Ramesh Adhikari

Ph.D. in Physics (2016) University of Massachusetts Amherst

M.S. in Physics (2014) University of Massachusetts Amherst

B.A. in Physics & Mathematics (2011) Berea College

Courses taught at Colgate:

Bio-derived materials, electronics, conducting polymers and biomaterials, charge transport mechanism.

(Undergraduate student authors are underlined. R.Y. Adhikari as the corresponding author is indicated by *. Google Scholar Profile)

1. D. Chamria, C. Alpha, R.Y. Adhikari*. "Phenylalanine-assisted conductivity enhancement in PEDOT:PSS films", ACS Omega, 8, 8 (2023). Link
2. K.P. Williams, N. Hann-Deschaine, D. Chamria, H.T. Benz and R.Y. Adhikari*. "Facile fabrication of triboelectric nanogenerators based on paper and natural rubber as low-cost bio-derived materials", Discover Materials, 3, 1 (2023). Link
3. N.G. Hallfors, D. Maksimovski, I.A.H. Farhat, M.A. Jaoude, A.R. Devarajan, K. Liao, M. Ismail, H. Pade, R.Y. Adhikari and A.F. Isakovic. "Layered tunable graphene oxide-nylon composite heterostructures for wearable electrocardiogram", Applied Physics Letters, 122, 013701 (2023). Link
4. R.Y. Adhikari* and J.J. Pujols. ” Highly rigid & transparent supramolecular fibrils of tyrosine”, Nano Select, 1, 2022. Link
5. R.Y. Adhikari*, N.E. Harmon and K. P. Williams. “Pristine leaf-based electrochemical resistive switching device”, Applied Materials Today, 24, 2021. Link
6. R. Hudson, R.Y. Adhikari, M.T. Tuominen, I. Hanzu, M. Wilkening, S. Thayumanavan and J. L. Katz. “Evaluation of carboxylic, phosphonic and sulfonic acid protogenic moieties on tunable poly(metaphenylene oxide) ionomer scaffolds”, Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 22 (57), 2209-2213, 2019. Link
7. R.Y. Adhikari*, J. Terrell, J. Targos, K.A. Huffman, H. Wang and J. Cradlebaugh. “Electrical Characterization of Leaf-based Wires & Supercapacitors”, RSC Advances, 9, 27289-27293, 2019. Link
8. W.B. Lane and R.Y. Adhikari. “Evaluating the presence of response-shift bias in the CLASS with a two-pass survey”, Physics Education Research (PER) Conference Proceedings, DOI: 10.1119/perc.2018.pr.Lane (2018). Link
9. D.J.F. Walker, R. Y. Adhikari , D.E. Holmes, J.E. Ward, T. L. Woodard, K. P. Nevin and D. R. Lovley ‘Electrically conductive pili from pilin genes of phylogenetically diverse microorganisms’, The ISME Journal, 12, 48-58 (2018). Link
10. Y. Tan, R. Y. Adhikari , Nikhil S. Malvankar, J.E. Ward, T. L. Woodard, K. P. Nevin and D. R. Lovley ‘Expressing the Geobacter metallireducens PilA in Geobacter sulfurreducens Yields Pili with Exceptional Conductivity’, mBio, 8, 1 e02203-16 (2017). Link
11. Y. Tan^#, R. Y. Adhikari^#, N. S. Malvankar, S. Pi, J. E. Ward, T. L. Woodard, K. P. Nevin, Q. Xia, M. T. Tuominen and D. R. Lovley ‘Synthetic Biological Protein Nanowires with High Conductivity’, Small, 12, 4481-4485, 2016. Link (# Co-first authors.)
12. Y. Tan, R. Y. Adhikari, N. S. Malvankar, J. E. Ward, K. P. Nevin, T. L. Woodard, J. A. Smith, O. L. Snoeyenbos-West, A. E. Franks, M. T. Tuominen and D. R. Lovley ‘The Low Conductivity of Geobacter uraniireducens Pili Suggests a Diversity of Extracellular Electron Transfer Mechanisms in the Genus Geobacter’, Frontiers in Microbiology, 7 (980), 2016. Link
13. R.Y. Adhikari, N.S. Malvankar, M. T. Tuominen and D.R. Lovley ‘Conductivity of individual Geobacter pili’, RSC Advances, 6, 8354-8357, 2016. Link 
14. T. C. Bayram, N. Orbey, R.Y. Adhikari and M. T. Tuominen ‘Fluoropolymer Based Formulations as Protective Coatings in Oil/Gas Pipelines’, Progress in Organic Coatings, 88, 2015. Link
15. M. Bag, L. A. Renna, R.Y. Adhikari, S. Karak, F. Liu, P. M. Lahti, T. P. Russell, M. T. Tuominen and D. Venkataraman ‘Kinetics of Ion Transport in Perovskite Active Layers and its Implications for Active Layer Stability’, Journal of the Americal Chemical Society (JACS), 137 (40), 2015. Link
16. K. K. Yee, Y. L. Wong, M. Zha, R.Y. Adhikari, M. T. Tuominen, J. Hec and Z. Xu ‘Room-Temperature Acetylene Hydration by a Hg(II)-laced Metal-Organic Framework’, Chemical Communications, doi: 10.1039/c5cc03943f, 2015. Link
17. S. Malkowski, R.Y. Adhikari, J. Boissevain, C. Daurer, B.W. Filippone, B. Hona, B. Plaster, D. Woods and H. Yan ‘Overlap Technique for End-Cap Seals on Cylindrical Magnetic Shields’, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 1(49), 2013. Link
18. S. Malkowski, R. Adhikari, B.Hona, C. Mattie, D. Woods, H. Yan and B. Plaster ‘Technique for High Axial Shielding Factor Performance of Large-scale, Thin, Open-ended, Cylindrical Metglas Magnetic Shields’, Review of Scientific Instruments, 7(82), 2011. Link

External Grants

1. PI - National Science Foundation - NSF ($199,834) August, 2022 - 2025 , Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS)Project: RUI: Leaf as a Biodegradable Material for Electronic Components
2. PI - The Eppley Foundation for Research ($24,850) September, 2018 - August 2019, Project: Developing Plant-based Electronics

Major Internal Grants

1. Picker Research Fellowship ($9,989) June 2023 - August 2024, Project: Charge Transport in Aromatic Amino Acid-based Structures and Their Application in Chemical Sensing

Awards

1. Arthur Quinton TA Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA - 2016.
2. Waldemar Noll Prize in Physics, Berea College, KY - 2011.
3. Lilli Brann Scholarship in Physical Sciences, Berea College, KY - 2010