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Curriculum Vitae – Manickam Sivakumar

CURRICULUM VITAE – MANICKAM SIVAKUMAR

Professor of Chemical and Nanopharmaceutical Process Engineering

Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Head – Manufacturing and Industrial Processes Research Division

Director – Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (CENTAM)

Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham (Malaysia campus)

Jalan Broga, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia.

Tel: +6(03) 8924 8156; Fax: +6(03) 8924 8017

Email: [email protected]

QUALIFICATIONS

2011 PGCHE (Post Graduate Certificate

in Higher Education)

University of Nottingham, UK.

2001 Ph.D. Tech. Chemical Engineering Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT),

University of Mumbai, India

1996 Master’s Degree (Technology) in

Chemical Technology

Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT),


1994 Bachelor’s Degree (Technology of

Pharmaceuticals and Fine

Chemicals) in Chemical

Technology

Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT),



CURRENT APPOINTMENTS, STATUS & RESPONSIBILITIES

Professor of Chemical and Nanopharmaceutical Process Engineering

(Since April 2012 – Continuing)

Teaching – Conduct Chemical and Environmental Engineering lectures, tutorials and

practical classes to BEng, MEng and MSc students. Supervising the Design

projects of these students.

Taught Modules:

• Chemical Product Design

• Nanotechnology of Advanced Materials

• Modern Process Chemistry

• Waste and Wastewater Treatment

• Water Treatment

• Pharmaceutical Chemical Engineering & Technology

• Technology of Fine Chemicals and Bulk Drugs

• Chemical Process Technology

• Chemical Engineering Operations

• Modern Analytical Techniques

• Unit Processes in organic Synthesis

• Applied Chemistry and Physics

• Novel Drug Delivery Systems

Research – Core areas: Nanotechnology and Water (Wastewater) Treatment

Prosecute research and supervise students engaged in BEng, MEng,

MSc and PhD projects in in the following areas:

• Nanoengineering of Advanced Materials (Synthesis, characterization

and process development)

• Utilisation of highly Energy Efficient Cavitation Technique and

Transformation of the same from Lab to Pilot scale for the Synthesis of

Nanomaterials and wastewater treatment

• Development of Nanosuspensions and Nanoemulsions for

Pharmaceutical Industries

• Exploitation of Novel Carbon Nanomaterials such as Graphene, CNTs

and Fullerenes for Drug Delivery and Nanobiosensor.

Administration –

(at University,

Faculty and

Department

levels)

• Head of the Research Division – Manufacturing and Industrial

Processes – Mentoring 16 Research Staff.

• Director – Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials

(CENTAM)

• Course Director – MSc Chemical Engineering

• Chair – Conference Funding Committee – Faculty of Engineering

• Departmental Team Leader - MSc

• Reviewer – Activity/Performance review of the department members

of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.

• Admission Tutor – MSc

• Team Member - Admissions and Marketing

• Member – Faculty Ethics Committee


PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

(ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL) & DATES

November 2007

– March 2011

Associate

Professor

University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus),

Department of Chemical & Environmental

Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,

Semenyih, KL, Malaysia.

March 2007

– November 2007

Assistant Professor

& Head of the

Department

Anna University, Department of

Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology,

Bharathidasan Institute of Technology,

Tiruchirappalli 620024, India.

October 2005

– February 2007

Assistant

Professor

Bharathidasan University, Department of

Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology,

Bharathidasan Institute of Technology,

Tiruchirappalli 620024, India.

November 2003

– September 2005

JSPS Post-Doctoral

Research Fellow

National institute of Advanced Industrial

Science and Technology (AIST), Advanced

Manufacturing Research Institute (AMRI),

2266-98 Anagahora, Shimoshidami,

Moriyama-ku, Nagoya 463-8560, Japan.

November 2001

– September 2003

Post-Doctoral Research

Fellow in (Israel-China

Collaborative Research)

Department of Chemistry and Kanbar

Laboratory for Nanomaterials, Bar-Ilan

University Center for Advanced Materials and

Nanotechnology, Department of Chemistry,

Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel.

August 2001

– September 2001

Senior Officer - Research

& Development

Indian Organic Chemicals Limited (IOCL),

Khopoli, Mumbai, India.

September 1997

- July 2001

UGC - Senior Research

Fellow

Chemical Engineering Division, Institute of

Chemical Technology (ICT), University of

Mumbai, Mumbai, India.

July 1996

– April 1997

Research & Development

In-charge

Tagros Chemicals India Ltd, Cuddalore,

Tamilnadu,

India.

August 1994

- May 1996

Junior Research Fellow

(Industrial Project)

Technology of Pharmaceuticals and Fine

Chemicals Division, Institute of Chemical

Technology (ICT), University of Mumbai,

Mumbai, India.


SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS 2015 Research Leadership

Programme (UK)

Supports and advances the identified key academics

in their strategic research leadership roles and

develop, in order that they can deliver world leading

research with impact.

2014

2014

Hind Rattan (Jewel of India)

Award

IChemE Innovator of the Year

Award

Non-resident Indian (NRI) Welfare Society of India –

For the outstanding services, achievements and

Contributions (New Delhi, India, 25-26 Jan 2014).

Top 3 in the final list

2013 IChemE Innovator of the Year

Award

- Highly Commended

Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) for

Innovation and Excellence.

2012 McNab – Lacey Design Prize IChemE prize for Green Synthesis of Ibuprofen

Production.

2012 First Best Research Poster

Award

Designing a novel nanoscale drug delivery platform

using Graphene, dye and pluronic f127 as nanohybrid

vehicle for improved efficacy of curcumin into cancer

cells (K. Muthoosamy, H. Lee and S. Manickam) - A

European Conference/Workshop on the Synthesis,

Characterisation and Applications of Graphene – 27-

30 Sep 2012, Mykonos, Greece.

2009 Silver Award For the “Development of Large-scale Multiple

Frequency Ultrasonic Cavitation Reactor for

Wastewater Treatment” in Water Malaysia 2009, An

International Conference on Industry Best Practices

(A MWA Biennial International Water Exhibition),

May 19-21 2009, PWTC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2006 Fast Track Young Scientist DST (Department of Science and Technology) – SERC

(Science and Engineering Research Council),

Government of India.

2003 JSPS Research Award Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,

Government of Japan.

2001 Post-Doctoral Research

Fellowship

Bar-Ilan University, by Israel – China Collaborative

Research Project on “the Development of Advanced

Nanostructured Materials using Sonochemistry”.

1997 Senior Research Fellowship University Grants Commission, Government of India


HONOURS

Adjunct Visiting Professor June 2007- June 2009; Department of Chemical Engineering,

Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India.

Visiting Professor, Sep 2012; Department of Chemicals and Materials

Engineering, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology,

Taoyuan, Taiwan.

Associate Editor 2012; Versita Publishing, Great Britain.

Editor-in-Chief Scientific Research and Essays, Academic Journals.

Expert Member (Board of

Studies)

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU), India.

Member (Editorial board)

Energy Science and Technology, Canadian Research &

Development Centre of Sciences and Cultures.

Member (Editorial board) Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Development.

Member (Editorial Board) International Journal of Innovative Technology and Research.

Member (Editorial Board) Austin Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology

(Australia).

Member(Editorial Board)

Journal of Nanotechnology: Nanomedicine &

Nanobiotechnology (USA).

Member(Editorial Board)

Journal of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience

Member

(Academic committee /

Advisory board)

Advanced Materials Congress (AM 2013), Cesme, Turkey.

Member

(International Advisory

Committee)

1st

Asian Oceanic Sonochemical Society (AOSS), 2013,

Melbourne, Australia.

Member


Committee)

NanoBio 2013 (Advances in Biomedical and Pharmaceutical

Nanotechnologies), Anna University, India.

Board Member Asia-Oceania Sonochemical Society (AOSS).

Member


Committee)

International Conference on Biotechnology & Human

Welfare 2013, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India.

Member

(International Advisory Board)

National Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and

Technology (NCETET – 2014), India.

Member (Scientific Committee)

1st

Asian Conference on Environmental Sciences and

Engineering (ACESE’14), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Member

(International Advisory Board)

International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research &

Practice (ICMRP-2014), Ahmedabad, India.

Member

(International Editorial Review

Board)

Journal of Biomedical Engineering & Informatics.


DOCTORAL RESEARCH STUDENTS - 23 (As Supervisor/Co-supervisor)

Tan Khang Wei

(2009-2011)

Process Development and

Optimisation of Nano Colloidal

carriers for the delivery of

Chemopreventive

Phytochemicals using Ultrasonic

Cavitation

Graduated and presently working as

Assistant Professor, Department of

Chemical Engineering, UCSI, Malaysia

Tang Siah Ying

(2009-2012)

Formulation and Optimization

of Novel Nano-Emulsions

Prepared by Ultrasound

Cavitation



Chemical Engineering, Universiti Tunku

Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia

Ng Chee Meng

(2009-2012)

Utilization of cavitation

technology for the

functionalization of carbon

nanotubes in drug delivery

applications


Management Consulting Analyst,

Acceture, Malaysia.

Vasanthi Sethu

(2006-2012)

Biosorption of Cu(II) ions from

aqueous solutions using

Azadirachta indica (neem) leaf

powder



Chemical and environmental

Engineering, University of Nottingham,

Malaysia.

Chuah Lay Hong

(2008-2012)

Application of Nanoparticular

Mucoadhesives in the Delivery

of Anticancer Drugs


Assistant Professor, Monash School of

Pharmacy, Monash University Sunway

Campus, Malaysia.

Salman Masoudi

Soltani

(2011-2013)

Separation Processes


Post-Doctoral Researcher, UK.

Noosheen Zahid

(2010-2014)

Development of Chitosan

Nanoemulsion biofungicide for

the control of Colletotrichum

gloeosporioides, causal agent of

Anthracnose in dragon fruit

plants

Graduated

How Chee Wun

(2010-2014)

Lipid Nanoparticles in Anti-

breast Cancer Drug Delivery

Systems and Drug-membrane

interactions

Graduated

Shridharan

Parthasarathy

Addressing country specific

issues in wastewater treatment

Thesis to be submitted by July 2015


(2011-)

Ibrahim

Salahuddin

Abdulrahman

Alzorqi

(2011-2015)

Extraction of Active constituents

of Ganoderma and their

Nanoencapsulation

Graduated, Feb 2015

Surya MS

(2011-)

A novel way of cultivation of

Ganoderma lucidum on Oil

palm solid waste; Exploration

into the bioconversion of

organic waste

Thesis submitted

Kasturi

Muthoosamy

(2012-)

Multifunctional drug carrier in

targeting the cancer cells

Renu Geetha Bai

(2012-)

Graphene for the development

of Nanobiosensor

Prakash

Krishnaiah

(2013-)

Process Development of

Nanocomposites for Aerospace

applications

Liew Yuh Xiu

(2013-)

Optimisation of the Palm Oil

Mill Effluent (POME) based

Biogas yield and Quality via

Enzymatic Pretreatment prior to

Anaerobic biodegradation

Zain Taha

(2014-)

Effect of Nano-Particles &

Abiotic Factors on The Growth

and Physico-chemical Properties

of Medicinally Important

Mushroom – Ganoderma

Lucidum

Sadia Afreen

(2014-)

A novel carbon material,

Fullerene as a nanomediator in

Nanobiosensor

Thong Li Ming

(2008-)

