Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Department of Chemical Engineering

Dr Raghuram Chetty
Assistant Professor

• Chemical Engineering Department
  Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  Chennai 600036. India
  Email: raghuc@iitm.ac.in

Tel +91 44 22574178
Fax +91 44 22574152

Research Interests

· Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, Carbon nanotubes for electrocatalytic application

· Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage (Fuel Cells and Batteries)

· Electrochemical systems and engineering, Wastewater treatment

Selected Publications

· R. Chetty, W. Xia, S. Kundu, M. Bron, T. Reinecke, W. Schuhmann, M. Muhler, Effect of reduction temperature on the preparation and characterisation of Pt-Ru nanoparticles on multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Langmuir, 25, 3853-3860, 2009.

· R. Chetty, S. Kundu, W. Xia, M. Bron, W. Schuhmann, V. Chirila, W. Brandl, T. Reinecke, M. Muhler, PtRu nanoparticles supported on nitrogen-doped multiwalled carbon nanotubes as catalyst for methanol electrooxidation, Electrochim. Acta, 54 (2009) 4208-4215.

· R. Chetty, K. Scott, S. Kundu, M. Muhler, Optimisation of mesh based anodes for direct methanol fuel cells, J. Fuel Cell Sci. Technol., in-press, 2009.

· R. Chetty, K. Scott, Characterisation of thermally deposited platinum and palladium catalysts for direct formic acid fuel cells, J. New Mat. Electrochem. Sys., 10, 135-142, 2007.

· R. Chetty, K. Scott, Direct ethanol fuel cells with catalysed metal mesh anodes, Electrochim. Acta, 52, 4073-4081, 2007.

· R. Chetty, K. Scott, Catalysed titanium mesh electrodes for ethylene glycol fuel cells, J. Applied Electrochem, 37, 1077-1084, 2007.

· R. Chetty, K. Scott, Dimethoxymethane and trimethoxymethane as alternative fuels for fuel cells, J. Power Sources, 173, 166-171, 2007.

· R. Chetty, P.A. Christensen, B. T. Golding, K. Scott, Fundamental and Applied Studies on the Electrochemical Hydrodehalogenation of Halogenated Phenols in Aqueous Solutions at a Palladised Titanium Electrode, Appl. Catal A: General,(Special Issue on Dehalogenation), 27, 185-194, 2004.

· R. Chetty, P.A. Christensen, B.T. Golding, In Situ FTIR Studies on the Electrochemical Reduction of Halogenated Phenols, Chem Commun., (Featured as ‘Hot Paper’ in Chemical Communications), 984-985, 2003.

Projects

· “Development of Non-Platinum Cathode Catalysts for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells” sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) 2009-2011.

Teaching

· CH315 - Renewable Energy Sources

Postgraduate Supervision

· PhD/MS Students

Mr. M. Kranthi Kumar

Mr. Abhijnan Sarkar

· M.Tech Students

Mr. Bhagath Kiran Chikkala

Mr. Lakshman Naik

Mr. Israel Yandava

Academic Profile

· Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2004)

Newcastle University, United Kingdom.

· M.Sc. Chemistry (1998)

PSG College of Arts and Science,

(Bharathiar University) Coimbatore, India.

· B.Sc. Chemistry (1996) 

Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science,

(Bharathiar University) Coimbatore, India.

Previous Positions

· Post Doctoral Research Associate (2007-2008)

Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

· Post Doctoral Research Associate (2005-2007)

Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials

Newcastle University, United Kingdom.

· Senior Research Scientist (2004 – 2005)

NewChem Technologies Limited (Newcastle University Spin-Off Company)

Durham, United Kingdom.

Memberships

· International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)

· Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)

· Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Honours and Awards

· Received Rudolph Messel travel bursary from Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), United Kingdom, October 2008.

· Received Best Poster Award for the Poster Presented at the “Fuel Cells Science & Technology” Conference, Italy, September 2006.

· Finalist in the Helena Biosciences Postgraduate Research Prize Competition, Newcastle University, UK (2002).

· Received Swami Vivekananda Scholarship from Sri Ramakrishna Mission, Calcutta, India (1996).