Profile
Dr Manoel MANUPUTTY
Research Fellow
Manoel graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2014 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Materials Science). He joined CARES as a Project Officer in 2014 and subsequently joined the Cambridge-CARES Studentship scheme where PhD students would spend a year in Cambridge before continuing their studies at CARES.
Manoel completed the scheme in 2019 and obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Markus Kraft. His PhD thesis was titled “Morphology and polymorphism of TiO2 nanoparticles prepared in premixed stagnation flames”. He then joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where he was a Research Fellow working with Prof. Xu Rong. During this period, he was based in the Research wing of the CREATE Tower working on the C4T IRP 3 programme until June 2022.
Read: CARES Alumni Series: Manoel Manuputty
Read: Manoel contributes to the University of Cambridge's Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB) Research Day in June 2017.
Past Members
Past Members
Research Interest
- Synthesis of novel and functional nanomaterials using flame synthesis
- Application of flame and in situ aerosol characterisation techniques
- Mechanisms of particle growth and phase transformation in gas-phase synthesis
Key Publications
Google Scholar Link
Manuputty, Manoel Y., Casper S. Lindberg, Jochen A.H. Dreyer, Jethro Akroyd, John Edwards, and Markus Kraft. 2021. ‘Understanding the Anatase-Rutile Stability in Flame-Made TiO 2’. Combustion and Flame 226 (April): 347–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.12.017.
Hou, Dingyu, Casper S. Lindberg, Mengda Wang, Manoel Y. Manuputty, Xiaoqing You, and Markus Kraft. 2020. ‘Simulation of Primary Particle Size Distributions in a Premixed Ethylene Stagnation Flame’. Combustion and Flame 216 (June): 126–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.02.028.
Wu, Shuyang, Manoel Y. Manuputty, Yuan Sheng, Haojing Wang, Yong Yan, Markus Kraft, and Rong Xu. 2020. ‘Flame Synthesized Blue TiO 2− x with Tunable Oxygen Vacancies from Surface to Grain Boundary to Bulk’. Small Methods, December, 2000928. https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202000928.
Manuputty, Manoel Y., Jochen A. H. Dreyer, Yuan Sheng, Eric J. Bringley, Maria L. Botero, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft. 2019. ‘Polymorphism of Nanocrystalline TiO 2 Prepared in a Stagnation Flame: Formation of the TiO 2 -II Phase’. Chemical Science 10 (5): 1342–50. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SC02969E.
Manuputty, Manoel Y., Casper S. Lindberg, Maria L. Botero, Jethro Akroyd, and Markus Kraft. 2019. ‘Detailed Characterisation of TiO2 Nano-Aggregate Morphology Using TEM Image Analysis’. Journal of Aerosol Science 133 (July): 96–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2019.04.012.
Hou, Dingyu, Casper S. Lindberg, Manoel Y. Manuputty, Xiaoqing You, and Markus Kraft. 2019. ‘Modelling Soot Formation in a Benchmark Ethylene Stagnation Flame with a New Detailed Population Balance Model’. Combustion and Flame 203 (May): 56–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.01.035.
Achievements
Dr Manuputty was the valedictorian of his graduating class in 2014 and the recipient of the IES Gold Medal, Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal and MSE Book Prize. While at CARES, Manoel published four first-author papers and 16 in total. He has also submitted a patent application related to his work on flame-synthesised blue TiO2.