Insulin-containing palm oil

nanoparticles: Investigating the

correlation between gastro-

intestinal uptake and location of

insulin within the solid lipid

nanoparticle

Thesis submitted

Fuad Attached growth bio-film for the


(2011-) tertiary treatment of palm oil

mill effluent (POME)

Deng Ei Leen

(2011-)

Upscaling of Microwave

Accelerated High Value-added

Fine Chemical Syntheses

Maxine

(2012-)

Nanomaterials for

Photocatalytic applications

Rushitha

Sadasevam

(2014-)

Anti-atherosclerosis and

cardioprotective efficacy of

edible-medicinal mushroom

Debabrata Panda

(2014-)

Bala

(2014-)

Wastewater Treatment

Conversion of waste plastics

from recycled batteries into

nano carbon materials

MASTER’S RESEARCH STUDENTS - 16 16 (MSc Chemical Engineering -11and MPharm-5)

2007-2008 Norhaida Zainal Abidin

MSc (Chemical Engineering)

Ultrasound/H2O2 treatment on Palm

Oil Mill Effluent (POME) – Effect of

Operating Conditions

2007-2008 Smita Krishnan


Treating Textile dye solutions using

Ultrasonic Cavitation Technology –

Effects of Process Parameters

2008-2009 Ahmed Suleman Gumsuri


Ultrasonic Cavitation Technology

Assisted Adsorption using Activated C

and Degradation of a Priority Pollutant

Atrazine

2008-2009 Terzungwe Akaaga Ade


Development of an Effective

Antibacterial Membrane by Loading of

Ag Nanoparticles on PES (Poly Ether

Sulfone) using Ultrasonic Cavitation

Technology

2009-2010 Ajita Ang Cit Keai


An Investigation and Review of

Ultrasound effects on an Anaerobic

reactor for the treatment of POME

2010-2011 Shridharan Parthasarathy


Generation and Optimisation of Palm

Oil based Nanoemulsions and

Nanoencapsulation of Curcumin using

Liquid Whistle Hydrodynamic

Cavitation reactor (LWHCR)

2010-2011 Ibrahim Salahuddin Abdulrahman Investigation of Ultrasound Vial


Alzorqi


Tweeter in the generation of

nanoemulsions

2011-2012 Venkata Narasimha Dora Arigela


Process Intensification using Multiple

Frequency Ultrasonic Cavitation

technology for the Generation of

Biodiesel

2011-2012 Mahdi Zeighami


Improvement of Graphene Oxidation

by Sonication

2012-2013 Muhammad Abid


Fabrication of Gold Nanoparticles on

Carbon Nanotubes using Ultrasound

2012-2013 Akan Seitzhanov


CNTs as adsorbents for the treatment

of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME)

2014-2015 Wong Wei Sheng


Ultrasound as a sustainable process

technique for the efficient extraction

of polyphenolic anti-oxidants from

Petai of Malaysia

INDUSTRIAL COLLABORATIONS AND CONSULTANCY

� Ganofarm Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia – MOSTI Project

� MedKlinn International Sdn Bhd, Malaysia – Cerafusion Technology

� Malay-Sino Chemical Industries Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia – MOSTI Project

� Tensor Technology Engineering Sdn Bhd. – Coatings for Core-Shell structure

� Platinum Energy Sdn Bhd – Nanographene dispersions and development of

hydrodynamic system for the generation of biodiesel

� Matrix – Food Nanoemulsions

� Mikuni Biotech & Life Science (M) Sdn. Bhd. – Powder technology

� Chemical Company of Malaysia Bhd. – Pharmaceutical dosage forms

� DKSH – Microfluidiser for various Nanotechnological applications

RESEARCH PROJECTS /FUNDS (COMPLETED/IN-PROGRESS)

� DST (Department of Science and Technology) – SERC (Science and Engineering Research

Council), Government of India, Fast Track Young Scientist – Research Award – Rs

1212000.

� Research Equipment Fund (Ultrasound Cavitation, 2008), University of Nottingham, US $

31500.

� RA fund (2008), University of Nottingham, US $ 16,000

� Research Equipment Fund (Nano-Zetasizer, 2009), University of Nottingham, RM 220000

� Research Equipment Fund (Sonolator, 2010), University of Nottingham, RM 153000

� Research Equipment Fund (Ultrasound Tweeter & SSA, 2010), University of Nottingham,

RM 33000

� Research Equipment Fund (Ultrasound horn (cooling transducer), 2012), University of

Nottingham, RM 60000

� eScienceFund by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Government


of Malaysia for the Project “Novel Strategy of Ultrasonic Cavitation for the generation of

Nanoemulsions and Nanosuspensions in Pharmaceutical preparations” – Project No: 03-

02-12-SF0043 – US $ 61,000 (Principal Investigator) – COMPLETED


of Malaysia for the Project “Augmenting the removal of active ingredients of

Ganoderma lucidum and their encapsulation in the Nanosized Liquid Vehicles (NLVs) to

improve the bioavailability using ultrasonic cavitation” – Project No: 06-02-12-SF0141 -

RM 221000 (Principal Investigator) - COMPLETED

� Tensor Technology Engineering Sdn. Bhd. for the Project on “Process to Enhance

coatings for Core Shell structure of Metallic and Non-metallic materials” – RM 40000

(Principal Investigator) – ONGOING


of Malaysia for the Project “Insulin -containing Palm Oil Nanoparticles: Investigating the

correlation between Gastrointestinal Uptake and location of Insulin within Nanoparticle”

– Project No: 03-02-12-SF0062 – US $ 50,000 (Research Collaborator) - COMPLETED

� eScienceFund by Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Government of Malaysia for the

Project “Development of Chitosan based nanoemulsion biofungicides for the control of

Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, causal agent of anthracnose in dragon fruit plants” – RM

255600 (Research Collaborator) - COMPLETED

� MedKlinn International Sdn Bhd, Malaysia for the Project on “Cerafusion Technology for

physico-chemical responses and decay of selected tropical fruits and vegetables” – RM

253000 (Research Collaborator) - COMPLETED

� Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Malaysia under Fundamental Research Grant

Scheme (FRGS) for the Project on “Designing a Novel Nanoscale Drug Delivery Platform

using Graphene, Dye and Pluronic F127 as Nanohybrid vehicle for improved efficacy of

Curcumin into cancer cells” – RM 86000 (Research Collaborator) - COMPLETED


Scheme (FRGS) for the Project on “C60 Fullerene – Folic acid Nanohybrid Electrochemical

Biosensor as a Diagnostic tool for Simpler and Earlier detection of Cancer” – RM 112000

(Principal Investigator) - ONGOING


Scheme (FRGS) for the Project on “Improved Downstream Processing through Phase

formation and Biomolecular partitioning in aqueous two-phase flotation” – RM 106000

(Research Collaborator) – ONGOING


Scheme (FRGS) for the Project on “Improved Downstream Processing through Phase

formation and Biomolecular partitioning in aqueous two-phase flotation” – RM 104000

(Research Collaborator) – ONGOING


of Malaysia for the Project “Insulin -containing Palm Oil Nanoparticles: Investigating the

correlation between Gastrointestinal Uptake and location of Insulin within Nanoparticle”

– Project No: 03-02-12-SF0062 – US $ 50,000 (Research Collaborator) – COMPLETED


of Malaysia for the Project “Fabrication of Polyhydroxyalkanoate/Graphene-Silver

Nanocomposite Fibres: Towards the development of a Biocompatible Antimicrobial

Scaffold” – Project No: 03-01-19-SF0127 – RM 156000 (Research Collaborator) -

ONGOING

� FP7 –NMP – 2010 – LARGE - 4 (Large Scale Integrating Project) - “Rational Bioactive

Materials Design for Tissue Regeneration” – (Research Collaborator) – Total budget of

the project Euro 14322612 and with the UNMC share of Euro 381067


RESEARCH PROJECTS /FUNDS (SUBMITTED)

� Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Malaysia for the Project on “Development of Novel

and Energy Efficient Cavitation Technology for the efficient treatment of Palm Oil Mill

Effluent (POME)” – RM 474000 (Principal Investigator)


Scheme (FRGS) for the Project on “Investigation of memory effects of high-power

ultrasound waves in influencing the viscosity of transporting fluids in a non-destructive

way” – RM 223000 (Principal Investigator)

� Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Malaysia under Exploratory Research Grant

Scheme (ERGS) for the Project on “Exploring the potential of natural products as

nanoemuslions for controlling postharvest anthracnose and sustaining the quality of

selected fruits from Malaysia” – RM 295500 (Research Collaborator)


of Malaysia for the Project “Cavitation technology for the removal of heavy metals from

wastewater – the utilisation of nano-engineered adsorbents with microcurrent

induction” – RM 220280 (Research Collaborator)


of Malaysia for the Project “A Novel and Energy Efficient extraction of Lycopene from

Tomato waste by variable frequency Ultrasound cavitation followed by

Nanoencapsulation and Anti-cancer evaluation” – RM 308500 (Research Collaborator)

� Nanotechnology Scheme by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI),

Government of Malaysia for the Project “The Development and Production of Drug-

loaded Nanoparticles for the treatment of Cancer” – RM 497200 (Project Collaborator)

� Nanotechnology Scheme by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI),

Government of Malaysia for the Project “Harnessing intense conditions from

Hydrodynamic Cavitation – An innovative efficient protocol for the Large-scale

generation of Silver Nanoparticles and its Antimicrobial efficiency studies” – RM 242000

(Principal Investigator)

KEYNOTE/PLENARY/INVITED PRESENTATIONS

•••• Recent trends in Pharmaceutical Engineering research

International Conference on Biotechnology and Human Welfare, 2013 (ICBH-2013),

Tanjore, India, 6-8 December, 2013.

•••• Anaerobically digested Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) Treatment using Hybrid System

of Chitosan and Iron salts – A possible way to reduce the Retention time and Operating

cost

International Palm Oil Congress (PIPOC, 2013), Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-21 November, 2013.

•••• Green Synthesis of a Speciality Chemical, Ibuprofen

IChemE 1st

Regional Sustainability Seminar (RSS), Kuantan, Malaysia, 28 Oct, 2013.

•••• Cavitation Technology – A Greener Solution for the generation of Pharmaceutical

Nanoemulsions

1st

meeting of the Asia-Oceania Sonochemical Society (AOSS 2013), Melbourne, Australia,

10-12 July, 2013.

•••• Challenges and Emerging Trends in Nanotechnology


International Conference on “Global Trends in Research and Drug Development in Health

Care System”, India, 24-25 Jan, 2013.

•••• Exploitation of a Simple and Energy-efficient Green Cavitation Process to

Nanotechnology

International Conference on Nanomaterials & Nanotechnology (ICNANO 2011), Delhi,

India, 18-21 December, 2011.

•••• Carboxylation of Carbon Nanotubes using Acoustic Cavitation at Room Temperature

International Congress on Green Process Engineering (GPE 2011), Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, 6-8 December, 2011.

•••• Process Intensification of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) Treatment using Cavitation

Technology

International Palm Oil Congress (PIPOC, 2011), Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia, 15-17 November, 2011.

•••• Understanding Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

National Seminar on "Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Technology” Anna

University of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, 23rd

December, 2010.

•••• Cavitation - An Energy efficient Green Processing Technique for Nanomaterials and

Nanoformulations

Nanothailand 2010 (Nanotechnology for a Sustainable World), Bangkok, Thailand, 18-20

Nov, 2010.

