Department of Chemistry

• Currently working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Thiagarajar College, Madurai-09, Tamilnadu, India.

Completed training visit entitled on “Synthesis and Characterization of New Flexible N donor Ligand” under supervision of Prof. M. Sathiyendiran, School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

Publications in International Journals

• Chandran Bhuvaneswari, Ponnaiah Sathish Kumar, Arumugam Elangovana*, Ganesh Arivazhagan, Young-Ki Kim*, Synergistic Effects of a Zirconium Stannate-Carbon Nitride Nanocomposite on Design of Electrochemical Sensor for Sensitive Detection of the Antiandrogen Drug Flutamide, Chemical Engineering Journal advance,  2025, 25,100981 (IF: 7.1)
• Chandran Bhuvaneswari, Ramasamy Shanmugam, Arumugam Elangovan*, Ponnaiah Sathish Kumar, Chandrasekaran Sharmila, Karuppaiah Sudha, Ganesh Arivazhagan, Palaniappan Subramanian, Voltammetric nano-molar range quantification of agrochemical pesticide using needle-like strontium pyrophosphate embedded on sulfur doped graphitic carbon nitride electrocatalyst, Food Chemistry, 2024, 437, 137874. (IF:9.8) 
• Chandran Bhuvaneswari, Ramasamy Shanmugam, Ponnaiah Sathish Kumar, Arumugam Elangovan*, Chandrasekaran Sharmila, Karuppaiah Sudha, Ganesh Arivazhagan, Cerium Zirconium Oxide-Decorated Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite for Low Potential Voltammetric Detection of N-Hydroxysuccinimide, ACS Applied nanomaterials, 2024, 7, 6839-6850. (IF: 5.4) 
• Chandran Bhuvaneswari, Arumugam Elangovan*, Narayanan Sudhan, Ganesan Vinodhkumar, Soorangkattan Saravanan, Venkataraman Balasubramanian, Chandrasekaran Sharmila, Sudha Karuppaiah, A low-cost hybrid GQDs/Fe3O4/polypyrrole nanocomposite based chemo-sensor for electrochemical non-enzymatic selective determination of creatinine in biological samples, Microchemical Journal, 2023,194, 109259. (IF: 5.1) 
• Chandran Bhuvaneswari, Arumugam Elangovan*, Chandrasekaran Sharmila, Karuppaiah Sudha, Ganesh Arivazhagan, Fabrication of cobalt tungstate/N-rGO nanocomposite: Application towards the detection of antibiotic drug-Furazolidone, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2023, 656, 130299. (IF:: 5.4)
• Sharmila Chandrasekaran, Shanmugam Vignesh, Elangovan Arumugam*, Chelladurai Karuppiah, Bhuvaneswari Chandran, Sivaganesh Dhanushkodi, Matar Alshalwi, Investigation of improved bifunctional electrocatalytic HER and OER performances of lanthanum molybdate supported graphene oxide composite in acidic and alkaline media, Diamond and Related Materials, 2023, 140, 10457. (IF: 5.1)
• Sharmila Chandrasekaran, Elangovan Arumugam*, Chelladurai Karuppiah, Sudha Karuppaiah, Ahmed S Haidyrah, Bhuvaneswari Chandran, Chun-Chen Yang, A novel cobalt tungstate and reduced graphene oxide composite for hydrogen evolution reaction in acid medium, Materials Letters, 2021, 300, 130274. (IF: 2.7) 

• Arumugam Elangovan*, Karuppaiah Sudha, Alagan Jeevika, Chandran Bhuvaneswari, Palanisamy Kalimuthu, Vellaichamy Balakumar, Construction of ternary Au@ GO coupled with poly-l-ethionine nanocomposite as a robust platform for electrochemical recognition of uric acid in diabetic patients, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2020, 602, 125050. (IF: 5.4).

  Conferences / Seminar

• Presented paper entitled “Non-Enzymatic selective determination of creatinine in human real samples based on GQDs/Fe3O4/Ppy nanocomposites” in the “National Science Day and Second Bio Forum Annual Conference on Biological Sciences”, organized by Department of Biotechnology, The Madura College, Madurai, during 1st & 2nd March, 2023, received best presentation Award.
• Presented paper entitled “Effective Electrochemical Determination of Free Radical Antioxidant Diphenylamine in Fruit Samples Based on Needle-Like Strontium Pyrophosphate Embedded with S-gC3N4 as an Electrocatalyst” in the two days virtual “International Conference on
• Multidisciplinary Aspects in Chemistry (ICMAC-2023)”, organized by the Department of Chemistry, Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India during 9 -10, February 2023.
• Presented paper entitled “A low-cost hybrid GQDs/Fe3O4/Polypyrrole nanocomposite based chemo-sensor for electrochemical non-enzymatic selective determination of creatinine in biological samples” in international conference on “Futuristic Materials in Science and
• Technology-ICFMST-2022”, organized by Department of Chemistry, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu, India during 21st & 22nd December 2022.
• Presented paper entitled “Zirconium Cerium Oxide/Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite as a modified Electrode material for Electrochemical Detection of N-Hydroxy succinimide” in two days international webinar on “Recent Advances in Chemical sciences RACS 2k22”, organized by Department of Chemistry, The Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India, during July 21st & 22nd , 2022.
• Presented paper entitled “Electrochemical detection of nitrofuran based drug by cobalt tungstate nanoparticles with N- doped reduced graphene oxide” in two-day national E-Conference on “Modern Trends in Chemistry-MTC-27”, organized by Postgraduate and Research Department of Chemistry, Vivekananda College, Tiruvedakam West, Madurai, during 09 & 10th November 2021.
• Presented paper titled “Smart Polymers” in “State Level Inter Collegiate Students’ Seminar”, organized by Post graduate and Research Department of Chemistry, Thiagarajar College, Madurai, during 24th February 2016.

Discipline committee Member

Sports Committee Member