Radha Motkuri
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
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Biography
Dr. Motkuri was a post-doctoral research associate (mid-2006 to mid-2008) at the University of Missouri-Columbia with Prof. Fred Hawthorne where he developed carborane based molecular motors. He also worked as Alexander von Humboldt fellow at University of Bonn (2005 to mid- 2006) with Prof. Fritz Voegtle and synthesized Rotaxane based nano-motors (Angew. Chem. 2006, JPC-C 2009). During his doctoral work at IICT-India (1998-2003), Dr. Motkuri developed a new methodology for the synthesis of various macrocyles using zeolites and mesoporous MCM-41 materials. (US Patents: US671297, US6605194, US6524446, German patent: DE10195974T, Chem.Commun 2001)
Research Interests
- General Research Interests
- Porous coordination solids
- Gas storage and separation
- Carbon capture and storage
- Supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering,
- Nanotechnology
- Boron chemistry, carboranes and metallacarboranes
- Zeolites and mesoporous materials
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Air sensitive reactions
- Chromatography
- Molecular Modelling
- ab-initio and density functional (DFT) calculations
Education and Credentials
- Ph.D in Organic/supramolecular Chemistry,University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India 2003
- M.S., Physical Chemistry, Osmania University, 1997
- B.S., Industrial Chemistry, Osmania University, 1995
Affiliations and Professional Service
- Peer Journal Reviewer for Chem.Commun (RSC), Green Chemistry (RSC), Crystal Growth and Design (ACS), Chemical Society Reviews (RSC), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (RSC), Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry.
Awards and Recognitions
- 2005 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship- Germany.
- 2003 Hindustan Platinum award for best oral presentation.
- 2002 DFG (Germany)-DST (India) award for "Participation in the meeting with Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany
- 2002 Dr. K.V. Rao Young Scientist Award (Dr. KV Rao Society, AP, India)
- 2000-2002 Award for Prolog to Discovery- New idea scheme (CSIR-India)
PNNL Publications
2008
- Thallapally PK, J Tian, RK Motkuri, CA Fernandez, SJ Dalgarno, BP McGrail, JE Warren, and JL Atwood. 2008. "Flexible (Breathing) Interpenetrated Metal-Organic Frameworks for CO2 Separation Applications." Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(50):16842–16843. doi:10.1021/ja806391k
Selected Publications
2009
- Kossev I, W Reckien, T Felder, Motkuri Radha Kishan, CA Schalley, and M Sokolowski. 2009. “Molecular Recognition between the Constituents of a Pseudorotaxane Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry 113 (29), pp 12870–12877. doi: 10.1021/jp903668x.