prof. madya dr. mahendra rao a/l somalu

pensyarah universiti

institut sel fuel (selfuel)

 mahen@ukm.edu.my



   Biografi/ Biography :

  • Prof. Madya Dr. Mahendra Rao Somalu merupakan Penyelidik Kanan di Institut Sel Fuel, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Beliau telah mendapat PhD daripada Imperial College London pada tahun 2012. Sejak 2013, beliau telah menjadi Ahli Bersekutu aktif di Institution of Chemical Enginers (IChemE), dan sejak 2017, beliau menjadi Ahli Persatuan Tenaga Hidrogen Malaysia (MAHE) dan Ahli Persatuan Sains Pepejal Malaysia (MASS) pada tahun 2019. Beliau telah menerima beberapa anugerah, termasuk ‘Best Researcher Award’ For the Contribution and Honourable Achievement in Innovative Research 2023 from the Scifax Information and Analytics Pvt. Ltd., Anugerah Emas dalam 4th International Malaysia-Indonesia-Thailand Symposium on Innovation and Creativity 2021 (SIC 2021), Anugerah Bitara Penerbitan dalam kategori sains daripada UKM pada tahun 2018, Anugerah Perak dalam 3rd International Innovation, Design, and Articulation (i-IDEA 2016), dan Anugerah Emas dalam Invention, Innovation & Design Exposition 2015 (iideX2015). Artikel yang bertajuk "Structural and Electrochemical Properties of Lanthanum Silicate Apatites La10Si6-x-0.2AlxZn0.2O27-d for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs)" telah dipilih sebagai Article of the Year 2021 oleh Hindawi dan diterbitkan dalam International Journal of Chemical Engineering. Dengan pengalaman lebih dari 15 tahun dalam pembangunan teknologi sel fuel suhu tinggi, nanomaterial, gasifikasi biojisim, dan tenaga hidrogen, beliau telah menerbitkan lebih daripada 130 artikel saintifik di pelbagai jurnal berimpact tinggi dan telah dijemput sebagai penceramah utama dan penceramah jemputan di pelbagai persidangan kebangsaan dan antarabangsa.
    Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mahendra Rao Somalu is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Fuel Cell Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He received his PhD from Imperial College London in 2012. Since 2013, he has been an active Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), and since 2017, he has been a Member of the Malaysian Association of Hydrogen Energy (MAHE) and a Member of the Malaysian Association of Solid State Science (MASS) since 2019. He has received several awards, including the Best Researcher Award’ For Contribution and Honourable Achievement in Innovative Research 2023 from the Scifax Information and Analytics Pvt. Ltd., Gold Award in the 4th International Malaysia-Indonesia-Thailand Symposium on Innovation and Creativity 2021 (SIC 2021), the Anugerah Bitara Penerbitan (Excellent Publication Award) in the science category from UKM in 2018, the Silver Award in the 3rd International Innovation, Design, and Articulation (i-IDEA 2016), and the Gold Award in the Invention, Innovation & Design Exposition 2015 (iideX2015). His article entitled “Structural and Electrochemical Properties of Lanthanum Silicate Apatites La10Si6-x-0.2AlxZn0.2O27- for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs)” was chosen as the Article of the Year 2021 by Hindawi and was published in the International Journal of Chemical Engineering. With over 15 years of experience in the development of high-temperature fuel cell technology, nanomaterials, biomass gasification, and hydrogen energy, he has published more than 130 scientific articles in various high-impact journals and has been invited to speak as a keynote and invited speaker at various national and international conferences.

  • sh. afroze, md s. reza, m.r. somalu, a.k. azad.  (2023).  super-protonic conductors for solid acid fuel cells (safcs): a review.  - eurasian journal of physics and functional materials.  6-37. 

     

    wan nor anasuhah wan yusoff, nur nadhihah mohd tahir, nurul akidah baharuddin*, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar, lai jian wei.  (2023).  effects of roller speed on the structural and electrochemical properties of lico0.6sr0.4o2 cathode for solid oxide fuel cell application.  - sustainable energy technologies and assessments.  1-7. 

     

    ainaa nadhirah zainon, mahendra rao somalu, audi majdan kamarul bahrain, andanastuti muchtar, nurul akidah baharuddin, muhammed ali s.a, abdullah abdul samat, nafisah osman, abul kalam azad.  (2023).  influence of sintering temperature on the properties of the screen-printed anode of the lsmo4 ruddlesden-popper perovskite for intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells.  - international journal of hydrogen energy.  38425-38437. 

     

    muhammad uzair azhar, mustafa anwar, uneeb masood khan, muhammad hassan, muhammed ali s.a., adeel waqas, mahendra rao somalu, faisal alresheedi.  (2023).  thermodynamic analysis of different modes of a multigeneration sofc-cchp system with freshwater production and lng cold energy utilization.  - energy conversion and management.  1-14. 

     

    wan nor anasuhah wan yusoff, nurul akidah baharuddin, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar, nigel p. brandon, huiqing fan.  (2023).  recent advances and influencing parameters in developing electrode materials for symmetrical solid oxide fuel cells.  - international journal of minerals, metallurgy and materials.  1933-1956. 

