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Ravichandar Babarao

Ravichandar Babarao

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
48
Citations
9166
World Ranking
10801
National Ranking
313

Ravichandar Babarao publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ravichandar Babarao sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 146 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Ravichandar Babarao D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ravichandar Babarao sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ravichandar Babarao is affiliated with RMIT University in Australia, with a research focus primarily on materials science and chemistry. Their scholarly work spans 85 publications in materials science and 52 in chemistry, with particular emphasis on materials chemistry and inorganic chemistry, alongside contributions to mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and research related to renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Notable recent papers by Ravichandar Babarao include:

  • Selective capture of carbon dioxide from hydrocarbons using a metal-organic framework, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Advances in adsorptive separation of benzene and cyclohexane by metal-organic framework adsorbents, 2021, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • High-Alkaline Water-Splitting Activity of Mesoporous 3D Heterostructures: An Amorphous-Shell@Crystalline-Core Nano-Assembly of Co-Ni-Phosphate Ultrathin-Nanosheets and V- Doped Cobalt-Nitride Nanowires, 2022, Advanced Science
  • Porous crystalline frameworks for thermocatalytic CO2 reduction: an emerging paradigm, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Enhancing Multicomponent Metal-Organic Frameworks for Low Pressure Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier Separations, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ravichandar Babarao include:

  • Ashakiran Maibam
  • Omid T. Qazvini
  • Shane G. Telfer
  • Lauren K. Macreadie
  • Sujit K. Ghosh

The scientist has published extensively in several academic journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Small

Best Publications

  • Chemically Stable Multilayered Covalent Organic Nanosheets from Covalent Organic Frameworks via Mechanical Delamination

    Suman Chandra;Sharath Kandambeth;Bishnu P. Biswal;Binit Lukose

  • Phosphoric acid Loaded Azo (-N=N-) based Covalent Organic Framework for Proton Conduction

    Suman Chandra;Tanay Kundu;Sharath Kandambeth;Ravichandar BabaRao

  • A Robust Ethane-Trapping Metal-Organic Framework with a High Capacity for Ethylene Purification

    Omid Taheri Qazvini;Ravichandar Babarao;Ravichandar Babarao;Zhao-Lin Shi;Yue-Biao Zhang

  • Selective capture of carbon dioxide from hydrocarbons using a metal-organic framework.

    Omid T. Qazvini;Ravichandar Babarao;Ravichandar Babarao;Shane G. Telfer

  • Molecular screening of metal-organic frameworks for CO2 storage.

    Ravichandar Babarao;Jianwen Jiang

  • A route to drastic increase of CO2 uptake in Zr metal organic framework UiO-66

    Cher Hon Sam Lau;Ravichandar Babarao;Matthew Roland Hill

  • Defect engineering of UiO-66 for CO2 and H2O uptake - a combined experimental and simulation study.

    Weibin Liang;Campbell J. Coghlan;Florence Ragon;Marta Rubio-Martinez

  • Unprecedentedly high selective adsorption of gas mixtures in rho zeolite-like metal-organic framework: a molecular simulation study.

    Ravichandar Babarao;Jianwen Jiang

  • Post-synthetic structural processing in a metal-organic framework material as a mechanism for exceptional CO2/N2 selectivity.

    Witold M Bloch;Ravichandar Babarao;Matthew Roland Hill;Christian J Doonan

  • Direct Synthesis of Hierarchically Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks with High Stability and Strong Brønsted Acidity: The Decisive Role of Hafnium in Efficient and Selective Fructose Dehydration

    Zhigang Hu;Yongwu Peng;Yongjun Gao;Yuhong Qian

  • Lead(II) uptake by aluminium based magnetic framework composites (MFCs) in water

    Raffaele Ricco;Kristina Konstas;Mark J. Styles;Joseph J. Richardson

  • Molecular Simulations for Adsorptive Separation of CO2/CH4 Mixture in Metal-Exposed, Catenated, and Charged Metal−Organic Frameworks

    Ravichandar Babarao;Jianwen Jiang;Stanley I. Sandler

  • Understanding the High Solubility of CO2 in an Ionic Liquid with the Tetracyanoborate Anion

    Ravichandar Babarao;Sheng Dai;Sheng Dai;De-en Jiang

  • Exceptionally high CO2storage in covalent-organic frameworks: Atomistic simulation study

    Ravichandar Babarao;Jianwen Jiang

  • Multipurpose Metal–Organic Framework for the Adsorption of Acetylene: Ethylene Purification and Carbon Dioxide Removal

    Omid T. Qazvini;Ravichandar Babarao;Ravichandar Babarao;Shane G. Telfer

  • Molecular simulations for energy, environmental and pharmaceutical applications of nanoporous materials: from zeolites, metal–organic frameworks to protein crystals

    Jianwen Jiang;Ravichandar Babarao;Zhongqiao Hu

  • A Highly Hydrophobic Metal−Organic Framework Zn(BDC)(TED)0.5 for Adsorption and Separation of CH3OH/H2O and CO2/CH4: An Integrated Experimental and Simulation Study

    Y. F. Chen;J. Y. Lee;R. Babarao;J. Li

  • Advances in adsorptive separation of benzene and cyclohexane by metal-organic framework adsorbents

    Soumya Mukherjee;Debobroto Sensharma;Omid T. Qazvini;Subhajit Dutta

  • Functionalizing porous aromatic frameworks with polar organic groups for high-capacity and selective CO2 separation: a molecular simulation study.

    Ravichandar Babarao;Sheng Dai;Sheng Dai;De-en Jiang

  • Defects in metal–organic frameworks: a compromise between adsorption and stability?

    Aaron W. Thornton;Ravichandar Babarao;Aman Jain;Aman Jain;Fabien Trousselet

  • CUB-5: A Contoured Aliphatic Pore Environment in a Cubic Framework with Potential for Benzene Separation Applications

    Lauren K. Macreadie;Emily J. Mensforth;Emily J. Mensforth;Ravichandar Babarao;Ravichandar Babarao;Kristina Konstas

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew R. Hill
Matthew R. Hill Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jianwen Jiang
Jianwen Jiang National University of Singapore
Sujit K. Ghosh
Sujit K. Ghosh Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune
Sheng Dai
Sheng Dai Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nikhil V. Medhekar
Nikhil V. Medhekar Monash University
De-en Jiang
De-en Jiang Vanderbilt University
Jian Zhen Ou
Jian Zhen Ou RMIT University
Brendan F. Abrahams
Brendan F. Abrahams University of Melbourne
Aamod V. Desai
Aamod V. Desai Indian Institute of Science
Paolo Falcaro
Paolo Falcaro Graz University of Technology

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