Homepage of Dr. Veena Prasad

        Dr. Veena Prasad

          Scientist

           Email : veena@csmr.res.in

          veenaclcr@yahoo.com

 
Areas of Specialisation

Synthesis and Characterization of Liquid Crystals:

1.     Calamitic liquid crystals

2.     Discotic liquid crystals

3.     Bent - core liquid crystals

4.     Monomers, dimers and polymeric liquid crystals

Academic details

M.Sc. (Chemistry), 1987, Mangala Gangotri, Mangalore University, Mangalore.

Ph. D. (Liquid Crystals), 1994, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.
 

Details of important Seminars/Conferences/Courses/Study-tours attended

1.     Worked on Liquid Crystals and Light emitting materials at Korea University, Korea (INSA-KOSEF Fellowship) with Prof. J.I. Jin (March 2001-March 2002).

2.     Oral presentation , Korean Liquid Crystal Society Meeting , Pusan, South Korea , 2001.

 
3.     Oral presentation , the 88th Annual Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society, Pusan, South Korea , 2001.

 
4.     Oral presentation, International Conference on Discotic Liquid Crystals, Trieste, Italy, 2002.

 
5.     Visiting Scientist, Kent State University, Kent, USA (2004-2008).

 
6.     Invited talk , International symposium on biaxial nematic liquid crystals, Kent State University, Kent, USA , 2008.
 

7.     Invited talk , International conference on frontiers in chemical research, Mangalore University, Mangalore, 2008.

 
8.     Invited talk , National conference on the emerging areas in chemistry, Mysore University, Mysore, 2009.

Group Members      

          Ms. Nagaveni N.G.  M.Sc.             

          Email: ngnanu@csmr.res.in

          Ms.Gayathri  K., M.Sc., M. Phil.

          Email: gayathri@csmr.res.in

Former Members

 Sri. Sunil Kumar K. R.

Dr. Sanjay Kumar  Varshney.  

Important Research Publications

1.     A combined DFT and Carbon-13 NMR study of a biaxial bent-core liquid crystal, A. Marini, V. Prasad and R. Y. Dong,

Chapter 13, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of liquid crystals, ed. R. Y. Dong,

World Scientific Publishers, 2009.

2.     Thermotropic uniaxial and biaxial nematic and smectic phases in bent-core mesogens, V. Prasad, S -W. Kang,

K.A. Suresh, Leela Joshi, Q. Wang and S. Kumar, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 17224 (2005).
 

3.     Achiral bent-core azo compounds: observation of photo induced effects in an antiferroelectric tilted smectic

mesophase, V. Prasad and A. Jakli, Liq. Cryst., 31, 473, (2004).

4.     Photo - responsive and electrically switchable mesophases in a novel class of achiral bent-core azo

compounds, V. Prasad, S-W. Kang, X. Qi and S. Kumar, J. Mater. Chem., 14, 1495 (2004). This paper appeared

among the "top ten" articles.

 
5.     Luminescence properties of poly[2-(4/-t-butylphenoxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene], N.P.H. Nam, V. Prasad, S-W. Cha,

D-W.Lee, and J.I. Jin, Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, 23, 1470 (2002).

 
6.     Liquid crystalline properties in a series of disc-like compounds with two alkyloxy chains attached to the core, V. Prasad,

Liq. Cryst., 28, 647 (2001).