Dr Priyank Kumar
Senior Lecturer

Dr Priyank Kumar

Scientia Senior Lecturer, 2022-present

Chemical Engineering

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

 

Scientia Lecturer, 2019-2022

Chemical Engineering

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

 

Postdoctoral fellow, 2015-2019

Mechanical and Process Engineering

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

 

PhD, 2010-2015

Materials Science and Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

 

B.Tech., 2006-2010

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering

Dr. Priyank Vijaya Kumar is a Scientia Senior Lecturer in chemical engineering at UNSW. Prior to this, he obtained his PhD in June 2015 under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey C. Grossman in the department of materials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His dissertation focused on the atomistic computational design of two-dimensional materials (graphene, graphene oxide and transition metal dichalcogenides) for electronic, optoelectronic and biomedical applications. He was also closely involved with experiments in the group of Prof. Angela Belcher at MIT. Following his PhD, he won a Marie-Curie grant to carry out his postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. David J. Norris at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He applied ab initio methods such as density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TDDFT) to investigate plasmonic hot-carrier processes such as plasmon formation, hot-carrier generation, electron transport and electron-phonon coupling at metal-semiconductor and metal-molecule interfaces with an aim to advance photocatalysis and other applications. In May 2019, he started as a Scientia Lecturer in the school of chemical engineering at UNSW, Sydney with a vision to establish a computational materials design group and foster experimental collaborations.

