Conferences (International/National)

1. S. Shanmugam, H. Nara and T. Osaka, Nanocomposite of TiO2 and carbon as anode material for lithium batteries, presented at 61 Annual ISE meeting, Sep 26-Oct 1, 2010, Nice, France
          

2. S. Shanmugam, H. Nara and T. Osaka, One-dimensional rare earth oxycarbonates coated with amorphous carbon as a possible pseudo capacitors, presented at 2010 International Conference on Advanced Capacitors, May 31-June 2, 2010, Kyoto, Japan.
          

3. S. Shanmugam, H. Zhang, T. Nakanishi and T. Osaka, “Magnetite-chitosan nanocomposite as highly efficient gene transfection vector for mouse embryonic stem cells” presented in 13th Asian Chemical Congress, Shangai, China, September 14-16, 2009.                        

                                                                                                 
4. S. Shanmugam, S. Takahama, H. Zhang, T. Nakanishi and T. Osaka, Bioinspired synthesis of magnetite nanoparticles and their internalization into breast cancer and umbilical vein endothelial cells presented in 6th International conference on Biomedical applications of Nanotechnology,  March 4-6, Berlin 2009.                                                                                                                                      
5.  S. Shanmugam and T. Osaka, “Controlled synthesis and Magnetic properties of Iron oxide nanostructures using biogenic polyamines” presented in Joint 214 ECS meeting and PRiME 2008, October 12-17, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008.                                                                                                      

6.  H. Zhong, S. Takahama, T. Nakanishi, S. Shanmugam and T. Osaka, Bioassys of nanomaterials biosafety in stem cells, ASMeW International symposium, August 27-28, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.                                                                                                            
7.  G. S Suresh, A. Mitelman, S. Shanmugam, E. Pollak, E. Levi, M. Levi, D. Aurbach, Preparation and Characterization of New Chevrel Phases as Cathodes for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries, 72 Meeting of Israel Chemical Society", February 6-7, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2006.                                                                                                                                                        
8.  S. Shanmugam and A. Gedanken, TiO2@C core-shell composite as a potential support for fuel cell electrocatalysts, "The Jubilee Nanotechnology Symposium", May 29-31, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 2006.                                                                                                                                               

9.  S. Shanmugam and A. Gedanken, Synthesis of Bamboo-shaped Multiwalled carbon nanotubes by solid state pyrolysis and its electrochemical studies, "71 Meeting of Israel Chemical Society", February 27-28, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2006.                                                                                                                                                                             
10.  S. Shanmugam, B. Viswanathan and T. K. Varadarajan, Preparation of platinum supported carbon electrodes using photochemically reduced heteropolyanions in composite films, "The 2004 Fuel cell Seminar", November 1-5, San Antonio, USA. 2004.                                                                                                                                                            

11.  S. Shanmugam, B. Viswanathan and T.K. Varadarajan, Nanocrystalline supported noble metal electrocatalysts – An unconventional reduction method, "13th International Congress on Catalysis", July 11-16, Paris, France. 2004.                                                                                                                                                                                             
12.  S. Shanmugam, B. Viswanathan and T. K. Varadarajan, A novel method for the preparation of embedded silver nanoparticles in organic-inorganic nanocomposite, "Chemists’ Meet", IIT Madras March 26-27, 2004.           
                                                                                                                       
13.  B. Viswanathan, S. Shanmugam and T.K. Varadarajan, Inorganic (polyoxometalate) – organic composite – their exploitation as device materials, "3rd National symposium & conference on solid-state chemistry and allied areas" IIT Delhi, Dec 4-6, 2003.                                                                                                                                             

14.  S. Shanmugam, B. Viswanathan and T.K. Varadarajan, Esterification by solid acid catalysts - a comparison, "Catsym-16, Indo-German conference on catalysis" Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Feb 6-8, 2003.                                                                                                                        

15.  S. Shanmugam, B. Viswanathan and T.K. Varadarajan, Polyoxometalate thin film device with Photo/electro chromic effects, "Chemists’ Meet", IIT Madras Dec 7-8, 2002.                                              

16.  Ch. Subrahmanyam, S. Shanmugam, B. Viswanathan and T. K. Varadarajan, Synthesis and characterization of transition metal incorporated MCM-48, "CATSYMP-15 & IPCAT-2", National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, January 2001.