14 Facts About Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh is known for his studies on supramolecular assemblies, organogels, photoresponsive materials, chemosensory and security materials systems and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh is the first chemist to receive the Infosys Science Prize for physical sciences, awarded by the Infosys Science Foundation.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh received the TWAS Prize of The World Academy of Sciences in 2013 and the Goyal prize in 2019.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh's career started in 1988 at the Regional Research Laboratory, presently the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, as a Scientist and held various positions before promoting to an Outstanding Scientist and the head of the Photosciences and Photonics Group of NIIST.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh served as an adjunct professor of Material Science Programme at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh's research have been principally in the fields of supramolecular chemistry, chemosensors, low band-gap polymers, fluorescent gels, organic nanostructures, and photoresponsive systems and he is reported to have done extensive researches on supramolecular architecture and light-induced sensor systems.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh is known to have pioneered the study of molecular self-assembly in India and is credited with the creation of a new category of self-assembled materials that are functionally soft.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh's work assisted in the design of larger molecular structures using self-assembling molecules and demonstrated ways to control their electrical conductivity through controlling external factors like temperature which have reported use in applications involving light harvesting, sensing, imaging, and security.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh's studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles; ResearchGate and Google Scholar, online repositories of scientific articles, have listed 202 and 162 of them respectively.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh holds patents for several processes he has developed.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh is associated with several science journals around the world.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh is an associate editor of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and a senior editor of the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh is a former member of the advisory board of RSC Advances and sits in the editorial board of Chemistry: An Asian Journal.

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh has guided several master's and doctoral scholars in their studies and has been involved in programs for the popularization of science and science awareness campaigns.