•••• Understanding the Recent Trends in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology – Principles and Applications, Workshop conducted by International

Medical University (IMU), Kuala Lumpur, 28 Oct, 2010.

•••• Cavitation- A Rapid and a Novel way of generating the Nanoemulsion encapsulated

with Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)

20th

International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2010), Sydney, Australia, 23-27 August,

2010.

•••• Microfluidiser- An Advanced and Potential Technology in Nanopharmaceutical

Engineering

National Conference on "Recent Trends and Applications of Nanotechnology in Pharmacy

and Biology" Anna University, Tiruchirappalli, India, 21-22nd

January, 2010.

•••• Microfluidiser- An advanced technology of Homogeniser – Potential applications in

Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology arena

XAPP, Malaysia 3-4 Nov 2009.

•••• Cavitation Technology – A Simple, Energy Efficient Solution for the generation of

Nanomaterials

International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2008, University Teknologi

Mara (UiTM), Malaysia 18-21 Nov 2008.

•••• Cavitation – A Potential Green Technique for the Production of Pharmaceutical

Nanomaterials

International Conference and Workshop on "Medical and Pharmaceutical

Nanotechnology: Latest Developments, Practical Considerations and Applications" Anna

University, Tiruchirappalli, India, 25-26th

September, 2008.

•••• Cavitation – A Simple, Energy Efficient and Technological Approach for the Synthesis of

Nanomaterials

Taiwan-India Conference on Nanomaterials, Department of Chemical and Materials

Engineering, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan, December

11- 12, 2006.

•••• Ultrasonic Cavitation – A Solution to Nano and Biomaterials


4th

International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) September 18-20, 2004 at

Kyoto, Japan.

•••• Hydrodynamic Cavitation as a tool to Synthesize Nanomaterials

January 19, 2004 at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,

Nagoya, Japan.

•••• Sonochemistry & Its Application to Nanochemistry

State Level Ms. N. Shakunthala Endowment Seminar on Recent Trends In Chemistry,

Department of Chemistry, Fatima College, Madurai – 18, September 28, 2007.

•••• Cavitation – A Simple, Energy Efficient Technological Approach for the Synthesis of

Nanomaterials

Department of Chemical Engineering, Manipal University, India, November 3Aug 2007.

•••• Cavitation Assisted Chemical Process – A Sustainable Green Process to obtain

Nanomaterials

International Conference on Nanomaterial & its Applications (ICNA-2007), Department

of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, February 4-6,

2007.

•••• Nanotechnology – Recent Developments

National Seminar on “Chemical Technology”, Department of Petrochemical Technology,

Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 24, Feb 2, 2006.

•••• Indian Bulk Drugs and Pharmaceutical Industries &

Ultrasound Promoted Transdermal Drug Delivery System – Sonophoresis

Staff Development Programme, Sponsored by AICTE, Periyar College of Pharmaceutical

Sciences, Tiruchirappalli – 21, Dec 12-28, 2006.

•••• Hydrodynamic Cavitation – A Novel Technological Approach for the Synthesis of

Nanomaterials

National Workshop on “Nanomaterials: Properties and Applications” (NMPA-2006),

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of

Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, December 2-3, 2006.

•••• Cavitation – Could it be a Technological Solution for the Synthesis of Nanomaterials

and Biomaterials

National Seminar on Nanotechnology and Applications, Department of Chemical

Engineering, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, November3-4, 2006.

•••• Ultrasonic Cavitation – A Technological solution to Nano and Biomaterials

Centre for Advanced Research in Indian System of Medicine (CARISM), SASTRA University,

August 5, 2006, Thanjavur, India.

•••• Cavitation – An Innovative Approach for the Synthesis of Nanomaterials

International Conference on Nanotechnology – Materials and Methods (To meet global

challenges) (CIT Nanotech) June 23-25, 2006 at Coimbatore, India.


PUBLICATIONS

I BOOK

1. Book title: Cavitation: A Novel and Energy efficient technique for the generation of

Nanomaterials

Editors: M. Sivakumar and M. Ashokkumar

Publisher: Pan Stanford, Singapore

ISBN: 978-981-4411-54-7

Year: 2014

II BOOK CHAPTER

2. Chapter title: Ultrasound Enhanced PTC Reactions

Authors: M.Sivakumar, P.Senthilkumar and A.B.Pandit

Book title: Recent Trends in Catalysis

Editors: V.Murugesan, B. Arabindo and M. Palanichamy

Publisher: Narosa Publishing House

Year: 1999

3. Chapter title: Production of Nanomaterials using Ultrasound Cavitation – A Simple, Energy

Efficient and Technological approach

Authors: M.Sivakumar and RK Rana

Book title: Ultrasound Technologies for Food and Bioprocessing

Editors: Hao Feng, Jochen Weiss and Gustavo V. Barbosa-C¨¢novas

Publisher: Springer

Chapter No: 15

Page No: 405-444

ISBN: 978-1-4419-7472-3

Year: 2010

4. Chapter title: Sonochemical Synthesis of Oxides and Sulfides

Authors: M. Sivakumar

Book title: Theoretical and Experimental Inorganic Chemistry

Editors: Pankaj Srivastava and Muthupandian Ashokkumar

Publisher: Springer

Chapter No: 8

Page No: 191-212

ISBN: 978-90-481-3886-9

Year: 2011


5. Chapter title: Ultrasound cavitation as a Green Processing Technique in the Design and

Manufacture of Pharmaceutical Nanoemulsions in drug delivery system

Authors: M. Sivakumar, Siah Ying Tang and Khang Wei Tan

Book title: Green Chemistry for Environmental Remediation

Editors: R Sanghi and V Singh

Publisher: Scrivener, Wiley

Chapter No: 7

Page No: 155-208

ISBN: 978-0-470-94308-3

Year: 2012

6. Chapter title: Development of Multifunctional Nanomaterials by cavitation

Authors: M. Sivakumar, Tang SY and Ashokkumar M

Book title: Cavitation: A Novel and Energy efficient technique for the generation of

Nanomaterials

Editors: M Sivakumar and M Ashokkumar


Chapter No: 1

Page No: 1-28

ISBN: 978-981-4411-54-7

Year: 2014

7. Chapter title: Ultrasonics and Sonochemistry – Some Issues and Future Perspectives

Authors: Ashokkumar M and M. Sivakumar

Book title: Cavitation: A Novel and Energy efficient technique for the generation of

Nanomaterials

Editors: M Sivakumar and M Ashokkumar


Chapter No: 13

Page No: 415-422

ISBN: 978-981-4411-54-7

Year: 2014

8. Chapter title: Ultrasonic and UV Disinfection of Food

Authors: Liew Yuh Xiu and M. Sivakumar

Book title: Hand Book of Food Processing and Engineering (Food Engineering Series)

Editors: Da-Wen Sun, Theo Varzakas and Tzia

Publisher: CRC Press

Year: 2015

9. Chapter title: Nanotheranostics

Authors: Renu Geetha Bai, Kasturi Muthoosamy and Sivakumar Manickam

Book title: Nanotechnology Applications on Tissue Engineering

Editors: Sabu Thomas, Yves Grohens and Neethu Ninan

Publisher: Elsevier

Year: 2015

10. Chapter title: Production of Biofuels and Chemicals: Ultrasound

Authors: Siah Ying Tang and Sivakumar Manickam

Book title: Biofuels and Biorefineries (Book Series)

Editors: Zhen Fang, Richard L Smith and Xinhua Qi


Publisher: Springer

Year: 2015

11. Chapter title: Carbon Nanotubes and its applications in Drug Delivery

Authors: Chee Meng Ng and M.Sivakumar

Book title: Nanotechnology for the Healthcare

Editors: Udupa, Phani and Gupta

Year: 2015

III JOURNAL PAPERS - PUBLISHED (PEER-REVIEWED)

12. Shridharan Parthasarathy, Sivakumar Manickam and Rachel L Gomes

Process Intensification of Anaerobically digested Palm Oil Mill Effluent (AAD-POME)

Treatment Using Combined Chitosan Coagulation and Advanced Oxidation Processes

Journal of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (In Press).

Impact Factor: 1.934

13. T. Joyce Liong, Liang Ee Low, Hui Jiun Teoh, Jit Kai Chin and Sivakumar Manickam

Variation in Performance at Different Positions of an Ultrasonic VialTweeter – A Study based

on various Physical and Chemical activities

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, In Press.

Impact factor: 4.321

14. Shridharan Parthasarathy, Rafie Rushdy Mohammed, Chong Mei Fong, Rachel L Gomes and

Sivakumar Manickam

A Novel Hybrid Approach of Activated Carbon and Ultrasound Cavitation for the

Intensification of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) Polishing

Journal of Cleaner Production (In Press).


15. Sadia Afreen, Kasturi Muthoosamy, Sivakumar Manickam and Uda Hashim

Functionalized Fullerene (C60) as a potential Nanomediator in the fabrication of highly

sensitive Biosensors

Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 63, 354-364, 2015.


16. Sergey Spotar, Manickam Sivakumar, Asad Rahman, Ooi Chel Ghee and Kon Kee Jun

A Revisit to the Separation of a Binary mixture of Ethanol-Water using Ultrasonic Distillation

as a Separation Process

Chemical Engineering Processing: Process Intensification, 87, 45-50, 2015.


17. Kasturi Muthoosamy, Renu Geetha Bai, Ibrahim Babangida Abubakar, Surya Mudavasseril

Sudheer, Lim HN, Hwei-San Loh, Huang NM, Chia CH and Sivakumar Manickam

Exceedingly biocompatible and thin-layered reduced graphene oxide nanosheets using an

eco-friendly mushroom extract strategy

International Journal of Nanomedicine, 10, 1505-1519, 2015.


18. Effects of Axial Circulation and Dispersion Geometry on the Scale-up of Ultrasonic Extraction

of Polysaccharides


Ibrahim Alzorqi and Sivakumar Manickam

American Institute of Chemical Engineering Journal (AIChEJ) (In Press)


19. Kasturi Muthoosamy, Renu Geetha Bai and Sivakumar Manickam

Graphene and Graphene Oxide as a Docking station for Modern Drug Delivery System

Current Drug Delivery, 11(6), 701-718, 2014.

20. Ultrasound assisted Chitosan-surfactant nanostructure assemblies: Towards maintaining

Postharvest quality of tomatoes

Maysoun A. Mustafa, Asgar Ali and Manickam Sivakumar and Yasmeen Siddiqui

Food and Bioprocess Technology, 7(7), 2102-2111, 2014.

Impact factor: 4.12

21. Sivakumar Manickam , Venkata Narasimha Arigela and Parag R Gogate

Intensification of Synthesis of Biodiesel from Palm Oil using Multiple Frequency Ultrasonic

Flow Cell

Fuel Processing Technology, 128, 388-393, 2014.

Impact factor: 2.82

22. Sivakumar Manickam , Siah Ying Tang and Tan Khang Wei

Cavitation Technology – A Greener Processing Technique for the Generation of

Pharmaceutical Nanoemulsions

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 21(6), 2069-2083, 2014.

Impact factor: 3.52

23. Manickam Sivakumar, Norhaida Binti Zainal Abidin, Shridharan Parthasarathy, Ibrahim

Alzorqi, Ng Ern Huay, Timm Joyce Tiong, Rachel Gomes and Asgar Ali

Role of H2O2 in the Fluctuating Patterns of COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) of Palm Oil Mill

Effluent (POME) Treatment Using Pilot Scale Triple Frequency Ultrasound Cavitation Reactor


Impact factor: 3.52

24. Noosheen Zahid, Asgar Ali, Sivakumar Manickam, Yasmeen Siddiqui, Peter G. Alderson and

Mehdi Maqbool

Efficacy of curative applications of submicron chitosan dispersions on anthracnose intensity

and vegetative growth of dragon fruit plants

Crop Protection, 62, 129-134, 2014.

