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Papers Published in peer-reviewed journals:

1. S. D. Ramarao*, S. Roopas Kiran, and V. R. K. Murthy, Structural, morphological and microwave dielectric studies on microwave sintered ZnWO4 ceramic compounds, Ceram. Int., 2023, 49,  23075.

2. A. K. Singh,# D. Bagchi,# S. Sarkar, S. C. Sarma, D. Mumbaraddi, S. D. Ramarao, S. C. Peter*, "Optimized Metal Deficiency Induced Operando Phase Transformation Enhances Charge Polarization Promoting Hydrogen Evolution Reaction", Chem. Mater., 2022, 34, 8999.

3. P. Saraswathi, Anjaly Babu, S. D. Ramarao*, K. Uday Kumar, Hitesh Borkar, Ch. Rajesh, and K. R. Kumar, “Enhanced Water Oxidation reaction activity of Mn3O4 nanocrystals in alkaline medium by doping Transition-metal Ions”, Nano Futures, 2022, 6, 025007. 

4. S. D. Ramarao*, C. Thirmal, V. R. K. Murthy, "Isostructural phase transition (IPT) in CaMoO4 with Scheelite structure", Ceram. Int., 48, 14987.

5. R. Das, S. Sarkar, R. Kumar, S. D. Ramarao, A. Cherevotan, M. Jasil, C. P. Vinod, A. K. Singh, S. C. Peter, “Noble Metal Free Heterojunction Photocatalyst for Selective CO2 Reduction to Methane upon Induced Strain Relaxation”, ACS Catal., 2022, 12, 1, 687–697.

6. C. Thirmal#, S. D. Ramarao#,*, L. Srinivasa Rao, and V.R.K. Murthy, "Study of structural, dielectric and Ac conductivity properties of SrMoO4", Mater. Res. Bull., 146, 111618, 2022.

7. S. Sarkar, S. D. Ramarao, T. Das, R. Das, C.P. Vinod, S. Chakraborty, and S.C. Peter, "Unveiling the roles of lattice strain and descriptor species on Pt-like oxygen reduction activity in Pd-Bi catalysts", ACS catal., 11, 800, 2021.

8. S. D. Ramarao#, A. Pawbake#, A.K. Singh, M. Nunez-Regueiro, M.A. Measson, and S.C. Peter, "Electrical transport properties of half-Heusler ScPdBi single crystals under extreme conditions", J. Alloy. Comp., 848, 156632, 2020.

9. S. Sarkar, A. Chaupatnaik, S. D. Ramarao, U. Subbarao, P. Barpanda, and S.C. Peter, "Operando sodiation mechanistic study of a New Antimony-based intermetallic CoSb as a high-performance sodium-ion battery anode", J. Phys. Chem. C, 124, 15757, 2020.

10. A.K. Singh#, S. D. Ramarao#, and S.C. Peter, " Rare-earth based half-Heusler topological quantum materials: A perspective", APL Mater., 8, 060903, 2020.

11. S. D. Ramarao#, A.K. Singh#, U. Subbarao#, and S.C. Peter, "An overview on the structural diversity of Europium based ternary intermetallics", J. Solid State Chem., 281, 121048, 2020.

12. D. Goud, A.C. Cherevotan, R.M.-Ganesh, B. Ray, S. D. Ramarao, J. Raj, and S.C. Peter, "Unraveling the role of site Isolation and Support for Semihydrogenation of Phenylacetylene", Chem. Asian J., 14, 4819, 2019.

13. A.V. Ravindra, M. Chandrika, Ch. Rajesh, P. Kollu, Shaohua Ju and S. D. Ramarao, "Simple synthesis, structural and optical properties of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles", Eur. Phys. J. Plus, 134, 1, 2019.

14. M. Chandrika, A.V. Ravindra, Ch. Rajesh, S. D. Ramarao and Shaohua Ju, "Studies on structural and optical properties of nano ZnFe2O4 and ZnFe2O4-TiO2 composite synthesized by co-precipitation route", Mater. Chem. Phys., 230, 107, 2019.

15. P. Saraswathi, S. D. Ramarao*, R.A. Kumar, Ch. Rajesh and A.V. Rao, "Solvothermal Synthesis of BiVO4/WO3 heterostructures and their Applicability Towards Electrochemical Water Oxidation Reaction", Eur. Phys. J. Plus, 134, 186, 2019.

16. S. D. Ramarao, Dundappa Mumbaraddi, Deepti Kalsi, P Halappa, Sebastian C. Peter, "New quaternary chalcogenide glasses with wide range IR transparency", Mater. Res. Exp., 5, 075201, 2018.

