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Biography

Dr. B. V. Sarada is a senior scientist and Head (CAMB) at ARCI), Hyderabad. She has obtained her Ph. D. from The University of Tokyo, where she has worked on Conducting Diamond thin-films and microelectrodes for biosensor and water treatment applications. She has received the prestigious JSPS Fellowship both during her Ph. D. and post-doctoral programme. She has also worked at The University of Tokyo as a JST Fellow under a pre-venture project. Back in India, she was a DST Woman Scientist. She has joined ARCI as Scientist ‘D’. She is also the convener for Biomedical Materials Research Group at ARCI.
Dr. Sarada’s research interests include synthesis of Nanostructured Materials & Nanocomposites for energy conversion and energy storage applications including batteries and supercapacitors, Nanostructured materials and alloys for permanent and biodegradable biomedical implant applications, conducting boron-doped diamond Thin-films and microelectrodes for electrochemical sensor applications etc. Dr. Sarada’s current research is focussed on electrode and electrolyte materials for Na ion and Li-S batteries and pouch and cylindrical cells. She has been working on the electrocatalyst modified carbon sulfur cathode materials to increase the cycle stability in Li-s batteries and lignin based hard carbon anode for Na ion batteries. She is also working on the surface modification and biocompatible coatings for permanent and biodegradable medical implants. She has more than 80 publications, 7 book chapters, 18 patents and 3 technology transfers to her credit. 
She is an editorial board member of ‘Scientific Reports’, a publication under Nature Publishing Group. She is a member of ‘The Electrochemical Society of India’ and ‘MRSI, India’, Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) and Battery Research Society of India (BRS). She has been elected as “Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences” for the year 2020. In addition, she also gives inspirational lectures to school and college students at villages and towns to inspire them towards research.

Research Areas of Interest

• Cathode & Anode Materials and electrolytes for Li-S and Na-ion/RT Na-S batteries
• Metal-oxide based nanostructures and carbon for Supercapacitor applications
• Nanostructured Materials, Graphene-based Nanocomposites for energy conversion and storage applications
• Nanostructured materials and coatings for Biomedical/biodegradable implants and devices.
• Nanocoatings and UVC based disinfection systems for anti-viral applications.
• Thin-film Photovoltaic Solar Cells 

Highest Qualification

Ph. D. (Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo)

Other Qualifications

M. Se. Physics (S. V. University) M. Phil. Physics (University of Hyderabad)

List of Publications

Publications During last 5 years:

