Associate Professor (Chemistry) and Associate Dean Student welfare
Department of Basic Sciences
Energy storage and conversion applications.
Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Energy storage and conversion applications
Mail: manojkumark.k@sru.edu.in
Bharathiar University
Bharathiar University.
Bharathiar University.
Associate Professor at SR University, Warangal,, from 2026-07-30 to .
Postdoctoral Researcher at KL University Vijayawada, from 2024-03-01 to 2026-07-29.
Senior Research Fellow at Bharathiar University, from 2023-10-17 to 2024-02-27.
Junior Research Fellow at Bharathiar University, from 2019-06-01 to 2023-10-16.
Ph.D
PG
UG
Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Bin Cheng, Weicheng Chen, Swee Ching Tan, Sai Kishore Ravi, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Hydrogel iontronics for moisture-driven electricity generation through coupled water–ion transport, Nanoenergy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2026.112211
Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Balamurugan K, K. Saminathan, V. Vivekananthan, Self -powered cathodic corrosion prevention By Triboelectric nanogenerator, J. Mater. Chem. A https://doi.org/10.1039/D5TA07664A .
Kaliyannan Manojkumar, T. Das, M. Kar, A. Sundaramoorthy, S. Hajra, M.A. Belal, S. Panda, H.J. Kim, C. Mutta, V. Vivekananthan, Triboelectric Nanogenerator-Enabled Smart Agriculture: Self-Powered Sensing, Monitoring, and Environmental Control Systems, Adv. Mater. Technol. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202501933 .
S. Anbalagan, N. Nithyavathy, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, V. Vivekananthan, Contact Electrification Enabled Flexible PVDF/ZnO Composite Films for On-Body Wearable Self-Powered Sweat Sensor, Energy Technol. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.202502521.
R. Parkavi, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, P. Kathireswari, S. Arunmetha, K. Saminathan, Internally engineered air cathodes with directed oxygen microchannel architecture for high-performance zinc–air batteries, Microchem. J. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2026.118301 .
Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Moparthi Haritha, Arunmetha Sundaramoorthy, Xiaowen Ruan, Sai Kishore Ravi, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Flexible Thermoelectrics for Wearable Electronics: Trends and Benchmarks in Solid?State and Ionic Materials, Textile Architectures, Interface Engineering, and Device Performance., Advanced Electronic Materials, 2026., https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202500396
Arraboina Srujan Kumar, Borem Avinash, Mamidi Yugandhar Rao, Jananipriya Boominathan, Sugato Hajra, Swati Panda, Hoe Joon Kim, Kaliyannan Manojkumar*, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Triboelectric self-powered soft robotics: paving the way towards a sustainable future, Materials Horizons, https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH00949A
Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Mukilan Muthuramalingam, Dhara Sateesh, Sugato Hajra, Swati Panda, Hoe Joon Kim, Arunmetha Sundaramoorthy, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Advances in triboelectric energy harvesting at liquid–liquid interfaces., ACS Applied Energy Materials, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.4c02268
Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Mukilan Muthuramalingam, Sugato Hajra, Swati Panda, Hoe Joon Kim, Arunmetha Sundaramoorthy, Hamideh Khanbareh, Chris Bowen, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Direct Current Triboelectric Nanogenerator Nexus: Fundamentals to Applications in Self-powered Systems., Nano Energy., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2025.111148
Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Mukilan Muthuramalingam, Dhara Sateesh, Arunmetha Sundaramoorthy, PS Srinivasa Babu, Kulandaivel Saminathan, Sugato Hajra, Swati Panda, Naratip Vittayakorn, Hoe Joon Kim, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Recent Advances in Zwitterionic Materials and Hydrogels for Triboelectric Nanogenerators and Self-Powered Sensing., ACS Applied Polymer Materials., https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.5c01325
Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Mukilan Muthuramalingam, Arunmetha Sundamoorthy, Patcha Sathya Srinivasa Babu, Rayavarapu Vamsi, Jananipriya Boominathan, Siddabattula Geetha Sri Priyanka, Sugato Hajra, Swati Panda, Hoe Joon Kim, Deepak Dubal, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Revolutionizing energy storage: Self-charging supercapacitors toward self-powered micro and nano systems., Chemical Engineering Journal., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.168642
Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Tupan Das, Manoranjan Kar, Arunmetha Sundaramoorthy, Sugato Hajra, Mohamed Ahmed Belal, Swati Panda, Hoe Joon Kim, Chandini Mutta, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Triboelectric Nanogenerator?Enabled Smart Agriculture: Self?Powered Sensing, Monitoring, and Environmental Control Systems., Advanced Materials Technologies., https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202501933
Sundaramoorthy Anbalagan, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Mukilan Muthuramalingam, Sugato Hajra, Swati Panda, Rojalin Sahu, Hoe Joon Kim, Arunmetha Sundaramoorthy, Nagarajan Nithyavathy, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Progress and recent advances in self-powered gas sensing based on triboelectric and piezoelectric nanogenerators., Chemical Engineering Journal., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.154740
Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Rajagopalan Kandeeban, Ramasubramanian Brindha, Velusamy Sangeetha, Kulandaivel Saminathan., Non-precious metal-based integrated electrodes for overall alkaline water splitting Journal of the Indian Chemical Society., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jics.2022.100775
