STAFF PROFILE
Dr Ravichandar Babarao
Position:
Senior Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Science
Phone:
+61399254285
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Fellowships, scholarships, and awards
A representative list of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from a total of 14 is shown below.
- 2018, Shortlisted for stage 2 RJW Le Fèvre Memorial Prize (Australian Academy of Science Honorific Award for Early and Mid-Career Researcher to recognise outstanding basic research in Chemistry)
- 2016 Victoria Fellowship in Physical Science
- 2016 Rennie Memorial Medal for excellence in research in Chemical Science
- 2016, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researcher
- 2016, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship
- 2016, Recipient of Embassy of France Scientific Mobilization Program
- 2015, Winner of 2015 ProsPER.net Scopus Young Scientist Award in Energy Category (Asia – Pacific)
- 2015, Australia – India Council Grant (AU$ 27K)
- 2015, CSIRO – Chinese Academy of Science Exchange Program Grant
- 2015, Participant - Elsevier INVITE Meeting of the Minds Video Documentary
- 2012, SIEF Postdoctoral Fellowship, CSIRO
- 2010, ORNL, US Department of Energy, Postdoctoral research associate fellowship
- 2010, Outstanding PhD Thesis award in Environmental and Sustainability Research (US $10K, World Future Foundation, Singapore).
In the media
- Victoria's Top Scientists Honoured.
- Game-Changing Compound Research An Award Winner for NCI User.
- Functionalized metal-organic frameworks for hydrocarbon azeotropes energy economic separation.
- NCI (National Computational Infrastructure) The Best of 2015. CSIRO researcher Dr Ravichandar Babarao has received the 2015 Prosper.net Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development
- Winner of 2015 Prosper.net Scopus Young Scientist Award in Energy Category.
- 3 of my articles were among the Top 20 Most-Cited articles published by Langmuir during the years 2008-2010.
- Winner of Best PhD Thesis Award in Environmental and Sustainability Research, WFF, Singapore
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at TU Dresden, Germany.
For a full list of Dr Babarao's publication see his Google Scholar profile
For more about Dr Babarao see his personal website
Research
- Leader, Porous Materials Group
- Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Manufacturing
Teaching
- CHEM1242 Chemistry Principles
- ONPS 2505 Introduction to Nanotechnology and Smart Materials
Course Coordinator
- ONPS2501/2502 Nanotechnology Seminar Course 1 & 2
Mentor
- ONPS2335 The Professional Scientist
- Ph.D., Computational Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore - 2010
- M.Tech., Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, India - 2005
- B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India - 2000
Membership of professional societies
- Membrane Society of Australasia
- Chartered Member of Royal Australian Chemistry Institute
- Australian Nanotechnology Network
- Materials Research Society
Editorial roles
- Editorial board member for journal 'Computational Material Science', Frontiers in Materials
Reviewer for competitive research funding
- Australian Research Council (ARC) – Discovery Projects
- Austria Science Fund (FWF), Austria
Reviewer for international scientific journals
Reviewer for over 20 international journals. Examples include:
- Scientific Reports, Materials Today, Molecular Simulation, Journal of Physical Chemistry, CrystEngComm, Chemical Communications, Langmuir
Conference organisation
- Session chair -'Emerging Investigators in Metal-Organic Frameworks', ICCC-41, Singapore
- Organising Committee, ChemBioTech 2008, Singapore
- Maibam, A.,Krishnamurty, S.,Babarao, R. (2023). Electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction on defective graphene modulated from single atom catalyst to aluminium clusters In: Applied Surface Science, 623, 1 - 9
- Massahud, E.,Ahmed, H.,Babarao, R.,Ehrnst, Y.,Alijani Alijanvand, H.,Darmanin, C.,Murdoch, B.,Rezk, A.,Yeo, L. (2023). Acoustomicrofluidic Defect Engineering and Ligand Exchange in ZIF-8 Metal–Organic Frameworks In: Small Methods, 7, 1 - 9
- Kumar, M.,Balraj, A.,Nagarajan, R.,Babarao, R. (2023). Intensification of Sono-Assisted CO2 Stripping/Carbon-Rich Solvent Regeneration by Fe2O3 Hydrophobic Micronized Particles In: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 62, 7072 - 7079
- Cha, D.,Singh, T.,Maibam, A.,Kim, T.,Nam, D.,Babarao, R.,Lee, S. (2023). Metal–Organic Framework–Derived Mesoporous B-Doped CoO/Co@N-Doped Carbon Hybrid 3D Heterostructured Interfaces with Modulated Cobalt Oxidation States for Alkaline Water Splitting In: Small, 19, 1 - 17
- Nagarajan, K.,Balraj, A.,Nagarajan, R.,Babarao, R. (2023). Ultra-low temperature sono-assisted CO2 stripping/ carbon-rich solvent regeneration using different ultrasonic frequencies In: Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects, 45, 10408 - 10418
- Orhan, I.,Daglar, H.,Keskin, S.,Le, T.,Babarao, R. (2022). Prediction of O2/N2Selectivity in Metal-Organic Frameworks via High-Throughput Computational Screening and Machine Learning In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14, 736 - 749
- Dutta, S.,Mukherjee, S.,Qazvini, O.,Gupta, A.,Sharma, S.,Mahato, D.,Babarao, R.,Ghosh, S. (2022). Three-in-One C2H2-Selectivity-Guided Adsorptive Separation across an Isoreticular Family of Cationic Square-Lattice MOFs In: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 61, 1 - 8
- Khan, M.,Sadiq, M.,Karuppasamy, G.,Xu, K.,Jannat, A.,Zhang, B.,Mohiuddin, M.,Haris, M.,Ou, R.,Afrin, S.,Alkathiri, T.,Loomba, S.,Mulet, X.,Mahmood, N.,Babarao, R.,Ou, J. (2022). Hetero-metallic metal-organic frameworks for room-temperature NO2 sensing In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 610, 304 - 312
- Singh, T.,Maibam, A.,Cha, D.,Yoo, S.,Babarao, R.,Lee, S.,Lee, S. (2022). High-Alkaline Water-Splitting Activity of Mesoporous 3D Heterostructures: An Amorphous-Shell@Crystalline-Core Nano-Assembly of Co-Ni-Phosphate Ultrathin-Nanosheets and V- Doped Cobalt-Nitride Nanowires In: Advanced Science, 9, 1 - 20
- Maibam, A.,Babarao, R.,Krishnamurty, S. (2022). Doped 2D VX2 (X = S, Se, Te) monolayers as electrocatalysts for ammonia production: A DFT based study In: Applied Surface Science, 602, 1 - 8
Designing novel robust porous framework material targeting energy and environmental applications including capturing and sensing of harmful pollutants, separation of gas mixtures, clean fuel storage and drug delivery
10 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions3 PhD Completions
- Bench Scale Design and Development (Collaboration Letter). Funded by: Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) College of Engineering - Contract from (2020 to 2023)
- Development of Nanoporous Materials for Capture and Release of Oxygen (administered by Monash University). Funded by: ARC Discovery Project via Other University from (2018 to 2021)
- Designing next generation smart materials for capturing toxic gases. Funded by: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2016 from (2016 to 2019)