Dr. Pandurangan Vijayalakshmi | Analytical Chemistry | Women Researcher Award

Tamil Nadu Open University |India

Dr. Pandurangan Vijayalakshmi is actively engaged in advanced materials chemistry, photocatalysis, environmental remediation, and electrochemical energy applications, with a strong interdisciplinary foundation spanning nanomaterials, semiconductor engineering, environmental chemistry, and renewable energy. Their work centers on designing multifunctional metal-oxide and carbon-nitride–based nanocomposites for enhanced photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants, antibiotics, pesticides, and dyes under visible-light and dark conditions. They also contribute to research in energy storage, CO2 reduction, water splitting, and electrochemical sensing, supported by extensive hands-on expertise in analytical and characterization tools, including XRD, SEM, TEM, FTIR, EDS, PL, UV–Vis, DRS, and advanced electrochemical techniques such as CV and EIS. Their scientific output reflects steadily growing academic visibility, documented by Google Scholar with 18 citations, an h-index of 3 and Scopus metrics showing 10 documents, 11 citations, and an h-index of 2. The researcher has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences, contributed to discussions on sustainable materials, photocatalytic pathways, and environmental protection, and demonstrated strong interdisciplinary synergy across chemistry, nanotechnology, environmental science, and applied materials research. Their published work highlights a consistent focus on developing high-performance photocatalysts for real-world environmental cleanup and sustainable chemical transformation.

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Featured Publications : 

• Vijayalakshmi, P., Shanmugavelan, P., & Mareeswaran, P. M. (2024). Enhanced photocatalytic activity of V2O5/g-C3N4/ZnO nanocomposite for degradation of amoxicillin, chlorpyrifos and methylene blue. Ionics, 1–29.

• Vijayalakshmi, P., Shanmugavelan, P., Anisree, S., & Mareeswaran, P. M. (2024). Visible-light Z-scheme photocatalytic degradation of pollutants using Bi2O3/g-C3N4/ZnO nanocomposite. Journal of Materials Research, 39(22), 3103–3125.

• Vijayalakshmi, P., Shanmugavelan, P., Muthu Mareeswaran, P., Yuvakkumar, R., & Nehru, S. (2024). Photocatalytic activity of TiO2/g-C3N4/CuFe2O4 nanocomposite. ChemistrySelect, 9(38), e202400943.

• Vijayalakshmi, P., Shanmugavelan, P., Mareeswaran, P. M., & Kandasamy, K. (2024). ZrO2/g-C3N4/CuFe2O4 nanocomposite for photocatalytic degradation of pollutants. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 36(3), 697–709.

• Anisree, S., Shanmugavelan, P., Vijayalakshmi, P., Kishore, R., & Srivastava, N. (2024). Synthesis and anticancer screening of phenylbenzylidene thiosemicarbazone derivatives. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements, 199(4), 267–276.