Book Chapter

  1. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, and S. Ramaprabhu, Springer: Hybrid Nanostructured Materials For Energy Storage And Conversion, Handbook of Nanomaterials, ed. Robert Vajtai, Springer publishers (2011); Under Review
  2. Mauro Coelho dos Santos, Olivera Kesler and Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Editorial: Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage, Journal of Nanomaterials, doi:10.1155/2012/159249

List of Peer-Reviewed Publications (Citations: ~2500; h-index: 24)

  1. Raquel Borges, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy,* Kaushik Balakrishnan, Glaura G. Silva and Pulickel M. Ajayan, A 200 oC Clay-based electrolytes for high temperature electrochemical energy storage applications Nature Scientific Reports 3, 2572; (2013) DOI: 10.1038/srep02572 (*Corresponding author)
  2. Daniel P Cole, Arava Leela. M. Reddy, Myung Gwan Hahm, Ryan McCotter, Amelia HC Hart, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M Ajayan, Shashi P Karna, Mark L Bundy, Electromechanical Properties of Polymer Electrolyte‐Based Stretchable Supercapacitors, Adv. Eng. Mater,. (2013) DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201300844
  3. Osama M Nayfeh, A Glen Birdwell, Cheng Tan, Madan Dubey, Hemtej Gullapalli, Zheng Liu, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Pulickel M Ajayan, Increased mobility for layer-by-layer transferred chemical vapor deposited graphene/boron-nitride thin films, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 103115 (2013)
  4. Rahul Rao, Gugang Chen, Tereza M. Paronyan, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Kaushik Kalaga, Masa Ishigami, Tony F. Heinz, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Avetik R. Harutyunyan, Graphene as an Atomically Thin Universal Interface for Aligned Carbon Nanotube Growth on any Substrate, Nature Scientific Reports;3,1891.DOI: 10.1038/srep01891 (2013)
  5. Adrienne E. Tanur, Jiesheng Wang, Arava L. M. Reddy, Daniel N. Lamont, Yoke Khin Yap, Gilbert C. Walker, Diameter-Dependent Bending Modulus of Individual Multiwall Boron Nitride Nanotubes, J. Phys. Chem. B,  117 (16), 4618–4625 (2013)
  6. M. Ashokkumar, N. T. Narayanan, B. K. Gupta, A. L. M. Reddy, A. P. Singh, S. K. Dhawan, B. Chandrasekaran, D. Rawat, S. Talapatra, P. M. Ajayan, P. Thanikaivelan, Conversion of Industrial Bio-Waste into Useful Nanomaterials, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.,  1 (6), 619–626 (2013)
  7. Sarah Claypool, Kaushik Kalaga, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy*, Luke J. Currano, Madan Dubey, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Graphene Based Energetic Materials: A Case Study, Graphene 1, 11-15 (2013), (*Corresponding author)
  8. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy,* Nagarajan Subbiah, Porramate Chumyim, Sanketh R. Gowda, Padmanava Pradhan, Swapnil R. Jadhav, Madan Dubey, George John and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Lithium storage mechanisms in purpurin based organic lithium ion battery electrodes, Nature Scientific Reports 2, 960; DOI:10.1038/srep00960 (2012) (*Corresponding author)
  9. Sanketh R. Gowda, Victor Pushparaj, Subramanya Herle, G. Girishkumar, Joseph G. Gordon, Hemtej Gullapalli, Xiaobo Zhan, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy* Three dimensionally engineered porous silicon electrodes for Li ion battery, Nano Letters, 12, 2012, 6060-6055 (*Corresponding author)
  10. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy,* Shaijumon M. Manikoth, Sanketh R. Gowda and Pulikel M. Ajayan, Hybrid Nanostructures for Energy Storage Applications, Advanced Materials, 24, 2012, 5045-5065 (*Corresponding author)
  11. Alexandru Vlad,† Arava Leela Mohana Reddy,† Anakha Ajayan, Neelam Singh, Jean-François Gohy, Sorin Melinte and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Flexible lithium-polymer batteries with Cu@Si core-shell nanowire composites anodes, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 109, 2012, 15168-15173 (†Equal contribution)
  12. N. Singh, C. Galande, A. Miranda, A. Mathkar, W. Gao, A. L. M. Reddy, A. Vlad and P. M. Ajayan, Paintable Battery, Nature Scientific Reports, 2, 481; DOI:10.1038/srep00481 (2012)
