Research:

Project 1: Development of novel conjugated polymer electrodes for the voltammetric detection of heavy metal contaminants is water.

Project 2: Detection of novel polymer coatings for the detection of nitroaromatic compounds using QCM sensors.

Publications:

• “Investigation of QCM sensors with azobenzene functionalized coatings for the detection of nitroaromatics” (T. Ponrathnam, J. Cho, P. Kurup, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar) Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry (2011) 48(12), 1031-1037.
•  “Detection of Explosive Vapors by Surface Acoustic Wave Sensors Containing Novel Siloxane Based Coatings” (S. Liu, T. Ponrathnam, H. Sun, R. Nagarajan,  J. Kumar, Z. Gu, P. Kurup) Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A: Pure and Applied Chemistry (2010) 47(12), 1172-1175.

Presentations:

• “Soluble pegylated polythiophenes: synthesis and nitroaromatic sensing” (A. Kokil, T. Ponrathnam, A. Kumar, R. Nagarajan, J. Kumar ) Abstracts of Papers, 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States, August 22-26, 2010 (2010), PMSE-261.
• “Azobenzene functionalized poly(dimethyl siloxane) coatings for explosive detection using a surface acoustic wave device” (T. Ponrathnam, S. Liu, A. Kokil, J. Cho, H. Sun, R. Nagarajan, J.  Kumar, P. Kurup) Abstracts of Papers, 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States, August 22-26, 2010 (2010), ANYL-198.

Contact Info:

Phone: 978-934-3797 (Olney 305)

Email: Timothy_Ponrathnam@student.uml.edu

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