1. P. Misra, S. R. Atchuta, S. Mandati, B. V. Sarada, T. N. Rao and S. Sakthivel, A non-vacuum dip coated SiO2 interface layer for fabricating CIGS solar cells on stainless steel foil substrates, Solar Energy, 214 (2021) 471-477. 
2. Mandati, S., Misra, P., Boosagulla, D., Rao, T. N., Sarada, B.V., Solar energy harvesting through photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical means from appositely prepared CuInGaSe2 absorbers on flexible substrates by a low-cost and industrially benign pulse electrodeposition technique, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 60 (5)(2021) 2197-2205. DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.0c05934 
3. Mandati, S., Misra, P., Boosagulla, D., Rao, T. N., Sarada, B.V., Control over MoSe2 formation with vacuum-assisted selenization of one-step electrodeposited Cu-In-Ga-Se precursor layers, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28 (12) (2021) 15123-15129. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-11783-z 
4. Nanaji, K., Sarada, B.V., Varadaraju, U.V., N Rao, T., Anandan, S., A novel approach to synthesize porous graphene sheets by exploring KOH as pore inducing agent as well as a catalyst for supercapacitors with ultra-fast rate capability, Renewable Energy, 172 (2021) 502-513.
5. Pavithra, C.L.P., Janardhana, R.K.S.K., Reddy, K.M., Murapaka, C., Joardar, J., Sarada, B.V., Tamboli, R.R., Hu, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, X., Dey, S.R., An advancement in the synthesis of unique soft magnetic CoCuFeNiZn high entropy alloy thin films, Scientific Reports, 11 (1) (2021) art. no. 8836. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87786-8
6. Boosagulla, D., Mandati, S., Misra, P., Allikayala, R., Sarada, B.V., Pulse electrodeposited zinc sulfide as an eco-friendly buffer layer for the cadmium-free thin-film solar cells, Superlattices and Microstructures, 160 (2021) art. no. 107060. DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2021.107060. 
7. Samhita Pappu, Tata N. Rao, Surendra K. Marth, Sarada B.V., Electrodeposited Manganese Oxide based Redox Mediator Driven 2.2 V High Energy Density Aqueous Supercapacitor, Energy, Vol 243, pp. 122571, 2022. 
8. Divya Boosagulla, Sreekanth Mandati, Ramachandraiah, A., Sarada B. V., Role of Tartaric acid in Growth Mechanism of Pulse Electrodeposited CdS and ZnS Thin Films, Thin Solid Films, 741, (2022) 139011 
9. Samhita Pappu, Srinivasan Anandan, Tata N. Rao, Surendra K. Marth, Sarada B. V., High-performance hybrid supercapacitor with electrochemically exfoliated graphene oxide incorporated NiCo2O4 in aqueous and non-aqueous electrolytes, Journal of Energy Storage, Vol 50, pp. 104598, 2022. 
10. Sadananda Muduli, Samhita Pappu, Sarada B. V., Tata N. Rao, Surendra K. Marth, Electrochemically Exfoliated Carbons as Sustainable Anode Materials for Lead Carbon Hybrid Ultracapacitor, ChemElectroChem, https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202200230, 2022. 
11. Boya Venugopal, Parakandy Muzhikara Pratheeksha, Khasim Saheb Bayikadi, Pavan Srinivas Veluri, Mantripragada Rama Krishna, Sarada B. V., Tata Narasinga Rao, Paul Joseph Daniel and Srinivasan Anandan, Oxygen vacancies enable excellent electrochemical kinetics of carbon coated mesoporous SnO2 nanoparticles in lithium ion batteries, Mater. Adv., 3 (2022) 1617. 
12. Samhita Pappu, Sadananda Muduli, Nanaji Katchala, Narasinga Rao Tata, Sarada B. V., and Surendra K. Martha, Easy and Scalable Synthesis of NiMnCo-Oxalate Electrode Material for Supercapacitors from Spent Li-Ion Batteries: Power Source for Electrochromic Devices, Energy & Fuels 36 (21) 2022 13398-13407. 
13. Madhusrhri Bhar, Samhita Pappu, U Bhattacharjee, Sarada B.V. , Tata N Rao, Surendra K Martha Designing a Freestanding Electrode of Intermetallic Ni-Sn Alloy Deposit as an Anode for Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries, , Journal of The Electrochemical Society 170 (4), (2023) 040501 
14. Ch. Gowthami; Shreyas, J. Kashyap, Sudhakara Sarma; B.V. Sarada, A. Venu Vinod, R. Vijay; Tata N. Rao and Dr. S. Anandan, Enhanced stability and high yield LiFePO4/C derived from low-cost iron precursors for high-energy Li-ion batteries. Journal of Energy Storage 72 (2023) 108453 
15. Jyoti Gupta, D. Das, P. H. Borse and B. V. Sarada, In-situ Pd doped MoS2 nanosheets as HER electrocatalyst for enhanced electrocatalytic water splitting, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 8 (2024) 1526.
16. Sony K. Cherian, Katchala Nanaji, B.V. Sarada, Tata Narasinga Rao, Chandra S. Sharma. Sulfur confinement into highly porous banana peduncle-derived carbon as for high-rate performance Lithium-Sulfur Battery, Journal of Energy Storage, 89 (2024) 111803.
17. S.S. Sarma, B. Padya, B.V Sarada, V. Akhila, C. Gowthami, P.V. Krishna, Two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride by cryo-milling: microstructure and oxidation behavior at elevated temperature, Journal of Nanoparticle Research 26 (2024) 1.
18. D Boosagulla, R Allikayala, B.V Sarada, In Situ Aluminum doped Zinc Oxide Thin Films by Pulse Electrodeposition for the All-electrodeposited Cadmium-free Copper Indium Diselenide Solar Cells, Thin Solid Films (2024) 140434.
19. SK Cherian, MM Gaikwad, K Nanaji, BV Sarada, TN Rao, CS Sharma, Iron, cobalt co-embedded in situ graphitized xerogel-derived carbon as sulfur host for ultrahigh rate and high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries, Journal of Energy Storage 95 (2024) 112587.
20. Suraj Kannur, Mamta Devi, Jampala Pasyanthi, Kaushik Kunte, Gourav Shukla, Premkumar Murugesan, Ajay Mohan, Katchala Nanaji, B V Sarada, Sudhanshu Sharma, Swati Sharma, Mithun Radhakrishna, Influence of Electrode Pore Size and Electrolyte on Carbon Aerogel Supercapacitors: Insights from Experimental Studies and Molecular Simulations, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128 (2024) 17836.
21. K. Nanaji, Samhita Pappu, Srinivasan Anandan, B.V. Sarada, R. Vijay, Tata N. Rao, TiNb2O7 nanobead anode coupled porous carbon onion cathode for high energy and power-based hybrid Lithium-Ion Capacitor, Journal of Power Sources, 629 (2025) 236024.
22. Jyoti Gupta, Dibakar Das, Pramod H. Borse, B. V. Sarada, Single step synthesized V-doped few layered MoS2 nanosheets as an efficient HER cathode for electrocatalytic splitting of saline water, J. Alloys and compounds, 1022 (2025) 179738.
23. Sony K. Cherian, Ranjini Sarkar, Mohd Shavez, B V Sarada, Tata Narasinga Rao, Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Synergistic Effects of Nitrogen and Sulfur Co-doping in Xerogel Derived Hard Carbon for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, J. Alloys and compounds, 1021, (2025) 179646.
24. Influence of Sliding Velocity on Wear Behavior of Electrodeposited Ni-W and Hard Chrome Coatings on Gun Barrel Steel, A Raju, A Babu, B Praveen Kumar, Kaustubh Prabhu, B. V. Sarada, L. Rama Krishna, Nitin P Wasekar, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, (2025) 1-13.

