May 2023: Ibrahim Abdullahi successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Abdullahi.
April 2023: Harish received the Outstanding Graduate Research award from the Chemistry Departments for Excellence in Research.
July 2022: Proposal on understanding the electrocatalytic surface of chalcogenide based OER catalysts was funded through NSF.
May 2022: Apurv Saxena successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Saxena.
April 2021: Proposal on designing efficient CO2 reduction electrocatalysts has been funded through NSF.
December 2020: Umanga Desilva successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Desilva.
January 2020: Siddesh Umapathi successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Umapathi.
May 2019: Bahar Golrokhamin successfully defended her PhD dissertation. CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Golrokhamin.
April 2019: Xi Cao successfully defended her PhD dissertation. CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Cao.
April 2019: Xi’s paper on designing OER electrocatalyst from Fe-Co-Cu system got accepted in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
March 2019: Xi’s paper on designing OER electrocatalyst from Ni-Co-Cu system got accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
February 2019: Bahar’s paper on non-enzymatic glucose sensing got accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry B.
December 2018: Wipula Liyanage successfully defended his PhD dissertation. CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Liyanage.
August 2018: Jahangir and Wipula’s paper got accepted in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
August 2018: Xi’s paper got accepted in ACS Catalysis.
July 2018: Umanaga paper got accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
July 2017: Abdu has successfully defended his PhD dissertation and is now officially Dr. Swesi. CONGRATULATIONS.
July 2017: Proposal on designing efficient water splitting catalysts from transition metal chalcogenides has been funded through NSF.
May 2017: Dr. Nath’s proposal on synthesis of boride nanostructures for application in energy conversion and storage received funding from CASB.
Apr 2017: Siddesh was awarded the much coveted 2017 Summer Research Fellowship Award from the Electrochemical Society. He is one of the 4 recipients nationwide. CONGRATULATIONS.
Apr 2017: Umanga got the first prize for poster presentation in the Graduate Research Showcase hosted by Council of Graduate Studies, Missouri S&T. CONGRATULATIONS.
Apr. 2017: Abdu successfully passed his comprehensive examination with unanimous support from his PhD advisory committee.
Apr. 2017: The Chemistry department’s banquet night was special for the Nath group as 4 of its members were honored.
Apr 2017: Wipula, Xi, and Bahar were awarded Outstanding TA Awards for their excellent performance in teaching General Chemistry Laboratories. CONGRATULATIONS.
Apr 2017: Abdu was awarded the Chemistry Department’s Graduate Student Research Excellence Award. CONGRATULATIONS.
Apr 2017: Abdu’s paper on the highly efficient electrocatalytic activity of NiSe2 has been accepted for publication in Nature Scientific Reports.
Mar 2017: Bahar’s and Abdu’s first joint paper on CoNi2Se4 as bifunctional water splitting catalysts has been accepted for publication in Chemical Communications.
Jan 2017: Dr. Nath’s proposal on multifunctional magnetic nanorods for biomedical applications received funding from CBSE.
November 2016: Jahangir’s paper on efficient electrocatalysis with a seleno-based Ni coordination complex has been highlighted as Cover image for issue #22 of ChemSusChem.
August 2016: Wipula’s paper on CdS-CdTe nanotube arrays for high efficiency solar energy conversion has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
August 2016: Jahangir’s paper on efficient electrocatalysis with a seleno-based Ni coordination complex has been accepted for publication in ChemSusChem.
August 2016: Wipula has been selected as a recipient of the Midwest Graduate Research Award, to be presented at the 2016 Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, in Manhattan, KS on October 28, 2016.
July 2016: Abdu’s paper on decreasing OER overpotential through dissolution induced nanostructuring of Ni3Se2 has been accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Research.
Jun 2016: Jahangir’s paper on Co7Se8 as bifunctional water splitting catalyst has been accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
May 2016: Jahangir, Siddesh, & Nikitaa’s paper on FeP as efficient OER electrocatalyst has been accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
May 2016: Umanga’s paper on multifunctional magnetic Au-CoSe nanostructures as efficient OER electrocatalyst has been accepted in MRS Advances.
Apr 2016: Student awards for Wipula (Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award) and Abdu (Pinsheng Award for Graduate Research).
Apr 2016: Jahangir’s paper on Co7Se8 as methanol tolerant ORR electrocatalyst was accepted in ACS Energy Letter.
Feb 2016: Dr. Nath’s concept of using multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles for cancer theranostics received support from Missouri Innovators Funds.
Jan 2016: Our proposal on using gold iron oxide bifunctional nanoparticles for biomedical applications received funding from UM Research Board.
November 2015: Abdu and Jahangir’s first paper on Nickel selenide as efficient OER electrocatalyst was published in Energy and Environmental Science.
August 2015: Bahar Golrokhamen, Siddesh Umapathi joined the group as graduate students
January 2015: Umanga deSilva, Xi Cao joined the group as graduate students.
November 2014: Wipula’s paper on patterned growth of CdTe nanorod arrays for solar cells was published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
September 2014: Dr. Jahangir Masud accepted our offer for a postdoctoral research position in our lab. WELCOME to NRG Dr. Masud.
July 2014: Akshay Pariti successfully defended his MS dissertation. CONGRATULATIONS Akshay.
July 2014: Wipula’s paper on patterned growth of CdTe nanorod arrays for solar cells was published in Nanomaterials and Energy
June 2014: Akshay’s paper on biologically active Au-Fe3O4 nanostructures was published in Materials Research Express
May 2014: Our proposal on using CoSe nanostructures as catalysts in oxygen evolution reaction received funding from ACS PRF.
May 2014: Wipula’s paper on multifunctional CoSe nanostructures was published in RSC Advances.
May 2014: Prachi Desai successfully defended her PhD dissertation. CONGRATULATIONS Prachi.
March 2014: Sukhada’s paper on Tc enhancement in FeSe nanostructures was published in ACS Nano.
June 2013: Sukhada Mishra successfully defended her PhD dissertation and became the first student from the group to be awarded the doctoral degree. CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Mishra.
May 2013: Dr. Manashi Nath received research grant from University of Missouri Inter-campus Interdisciplinary research initiative.
March 2013: Sukhada Mishra’s research paper titled “Growth of Vertically Aligned CdTe Nanorod Arrays through Patterned Electrodeposition” was accepted for publication in Nano Energy.
March 2013: Prachi Desai’s research paper titled “Soft-chemical Synthetic Route to Superparamagnetic FeAs@C Core-Shell Nanoparticles Exhibiting High Blocking Temperature” was published in Chemistry of Materials (March, 2013).(Link)
Januray 2013: Sukhada Mishra’s research paper titled “Synthesis of Superconducting Nanocables of FeSe Encapsulated in Carbonaceous Shell” was published in ACS Nano (January, 2013).(Link)
Dr. Manashi Nath received research grant from University of Missouri Research Board (UMRB) in December 2012.
Wipula P.R.Liyange joined the group in September 2012.
Akshay Pariti joined the group in August 2012.
Rasika Nimkar joined the group in January 2012.
Dr. Manashi Nath received research grant from University of Missouri Research Board (UMRB) in May 2009.
Sukhada Mishra won second prize in Poster Presentation at Missouri University of Science and Technology – Graduate Research showcase (April, 2009).
Prachi Desai joined the group in January 2009. Sukhada Mishra joined the group in October 2008.