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Aravind Vijayaraghavan

Aravind Vijayaraghavan is Professor of Nanomaterials in the Department of Materials and the National Graphene Institute at The University of Manchester, where he leads the Nanofunctional Materials Group. He is Head of Internationalisation (India and Business Engagement) for the Faculty of Science and Engineering. His research covers the science and technology of graphene and other two-dimensional materials, particularly for composites, electronics, sensors and biotechnology. He was previously a senior postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is co-founder of two spin-out companies, Atomic Mechanics and Grafine.

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Career

  • 2021–presentProfessor of Nanomaterials, The University of Manchester
  • 2017–2021Reader in Nanomaterials, The University of Manchester
  • 2010–2017Lecturer in Nanomaterials, The University of Manchester
  • 2009–2010Senior Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2006–2009Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, then Guest Scientist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Education

  • 2002–2005PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
  • 2000–2002MEng, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
  • 1996–2000BTech, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
The group's mark: a leaning parallelogram with filled atoms at its corners, a larger filled atom and a hollow ring inside, joined by thin bonds The A·I·AM mark: a hexagon of six nodes around a central hub
Left: the group's mark. Right: the A·I·AM mark.

The group's mark is the unit cell of AB-stacked (Bernal) bilayer graphene. The leaning 60° parallelogram is the unit cell. The filled discs are single-layer atom sites: the four shared corner atoms and the larger interior atom one third of the way along the long diagonal. The ring two thirds of the way along is the stacked-pair site, where an atom in one layer sits directly above an atom in the other. The thin lines are the cell outline and the three real carbon–carbon bonds from the interior atom to its corner neighbours.

It is drawn in the same node-and-edge language as the mark of A·I·AM, the group's work on AI for materials research, whose hexagon is the whole graphene lattice.