Dr. A. D. K. Isuri Weeraratne – Department of Chemistry

B.Sc. (Honors) (USJP), Ph.D. (Wayne State University, USA)

B.Sc. Special Degree (Chemistry) (Honors) – University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, 2014

Ph.D. – Wayne State University, USA – 2021

Inorganic Chemistry

Synthesis of redox-innocent metal complexes to develop corrosion inhibition coatings.

Weeraratne, A. D. K. I.; Hewa-Rahinduwage, C. C.;Luo, L.; Verani, C. N., Electrochemical Quantification of Corrosion Mitigation on Iron Surfaces with Gallium(III) and Zn(II) Metallosurfactants. Langmuir, 2020, 36(47), 14173-14180.
Weeraratne, A. D. K. I.; Hewa-Rahinduwage, C. C.; Gonawala, S.; Luo, L.; Verani, C. N., A Molecular Approach for Mitigation of Aluminum Pitting based on Films of Zinc(II) and Gallium(III) Metallosurfactants. Chemistry – A European Journal, 2019, 25 (62), 14048-14053.
Weeraratne, A. D. K. I.; Baydoun, H.; Shakya, R.; Niklas, J.; Xie, L.; Mao, G.; Stoian, S.; Poluektov, O.; Verani, C., Observation of Current Rectification by the New Bimetallic Iron (III) Hydrophobe [Fe^III₂ (L^N4O6)] on Au| LB-Molecule| Au Devices. Dalton Transactions, 2018, 47, 14352-14361.
Weeraratne, A. D. K. I., Rani, N., Amunugama, S., Perera, S. S., Kpogo, K. K., Mazumder, S. and Verani, C. N., Influence of Electronic Configurations on the Modulation of Fermi/Orbital Junction Energies for Directional Electron Transport through 3d1, 3d3, and 3d5 Metallosurfactants. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022, 126(49), pp.21010-21021.

Esther and Stanley Kirschner Graduate Award (Top overall graduate student in Inorganic Chemistry) – Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, USA (2021)
Summer Dissertation Fellowship Award – Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, USA (2020)
Thomas C. Rumble Graduate Fellowship Award – Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, USA (2019)
High Distinction at Australian National Chemistry Quiz – Sri Lanka (2007)