Principal Investigator

Bala Ramjee, Ph.D.

bramjee@odu.edu

Bala Ramjee graduated with a B.Sc. (Chemistry) from Loyola College, Madras, India in 1994. He joined the integrated Ph.D. program in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India from where he obtained his M.S. (Chemical Sciences) in 1997 and Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry) in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Uday Maitra.

He was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratories of Prof. Alexander Wei (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, IN) and Prof. Royce W. Murray (Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC) before joining the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in Old Dominion University as an Assistant Professor in August 2007.

Group Photos

Summer 2023

Spring 2023

Spring 2019

Fall 2017

Fall 2015

Summer 2013

September 2012

Back row (L to R): Bala Ramjee, Justin Spute, and Christopher Gammarano. Front row (L to R): Kalpana Mahadeva, Thu Nguyen, and Sangbum Han

May 2011

Back row (L to R): Bala Ramjee, Greye Shane, Christian Chamberlayne, and Sangbum Han. Front ro (L to R): John Bedford, Vara Prasad Sheela, Srujana Prayakarao, and Kalpana Mahadevan

Summer 2009

Back row (L to R): Bala Ramjee, Zaharoula Kalaitzis, and Vara Prasad Sheela.  Front row (L to R): Houman Chegini, April Byars, and Srujana Prayakarao

Alumni

Graduate Students

Zaharoula “Joy” Kalaitzis, MS, December 2009. Thesis title:  Solvent dependent morphologies in thiol-ene photopolymerization: A facile route to synthesis of resorcinarene nanocapsules.

Vara Prasad Sheela, MS, August 2012. Thesis title: Multidentate resorcinarene surfactants for the phase transfer of metal nanoparticles and nanodiamonds: Applications in catalysis and diamond film growth.

Srujana Prayakarao, MS, December 2012.

Christopher Gammarano, MS, May 2013.

Justin Spute, MS, May 2015.

Sangbum Han, Ph.D., August 2016. Thesis title: Synthesis, Morphological Control, Dispersion Stabilization and in situ Self-assembly of Noble Metal Nanostructures using Multidentate Resorcinarene Surfactants.

Amanda Skinner

Andrew Benedict

Mike Miller, MS, May 2020.

Luke Weisenstein, MS, May 2021.

Undergraduate and High School Students

April Byars

Christian Chamberlayne (high school student)

Courtney Johnston

John Bedford

Joseph Brown

Tadeo O’Brien

Greye Shane

Khamisha Grant

Roland New

Andrew Evans

Chris Badalis

Joanna Tricia Mascarinas

Laura George

Undergraduate Senior Thesis Students

Thu Nguyen

Andrew Benedict

Stephen Johnston

Elliott Johnson

Megan Lohr

Cylah Bruno