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Phone
+61-2-9385 4344
Location
Room 334, Science and Engineering Building E8
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Gaikwad MA; Ghorpade UV; Suryawanshi UP; Kumar PV; Jang S; Jang JS; Tran L; Lee JS; Bae H; Shin SW; Suryawanshi MP; Kim JH, 2023, 'Rapid Synthesis of Ultrathin Ni:FeOOH with In Situ-Induced Oxygen Vacancies for Enhanced Water Oxidation Activity and Stability of BiVO4 Photoanodes', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15, pp. 21123 - 21133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c01877
    Journal articles | 2023
    Han C; Kundi V; Ma Z; Toe CY; Kumar P; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Xi S; Han Z; Lu X; Amal R; Pan J, 2023, 'Differentiating the Impacts of Cu 2 O Initial Low‐ and High‐Index Facets on Their Reconstruction and Catalytic Performance in Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction Reaction (Adv. Funct. Mater. 12/2023)', Advanced Functional Materials, 33, pp. 2370071 - 2370071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202370071
    Journal articles | 2023
    Han C; Kundi V; Ma Z; Toe CY; Kumar P; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Xi S; Han Z; Lu X; Amal R; Pan J, 2023, 'Differentiating the Impacts of Cu2O Initial Low- and High-Index Facets on Their Reconstruction and Catalytic Performance in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction', Advanced Functional Materials, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202210938
    Journal articles | 2023
    Ma Z; Wan T; Zhang D; Yuwono JA; Tsounis C; Jiang J; Chou YH; Lu X; Kumar PV; Ng YH; Chu D; Toe CY; Han Z; Amal R, 2023, 'Atomically Dispersed Cu Catalysts on Sulfide-Derived Defective Ag Nanowires for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction', ACS Nano, 17, pp. 2387 - 2398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c09473
    Journal articles | 2023
    Tsounis C; Kumar PV; Masood H; Kulkarni RP; Gautam GS; Müller CR; Amal R; Kuznetsov DA, 2023, 'Advancing MXene Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion Reactions: Surface, Stoichiometry, and Stability', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 62, pp. e202210828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202210828
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Advancing MXene Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion Reactions: Surface, Stoichiometry, and Stability', Angewandte Chemie, 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202210828
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Altering Oxygen Binding by Redox-Inactive Metal Substitution to Control Catalytic Activity: Oxygen Reduction on Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles as a Model System**', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202217186
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Altering Oxygen Binding by Redox‐Inactive Metal Substitution to Control Catalytic Activity: Oxygen Reduction on Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles as a Model System**', Angewandte Chemie, 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202217186
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Angstrom‐confined Electrochemical Synthesis of Sub‐unit Cell non van der Waals 2D Metal Oxides', Advanced Materials, pp. e2301506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202301506
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Bifunctional and regenerable molecular electrode for water electrolysis at neutral pH', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ta00071k
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Dynamic Zinc in Liquid Metal Media as a Metal Ion Source for Highly Porous ZIF-8 Synthesis', Advanced Functional Materials, pp. 2300969 - 2300969, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202300969
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Engineering defects in TiO2 for the simultaneous production of hydrogen and organic products', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 333, pp. 122765 - 122765, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.122765
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Identification of catalytic activity descriptors for selective 5-hydroxymethyl furfural electrooxidation to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11, pp. 5527 - 5539, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2ta08306j
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Innentitelbild: Altering Oxygen Binding by Redox‐Inactive Metal Substitution to Control Catalytic Activity: Oxygen Reduction on Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles as a Model System (Angew. Chem. 8/2023)', Angewandte Chemie, 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202300564
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Inside Cover: Altering Oxygen Binding by Redox‐Inactive Metal Substitution to Control Catalytic Activity: Oxygen Reduction on Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles as a Model System (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 8/2023)', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202300564
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Investigation of electrically active defects in SiC power diodes caused by heavy ion irradiation', IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2023.3242760
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Low temperature mechano-catalytic biofuel conversion using liquid metals', Chemical Engineering Journal, 452, pp. 139350 - 139350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.139350
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Oxygen Vacancies Engineering in Thick Semiconductor Films via Deep Ultraviolet Photoactivation for Selective and Sensitive Gas Sensing', Advanced Electronic Materials, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202200905
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Targeted leveling of the undercoordinated high field density sites renders effective zinc dendrite inhibition', Energy Storage Materials, 55, pp. 117 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2022.11.033