     

    ainaa nadhirah zainon, mahendra rao somalu, audi majdan kamarul bahrain, andanastuti muchtar, nurul akidah baharuddin, muhammed ali s.a, abdullah abdul samat, nafisah osman, abul kalam azad.  (2023).  influence of sintering temperature on the properties of the screen-printed anode of the lsmo4 ruddlesden-popper perovskite for intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells.  - international journal of hydrogen energy.  38425-38437. 

     

    muhammad uzair azhar, mustafa anwar, uneeb masood khan, muhammad hassan, muhammed ali s.a., adeel waqas, mahendra rao somalu, faisal alresheedi.  (2023).  thermodynamic analysis of different modes of a multigeneration sofc-cchp system with freshwater production and lng cold energy utilization.  - energy conversion and management.  1-14. 

     

    wan nor anasuhah wan yusoff, nurul akidah baharuddin, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar, nigel p. brandon, huiqing fan.  (2023).  recent advances and influencing parameters in developing electrode materials for symmetrical solid oxide fuel cells.  - international journal of minerals, metallurgy and materials.  1933-1956. 

     

    md. mosfiqur rahman, abdalla m. abdalla, lukman ahmed omeiza, veena raj, shammya afroze, md. sumon reza, mahendra rao somalu, abul k. azad.  (2023).  numerical modeling of ammonia-fueled protonic-ion conducting electrolyte-supported solid oxide fuel cell (h-sofc): a brief review.  - processes.  1-24. 

     

    yathavan subramanian, anitha dhanasekaran, lukman ahmed omeiza, mahendra rao somalu, abul k. azad.  (2023).  a review on heteroanionic-based materials for photocatalysis applications.  - catalysts.  1-29. 

     

    azreen junaida abd aziz, nurul akidah baharuddin, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar, sahrim haji ahmad.  (2023).  kesan suhu pensinteran terhadap mikrostruktur dan sifat mekanikal perovskit seramik srfe0.9ti0.1o3-d-sdc.  - sains malaysiana.  1303-1314. 

     

    joelle c. w. mah, isyraf aznam, andanastuti muchtar, mahendra rao somalu, jarot raharjo.  (2023).  synthesis of (cu,mn,co)3o4 spinel: effects of citrate-to-nitrate ratio on its homogeneity and electrical properties.  - energies.  1-11. 

     

    shammya afroze, hidayatul qayyimah hj hairul absah, md sumon reza, mahendra rao somalu, jun-young park, saeed nekoonam, alibek issakhov, abul kalam azad.  (2021).  structural and electrochemical properties of lanthanum silicate apatites la10si6-x-0.2alxzn0.2o27-d for solid oxide fuel cells (sofcs).  - international journal of chemical engineering.  1-10. 

     

    siti mariam daud, mimi hani abu bakar, wan ramli wan daud, byung hong kim, jamaliah md jahim, andanastuti muchtar, mahendra roa somalu, pak hoe lee, peer mohamed abdul.  (2021).  improvement of microbial fuel cell performance using novel kaolin earthenware membrane coated with a polybenzimidazole layer.  - energy science & engineering.  2342-2353. 

     

    abdullah abdul samat, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar, hamimah abd. rahman & nafisah osman.  (2020).  pengaruh agen kimia berbeza terhadap penguraian terma dan pembentukan fasa bahan la0.6sr0.4coo3-d yang disediakan melalui kaedah sol-gel.  - sains malaysiana.  3197-3208. 

     

    wan nor anasuhah wan yusoff, nur nadhihah mohd tahir, nurul akidah baharuddin*, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar, lai jian wei.  (2023).  effects of roller speed on the structural and electrochemical properties of lico0.6sr0.4o2 cathode for solid oxide fuel cell application.  - sustainable energy technologies and assessments.  1-7. 

     

    ainaa nadhirah zainon, mahendra rao somalu, audi majdan kamarul bahrain, andanastuti muchtar, nurul akidah baharuddin, muhammed ali s.a, abdullah abdul samat, nafisah osman, abul kalam azad.  (2023).  influence of sintering temperature on the properties of the screen-printed anode of the lsmo4 ruddlesden-popper perovskite for intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells.  - international journal of hydrogen energy.  38425-38437. 

     

    muhammad uzair azhar, mustafa anwar, uneeb masood khan, muhammad hassan, muhammed ali s.a., adeel waqas, mahendra rao somalu, faisal alresheedi.  (2023).  thermodynamic analysis of different modes of a multigeneration sofc-cchp system with freshwater production and lng cold energy utilization.  - energy conversion and management.  1-14. 

     

    wan nor anasuhah wan yusoff, nurul akidah baharuddin, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar, nigel p. brandon, huiqing fan.  (2023).  recent advances and influencing parameters in developing electrode materials for symmetrical solid oxide fuel cells.  - international journal of minerals, metallurgy and materials.  1933-1956. 

