डॉ। एस मोहन

Chief Scientist & Scientist-in-charge

सिक्री

mohan40159@cecri.res.in
9442126765

Academic Background
Professional Background
Areas of Scientific Interest
Awards & Honours
Publications
Parents and Copyrights

Academic Background

Ph.D

Professional Background

29 years research experience in the area of electroplating

Areas of Scientific Interest

electrochemistry

Awards & Honours

N.M sampath Award , Best Electroplater Award

Publications

R.Ramaswamy and S.Mohan "A Novel approach to the study of chemical oscillators” Current Science. 54 (20), (1985) 1063-1066
2. R.Venkatachalam S.Guruviah and S.Mohan "Electropolishing of Stainless steel from low concentrated Phosphoric acid electrolyte", Metal Finishing. U.S.A. 89, (1991) 47-50.
3. K.L.N. Phani, S.Mohan and R.Venkatachalam, "UPD copper electrochemically treated polycrystalline AU surfaces", Proc.Indian Acad. sciences, Chemical Science, Bangalore, 103 (5) (1991) 677-683
4. S.Mohan and R.Ramaswamy, "Uncatalysed oscillations in the bromate sulphuric acid system", Transaction of the SAEST, 27, (1992)149-152.
5. R.Venkatachlam and S.Mohan,"Electropolishing of stainless steel using Pulse technique", Transaction of Institute and Metal finishing, Assoc. India, 1(4) (1992) 13-21
6. S.Mohan and R.Ramaswamy,"Chemical oscillation in the catalysed bromate system with sulphanilic acid as the substrate'', Trans of SAEST (India), 28(2) (1993) 103-105
S.Mohan and G.N.K. Ramesh Bapu,"Electrodeposition of Nickel-PTFE Polymer composites", Plat. Surf. Fin., 82 (4), (1995) 86-88
S.Mohan and R.Venkatachalam,"Electropolishing of stainless steel using phosphoric acid -sulphuric acid as the Electrolyte with ethylene glycol as addition agent, Trans. Inst. Metal Fin. Assoc. India, 32, (1994). 15-18
S.Mohan, and R.Venkatachalam and S.John," Chemically coloured stainless steel for Photo thermal conversion of solar energy", Bull. Electrochem., 9, (1993) 473-475
10. S.Vincent, M.Pandiammal, S.Mohan and R.Venkatachalam,"A Microprocessor based pulse unit for the anodic treatment of stainless steel",Bull. Electrochem., 9, (1993) 476-478
11.S.Mohan and R.Venkatachalam "Teflon coating on Aluminium",
Trans. Inst. Metal Fin. Assoc. India. 4(2) (1995) 135-136
S.Mohan, N.G.Renganathan and R.Srinivasan,"Non-stoichiometric Cu3.8-Ni Thin films", Mater. Sci. Lett., 15 (1996) 1048-1050
S.Mohan, S.Pitchumani, K.L.N. Phani and C.Vincent, Pulse Electrosynthesis of PolyAniline", Proc. Macromolecules, IUPAC Macro-98, Allied Publishers. Vol 1 (1998) 328-331.
S.Mohan, N.G.Renganathan, R.Venkataramanan and S.Venkatakrishna Iyar, " Evaluation of Anodised Aluminium Surface obtained from Sulphamic acid bath using Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, Plat. Surf. Fin., July, (1999) 58-61
15. S.Mohan and R.Venkatachalam,"Brush Plating- Present State of Art" Bull. Electrochem., 14 (12) (1998) 472-475
16. S.Mohan and R.Venkatachalam,"A New bath for Electropolishing of Stainless steel. Trans. Inst. Metal Fin. Assoc. India 7(3) (1998) 221-224
17. S.Mohan, G. Jayashree, T. Vasudevan . " Electropolishing of Stainless Steel” Bull. Electrochem., 16(9), (2000)388-391.
18.S.Mohan, G.Jayashree, T.Vasudevan, "Corrosion Resistant Electropolished Stainless Steel " Bull. Electrochem. 18, (2002) 97
