano Select, 1, 2022.
  6. Ramesh Y. Adhikari*, Nichole E. Harmon and K. Paige Williams. 鈥淧ristine leaf-based electrochemical resistive switching device鈥, Applied Materials Today, 24, 2021.
  7. R. Hudson, R.Y. Adhikari, M.T. Tuominen, I. Hanzu, M. Wilkening, S. Thayumanavan and J. L. Katz. 鈥淓valuation of carboxylic, phosphonic and sulfonic acid protogenic moieties on tunable poly(metaphenylene oxide) ionomer scaffolds鈥, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 22 (57), 2209-2213, 2019.
  8. R.Y. Adhikari*, J. Terrell, J. Targos, K.A. Huffman, H. Wang and J. Cradlebaugh. 鈥淓lectrical Characterization of Leaf-based Wires & Supercapacitors鈥, RSC Advances, 9, 27289-27293, 2019.
  9. W.B. Lane and R.Y. Adhikari. 鈥淓valuating the presence of response-shift bias in the CLASS with a two-pass survey鈥, Physics Education Research (PER) Conference Proceedings, DOI: 10.1119/perc.2018.pr.Lane (2018).
  10. D.J.F. Walker, R. Y. Adhikari , D.E. Holmes, J.E. Ward, T. L. Woodard, K. P. Nevin and D. R. Lovley 鈥楨lectrically conductive pili from pilin genes of phylogenetically diverse microorganisms鈥, The ISME Journal, 12, 48-58 (2018).
  11. Y. Tan, R. Y. Adhikari , Nikhil S. Malvankar, J.E. Ward, T. L. Woodard, K. P. Nevin and D. R. Lovley 鈥楨xpressing the Geobacter metallireducens PilA in Geobacter sulfurreducens Yields Pili with Exceptional Conductivity鈥, mBio, 8, 1 e02203-16 (2017).
  12. Y. Tan#, R. Y. Adhikari#, N. S. Malvankar, S. Pi, J. E. Ward, T. L. Woodard, K. P. Nevin, Q. Xia, M. T. Tuominen and D. R. Lovley 鈥楽ynthetic Biological Protein Nanowires with High Conductivity鈥, Small, 12, 4481-4485, 2016. (# Co-first authors.)
  13. Y. Tan, R. Y. Adhikari, N. S. Malvankar, J. E. Ward, K. P. Nevin, T. L. Woodard, J. A. Smith, O. L. Snoeyenbos-West, A. E. Franks, M. T. Tuominen and D. R. Lovley 鈥楾he Low Conductivity of Geobacter uraniireducens Pili Suggests a Diversity of Extracellular Electron Transfer Mechanisms in the Genus Geobacter鈥, Frontiers in Microbiology, 7 (980), 2016.
  14. R.Y. Adhikari, N.S. Malvankar, M. T. Tuominen and D.R. Lovley 鈥楥onductivity of individual Geobacter pili鈥, RSC Advances, 6, 8354-8357, 2016.  
  15. T. C. Bayram, N. Orbey, R.Y. Adhikari and M. T. Tuominen 鈥楩luoropolymer Based Formulations as Protective Coatings in Oil/Gas Pipelines鈥, Progress in Organic Coatings, 88, 2015.
  16. M. Bag, L. A. Renna, R.Y. Adhikari, S. Karak, F. Liu, P. M. Lahti, T. P. Russell, M. T. Tuominen and D. Venkataraman 鈥楰inetics of Ion Transport in Perovskite Active Layers and its Implications for Active Layer Stability鈥, Journal of the Americal Chemical Society (JACS), 137 (40), 2015.
  17. K. K. Yee, Y. L. Wong, M. Zha, R.Y. Adhikari, M. T. Tuominen, J. Hec and Z. Xu 鈥楻oom-Temperature Acetylene Hydration by a Hg(II)-laced Metal-Organic Framework鈥, Chemical Communications, doi: 10.1039/c5cc03943f, 2015.
  18. S. Malkowski, R.Y. Adhikari, J. Boissevain, C. Daurer, B.W. Filippone, B. Hona, B. Plaster, D. Woods and H. Yan 鈥極verlap Technique for End-Cap Seals on Cylindrical Magnetic Shields鈥, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 1(49), 2013.
  19. S. Malkowski, R. Adhikari, B.Hona, C. Mattie, D. Woods, H. Yan and B. Plaster 鈥楾echnique for High Axial Shielding Factor Performance of Large-scale, Thin, Open-ended, Cylindrical Metglas Magnetic Shields鈥, Review of Scientific Instruments, 7(82), 2011.

External Grants

  1. Co-PI - National Science Foundation - NSF ($439,805) September, 2024 - 2027.  PI Martin Wong (Geology), Co-PI Rebecca Metzler (Physics & Astronomy), and Co-PI William Pecker (Geology), Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), Division of Earth Sciences (DAR), Project: Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a FE-SEM and associated detectors at 51风流.
  2. PI - National Science Foundation - NSF ($199,834) August, 2022 - 2025. Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS), Project: RUI: Leaf as a Biodegradable Material for Electronic Components.
  3. PI - The Eppley Foundation for Research ($24,850) September, 2018 - August 2019. Project: Developing Plant-based Electronics.

 

Major Internal Grants

  1. Picker Research Fellowship ($9,989) June 2023 - August 2024, Project: Charge Transport in Aromatic Amino Acid-based Structures and Their Application in Chemical Sensing

 

Awards

  1. Arthur Quinton TA Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA - 2016.
  2. Waldemar Noll Prize in Physics, Berea College, KY - 2011.
  3. Lilli Brann Scholarship in Physical Sciences, Berea College, KY - 2010