Ramesh Sivarajan

Ramesh has more than 15-years of experience with nano-materials including ceramics, metals, polymer-inorganics and carbon nanomaterials. In the last 10-years in particular, he has focused on the development of industrial applications for single walled carbon nanotubes. Prior to joining Nano-C, Ramesh was the manager of the Advanced Applications Group at Nantero, Inc. where he pioneered the development of CMOS® compatible carbon nanotube formulations and deposition methods critical for their wafer scale integration.

Prior to Nantero, Ramesh served as a research scientist at Rice University, working with Prof. Richard Smalley (winner of the chemistry Nobel Prize in 1996) with whom he co-authored several research publications and a co-inventor on a number of patents. At Rice, his work on CNT dissolution in super-acids led to the patented invention of the world’s first, macroscopic, neat carbon nanotube fiber; today this is leading to ultra-high strength fibers. Ramesh is an inventor on 31 issued US patents and several more issued and pending applications worldwide.

He was a visiting scientist at Cornell University prior to Rice. He holds a PhD in Materials Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and has received post-doctoral training in the area of nano-materials in Israel on a joint project of Bar-Ilan University, Technion and the Israel Aircraft Industry. For about five years, Ramesh has served on the industrial advisory board of the manufacturing engineering department at Boston University and is currently a visiting scientist at Northeastern University. Along with Henning, Ramesh serves as Nano-C’s liaison to the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT.