Dr. Aravind Puthirath Balan

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsExperimental Condensed Matter Physics,Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials
KeywordsVan der Waals Magnetic Materials, non-layered two-dimensional materials, two-dimensional magnetism
Honours and awards

2024: Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting in Physics

2021: EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

2020: Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship

2020: Raman Postdoctoral Fellowship, IISc Bangalore, India

2020: UGC INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship, India

2019: SERB National Postdoctoral Fellowship, India

2014: UGC RFSMS Fellowship, India

2013: GATE 2013, India

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityHouston
InstitutionRice University
InstituteDepartment of Materials Science and NanoEngineering

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Mathias KläuiInstitut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2021

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Puthirath Balan, Aravind and Kumar, Aditya and Scholz, Tanja and Lin, Zhongchong and Shahee, Aga and Fu, Shuai and Denneulin, Thibaud and Vas, Joseph and Kovács, András and Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E. and Wang, Hai I. and Yang, Jinbo and Lotsch, Bettina V. and Nowak, Ulrich and Kläui, Mathias: Harnessing Van der Waals CrPS4 and Surface Oxides for Nonmonotonic Preset Field Induced Exchange Bias in Fe3GeTe2. In: ACS Nano, 18, 2024, 8383-8391
2024Puthirath Balan, Aravind and Kumar, Aditya and Reiser, Patrick and Vimal Vas, Joseph and Denneulin, Thibaud and Lee, Khoa Dang and Saunderson, Tom G. and Tschudin, Märta and Pellet-Mary, Clement and Dutta, Debarghya and Schrader, Carolin and Scholz, Tanja and Geuchies, Jaco and Fu, Shuai and Wang, Hai and Bonanni, Alberta and Lotsch, Bettina V. and Nowak, Ulrich and Jakob, Gerhard and Gayles, Jacob and Kovacs, Andras and Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E. and Maletinsky, Patrick and Kläui, Mathias: Identifying the Origin of Thermal Modulation of Exchange Bias in MnPS3/Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals Heterostructures. In: Advanced Materials, 36, 2024, 2403685
2023Lozhkina, Olga and Kammerbauer, Fabian and Syskaki, Maria-Andromachi and Puthirath Balan, Aravind and Krautscheid, Pascal and Khanjani, Mehran Vafaee and Kubik, Jan and O'Brien, Stephen and Reeve, Robert M. and Jakob, Gerhard and Fr\"omter, Robert and Kl\"aui, Mathias: Tailoring Magnetic Properties and Suppressing Anisotropy in Permalloy Films by Deposition in a Rotating Magnetic Field. In: Phys. Rev. Appl., 20, 2023, 014021
2022Puthirath Balan, Aravind and Oliveira, Eliezer F and Costin, Gelu and Gray, Tia and Chakingal, Nithya and Biswas, Abhijit and Puthirath, Anand B: Magneto-structural phase transition in exfoliated pyrrhotite (Fe7S8) ultra-thin sheets. In: Oxford Open Materials Science, 3, 2022, itac020
2022Aravind Puthirath Balan and Anand B. Puthirath and Soumyabrata Roy and Gelu Costin and Eliezer Fernando Oliveira and M.A.S.R. Saadi and Vishnu Sreepal and Rico Friedrich and Peter Serles and Abhijit Biswas and Sathvik Ajay Iyengar and Nithya Chakingal and Sohini Bhattacharyya and Sreehari K. Saju and Samuel Castro Pardo and Lucas M. Sassi and Tobin Filleter and Arkady Krasheninnikov and Douglas S Galvao and Robert Vajtai and Rahul R. Nair and Pulickel M. Ajayan: Non-van der Waals quasi-2D materials; recent advances in synthesis, emergent properties and applications. In: Materials Today, 58, 2022, 164-200