Impact factor: 1.30

25. Asgar Ali, Noosheen Zahid, Sivakumar Manickam, Yasmeen Siddiqui, Peter G. Alderson and

Mehdi Maqbool

Induction of Lignin and Pathogenesis related proteins in dragon fruit plants in response to

submicron chitosan dispersions

Crop Protection, 63, 83-88, 2014.

Impact factor: 1.30

26. Tariq Mahmood, Naveed Akhtar and Manickam Sivakumar

Interfacial film stabilized w/o/w nano multiple emulsions loaded with green tea and lotus

extracts: systematic characterization of physicochemical properties and shelf-storage

stability


Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 12(1), 20, 1-8, 2014.

Impact factor: 3.87

27. Asgar Ali, Noosheen Zahid, Manickam Sivakumar, Siddiqui Yasmeen and Peter Alderson

Double-layer coatings: A new technique for maintaining physico-chemical characteristics and

anti-oxidant properties of Dragon fruit during storage

Food and Bioprocess Technology, 7(8), 2366-2374, 2014.

Impact factor: 4.12

28. Using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) to decipher mucoadhesion propensity of

Curcumin containing Chitosan nanoparticles and curcumin release

Lay Hong Chuah, Clive Roberts, Nashiru Billa, Syahril Abdullah, Rozita Rosli, and Sivakumar

Manickam

Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, 35(9), 1201-1207, 2014.

Impact factor: 0.61

29. Noosheen Zahid, Asgar Ali, Peter G Alderson, Mehdi Maqbool and Manickam Sivakumar

Dual mode of action of ethanolic extract of propolis (EEP) for the control of postharvest

anthracnose in dragon fruits

Acta Horticulturae, 1012, 711-717, 2013.

Impact factor: Not Known

30. Noosheen Zahid, Peter G Alderson, Asgar Ali, Mehdi Maqbool and Manickam Sivakumar

In-vitro control of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides by using Chitosan loaded nanoemulsions



31. Maysoun A Mustafa, Asgar Ali and Manickam Sivakumar

Application of a Chitosan based nanoparticle formulation as an edible coating for tomatoes

(Solanum lycoperiscum L.)



32. Shridharan Parthasarathy, Tang Siah Ying and Sivakumar Manickam

Generation and optimization of palm oil-based oil-in-water (O/W) Submicron emulsions and

encapsulation of curcumin using liquid whistle hydrodynamic cavitation reactor (LWHCR)

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 52(34), 11829-11837, 2013.

Impact factor: 2.22

33. Tamoxifen-loaded Nanostructured lipid carrier as drug delivery system: Characterisation,

Stability Assessment, and Cytotoxicity

How Chee Wun, Rasedee Abdullah, Manickam Sivakumar and Rozita Rosli

Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 112, 393-399, 2013.

Impact factor: 3.56

34. Effectiveness of submicron chitosan dispersion in controlling anthracnose and maintaining

quality of dragon fruit

Asgar Ali, Noosheen Zahid, Manickam Sivakumar, Siddiqui Yasmeen, and M. Maqbool

Postharvest Biology and Technology, 86, 147-153, 2013.

Impact factor: 2.46


35. Impact of Process Parameters in the Generation of Novel Aspirin Nanoemulsions –

Comparative studies between Ultrasound Cavitation and Microfluidiser

Siah Ying Tang, Shridharan Parthasarathy and Manickam Sivakumar


Impact factor: 3.52

Citations Received: 10

36. A Novel and Facile Liquid Whistle Hydrodynamic Cavitation Reactor to Produce Submicron

Multiple Emulsions

Siah Ying Tang and Sivakumar Manickam

American Institute of Chemical Engineering Journal (AIChEJ), 59(1), 155-167, 2013.

Impact factor: 2.5


37. Improved Functionalisation and Recovery of Carboxylated Carbon Nanotubes using the

Acoustic Cavitation approach

Chee Meng Ng and Manickam Sivakumar

Chemical Physics Letters, 557, 97-101, 2013.

Impact factor: 2.16

38. Impact of Osmotic Pressure and Gelling in the generation of highly stable Single Core Water-

in-Oil-in-Water (W/O/W) Nano Multiple Emulsions of Aspirin assisted by Two-stage

Ultrasonic Cavitational Emulsification

Siah Ying Tang, Manickam Sivakumar and Nashiru Billa

Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 102, 653-658, 2013.

Impact factor: 3.56


39. Mechanistic investigation of the Sonochemical synthesis of Zinc Ferrite

Hanif A. Choudhury, Amit Choudhary, Manickam Sivakumar and Vijayanand Moholkar


Impact factor: 3.52


40. Copper (II) ion removal from aqueous solutions using biosorption technology –

Thermodynamic and SEM-EDX studies

X. W. Ang, V. S. Sethu, J. M. Andresen and M. Sivakumar

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 15, 401-407, 2013.

Impact factor: 1.84


41. Curcumin-containing Chitosan nanoparticles as a potential Mucoadhesive delivery system to

the colon

Lay Hong Chuah, Clive Roberts, Jonathan Burley, Manickam Sivakumar and Nashiru Billa

Pharmaceutical Development & Technology, 2013, May-June, 18(3), 591-9.

Impact factor: 1.34


42. Ultrasonic Cavitation induced Water in Vegetable oil Emulsion droplets - A Simple and Easy

Technique to Synthesize Manganese Zinc Ferrite Nanocrystals with improved magnetisation


Manickam Sivakumar, Atsuya Towata, Kyuichi Yasui, Toru Tuziuti, T. Kozuka, Yasuo Iida,

Michail M. Maiorov, Elmars Blums, Neelagesi Sivakumar and M. Ashok


Impact factor: 3.52


43. Potential of Chitosan loaded Nanoemulsions to control different Colletotrichum spp. and

maintain quality of tropical fruits during cold storage

Noosheen Zahid, Asgar Ali, Manickam Sivakumar and Siddiqui Yasmeen and M. Maqbool

Journal of Applied Microbiology, 113(4), 925-939, 2012.

Impact factor: 2.21


44. Anti-inflammatory and Analgesic activity of novel oral Aspirin-loaded Nanoemulsion and

Nano multiple emulsion formulations generated using Ultrasound Cavitation

Siah Ying Tang, Sivakumar Manickam, Angela Min-Hwei Ng and Parthasarathy Shridharan

International Journal of Pharmaceutics 430, 299-306, 2012.

Impact factor: 3.47


45. Green High-Gravitational Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles using a Rotating Packed Bed

Reactor (RPBR)

Chee Meng Ng, Pao Chi Chen and Sivakumar Manickam

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 51 (15), 5375-5381, 2012.

Impact factor: 2.22


46. Formulation Development and Optimization of a Novel Cremophore EL-based Nanoemulsion

using Ultrasound Cavitation

Siah Ying Tang, Manickam Sivakumar, Tan Khang Wei and Nashiru Billa

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 19(2), 330-45 (2012).

Impact factor: 3.52


47. Response Surface Methodology, an Effective Strategy in the Optimisation of the generation

of Curcumin-loaded Micelles

Tan Khang Wei and Manickam Sivakumar

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, 7(S1), S125-S133, 2012.

Impact factor: 0.81


48. Design and Evaluation of Aspirin-loaded Water-in-Oil-Water Nano Multiple Emulsions

prepared using Two-step Ultrasonic Cavitational Emulsification Technique

Siah Ying Tang and Manickam Sivakumar

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering 7(S1), S145-S156, 2012.

Impact factor: 0.81


49. Stabilisation of Folic acid in liquid dosage form: Formulation development, method

validation and comparative analysis

Vignesh M, Sivakumar, M, Parkavi V, Selvakumar K and Joysa Ruby J


International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences, 1(1), 332-338, 2012.


50. Hydrothermal crystallization of Titania on Silver nucleation sites for the synthesis of visible

light nanophotocatalysts – Enhanced photoactivity using Rhodamine 6G

Chee Meng Ng, Pao Chi Chen and Manickam Sivakumar

Applied Catalysis A: General, 433-434, 75-80, 2012.

Impact factor: 3.42


51. Efficient indoles and anilines syntheses employing tert-butyl sulfinamide as ammonia

surrogate

Prakash Anjanappa, Dibakar Mullick, Kumaravel Selvakumar, Kandasamy Ruckmani and

Manickam Sivakumar

Tetrahedron Letters, 52(43), 5625-5628(2011).

Impact factor: 2.41


52. Effect of homogenization and ultrasonication on curcumin containing nanoparticles

Chuah, LH, Billa N and Manickam Sivakumar

Journal of Industrial Technology, 20(1), 1-11 (2011).


53. 2-(Trimethylsilyl)ethanol as a new alcohol equivalent for copper-catalyzed coupling of aryl

iodides

Dibakar Mullick, Prakash Anjanappa, Kumaravel Selvakumar, Kandasamy Ruckmani and

Manickam Sivakumar

Tetrahedron Letters, 52(41), 5338-5341 (2011).

Impact factor: 2.41


54. Dependence of sonochemical parameters on the platinization of rutile titania and their

photocatalytic efficiencies

Manickam Sivakumar,* Kyuichi Yasui, Toru Tuziuti, Atsuya Towata and Yasuo Iida

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 17, 621-627 (2010).

Impact factor: 3.52


55. Physical facets of Ultrasonic cavitational synthesis of Zinc ferrite particles

Bhaskar Rao Reddy, Thirugnanasambandam Sivasankar, Manickam Sivakumar and

Vijayanand Moholkar


Impact factor: 3.52


56. Tissue distribution, Pharmacokinetics, and Stability studies of Zidovudine delivered by

Niosomes and Proniosomes

Ruckmani K, Sankar M and Sivakumar M

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, 6(1), 43-51 (2010).

Impact factor: 5.27



57. Carbamic acid 2-trimethylsilylethyl ester as new ammonia equivalent for palladium catalyzed

amination of aryl halides

Dibakar Mullick, Prakash Anjanappa, Kumaravel Selvakumar, Kandasamy Ruckmani and

Manickam Sivakumar

Tetrahedron letters, 51(46), 5984-5987 (2010).

Impact factor: 2.41


58. Fabrication of Nanosized Pt on rutile TiO2 using a standing wave sonochemical reactor

(SWSR) – Observation of an enhanced catalytic oxidation of CO

Manickam Sivakumar, Atsuya Towata, Kyuichi Yasui, Toru Tuziuti, Teruyuki Kozuka, Masahiko

Tsujimoto, Ziyi Zhong and Yasuo Iida


Impact factor: 3.52


59. A Novel Formulation and Optimisation of Aspirin Nanoemulsion prepared by Cavitation

induced by ultrasonic waves


Journal of Industrial Technology, 19(1), 179-196 (2010).


60. 2-(Trimethylsilyl)ethanesulfonyl amide as new ammonia equivalent for palladium catalyzed

amination of aryl halides

Prakash Anjanappa, Dibakar Mullick, Kumaravel Selvakumar and Manickam Sivakumar

Tetrahedron letters, 49(31), 4585-4587 (2008).

