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    Enhanced photocatalytic performance of a rGO-Ca2Fe2O5 nanocomposite for photodegradation of emergent pollutants

    In this study, a simple thermal reduction process is used to synthesize a rGO-Ca2Fe2O5 (rGO-CFO) nanocomposite, with the morphological and optical characteristics of the CFO nanomaterial being modified by the rGO...

    Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Leiqiang Qin, Justinas Palisaitis in npj Clean Water (2024)

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    Magneto-strain effects in 2D ferromagnetic van der Waal material CrGeTe \(_3\)

    The idea of strain based manipulation of spins in magnetic two-dimensional (2D) van der Waal (vdW) materials leads to the development of new generation spintronic devices. Magneto-strain arises in these materi...

    Kritika Vijay, Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Ashok Arya, S. K. Srivastava in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Enhanced photo-fenton and photoelectrochemical activities in nitrogen doped brownmillerite KBiFe2O5

    Visible-light-driven photo-fenton-like catalytic activity and photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance of nitrogen-doped brownmillerite KBiFe2O5 (KBFO) are investigated. The effective optical bandgap of KBFO reduce...

    Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Santosh Behara, Raja Gopal Peri in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Growth of brownmillerite Ca2Fe2O5 single crystals under air, oxygen and argon atmospheres using optical floating zone technique: a comparative study

    To the best of our knowledge, we report for the first time the growth of brownmillerite Ca2Fe2O5 (CFO) single crystals under Argon (Ar) only ambience by optical floating zone (OFZ) technique and compare its struc...

    Suchita Dhankhar, Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Gopal Bhalerao in Bulletin of Materials Science (2022)

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    g-C3N4/Ca2Fe2O5 heterostructures for enhanced photocatalytic degradation of organic effluents under sunlight

    g-C3N4/Ca2Fe2O5 heterostructures were successfully prepared by incorporating g-C3N4 into Ca2Fe2O5 (CFO). As prepared g-C3N4/CFO heterostructures were initially utilized to photodegrade organic effluent Methylene ...

    Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Raja Gopal Peri, R. K. Sharma, U. K. Goutam in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Author Correction: Growth of sillenite Bi12FeO20 single crystals: structural, thermal, optical, photocatalytic features and first principle calculations

    An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

    Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Ambrose A. Melvin, F. Bellarmine in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Growth of sillenite Bi12FeO20 single crystals: structural, thermal, optical, photocatalytic features and first principle calculations

    Ideal sillenite type Bi12FeO20 (BFO) micron sized single crystals have been successfully grown via inexpensive hydrothermal method. The refined single crystal X-ray diffraction data reveals cubic Bi12FeO20 struct...

    Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Ambrose A. Melvin, F. Bellarmine in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Nitrogen Incorporated Photoactive Brownmillerite Ca2Fe2O5 for Energy and Environmental Applications

    Ca2Fe2O5 (CFO) is a potentially viable material for alternate energy applications. Incorporation of nitrogen in Ca2Fe2O5 (CFO-N) lattice modifies the optical and electronic properties to its advantage. Here, the ...

    Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Soma Banik, Raja Gopal Peri, Muthuraaman B. in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Hybrid gallium nitride/organic heterojunction with improved electrical properties for optoelectronic applications

    The rectifying behavior and performance parameters of a hybrid organic/inorganic poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate/Si-doped GaN layer (PEDOT:PSS/Si:GaN) are studied. The characteristics of...

    R. Anitha, Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Sumithra Sivadas Menon in Journal of Materials Science (2018)