Nanomaterials Research Group

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Dr. Manashi Nath Principal Investigator nathm@mst.edu

Current Group Members
Post-doctoral Researchers
	Dr. Wipula P.R. Liyange wpl468@mst.edu				Wipula works on producing nanorods and nanotube arrays through patterned electrodeposition on nanoelectrodes. These nanorods and nanotube arrays includes the photovoltaic materials like CdTe useable for solar cells as well as other semiconductors. Wipula also synthesizes FeSe-based superconducting nanostructures and study the effect of their confinement on the superconducting parameters like Tc.
		Dr. Jahangir Masud masudj@mst.edu		Jahangir with his expertise with fuel cell catalysts for ORR and HER reactions, is working in the project focused on using ordered nanostructures of chalcogenides based compounds as efficient catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction in fuel cells
Graduate Students
	Umanga deSilva sudx28@mst.edu			Umanga’s project deals with using ordered nanostructures of chalcogenides based compounds as efficient catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction in fuel cells.
	Apurv Saxena
	Rajarshi Kar
	Harish Singh
	Roshni Ramakrishnan
Undergraduate Students
Caleb Holtmeyer			Growing nanowire and nanotube arrays for high efficiency solar cells (Wipula, Caleb)
Stephen Grahnemann
Ryland Forsythe
Recent Alumni
Graduate Students
	Siddesh Umapathi supn6@mst.edu			Siddesh has started working on electrocatalyst-graphene composites for various applications.
	Xi Cao xcb48@mst.edu			Xi has initiated the exploration of binary and ternary phase diagram of mixed metal selenides as catalysts for water electrolysis.
	Bahar Golrokhamin bg994@mst.edu			Bahar has started working on designing nanostructured solar-to-fuel energy generation systems and supercaparcitors.
Abdurazag Swesi asqm2@mst.edu	Graduated in July 2017 Currently a postdoc in George Washington University
Maalavan Arivu ma25c@mst.edu	Graduated (MS) in December 2017. Currently graduate student in MSE.
Prachi Desai ps3m8@mail.mst.edu	Graduated in 2014 (PhD) Currently at APL Engineered Materials Inc. Urbana				A major portion of Prachi’s dissertation included superparamagnetic nanostructures typically arsenides synthesized by a facile route. Development of a generalized synthesis technique was the major thrust in her project. Additionally the magnetic properties were analyzed very critically which led to and understanding of the structure-property correlation in these magnetic nanomaterials.
Sukhada Mishra scpcq5@mail.mst.edu	Graduated in 2013 (PhD) Currently at Intel Inc. Portland, Oregon.				Sukhada PhD dissertation was mostly focused on FeSe-based superconducting nanostructures where it was shown that the superconducting transition temperature could be enhanced significantly by increasing the interfacial pressure in these confined nanostructures. Sukhada also initiated and developed the protocol to grow CdTe nanorod arrays through confined electrodeposition on patterned nanoelectrodes, for high efficiency solar cells.
Nikitaa Ashokaan	Graduated in 2016 (MS) (MS, Chem. Engg.)				Nikitaa’s MS thesis was based on magnetic nanomaterials for diverse applications including electrocatalysis as well as biomedical applications.
Akshay Pariti ap5kc@mst.edu	Graduated in 2014 (MS) Currently at Blue Wave Semiconductor Maryland				Akshay’s research was focused on making multifunctional magnetic nanomaterials for biomedical, theranostic applications and optimizing their magnetic properties for high efficiency. This project also involves toxicity evaluation of these nanomaterials as well as biofunctionalization and cell internalization.
Rasika Nimkar	Graduated in 2012 (MS, Chem. Engg.) Currently at OLI Systems Inc., New Jersey				Rasika was involved in the magnetic nanomaterials project.
Undergraduate students
Eric Hallstrom			Magnetic nanomaterials (Prachi, Eric, Wipula)
Thuydunh (Tweety) Hyunh			Magnetic nanomaterials (Sukhada, Tweety)
Micah Fouke			Multifunctional magnetic nanomaterials for biomedical applications (Prachi, Akshay, Micah)