Dr Aruna Ivaturi

Senior Lecturer

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Personal statement

I am EPSRC Fellow, Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) leading the Smart Materials Research and Device Technology (SMaRDT) Group at Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde. I am Strathclyde's Energy Sub-Theme (Photovoltaics) coordinator. I am one of the founding PI of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Sustainable Practices of Research in Energy (C-INSPRE) , a new and innovative interdisciplinary Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training (SCDT) that links all four faculties of the University of Strathclyde. C-INSPRE is Strathclyde's first 'Energy CDT'.

I have made important scientific and technological contributions – for example, switchable coatings for energy saving windows, materials and devices for sensing technologies, solar energy conversion, solar photocatalyst and dye-sensitised electrochromic devices. Over the last years my main research focus has been in the development of novel materials and devices for solar energy conversion especially the emerging new PV technologies (Spectral conversion, Dye sensitised and Perovskite solar cells). Recently, I have been awarded the EPSRC Fellowship (funding of ~ £1.1 Million) to develop the challenging field of Elastic Perovskite PV research in the UK.

The principal research interests of my (SMaRDT) group lie in the synthesis of nanomaterials, development, fabrication and optimisation of devices based on them for energy, environment and healthcare sectors. Please see under the Research (Research Interests) section for further details.

If you are an outstanding and enthusiastic individual interested in PhD/Post-doc or in short term (e.g ERASMUS, Commonwealth etc) projects in the SMaRDT group to contribute to the challenging sectors mentioned under the Research Areas (and key words) then please send in your CV.

Expertise

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Prize And Awards

Editorial Board Member - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Elsevier: Recipient; 2022
Guest Editor - Solar Energy: Recipient; 2020
Member of Royal Society of Chemistry: Recipient; 10/5/2019
Scottish Cruciblist 2018: Recipient; 2018
Chancellor's Fellowship: Recipient; 2017
EPSRC Early Career Fellowship: Recipient; 2017

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Publications

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Publications

Ultrasensitive electrochemical sensors based on Cu and Cu@Ag nanorods for simultaneous heavy metal detection: DASH Smrutiranjan, Bag Subhendu Sekhar, Golder Animes Kumar, Ivaturi Aruna; Materials Chemistry and Physics Vol 318 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2024.129255
Scalable slot-die coated flexible supercapacitors from upcycled PET face shields: Reddygunta Kiran Kumar Reddy, Callander Andrew, Šiller Lidija, Faulds Karen, Berlouis Leonard, Ivaturi Aruna; RSC Advances Vol 14, pp. 12781-12795 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1039/D2RA06809E
Screen-printed stretchable supercapacitors based on tin sulfide-decorated face-mask-derived activated carbon electrodes with high areal energy density: Reddygunta Kiran Kumar Reddy, Šiller Lidija, Ivaturi Aruna; ACS Applied Energy Materials (2024); https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.3c02902
Ultra-broadband near-infrared upconversion for solar energy harvesting: Arnaoutakis Georgios E, Busko Dmitry, Richards Bryce S, Ivaturi Aruna, Gordon Jeffrey M, Katz Eugene A; Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells Vol 269 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2024.112783
Activated carbon utilization from corn derivatives for high energy density flexible supercapacitors: Reddygunta Kiran Kumar Reddy, Beresford Rachael, Šiller Lidija, Berlouis Leonard, Ivaturi Aruna; Energy and Fuels Vol 37, pp. 19248-19265 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c01925
Visible light active BiOI/TiO2 heterojunction photocatalyst for remediation of crude oil contaminated water: Ogoh-Orch Blessing, Keating Patricia, Ivaturi Aruna; ACS Omega Vol 8, pp. 43556-43572 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c04359

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Research

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Research Interests

Smart Materials Research and Device Technology (SMaRDT) Group is presently working on multidisciplinary projects in the following sectors:

a) Energy (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, EPSRC funded project): Elastic Perovskite Solar Cells, in collaborations with industry (Shadow Robots, G24 Power, NSG Pilkington and Dupont Teijin Films) and academia [University of Edinburgh, Oxford University and Johannes Kepler University]

b) Environment (UK-India Education and Research Initiative, UKIERI funded project): Biosorbants and Photocatalysts for Waste Water Remediation in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India and Waste Water Treatment Plant IIT Guwahati.

c) Healthcare (Royal Academy of Engineering, RAE funded project): Wearable Glucose Sensors in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Science Malaysia and University of Namibia and University Hospital at University of Sciences Malaysia.

If you are an outstanding and enthusiastic individual interested in PhD/Post-doc in the SMaRDT group to contribute to these challenging sectors (and Research Areas mentioned) then please send in your CV and publications.

Dr. Aruna Ivaturi has strong track record of getting funding via fellowships. If you are interested in applying for a fellowship (doctoral/postdoctoral) to work in SMaRDT group, then please drop an email. Information about the various postdoc fellowship opportunities can be found via following links: