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St. Joseph’s College of Engineering

Staff Achievements

Dr. P. Saravanan, Associate Professor and Head, Department
of Science, along with authors Abdulaziz A. M. Abahussain,

Fahd A. Nasr, Ahmed S. Al-Fatesh, Padmanabhan Sambandam,
Mohammed Al-zhrani, Fekri Abduroqeeb Ahmed Ali, Nadavala

Siva Kumar, Sulaiman A. Alsalamah, Ganesan Subbiah,
Dr. P. Saravanan Guganathan Loganathan, Saravanan Palanivelu, Shoba
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Gunasekaran, Kavitha Chandrasekaran, and Tamizhudurai

Perumal, published a critical review article titled “Review on
sequential catalysis for higher alcohols: overcoming barriers

in direct CO₂ hydrogenation” in the journal Green Chemistry (
Impact factor 9.2) in Sep 2025. The article is available online

with the DOI: 10.1039/d5gc03160e.

Dr. N. R. Rajagopalan, Associate Professor, Department of

Science, along with authors Helen Merina Albert, S.K.
Fakruddin Babavali, Bonu Akkaya, D. Neelima Patnaik,
Maddikera Kalyan Chakravarthi, and V. Nagalakshmi,

published a research article titled “Investigation of the

Dr. N. R. Rajagopalan Optical, Thermal, Dielectric, Electrical, and Impedance
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Features of Zinc-Doped Urea-L-Malic Crystals” in the journal
Physics of the Solid State in 2025. The article is available

online with the DOI: 10.1134/S106378342560195X.

Mr. G. Ashwin Prabhu, Assistant Professor from the
Department of Mechanical Engineering Published an article

titled "Optimizing hybrid composites: Enhancing mechanical
properties with SiC and Al2O3 nanoparticles using response

Mr. G. Ashwin Prabhu surface methodology", in "Journal of Materials Research" a
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SCIE Indexed & Anna University Annexure 1, Q2 Journal with
an impact factor of 2.9 on 19th September 2025.

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