Dr Devaraju Murukanahally Kempaiah

Dr. Murukanahally Kempaiah Devaraju is a Research Fellow at the Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, he started his employment at UniSA since January 2016. He obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degree from University of Mysore, India. He was awarded M.Sc., with First Rank and 3 Gold Medals in 2003. Later, he moved to Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China on receiving CAS-TWAS post-graduate research fellowship. After that, he joined Tohoku University, Japan on receiving MEXT Scholarship for PhD and he obtained his PhD with "Director's Prize" from Tohoku University in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Tsugio Sato. Later, He joined Prof. Honma group as postdoctoral researcher to work on high capacity and high density Li-ion batteries and in 2011 he obtained ‘JSPS’ fellowship to work on developing novel electrode materials. His focus was to synthesize nanosize cathode materials by supercritical fluid process and other solution process and to study the electrochemical performances. He has contributed to develop a one pot process for high energy capacity materials with lower diameter size. He promoted as Research Assistant Professor in 2014 and during this tenure, he gudided few Bachelors, Masters and Postdoctoral researchers.

 Important Awards/Scholarship/Honors

Certificate of appreciation from ACS publications for reviewing (2013 and 2014), “JSPS” postdoctoral fellowship (2011-2013), Young Investigator Award (2012), Invited to attend “Hope Meeting ” with Nobel Laureates at Hakone, Japan (2009), Invited to attend JSPS-Asia meeting held in Yokohama, Japan (2009), Awarded “Director Prize” for best PhD thesis work at Tohoku University, (2010), Best Oral Presentation Award (2008), MEXT) Scholarship for PhD (2006), CAS-TWAS post graduate scholarship (2005), Recipient of subject scholarship in M.Sc., (2002-2003), First Rank awarded with 3 Gold Medals in M.Sc (2003).

 Publications/Patent/Funding

Dr. Murukanahally Kempaiah Devaraju has been working in the area of inorganic nanomaterial’s for the various applications including luminescence, catalysis and energy storage. In last 5 years, he has been completely working on developing high capacity and high density cathode and anode materials for Li-ion batteries and contributed more than 45 peer reviewed papers, 12book chapters, and 2 review papers. His research work has been published in top journals like Nano Letters, Advanced Energy Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials, Chemical Communications, etc. His research work has been cited more than 1000 times with h-index of 16. He has presented few invited talk and gave more than 40 oral talks at the international conferences. He has filed few patents with Samsung R&D, Japan on materials for Li-ion batteries. He was obtained JSPS funding for his research on Li-ion batteries and currently he has applied for Discovery Project as co-investigator with Prof. Ajayan Vinu (PI) and Prof.Itaru Honma (co-investigator) for the year 2017.

International Scientific Network

He has a network of collaborations with researchers in 5 countries and strong collaboration with Prof. Itaru Honma from Tohoku University, Japan.  Dr. Satish Nune, PNNL, USA, Dr. Chandramohan George, University of Cambridge, Prof. Duncan Gregory, University of Glasgow, Prof. Vilas Pol, USA, Dr. Quang Truong Duc, Tohoku University, Japan. 

Scientific Service

Editorial board member: American Association for Science and Technology (AASCIT), International Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine, Materials Science:Materials Review.

Reviewer: Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Materials Science, Crystal Engineering Communications, Materials Science and Engineering B, Dalton Transactions, Materials Research Bulletin, Materials Letters, Crystal growth and Design, Advanced Powder Technology, Journal of Electrochemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Electrochemica Acta, RSC Advances, Scientific Reports, Journal of Alloys and Compounds.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Tohoku University

• Master of Science University of Mysore

• Bachelor of Science University of Mysore