Kandeeban Rajagopalan, Brindha Ramasubramanian, Sangeetha Velusamy, Seeram Ramakrishna, Arunachala Mada Kannan, Manojkumar Kaliyannan, Saminathan Kulandaivel., Examining the economic and energy aspects of manganese oxide in Li-ion batteries., Materials Circular Economy., https://doi.org/10.1007/s42824-022-00064-4
Kandeeban Rajagopalan, K Revathi, B Revathi, S Vishalee, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Khalid Mujasam Batoo, K Saminathan, P Kathireswari., Microwave assisted synthesis and characterization of Al2O3.,Materials Today: Proceedings., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.05.404
29. Kandeeban Rajagopalan, Brindha Ramasubramanian, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Seeram Ramakrishna, P Marappan, Ramasamy Kulandaivel Saminathan., Organo-metallic electrolyte additive for regulating hydrogen evolution and self-discharge in Mg–air aqueous battery., New Journal of Chemistry., https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NJ04488A
R Kandeeban, K Saminathan, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, CG Dilsha, S Krishnaraj., Battery economy: Past, present and future., Materials Today: Proceedings., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.04.238
Ramasubramanian Brindha, Rajagopalan Kandeeban, K Swarna Kamal, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Velusamy Nithya, Kulandaivel Saminathan., Andrographis paniculata absorbed ZnO nanofibers as a potential antimicrobial agent for biomedical applications., Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2043-6262/ac389e/meta
R Kandeeban, R Brindha, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Khalid Mujasam Batoo, Emad H Raslan, Muhammad Hadi, Ahamad Imran and K Saminathan., Revealing the synergetic electrocatalyst behaviour of Kish graphite recovered from polyethylene plastics., Materials Letters., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2021.129740
Jijo George, Kathireswari Palanisamy, Saminathan Kulandaivel, Preethee Saravanan, Deepthi Madathil Peedika, Kandeeban Rajagopalan, Manoj Kumar Kaliyannan.,., Impact of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles on Survivability and Reproduction of Earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae and Its Compost Quality., BioNanoScience., https://doi.org/10.1007/s12668-023-01173-3
Mukilan Muthuramalingam, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Dhara Sateesh, Arunmetha Sundaramoorthy, Suman Maloji, Chellamuthu Jeganathan, Sugato Hajra, Swati Panda, Hoe Joon Kim, Chella Santhosh, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Beyond Traditional Energy Harvesting: Magneto-Mechano-Electric Technology for Sustainable Powering and Sensing., ACS Applied Energy Materials., https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.5c00295
Rayavarapu Vamsi, Durgaraju Kanaka Harshitha, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Dhara Sateesh, Rajaboina Rakesh Kumar, Jananipriya Boominathan, Sugato Hajra, Swati Panda, Hoe Joon Kim, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Unraveling the Energy?Harvesting Performance of Antimony?Doped BaTiO3 Toward Self?Powered on?Body Wearable Impact Sensor., Energy Technology., https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.202500047
Challa Krishnaveni, Mukilan Muthuramalingam, Dhara Sateesh, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Jananipriya Boominathan, Sugato Hajra, Swati Panda, Hoe Joon Kim, Arunmetha Sundaramoorthy, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Interfacial Engineering in Wearable Piezoelectric Nanogenerators: A Path to Sustainable Future in Self?Powered Electronics, Advanced Sustainable Systems,2025, https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202400884
Sateesh Dhara, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, Moparthi Haritha, Rayavarapu Vamsi, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan., Synergistic Energy Conversion: Triboelectric Hybrid Approaches for Sustainable Self-Powered Sensors and Systems Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2026 ,https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SE00740B
M. Lavanya, K. Shanmukha, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, D. Sateesh, D. Kanaka Harshitha, D. Ramu, J. Boominathan, S. Swarnakar, V. Vivekananthan, Self-Powered Sleep Tracker: A Battery-Free Wearable Device Using Flexible Piezoelectric Nanogenerator, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.6c00748.
T.V.R. kumar, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, J. Boominathan, V. Vivekananthan, Flexible Zr-Doped BaTiO?/PDMS Piezoelectric Nanogenerator for Self-Powered Energy Harvesting and Real-Time Wireless Impact Monitoring Applications, New J. Chem. https://doi.org/10.1039/D6NJ01160H.
M. Haritha, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, M. Muthuramalingam, R. Umapathi, S. Hajra, H. Khanbareh, C. Bowen, A. Sundaramoorthy, V. Vivekananthan, Synergistic triboelectric-electromagnetic hybrid nanogenerator for broadband energy harvesting towards next-generation internet of things, Chem. Eng. J. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2026.175144.
M. Haritha, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, G.M. Rani, R. Umapathi, A. Sundaramoorthi, V. Vivekananthan, From Atoms to Autonomy: The Carbon Revolution in Triboelectric Nanogenerators Toward Self-Powered Electronics, Small. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.73793 .
S.G.S. Priyanka, V. Srikanth, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, D. Sateesh, V. Vivekananthan, A Deep Learning Enabled Sustainable Self-Powered Wearable Tactile Sensor toward Gesture Recognition, Adv. Sustain. Syst. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202501208 .
D. Sateesh, M. Muthuramalingam, Kaliyannan Manojkumar, M. Haritha, R. Vamsi, A. Chandrasekhar, V. Vivekananthan, Synergistic energy conversion: triboelectric hybrid approaches for sustainable self-powered sensors and systems, Sustain. Energy Fuels https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SE00740B .