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El-Abid J; Dorst KM; Inge AK; Verho O; Kundi V; Kumar PV; Thapper A; Das B, 2025, 'Carboxylate and coordination influence on the formation of an active RuV Oxo species', Scientific Reports, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-89062-5

Zhang Z; Trần-Phú T; Yuwono J; Ma Z; Yang Y; Leverett J; Hocking RK; Johannessen B; Kumar P; Amal R; Daiyan R, 2025, 'Stable dual metal oxide matrix for tuning selectivity in acidic electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 371, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2025.125203

Leverett J; Baghestani G; Tran‐Phu T; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Johannessen B; Simondson D; Wen H; Chang SLY; Tricoli A; Simonov AN; Dai L; Amal R; Daiyan R; Hocking RK, 2025, 'Direct Observation of Electron Donation onto the Reactants and a Transient Poisoning Mechanism During CO2 Electroreduction on Ni Single Atom Catalysts', Angewandte Chemie, 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202424087

Leverett J; Baghestani G; Tran-Phu T; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Johannessen B; Simondson D; Wen H; Chang SLY; Tricoli A; Simonov AN; Dai L; Amal R; Daiyan R; Hocking RK, 2025, 'Direct Observation of Electron Donation onto the Reactants and a Transient Poisoning Mechanism During CO2 Electroreduction on Ni Single Atom Catalysts', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202424087

Mani M; Mariandry K; Ghorpade UV; Saha S; Kokate R; Mishra R; Nielsen MP; Tilley R; Xie B; Suryawanshi MP; Kumar PV, 2025, 'Plasmonic Hot-Carrier Engineering at Bimetallic Nanoparticle/Semiconductor Interfaces: A Computational Perspective', Small, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202410173

Zhang Q; Shan Y; Pan J; Kumar P; Keevers MJ; Lasich J; Kour G; Daiyan R; Perez-Wurf I; Thomsen L; Cheong S; Jiang J; Wu KH; Chiang CL; Grayson K; Green MA; Amal R; Lu X, 2025, 'A photovoltaic-electrolysis system with high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency under practical current densities', Science Advances, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads0836

Shang Y; Kokate R; Tung P; Zhong H; Lizundia E; Trujillo FJ; Kumar P; Kundu D, 2025, 'Gel electrolyte interdigitation enables stable high areal capacity cycling of the 3D Zn electrode', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13, pp. 9555 - 9565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4ta09006c

Mao Y; Chi Y; Ruffman C; Yu R; Kumar PV; Gaston N; Tang J, 2025, 'Liquid Metal Transport Crystal Growth: A Liquid Phase Deposition Strategy for On-Substrate Design of Metal Crystals', ACS Nano, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c05387

Landuyt A; Kochetygov I; McMonagle CJ; Kumar PV; Yuwono JA; Queen WL; Abdala PM; Müller CR, 2024, 'Role of Na2CO3 as Nucleation Seeds to Accelerate the CO2 Uptake Kinetics of MgO-Based Sorbents', Jacs Au, 4, pp. 4809 - 4820, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.4c00782

Haghshenas Y; Wong WP; Gunawan D; Khataee A; Keyikoğlu R; Razmjou A; Kumar PV; Toe CY; Masood H; Amal R; Sethu V; Teoh WY, 2024, 'Predicting the rates of photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over cocatalyst-deposited TiO2 using machine learning with active photon flux as a unifying feature', Ees Catalysis, 2, pp. 612 - 623, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ey00246b

Bui TS; Ma Z; Yuwono JA; Kumar PV; O'Connell GEP; Peng L; Yang Y; Lim M; Daiyan R; Lovell EC; Amal R, 2024, 'Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Fe/ZnO Nanoparticles via Tuning Intermediate Adsorption in Alkaline Electrolyte', Advanced Functional Materials, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202408704

Leverett J; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Tran-Phu T; Qu J; Cairney J; Wang X; Simonov AN; Hocking RK; Johannessen B; Dai L; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2024, 'Impurity Tolerance of Unsaturated Ni-N-C Active Sites for Practical Electrochemical CO2 Reduction( vol 7 , pg 920 , 2022)', ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 9, pp. 6084 - 6084, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c03153