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Vacancy Promotion in Layered Double Hydroxide Electrocatalysts for Improved Oxygen Evolution Reaction Performance', ACS Catalysis, 13, pp. 4799 - 4810, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c05863
    Journal articles | 2022
    Chi Y; Han J; Zheng J; Yang J; Cao Z; Ghasemian MB; Rahim MA; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Kumar P; Tang J, 2022, 'Insights into the Interfacial Contact and Charge Transport of Gas-Sensing Liquid Metal Marbles', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14, pp. 30112 - 30123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c06908
    Journal articles | 2022
    Liu X; Kumar PV; Chen Q; Zhao L; Ye F; Ma X; Liu D; Chen X; Dai L; Hu C, 2022, 'Carbon nanotubes with fluorine-rich surface as metal-free electrocatalyst for effective synthesis of urea from nitrate and CO2', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 316, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.121618
    Journal articles | 2022
    Luo Z; Zhou Y; Yang T; Gao Y; Kumar P; Chandrawati R, 2022, 'Ceria Nanoparticles as an Unexpected Catalyst to Generate Nitric Oxide from S-Nitrosoglutathione', Small, 18, pp. 2105762 - 2105762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202105762
    Journal articles | 2022
    Ma Z; Tsounis C; Toe CY; Kumar PV; Subhash B; Xi S; Yang HY; Zhou S; Lin Z; Wu KH; Wong RJ; Thomsen L; Bedford NM; Lu X; Ng YH; Han Z; Amal R, 2022, 'Reconstructing Cu Nanoparticle Supported on Vertical Graphene Surfaces via Electrochemical Treatment to Tune the Selectivity of CO2Reduction toward Valuable Products', ACS Catalysis, 12, pp. 4792 - 4805, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c05431
    Journal articles | 2022
    Mayyas M; Khoshmanesh K; Kumar P; Mousavi M; Tang J; Ghasemian MB; Yang J; Wang Y; Baharfar M; Rahim MA; Xie W; Allioux FM; Daiyan R; Jalili R; Esrafilzadeh D; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2022, 'Gallium-Based Liquid Metal Reaction Media for Interfacial Precipitation of Bismuth Nanomaterials with Controlled Phases and Morphologies', Advanced Functional Materials, 32, pp. 2108673 - 2108673, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202108673
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tsounis C; Subhash B; Kumar PV; Bedford NM; Zhao Y; Shenoy J; Ma Z; Zhang D; Toe CY; Cheong S; Tilley RD; Lu X; Dai L; Han Z; Amal R, 2022, 'Pt Single Atom Electrocatalysts at Graphene Edges for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution', Advanced Functional Materials, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202203067
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zhao Y; Kumar PV; Tan X; Lu X; Zhu X; Jiang J; Pan J; Xi S; Yang HY; Ma Z; Wan T; Chu D; Jiang W; Smith SC; Amal R; Han Z; Lu X, 2022, 'Modulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis', Nature Communications, 13, pp. 2430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30155-4
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Engineering Multidefects on Cex Si1−x O2−δ Nanocomposites for the Catalytic Ozonation Reaction', Small, 18, pp. e2103530, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202103530
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Impurity Tolerance of Unsaturated Ni-N-C Active Sites for Practical Electrochemical CO2 Reduction', ACS Energy Letters, 7, pp. 920 - 928, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.1c02711
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Interface-Controlled Phase Separation of Liquid Metal-Based Eutectic Ternary Alloys', Chemistry of Materials, 34, pp. 10761 - 10771, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02981
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Introducing Stacking Faults into Three-Dimensional Branched Nickel Nanoparticles for Improved Catalytic Activity', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, pp. 11094 - 11098, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c04911
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Liquid metal-based electrosynthesis of stratified zinc-organic frameworks', Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10, pp. 14963 - 14970, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2tc01973f
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Long-Life Zn Anode Enabled by Low Volume Concentration of a Benign Electrolyte Additive', Advanced Functional Materials, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202200606
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Low Temperature Nano Mechano-electrocatalytic CH4Conversion', ACS Nano, 16, pp. 8684 - 8693, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c02326
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Low-temperature liquid platinum catalyst', Nature Chemistry, 14, pp. 935 - 941, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41557-022-00965-6
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Mass Transport via In-Plane Nanopores in Graphene Oxide Membranes', Nano Letters, 22, pp. 4941 - 4948, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01615
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Promoting low-temperature methanol production over mixed oxide supported Cu catalysts: Coupling ceria-promotion and photo-activation', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 315, pp. 121599, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.121599
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Tuning the Coordination Structure of Cu-N-C Single Atom Catalysts for Simultaneous Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 and NO3 to Urea', Advanced Energy Materials, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202201500
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Uncovering the CO2Capture Mechanism of NaNO3-Promoted MgO by 18O Isotope Labeling', JACS Au, 2, pp. 2731 - 2741, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.2c00461
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Understanding water transport through graphene-based nanochannels via experimental control of slip length', Nature Communications, 13, pp. 5690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33456-w
