I was born in Kerala, a southern state in India. I have obtained my Ph.D. in Chemistry from Kongju National University, South Korea and I have done my M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Mahatma Gandhi University, India. After my Ph.D., I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Raz Jelinek’s group at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
My Ph.D. thesis is based on nanoscale self-assembly methods to obtain multi-component inorganic nanostructures. During this work, I had developed methods for site specific growth of metal nanoparticles on semiconductor nanorods and bottom-up synthesis of multi-segmented inorganic nanowires. During my postdoctoral studies in Israel, I was involved in the study of directed self-assembly routes to functional nanostructured surfaces. Novel methods for in situ growth and assembly of nanostructures on various substrates were developed from these studies.
I joined Morin group at UNL in September 2015. Here I am engaged in research related to surface chemical processes aimed at controlled growth of micro/nanostructures assisted by mechanical maneuvering of the substrates.
Email: tpvinod79(at)gmail.com
Selected Publications:
- T. P. Vinod and Raz Jelinek, Nonplanar Conductive Surfaces via “Bottom-Up”
Nanostructured Gold Coating, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2014, 6, 3341−3346.
- T. P. Vinod, Shlomo Zarzhitsky, Ahiud Morag, Leila Zeiri, Yael Levi-Kalisman, Hanna
Rapaport and Raz Jelinek, Transparent, conductive, and SERS-active Au nanofiber films
assembled on an amphiphilic peptide template, Nanoscale 2013, 5, 10487–10493.
- T. P. Vinod, Natalya Froumin, Dimitry Mogiliansky, Leila Zeiri, Vladimir Ezersky, and Raz
Jelinek, Nanostructure Synthesis at the Solid–Water Interface: Spontaneous Assembly and
Chemical Transformations of Tellurium Nanorods, ChemPhysChem 2014, 15, 3026-3031.
- T. P. Vinod, Misun Park, Sang-Ho Kim and Jinkwon Kim, Multisegmented Se-Te-Se Hybrid
Nanowires: A Building Unit with Inbuilt Block and Glue Functionality, Langmuir 2010, 26,
9195–9197.
- T. P. Vinod, Ming Yang, Jinkwon Kim and Nicholas A. Kotov, Self-Guided One-Sided Metal
Reduction in Te Nanowires Leading to Au-Te Matchsticks, Langmuir 2009, 25, 13545–13550.