17. A.Venkateswara Rao, B Ranjith Kumar, S. D. Ramarao, "Structural, microstructural and electrochemical studies on LiMn2-x(GdAl)xO4 with spinel structure as cathode material for Li-ion batteries", Ceram. Int., 44, 15116, 2018.

18. K Ramarao, B Rajesh Babu, B Kishore Babu, V Veeraiah, S. D. Ramarao, K Rajasekhar, A Venkateswara Rao, "Influence of Zn Substitution on Structural, Magnetic and Electrical Properties of MgFe2O", J. Electro. Mater, 47, 2997, 2018.

19. K Ramarao, B Rajesh Babu, B Kishore Babu, V Veeraiah, S. D. Ramarao, K Rajasekhar, A Venkateswara Rao, "Composition dependent of structural, magnetic and electrical properties of Co substituted magnesium ferrite",  Physica B: Condens. Matter, 528, 18, 2018.

20. S. D. Ramarao and V.R.K. Murthy, "Structural phase transformation and microwave dielectric studies of SmNb1-x(Si1/2Mo1/2)xO4 compounds with fergusonite structure", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17, 12623, 2015.

21. G. Kotagiri, S. D. Ramarao and G. Markandeyulu, "Magnetoimpedance studies on laser and microwave annealed Fe66Ni7si7B20 ribbons", J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 382, 43, 2015.

22. S. D. Ramarao and V.R.K. Murthy, "Structural, Raman spectroscopic and microwave dielectric studies on Ni1-x(Zn1/2Zr1/2)xW1-xNbxO4 ceramics compounds with Wolframite structure", Dalton Trans., 44, 2311 (2015).

23. S. D. Ramarao, S. Roopas Kiran and V.R.K. Murthy, "Structural, lattice vibrational, optical and microwave dielectric studies on Ca1-xSrxMoO4 ceramics with Scheelite structure", Mater. Res. Bull., 56, 71 (2014).

24. S. D. Ramarao and V.R.K. Murthy, "Crystal structure refinement and microwave dielectric properties of new low dielectric loss AZrNb2O8 (A: Mn, Zn, Mg and Co) ceramics", Scr. Mater., 69, 274 (2013).

25. S. D. Ramarao, S. Roopas Kiran and V.R.K. Murthy, "Correlation between structural characteristics    and microwave dielectric properties of scheelite Ca1-xCdxMoO4 solid solution", J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 95 , 3532 (2012).

# Equal contribution; * corresponding author

Conferences:

Oral Presentations:

1. S.D. Ramarao and V.R.K. Murthy, "Temperature and composition induced phase transition in SmNbO4", International Symposium for Research scholars on Metallurgy, Materials science & Engineering, (ISRS),11-13 December 2014, IIT Madras, India. Best Oral presentation.

2. S.D. Ramarao and V.R.K. Murthy, "Influence of Structural Characteristics on Microwave Dielectric Properties of Zn1-xNixWO4 Solid solution", International Union of Materials Research Society - ICA, 16-20 Dec 2013 - IISc Bangalore, India.

3. S.D. Ramarao and V.R.K. Murthy, "Structural refinement and microwave dielectric properties of AWO4 (A: Zn, Ni and Cd) compounds with wolframite structure", second Interanational Conference on Advances in materials Processing and Characterization, 6-8th Feb 2013, Anna University, Chennai, India.

4. S.D. Ramarao and V.R.K. Murthy, "Effect of microwave sintering on lattice vibrations and microwave dielectric properties of ZnWO4 ceramics", International Symposium for Research scholars on Metallurgy, Materials science & Engineering, (ISRS),13-15 December 2012, IIT Madras, India. Best Oral presentation.

5. S.D. Ramarao, S. Roopas Kiran and V.R.K. Murthy, "Correlation between structural charactaristics and microwave dielectric properties of Ca1-xCdxMoO4 ceramics", International Conference on Recent trends in Advanced Materials (ICRAM), 20-22 Feb 2012, VIT University, Vellore, India.

Poster Presentations:

1. S.D. Ramarao and V.R.K. Murthy, "Ferroelastic phase transition in SmNbO4: An in-situ X-ray diffraction study and its microwave dielectric properties", Second International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials (ICAFM), 19-21 Feb 2014, NIIST Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

2. S.D. Ramarao and V.R.K. Murthy, "Phase transition in SmNb1-xVxO4 system: X-ray diffraction and lattice vibrational analysis", Fourth International Conference on Recent Advances in Composite Materials (ICRACM), 18-21 Feb 2013, Department of Machanical Engineering, IIT BHU, Varanasi, Venue: International Centre Goa, Goa, India.

Involved in Conferences/Symposium/Workshops:

1. Coordinator of an e-Symposium

Title: A two e-Symposium on “Materials for energy and energy storage”  

Venue: VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, 3rd and 4th Sep, 2021.