Education

M.Sc, M.Ed (Science Education), UGC-NET, M.Phil (Photonics), Ph.D (Optoelectronics), DST-PURSE PDF

Areas of Interest

• Plasmonics
• Catalysis
• Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Analysis
• SERS subtrate development
• Chemical & green synthesis methodologies
• Luminescent material

Teaching experience: 04 years

Awards/ Appreciations

1. Certificate of Appreciation for the Excellent Services offered to the four-day Residential Training Programme organized at University of Kerala in connection with INCULCATE 2012-2013, the science Propagation programme of Govt. of Kerala (22-25 February 2013)
2. Spiky Gold Nanostars with near Infra-Red Plasmon as SERS Substrates., Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G. National seminar on Advanced materials characterization and techniques (AMCT’15) held at Department of Physics, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram during 27-28^th March, 2015. (Best Poster Award)

Publications (List of papers published in SCI Journals)

S. No	Author(s)	Title	Name of Journal	Vol	Page	Year
1.	S.G. Jiji & K.G.Gopchandran	Synthesis of Gold Nanoflowers and their High SERS Performance.	Materials Today: Proceedings	2	928-933	2015
2.	S.G. Jiji & K.G.Gopchandran	Virus shaped gold nanoparticles with tunable near infrared plasmon as SERS substrates	Materials Research Express	2	075005	2015
3.	S.G. Jiji & K.G.Gopchandran	Restructuring hollow Au-Ag nanostructures for improved SERS activity	Materials Research Express,	3	105012	2016
4.	S.G. Jiji & K.G.Gopchandran	Au-Ag hollow nanostructures with tunable SERS properties	Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy	171	499–506.	2017
5.	G.Tom , S.Philip, R.Isaac, P.K.Praseetha, S.G. Jiji, & Asha.V.V	Preparation of an efficient and safe polymeric-magnetic nanoparticle delivery system for sorafenib in hepatocellular carcinoma	Life Sciences	206	10–21	2018
6.	S.G. Jiji & K.G.Gopchandran	Shape dependent catalytic activity of unsupported gold nanostructures for the fast reduction of 4-nitroaniline	Colloid and Interface Science Communications	29	9–16	2019
7.	C.R. Rekha , S.G. Jiji , V.U. Nayar, & K.G.Gopchandran	Simultaneous SERS detection using hexagonal hollow Au-Ag nanoparticles with near infrared plasmon	Vibrational Spectroscopy	114	103233	2021
8.	S. Divya, A. R. Anusree, S. Vigi, S.G. Jiji, P. Akshaya Das, A. S. Rahul Dev, Susha S. Thara, Edna Mary Varghese, Pratheesh P. Gopinath & K. N. Anith	Silver nanoparticles green synthesized with leaf extract of disease-resistant amaranthus genotypes effectively suppress leaf blight (Rhizoctonia solani Kühn) disease in a susceptible red amaranthus cultivar	3 Biotech	13:196	1-12	2023

 

Presentations in Seminars and Conferences

1. Studies on synthesis and characterization of surfactant stabilized colloidal silver nanoparticles ., Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., 81^st Annual section of NASI (National Academy of Science’s India) held at University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram during 24 – 26^th November , 2011

2. Seed mediated synthesis of gold nanoparticles, Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., National seminar on spectroscopic techniques and its applications for material characterization (NSST-2013) held at Department of Optoelectronics, University of Kerala during 3- 4^th October, 2013.

3. Studies on seed mediated synthesis of gold nanoparticles, Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., The India-Israel meeting on materialscience and nanoscience (IIMMN-2013) held at Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology , M.G. University, Kottayam during 31^st January to 1st February, 2013.

4. Synthesis of gold nanoflowers and their high SERS performance, Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., 5^th International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICOPVS 2014) held at Mascot hotel, Thiruvananthapuram during 08-12^th July, 2014.

5. Highly branched gold nanostructures for improved SERS activity., Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., National seminar on New Frontiers in Physics-scope and challenges held at St.Xavier’s College, Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram during 28-30^th October, 2014.

6. Synthesis of Star Shaped Gold Nanosubstrates for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy., Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., Second International Conference on Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposites (ICNM-2014) held at International and Interuniversity center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology(IIUCNN), M.G. University, Kottayam during 19-21^th December, 2014.

7. Spiky Gold Nanostars with near Infra-Red Plasmon as SERS Substrates., Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G. National seminar on Advanced materials characterization and techniques (AMCT’15) held at Department of Physics, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram during 27-28^th March, 2015. (BEST POSTER AWARD)

8. Gold Nanorods and Dog bones as Catalysts to reduce 4-NA., Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G. National Conference on Materials Science and Technology (NCMST-2016) held at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram during 12-14^th July, 2016.

9. On the making of hollow Au-Ag SERS substrates Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., National Conference on Materials Science and Technology (NCMST-2016), held at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram during 12-14^th July, 2016

10. On the making of Au and Ag based substrates for surface enhanced Raman scattering ., Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., Annual technical meeting of Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Trivandrum chapter (MRSI-2017) held at Department of Biochemistry, University of kerala, Thiruvananthapuram on 27^th January 2017.

11. Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles using “Pimenta dioica” Leaf Broth and its SERS Activity ., Dhanyaprabha K.C., Jiji S.G and Gopchandran K.G., Annual Physics Symposium (APS 2017) held at St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam during 2-3^rd February, 2017.

12. Unsupported gold nanorods as efficient catalyst for the reduction of 4-NA., Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., The annual National level meet of young scientists working in the field of Hydrogen Energy and related Advanced Materials (HEAM SCIENTIST 2018) held at Department of Chemistry, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram during 05 – 06^th March 2018.

13. Fabrication of efficient Au/Ag alloy SERS substrates by controlled chemical reduction., Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., National Seminar on Advanced Materials held at School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Sponcered by Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India during 23^–24^th March 2018.

14. Langmuir–Hinshelwood method for the kinetic evaluation of CTAB stabilized gold nano dog bones in the reduction of Para-nitroaniline. Jiji, S. G. and Gopchandran, K. G., .National Conference on Emerging trends in Science, Technology and Application of Electron Microscopy (STAEM 2018) & 5^th Annual meeting of the Academy of Microscope Science and technology (AMST), India on 19-21^th December 2018.

15. Synthesis and characterization of Orange emitting cuprous oxide nanocubes for optoelectronic applications. Jiji S G, Vishnupriya G, and Gopchandran K G., National Conference on Energy and Environment (NCEE-2019) held at Sree Ayyappa College, Eramallikkara, Chengannur, Kerala, India on February 15& 16^th, 2019.

      

Induction/FDP Programs

1. 7 Day virtual FDP on Instructional Design Using AGILE-ADDIE organized by Mar Ivanios College from 28^th July 2020 to 2^nd August 2020.

2. UGC HRDC University of Kerala Online Induction Program from 06/09/2021 to 05/10 2021

3. Refresher Course in material Science from 29/07/2022 to 11/08/2022 UGC- HRDC University of Kerala.

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