  13. M. G. Hahm, Arava L. M. Reddy, D. Cole, M. Rivera, J. Vento, J. Nam, H. Jung, Y. Kim, N. Narayanan, D. Hashim, C. Galande, Y. Jung, S. Karna, M. Bundy, R. Vajtai, and P. M. Ajayan, Carbon Nanotubes-Nanocups Hybrid Structures for High Power Supercapacitor Applications, Nano Letters, 12, 2012, 5616–5621
  14. Sanketh R. Gowda, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Xiaobo Zhan and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Nano-porous nanorod current collectors for 3D batteries, Nano Letters, 12, 2012, 1198–1202
  15. Li Song, Zheng Liu, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Narayanan Tharangattu Narayanan, Jaime Taha, Juan Peng, Guanhui Gao, Jingjiang Yu, Jun Lou, Robert Vajtai and Pulickel Ajayan, Binary and Ternary Atomic Layers Built from Carbon, Boron and Nitrogen, Advanced Materials, 24, 2012, 4878-4895
  16. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy,* Bipin Kumar Gupta, Narayanan T. N., Angel A. Martí, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Gilbert C. Walker, Probing on Time-Resolved and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Ni Encapsulated Ferromagnetic Boron Nitride Nanotubes, J. Phys. Chem. C, 116, 2012, 12803–12809 (*Corresponding author)
  17. B. K. Gupta, T. N. Narayanan, S. A. Vithayathil, Y. Lee, S. Koshy, A. L. M. Reddy, A. Saha, V. Shanker, B. A. Kaipparettu, A. A. Martí, and P. M. Ajayan, Highly Luminescent–Paramagnetic Nanophosphor Probes for In Vitro High-Contrast Imaging of Human Breast Cancer Cells, Small, 8, 2012, 3028–3034
  18. M. Ashokkumar, N. T. Narayanan, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, B. K. Gupta, B. Chandrasekaran, S. Talapatra, P. M. Ajayan, and P. Thanikaivelan, Transforming collagen wastes into doped multifunctional carbon nanomaterials, Green Chemistry, 14, 2012, 1689-1695
  19. Monica Rivera, Daniel P. Colea, Myung G. Hahm, Arava L. M. Reddy, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Shashi P. Karna, Mark L. Bundy, Lightweight carbon nanotube-based structural-energy storage devices for micro unmanned systems, Proc. of SPIE, 8377, 2012, 837706
  20. A. Mathkar, D. Tozier, P. Cox, P. Ong, C. Galande, K. Balakrishnan, A. L. M. Reddy, and P. M. Ajayan, Controlled, Step-wise Reduction and Band Gap Manipulation of Graphene Oxide, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 2012, 986–991
  21. Wei Gao, Neelam Singh, Li Song, Zheng Liu, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Lijie Ci, Robert Vajtai and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Direct laser writing of micro-supercapacitors on hydrated graphite oxide films, Nature Nanotechnology, 6, 2011, 496–500
  22. Sanketh R. Gowda, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Xiaobo Zhan and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Building energy storage device on a single nanowire, Nano Letters, 11(8), 2011, 3329–3333
  23. Sanketh R. Gowda, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Shaijumon M. Manikoth, Lijie Ci and Pulikel M. Ajayan, Conformal Coating of thin Polymer Electrolyte Layer on nanostructured electrode materials for 3D battery applications, Nano Letters, 11(1), 2011, 101
  24. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Imran Jaferri, Neethu Jha, S. Ramaprabhu and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Carbon nanocoils for multi-functional energy applications, J. Mater. Chem., 21, 2011, 16103
  25. J. J. Yoo, K. Balakrishnan, J. Huang, V. Meunier, B. G. Sumpter, A. Srivastava, M. Conway, Arava L.M. Reddy, J. Yu, R. Vajtai and P. M. Ajayan, Ultrathin Planar Graphene Supercapacitors, Nano Letters, 11 (4), 2011, 1423
  26. Chitturi V. Rao, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy*, Yasuyuki Ishikawa and Pulickel M. Ajayan, LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2–graphene composite electrodes for advanced lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 3(8), 2011, 2966 (*Corresponding author)
  27. Ashavani Kumar, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy,* Arnab Mukherjee, Madan Dubey, Xiaobo Zhan, Neelam Singh, Lijie Ci, W. E. Billups, John, Nagurny, Gandhi Mital and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Direct synthesis of lithium intercalated graphitic nanoplatelet for lithium battery application, ACS Nano, 5 (6), 2011, 4345–4349