19. S.Mohan, R.Venkatachalam and Srividya; “Pulse plating of Nickel with and without additives “Bull. Electrochem., 15, (1999) 257.
20. S.Mohan and M. Jayachandran ‘’ Studies on the brush Plated Sns Thin films‘’ J. Mater. Sci. Lett., 20, (2000) 381- 383
21. S.Mohan and S.Shriram “Electrodepostion of Nano crystalline Nickel – a brief review . Trans. Inst. Metal. Finish (UK) 78(5), (2000)194
22. D.Kanagaraj, S.Mohan, N.G.Ranganathan, V.Raj, R.Venkataramanan. Evalution of Aluminium surface Subjected to various surface teratments using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy ‘’ Bull. Electrochem. 15(3-4), (1999) 164-169
23. S.Mohan, C.Rajeshwari and N.G. Renganathan; "Quantification of additives in Nickel watt's bath by Cyclic voltammetric stripping technique” Trans. Inst. Metal Fin., U.K 79(2), (2001) 73-76.
24. S.Mohan, D.Kanagaraj, R.Sindhuja, S.Vijayalakshmi and N.G.Renganathan
Electropolishing of stainless steel –A Review Trans.Inst.Metal.Finish, 79, (2001)140
25. K.S.Ranga Krishnan, K.Srinivasan and S.Mohan, Electrodeposition of compositionally modulated alloys –A review Trans.Inst.Metal.Finish. 80, (2002) 46
26. S.Mohan, S.Shriram “Electrodepostion of Nanocrystalline Nickel- A review, Trans . Inst. Metal Finish, 78(5), (2000) 194
27.S.Mohan, S.Shriram and S.Karthikeyan “Electrodeposition of nanocrystalline Nickel” Bull. Electrochem., 18 (6), (2002) 241
A.Subramanian, S.Mohan and T.Vasudevan “ Corrosion resistance of
electropolished stainless steel” Bull. Electrochem., 18 (3) , (2002) 97
S.Mohan N.G. Ranganathan, M. Kamal Kumar, D.Kanagaraj “Evaluation of corrosion resistance behaviour of different sealing agents on anodized aluminium alloys by electrochemical impedance Spectroscopy” Proc. Electrochem, 4 (2000) 305
S.Mohan, D. Kanagaraj and V.Raj ‘’Effect of Sealing agents on the
Corrosion behaviour of Sulphamic acid anodized Aluminia films “ Trans.inst.metal.finish . U.K. 81 (3), (2003) 83
31. S.Mohan , S.Raman , B. Ganesh Kesari and H.Latha Corrosion Studies on pulsed and direct Current Chromium Deposits’ Trans.inst.metal.finish. , 81 (2003) 1
32. S.Mohan and V.Raj A comparative Study of DC and Pulse Gold electrodeposits Trans.inst.metal.finish 83(2) (2005) 72
33. S.Mohan and V.RAJ ‘’The effect of additives on the Pulsed electrodeposition of Copper”, Trans.inst.metal.finish, 83(4), (2005) 194
33. Sobha Jayakrishnan, S.Mohan and M.Jayachandran B.Subramanian, C.SanjeevirajaCharacterization of Brush plated Sn and SnSe, Indian Surface Engineering, 2(1) (2005) 64-68
34. S.Mohan and Sobha Jayakrishnan B.Subramanian. Structural, Microstructural and Corrosion Properties of Brush Plated Copper-Tin Alloy Coatings ,Surface and coatings technology 201(2006)1145
35. Raj, and S.Mohan Efect of α-picoline and Quinoline on DC and Pulse plating of Nickel directly on aluminium Trans. Inst. of Metal finishing 85(3), (2007)
36. C. Basavaraja, V.B. Kulkarani, S.Mohan, Y.M. Iyer& G.V. Subbarao Experimental Studies on BZ reaction system containing Oxalic acid and acetone as mixed organic Substrate in a CSTR. Indian Journal of Chemistry 43A , April (2004) 739.