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Colloidal Ni2P Nanocrystals Encapsulated in Heteroatom-Doped Graphene Nanosheets: A Synergy of 0D@2D Heterostructure Toward Overall Water Splitting', Chemistry of Materials, 33, pp. 234 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03543
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Doping-mediated metal−support interaction promotion toward light-assisted methanol production over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3', ACS Catalysis, 11, pp. 5818 - 5828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c00332
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction', Advanced Energy Materials, 11, pp. 2100303 - 2100303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202100303
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Enhanced graphitic domains of unreduced graphene oxide and the interplay of hydration behaviour and catalytic activity', Materials Today, http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00860v5
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Erratum: Mechanistic Aspects of the Functionalization of Graphene Oxide with Ethylene Diamine: Implications for Energy Storage Applications (ACS Appl. Nano Mater. (2021) 4:3 (3232-3240) DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.1c00412)', ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4, pp. 8637 - 8640, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c01645
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Mechanistic Aspects of the Functionalization of Graphene Oxide with Ethylene Diamine: Implications for Energy Storage Applications', ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4, pp. 3232 - 3240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c00412
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Nitrate reduction to ammonium: From CuO defect engineering to waste NOx-to-NH3 economic feasibility', Energy and Environmental Science, 14, pp. 3588 - 3598, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ee00594d
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Electronically Modified Atomic Sites Within a Multicomponent Co/Cu Composite for Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction (Adv. Energy Mater. 17/2021)', Advanced Energy Materials, 11, pp. 2170067 - 2170067, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202170067
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Photoenhanced CO2 methanation over La2O3 promoted Co/TiO2 catalysts', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 294, pp. 120248 - 120248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120248
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Surface reconstruction enabled efficient hydrogen generation on a cobalt-iron phosphate electrocatalyst in neutral water', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 53798 - 53809, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c14588
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Synergistic Cyanamide Functionalization and Charge-Induced Activation of Nickel/Carbon Nitride for Enhanced Selective Photoreforming of Ethanol', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 49916 - 49926, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c14195
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Unraveling the Growth Mechanism of Magic-Sized Semiconductor Nanocrystals', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, pp. 2037 - 2048, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c12185
    Journal articles | 2020
    Jia C; Ching K; Kumar PV; Zhao C; Kumar N; Chen X; Das B, 2020, 'Vitamin B12on Graphene for Highly Efficient CO2Electroreduction', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12, pp. 41288 - 41293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c10125
    Journal articles | 2020
    Ma Z; Tsounis C; Kumar PV; Han Z; Wong RJ; Toe CY; Zhou S; Bedford NM; Thomsen L; Ng YH; Amal R, 2020, 'Enhanced Electrochemical CO2 Reduction of Cu@CuxO Nanoparticles Decorated on 3D Vertical Graphene with Intrinsic sp3-type Defect', Advanced Functional Materials, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201910118
    Journal articles | 2020
    Mayyas M; Li H; Kumar P; Ghasemian MB; Yang J; Wang Y; Lawes DJ; Han J; Saborio MG; Tang J; Jalili R; Lee SH; Seong WK; Russo SP; Esrafilzadeh D; Daeneke T; Kaner RB; Ruoff RS; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2020, 'Liquid-Metal-Templated Synthesis of 2D Graphitic Materials at Room Temperature', Advanced Materials, 32, pp. 2001997 - 2001997, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202001997
    Journal articles | 2020
    Yang JW; Shen YC; Lin KC; Cheng SJ; Chen SL; Chen CY; Kumar PV; Lin SF; Lu HE; Chen GY, 2020, 'Organ-on-a-Chip: Opportunities for Assessing the Toxicity of Particulate Matter', Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00519
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Effective Separation of CO 2 Using Metal‐Incorporated rGO Membranes', Advanced Materials, pp. 1907580 - 1907580, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201907580
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Faceted Branched Nickel Nanoparticles with Tunable Branch Length for High-Activity Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Biomass', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 59, pp. 15487 - 15491, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202005489
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Facettierte verzweigte Nickel-Nanopartikel mit variierbarer Verzweigungslänge für die hochaktive elektrokatalytische Oxidation von Biomasse', Angewandte Chemie, 132, pp. 15615 - 15620, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202005489
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Microfluidics and nanomaterial-based technologies for circulating tumor cell isolation and detection', Sensors (Switzerland), 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20071875