     

    md. mosfiqur rahman, abdalla m. abdalla, lukman ahmed omeiza, veena raj, shammya afroze, md. sumon reza, mahendra rao somalu, abul k. azad.  (2023).  numerical modeling of ammonia-fueled protonic-ion conducting electrolyte-supported solid oxide fuel cell (h-sofc): a brief review.  - processes.  1-24. 

     

    aa samat, m darus, i ismail, mr somalu, n osman.  (2023).  synthesis and characterization of carbon nanotubes and activated carbon assisted sol-gel derived la0.6sr0.4coo3-d material.  - proceedings of the 1st 2022 international conference on sustainable environment, development, and energy (conser 2022).  1-6. 

     

    abdalla m. abdalla, shammya afroze, mahendra rao somalu, abul k. azad.  (2023).  nial2o4 spinel structure as an electrode material for solid oxide fuel cells.  - 8th brunei international conference on engineering and technology 2021.  1-7. 

     

    n shieela kalib, a muchtar, v zhen yuan, m rao somalu and a kamal ariffin mohd ihsan.  (2022).  thermal investigation of solid oxide fuel cell ni-ysz anode supported with cooling system: a fem approach.  - iop conference series: materials science and engineering.  1-6. 

     

    r ravi, n shieela kalib, a muchtar and m rao somalu.  (2022).  potential of integrating solid oxide fuel cell based on biomass in power generation in malaysia: a feasibility study.  - iop conference series: materials science and engineering.  1-6. 

     

    wan nor anasuhah wan yusoff, nurul akidah baharuddin, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar.  (2022).  synthesis and preliminary study of the multilayer lico0.6ni0.4o2 as solid oxide fuel cell cathode.  - 4th international symposium on advanced materials and nanotechnology (isamn 2020).  1-7. 

     

    nurul akidah baharuddin, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar.  (2022).  seramik perovskit peranti penghasil tenaga masa depan.  - 177. 

     

    wan nor anasuhah wan yusoff, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar.  (2022).  bahan litium: komponen utama penjana tenaga lestari.  - 136. 

     

    muhamad isyraf bin aznam, andanastuti binti muchtar, mahendra rao a/l somalu.  (2021).  penyalutan elektroforesis: teknik peningkatan prestasi tinggi sel bahan api.  - 147. 

     

    muhammed ali s.a, andanastuti muchtar, mahendra rao somalu.  (2017).  advances in materials processing and integrity non-metals and hybrids.  - 20. 

     

    muhammed ali s.a, andanastuti muchtar, mahendra rao somalu.  (2017).  advances in materials processing and integrity non-metals and hybrids.  - 20. 

     

    nurul akidah baharuddin, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar.  (2022).  seramik perovskit peranti penghasil tenaga masa depan.  - 177. 

     

    wan nor anasuhah wan yusoff, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar.  (2022).  bahan litium: komponen utama penjana tenaga lestari.  - 136. 

     

    muhamad isyraf bin aznam, andanastuti binti muchtar, mahendra rao a/l somalu.  (2021).  penyalutan elektroforesis: teknik peningkatan prestasi tinggi sel bahan api.  - 147. 

     

    ahmad faiq omar, nur wardah norman, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar, nurul akidah baharuddin, s.a. muhammed ali, nigel p. brandon.  (2023).  effect of copper oxide on the performance of ni-cu-based anode in solid oxide fuel cells operated on biogas fuel.  - the 8th international conference on fuel cell & hydrogen technology in collaboration with the 3rd symposium on fuel cell and hydrogen technology (icfcht-sfcht 2023).  39. 

     

    nur wardah norman, ahmad faiq omar, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar, nurul akidah baharuddin, muhammed ali s.a., abul kalam azad.  (2023).  prelusive study on phase formation and chemical stability of sr1- xbaxce0.7y0.2zr0.1o3- (x = 0-1) as proton-conducting solid oxide fuel cell electrolyte.  - the 8th international conference on fuel cell & hydrogen technology in collaboration with the 3rd symposium on fuel cell and hydrogen technology (icfcht-sfcht 2023).  30. 

     

    mahendra rao somalu.  (2023).  current progress in solid oxide fuel cell technologies.  - the 8th international conference on fuel cell & hydrogen technology in collaboration with the 3rd symposium on fuel cell and hydrogen technology (icfcht-sfcht 2023).  47-48. 

     

    ainaa nadhirah zainon, mahendra rao somalu, audi majdan kamarul bahrain, andanastuti muchtar, nurul akidah baharuddin, muhammed ali s.a..  (2023).  synthesis, characterization and electrochemical performance of ruddlesden-popper layered perovskite anode la0.6sr1.4mno4 for the application of solid oxide fuel cell.  - the 8th international conference on fuel cell & hydrogen technology in collaboration with the 3rd symposium on fuel cell and hydrogen technology (icfcht-sfcht 2023).  23. 

     

    nur nadhihah mohd tahir, nurul akidah baharuddin, mahendra rao somalu, andanastuti muchtar, abdullah abd samat ,lai jian wei.  (2023).  lcso cathode for intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cell.  - 9th international conference and exhibition on sustainable energy and advanced material, ice-seam 2023.  1-18.