Education

Positions and Employment

1998 - 1999 Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL-60637, USA,
1999 - 2000 Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Ohio-State University, Columbus, Ohio
2000 - 2001 Research Associate , department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY
2001 - 2003 Research Scientist, Black Light Power Inc., Cranbury, NJ, 08512, USA
2003 - present Assistant Professor, Department of chemistry, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA

Awards and Honors

• Best employee of the month award from Black Light Power Inc, 2002.

• J. C. Ghosh Medal for THE BEST THESIS AWARD in 1997, from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR/ SRF) fellowship from India, 1994

Most Recent Publications (selected from 37)

• Potential for Hydrogen-Water Plasma Laser. R. Mills, P. C. Ray and R. M. Mayo, Applied Physics Letter, 82, 1679, 2003.

• Argon-Hydrogen-Strontium Discharge Light Source. R. Mills, M. Nansteel and P. Ray , IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science 30, 639. 2002

• Substantial Change in the characteristics of a microwave plasma due to combining argon and hydrogen
  R. Mills and P. Ray, New Journal of Physics. 4, 2002, 22.1-22.17

• Spectroscopic Characterization of the atomic hydrogen Energies and Densities and Carbon Species During Helium-Hydrogen-Methane Plasma CVD Synthesis of Single Crystal Diamond Films R. Mills, J. Sankar, P. Ray, B. Dhandapani, and J. He, Chemistry of Materials , 15, 1313, 2003.

• Highly Stable Novel Inorganic Hydrides From Aqueous Electrolysis and Plasma Electrolysis R. Mills, E. Dayalan, P. Ray, B. Dhandapani and J. He, Electrochimica Acta , 47, 3909 (2002).

• Comparison of Excess Balmer alpha Line Broadening of Inductively and Capacitively Coupled RF, Microwave and Discharge Plasma with Certain Catalysis. R. Mills and P. Ray , B. Dhandapani, J. He, J. Applied physics, 92, 2002, 7008.

• CW HI Laser Based on Stationary Inverted Lyman Population From Incandescently Heated Hydrogen Gas with Certain Group I Catalysis. R. Mills, P. C. Ray and R. M. Mayo , IEEE Trans. Of Plasma Science , 236, 31, 2003.

• Excessively Bright Hydrogen-Strontium Discharge Light Source Due to Energy Resonance of Strontium with Hydrogen. R. Mills and P. Ray, J. Plasma Physics , 69, 2003, 131.

• Comparison of excessive Balmer line broadening of inductively and capacitively coupled RF, microwave, and glow discharge hydrogen plasmas with certain catalysts. R. Mills, P.Ray, E. Dayalan, X-Chen, R. Mayo, J. He and B. Dhandapani, , IEEE Trans. Of Plasma Science , 31, 338, 2003.

• Bright hydrogen-light source due to a resonant energy transfer with strontium and argon ions. R. Mills, Mark Nansteel and P. Ray New. J. Physics 69, 2003, 131.

• Stationary inverted Lyman Population formed from incandescently heated hydrogen gas with certain catalysts.
  R. Mills, Ray P.C., Mayo, R.M., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 36, 1504, 2003.

• Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of helium-hydrogen plasma. R. Mills and Ray P., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 36, 1535, 2003.

• Evidence of a Surprising Channeling of Ring-Opening Energy to the H2 Product in the H + c-C3H6 → H2 + C3H5 Abstraction Reaction. N. C. Shuman, A. Srivastava, C. A. Picconatto, D. S. Danse, P. C. Ray and J. J. Valentini,. J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 8380-8382, 2003

• Self-assembly Structure of the levulinic acid-melamine lattice, R. Venkatraman and P. C. Ray, Inter. J. Quant. Chem. (in press).

• A Comparative study of first hyperpolarizabilities of neutral, ionic and zwitterionic molecules. P. C. Ray. Chemical Phys. Lett. (in press).

