Vivek obtained his bachelors from the American College, Madurai in 2001. He pursued his masters (in 2004) and doctoral (in 2009) studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (Bangalore, India), under the supervision of Prof. C. N. R. Rao. Between 2010-2012, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University (Research Supervisor - Prof. Teri Odom). He is currently the Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Chemistry and The Australian Centre of Nanomedicine, UNSW Australia (Mentor - Prof. Justin Gooding).

I am broadly interested in understanding chemical interactions at the nanoscale and exploiting these interactions to construct functional devices for renewable energy storage and biomedical sensors.

Current research interest include:

Digital Assay based Biosensors Electrochemical Surface Plasmon Spectroscopy Stimuli-responsive Plasmonic Materials Fluorescence Localization Microscopy

S. R. C. Vivekchand, C. J. Engel, S. M. Lubin, M. G. Blaber, J. Y. Suh, W. Zhou, G. C. Schatz and T. W. Odom, “Liquid Plasmonics - Manipulating Surface Plasmon Polaritons via Phase Transitions”, Nano. Lett., 12, 4324-4328 (2012). M. G. Blaber, C. J. Engel, S. R. C. Vivekchand, S. M. Lubin, T. W. Odom and G. C. Schatz, “Eutectic Liquid Alloys for Plasmonics: Theory and Experiment”, Nano. Lett., 12, 5275-5280 (2012). S. R. C. Vivekchand, C. S. Rout, K. S. Subrahmanyam, A. Govindaraj and C. N. R. Rao, “Graphene-based electrochemical supercapacitors”, J. Chem. Sci., 120, 9-14 (2008). [Cited more than 400 times, first report on the use of graphene for electrochemical supercapacitors] C. N. R. Rao, S. R. C. Vivekchand, K. Biswas and A. Govindaraj, “Synthesis of Inorganic Nanomaterials”, Dalton Trans., 3728-3749 (2007). S. R. C. Vivekchand, U. Ramamurty and C. N. R. Rao, “Mechanical properties of inorganic nanowire reinforced polymer-matrix composites”, Nanotechnology, 17, S344-350 (2006). C. N. R. Rao, S. R. C. Vivekchand and A. Govindaraj, “Nanowires”, pages 289-314 in Comprehensive Nanoscience and Technology, Volume 1, (Edited by D. Andrews, G. Scholes and G. Wiederrecht), Elsevier (2011). C. N. R. Rao, S. R. C. Vivekchand and A. Govindaraj, “Inorganic Nanotubes and Nanowires”, pages 77-162 in Low-dimensional Solids (Edited by D. W. Bruce, D. O’Hare and R. I. Walton), Wiley, (2010) S. R. C. Vivekchand, A. Govindaraj and C. N. R. Rao, “Nanotubes and Nanowires: Recent Developments”, in Nanomaterials Chemistry: Recent Developments, edited by C. N. R. Rao, A. Muller and A. K. Cheetham, Wiley-VCH, (2007).