Dr. Ashoka S Associate Professor

School of Applied Sciences

ashok.s@reva.edu.in

Specialization

Materials Chemistry

Areas Of Interest

Nanostructured materials for energy convrsion and storage devices, sensors

Qualification

M.Sc., PhD

Teaching Experience

Academic

Academic: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, REVA University, Bengaluru (Sept 2022 - Present)
Associate Professor, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru (Nov 2021 - Sept 2022)
Assistant Professor, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru (2015 - 2021)

Awards & Recognition

Awards & Recognitions:

Indo-Quebec Postdoctoral International Merit Scholarship awarded by the Quebec government in 2012-13-

International Visits: Poland, Canada, Nepal

Orcid ID

0000-0003-0627-73

Vidwan ID/Profile URL

298272

Scopus ID/Google Scholar ID

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=q_tWHrEAAAAJ

Funded Project (amount sanctioned)

Funded Projects:

Sl. No	Name of the Funding Agency	Type (Government/Non-Government)	Department	Year of Award	Funds Provided (INR in Lakhs)	Year of Sanction	Status
1	SERB	Government	Chemistry	2017	26.45	2017	Completed
2	VGST	Government	Chemistry	2017	5.0	2017	Completed
3	ANRF	Government	Chemistry	2023	18.3	2023	Ongoing

PhDs Guided/PhDs Guiding

Publications In Refereed Journals

Key Publications: Total 114

Sl No.	Authors	Title	Name of Journal	Volume Page, Year
1	Golla Lavanya, S. Ashoka B.S. Nishchith K. Yogesh B.S. Ravikumar, Maria Helena Braga	Effect of oxidizer-to-fuel ratio on manganese oxides formation and their physicochemical properties toward supercapacitor application	Chemical Engineering Journal	522 (2025) 167669
2	Akshaya H. M, Tshwane D. M, Mysore Sridhar Santosh, Ashoka S, Nagarajaiah H, Yogesh K, Maphanga R. R, Sami Rtimi	Coupling Biomass-Derived Substrate Oxidation with HER: Hexagonal NiS for Low-Voltage, High-Efficiency Hydrogen Production	Sustainable Energy & Fuels	9 (2025) 4694-4706
3	Ashoka S, Navya H.S, Meghana S.T, Yogesh K, S. Girish Kumar	Insights from the EG oxidation towards reduction in the over potential using sonochemically derived orthorhombic CoV2O6.2H2O sheet-like structures	Energy & Fuel	38 (2024) 3198–3207
4	V.G. Dileepkumara, K.R. Balaji, R.Vishwanatha, B.M. Basavaraja, S. Ashoka, Islam M. Al-Akraa, M.S. Santosh, S.Rtimi	CoSe2 grafted on 2D gC3N4: A promising material for wastewater treatment, electrocatalysis and energy storage	Chemical Engineering Journal	446 (2022) 137023
5	Nishchith B.S, Ashoka S, Mahesh P Bhat, Mahaveer D Kurkuri, Shashidhara Acharya, Rajendra Kumar, Yogesh Kalegowda	Reversible Surface Reconstruction of Na3NiCO3PO4: A Battery Type Electrode for Pseudocapacitor Applications	Journal of Power sources	520 (2021) 230903
6	V.G. Dileepkumar, C. Pratapkumar, R. Viswanatha, Rapela R. Maphanga, C. Madhu, N. Srinivasa, S. Ashoka, Zhong Chen, S. Rtimi, K. Jayaramulu, Gyorgy Szekely and M.S. Santosh	Nanostructured NaFeS2 as a Cost-Effective and Robust Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution with Reduced Overpotentials	Chemical Engineering Journal	426 (2021) 131315
7	Srinivasa N, Rangaswamy P, Manjunatha C, Ashoka S	Mesoporous LiTiPO4F Nanoparticles: A New Stable and High performance Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Electrochemical Water Splitting	Surfaces and Interfaces	25 (2021) 101188
8	Anantha M.S. Anarghya D, Ashoka S, Shreenivasa L, Viswanatha, R.; Venkatesh K, Yogesh K, Muralidhara, H	One-Pot Synthesis of Novel Molybdenum Disulfide–Graphene Oxide Nanoarchitecture: An Impeccable Bifunctional Electrode for the Electrochemical Performance of Iron Redox Flow Batteries and Oxygen Evolution Reaction	Energy & fuels	35 (2021) 8345–8357

Other Publications

Patents Copyrights

Patents Granted: 01

Sl. No	Patent Title	Name of the Applicants	Patent No	Award Date	Agency/Country	Status
1	Cheap, eco-friendly and scale up combustion derived porous, ultra-light MgO and ZnO nanocrystalline powders for the removal of fluoride and As(III)/As(V) species from contaminated water	S. Ashoka & G.T. Chandrappa	281018	07-03-2017	Intellectual Property India, Govt. of India	Granted

Books Published

Prashanth Shivappa Adarakatti, Suma B Patri, S Ashoka; Nanocomposites as electrochemical sensing platforms for glucose detection, Bentham Science Publishers, Nanocomposite Materials for Sensor, 2022, pages 188-211, 10.2174/97898150509811220201
Prashanth Shivappa Adarakatti, S Ashoka; Nanocomposite Materials Interface for Heavy Metal Ions Detection, Bentham Science Publishers, Nanocomposite Materials for Sensor, 2022, pages 163-187, 10.2174/97898150509811220201
Prashanth S.A, S. Ashoka; Recent advances in inorganic nanostructured materials for electrochemical water splitting, RSC, Electrochemistry, volume 16, https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788017039-00178
C. Manjunatha, S. Ashoka, R. Hari Krishna; Microwave-assisted green synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials, Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science, Green Inorganic Synthesis, 2021, Pages 1-39, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821887-7.00011-2
C. Manjunatha, R. Hari Krishna, S. Ashoka; Green synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles using microemulsion methods, Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science, Green Inorganic Synthesis, 2021, Pages 41-67; https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821887-7.00002-1

UG / PG Projects

Research Publication

Research Project

Dr. Ashoka holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Bangalore University. His postdoctoral research includes fellowships at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland, the University of Quebec in Canada, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. He has authored over 112 publications in reputable international journals, with a Scopus h-index of 31 and more than 3,630 citations. Notably, he holds a national patent for a method to remove fluoride and arsenic from drinking water. His research interests include the synthesis of nanostructured materials for applications in energy storage and conversion, wastewater treatment, biomedical devices, and environmental sensors.