Alvand M; Ma Z; Kokate R; Kumar PV; Pan J; Amal R; Lovell EC; Jalili AR, 2024, 'Uncovering the role of vanadium doped Ni2P for low concentration urea oxidation', Chemical Engineering Journal, 500, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.157130

Guo J; Haghshenas Y; Jiao Y; Kumar P; Yakobson BI; Roy A; Jiao Y; Regenauer-Lieb K; Nguyen D; Xia Z, 2024, 'Rational Design of Earth-Abundant Catalysts toward Sustainability', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202407102

Suryawanshi UP; Ghorpade UV; Kumar PV; Jang JS; He M; Shim HJ; Jung HR; Suryawanshi MP; Kim JH, 2024, 'Dopant induced hollow Ni2P nanocrystals regulate dehydrogenation kinetics for highly efficient solar-driven hydrazine assisted H2 production', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 355, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2024.124165

Liu B; Han Z; Bendavid A; Martin PJ; Kumar PV; Haghshenas Y; Alamri M; Wu JZ, 2024, 'Atomic-Layer Deposition of the Single-Atom Pt Catalyst on Vertical Graphene for H2 Sensing', ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7, pp. 22605 - 22616, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.4c03416

Ramadhany P; Trần-Phú T; Yuwono JA; Ma Z; Han C; Nguyen TKA; Leverett J; Kumar P; Hocking RK; Tricoli A; Simonov AN; Amal R; Daiyan R, 2024, 'Triggering C‒N Coupling on Metal Oxide Nanocomposite for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 and NOx⁻ to Formamide', Advanced Energy Materials, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202401786

Dipta SS; Christofferson AJ; Kumar PV; Kundi V; Hanif M; Tang J; Flores N; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Uddin A; Rahim MA, 2024, 'Stable and Lead-Safe Polyphenol-Encapsulated Perovskite Solar Cells', Advanced Science, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202403057

Lim M; Ma Z; O'Connell G; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Jalili R; Amal R; Daiyan R; Lovell EC, 2024, 'Ru-Induced Defect Engineering in Co3O4 Lattice for High Performance Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonium', Small, 20, pp. e2401333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202401333

Zhang M; Ma Z; Zhou S; Han C; Kundi V; Kumar PV; Thomsen L; Johannessen B; Peng L; Shan Y; Tsounis C; Yang Y; Pan J; Amal R, 2024, 'Surface Engineering on Ag-Decorated Co3O4 Electrocatalysts for Boosting Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia', ACS Catalysis, 14, pp. 11231 - 11242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c01510

Zheng J; Sharma A; Kumeria T; Chi Y; Ghasemian MB; Mao G; Tang J; Kumar P; Rahim MA; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2024, 'Dynamic Zinc in Liquid Metal Media as a Metal Ion Source for Highly Porous ZIF-8 Synthesis', Advanced Functional Materials, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202300969

Haghshenas Y; Wong WP; Sethu V; Amal R; Kumar PV; Teoh WY, 2024, 'Full prediction of band potentials in semiconductor materials', Materials Today Physics, 46, pp. 101519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtphys.2024.101519

Zhou S; Sun K; Toe CY; Huang J; Wang A; Yuwono J; Kumar P; Wan T; Zhang D; Ma Z; Vongsvivut J; Chu D; Hao X; Amal R, 2024, 'Solar driven ammonia synthesis with Co-TiOx and Ag nanowires enhanced Cu2ZnSnS4 photocathodes', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2024.123836

Han C; Li C; Yuwono JA; Liu Z; Sun K; Wang K; He G; Huang J; Kumar PV; Vongsvivut J; Cong J; Mehrvarz H; Han Z; Lu X; Pan J; Hao X; Amal R, 2024, 'Nanostructured hybrid catalysts empower the artificial leaf for solar-driven ammonia production from nitrate', Energy and Environmental Science, 17, pp. 5653 - 5665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ee03836j

