Saroj Nayak 
Associate Professor of Physics
Education:
Ph.D., Physical Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1995.
Career Highlights:
Nayak graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India in 1995, with a Ph.D. degree in physical science. Before joining the faculty at Rensselaer in 2000 Nayak was a Princeton Materials Institute Jr. Fellow at Princeton University.
Research Interests:
Nayak’s research interests lie at the interface of physics, chemistry and engineering, with principle areas of focus on the study of atomic and electronic structures of matters using ab initio electronic structure calculation methods with classical and quantum molecular dynamics simulations and Monte Carlo methods. The two major recent focuses of Nayak’s research are: study of nanostructured materials and simulations of biological molecules using electronic structure methods.
Selected Publications:
P. Shemella and S. K. Nayak, “Electronic structure and band-gap modulation of graphene via substrate surface chemistry”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 032101 (2009).
P. Shemella, B. Pereira, Y. Zhang, P. Van Roey, G. Belfort, S. Garde, and S. K. Nayak, "Mechanism for Intein C-Terminal Cleavage: A Proposal from Quantum Mechanical Calculations", BioPhys. J. 92, 847 (2007).
D. Gandhi, M. Lane, Y. Zhou, A. P. Singh, S. Nayak, U. Tisch, M. Eizeberg, G. Ramanath, "Annealing-induced interfacial toughening using a molecular nanolayer", Nature, 447, 299 (2007).
X. Y. Wu, A. Selloni, and S. K. Nayak, "First principles study of CO oxidation on TiO2(110): The role of surface oxygen vacancies", J. Chem. Phys. 120, 4512 (2004).
R. Pati, M. Mailman, L. Senapati, P. M. Ajayan, and S. K. Nayak, "First-principles calculations of spin-polarized electron transport in a molecular wire: Molecular spin valve", Phys. Rev. B 68, 014412 (2003).
Savage T, Bhattacharya S, Sadanadan B, Gaillard J, Tritt TM, Sun YP, Wu Y, Nayak S, Car R, Marzari N, Ajayan PM, Rao AM, “Photoinduced oxidation of carbon nanotubes”, J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 15, 5915 (2003).
Contact:
(518) 276-2932
nayaks@rpi.edu
Home Page: http://www.rpi.edu/~nayaks/
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