Shankar B. Rananavare
Department of Chemistry
Portland State University
P. O. Box 751
Portland OR 97207
Phone: 503-725-8511
Email:, website: http://www.chem.pdx.edu/%7Eranavas/shankar11a.html
a. Professional Preparation
B.Sc., Chemistry & Physics, Bombay University, 1977
Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1983
Visiting Scholar, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1983
b. Appointments
· Research Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Portland State University, 1996-current
· Research Associate Professor, Department of ECE and CSEE, Oregon Graduate Institute, 1996-
2007.
· Assistant Professor Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Oregon Graduate Institute,
1990-96;
· Visiting Summer Faculty Fellow, 96,97,98 Monsanto Corp.
· Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, 1984-1989;
· Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, 1983-1984;
Some selected Publications ( out of 59)
1. Tran,Hoang; Pattison,JamesW.; Rananavare,ShankarB. “ Facile pyrolytic synthesis of silicon
nanowaires,” Solid-State Electronics, 54(10), 1185-1191 (2010)
2. Mariya Chavarha, Hamed Khoojinian, Leonard E. Schulwitz, Samares C. Biswas, Shankar B.
Rananavare, Stephen B. Hall, “Hydrophobic Surfactant Proteins Induce a Phosphatidylethanolamine
to Form Cubic Phases,” Biophys. J., 98(8), 1549-1557 (2010)
3. Allen Chaparadza, Shankar B. Rananavare '' Towards p-type conductivity in lithium doped tin oxide,” Nanotechnology, 21 035708 (2010)
4. Chaparadza, S. B. Rananavare "Room temperature Cl2 sensing using thick nanoporous films of Sb-
doped SnO2", Nanotechnology 19 245501 (2008); http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34537.
5. Samares C. Biswas, Shankar B. Rananavareand Stephen B. Hall, “Differential Effects of
Lysophosphatidylcholine on the Adsorption of Phospholipids to an Air/Water Interface,” Biophys.
J., 81 1536–1546 (2007)
6. Winner, S. W., Winter R. W., Smith, J. A, Gard,G. L, Hannah, N.A., Rananavare, S. B., Piknova B.,
and Hall S.B.,"Aromatic pentafluoro-λ6-sulfanyl (SF5) surfactants: m-
SF5(CF2)nC6H4SO3K,"Mendeleev Commun. 16(3) 182 2006
7. Jeremy A. Smith, Robert A. DiStasio Jr., Nicole A. Hannah, Rolf W. Winter, Timothy J. R. Weakley,
Gary L. Gard, and Shankar B. Rananavare, “SF5-Terminated Fluorinated Schiff Base Liquid
Crystals,” J. Phys. Chem. B 108(52), 19940-19948 (2004).
8. S. B. Rananavare, C. D. Meglio, S. Svenson, and D. H. Thompson, "Bolamphilphilic
phosphocholines: Structure and Phase Behavior in Aqueous Media," Langmuir, Vol. 16, 128 (2000).
9. S. B. Rananavare, V. G. K. M. Pisipati, E. W. Wong, "A Lifshitz Point in Ferroelectric Liquid
Crystals," in Liquid Crystal Materials Devices and Applications III, (R. Shashidhar, ed.), 2175,
pp. 108-119, SPIE-94, San Jose, February 8-10 (1994). S. B. Rananavare, V. G. K. M. Pisipati, E. W.
Wong, "The ACC Multicritical Point in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals," Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 3558
(1994)
10. D. H. Thompson, K. F. Wong, R. Humphry-Baker, J. J. Wheeler, J. M. Kim, and S. B. Rananavare
"Tetraether Bolaform Amphiphiles as Models of Archaebacterial Membrane Lipids: Raman
Spectroscopy, 31P-NMR, X-ray Scattering, and Electron Microscopy," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114 9035
(1992)
Synergistic Activities
· Organized ACS Symposium on: "Liquid Crystals, Fundamentals and Applications" (12/1/94-
5/31/95), Los Angeles, California. Co-organizer R. Shashidhar, Naval Research Laboratories.
· Developed new undergraduate materials science initative and secured funding through Dreyfus
Foundation in partnership with PSU chemistry department.
· Developed nanofabrication summer course (2006) working with physics and the electrical
engineering departments at Portland State University.
· Invited speaker at Nano Days April 2 – 2008 Forum, Nanotechnology and Alternative Energy, at
OMSI, http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/448621/
· Chief Guest Editor, J. Phys. Chem. B, P. G. de Gennes (1993 Nobel Laureate in Physics) Memorial
issue (March 26, 2009)
Collaborators (Past 48 months)
Professor Steve Hall, Oregon Health Science University
Professor Rajendra Solanki, John Freeouf, and Carl Wamser, Portland State University
Thevuthasan, Suntharampillai, Staff Scientist, Interfacial and Nanoscale Facility, PNNL
Dr. P Iyer, Avery Dennison, Dr. Anthony J. Ward, Istotech, Makarem Hussein, James Blackwell, Intel. Rajiv M. Banavali, Rohm & Haas corporation, Margaret Ziomek-Moroz, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Department of Energy.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors
Graduate Advisors: D. W. Larsen and S. E. Friberg University of Missouri
Postgraduate Advisor: J. H. Freed, Cornell University
Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor
Samares Biswas (Post Doctoral Fellow, GE (India)), Hoang Tran,(Ph. D.), Nabil Mistkawi(2010 Ph. D., Intel ), Allen Chaparadza, ( Ph.D. 2009 Marquette University),Joo C Chan (Ph. D., 2008 Intel), J. C. Chan (MS 2003), Ryan Carns (MS 2004, MMM), Lisa Hyunh (MS 2002 TriQuint Semiconductor) Ciro DiMeglio (Ph.D, 2000 BioValve Corporation), James Pattison (ARL), Eric Wong (NASA)
Current Support ( about 300K/yr)
1. Interfacial Phase Behavior of Pulmonary Surfactants. S. B. Rananavare (PSU) and
Stephen Hall (OHSU). National Institute of Health, (2007-2010) $285,000.
2. Nanoscale patterning and processing, Intel, (2010-2011) $220,000/yr, S. B. Rananavare
3. Nanoscale Thermal and Charge Transport in Copper Oxide Nanowires (2011-2012) with Andres La Rosa
4. Lipid Chips, Receptor Chip Technologies $20,000 (2007-current) S. B. Rananavare