  28. B. K. Gupta, P. Thanikaivelan, T. N. Narayanan, L. Song, W. Gao, T. Hayashi, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, A. Saha, V. Shanker, M. Endo, A. A. Martí and P. M. Ajayan, Optical bi-functionality of europium-complexed luminescent graphene nanosheets, Nano Letters, 11, 2011, 5227–5233
  29. Anubha Goyal, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Flexible CNT-Cu2O hybrid electrodes for Li-ion batteries, Small, 7, 2011, 1709
  30. Hemtej Gullapalli, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Madan Dubey, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Direct growth of Graphene on Steel and Application in Energy Storage, Small, 7, 2011, 1697
  31. Chitturi V. Rao, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Yasuyuki Ishikawa and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Enhanced activity for oxygen reduction reaction on graphene supported Pt3Co and Pt3Cr alloy nanoparticles, Carbon, 49, 2011,931
  32. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy,* Ashavani Kumar, Luke J. Currano, Wayne Churaman, Madan Dubey, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Thermal decomposition properties of NaClO4 functionalized CNT arrays, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 11, 2011, 1111 (*Corresponding author)
  33. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy,* Anchal Srevastava, Sanketh R. Gowda, Hemtej Gullapalli, and Pulikel M. Ajayan, Synthesis of nitrogen doped graphene films for lithium battery application, ACS Nano, 4, 2010, 6337 (*Corresponding author)
  34. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Shaijumon M. Manikoth, Sanketh R. Gowda and Pulikel M. Ajayan, Multi-segmented Au-MnO2/CNT hybrid co-axial arrays for high power supercapacitor applications, J. Phys. Chem. C, 114, 2010, 658
  35. Melinda Mohl, Ashavani Kumar, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Akos Kukovecz, Zoltan Konya, Imre Kiricsi, Robert Vajtai, and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Catalytic nanoporous metallic rods by galvanic replacement of Nickel, J. Phys. Chem. C, 114, 2010, 389
  36. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Adrinne E. Tanur and Gilbert C. Walker, Hydrogen adsorption properties of different types of boron nitride nanotubes, Int. J. Hyd. Energy, 35, 2010, 4138
  37. A. Leela Mohana Reddy, M. M. Shaijumon, N. Rajalakshmi and S. Ramaprabhu, Performance of PEMFC using Pt/MWNT-Pt/C composites as electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction in PEMFC, J. Fuel Cell Sci. and Technol., 7, 2010, 021001
  38. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Shaijumon M. Manikoth, Sanketh R. Gowda and Pulikel M. Ajayan, Co-axial MnO2/Carbon nanotube Array Electrodes for High Performance Lithium Batteries, Nano Letters, 9, 2009,1002
  39. S. Ganguly, A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Biological Sensors using DNA Functionalized Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 10, 2009,1
  40. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Pt coated multiwalled carbon nanotubes as electrocatalysts  for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, NanoTrends 6(3), 2009, 7
  41. F. Estaline Amitha, A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, A non-aqueous electrolyte based asymmetric supercapacitor with Polymer and metal oxide/multiwalled nanotube electrodes, J. Nanopart. Res., 11 (3), 2009, 725
  42. A. Leela Mohana Reddy, N. Rajalakshmi and S. Ramaprabhu, Cobalt-polypyrrole-multiwalled carbon nanotube catalysts for hydrogen and alcohol fuel cells, Carbon, 46, 2008, 2
  43. Neetu Jha, A. Leela Mohana Reddy, M. M. Shaijumon, N. Rajalakshmi and S. Ramaprabhu, Pt-Ru/multiwalled carbon nanotubes as electrocatalysts for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, Int. J. Hyd. Energy, 33(1), 2008, 427
  44. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Hydrogen adsorption properties of single walled carbon nanotube-Platinum nanocrystalline composite. Int. J. Hyd. Energy, 33(3), 2008, 1028
  45. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Synthesis and characterization of magnetic metal encapsulated multi-walled carbon nanobeads, Nanoscale Res Lett., 3 (2), 2008, 76.
