Karen Martirosyan
Professor of Physics, Associate Vice President for Research Enhancement, Houston Endowed 
Chair in Science, Math, and Technology, Director of Advanced Nanoscience Laboratory Ph.D. ISMAN-Russian Academy of Sciences and State Engineering University of Armenia, (SEUA), 1991
Office: M1 -210
Lab: SETB-1.414
Phone: 956 882 6736
Email: karen.martirosyan@utrgv.edu
Research
PHYS 3308 Introduction to Nanoscience
PHYS 5387 Special Topics in Physics
PHYS 6396 Graduate Research
PHYS 7300 Thesis I
PHYS 7301 Thesis II
BMED 3224 Independent Research IV
Office hours: T 8:00am-1:00pm
Research
Dr. Martirosyan's research is focused on experimental and theoretical condensed matter physics with a wide range of solid state phenomena at the nanostructured systems. The research focuses on two main areas: first, exploiting high energetic systems to produce novel nano-tailored materials for energy, environmental and biomedical applications; second, elucidating the nano related physical phenomena. Active research is presently being carried out to explore high density nanoenergetic systems, magnetic, ferroelectric, multiferroic, superconductor devices and a variety of contrast agents for biomedical imaging and drug delivery systems. The research involves materials design, fabrication and characterization of physical properties. Dr. Martirosyan have been awarded three times an Air Force Research Laboratory/EGLIN Faculty Research Fellowships and serves as PI and Co-PI for several Federal (NSF, NIH, DOD, AFRL) and State funded research projects and his work has resulted in more than 120 research papers, 8 patents and over 140 presentations at national and international conferences.
For more information: https://www.utrgv.edu/nanoscience/index.htm
Publication
- C. Trevino De Leo, G.C. Dannangoda, M.A. Hobosyan, J. Held, F.S. Samghabadi, M. Khodadadi, D. Litvinov, K.A. Mkhoyan and K.S. Martirosyan, Carbon combustion synthesis of Janus-like particles of magnetoelectric cobalt ferrite and barium titanate, Ceramic International, 47, 4, 5415-5422, 2021.
- S.E. Kumekov, N.K. Saitova, K.S. Martirosyan, Diffuse spectra model of photoluminescence in carbon quantum dots, Bulletin of Materials Science, 43, 199, 2020.
- H. Nguen, N. Ohannesisan, P. Bandara, A. Ansari, C. Deleo, D. Rodrigues, K.S. Martirosyan, W-C Shih, Magnetic active water filter membrane for induced heating to remove biofoulants, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12, 9, 10291-10298, 2020.
- S.A. Yolchinyan R.W. Eads, M.A. Hobosyan, K.S. Martirosyan, Hydroxide-based Nanoenergetic Materials, Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 44, 4, 464-471, 2019.
- A.А. Markov, I. Filimonov, К.S. Martirosyan, Two temperature model and simulation of induced electrical field during combustion synthesis, International Journal of Thermophysics, 40, 1, 6, 2019.
- D. Karthickraja, S. Karthi, A. Gangadharan, D.K. Sardar, G.C. Dannangoda, K.S. Martirosyan, E.K. Girija, Fabrication of core-shell CoFe2O4@HAp nanoparticles: A novel magnetic platform for biomedical applications, New Journal of Chemistry, 34, 43, 13584-13593, 2019.
- G.C. Dannangoda, C. Key, M. Sumets, K.S. Martirosyan, P- to N- Type Conductivity Transition in Mechanically Activated Bi2Te3, Journal of Electronic Materials, 47, 10, 5800-5809, 2018.
- S.A. Yolchinyan, M.A. Hobosyan, K.S. Martirosyan, Tailoring bismuth oxide flower-, bowtie- and brushwood-like particles through microfluidic synthesis, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 207, 330-336, 2018.