Sun J; Yu TT; Mirabediny M; Lee M; Jones A; O'Carroll DM; Manefield MJ; Kumar PV; Pickford R; Ramadhan ZR; Bhattacharyya SK; Åkermark B; Das B; Kumar N, 2024, 'Soluble metal porphyrins - Zero-valent zinc system for effective reductive defluorination of branched per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)', Water Research, 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121803

Kundi V; Jin Y; Chandrasekaran A; Muralidhar A; Masood H; Boyer C; Kumar P, 2024, 'Machine Learning Prediction of Antibacterial Activity of Block Copolymers', ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7, pp. 8939 - 8948, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.4c00430

Gunawan D; Lau LY; Yuwono JA; Kumar PV; Oppong-Antwi L; Kuschnerus I; Chang SLY; Hocking RK; Amal R; Scott J; Toe CY, 2024, 'Revealing the activity and selectivity of atomically dispersed Ni in Zn3In2S6 for benzyl alcohol photoreforming', Chemical Engineering Journal, 486, pp. 150215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.150215

Lin J; Kilani M; Baharfar M; Tang J; Zheng J; Kumar PV; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Mao G, 2024, 'Microelectrode-enabled Electrocrystallization of Cobalt TCNQ Complex for Gas Sensing', Chemelectrochem, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/celc.202300826

Suryawanshi UP; Ghorpade UV; Yuwono JA; Kumar PV; Gaikwad MA; Shin SW; Jang JS; Jung HR; Suryawanshi MP; Kim JH, 2024, 'Cr-dopant induced crystal orientation and shape modulation in Ni2P nanocrystals for improving electrosynthesis of methanol to formate coupled with hydrogen production', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 12, pp. 15127 - 15136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4ta01147c

O'Connell GEP; Tan TH; Yuwono JA; Wang Y; Kheradmand A; Jiang Y; Kumar PV; Amal R; Scott J; Lovell EC, 2024, 'Seeing the light: The role of cobalt in light-assisted CO2 methanation', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.123507

Tang J; Christofferson AJ; Sun J; Zhai Q; Kumar PV; Yuwono JA; Tajik M; Meftahi N; Tang J; Dai L; Mao G; Russo SP; Kaner RB; Rahim MA; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2024, 'Dynamic configurations of metallic atoms in the liquid state for selective propylene synthesis', Nature Nanotechnology, 19, pp. 306 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01540-x

Shang Y; Kundi V; Pal I; Kim HN; Zhong H; Kumar P; Kundu D, 2024, 'Highly Potent and Low-Volume Concentration Additives for Durable Aqueous Zinc Batteries: Machine Learning-Enabled Performance Rationalization', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202309212

Fojt J; Rossi TP; Kumar PV; Erhart P, 2024, 'Tailoring Hot-Carrier Distributions of Plasmonic Nanostructures through Surface Alloying', ACS Nano, 18, pp. 6398 - 6405, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c11418

John AT; Taheri M; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Nisbet DR; Murugappan K; Tricoli A, 2024, 'A monolithic nano-scale sensor architecture with tuneable gas diffusion for molecular fingerprinting', Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 12, pp. 8155 - 8166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ta07282g

Xie B; Hu D; Kumar P; Ordomsky VV; Khodakov AY; Amal R, 2024, 'Heterogeneous catalysis via light-heat dual activation: A path to the breakthrough in C1 chemistry', Joule, 8, pp. 312 - 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2023.12.013

Zhu YF; Xie B; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Sharma AS; Nielsen MP; Bendavid A; Amal R; Scott J; Lovell EC, 2024, 'Making light work: designing plasmonic structures for the selective photothermal methanation of carbon dioxide', Ees Catalysis, 2, pp. 834 - 849, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ey00315a

Toledo-Carrillo EA; García-Rodríguez M; Morallón E; Cazorla-Amorós D; Ye F; Kundi V; Kumar PV; Verho O; Dutta J; Åkermark B; Das B, 2024, 'Co-complexes on modified graphite surface for steady green hydrogen production from water at neutral pH', Frontiers in Chemistry, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2024.1469804

Zheng J; Solomon MB; Rawal A; Chi Y; Yu R; Liu L; Tang J; Mao G; D’Alessandro DM; Kumar PV; Rahim MA; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2023, 'Passivation-Free, Liquid-Metal-Based Electrosynthesis of Aluminum Metal-Organic Frameworks Mediated by Light Metal Activation', ACS Nano, 17, pp. 25532 - 25541, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c09472