Books / Book Chapters

1. B. V. Sarada, Terashima, C, Ivandini T A, Rao, T N, Fujishima, A, “Diamond Electrochemistry”, Elsevier B V, 2005
2. Olivia, H, B. V. Sarada, Rao, T N, Fujishima, A, “Diamond Electrochemistry”, Elsevier B V, 2005
3. S. Anandan, H. Neha, B. V. Sarada, T. N. Rao, Nanomanufacturing for Aerospace Applications, Aerospace Materials and Technologies, Edited by: Prasad, N. Eswara, Wanhill, R. J. H, Volume 2, 2016. Pp85.
4. Sreekanth Mandati, Suhash R. Dey, Shrikant V. Joshi and B. V. Sarada, Pulsed Electrochemical Deposition of CuInSe2 and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Semiconductor Thin Films, Semiconductors - Electrochemical Growth and Characterization. ISBN no: 978-953-51-5589-8, 109-132, (2018).
5. David Ginley, Rakesh Agrawal, -----, Bulusu Sarada, -----, Juzer Vasi, Yanping Wang, and Yue Wu, Sustainable Photovoltaics, Lecture Notes in Energy 39. 25, Ginley D., Chattopadhyay K. (eds) Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States(SERIIUS), Springer, Cham.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33184-9-2
6. Martha, S. K., Samhita Pappu, Rao, T. N., Sarada, B. V., Concept of Thermodynamic Studies in Electrochemical Storage and Conversion Systems , Chapter 35, Encyclopedia of Energy Storage, Ed. Luisa Cabeza, Elsevier. 2022.
7. S Pappu, TN Rao, B. V. Sarada, K Nanaji Introduction to Green Supercapacitors: Fundamentals, Design, Challenges, and Future Prospects Chapter 1, Low-carbon Supercapacitors: Towards Sustainability in Energy Storage Devices, Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2023

