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Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

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2026

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  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the science and technology of functional complex oxide materials.
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society Berkeley
  • 2007 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - David Turnbull Lectureship, Materials Research Society
  • 2005 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, American Physical Society
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the materials physics of superconductivity, ferroelectric and magnetic perovskite oxide thin films and heterostructures

Overview

Ramamoorthy Ramesh is affiliated with Rice University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on materials science and engineering, with significant contributions to the fields of electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, as well as polymers and plastics.

Their main topics of study cover a range of areas related to energy storage and conversion, including supercapacitor materials and fabrication, advancements in battery materials, advanced battery technologies research, advanced photocatalysis techniques, conducting polymers and applications, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and ZnO doping and properties.

Ramesh has published extensively in several journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics
  • Surfaces and Interfaces
  • Journal of Energy Storage
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Inorganic Chemistry Communications

Among recent notable papers are:

  • "Metal-organic frameworks: A comprehensive review on common approaches to enhance the energy storage capacity in supercapacitor" (2024), published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • "Three dimensional flower-like CuO/Co3O4/r-GO heterostructure for high-performance asymmetric supercapacitors" (2020), published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • "Carbon quantum dots supported ZnO sphere based photocatalyst for dye degradation application" (2020), published in Current Applied Physics
  • "Ni-MOF derived NiO/Ni/r-GO nanocomposite as a novel electrode material for high-performance asymmetric supercapacitor" (2023), published in Journal of Energy Storage
  • "The construction of a dual direct Z-scheme NiAl LDH/g-C3N4/Ag3PO4 nanocomposite for enhanced photocatalytic oxygen and hydrogen evolution" (2021), published in Nanoscale Advances

Frequent collaborators in Ramesh's research include:

  • S. Prabhu
  • Manickam Selvaraj
  • M. Navaneethan
  • Gowdhaman Arumugam
  • S. Harish

Throughout their career, Ramesh has received several awards and honors. These include being named Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2020; Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for contributions to functional complex oxide materials; Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2009; Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2007; receiving the David Turnbull Lectureship from the Materials Research Society in 2007; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005; and multiple David Adler Lectureship Awards in the Field of Materials Physics from the American Physical Society in 2005. They were also recognized as Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001 for contributions to the materials physics of superconductivity, ferroelectric, and magnetic perovskite oxide thin films and heterostructures.

Best Publications

  • Epitaxial BiFeO3 multiferroic thin film heterostructures.

    J. Wang;J. B. Neaton;H. Zheng;V. Nagarajan

  • Thousandfold Change in Resistivity in Magnetoresistive La-Ca-Mn-O Films

    S. Jin;T. H. Tiefel;M. McCormack;R. A. Fastnacht

  • Multiferroics: progress and prospects in thin films.

    R. Ramesh;Nicola A. Spaldin

  • Multiferroic BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 Nanostructures.

    H. Zheng;J. Wang;S. E. Lofland;Z. Ma

  • Above-bandgap voltages from ferroelectric photovoltaic devices

    S. Y. Yang;J. Seidel;J. Seidel;S. J. Byrnes;S. J. Byrnes;P. Shafer

  • Direct evidence for a half-metallic ferromagnet

    J.-H. Park;E. Vescovo;H.-J. Kim;C. Kwon;C. Kwon

  • Electric-field control of local ferromagnetism using a magnetoelectric multiferroic

    Ying-hao Chu;Lane W. Martin;Lane W. Martin;Mikel B. Holcomb;Mikel B. Holcomb;Martin Gajek

  • Advances in magnetoelectric multiferroics.

    N. A. Spaldin;R. Ramesh

  • The Physics of Ferroelectric Memories

    Orlando Auciello;James F. Scott;Ramamoorthy Ramesh

  • Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics

    J. Seidel;L. W. Martin;L. W. Martin;Q. He;Q. Zhan

  • Electrical control of antiferromagnetic domains in multiferroic BiFeO3 films at room temperature.

    T. Zhao;T. Zhao;A. Scholl;F. Zavaliche;K. Lee

  • A Strain-Driven Morphotropic Phase Boundary in BiFeO3

    R. J. Zeches;M. D. Rossell;J. X. Zhang;A. J. Hatt

  • Domain wall nanoelectronics

    Gustau Catalán;J. Seidel;J. Seidel;J. Seidel;Ramamoorthy Ramesh;Ramamoorthy Ramesh;James F. Scott

  • Lead‐Free Halide Perovskite Solar Cells with High Photocurrents Realized Through Vacancy Modulation

    Mulmudi Hemant Kumar;Sabba Dharani;Wei Lin Leong;Pablo P. Boix

  • Multiferroics: Past, present, and future

    Nicola A. Spaldin;Sang-Wook Cheong;Ramamoorthy Ramesh

  • Observation of polar vortices in oxide superlattices

    A. K. Yadav;A. K. Yadav;C. T. Nelson;C. T. Nelson;S. L. Hsu;S. L. Hsu;Z. Hong

  • Magnetoelectric coupling effects in multiferroic complex oxide composite structures.

    Carlos A. F. Vaz;Jason Hoffman;Charles H. Ahn;Ramamoorthy Ramesh

  • Negative Capacitance in a Ferroelectric Capacitor

    Asif Khan;Korok Chatterjee;Brian Wang;Steven Drapcho

  • Reversible electric control of exchange bias in a multiferroic field-effect device

    S. M. Wu;S. M. Wu;Shane A. Cybart;Shane A. Cybart;P. Yu;P. Yu;M. D. Rossell

  • Advances in the growth and characterization of magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic oxide thin films

    L. W. Martin;Ying-hao Chu;R. Ramesh;R. Ramesh

  • Enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin films grown directly on silicon.

    Suraj S. Cheema;Daewoong Kwon;Daewoong Kwon;Nirmaan Shanker;Roberto dos Reis

Frequent Co-Authors

Ying-Hao Chu
Ying-Hao Chu National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Lane W. Martin
Lane W. Martin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pu Yu
Pu Yu Tsinghua University
Jan Seidel
Jan Seidel University of New South Wales
Long Qing Chen
Long Qing Chen Pennsylvania State University
Darrell G. Schlom
Darrell G. Schlom Cornell University
Sayeef Salahuddin
Sayeef Salahuddin University of California, Berkeley
Sergei V. Kalinin
Sergei V. Kalinin University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Mark Huijben
Mark Huijben University of Twente
Valanoor Nagarajan
Valanoor Nagarajan University of New South Wales

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