Research Interests

Dr. Rakhi's research interests include graphene, carbon based nanocomposites, MXenes, electrochemical energy storage devices, and electrochemical sensors

Selected Publications

• R.B. Rakhi, W. Chen, D.K. Cha, and H.N. Alshareef; “Substrate Dependent Self-Organization of Mesoporous Cobalt Oxide Nanowires with Remarkable Pseudocapacitance”, Nanoletters; 2012, 12(5): 2559-2567.

• R.B. Rakhi, W. Chen, D.K. Cha, and H.N. Alshareef; “Nanostructured Ternary Electrodes for Energy Storage Applications”, Advanced Energy Materials,2012, 2: 381–389. 

• R.B. Rakhi, Bilal Ahmed, M. N.Hedhili, D. H. Anjum, and H.N. Alshareef; "Effect of post-etch annealing gas composition on the structural and electrochemical properties of Ti2CTx MXene electrodes for supercapacitor applications", Chemistry of Materials, 2015, 27(15): 5314-5323

• ​R.B. Rakhi, P Nayak, Chuan Xia, Alshareef HN; "Novel amperometric glucose biosensor based on MXene nanocomposite, Scientific Reports. 2016;6:36422

• R.B. Rakhi, Bilal Ahmed, Dalaver H Anjum, Husam N Alshareef "Direct Chemical Synthesis of MnO2 Nanowhiskers on Transition-Metal Carbide Surfaces for Supercapacitor Applications"​, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (29): 18806–18814​

• R.B. Rakhi, and M.L. Lekshmi; "Reduced graphene oxide based ternary nanocomposite cathodes for high-performance aqueous asymmetric supercapacitors", Electrochimica Acta. 2017, 231: 539-548.

• S. Sharath Shankar, Rayammarakkar M. Shereema, RB Rakhi; "Electrochemical determination of Adrenaline using MXene/Graphite composite paste electrodes", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10 (50): pp 43343–43351

• PM Anjana, MR Bindhu, M Umadevi, R.B. Rakhi; "Antibacterial and electrochemical activities of silver, gold, and palladium nanoparticles dispersed amorphous carbon composites", Applied Surface Science,2019, 479: 96-1041.

• S. Sharath Shankar, Rayammarakkar M. Shereema, Vishnu Ramachandran, T. V. Sruthi, V. B. Sameer Kumar, and RB Rakhi; "Electrochemical determination of Adrenaline using MXene/Graphite composite paste electrodes", ACS Omega ACS Omega, 2019, 4 (4):7903–7910.

Educational Qualifications

• M.Sc. in Physics   University of Kerala, India  2000   ( First  rank)

• B. Ed.    in Physical Sciences University of Kerala, India  2001 

• M.Phil.   in Physics   University of Kerala, India  2002

• Ph.D. in Physics   IIT Madras, India   2009  (Best thesis award)            

Awards

• Name was included in the list of top 2% highly cited researchers in 2019, 2020  released by Stanford University, USA, published in PLOS Biology on 16th October 2020 for her research in the field of Applied Physics-Nanotechnology .

• UGC-FRP assistant professorship, UGC, Govt. of India, 2017

• Ramanujan Fellowship from Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology (SERB-DST), Govt. of India in 2015

• SABIC International Post-doctoral Fellowship award consecutively for the years 2012 and 2013

• Prof. A.L. Laskar award for the best Ph.D. thesis in Physics from IIT Madras, 2009.

• First Ph. D student From IIT Madras Physics Department to visit NUS as a part of NUS-India Research Initiative (IRI) program.

• First rank in M.Sc. (Physics) examination conducted by University of Kerala, India in 2000.

• Awarded both Junior and Senior Research Fellowships by ‘Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’ (CSIR), Government of India (2004) after qualifying the national level competitive examination, the Joint UGC-CSIR National Eligibility Test.

• Awarded the best poster prize in International Symposium of Research Scholars (ISRS-2006), held at IIT Madras, Chennai during 18th to 20th of December, 2006.

• Awarded the best paper prize in International Symposium of Research Scholars (ISRS-2008), held at IIT Madras, Chennai during 10th to 12th of December, 2008.

•  Three articles on supercapacitors, published in Nanoletters and Advanced Functional Materials were highlighted in nanowerk. 

• Awarded the best paper prize in Global Collaborative Research (GCR) Symposium held at KAUST, Saudi Arabia during 26-27 March 2014.