RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Doctoral Research: Jacobs University, Germany Sept. 2006-Oct 2007
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA. Oct. 2007-May 2010
Project Assistant: Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, India. July 2004- Aug. 2006

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. Book Chapter: 'Oxidation Catalysis by Nanoscale Gold, Silver and Copper' in 'Advanced Nonmaterial's' Ed. Kurt Geckeler, Wiley VCH, 2008. Zhi Li, Divakara S. Gopala, Ryan M. Richards.
2. Dispersion of TiO2 on high surface area mesoporous silica: Functionalization with tungstophosphoric acid and application in solvent-free, aerobic oxidation of n-hexadecane Divakara Soorly Gopala, Rama R. Bhattacharjee and Ryan Richards
   J. Appl. Organometallic Chem. 2013, 25, 1-5
3. Synthesis and Characterization of Titanium Dioxide Phases in Mesostructured Silica Matrix with Photocatalytic Activity
   Divakara S. Gopala, Rama R. Bhattacharjee, Robert Haerr, Octavian D. Pavel, Bogdan
   Cojocaru, Vasile I. Parvulescu and Ryan M. Richards ChemCatChem, 2010, 2, 1-10.
4. Organo- Ruthenium Supported Heteropolytungstates: Synthesis, Structure, Electrochemistry and Oxidation Catalysis.
   L. Bi, G. Al-Kadamany, E. V. Chubarova, M. H. Dickman, L. Chen, S. G. Divakara, R. Richards, B. Keita, L. Nadjo, H. Jaensch, G.Mathys, U. Kortz Inorg. Chem., 2009, 48, 21, 10068–100772.

Conference Presentations

1. 237th ACS National Meeting, (March 22-26, 2009), Salt Lake City, Utah oral presentation by Divakara S. Gopala "Keggin ion Stabilized Gold and Silver Nanostructures" Divakara S. Gopala, Rama R. Bhattacharjee and Ryan M. Richards
2. 237th ACS National Meeting, (March 22-26, 2009), Salt Lake City, Utah poster presentation by Divakara S. Gopala "Preparation of Mesoporous Silica Supported Titanium Dioxide Catalysts Using Ionic Liquids as Templates" Divakara S. Gopala, Robert A. Haerr, and Ryan M. Richards
3. Joint 63rd Northwest/21st Rocky Mountain (NORM/RMRM)ACS Regional Meeting, (June 15-18, 2008), Park City, Utah oral presentation "Novel Polyoxoanion Stabilized Gold and Silver Nanostructures" Divakara S. Gopala, Rama R. Bhattacharjee and Ryan M. Richards
4. Joint 63rd Northwest/21st Rocky Mountain (NORM/RMRM) ACS Regional Meeting, (June 15-18, 2008), Park City, Utah Poster presentation "Preparation of Microporous and Mesoporous Silica Supported Metal oxide Catalysts Using Custom-Made Ionic Liquid as Templates" Robert A. Haerr, Divakara S. Gopala and Ryan M. Richards
5. Indo-Australian Symposium on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, (March 31, 2006), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Poster presentation "Thiol protected Rhodium nanoclusters and their single electron charging behavior" Divakara S. Gopala, Bhagyalakshmi S, Shahid P.S and S. Sampath