Impact factor: 2.41


61. Synthesis of europium-doped yttrium hydroxide and yttrium oxide nanosheets

Atsuya Towata, Manickam Sivakumar, Kyuichi Yasui, Toru Tuziuti, Teruyuki Kozuka and Yasuo

Iida

Journal of Materials Science, 43(4), 1214-1219, 2008.

Impact factor: 2.17


62. Nanoparticular Drug Delivery System of Cytarabine Hydrochloride (CTH) for Improved

Treatment of Lymphoma

K. Ruckmani, M. Sivakumar and S. Satheesh kumar

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, 3, 1-7, 2007.

Impact factor: 5.27


63. Ultrasound induced formation of Paraffin Emulsion droplets as template for the preparation

of porous zirconia

Atsuya Towata, Manickam Sivakumar, Kyuichi Yasui, Toru Tuziuti, Teruyuki Kozuka and Yasuo

Iida


Impact factor: 3.52



64. Acoustic Cavitation – An Efficient tool to synthesize Nanosized CuO-ZrO2 Catalysts with

Mesoporous distribution

M.Sivakumar and A. Gedanken

New Journal of Chemistry, 30(1), 102-107 (2006).

Impact factor: 2.98


65. Fabrication of Zinc Ferrite Nanocrystals by Sonochemical activation - Observation of

Magnetization and its relaxation at low temperature

M.Sivakumar, Tsuyoshi Takami, Hiroshi Ikuta, Dipten Bhattacharya, KyuichiYasui, Atsuya

Towata, Toru Tuziuti and Yasuo Iida

Journal of Physical Chemistry. B. 110(31), 15234-15243 (2006).

Impact factor: 3.62


66. Manickam Sivakumar, Atsuya Towata, Kyuichi Yasui, Toru Tuziuti and Yasuo Iida

Ultrasonic Cavitational Activation: A Simple and Feasible route for the direct conversion of

zinc acetate to highly monodispersed ZnO

Chemistry Letters, 35 (1), 60 (2006).

Impact factor: 1.6


67. R. Mazumder, S. Ghosh, P. Mondal, Dipten Bhattacharya, S. Dasgupta, N. Das, and A. Sen,

A.K.Tyagi, M. Sivakumar, T. Takami and H. Ikuta

Particle size dependence of magnetization and phase transition near TN in multiferroic

BiFeO3

Journal of Applied Physics, 100, 033908 (2006).

Impact factor: 2.22


68. K. Ruckmani, M. Sivakumar and P.A. Ganeshkumar

Methotrexate loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles (SLN) for effective treatment of carcinoma

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 6(8), 1-5, 2006.

Impact factor: 1.16


69. M.Sivakumar, K.Yasui, A. Towata, T. Tuziuti and Y.Iida

A New Ultrasonic Cavitation approach for the Synthesis of Zinc Ferrite Nanocrystals

Current Applied Physics, 6(3) 591 (2006).

Impact factor: 1.82


70. T. Tuziuti, K.Yasui, M.Sivakumar and Y.Iida

Influence of dissolved-air concentration on spatial distribution of bubbles for sonochemistry

Ultrasonics, 44, e357 (2006).

Impact factor: 2.04


71. M.Sivakumar and A. Gedanken


A Sonochemical method for the synthesis of Polyaniline and Au-polyaniline composites using

H2O2 for enhancing rate and yield

Synthetic Metals, 148(3), 301 (2005).

Impact factor: 2.12


72. Y.Iida, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti and M.Sivakumar

Sonochemistry and its Dosimetry

Microchemical Journal 80, 159 (2005).

Impact factor: 2.89


73. K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, M.Sivakumar and Y.Iida

Theoretical study of Single-bubble Sonochemistry

Journal of Chemical Physics, 122, 224706 (2005).



74. Toru.Tuziuti, KyuichiYasui, Yasuo Iida and Manickam Sivakumar

Correlation between Acoustic Cavitation Noise and Yield enhancement of Sonochemical

reaction by particle addition

Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109(21), 4869 (2005).

Impact factor: 2.78


75. Manickam Sivakumar, Katsuro Tachibana, Aniruddha B. Pandit, Kyuichi Yasui, Toru Tuziuti,

Atsuya Towata and Yasuo Iida

Transdermal Drug Delivery using Ultrasound – Theory, Understanding and a Critical Analysis

Cellular and Molecular Biology, 51, OL 767 (2005).

Impact factor: 1.47


76. Yasuo Iida, Atsuya Towata and Manickam Sivakumar 超音波エマルションを利用した機能性無機微粒子の新規合成法 (New Synthesis

process of inorganic functional nano powders using W/O sono-emulsion

Material Integration (マテリアルインテグレーション), 18 (3), 3-6 (2005) (In Japanese).


77. A.Towata, M.Sivakumar, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, T.Kozuka and Y.Iida 酵母をバイオテンプレートとして用いたアルミナ多孔質材料の作製 (Synthesis of

alumina macroporous materials using yeast cells as biotemplates)

Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan (日本セラミックス協会学術論文誌), 113, 696

(2005) (In Japanese).



78. A.Towata, M.Sivakumar, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti and Y.Iida

酵母をテンプレートとして利用したジルコニア中空粒子の作製粉体工学会誌(粉体工学会), J. Soc. Powder Technolo., Japan, 42(10), 701-707 (2005 (In

Japanese).



79. A.Towata, M.Sivakumar, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, T.Kozuka, K.Ohta and Y.Iida

Fabrication of bimodal (meso/macro) porous alumina materials using yeast cells as

templates

E-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology, 3, 405-411 (2005).



80. M.Sivakumar, A. Gedanken, W. Zhong, H.Y.Jiang, Y.W. Du, D.Bhattacharya, I.Brukental,

Y.Yeshurun and A.Felner

Distinctive and Multiadvantageous Sonochemical method for the synthesis of

Nanocrystalline Rare Earth Ferrites using a Novel Fe(CO)5 precursor

Chemistry of Materials, 16, 3623-32 (2004).

Impact factor: 8.25


81. M.Sivakumar, A. Gedanken, W. Zhong, Y.W. Du and A.Felner

Sonochemical Synthesis of Nanocrystalline LaFeO3

Journal of Materials Chemistry, 14(4), 764-769 (2004).

Impact factor: 5.98


82. M.Sivakumar, A. Gedanken, W. Zhong, Y.W. Du, D.Bhattacharya, Y.Yeshurun and A.Felner

Nanophase Formation of Strontium Hexaferrite Fine Powder by the Sonochemical method

using Fe(CO)5

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 268 (1-2), 95-104 (2004).

Impact factor: 1.84


83. M.Sivakumar, Y.Iida, K.Yasui and T.Tuziuti

Preparation of nanosized TiO2 supported on Activated alumina by a Sonochemical method –

Observation of an increased Photocatalytic Decolourisation efficiency

Research on Chemical Intermediates, 7(8), 785 (2004)

Impact factor: 0.89


84. Y.Iida, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, M.Sivakumar and Y.Endo

Ultrasonic Cavitation in microspace (Appeared as a Hot Paper)

Chemical Communications, 2280 (2004)

Impact factor: 6.39


85. Toru.Tuziuti, KyuichiYasui, Yasuo Iida, Manickam Sivakumar and Shinobu Koda

Laser-Light Scattering from a Multibubble system for Sonochemistry

Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108, 9011 (2004).

Impact factor: 2.78


86. P.R. Gogate, M.Sivakumar and Aniruddha B.Pandit

Destruction of Rhodamine B using novel sonochemical reactor with capacity of 7.5 L.

Separation and Purification Technology, 34(1-3), 13-24 (2004).


Impact factor: 2.9


87. M.Sivakumar and A. Gedanken

Insights into the Sonochemical Decomposition of Fe(CO)5 : Theoretical and Experimental

understanding of the role of Molar Concentration and Power Density on the Reaction Yield

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 11(6), 373-378 (2004).

Impact factor: 3.52


88. T.Tuziuti, K.Yasui, Y.Iida and M.Sivakumar

Correlation in Spatial Intensity Distribution between volumetric bubbles Oscillation and

Sonoluminescence in a Multibubble system

Research on Chemical Intermediates, 7(8), 755 (2004).

Impact factor: 0.89


89. K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, M.Sivakumar and Y.Iida

Sonoluminescence

Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 39(3), 399-436 (2004).

Impact factor: 2.93


90. Y. Iida, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, T. Kozuka, A. Towata and M.Sivakumar

Raman spectra database of minerals and inorganic materials on the web

Science Access, ICORS, 2(1), 538-539 (2004).


91. M.Sivakumar, P.Senthilkumar, Sukti Majumdar and A.B.Pandit

Ultrasound mediated Alkaline Hydrolysis of Methyl Benzoate : Reinvestigation with crucial

parameters


Impact factor: 3.52


92. M.Sivakumar, P.A.Tatake and A.B.Pandit

Kinetics of p-Nitrophenol degradation: Effect of Reaction conditions and Cavitational

parameters for a Multiple Frequency system.

Chemical Engineering Journal, 85 (2-3), 327-338 (2002).

Impact factor: 3.49


93. M.Sivakumar and A.B.Pandit

Wastewater Treatment: A novel energy efficient Hydrodynamic Cavitational technique


Impact factor: 3.52


94. M.Sivakumar and A.B.Pandit

Ultrasound Enhanced Degradation of Rhodamine B:Optimisation with Power Density

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 8 (3), 233-240 (2001).


Impact factor: 3.52


95. M.Sivakumar, P.SenthilKumar and A.B.Pandit

Ultrasound Enhanced PTC Conversion of Benzamide to Benzonitrile

Synthetic Communications, 31 (17), 2583-2587 (2001).

Impact factor: 1.08


96. Parag R.Gogate, Shirgaonkar, I.Z., M.Sivakumar, P.SenthilKumar and Aniruddha.B.Pandit

Cavitation Reactors : Efficiency assessment using a model reaction

American Institute of Chemical Engineering Journal (AIChEJ), 47 (11), 2526-2538 (2001).

Impact factor: 2.5


97. P.SenthilKumar, M.Sivakumar and A.B.Pandit

Experimental Quantification of Chemical Effects of Hydrodynamic Cavitation

Chemical Engineering Science, 55, 1633-39 (2000).

Impact factor: 2.41


98. A.B.Pandit, P.SenthilKumar and M.Sivakumar

Improve Reactions with Hydrodynamic Cavitation

Chemical Engineering Progress, 33 (May 1999).

Impact factor: 0.73


IV JOURNAL PAPERS – UNDER REVIEW (PEER-REVIEWED)

99. Curcumin-loaded sterically stabilized Nanodispersion based on non-ionic colloidal system

induced by Ultrasound and Solvent Diffusion-Evaporation

Tan Khang Wei, Siah Ying Tang and Manickam Sivakumar

Food Hydrocolloids (Submitted).

Impact factor: 4.2

100. Response Surface Optimisation (RSM) for the Development of Novel Ganoderic acid

Encapsulated Nanodispersion using the combination of Ultrasonic Cavitation and Solvent

Evaporation Methodologies

Tan Khang Wei, Sivakumar Manickam, Siah Ying Tang and Cheng Poh Guat

Journal of Food Engineering (Submitted).

Impact factor: 2.28

101. Emulsion Solvent Evaporation technique in the formulation and optimization of

Lamivudine-loaded Eudragit coated Pectin microspheres for Colon-specific delivery

G Senthilkumar, A Umamaheswari, MD Raja, M Sivakumar, M Gover Antoniraj and K

Ruckmani

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (Submitted).