2021Puthirath, Anand B. and Balan, Aravind Puthirath and Oliveira, Eliezer F. and Sreepal, Vishnu and Robles Hernandez, Francisco C. and Gao, Guanhui and Chakingal, Nithya and Sassi, Lucas M. and Thibeorchews, Prasankumar and Costin, Gelu and Vajtai, Robert and Galvao, Douglas S. and Nair, Rahul R. and Ajayan, Pulickel M.: Apparent Ferromagnetism in Exfoliated Ultrathin Pyrite Sheets. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125, 2021, 18927-18935
2021Peter Serles and Taib Arif and Anand B. Puthirath and Shwetank Yadav and Guorui Wang and Teng Cui and Aravind Puthirath Balan and Thakur Prasad Yadav and Prasankumar Thibeorchews and Nithya Chakingal and Gelu Costin and Chandra Veer Singh and Pulickel M. Ajayan and Tobin Filleter Friction of magnetene, a non–van der Waals 2D material. In: Science Advances, 7, 2021, eabk2041
2021Archana V.N. and Shan Abraham Sam and Aravind {Puthirath Balan} and Anantharaman M.R.: Magneto-optical properties of a magneto-plasmonic nanofluid based on superparamagnetic iron oxide and gold nanoparticles. In: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 536, 2021, 168092
2020Puthirath, Anand B. and Shirodkar, Sharmila N. and Gao, Guanhui and Hernandez, Francisco C. Robles and Deng, Liangzi and Dahal, Rabin and Apte, Amey and Costin, Gelu and Chakingal, Nithya and Balan, Aravind Puthirath and Sassi, Lucas M. and Tiwary, Chandra Sekhar and Vajtai, Robert and Chu, Ching-Wu and Yakobson, Boris I. and Ajayan, Pulickel M.: Scale-Enhanced Magnetism in Exfoliated Atomically Thin Magnetite Sheets. In: Small, 16, 2020, 2004208
2019P B Aravind and M Heigl and M Fix and F Gro{\ss} and J Gräfe and A Mary and C R Rajgowrav and M Krupi{\'{n}}ski and M Marsza{\l}ek and S Thomas and M R Anantharaman and M Albrecht: Bistability of magnetic states in Fe-Pd nanocap arrays. In: Nanotechnology, 30, 2019, 405705
2019Narayanan, Soorya P. and Thakur, Pallavi and Balan, Aravind Puthirath and Abraham, Asha Ann and Mathew, Femi and Yeddala, Munaiah and Subair, Thoufeeq and Tiwary, Chandrasekhar and Thomas, Senoy and Narayanan, Tharangattu N. and Ajayan, Pulickel M. and Anantharaman, Malie Madom R.: Two-Dimensional Amorphous Cr2O3 Modified Metallic Electrodes for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. In: physica status solidi (RRL) – Rapid Research Letters, 13, 2019, 1900025
2018Puthirath Balan, Aravind and Radhakrishnan, Sruthi and Kumar, Ritesh and Neupane, Ram and Sinha, Shyam Kanta and Deng, Liangzi and de los Reyes, Carlos A and Apte, Amey and Rao, B Manmadha and Paulose, Maggie and others: A Non-van der Waals two-dimensional material from natural titanium mineral ore ilmenite. In: Chemistry of Materials, 30, 2018, 5923--5931
2018Balan, Aravind Puthirath and Radhakrishnan, Sruthi and Woellner, Cristiano F and Sinha, Shyam K and Deng, Liangzi and De Los Reyes, Carlos and Rao, Banki Manmadha and Paulose, Maggie and Neupane, Ram and Apte, Amey and others: Exfoliation of a non-van der Waals material from iron ore hematite. In: Nature nanotechnology, 13, 2018, 602--609
2018Puthirath Balan, Aravind and Radhakrishnan, Sruthi and Neupane, Ram and Yazdi, Sadegh and Deng, Liangzi and A. de los Reyes, Carlos and Apte, Amey and B. Puthirath, Anand and Rao, B Manmadha and Paulose, Maggie and others: Magnetic properties and photocatalytic applications of 2D sheets of nonlayered manganese telluride by liquid exfoliation. In: ACS Applied Nano Materials, 1, 2018, 6427--6434