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Sivasurender Chandran
(Ph.D.: IISc, 2014)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
(O - PEB-103, next to Media lab)
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Specialization
Polymer and Soft Matter Physics
Education
PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, 2014
M.Sc., Anna University, Chennai, 2008
B.Sc., Muthurangam Government Arts College, Vellore, 2006
Previous Work Experience
03/2014 – 12/2016 Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Freiburg, Germany
01/2017 – 12/2019 Research Project Leader, University of Freiburg, Germany
01/2020 – 03/2020 Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Selected Publications
Perspective: Processing pathways decide polymer properties at the molecular level, S. Chandran*, J. Baschnagel, D. Cangialosi, K. Fukao, E. Glynos, L. M. C. Janssen, M. Müller, M. Muthukumar, U. Steiner, J. Xu, S. Napolitano and G. Reiter, Macromolecules, 52, 7146 (2019). This work is selected as ACS editor’s choice. Graphic summarizing the work is published as the cover art for this issue.
Segmental rearrangements relax stresses in nonequilibrated polymer films S. Chandran* and G. Reiter, ACS Macro Letters, 8, 646 (2019).
Controlling polymer crystallization kinetics by sample history, P. Poudel, S. Chandran*, S. Majumder, and G. Reiter, Macromolecular Chemistry Physics, 219, 1700315 (2018).
Time allowed for equilibration quantifies the preparation induced nonequilibrium behavior of polymer films, S. Chandran*, R. Handa, M. Kchaou, S, Al-Akhrass, A. N. Semenov, and G. Reiter, ACS Macro Letters, 6, 1296 (2017).
Transient cooperative processes in dewetting polymer melts, S. Chandran* and G. Reiter, Physical Review Letters, 116, 088301 (2016).