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1. HUMAN
RESOURSES
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MRS SUSHAMAPRABHA
Lecturerin Natural Science
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VINITHA M
Natural Science
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Date on 24/07/2015

2. INDEX
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1 INTRODUCTION 3
2 PulickelAjayan 4
3 Early life and
education
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4 Research 5-6
5 Personal life 6

3. 6 Honours 6-7
7 Conclusion 7
8 Reference 7
INTRODUCTION
Human resource is the set of
individuals who make up the work force of an organization business
sector or economy Human resource although human capital typically
refers to a more narrow view likewise other term talent labour or
simply people. The professional discipline and business function that
one see am organization human resource is called resource was

4. subsequently in use during the 1910 and 1920 as was the nation that
work’s could be seen as a kind of capital asset
Pulickel Ajayan
Pulickel Madhavapanicker Ajayan, known as
P.M .Ajayan, is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson
Professor in Engineering at Rice University.He is the founding chair
of Rice University's new Materials Science and NanoEngineering
department and also holds joint appointments with the Department of
Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Professor
Engineering .Prior to joining Rice, he was the Henry Burlage of
Material Sciences and Engineering and the director of the NYSTAR

5. interconnect focus center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute until
2007. Known for his relaxed attitude and liberal thinking, he has
broad interests ranging from science and technology to poetry.
Early life and education
Ajayan's early education was in Thrissur District,
Kerala, India. Till the sixth standard, he studied in a Government
school in Kodungallur, after which he moved to Loyola School,
Thiruvananthapuram, a high school he has credited for making a
strong impact on him, and for making him "realize that learning is the
most exciting thing one can ever befriend". graduated from Loyola in
1977. In 1985, Ajayan graduated at the top of his class with a BTech
degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Institute of Technology,
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (now Indian Institute of
Technology (BHU) Varanasi). In 1989, he earned a PhD in Materials
Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois. Afterwards he spent three years as a post-doc atNEC
corporation, Japan, two years as a researcher at the Laboratoire de
Physique des Solides, Orsay, France, and one year at the MaxPlanck
Institute fur Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany.
Research
Ajayan is a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology
His PhD work (1989) involved the characterisation of gold
nanoparticles on oxide substrates and their phase instabilities. He was
involved in the early development of carbon nanotubes. From 1991
onwards, at the NEC Fundamental Research Laboratory in Tsukuba,
Japan, he worked with Sumio Iijima and Thomas Ebbesen and
published some of the early works in carbon nanotubes. During the
past two decades he has published more than 400 papers on various

6. aspects of carbon nanostructures, mostly on nanotubes and recently
on graphene and other layered materials such as boron nitride.
Ajayan’s research interests are broad, focusing on nanomaterials
development for a variety of applications such as energy storage,
composites, electronics and sensors. His publications have earned
more than 30,000 citations and a h-index of 90 until December 2012.
He has to his credit, two Guinness World Records for creating the
smallest brush and the darkest material.
Ajayan's team created the darkest material known
to man, a carpet of carbon nanotubes, that reflects only 0.045% of the
light. In August 2007, he was in the news for creating an energy
storage device on a piece of paper, called the paper battery. In a brief
interview with Discover Magazine, Ajayan stated he believes the
paper battery will have many important future applications in industry
and medicine. In 2012, Ajayan's group announced a paint-on battery
design, which eventually can eliminate restrictions on the surfaces
used for energy storage More recently, Ajayan's group developed a
green battery consists of environmentally friendly lithium-ion
cathode, which can leads to the development of completely bio-
friendly batteries Ajayan's research group is also focusing on the
development of various materials for environmental applications and,
last year the group developed a hybrid material capable of effectively
removing contaminants from water by coating the sand with carbon.
In 2012, Ajayan's group developed a macro-scale carbon nanotube
sponge, in which nanotubes are covalently connected each other, and
demonstrated its selective absorption of oil from oil-water mixture.
Ajayan's present research interests include nanotechnology enabled
energy storage devices (battery, supercapacitor and hybrid devices),
nanocomposites, layered materials, 3D nanostructured materials, and
smart material systems. Apart from leading a research group (~30–35
people, including post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students, and
international visiting scholars), he focuses on teaching and lecturing
around the world on nanotechnology. He regularly serves on the
advisory board of several materials and nanotechnology journals,
nanotechnology start ups and international conferences. In his role as
an academic at Rice and RPI, Ajayan has been a major promoter of
nanotechnology, teaching various interdisciplinary courses at the

7. undergraduate and graduate level, emphasising the changes occurring
in the science and engineering curriculum. Constantly travelling to
expand the field, Ajayan’s group has a large number of collaborators
worldwide and he spends a good amount of time abroad and inside the
United States. He has visiting Professor positions at various
prestigious Universities around the world, such as Tsinghua
University (Beijing, China), Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore,
India) and Shinshu University (Japan). He was a visiting Professor at
ISIS, Strasbourg, France for several months during 2003 and a
Helmoltz-Humboldt prize winner and frequent visitor at the Institute
of Nanotechnology in Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology,Karlsruhe,Germany during2007-2010.
Personal life
Ajayan is married to Poornima Ajayan and
has two daughters Anakha and Ahi.
Honours’
 Swadeshi Shastra Puraskaram,Swadeshi Science Movement,
Kerala (2012)
 Distinguished Alumni Award- IIT – Banaras Hindu University
(2012)
 DST-IISC Centennial Chair Professorship, Bangalore India
(2011)
 Elected Honorary Member of Materials Research Society of
India (2008)
 Scientific American 50 – Research Leader in 2006
 Materials Research Society (MRS) medal, 2006
 Holder of two Guinness Book of World Records (2007, 2005)
 Helmoltz-Humboldt Prize (2007)
 Selected Nano50TM Innovator by Nanotech Briefs (2007)
 Elected Fellow of AAAS (2007)

8.  Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Metallurgy,
Banaras Hindu University, India (2005)
 Kerala Center Award (2005)
 National Science Foundation CAREER early development
award (1998)
Conclusion
Pulikel Ajayan is the foundering chairman of
Rice university.He was involved in the early development of Carbon
NanoTubes and has been a major premoter of Nana Technology
teaching various interdisciplinary courses at the under graduat level
emphasising the changes occurring in the science and engineering
curriculum. He has his credit two Guinness world records for creating
the smallest brush and the darkest material and for creating an energy
storage device in a picece of paper called the paper battery.In his role
as an academic at rice and RPI.In 2012 Ajayan group developed a
macro scale Carbon Nano tubes sponge, in which and demonstrated
its selective absorption of oil from oil water mixture.
Reference
https;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulikael_Ajayan