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
Book Chapter

Zhi Li, Divakara S. Gopala, Ryan M. Richards. Chapter entitled 'Oxidation Catalysis by Nanoscale
Gold, Silver and Copper' in 'Advanced Nonmaterial's' Ed. Kurt Geckeler, Wiley VCH, 2008.

1. 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.
2. 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:

• 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
• 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
• Joint 63rd Northwest/21st Rocky Mountain (NORM/RMRM)ACS Regional Meeting, (June 15-18, 2008), Park City, Utah oral presentation by Divakara S. Gopala "Novel Polyoxoanion Stabilized Gold and Silver Nanostructures" Divakara S. Gopala, Rama R. Bhattacharjee and Ryan M. Richards
• 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
• 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