Abbott DF; Xu YZ; Kuznetsov DA; Kumar P; Müller CR; Fedorov A; Mougel V, 2023, 'Understanding the Synergy between Fe and Mo Sites in the Nitrate Reduction Reaction on a Bio-Inspired Bimetallic MXene Electrocatalyst', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202313746

Abbott DF; Xu Y; Kuznetsov DA; Kumar P; Müller CR; Fedorov A; Mougel V, 2023, 'Understanding the Synergy between Fe and Mo Sites in the Nitrate Reduction Reaction on a Bio‐Inspired Bimetallic MXene Electrocatalyst', Angewandte Chemie, 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202313746

Abideen ZU; Choi JG; Yuwono JA; Lee WJ; Murugappan K; Kumar PV; Nisbet DR; Trần-Phú T; Yoon MH; Tricoli A, 2023, 'Structural Engineering Three-Dimensional Nano-Heterojunction Networks for High-Performance Photochemical Sensing', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15, pp. 56464 - 56477, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c12668

Yang Y; Lie WH; Unocic RR; Yuwono JA; Klingenhof M; Merzdorf T; Buchheister PW; Kroschel M; Walker A; Gallington LC; Thomsen L; Kumar PV; Strasser P; Scott JA; Bedford NM, 2023, 'Defect-Promoted Ni-Based Layer Double Hydroxides with Enhanced Deprotonation Capability for Efficient Biomass Electrooxidation', Advanced Materials, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202305573

Mariandry K; Kokate R; Somerville SV; Gloag L; Cheong S; Carroll LR; Kumar PV; Gooding JJ; Tilley RD, 2023, 'Controlling Platinum Active Sites on Silver Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction', Chemistry of Materials, 35, pp. 8636 - 8644, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01765

Kumar P; Kim H; Tripathy S; Watanabe K; Taniguchi T; Novoselov KS; Kotekar-Patil D, 2023, 'Excited state spectroscopy and spin splitting in single layer MoS2 quantum dots', Nanoscale, 15, pp. 18203 - 18211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3nr03844k

Gunawan D; Yuwono JA; Kumar PV; Kaleem A; Nielsen MP; Tayebjee MJY; Oppong-Antwi L; Wen H; Kuschnerus I; Chang SLY; Wang Y; Hocking RK; Chan TS; Toe CY; Scott J; Amal R, 2023, 'Unraveling the structure-activity-selectivity relationships in furfuryl alcohol photoreforming to H2 and hydrofuroin over ZnxIn2S3+x photocatalysts', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 335, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.122880

Masood H; Sirojan T; Toe CY; Kumar PV; Haghshenas Y; Sit PHL; Amal R; Sethu V; Teoh WY, 2023, 'Enhancing prediction accuracy of physical band gaps in semiconductor materials', Cell Reports Physical Science, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101555

Zhang J; Toe CY; Kumar P; Scott J; Amal R, 2023, 'Engineering defects in TiO2 for the simultaneous production of hydrogen and organic products', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.122765

Chi Y; Kumar PV; Zheng J; Kong C; Yu R; Johnston L; Ghasemian MB; Rahim MA; Kumeria T; Chu D; Lu X; Mao G; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Tang J, 2023, 'Liquid-Metal Solvents for Designing Hierarchical Nanoporous Metals at Low Temperatures', ACS Nano, 17, pp. 17070 - 17081, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c04585

John AT; Wei S; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Nisbet DR; Karawdeniya BI; Fu L; Murugappan K; Tricoli A, 2023, 'Nano-structuring metal organic frameworks on semiconductor nanowire arrays for highly sensitive and selective chemical sensing', Applied Physics Reviews, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0153029

Fur N; Belanche M; Martinella C; Kumar P; Bathen ME; Grossner U, 2023, 'Investigation of Electrically Active Defects in SiC Power Diodes Caused by Heavy Ion Irradiation', IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 70, pp. 1892 - 1899, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2023.3242760


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