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Dr. Raghuram Chetty
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering Department
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai 600036. India
+91 44 22574178 Phone
+91 44 22574152 FAX
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
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
Awards and Honors
- 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.
Postgraduate Supervision
PhD/MS Students
- Mr. M. Kranthi Kumar
- Mr. Abhijnan Sarkar
M.Tech Students
- Bhagath Kiran Chikkala
- Lakshman Naik
- Israel Yandava
Teaching
- CH315 - Renewable Energy Sources
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), 984-986, 2003.
Recent Projects
Development of non-platinum cathode catalyst for direct methanol fuel cells sponsored
by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) 2009-2010
Memberships
- International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)
- Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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