Impact factor: 2.6

102. Dibakar Mullick, Prakash Anjanappa, Kumaravel Selvakumar, Kandasamy Ruckmani and

Manickam Sivakumar


Copper-catalysed coupling of Aryl bromides with 2-(Trimethylsilyl)ethanol as alcohol

surrogate

Current Organic Chemistry (Submitted).

Impact factor: 3.04

103. Chee Meng Ng and Manickam Sivakumar

Conjugation of Insulin onto the sidewalls of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)

through functionalization and diimide-activated amidation

RSC Advances (Submitted).

Impact factor: 2.56

104. Surya Sudheer, Manickam Sivakumar, Asgar Ali and Ajit Singh

A Practical Strategy for the Bioconversion of Palm Oil Waste fibres in the solid state

cultivation of Ganoderma lucidum

Biomass and Bioenergy (Submitted).

Impact factor: 3.0

105. Weng Kiat Tan, Siew Cheong Cheah, Shridharan Parthasarathy and Sivakumar Manickam

Fish Pond Water Treatment using Ultrasonic Cavitation and Advanced Oxidation Processes

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (Submitted).

Impact factor: 3.52

106. Ibrahim Alzorqi and Sivakumar Manickam

Ultrasound Assisted Extraction (UAE) and Isolation of Antioxidant Polysachharides from

artificially cultivated fungus Ganoderma lucidum

Food Chemistry (Submitted).

Impact factor: 3.4

107. Renu Geetha Bai, Kasturi Muthoosamy and Sivakumar Manickam

Ultrasonic Cavitation induced Exfoliation and generation of Stabiliser-free, exceedingly-stable

Nanographene sheet dispersion

Chemical Engineering Journal (Submitted).

Impact factor: 3.52

108. Ibrahim Alzorqi, Ajit Singh and Sivakumar Manickam

Optimisation of Ultrasound Assisted Extraction (UAE) of Water-soluble Polysachharides from

Ganoderma lucidum using Response Surface Methodology (RSM)

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (Submitted).

Impact factor: 3.4

V INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS

109. Effect of UV-C radiation on growth and physico-chemical properties of medicinally

important mushroom – Ganoderma lucidum

Zain Taha, Sivakumar Manickam and Asgar Ali

8th

International Medicinal Mushroom Conference (IMMC8), Manizales, Colombia, 24-27

August, 2015.


110. Utilization of Oil Palm Biomass from Malaysia for the Solid State Cultivation of Ganoderma

lucidum

Surya Sudheer, Ibrahim Salahuddin, Zain Taha, Sivakumar Manickam, Asgar Ali and Poh Guat

Cheng

8th

International Medicinal Mushroom Conference (IMMC8), Manizales, Colombia, 24-27

August, 2015.

111. Sonochemical Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles deposited Graphene Sheets and their

Application in the Electrochemical Detection of Nitric Oxide

Renu Geetha Bai, Meifang Zhou, Kasturi Muthoosamy, Pandikumar Alagarsamy,

Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Huang NayMing and Sivakumar Manickam

2nd

Asia-Oceania Sonochemical Society (AOSS-2) Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-28

July, 2015.

112. Quantification of Hydroxyl Groups on C60 Molecular Cage generated by Acoustic Cavitation

in Aqueous Media in Presence of Hydrogen Peroxide

Sadia Afreen, Kasturi Muthoosamy, Ken Kokubo and Sivakumar Manickam

2nd


July, 2015.

113. Ultrasonic Treatment of Glassy Carbon for Nanoparticle Preparation

Jean-Marc Levêque, Jean-Noël Rouzaud, Laurent Duclaux, Laurence Reinert, Naoki Komatsu,

Alexandre Desforge, Sadia Afreen, Sivakumar Manickam and Takahide Kimura.

2nd


July, 2015.

114. Characterisation of Pilot-Scale Triple Frequency Ultrasonic Reactor (TFUR) and Validation of

its Performance through Physical, Chemical and Simulation Techniques

Sivakumar Manickam, Timm Joyce Tiong, Derick Liew Khong Lit, Ramona Claire Gondipon,

Ryan Wong Weysern and Loo Yuen Ling

2nd


July, 2015.

115. Effect of Ultrasonication on the Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and Enzymatic Antioxidants

of Fresh-cut Pineapple

Wei Keat Yeoh, Asgar Ali and Sivakumar Manickam

2nd


July, 2015.

116. Comparison of Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction (UAE) and Hot Water Extraction (HWE) of

Carbohydrates and Phenolic Compounds in Pleurotus pulmonarius Mushroom

Nur Amalina Amirullah, Nurhayati Zainal Abidin, Noorlidah Abdullah

and

Sivakumar

Manickam

2nd


July, 2015.

117. Sonocatalytic Degradation of Rhodamine-B using Pilot-scale Triple Frequency Ultrasound

Cavitation Reactor (TF-USCR)

Shridharan Parthasarathy, Sivakumar Manickam, Liew Yuh Xiu, Lim Vun Yau, Choo Weng King

and Bibi Rushdana Doobory


2nd


July, 2015.

118. Simultaneous Effects of Alkaline and Ultrasound Treatments on the Thermal and

Morphological Properties of Sisal Fibres

Prakash Krishnaiah, Sivakumar Manickam and C.T. Ratnam

2nd


July, 2015.

119. Impact of Ultrasonication on the Solubility of Gaharu Tea in Water

Zain Taha and Sivakumar Manickam

2nd


July, 2015.

120. Ultrasound as An Extraction Technique for the Isolation of Polysaccharides from

Ganoderma Lucidum

Ibrahim Alzorqi, Surya Sudheer and Sivakumar Manickam

2nd


July, 2015.

121. Selective encapsulation and release of emulsion droplets via coupling ultrasound and

microfluidic technologies

Matthew S. T. Lok, T. Joyce Tiong, Jit-Kai Chin and Sivakumar Manickam

2nd


July, 2015.

122. Sonocatalytic Degradation of Rhodamine B using Pilot-scale Triple Frequency Ultrasound

Cavitation Reactor (TF-USCR)

S.Parthasarathy, S.Manickam, X.Y. Liew, Y.V. Lim, K.W. Choo, D.R. Bibi, R.L.Gomes

13th

Mediterranean Congress of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering in the 21st

Century, Barcelona, Spain, Sep 30 – Oct 3, 2014.

123. Development of Stable Aqueous Graphene Dispersion by Ultrasonic Cavitation

Renu Geetha Bai, Kasturi Muthoosamy and Sivakumar Manickam

1st

International Conference on Ultrasonic-based Applications: From Analysis to Synthesis

(Ultrasonics 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, Sep 15-17, 2014.

124. Biocompatible silver decorated reduced graphene oxide for antimicrobial and biosensing

applications

Kasturi Muthoosamy, Renu Geetha Bai, Lim HN, Huang NM, Chai CH and Sivakumar

Manickam

5th

EUCheMS (European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences) Chemistry

Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, Aug 31 – Sep 4, 2014.

125. Exfoliation and Generation of Nanographene sheet dispersion induced by Greener

Ultrasound Cavitation

Sivakumar Manickam, Renu Geetha Bai and Kasturi Muthoosami

5th

International IUPAC conference on Green Chemistry (ICGC5), Durban, South Africa,

August 17-21, 2014.


126. Intensification of Extraction of Water-soluble Antioxidant Polysaccharides from G. lucidum

using Ultrasound: A detailed comparison with Conventional methods

Sivakumar Manickam and Ibrahim Alzorqi

The 14th

Meeting of the European Society of Sonochemistry (ESS14), Avignon, France, June 2-

6, 2014.

127. COMSOL Simulation of Acoustic Pressure Fields for Ultrasonic Vial Tweeter

Timm Joyce Tiong, Ibrahim Alzorqi and Sivakumar Manickam

The 14th

Meeting of the European Society of Sonochemistry (ESS14), Avignon, France, June 2-

6, 2014.

128. Nano-hybrid Graphene and Graphene Oxide as a Biomedical cargo for enhanced delivery of

Curcumin into Cancel cells

Kasturi Muthoosamy, Hong Ngee Lim, Huang Nay Ming and Sivakumar Manickam

The 7th

World Congress on Biomimetics and Nano-Bio, South Korea, August 26-30, 2013

129. A Novel Multifunctional template using Graphene Oxide and Fluorescent probe as a

Biomedical Cargo for better visualization of Curcumin into cancer cells

Kasturi Muthoosamy, Sivakumar Manickam, Hong Ngee Lim and Huang Nay Ming

3rd

Conference on Innovation in Drug Delivery: Advances in Local Drug Delivery, Pisa, Italy,

Sep 22-25, 2013.

130. In-situ Green Synthesis of Reduced Graphene Nanosheets using Medicinal Mushroom

Kasturi Muthoosamy, Renu Geetha Bai, Surya Mudavasseril Sudheer, Hong Ngee Lim, Huang

Nay Ming and Sivakumar Manickam

4th

International Conference on Nanotechnology: Fundamentals and Applications (ICNFA

2013), Toronto, Canada, 12-14 August, 2013.

131. Green Synthesis of Graphene Nanosheets using a Medicinal Mushroom Extract

Renu Geetha Bai, Kasturi Muthoosamy and Sivakumar Manickam

3rd

Euro-India International Conference on Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering, India, 9-10

August, 2013.

132. Palm oil mill effluent (POME) polishing using activated carbon (AC) and adsorption and

novel ultrasound (US) cavitation technology

Shridharan Parthasarathy, Rafie Rushdy Mohammed, Sivakumar Manickam, Chong Mei Fong

and Rachel L Gomes

6th

International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (GSC-6), Nottingham, UK,

August 4-7, 2013.

133. Graphene and Graphene Oxide as a Docking station for modern drug delivery system

Kasturi Muthoosamy, Renu Geetha Bai, Surya Mudavasseril Sudheer, Hong Ngee Lim, Huang

Nay Ming and Sivakumar Manickam

NanoBio 2013 (Advances in Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnologies), Anna

University Tiruchirappalli, India, 27-29 June, 2013.

134. Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs) as a feasible and potential multifunctional drug

carrier for conjugating Insulin

Chee Meng Ng and Sivakumar Manickam

European Summit for Clinical Nanomedicine (CLINAM) and Targeted Medicine, Basel,

Switzerland, 23-25 June, 2013.