  46. A. Leela Mohana Reddy, F. Estaline Amitha, R. Imran Jafri and S. Ramaprabhu, Asymetric flexible supercapacitor stack, Nanoscale Res Lett., 3, 2008, 145
  47. R. B. Rakhi, A. Leela Mohana Reddy, M. M. Shaijumon, K. Sethupathi and S. Ramaprabhu, Electron field emitters based on multiwalled carbon nanotubes decorated with metal clusters, J. Nanopart. Res., 10(1), 2008, 179
  48. M. Krishna Kumar, A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Exfoliated single-walled carbon nanotube based hydrogen sensor, Sensors and Actuators B, 130, 2008, 653
  49. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Hydrogen diffusion studies in Zr-based Laves phase AB2 alloys, J. Alloys Comp., 460, 2008, 268
  50. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Template assisted synthesis of aligned Carbon nanotubes and their supercapacitor applications, Int. J. Nano manufacturing, 2(5), 2008, 507
  51. Tushar Sharma, A. Leela Mohana Reddy, S. Ramaprabhu and T. S. Chandra, High Power density from Pt thinfilm electrodes based Microbial Fuel Cell, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 8, 2008, 4132
  52. Tushar Sharma, A. Leela Mohana Reddy, T. S. Chandra and S. Ramaprabhu, Development of Carbon nanotubes and nanofluids based microbial fuel cell, Int. J. Hyd. Energy, 33, 2008, 6749
  53. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Nanocrystalline metal oxides dispersed multiwalled carbon nanotubes as supercapacitor electrodes, J. Phys. Chem. C, 111(21), 2007, 7727
  54. A. Leela Mohana Reddy, G. Srinivas and S. Ramaprabhu, Hydriding and electrical resistivity properties of MmTM3–H (TM= Fe, Co and Ni) system, Int. J. Hyd. Energy, 32(15), 2007, 3356
  55. M. M. Shaijumon, A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Single step process for the synthesis of carbon nanotubes and metal/alloy-filled multiwalled carbon nanotubes, Nanoscale Res Lett., 2 (2), 2007, 75
  56. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Pt/SWNT-Pt/C nanocomposites as electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cell, J. Phys. Chem, C, 111(21), 2007, 16138
  57. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Hydrogen storage properties of nanocrystalline Pt dispersed multi walled carbon nanotube, Int. J. Hyd. Energy, 32(16), 2007, 3998
  58. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Design, fabrication and testing of carbon nanotube based fuel cell stack and micro fuel cell coupled with hydrogen storage device, Int. J. Hyd. Energy, 32, 2007, 4272
  59. A. Leela Mohana Reddy, M. M. Shaijumon and S. Ramaprabhu, Alloy hydride catalyst route of synthesis of singlewalled carbon nanotubes, multiwalled carbon nanotubes and magnetic metal nanowire encapsulated multi walled carbon nanotubes, Nanotechnology, 17, 2006, 5299.
  60. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Structural and hydrogen absorption kinetics studies of polymer dispersed and boron added Zr based AB2 alloy, Int. J. Hyd. Energy, 31, 2006, 867
  61. A. Leela Mohana Reddy and S. Ramaprabhu, Studies of hydrogen dynamics and structural aspects of polymer dispersed and boron added MmNi3.5Al0.5Fe0.5Co0.5, J. Phys.: Condens. Matt., 17, 2005, 7531

list of patents

  1. Hemtej Gullapalli, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, and Pulikel M. Ajayan, Synthesis of graphene covered, three dimensionaln nano-porous metallic current collectors (Invention disclosure filed 2013)
  2. Raquel Borges, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Kaushik Balakrishnan, Glaura G. Silva and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Clay based ionic liquid electrolytes for high temperature supercapacitor and Li-ion battery applications, (International Invention disclosure filed 2012)
  3. Neelam Singh, Akshay Mathkar, Alexandru, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Vlad and Pulickel M. Ajayan, Methods of making multilayer energy storage devices, (International patent No: WO2014007866 A2)
  4. Sanketh R. Gowda, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, F. S. OU, Shaijumon M. Manikoth and Pulikel M. Ajayan, Conformal Coating of thin Polymer electrolyte layer on nanostructured electrode materials for three dimensional Micro/Nanobattery Applications, (International patent No: WO2011072255 A1)
  5. Ramaprabhu, A. Leela Mohana Reddy and Neetu Jha, Synthesis of Carbon nanotube based magnetic nanofluids (Indian patent No:408/CHE/2008)
  6. S. Ramaprabhu and A. Leela Mohana Reddy, Large scale synthesis of Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubular Coils (MWNTC) over alloy hydride catalyst (Indian patent No:666/CHE/2007)
  7. S. Ramaprabhu and A. Leela Mohana Reddy, Multi Walled Carbon Nanocoils (MWNC) as a catalyst support materials for fuel cell applications (Indian patent No:669/CHE/2007)
  8. S. Ramaprabhu, K. Sethupathi, A. Leela Mohana Reddy and R. B. Rakhi, Flexible Carbon nanotube based field emitters (Indian patent No:667/CHE/2007)