In the Arava group
Ph.D. graduated Fall 2019. Ph.D. studies from Fall 2015.
Research: 2D materials and biosensors
Current position
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Education
- Ph.D.Wayne State University
Fall 2019 · Dissertation on 2D suspended FET technology for biosensors - M.Sc., Electronics Circuit Design and ManufactureUniversity of Dundee, United Kingdom
2012 - B.E., Electrical EngineeringNagpur University, India
2009
Honors
- ErieHack grand prize and Internet of H2O Technology Innovation Award (Micro Buoy team), 2017
- Thomas C. Rumble Fellowship, 2016–2017
Links
Publications with Prof. Arava (13)
- 2022Kiran Mahankali, Sundeep Varma Gottumukkala, Nirul Masurkar, Naresh Kumar Thangavel, Rahul Jayan, Abdulrazzag Sawas, Sudhan Nagarajan, Md Mahbubul Islam, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Unveiling the Electrocatalytic Activity of 1T′-MoSe2 on Lithium-Polysulfide Conversion Reactions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14(21), 24486–24496 (2022). Link ↗
- 2021A. George, M. V. Fistul, M. Gruenewald, D. Kaiser, T. Lehnert, R. Mupparapu, C. Neumann, U. Hübner, M. Schaal, N. Masurkar, L. M. R. Arava, I. Staude, U. Kaiser, T. Fritz, and A. Turchanin. Giant persistent photoconductivity in monolayer MoS2 field-effect transistors. npj 2D Materials and Applications, 5(1), 15 (2021). Link ↗
- 2021Nirul Masurkar, Naresh Kumar Thangavel, Sally Yurgelevic, Sundeep Varma, Gregory W. Auner, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Reliable and highly sensitive biosensor from suspended MoS2 atomic layer on nano-gap electrodes. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 172, 112724 (2021). Link ↗
- 2020Nirul Masurkar, Sundeep Varma, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Supported and Suspended 2D Material-Based FET Biosensors. Electrochem, 1(3), 260–277 (2020). Link ↗
- 2019Shuangjie Liu, Nirul Masurkar, Sundeep Varma, Ivan Avrutsky, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Experimental Studies and Numerical Simulation of Polypyrrole Trilayer Actuators. ACS Omega, 4(4), 6436–6442 (2019). Link ↗
- 2019Suspended 2D Material Biosensor for Reliable Sensing. ECS Meeting Abstracts Link ↗
- 2018Khalid Ababtain, Ganguli Babu, Sandhya Susarla, Hemtej Gullapalli, Nirul Masurkar, Pulickel M Ajayan, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Porous graphene current collectors filled with silicon as high-performance lithium battery anode. Materials Research Express, 5(1), 014004 (2018). Link ↗
- 2018Nirul Masurkar, Ganguli Babu, Sanjeev Porchelvan, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Millimeter-scale lithium ion battery packaging for high-temperature sensing applications. Journal of Power Sources, 399, 179–185 (2018). Link ↗
- 2018Nirul Masurkar, Naresh Kumar Thangavel, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. CVD-Grown MoSe 2 Nanoflowers with Dual Active Sites for Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(33), 27771–27779 (2018). Link ↗
- 2018Andreas Winter, Antony George, Christof Neumann, Zian Tang, Michael J. Mohn, Johannes Biskupek, Nirul Masurkar, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Thomas Weimann, Uwe Hübner, Ute Kaiser, and Andrey Turchanin. Lateral heterostructures of two-dimensional materials by electron-beam induced stitching. Carbon, 128, 106–116 (2018). Link ↗
- 2018Electrocatalysis of Polysulfide Redox in Lithium-Sulfur Battery. ECS Meeting Abstracts Link ↗
- 2017Ganguli Babu, Nirul Masurkar, Hesham Al Salem, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Atomic Layers for Lithium Polysulfides Electrocatalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(1), 171–178 (2017). Link ↗
- 2017Nirul Masurkar, Kawsar Jamil, and Leela Arava. Environmental Effects on the Polypyrrole Tri-layer Actuator. Actuators, 6(2), 17 (2017). Link ↗