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Rationalizing Effect of Metal Substitution in Ruthenium Pyrochlores on the Lattice Oxygen Binding and Oxygen Evolution Activity', ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2020-02, pp. 2412 - 2412, http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/ma2020-02382412mtgabs
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Selective Proton Transport for Hydrogen Production Using Graphene Oxide Membranes', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, pp. 9415 - 9420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02481
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Single Site Substituted 2D Molybdenum Carbide and Its Application in Electrocatalysis', ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2020-01, pp. 2662 - 2662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/ma2020-01462662mtgabs
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Single Site Substitution in 2D Molybdenum Carbide: Applications in Electrocatalysis', ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2020-02, pp. 2401 - 2401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/ma2020-02382401mtgabs
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Stack Pressure Effect in Li3PS4 and Na3PS4 Based Alkali Metal Solid-State Cells: The Dramatic Implication of Interlayer Growth', Chemistry of Materials, 32, pp. 10501 - 10510, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c03444
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Tailoring Lattice Oxygen Binding in Ruthenium Pyrochlores to Enhance Oxygen Evolution Activity', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142, pp. 7883 - 7888, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c01135
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Tunable Syngas Production through CO2 Electroreduction on Cobalt-Carbon Composite Electrocatalyst', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12, pp. 9307 - 9315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b21216
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Ultra-Thin lead oxide piezoelectric layers for reduced environmental contamination using a liquid metal-based process', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8, pp. 19434 - 19443, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0ta06379g
    Journal articles | 2019
    Chen SL; Chen CY; Hsieh JCH; Yu ZY; Cheng SJ; Hsieh KY; Yang JW; Kumar PV; Lin SF; Chen GY, 2019, 'Graphene oxide-based biosensors for liquid biopsies in cancer diagnosis', Nanomaterials, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano9121725
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Applications in catalysis, photochemistry, and photodetection: General discussion', Faraday Discussions, 214, pp. 479 - 499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9fd90014d
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Direct hot-carrier transfer in plasmonic catalysis', Faraday Discussions, 214, pp. 189 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8fd00154e
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Discriminatory Photoactivation of Diastereomeric RAFT Agents', Macromolecules, 52, pp. 7157 - 7166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01534
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Dynamics of hot electron generation in metallic nanostructures: General discussion', Faraday Discussions, 214, pp. 123 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9fd90011j
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Graphene- and graphene oxide-based nanocomposite platforms for electrochemical biosensing applications', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20122975
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Plasmon-Induced Direct Hot-Carrier Transfer at Metal-Acceptor Interfaces', ACS Nano, 13, pp. 3188 - 3195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b08703
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Single Site Cobalt Substitution in 2D Molybdenum Carbide (MXene) Enhances Catalytic Activity in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, pp. 17809 - 17816, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b08897
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Theory of hot electrons: General discussion', Faraday Discussions, 214, pp. 245 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9FD90012H
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Enhanced Osteogenic Differentiation of Stem Cells on Phase-Engineered Graphene Oxide', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10, pp. 12497 - 12503, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b02225
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Simultaneous drug delivery and cellular imaging using graphene oxide', Biomaterials Science, 6, pp. 813 - 819, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c7bm01192j
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'Engineering Efficient p-Type TMD/Metal Contacts Using Fluorographene as a Buffer Layer', Advanced Electronic Materials, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201600318
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'Enhanced Cell Capture on Functionalized Graphene Oxide Nanosheets through Oxygen Clustering', ACS Nano, 11, pp. 1548 - 1558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b06979
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'Tailoring Energy Transfer from Hot Electrons to Adsorbate Vibrations for Plasmon-Enhanced Catalysis', ACS Catalysis, 7, pp. 8343 - 8350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.7b03174
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'New insights into the thermal reduction of graphene oxide: Impact of oxygen clustering', Carbon, 100, pp. 90 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2015.12.087
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'Graphene Oxide Nanosheets Modified with Single-Domain Antibodies for Rapid and Efficient Capture of Cells', Chemistry - A European Journal, 21, pp. 17178 - 17183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201503057
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Graphene oxide as a promising hole injection layer for MoS2-based electronic devices', ACS Nano, 8, pp. 11432 - 11439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn504507u
