Dr. Anil  A

Department Department of Chemistry
Designation Assistant Professor
Educational Qualification M. Sc. Ph. D.
E-Mail aanil.chy@nitrr.ac.in
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Areas of Interest
  • Structure-Property correlations in Ferroelectric, Relaxor ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric oxides
  • Piezoelectric Sensors, Actuators and Transducers
  • Dielectric Materials for Energy Storage and Pyroelectric Applications
Publications
Journal Publications
  1. Anil Adukkadan*, Jumana Puthanpurayil Jamaludheen and Rajeev Ranjan ‘Decoding the influence of defect dipoles on the polarization switching of incommensurate modulations of perovskite antiferroelectrics’ ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2026 (*Corresponding author)

  2. Anil Adukkadan*, Ishan Bharti and Rajeev Ranjan ‘Strain enhancements in thin polycrystalline antiferroelectric ceramics’ Scripta Materialia, 279 (2026) 117293. (*Corresponding author)

  3. Anil Adukkadan*, Pooja Punetha, Rajeev Ranjan, ‘Introducing Vacancy defects to induce Ferroelectric-like switching in  antiferroelectric oxides’  Journal of Materials Chemistry C 14 (2026) 1924-1932 (*Corresponding author)

  4. Gudeta Jafo Muleta, Gobinda Das Adhikary, Anil Adukkadan, Pooja Punetha, Rajeev Ranjan  ‘Simultaneous Increase of d33 and Curie point of PbZryTi1-yO3: The phenomenon and the mechanism’  Physical Review B, 112, (2025) 104111.

  5. Hariom Prakash, Naveen Kumar, Abhipshit Kumar, Ram Prakash Singh, Bhoopesh Mahale, Anil A, Sujoy Saha, ‘On the origin of high piezoelectric response in PbNi1/3Nb2/3O3-PbZrO3-PbTiO3 ternary system’ Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 36:1639 (2025) 1-15.

  6. Anil Adukkadan*, Gudeta Jafo Muleta, Rajeev Ranjan, ‘Effect of poling-field strength on the thermal restoration of antiferroelectric order in (Pb, La)(Zr, Sn, Ti)O3 ceramics’ ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 7 (2025) 1571-1578. (*Corresponding author)

  7. Gobinda Das Adhikary, Anil Adukkadan, Gudeta Jafo Muleta, Monika, Ramprakash  Singh, Digvijay Narayan Singh, Harvey Luo, Getaw Abebe Tina, Luke Giles, Stefano  Checchia, John Daniels, Rajeev Ranjan, ‘Longitudinal strain enhancement and bending deformations in piezoceramics’ Nature 637 (2025) 333-338. 

  8. Anil Adukkadan*, Deepak Sharma, Gudeta Jafo Muleta, Rajeev Ranjan, ‘Insights into pressure-driven depolarization in PLZST-based antiferroelectric ceramics’ Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 45 (2025) 116954. (*Corresponding author)

  9. Mavila Bindu, Pradeep Hareesh, Suresh Shwetha, Cheroor Konathodi Najiya, Adukkadan Anil, Monika Monika, Periyat Pradeepan, ‘Polyvinyl alcohol embedded with montmorillonite clay and nano titania: A scale-up for sustainable environmental remediation’  ACS Omega, 9 (2024), 51120–51135.

  10. Anil Adukkadan*, Rajeev Ranjan, Viswanathan Kumar, ‘High pyroelectric performance and its dependence on field-induced orientation in antiferroelectric PLZST system’ Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 107 (2024) 4147-4154. (*Corresponding author)

  11. K. V. Satheesh Kumar, M. Bindu, Shwetha Suresh, A. Anil, S. Sujoy, A. Mohanan, P. Periyat, ‘Investigation on swelling behavior of sodium alginate/black titania nanocomposite hydrogels and effect of synthesis conditions on water uptake’ Results in Engineering, 20: 101460 (2023) 1-13.

  12. Anil Adukkadan, Sujoy Saha, Niranjan Prasad Lalla, Rajeev Ranjan, Viswanathan Kumar, ‘New insights into suppression of intermediate incommensurate phase in lead zirconate stannate titanate antiferroelectric system’ Journal of Materials Science, 58 (2023) 8878-8888.

  13. Abhipshit Kumar, Sujoy Saha, Hariom Prakash, Bhoopesh Mahale, Ram Prakash Singh, Anil Adukkadan, Rajeev Ranjan, Naveen Kumar, ‘Role of sintering conditions in tuning the defect chemistry and influencing the electromechanical properties of a Pb-based piezoceramic’ Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 34:723(2023) 1-9.

  14. P J Jumana, A. Anil, V Kumar ‘New insights into perovskite phase stabilization in donor-acceptor co-doped BaTiO3’ Applied Physics A, 128:837 (2022) 1-9.

  15. K. Vani, A. Anil, V. Kumar, ‘Enhanced electrostrain in Cu2+-doped Ba0.80Sr0.20TiO3’ Ferroelectrics, 550 (2019)136-140.

  16. A. Anil, K. Vani, V. Kumar, ‘Role of defect structures in stabilization of ferroelectric phase in tin-substituted Lead Zirconate Titanate’ Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 101 (2018) 3377-3382.

  17. A. S. Divya, P. Juairiya, A. Anil, K. Vani, V. Kumar, ‘Influence of A-site Sr2+ substitution on structure, dielectric and ferroelectric characteristics of 0.66[Pb(In0.50Nb0.50)O3]-0.34[PbTiO3]’ Ceramics International, 43(2017) 825-829.

  18. A. Anil, V. Kumar, ‘Local structural rearrangements and evolution of relaxor state in the complex perovskite (Ba1-xPbx)(In0.50Nb0.50)O3’ Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 99, (2016) 3980-3984.

  19. A. Anil, K. Vani, V. Kumar, ‘Influence of defect structure on ferroelectric aging in donor-acceptor hybrid doped PZT’ Applied Physics A, 122:581 (2016) 1-5.

PATENTS

  1. Piezoelectric composition, methods and applications thereof. Adukkadan Anil, V. Priyadarsini, M. I. Sathyanarayanan, V. Kumar. Granted, United States Patent No. US 10,720,565 B2, 2020

  2. Piezoelectric composition, methods and applications thereof. Adukkadan Anil, V. Priyadarsini, M. I. Sathyanarayanan, V. Kumar. Granted, Indian Patent No. 434051, 2023.

BOOK CHAPTER

M. Bindu, A. Anil and G. Unnikrishnan, ‘Multifunctional Hydroxylapatite Nanofillers for Fine-Tuning of Elastomer Characteristics’, Applications of Multifunctional Nanomaterials, edited by Sabu Thomas, Nandakumar Kalarikkal, Ann Rose Abraham, ISBN: 978-0-12-820557 Published by Elsevier 


  1. Anil Adukkadan*, Jumana Puthanpurayil Jamaludheen and Rajeev Ranjan ‘Decoding the influence of defect dipoles on the polarization switching of incommensurate modulations of perovskite antiferroelectrics’ ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2026 (*Corresponding author)
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