Conference Proceedings

1. Rao, TN; Sarada, BV; Tryk, DA; Fujishima A., Electrochemical oxidation of sulfa drugs at boron-doped diamond electrodes Conference: 6th International Symposium on Diamond Materials at the 196th Meeting of the Electrochemical-Society Location: HONOLULU, HI Date: OCT 17-22, 1999 Source: DIAMOND MATERIALS VI Series: ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY SERIES Volume: 99 Issue: 32 Pages: 507-511 Published: 2000 
2. Sarada, BV; Rao, TN; Tryk, DA; Fujishima A, Electrochemical oxidation of histamine and serotonin at highly boron-doped diamond electrodes, Conference: 6th International Symposium on Diamond Materials at the 196th Meeting of the Electrochemical-Society Location: HONOLULU, HI Date: OCT 17-22, 1999Source: DIAMOND MATERIALS VI, Series: ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY SERIES Volume: 99 Issue: 32 Pages: 502-506 Published: 2000
3. Fujishima, A; Rao, TN; Sarada, BV, Electroanalytical applications of bare and modified diamond electrodes Conference: 7th International Symposium on Diamond Materials Location: SAN FRANCISCO, CA Date: SEP 07, 2000, DIAMOND MATERIALS VII, PROCEEDINGS, Series: ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY SERIES Volume: 2002 Issue: 25 Pages: 127, 2001.
4. Continuous Glucose Monitoring at GOx/OPPy/Pt-Diamond Microfiber Electrodes, O Herlambang, BV Sarada, Proceedings of the Chemical Sensor Symposium 37 (2003) 85-87

Patents


1. Test-substance concentration measuring method e.g. for urine involves measuring electric current difference corresponding to oxidation/reduction reaction of either ascorbic acid/ascorbic and uric acid to measure uric acid concentration 
Patent Number: JP2004101437-A; JP3703787-B2 Publication date: 2004-04-02 
2. Detection method of inspection compound, and diamond electrode and device used therefore. Patent Number: JP2003121410, Publication date: 2003-04-23 
3. Electrochemical Assay using an electroconductive diamond coated electrode, and electrochemical assay system based thereon. Patent Number: EP1055926A2, EP1055926A3, WO200198766-A; WO200198766-A1; AU200174581-A; JP2002504478-X
4. Thiol concentration measuring method and sensor used for the same, JP2002189016A2. Publication date: 2002-07-05
5. Method for determining concentration of xanthin type compound and sensor for use therein. WO0198766A1, Publication date: 2001-12-27 
6. Density measuring method e.g for chemical samples, Patent Number: JP2001021521-A; JP2001050924-A, JP2001091499-A; JP2001147211-A
7. Density measuring method e.g for chemical samples Patent Number: KR2001020722-A; KR360991-B
8. Density measuring method e.g for chemical samples, Patent Number: EP1055926-A.
9. Density measuring method e.g for chemical samples, Patent Number: TW528867-A TW528867-A
10. Density measuring method e.g for chemical samples, Patent Number: EP1055926-A; JP2001021521-A; JP2001050924-A; CN1278063-A
11. Density measuring method e.g for chemical samples, Patent Number: CN1278063-A
12. Novel copper foils having high hardness and conductivity and a pulse reverse electrodeposition method for their preparation. Indian Patent granted: 306501 (2019)
13. An Improved method of preparing bulk porous silicon compacts. Indian patent Granted. IN201100912
14. A Novel Electrochemical Method for Manufacturing CIGS Thin-Films Containing Nanomesh-like Structures, Indian Patent granted: 337455 (2020)
15. A Biomass derived porous carbon as sulfur host for energy storage device and a method of preparing thereof. Indian Patent No. 202341033390 filed on 11th May 2023 
16. Fe, Co co-embedded RF xerogel derived carbon as sulfur host". Indian Patent Application No. 202341042659 filed on 26/06/2023.
17. Fe-Mn based alloy composition and a methods of fabricating biodegradable implants using the same “Provisional Indian Patent Filed No. 202541029825 dt 28-04-2025 
18. “P2/P2+O3/O3 Sodium metal oxides electrode materials for sodium ion batteries and method of preparation thereof" Patent No. 202541079459 dt. 21 August 2025

Awards & Honours

JSPS Post doctoral Research Fellow 
Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences

Affiliation to Professional Societies

Editorial board member of ‘Scientific Reports’, Member ‘The Electrochemical Society of India’ and ‘MRSI, India’, Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) and Battery Research Society of India (BRS)