135. Palm oil based O/W Nanoemulsion generation and Nanoencapsulation of

Chemotherapeutically active ingredient Curcumin using Liquid Whistle Hydrodynamic

Cavitation Reactor (LWHCR)

Sivakumar Manickam and Shridharan Parthasarathy

International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical and Cosmeceutical

Technology (PharmaTech 2012), KLCC, KL, Malaysia, November 20-21, 2012

136. Green chemical processing using Liquid Whistle Hydrodynamic Cavitation Reactor (LWHCR)

to generate Nanoemulsion and Nanoencapsulation of pharmaceutically active ingredient

Curcumin

Sivakumar Manickam, and Shridharan Parthasarathy

4th

International IUPAC conference on Green Chemistry (ICGC4), Iguassu, Brazil, August 25-

29, 2012

137. Ganoderma Lucidum: The Wonder Medicine

Sivakumar Manickam, and Surya Sudheer

13th

Medicinal and Aromatic plants seminar (MAPS -13), KL, Malaysia, September 25-26,

2012

138. Designing a novel nanoscale drug delivery platform using Graphene, Dye and Pluronic F127

as Nanohybrid Vehicle for improved efficacy of Curcumin into cancer cells

Kasturi Muthoosamy, Hong N Lee and Sivakumar Manickam

A European Conference/Workshop on the Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of

Graphene (GrapHEL Conference/Workshop), Mykonos, Greece, September 27-30, 2012

139. Curcumin encapsulated Nanodispersion generated by Ultrasound and Solvent diffusion

evaporation methodology – Process optimization using Response Surface Methodology

(RSM) of experimental design

Sivakumar Manickam, Tan Khang Wei and Siah Ying Tang

Colloids and Nanomedicine 2012 (Elsevier), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 15-17, 2012

140. Utilisation of Higee method for Green preparation of Silver Nanoparticles

Chee Meng Ng, Chen and Manickam Sivakumar

14th

Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE 2012), Singapore,

Feb 21-24, 2012

141. Response Surface Optimization assisted development of novel Ganoderic acid encapsulated

Nanodispersion using the combined Ultrasonic cavitation and Solvent evaporation

methodologies

Sivakumar Manickam, Tan Khang Wei and Siah Ying Tang

Colloids and Nanomedicine 2012 (Elsevier), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 15-17, 2012

142. Enhancing the Efficacy of Chitosan by a Novel Nanoemulsion formulation

Maysoun A. Mustafa, Asgar Ali and Sivakumar Manickam

7th

International Postharvest Symposium (IPS 2012), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 25-29,

2012

143. Carboxylation of Carbon Nanotubes using Acoustic Cavitation at room temperature



3rd

International Congress on Green Process Engineering (GPE-2011), Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, Dec 6-8, 2011

144. The Role of Acoustic Cavitation in the Carboxylation of Carbon Nanotubes


2011 World Congress on Engineering and Technology (CET 2011, Shangai, China, Oct 28-30,

2011

145. Mucoadhesion study on Curcumin containing Chitosan nanoparticles for possible delivery

to the colon

Lay Hong Chuah, Nashiru Billa, Clive Roberts, Jonathan Burley and Sivakumar Manickam

UK PharmSci 2011 Conference, Nottingham, UK

146. Encapsulation of Pharmaceutical materials in the Nanodroplets created by a Simple, Unique

and Green Technique, Ultrasonic Cavitation

Manickam Sivakumar, Siah Ying Tang and Tan Khang Wei

European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2011),

Montpellier, France, Sep12-15, 2011

147. Formulation Development and In-Vitro studies of Resveratrol through self-

microemulsifying drug delivery system

Khoo Siok Luan, Sivaram Nallamolu, Chitneni Mallikarjun and Sivakumar Manickam

24th

Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Associations (FAPA) Congress), Bali, Indonesia,

Sep13-16, 2012.

148. Application of Chitosan in the form of nanoemulsions to control Colletotrichum

gloeosporioides of dragon fruits

Noosheen Zahid, Sivakumar Manickam and Asgar Ali

11th

International Annual Symposium on Sustainability Science and Management, Universiti

Malaya Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia, July 9-11, 2012

149. Using ethanolic extract of propolis as a natural fungicide to control Postharvest

Anthracnose of dragon Fruits

Noosheen Zahid, Sivakumar Manickam and Asgar Ali

11th

International Annual Symposium on Sustainability Science and Management, Universiti

Malaya Terengganu (UMT), July 9-11, 2012

150. Optimisation for the preparation of Curcumin loaded nanoemulsion using Response

Surface Methodology (RSM)

Tan Khang Wei and Manickam Sivakumar

13th

Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE 2010), Taipei,

Taiwan, Oct 5-8, 2010

151. Design and Evaluation of Aspirin-loaded Submicron scale Water-in-Oil-in-Water Multiple

Emulsions


13th

Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE 2010), Taipei,

Taiwan, Oct 5-8, 2010

152. Fabrication and Characterisation of Curcumin Nanoemulsion based on Nanoemulsifying

approach assisted by ultrasound cavitation


Tan Khang Wei and Sivakumar Manickam


Technology, Pharma Tech 2010, Kuala Lumpur, 25-26 May, 2010.

153. Preparation and Evaluation of Aspirin-loaded Multiple Submicron emulsions




154. Utilisation of Ultrasound Cavitation in the Carboxylation of Carbon Nanotubes for further

chemical derivatisation




155. Effects of homogenization and ultrasonication on curcumin-chitosan nanoparticles.

LH Chuah, N. Billa and M. Sivakumar

International Conference on Nanotechnology – Research and Commercialisation (ICONT

2009), 14 17 Dec 2009, Langkawi, Malaysia.

156. A Novel Formulation and Optimisation of Aspirin Nanoemulsion prepared by Cavitation

induced by Ultrasonic waves



2009), 14-17 Dec 2009, Langkawi, Malaysia.

157. Fabrication and Characterization of Ganoderic acid Nanoemulsion or Reverse

Nanoemulsion as Colloidal Carrier

Tan Khang Wei, Sivakumar Manickam, Chin Siew Kian and Law Chung Lim


2009), 14-17 Dec 2009, Langkawi, Malaysia.

158. Ultrasonic Cavitation: A Green Process Engineering Technique for the Efficient Treatment

of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME).

Manickam Sivakumar and Norhaida Zainal Abidin

2nd

International Congress on Green Process Engineering and 2nd

European Process

Intensification Conference, 14-17 June 2009, Venice, Italy.

159. Cavitational solution for the production of Nanomaterials

Manickam Sivakumar

6th

International Materials Technology Conference & Exhibition, 24-27 Aug 2008, Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia.

160. Magnetization and Phase Transition Characteristics near TN in Nanoscale Multiferroic

BiFeO3

Ranabrata Muzumder, Sushmita Ghosh, Parthasarathi Mondal, Dipten Bhattacharya, Subrata

Dasgupta, Nandini Das, Amarnath Sen, A.K. Tyagi, Manickam Sivakumar, T. Takami and H.

Ikuta

8th

International Conference on Nanostructured Materials (Nano 2006), August 20-25, 2006,

IISc Bangalore, India.


161. Synthesis of yttrium hydroxide and oxide doped with europium nanosheets

Atsuya Towata, Kyuichi Yasui, Toru Tuziuti, Teruyuki Kozuka, Manickam Sivakumar, and

Yasuo Iida

Joint Meeting of the 8th International Symposium on Hydrothermal Reactions (ISHR-8) and 7th

International Conference on Solvothermal Reactions (ICSTR-7) held in Sendai, Japan, August 5

9, 2006.

162. Fabrication of Nanosized Pt on rutile TiO2 using standing wave sonochemical reactor

(SWSR) Observation of enhanced Catalytic oxidation of CO

Manickam Sivakumar, Atsuya Towata, Kyuichi Yasui, Toru Tuziuti, Masahiko Tsujimoto, Ziyi

Zhong, Luwei Chen and Yasuo Iida

10th

European Society of Sonochemistry (ESS-10), June 4-8, 2006 at Hamburg, Germany.

163. Solid Lipid Nanoparticles (SLN) - A Novel Carrier System for Antitumour Drugs –

Characterization, In-Vitro & In-Vivo Studies.

K. Ruckmani, M. Sivakumar and P.A. Ganeshkumar

International Conference on Nanotechnology in Advanced Drug delivery (Nano 2006), Feb 17-

18, 2006, NIPER, Chandigarh, India.

164. A New Ultrasonic Cavitation approach for the Synthesis of Zinc Ferrite Nanocrystals

M.Sivakumar, K.Yasui, A. Towata, T. Tuziuti and Y.Iida

2nd

International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN), 6-11

February 2005, Queenstown, New Zealand.

165. Protein release from Yeast as an evaluation method of physical efficiency of Sonochemical

reactor

Y.Iida, T.Tuziuti, K.Yasui, M.Sivakumar and A.Towata

34th

Symposium of the UIA (Ultrasonic Industry Association), 13 - 15 March, 2005, Las Vegas,

Nevada, USA.

166. Effects of ultrasound frequency on the preparation of sonicated liposomes

Y.Iida, M.Sivakumar, A. Towata, T. Kozuka, T.Tuziuti, K.Yasui, M. Shibakami and K. Kawasaki

International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM 2005), 15 -20,

December 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

167. Numerical simulation for single-bubble sonochemistry

K.Yasui, T. Tuziuti, M.Sivakumar and Y.Iida

International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM 2005), 15 -20,

December 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

168. Generation of oxygen atom in sonochemical reactions


World Congress on Ultrasonics merged with Ultrasonic International (WCU/UI'05), 28th

August -1st

September 2005, Beijing, China.

169. Influence of dissolved-air concentration on spatial distribution of multibubble system for

Sonochemistry

T. Tuziuti, K.Yasui, M.Sivakumar and Y.Iida

World Congress on Ultrasonics merged with Ultrasonic International (WCU/UI'05), 28th

August -1st

September 2005, Beijing, China.


170. Numerical simulation for sonoluminescence and sonochemistry


PFPC Sonochemistry Symposium, July 20, 2005, Melbourne, Australia.

171. 酵母からのタンパク質抽出量測定によるソノケミカル反応装置の物理効果評価法

Y.Iida, T.Tuziuti, K.Yasui, M.Sivakumar and A.Towata ２５回超音波エレクトロニクスの基礎と応用に関するシンポジウム

(超音波シンポジウム運営委員会), 28th

Oct 2005, Sapporo, Japan (Presented in Japanese).

172. Fabrication of bimodal (micro/macro) alumina materials using yeast cells as templates

A.Towata, M.Sivakumar, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, T.Kozuka, K. Ohta and Y.Iida

International Symposium on Surface Science and Nanotechnology (The Surface Science

Society of Japan-SSSJ), 14th

Nov, 2005.

173. ユーロピウム含有アパタイト粒子合成における超音波照射の影響

A.Towata, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, M.Sivakumar and Y.Iida 化学工学会第７０年会, 名古屋大学 (化学工学会), 23rd

March 2005, Nagoya, Japan

(Presented in Japanese).

174. テンプレートとして酵母を利用したジルコニア中空粒子の合成

A.Towata, M.Sivakumar, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, T.Kozuka and Y.Iida 化学工学会 (化学工学会), 15th

Sep, 2005, in 岡山.

175. Synthesis of wrinkle hollow TiO2 particles using yeast cells as templates

A.Towata, M.Sivakumar, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, T.Kozuka and Y.Iida 第２２回日韓国際セラミックスセミナー (第２２回日韓国際セラミックスセミナー組織委会), 24th

Nov, 2005, Nagoya, Japan.

176. 超音波キャビテーションにおける多数気泡の光散乱

T.Tuziuti, K.Yasui, M.Sivakumar, A.Towata and Y.Iida 先進製造プロセス研究部門研究発表会, 14th

December 2004, Tsukuba, Japan (Presented

in Japanese).

177. Acoustic cavitation induced preparation of Pt/TiO2 catalysts: observation of unusually

increased photocatalytic activity of the Pt/TiO2-rutile

M.Sivakumar, Y.Iida, K.Yasui and T.Tuziuti

9th

European Society of Sonochemistry (ESS-9), April 25 -30, 2004 at Badajoz, Spain.

178. Raman Spectra Database of Minerals and Inorganic Materials on the Web

Y.Iida, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, T.Kozuka, A.Towata and M.Sivakumar

19th

International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS2004), August 8 -13, 2004 at

Queensland, Australia.

