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Raghavan Ranganathan

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  2. Materials Engineering

  3. Raghavan Ranganathan

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Raghavan Ranganathan

Associate Professor, Materials Engineering

  • BTech: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 2011
  • PhD: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2016

Email: rraghav -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website : https://raghavan.people.iitgn.ac.in

Office: 11/308 A
VOIP: 2557


  • Selected Publications

    1. P. P. Singh, R. Ranganathan, Superior impact resistance conferred by hierarchical nacre-inspired nanocomposites: A molecular dynamics study", Carbon, 233, 119885, 2025.
    2. A. Deshmukh, R. Ranganathan, "Recent advances in modelling structure-property correlations in high-entropyalloys." Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 204, 127, 2025.

    3. P. P. Singh, R. Ranganathan, "Mechanical and Viscoelastic Properties of Stacked and Grafted Graphene/Graphene Oxide–Polyethylene Nanocomposites: A Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Study." ACS Omega 9, 9063, 2024.
    4. S. Lahkar, R. Ranganathan, "Competing mechanisms govern the thermal rectification behavior in semi-stochastic
      polycrystalline graphene with graded grain-size distribution." Carbon 218, 118638, 2024.
    5. P. P. Singh, R. Ranganathan, "Superior Protection Conferred by Multi-Layered Graphene–Polyethylene Nanocomposites under Shock Loading." ACS Applied Engineering Materials 2, 286, 2023.

    6.  R. Ranganathan, V. Kumar, A. L. Brayton, M. Kroger, and G. C. Rutledge, "Atomistic modeling of plastic deformation in semicrystalline polyethylene: role of interphase topology, entanglements, and chain dynamics", Macromolecules, 53, 4605, 2020.
    7.  R. Ranganathan, Y. Shi, P. Keblinski, “Commonalities in frequency-dependent viscoelastic damping in glasses in the MHz to THz regime", J. Appl. Phys., 122, 145103, 2017.

  • Work Experience

    • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Nov 2024 to present)
    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Jul 2019 - Nov 2024)
    • Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sep 2016 – Apr 2019)

Research Interests

  • ● Atomistic/Molecular simulations of structure-property relations (mechanical, thermal and dynamic properties)
  • ● Dynamics of soft matter including polymer blends and nanocomposites
  • ● Viscoelasticity of hard inorganic materials and composites
  • ● Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations in materials
  • ● Modeling reactive processes in materials subjected to extreme conditions

Complete List of Publications