Prof. Saroj Kumar Nayak

Professor

School of Basic Sciences

Office : SBS-214

Phone : +91-674-713-5140

Email : nayaks@iitbbs.ac.in

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Education

Degree	Discipline	Year	School
Ph.D.	Physical Science	1995	Jawaharlal Nehru University

Research Interests

First Principles Molecular dynamics Simulations, Nanostructures, Quantum transport, Quantum Biology

Teaching

Quantum Mechanics, Electrodynamics

Journals	Author(s)/Speaker(s)
Effects of flavor-symmetry violation from staggered fermion lattice simulations of graphene, Phys. Rev. B, 83, 045420 (2011)	J. Giedt, A. Skinner, and S. K. Nayak
A comparative study of quantum transport in silver and copper nanowires using first principles calculations J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 23 085501, 2011	N. Kharche, S. R. Manjari, Y. Zhou, R. E. Geer, and S. K. Nayak
Effect of Layer Stacking on the Electronic Structure of Graphene Nanoribbons ACS Nano, 5, 6096 (2011)	N. Kharche, Y. Zhou, K. P. O'Brien, S. Kar, and S. K. Nayak
Electronic Structure of Neighboring Extein Residue Modulates Intein C-Terminal Cleavage Activity, Biophys. J., 100, 2217 (2011)	P. T. Shemella, N. I. Topilina, I. Soga, B. Pereira, G. Belfort, M Belfort, and S. K. Nayak
A first Principle Study of Terahertz (THz) Spectra of Acephate Chem. Phys. Letts. 452, 59 (2008).	Y. Zhang, X-P Peng, Y. Chen, J. Chen, A. Curioni, W. Andreoni, S. K. Nayak and X.- C. Zhang
Annealing Induced Interfacial Toughening using a molecular monolayer Nature, 447, 299 (2007)	D. Gandhi, M. Lane, Y. Zhou, A. P. Singh, S. Nayak, U. Tisch, M. Eizenberg, G. Ramnath
em>Strain-engineered photoluminescence of silicon nanoclusters Phys. Rev. B 74, 035339 (2006)	X. Peng, A. Alizadeh, S. Ganti, P. Sharma, S. K. Kumar, and S. K. Nayak
Multiscale Modeling of the Surfactant Mediated Synthesis and Supramolecular Assembly, Phys. Rev. Letts. 93, 188301 (2004)	N. P. Adhikari, X. Peng, A. Alizadeh, S. Ganti, S. K. Nayak, and S. K. Kumar
First principles study of CO oxidation on TiO2(110): The role of surface oxygen vacancies, J. Chem. Phys. 120, 4512 (2004)	X. Y. Wu, A. Selloni, and S. K. Nayak
Towards extending the applicability of density functional theory to weakly bound systems, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 8748 (2001)	X.Wu, M. C. Vargas, S. K. Nayak, V. Lotrich, G. Scoles

Academic Honors & Awards

Princeton Materials Institute Jr Fellow