• The tetrachlorodiphenylstannate(IV) salt of protonated di-pyridyl Ketons N-Ethylthiosemicarbazone, R. Venkatraman, P. C. Ray and F. R. Fronczek, Acta Crystallographic C, E60, m1035-m1037, 2004.
  36. Self-assembly structure of levulinic acid-melamine lattice, R. Venkatraman, P. C. Ray and C Soo Choi, Int. J. Quant. Chem. (in press).

• Remarkable solvent effects on first hyperpolarizabilities of zwitterionic merocyanine dyes, P. C. Ray, Chem. Phys. Lett. (in press)
   

Papers Presented

• Second Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Zwitterionic molecules, P. C. Ray, 227th ACS national meeting, 28th march-1st April, 2004, Anaheium, CA, USA

• Molecular design of ionic nonlinear optical systems, P. C. Ray, 227th ACS national meeting, 28th march-1st April, 2004, Anaheium, CA, USA

• Self-assembly based on levulinic acid-melamine lattice, R. Venkatraman and P. C. Ray, 227th ACS national meeting, 28th march-1st April, 2004, Anaheium, CA, USA

• Energetic catalyst-hydrogen plasma reaction as a potential new energy source. Mills, Randell L.; Ray, Paresh Chandra; Nansteel, Mark; He, Jiliang; Chen, Xuemin; Voigt, Andreas; Dhandapani, Bala. , 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, United States, September 7-11, 2003 .

• Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of helium-hydrogen plasma. Ray, Paresh Chandra; Mills, Randell L , 36th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Princeton, NJ, United States, June 8-11 (2003),

• Novel catalytic reaction of hydrogen as a potential new energy source. Mills, Randell L.; Dhandapani, Bala; Ray, Paresh Chandra; He, Jiliang; Chen, Xuemin; Sankar, Jayasree; Good, William; Voigt, Andreas; Nansteel, Mark; Mayo, Robert , 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-27, 2003 .

• Spectroscopic Identification of a Novel Catalytic Reaction in Hydrogen Plasma. P.Ray and R. L. Mills , Presented an Oral Presentation in 54th Annual Gaseous Electronic Meeting , October, 2001, Pensylvenia State University, PA, USA.

• Start-to-start dynamics of H + cyclo propane reaction: a Doppler Spectroscopy study. P. C. Ray and J. J. Valentini, Presented an Oral Presentation in 22nd Molecular Dynamics Symposium, January 2001, SUNY Albany, NY, USA

• Resonance Emission Spectroscopy of jet-cooled SO2 via the C-X transition. Paresh Chandra Ray, M. F. Arendt and L. J. Butler, presented as An oral presentation in the XXIII Informal Conference on Photochemistry, Califonia, USA, 1998.

• Nonadiabatic product branching and emission spectra of dissociative molecules with NO and NR functional groups.
  L. J. Butler, B. F. Parsons, S. L. Curry, J. A. Muller, Ray P.C., Forde, N. C. M. L. Morton, 218th ACS National Meeting, New Orelans, 1999.

• Progress in the Inelastic Scattering of Acetylene George McBane, Paresh C. Ray, Ao Lin, Tai Ahn and Antonis Tsakotellis , 1999 Waterloo Symposium on Chemical Physics.Waterloo, Ontario N2L, 3G1, Canada

• Synthesis and First Order Hyperpolarizabilities of Some Partially Oxidised Substituted Ferrocenes. K. Alagesan, Paresh Chandra Ray, Puspendu Kumar Das and Ashoke G. Samuelson, International Conferrence on Organic Syntheses (IUPAC) , Bangalore, India, 1994.

• Dissociation Constants of Ionic Dyes in Protic Solvents can be obtained from their Second Order Non-linearity in Solution. Paresh Chandra Ray and Puspendu Kumar Das, Trombay Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry Bombay, India, 1996.

• First Hyperpolarizabilities of Weak Organic Acids. Paresh Chandra Ray and Puspendu Kumar Das, In the general congress of the International Commision for Optics (ICO-17), Korea, 1996.

• Octupolar Aromatic Molecules for Non-linear Optics. Paresh Chandra Ray and Puspendu Kumar Das, Eleventh International Conference on Photochemical Conversion of Solar Energy, Bangalore, India. 1996.