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Scalable enhancement of graphene oxide properties by thermally driven phase transformation', Nature Chemistry, 6, pp. 151 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1820
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'The characterization, stability, and reactivity of synthetic calcium silicate surfaces from first principles', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118, pp. 15214 - 15219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp408325f
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'High surface reactivity and water adsorption on NiFe2O 4 (111) surfaces', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117, pp. 5678 - 5683, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp309434a
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'The impact of functionalization on the stability, work function, and photoluminescence of reduced graphene oxide', ACS Nano, 7, pp. 1638 - 1645, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn305507p
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'First-principles assessment of the reactions of boric acid on NiO(001) and ZrO 2(1̄11) surfaces', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, pp. 10113 - 10119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp301607h
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Nanocarbon-based photovoltaics', ACS Nano, 6, pp. 8896 - 8903, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn302893p
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Molecular dynamics simulations of Ni/NiAl interfaces', European Physical Journal B, 82, pp. 133 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2011-20135-9
  • Preprints | 2023
    2023, Angstrom-confined electrochemical synthesis of non van der Waals 2D metal oxides, , http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-1q6gb-v2
    Preprints | 2023
    2023, Angstrom-confined electrochemical synthesis of sub-unit cell non van der Waals 2D metal oxides, , http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-1q6gb-v3
    Preprints | 2023
    2023, Angstrom-confined electrochemical synthesis of sub-unit cell non van der Waals 2D metal oxides, , http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-1q6gb-v4
    Preprints | 2022
    2022, Altering oxygen binding by redox-inactive metal substitution to control catalytic activity: oxygen reduction on manganese oxide nanoparticles as a model system, , http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-wzr8v
    Preprints | 2022
    2022, Angstrom-confined electrochemical synthesis of non van der Waals 2D metal oxides, , http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-1q6gb
    Preprints | 2022
    2022, Mass transport via in-plane nanopores in graphene oxide membranes, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.11886
    Preprints | 2022
    2022, Understanding water transport through graphene-based nanochannels via experimental control of slip length, , http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-b61sx
    Preprints | 2022
    2022, Understanding water transport through graphene-based nanochannels via experimental control of slip length, , http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-b61sx-v2
    Preprints | 2022
    2022, Understanding water transport through graphene-based nanochannels via experimental control of slip length, , http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-b61sx-v3
    Preprints | 2020
    2020, Enhanced graphitic domains of unreduced graphene oxide and the interplay of hydration behaviour and catalytic activity, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2007.00860
    Preprints | 2020
    2020, Unraveling the Growth Mechanism of Magic-Sized Semiconductor Nanocrystals, , http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.13311881
    Preprints | 2020
    2020, Unraveling the Growth Mechanism of Magic-Sized Semiconductor Nanocrystals, , http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.13311881.v1
    Preprints | 2012
    2012, Nanocarbon-Based photovoltaics, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1206.5042
    Conference Papers | 2010
    2010, 'Molecular dynamics simulations of tensile tests and interfacial fracture in Ni/NiAl and Ni/Ni3Al', in 18th European Conference on Fracture: Fracture of Materials and Structures from Micro to Macro Scale
    Conference Papers | 2007
    2007, 'Electrical and structural properties of nano-crystalline silicon intrinsic layers for nano-crystalline silicon solar cells prepared by very high frequency plasma chemical vapor deposition', in TMS Annual Meeting, pp. 73 - 80
    Preprints |
    Regenerable and Bifunctional Electrode for Hydrogen Production from Water at Neutral Ph, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4257122

  • Marie-Curie ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2017
  • Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (CMMP) Education Grant, Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland
  • MRS Graduate Student Silver Award Spring Meeting 2015, San Francisco CA, USA
  • Shell-TATA MIT Energy Fellowship, 2013-2015
  • German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2009

Application of ab initio computational methods based on density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TDDFT) to model plasmonic hot-carrier processes such as plasmon formation, plasmon decay to hot carriers, charge transport and electron-phonon coupling. The aim is to advance applications such as photocatalysis, photodetection, photovoltaics, photon upconversion and sensing.

 

Application of atomistic methods such as molecular dynamics (MD) and DFT to model and design two-dimensional materials such as graphene, graphene oxide, metal dichalcogenides and other low-dimensional structures such as nanotubes, quantum dots etc. for applications in energy conversion and storage technologies, electronics, catalysis, health-care and water treatment.

 

We constantly seek experimental collaborations in the aforementioned areas and would be more than happy to discuss any such opportunities.