Naren Narayanan studied Materials Science at TU Darmstadt and received his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science at TU Darmstadt and IFW Dresden, Germany, in 2010. He was a joint postdoctoral research fellow / postdoctoral researcher at ANSTO, UNSW and ANU, Canberra, Australia before joining MURR as a research scientist in August 2022. His research interests are broadly in the area of oxides, elucidating the composition-property relationships by investigating their structure and dynamics (excitations). They can be categorized into three parts: Preparation of materials: Synthesis of highly correlated compounds (both single crystals and polycrystalline oxides, especially multiferroics, frustrated spin systems); experimental characterization of them (Neutron and Synchrotron X-ray scattering, bulk properties measurements); and the theoretical modeling and interpretation of the obtained experimental results.
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M. Liu, C. Ming, Z. Liu, H. Liu, B. Han, N. Narayanan, X. Liu, K. Dai, T. Lu, X. Chen, Z. Hu, Y. Liu, and G. Wang, Weakly coupled relaxor construction in lead-free ferroelectrics with simple composition for superior energy-storage performance, Mater. Horiz., 12, 3939 (2025).
Q. Liao, T. Deng, T. Lu, Z. Liu, N. Narayanan, S. Li, S. Yan, Y. Bao, Y. Liu, G. Wang, Ultrahigh energy storage performance in AN-based superparaelectric ceramics, Chem. Eng. J. 488, 150901 (2024).
N. Narayanan, P. J. Graham, P. Rovillain, J. O’Brian, J. Bertinshaw, S. Yick, J. Hester, A. Maljuk, D. Souptel, B. Buechner, D. Argyriou, and C. Ulrich, Reduced crystal symmetry as origin of the ferroelectric polarization within the incommensurate magnetic phase of TbMn2O5, Phys. Rev. B 105, 214413 (2022).
T. Lu, D. Cortie, Z.-X. Li, N. Narayanan, Z. Liu, Q. Sun, T. J. Frankcombe, G. J. McIntyre, D. Yu, and Y. Liu, Role of A-site molecular ions in the polar functionality of metal-organic framework, Chem. Mater. 33(24), 9666 (2021).
Z. Liu, T. Lu, F. Xue, H. Nie, R. Withers, A. Studer, F. Kremer, N. Narayanan, X. Dong, D. Yu, L. Chen, Y. Liu, and G. WangLead-free (Ag,K)NbO3 materials for high-performance explosive energy conversion, Sci. Adv. 6(21), eaba0367 (2020).
W. Dong, D. Cortie, T. Lu, Q. Sun, N. Narayanan, W. Hu, L. Jacob, Q. Li, D. Yu, H. Chen, A. Chen, X. Wei, G. Wang, M. G. Humphrey, T. J. Frankcombe, and Y. Liu, Collective nonlinear electric polarization via defect-driven local symmetry breaking, Mater. Horiz. 6, 1717 (2019).
N. Narayanan, A. Senyshyn, D. Mikhailova, T. Faske, T. Lu, Z. Liu, B. Weise, H. Ehrenberg, R. A. Mole, W. D. Hutchison, H. Fuess, G. J. McIntyre, Y. Liu, and D. Yu, Magnetic structure and spin correlations in magnetoelectric honeycomb Mn4Ta2O9, Phys. Rev. B 98, 134438 (2018).
D. L. Cortie, B. R. McBride, N. Narayanan, N. R. de Souza, M. Avdeev, R. A. Mole, G. J. McIntyre, G. J. Kearley, R. Withers, D. H. Yu, and Y. Liu, Time-Disordered Crystal Structure of AlPO4-5, J. Phys. Chem. C 121(34), 18762 (2017).
N. Narayanan, D. Mikhailova, A. Senyshyn, D.M. Trots, R. Laskowski, P. Blaha, K. Schwarz, H. Fuess, and H. Ehrenberg, Temperature and composition dependence of crystal structures and magnetic and electronic properties of the double perovskites La2- xSrxCoIrO6 (0≤x≤2), Phys. Rev. B 82, 024403 (2010).