Sivaranjani Kumarsrinivasan, Ph.D.

Research Group Staff

Chemical Sciences​

Alumni

Research Interests

​I am interested in the synthesis of novel single atom catalysts for industrially important oxidation and reduction reactions as well as in photocatalytic reduction of CO2.

Selected Publications

Structure, Electronic Structure, Optical, and Dehydrogenation Catalytic Study of (Zn1−zInz) (O1−xNx) Solid Solution
M. Mapa, K. Sivaranjani, D. S. Bhange, B. Saha, P. Chakraborty, A. K. Viswanath and C. S. Gopinath
Chemistry of Materials, 22, 565, (2010)

Porosity driven photocatalytic activity of wormhole mesoporous TiO2-xNx in direct sunlight
K. Sivaranjani and C. S. Gopinath
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21, 2639 , (2011)

Molecular oxygen-assisted oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene with nanocrystalline Ti1-xVxO2
K. Sivaranjani, A. Verma and C. S. Gopinath
Green Chemistry, 14, 461, (2012)

Toward a Quantitative Correlation between Microstructure and DSSC Efficiency: A Case Study of TiO2-xNx Nanoparticles in a Disordered Mesoporous Framewok
K. Sivaranjani, S. Agarkar, S. B. Ogale and C. S. Gopinath
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, 2581, (2012)

γ-Al2-xMxO3±y (M = Ti4+ through Ga3+): Potential Pseudo-3D Mesoporous Material with Tunable Acidity and Electronic Structure.
T. Mathew, K. Sivaranjani, E. S. Gnanakumar, Y. Yamada,T. Kobayashi, and C. S. Gopinath
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22, 13484, (2012)

Mesoporous TiO2-xNx + Nano Au: An Electronically Integrated Nanocomposite for Solar H2 Generation
K. Sivaranjani, S. Rajambal, K. Roy, C. S. Gopinath
Chem Cat chem, 6, 522, (2014)

Gold modified RGO-mesoporous TiO2 composite: High performance visible light active catalyst for H2 generation
P.Bharad, K. Sivaranjani and C. S Gopinath
Nanoscale, 7, 11206-11215, (2015)

Facile Synthesis of Thermally Stable Mesoporous Titania Spheres with Excellent Photocatalytic Activity
Su Bin Park, K. Sivaranjani, H. J. Na, Z. Li, Y-J. Choi, Y-J. Yang, and Ji Man Kim
Chem Lett, 44, 61-63 , (2015)

Synthesis of alkali promoted mesoporous, nanocrystalline Pd/TiO2 catalyst for water gas shift reaction
Chengbin Li, K. Sivaranjani, Ji Man Kim
Catal. Today 2015, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2015.08.028) , (2015)

Education

  • ​Ph.D., Heterogeneous Catalysis, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, 411008
  • M.Sc, Chemistry, The American college, Tamilnadu, India.
  • B.Sc., Chemistry, Fatima college, Tamilnadu, India

Professional Profile

  • ​Postdoctoral Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow,  Sungyunkwan university, suwon, South Korea. 2014-2015
  • Postdoctoral Fellow,  National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. 2013-2014

Scientific and Professional Membership

​Society for Materials Chemistry

Awards

  1. ​Junior and Senior Research Fellowship (2008-2013): Awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. 
  2. Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engg. (GATE) with 98.6 percentile in 2008.
  3. Best Research Scholar of the year Award in Catalysis, at National Chemical Lab., Pune in 2012.
  4. Best Poster award in CRSI Zonal meeting, NCL, India in 2011

KAUST Affiliations

Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Center(AMPMC)
Division of Physical Science and Engineering (PSE)

Research Interests Keywords

Catalysis Solar Energy