Jayaraman's researches are primarily focused on dendrimers and carbohydrates. He is known to have done extensive work on the synthesis of complex carbohydrates and developed new system of dendrimers.[7] He has also worked on carbohydrate-protein interactions using designer glycolipids[6] as well as on monosaccharides, cluster glycosides, oligosaccharides and unnatural sugars.[8] He is also credited with the identification of poly(alkyl aryl ether) dendrimers and poly(propyl ether imine) dendrimers, two new classes of dendrimers. He has documented his researches in several peer-reviewed articles;[9]ResearchGate an online repository of scientific articles has listed 169 of them.[10] He has also mentored a number of scholars in their doctoral and post-doctoral studies.[11]
Awards and honors
Jayaraman received the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) in 2007[12] and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2009.[13] In between, he was selected for the Diamond Jubilee Fellowship of the Institute of Chemical Technology in 2008. He received the Goyal Prize in 2011, the same year as he was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences.[3] He has delivered a number of award orations including the Professor Swaminathan Endowment Lecture of the University of Madras in 2007.[5]