37. C. Basavaraja, V.B. Kulkarani, S.Mohan, Y.M. Iyer& G.V. Subbarao, Simulation of the effect of Oxalic acid and acetone on the bistable behaviour of the minimal bromate Oscillator in a CSTR. Indian Journal of Chemistry 44A , Oct (2005) 1984.
38. B.Subramanian, S.Mohan and Sobha Jayakrishnan Structural and electrochemical characterization of Ni nanostructure films on steels with brush plating and sputter deposition, Current Applied Physics (2006)
39. B.Subramanian, S.Mohan and Sobha Jayakrishnan, Selectivearea deposition of Tin-Nickel alloy coating-an alternative for decorative chromium plating, J. Applied. Electrochem, 37(2), (2007) 219
40.S.Mohan N.Dhanikaivelu and R. Rama Prabha, Pulsed electrodeposition of cobalt and nickel alloy, Tran.Inst. Metal Finishing 85 (5) (2007) 274.
41. G. Saravanan, S.Mohan, R. M. Gnanamuthu and J. VijayakumarEffect of AlCl3, CH3SO3H on thickness, current efficiency and corrosion properties of brush plated Cr(III) formate urea baths, Surface engineering24(6)(2008) 458- 463
42.S.Mohan, G. Saravanan and N. G. Renganathan Comparison of chromium coatings and electrochemical behaviour with direct current and pulse current deposition in trivalent chromium formate urea bath as alternative to conventional Cr coatings, accepted Surface Engineering 2008
43. A. Balasubramanian, D. S. Srikumar, G. Raja, G. Saravanan and S.Mohan, Effect of pulse parameter on pulsed electrodeposition of copper on stainless steel Surface Engineering 25( 5) (2009)389
44. C.Shanti, S. Bharathan, Rajasrien Jaiswal , R.M. Arunachalam and S.Mohan The Effect Of Pulse parameters in Electrodeposition of Silver alloy, Materials Letters 62 (2008) 4519–4521
45 S.Mohan and N. Rajasekaran, Pulse electrodeposition of tin from sulphate bath, Surface Engineering 25 (2009) 634.
46.. G. Saravanan, S. Mohan Corrosion behavior of Cr electrodeposited from Cr(VI) and Cr(III)-baths using direct (DCD) and pulse electrodeposition (PED) techniques’’Corrosion Science 51 (2009) 197–202.
47.G.Saravanan and S.Mohan Pulsed electrodeposition of microcrystalline Chromium from trivalent Cr-DMF bath, J.Applied electrochemistry. 39(2009) 1393-1397.
48. G. Saravanan and S.MohanSructure , Current efficiency and corrosion properties of brush electrodeposited ( BED) Cr frm Cr(III)-Dimethyl formamide ( DMF) -bath’’, J. Applied Electrochemistry 40(2010) 1-6.
49. N. Rajasekaran and S.Mohan Structure, microstructure and corrosion properties of brush plated Cu-Ni alloy, Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 39 (2009) 1911-1916.
50. J. Vijayakumar and S.Mohan Comparative study of microstructure and corrosion properties in 3.5% NaCl solution of the electrodeposited Nickel obtained from various baths’’, : Surface Engineering, Volume 27, Number 1, February 2011 , pp. 32-36(5)
51. N. Rajasekaran and S.Mohan ‘’Preparation, corrosion and structural properties of Cu-Ni multilayer from sulphate/citrate bath’’ Corrosion science 51(2009) 2139-2143.
52.S.Mohan, J. Vijayakumar and G. Saravanan Influence of CH3SO3H and AlCl3 in the direct and pulse current electrodeposition of trivalent chromium , , Surface Engineering 25 (8) (2009) 570.
52.S.Mohan, V. Ravindran, B. Subramanian, G. Saravanan. “Electrodeposition of zinc–nickel alloy by pulse plating using non-cyanide bath”, Trans. IMF. 87(2) 2009 85-89