179. Comparison of 3 Dosimeters for Sonochemical reactions

Y.Iida, K.Yasui, T.Tuziuti, M.Sivakumar and A.Towata

13th

Symposium of the Japan Society of Sonochemistry (JSS), November 11-12, 2004, Tokyo,

Japan.


180. Ultrasonic Cavitation in 1D and 2D Microspace

Y.Iida, T.Tuziuti, M.Sivakumar, A.Towata and K.Yasui

13th


Japan.

181. Generation of Oxygen atom in Sonochemical Reactions


13th


Japan.

182. Sonochemical Synthesis of Pt/TiO2 Photocatalyst and its evaluation

M.Sivakumar, T. Tuziuti, K.Yasui, A. Towata and Y.Iida

Ceramic Society of Japan, December 3, 2004, Nagoya, Japan.

183. Ultrasound mediated Nanophase formation of SrFe12O19

M.Sivakumar, and A.Gedanken

12th

International Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry (ISSC), Oct 6-11, 2002, Eilat,

Israel.

184. Sonochemical Decomposition of Fe(CO)5 to Fe2O3 Nanoparticles : Understanding with

Power Density Factor

M.Sivakumar, and A.Gedanken

21st

IVS General Conference – Nanohappenings Israel (NH), Sep 11-12, 2002, Tel Aviv, Israel.

185. Large scale destruction of Pollutants using Acoustic Cavitation

M.Sivakumar, P.R. Gogate and A.B.Pandit

17th

International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE), Aug 25-28, 2002,

Hong Kong, China.

186. Ultrasound enhanced Degradation of Rhodamine B: Effect of Power Density

M.Sivakumar and A.B.Pandit

7th

European Society of Sonochemistry (ESS-7), May 14 -17, 2000 at Toulouse, France.

187. Hydrodynamic Cavitation assisted Degradation of Rhodamine B: A Technologically viable

Wastewater Treatment technique

M.Sivakumar and A.B.Pandit

International conference on Science and Technology under Chemical Society of Canada, Oct

12-13, 2000 at New Delhi, India.

188. Optimisation of Alkaline Hydrolysis of Methyl Benzoate-Effect of Ultrasound

M.Sivakumar, P.SenthilKumar, Sukti Majumdar and A.B.Pandit

International Conference and Exhibition on Ultrasonics (ICEU-99), New Delhi, 2-4 Dec, 1999,

India.

189. Ultrasound Enhanced PTC Reactions

M.Sivakumar, P.SenthilKumar and A.B.Pandit

14th

National Symposium on Catalysis, December 16-18,1998, at Anna University, Chennai,

India.


THESIS EXAMINED

PHD

1 Candidate: Mr. V. Sankar

Thesis title: Formulation Development and In Vitro Evaluation of Zidovudine Niosomes

Degree: PhD, Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology

Year: 2010

University: Bharathidasan University, India

2 Candidate: Mr. Chin Siew Kian

Thesis title: Maximising the Retention of Crude Ganoderic Acids & Water Soluble

Polysaccharides Content of Ganoderma Lucidum Using Two – Stage Dehydration Method

Degree: PhD, Chemical Engineering

Year: 2011

University: University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

3 Candidate: Ms. Chan Yi Jing

Thesis title: A Complete Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) Treatment System Using Novel

Integrated Anaerobic-Aerobic Bioreactor IAAB


Year: 2011


4 Candidate: Ms. Poh Phaik Eong

Thesis title: Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) Under Thermophilic Condition Using

Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket-Hollow Centered Packed Bed (UASB-HCPB) Reactor


Year: 2011


5 Candidate: Mr. K. Badri Narayanan

Thesis title: Biological Synthesis and Characterisation of metal nanoparticles and their

potential degradation of 4-nitrophenol

Degree: PhD, Biotechnology

Year: 2011

University: Pondicherry University, India

6 Candidate: Ms. Muhammed Shafee Muneera Begum

Thesis title: Design and Development ….. Pantoprazole


Year: 2011


8 Candidate: Mr. Cheah Kean How

Thesis title: Analysis and Fabrication of Ceramic MEMS-scale Micropropulsion for Space

applications


Year: 2012



9 Candidate: Mr. Bharat A Bhanvase

Thesis title: Studies on Polymer Nanocomposite by In-Situ Emulsion Polymerisation with and

without Ultrasound Techniques.


Year: 2012

University: University of Pune, India

10 Candidate: Mr. Srinu Naik

Thesis title: Optimisation of Parameters for Biological Denitrification of Wastewater in Gas-

Liquid-Solid Bioreactor.


Year: 2012

University: National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, India

11 Candidate: Mr. Kai Seng Koh

Thesis title: Synthesis, Characterisation of Hydroxylammonium and its low power Electrolytic

decomposition in Microcombustion chamber


Year: 2013


12 Candidate: Mr. Abhishek Kumar Singh

Thesis title: Studies of Immobilized Lipase from Candida sp. and its activity study for

Glycerides production


Year: 2013

University: Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India

13 Candidate: Ms. CAVALIERI Francesca

Thesis title: Ultrasonic Synthesis and Characterisation of Multifunctional Microspheres

Degree: PhD, Chemistry

Year: 2013

University: University of Melbourne, Australia

14 Candidate: Mr. Saleem Zainoddin Shaikh

Thesis title: Development and Validation of Analytical Methods for Tobramycin and Sodium

Hyaluronate in Ophthalmic Formulations


Year: 2014


15 Candidate: Mr. Siamak Pilban Jahromi

Thesis title: Synthesis and Characterisation of Nickel Oxide Nanostructure as Electroactive

materials for Supercapacitors

Degree: PhD, Physics

Year: 2015

University: University of Malaya, Malaysia

16 Candidate: Anisa Ur Rahmah


Thesis title: Advanced Oxidation Process of Wastewater Containing Oxytetracycline

Antibiotic Contaminant using UV/H2O2 System

Degree: PhD Chemical Engineering

Year: 2015

University: University Technology Petronas, Malaysia

17. Candidate: Ms. Suganti Ramrad

Thesis title: Improving the properties of reclaimed waste tire rubber by blending with

poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) and electron beam radiation


Year: 2015


THESIS EXAMINED

MPHIL/MSC

14 Candidate: Mr. Yong Hua Tai

Thesis title: Boron Removal from Wastewater by using Palm Oil Mill Boiler (POMB) bottom

ash

Degree: MPhil, Chemical Engineering

Year: 2010


15 Candidate: Ms. Jasmina Zukan

Thesis title: The Sonochemical Synthesis of Nanoparticles

Degree: MSc, Chemistry

Year: 2008

University: University of Melbourne, Australia

16 Candidate: Ms. Nur Nadiah Binti Abdul Rashid

Thesis title: Formulation of Nanoemulsions for Production of Anticancer Drugs using Betulinic

acid

Degree: MSc

Year: 2013

University: University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia.

MEMBERSHIPS - PROFESSIONAL BODIES

1. Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (MAIChE)

2. Life Member, UDCT Alumni Association (UAA)

3. Life Member, Catalysis Society of India (CSI)

4. Member, American Chemical Society (MACS)

5. Associate Member, Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), UK

6. Member, IChemE – Pharma Special Subject Group

7. Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK.


REVIEWER- JOURNALS

• AAPS PharmSciTech

• ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

• Advanced Powder Technology (Elsevier)

• Advances in Environmental Research (TechnoPress)

• American Chemical Science Journal (Sciencedomain International)

• Anaerobe (Elsevier)

• Biochemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier)

• Biotechnology and Bioengineering (Wiley)

• Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (Wiley Interscience)

• Catalysis Today (Elsevier)

• Central European Journal of Chemistry (Versita with Springer Verlag)

• Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier)

• Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification (Elsevier)

• Chemical Engineering and Technology (Wiley)

• Chemical Product and Process Modelling (Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress))

• Chemosphere (Elsevier)

• Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects (Elsevier)

• Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces (Elsevier)

• Current Pharmaceutical Analysis (Bentham Science Publishers)

• Current Nanoscience (Bentham Science)

• Drug Delivery Letters (Bentham Science)

• Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy (Informa Healthcare)

• European Journal of Chemistry

• Food Chemistry (Elsevier)

• Fuel (Elsevier)

• Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (American Chemical Society)

• International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier)

• International Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation (Inderscience)

• International Journal of Nanomedicine (Dove Medical Press)

• International Journal of Pharmaceutics (Elsevier)

• Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (The Institute of Pure and Applied Physics, Japan)

• Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (Elsevier)

• Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology

• Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (Korean Society of Industrial and

Engineering Chemistry)

• Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (Springer)

• Journal of Microencapsulation (Informa Healthcare)

• Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology (Elsevier)

• Journal of Physical Chemistry (American Chemical Society)

• Materials Chemistry and Physics (Elsevier)

• Materials Express

• Materials Letters (Elsevier)

• Minireviews in Medicinal Chemistry (Benthamscience)

• Molecules (MDPI, Basel, Switzerland)

• Pharmaceutical Development and Technology (Informa Healthcare)

• Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology (Bentham Science)


• Polymer Composites (Wiley)

• Powder Technology (Elsevier)

• Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (Elsevier)

• Scientia Pharmaceutica (The Austrian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences)

• Scientific Research and Essays (Academic journals)

• Separation and Purification Technology (Elsevier)

• Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic, and Nano-Metal Chemistry (Taylor

& Francis)

• Talanta (Elsevier)

• Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry (Taylor & Francis)

• Toxicology Research (Royal Society of Chemistry)

• Tribology Transactions (Taylor & Francis)

• Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (Elsevier)

• Waste and Biomass Valorisation (Springer)

REVIEWER- RESEARCH PROPOSALS

• Qatar National Research Foundation (QNRF)

• Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (SRNSF)

• National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT), Chile

• Universiti Malaya, High Impact Project Proposal

RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

Dr. Vijayanand Moholkar, Indian Institute of Technology, IIT-Guwahati, India

� Dr. Yasuo Iida, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST,

Nagoya, Japan

� Prof. Gedanken, Department of Chemistry and Kanbar Laboratory for Nanomaterials,

Bar-Ilan University Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Bar-Ilan Univ,

Israel

� Prof. A.B. Pandit, Chemical Engineering Division, University Institute of Chemical

Technology (UICT), University of Mumbai, Matunga, Mumbai – 400 019, India.

� Prof. Ruckmani, Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology, Anna

University, Tiruchi, India

� Prof. Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Department of Chemistry, University of Melbourne,

Australia.

� Prof. Giancarlo Cravotto, Full Professor of Organic Chemistry, Dipartimento di Scienza e

Tecnologia del Farmaco, University of Turin, Italy.

� Prof. Cristina Leonelli, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dei Materiali e dell'Ambiente

Facolta' di Ingegneria, Universita' degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy.

� Dr. R.V. Mangalaraja, Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,

University of Concepci´on, 270, Edmundo Larenas, Concepci´on, Chile.

� Prof. Chantal Pichon, Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CBM) – CNRS, UPR 4301 rue

Charles sadron, 45071 Orleans cedex 02 France.

� Prof. Pao-Chi Chen, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Lunghwa

University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.


RESEARCH CITATIONS AND H-INDEX (USING SCOPUS)

(AS OF 22.06.2015)

Number of citations : 1555

h-index : 22

Average citations : 21.6

The h Index – 22

IMPACT FACTORS OF THE PUBLISHED JOURNAL PAPERS

Average impact factor: 2.9


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