Dr. Shruthi Dasappa Expands the Frontiers of Material Synthesis

Shruthi Dasappa is a graduating PhD in the Mechanical Engineering Department. She joined the Joint Doctoral Program at SDSU and UCSD in Fall 2017 under the guidance of Prof. Joaquin Camacho. Her dissertation is titled, “Fundamentals of gas-to-particle conversion for nanoparticle synthesis in flames”. Her research has been focused on studying the carbon and manganese oxide nanoparticle synthesis in flames. One of the key results from her research is the synthesis of a new type of flame-formed defective graphene using a simple flame configuration. She has co-authored 8 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

During her PhD, Shruthi has been awarded various fellowships included the University Graduate Fellowships by SDSU, the Shah Entrepreneurship Fellowship by UCSD and the NSF INTERN award to support her internship at Argonne National Laboratory. She was also invited to participate in the annual Combustion Summer School at Princeton University in 2019. She interned in the Materials Engineering Research Facility at Argonne National Laboratory where she developed an engineering tool to facilitate data analysis of multi-probe optical emission spectra obtained in flame sprays. Shruthi successfully defended her dissertation in November and will be graduating this Fall. She will be joining the R&D team at the cleantech company, Monolith Materials.