53.M. Ilayaraja, S. Mohan, R.M. Gnanamuthu, G. Saravanan. “Nanocrystalline zinc-nickel alloy deposition using pulse electrodeposition (PED) technique. Trans. IMF. 87 (3) 2009 145-148
54. S.Mohan and N.Rajasekaran Influence of electrolyte pH on composition, corrosion properties and surface morphology of electrodeposited Cu-Ni alloy, Surface engineering 27 (7) 2011 519-523
55. N.Rajasekaran and S.MohanEffect of bath temperature on corrosion, structure and microstructure of electrodeposited Cu-Ni alloy Trans.IMF 89 (2) 2011 83-88
56. J.Vijayakumar, S.Mohan and S.Sunil Yadav “” Effect of Dicarboxylic acid on microstructuren and mechanical properties of sub-microcrystalline Ni-Co alloys J.Alloys and compounds 509 2011 9692-9695
57. N.Rajasekaran and S.Mohan Giant magnetoresistance in
electrodeposited films – current status and the influence of parameters
Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences, 37:3, 158-180 2012
58.Gengan Saravanan, and S. Mohan, “Electrodeposition of Fe-Ni-Cr alloy
from Deep Eutectic System containing Choline chloride and Ethylene
Glycol”. Int. J. Electrochem.Sci. 6(2011) 1468
59 S. Mohan, Gengan Saravanan, and N.G. Renganathan, “Comparison of
chromium coatings and electrochemical behavior with direct and pulse
current deposition in trivalent chromium formate urea bath as alternative to
conventional Cr coating”. Surf. Eng. 27(10) (2011)775
60. RM. Gnanamuthu,S. Mohan,G. Saravanan and Chang Woo Lee,
“Comparative study on structure, corrosion and hardness of Zn-Ni alloy
deposition on AISI 347 steel aircraft material”. J.Alloys and Compd.513
(2012) 44
61. N. Rajasekaran and S. Mohan’” A Comparative Study of Cu-Co Alloys
versus Cu/Co Multilayered Coatings Obtained by Electrodeposition J.
Electrochem. Soc. 2012, Volume 159, Issue 10, Pages D577-D581.
62.. J. Vijayakumar and S. Mohan*,’’ Effect of benzyl alcohol and thiourea onelectrodeposition of cadmium:electrochemical impedance spectroscopystudy’’ , Transactions of the Institute of Metal Finishing 2013 VOL 91 NO 3 165
63.R.M. Gnanamuthu a, S.Mohan b, ChangWooLee a, Development of high energy capacities of nanoscaled Sn–Cu alloy thin film electrode materials for Li-ion batteries, Materials Letters , 84 (2012) 101–103.
64. J. Vijayakumar, S. Mohan and J. Maharaja’’Effect of magnetic field on
Current efficiency andcrystal orientation of NiCo alloy using pulse
electrodeposition technique’’ Journal for Electrochemistry and Plating
Technology . May 2013.
65. J. Vijayakumar, S. Mohan*, S. Anand Kumar, S.R. Suseendiran, S. Pavithra ‘’Electrodeposition of Ni-Co-Sn alloy from choline
chloride-based deep eutectic solvent and characterization as cathode for hydrogen evolutionin alkaline solutions international journal of hydrogen energy 3 8 ( 2 0 1 3 ) 1 0 2 0 8e1 0 2 1 4
66.Subramanian Mohan, Gengan Saravananan, Andreas Bund
‘’Role of magnetic forces in pulse electrochemical deposition of Ni nanoAl2O3 composites’’ Electrochimica Acta 64 (2012) 94– 99
67.N. Rajasekaran, S. Mohan,∗and R. Jagannathan
‘’Patterning in Co-Cu Electrodeposits (Ampere Map!), Magnetic
Clusters Probed Using Ferromagnetic Resonance’’
Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 161 (5) D214-D218 (2014)
CSIR - Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi-630006, India
