Dr Nimali Rathnayake
Data Analyst
School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability

Journal Articles
Rathnayake, R. M. N. M., Searles, Debra J., Duignan, Timothy T. and Zhao, X. S. (2023). Effect of fluoro and hydroxy analogies of diglyme on sodium-ion storage in graphite: a computational study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25 (28), 19106-19115. doi: 10.1039/d3cp00903c
Rathnayake, R. M. N. M., Duignan, Timothy T., Searles, Debra J. and Zhao, X. S. (2021). Exploring the effect of interlayer distance of expanded graphite for sodium ion storage using first principles calculations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23 (4), 3063-3070. doi: 10.1039/d0cp06134d
Rathnayake, R. M. N. M., Jayasekara, S. K., Huang, Hsin H., Yoshimura, Masamichi, Wijayasinghe, H. W. M. A. C., Ratnayake, R. R. and Pitawala, H. M. T. G. A. (2018). Convenient process to synthesize reduced needle platy graphite silver nanocomposite: a prospective antibiotic against common pathogenic microorganisms in the environment. Materials Research Express, 5 (1), 015404. doi: 10.1088/2053-1591/aaa613
Rathnayake, R.M.N.M., Mantilaka, M.M.M.G.P.G., Hara, Masanori, Huang, Hsin-Hui, Wijayasinghe, H.W.M.A.C., Yoshimura, Masamichi and Pitawala, H.M.T.G.A. (2017). Graphite intercalated polyaniline composite with superior anticorrosive and hydrophobic properties, as protective coating material on steel surfaces. Applied Surface Science, 410, 445-453. doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.03.119
Rathnayake, R.M.N.M., Wijayasinghe, H.W.M.A.C., Pitawala, H.M.T.G.A., Yoshimura, Masamichi and Huang, Hsin-Hui (2017). Synthesis of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide by needle platy natural vein graphite. Applied Surface Science, 393, 309-315. doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.10.008
Thesis
Rathnayake, Nimali (2022). Computational study of graphite-based electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/b393dfe