Durga Sankar Vavilapalli

Postdoc

News

22 May 2026

LiU Postdoc awarded royal scholarship

Durga Sankar, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) at Linköping University, has been awarded a scholarship from Stiftelsen Konung Carl XVI Gustafs 50 årsfond för vetenskap, teknik och miljö.

Publications

2026

Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Gordian Sandberg, Leiqiang Qin, Joseph Halim, Andrejs Petruhins, Daniel Dahlberg, Markus Axelsson, Anneli Kruve, Johanna Rosén (2026)

Synergistic Photo-Electro-Fenton Oxidation of Antibiotics Using a Ferrocene-Functionalized MXene (Ti3C2Tx) Electrode Energy & Environmental Materials, Article e70310 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eem2.70310

2025

Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Leiqiang Qin, Ali Saffar Shamshirgar, Johanna Rosén (2025)

Efficient photocatalytic reduction of aqueous Cr (VI) by MXene-(Ti3C2, Mo4/3C) and Ca2Fe2O5-based nanocomposites JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, Vol. 13, Article 116169 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2025.116169

2024

Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Leiqiang Qin, Justinas Palisaitis, Johanna Rosén (2024)

Enhanced photocatalytic performance of a rGO-Ca₂Fe₂O₅ nanocomposite for photodegradation of emergent pollutants NPJ CLEAN WATER, Vol. 7, Article 41 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41545-024-00334-5

2023

Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Johanna Rosén, Shubra Singh (2023)

Immobilization of a TiO2-PEDOT:PSS hybrid heterojunction photocatalyst for degradation of organic effluents RSC Advances, Vol. 13, p. 3095-3101 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2ra06729c

Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Raja Gopal Peri, B. Muthuraaman, Kishore Sridharan, M. S. Ramachandra Rao, Shubra Singh (2023)

Enhanced photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical performance of KBiFe2O5/g-C3N4 heterojunction photocatalyst under visible light Physica. B, Condensed matter, Vol. 648, Article 414411 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2022.414411

Research

Profile area - Materials Science for Sustainable Technologies

The Materials Science for Sustainable Technologies initiative includes cutting-edge international research with great potential for further development. This area combines the research areas of materials science and circular economy in new ways.

Organisation

Materials design (MDESIGN)

How far can we push the design and tailoring of materials properties for known and future applications? This ultimately depends on the control of the atomic constituents while composing and structuring a material.

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Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM)

Excellent undergraduate teaching and research in the areas of biology, chemistry, materials and applied physics and theory and modelling are conducted at this department.