68.N. Rajasekaran,a,b L. Poga´ny,a A´ . Re´ve´sz,c B. G.
To´th,a S. Mohan,b L. Pe´ter,a,∗ ‘’Structure and Giant Magnetoresistance of Electrodeposited Co/CuMultilayers Prepared by Two-Pulse (G/P) and Three-
Pulse (G/P/G)Plating Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 161 (6) D339-D348 (2014) D339
69.. Synthesis of 3D porous CeO2/reduced graphene oxide xerogelcomposite and low level detection of H2O2Shailendra K. Jha∗, C. Naveen Kumar, R. Pavul Raj, Niki S. Jha, Electrochimica Acta 120 (2014) 308– 313
70. M. Kaleesh Kumar , Niki S. Jha , S. Mohan ,Shailendra K. Jha
Reduced graphene oxide-supported nickel oxidecatalyst with improved CO tolerance for formic acidelectrooxidation international journal of hydrogen energy 3 9 ( 2 0 1 4 ) 1 2 5 7 2-1 2 5 7 7
71M. Kaleesh Kumar, R.K. Vishnu Prataap, S. Mohan and Shailendra K. Jha
Preparation of electro-reduced graphene oxide supported walnut shape nickel nanostructures and their application to selective detection of dopamine” MicrochimicaActa 2016
72. S.Mohan and Vishnu prathap Electrodeposited-hydroxide surface-covered
porous nickel–cobalt alloy electrodes for efficient
oxygen evolution reaction Chem. Commun., 2017,
53, 3365
73. S. Kumaraguru, R. Pavulraj, J. Vijayakumar, S. Mohan*
Electrodeposition of cobalt/silver multilayers from deep eutectic solvent and their giant magnetoresistance Electroplating and Metal Finishing Technology Division, Central Electrochemical Research Institute Journal of Alloys and Compounds 693 (2017) 1143-49
74. R. Pavul Raj, S. Mohan and Shailendra K. Jha, Controlled reverse pulse electrosynthesized spike-piece-structured Ni/Ni(OH)2 interlayer nanoplates for electrochemical pseudocapacitor applications” Chemical Communications2016 52 1930 – 1933
75. A.Selvakumar, R. Perumalraj, J. Sudagar and S. Mohan. “Nickel multiwalled carbon nanotube composite coating on aluminum alloy rotor for textile industries”
Institution of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Materials: Design and Applications
2016 230(1) 319 – 327
76. M. Ramaprakash , G. Sreedhar, S. Mohan and S. K. Panda, Corrosion protection studies of CeO2–TiO2 nanocomposite coatings on mild steel, Transactions of the IMF 2016 VOL 94 NO 5
77. Gengan Saravanan Subramanian Mohan Pt nanoparticles embedded on reduced graphite oxide with excellent electrocatalytic properties, Applied appliedSurface Science Volume 386, 15 November 2016, Pages 96–102
78.R. Pavul Raj,a P. Ragupathy*b and S. Mohan*aRemarkable capacitive behavior of a Co3O4– polyindole composite as electrode material for supercapacitor applicationsJ. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 24338–24348

Parents and Copyrights

S.Mohan, R.Venkatachalam and S.John A process for the colouring of stainless steel useful for the manufacture of utensils for solar cookers''. Patent application No. 804/del/92.
S.Mohan, N.G.Renganathan and Y. Mahadeva Aiyar A device for producing electrical power. Patent application No.57/del/ 95.
B. Subramanian, M.Jayachandran, P. Kuppuswami and S.Mohan
A process for the preparation of Brush plated TIN Sulpho selenide semiconductor thin film electrode useful for photoelectrochemical ( PEC) Cells. Patent application No. 0144NF2006/IN