Sivaranjani Srinivasan, Ph.D.

Alumni and Former Staff

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Research Interests

​I am interested in heterogeneous catalysis more particularly in the synthesis of novel porous materials and its application towards various industrially important reactions such as MTO, WGS and PROX reactions.

Selected Publications


  • Structure, Electronic Structure, Optical, and Dehydrogenation Catalytic Study of (Zn1−zInz) (O1−xNx) Solid Solution
    M. Mapa, K. Sivaranjani, D. S. Bhange, B. Saha, P. Chakraborty, A. K. Viswanath and C. S. ...
    Chemistry of Materials, 22, 565, (2012)
  • Porosity driven photocatalytic activity of wormhole mesoporous TiO2-xNx in direct sunlight
    K. Sivaranjani and C. S. Gopinath
    ournal of Materials Chemistry, 21, 2639, (2011)
  • Molecular oxygen-assisted oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene with nanocrystalline Ti1-xVxO2
    K. Sivaranjani, A. Verma and C. S. Gopinath
    Green Chemistry, 14, 461, (2012)
  • Toward a Quantitative Correlation between Microstructure and DSSC Efficiency: A Case Study of TiO2-xNx Nanoparticle...
    K. Sivaranjani, S. Agarkar, S. B. Ogale and C. S. Gopinath
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, 2581, (2012)
  • Y-Al2-xMxO3±y (M = Ti4+ through Ga3+): Potential Pseudo-3D Mesoporous Material with Tunable Acidity and Electronic ...
    T. Mathew, K. Sivaranjani, E. S. Gnanakumar, Y. Yamada,T. Kobayashi, and C. S. Gopinath
    Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22, 13484, (2012)
  • Mesoporous TiO2-xNx + Nano Au: An Electronically Integrated Nanocomposite for Solar H2 Generation
    K. Sivaranjani, S. Rajambal, K. Roy, C. S. Gopinath
    Chem Cat chem, 6, 522, (2014)
  • Gold modified RGO-mesoporous TiO2 composite: High performance visible light active catalyst for H2 generation
    P.Bharad, K. Sivaranjani and C. S Gopinath
    Nanoscale, 7, 11206-11215, (2015)
  • Facile Synthesis of Thermally Stable Mesoporous Titania Spheres with Excellent Photocatalytic Activity
    Su Bin Park, K. Sivaranjani, H. J. Na, Z. Li, Y-J. Choi, Y-J. Yang, and Ji Man Kim
    Chem Lett, 44, 61-63 , (2015)
  • Synthesis of alkali promoted mesoporous, nanocrystalline Pd/TiO2 catalyst for water gas shift reaction
    Chengbin Li, K. Sivaranjani, Ji Man Kim
    Catalysis Today, Volume 265, Pages 45-51, (2015) 

Education

  • ​​Ph.D., Heterogeneous Catalysis, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, 411008
  • M.Sc, Chemistry, The American college, Tamilnadu, India.
  • B.Sc., Chemistry, Fatima college, Tamilnadu, India

Professional Profile

  • ​Postdoctoral Fellow, KCC, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Current
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, AMPMC, KAUST, 2015-2017
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Sungyunkwan university, suwon, South Korea. 2014-2015
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. 2013-2014

KAUST Affiliations

  • ​KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
  • Division of Physical Science and Engineering (PSE)

Research Interests Keywords

Porous materials High temperature vapor phase reactions​