FUNCTIONAL NANOMATERIALS LAB

Dr. Rakhi received her M.Sc. and M.Phil.in Physics from University of Kerala in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and her PhD in Physics under the guidance of Prof. S. Ramaprabhu from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai in 2009. Her PhD work involved the synthesis and energy storage applications of Carbon based nanocomposites, for which she received the best thesis award for the year 2009.

 

Dr. Rakhi joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as a post-doctoral fellow in 2010, in the group of. Prof. H.N. Alshareef, where she started her research in the area of supercapacitors. In recognition for her research contribution in the field of electrochemical energy storage devices, she was awarded with the SABIC Postdoctoral Fellowship award consicutively for the years 2012 and 2013.

 

After six years of post-doctoral research training, in 2016, Dr. Rakhi joined as a Ramanujan fellow in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram. She is also serving as an Assistant Professor in the faculty of Physical sciences of Academy of Scientific and Innovation Research under CSIR, Govt. Of India. On 25 June 2019, Dr. Rakhi joined the Department of Physics, University of Kerala as UGC-Assistant professor under the UGC-FRP scheme.

 

Since 2010, Dr. Rakhi has been engaged in the research in the field of electrochemical energy storage. Her research interests include nanotechnology enabled energy storage devices (supercapacitors and hybrid devices), nanocomposites, layered materials, and 3D nanostructured materials. She has published over 54 research articles in high impact international peer reviewed journals, in which 40 are in the area of electrochemical energy storage devices.