Prashant Kamat

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Biography

 

Professor Kamat received PhD (1979) from Bombay University, and carried out postdoctoral research at Boston University (1979-1981) and University of Texas at Austin (1981-1983). He joined Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory in 1983. Currently,he is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Senior Scientist at Radiation Laboratory and Concurrent Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Published 300+ peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and edited books on nanoscale materials. Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry and Advisory board member of Langmuir, Research on Chemical. Intermediates.and Interface.

 

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Research Interests

The emphasis of our research is to elucidate the mechanistic and kinetic details of charge transfer processes in nanostructured assemblies with an objective to improve energy conversion efficiencies. Research projects in the following areas are currently being pursued.

  • Nanoparticles and Advanced Materials: Metal and semiconductor nanostructures, Molecular Clusters & Carbon Nanotubes - Synthesis, characterization, and surface functionalization, Optical properties, Photoelectrochemistry; and Sensor applications.
  • Light Energy Conversion: Design of inorganic-organic nanoassemblies for light energy conversion, Organic photovoltaics
  • Fuel cell and Hydrogen production: Carbon nanostructures (Carbon nanotubes and fullerenes) and metal nanoparticles for the developement of fuel cell electrodes and semiconductor metal composites for photocatalytic hydrogen production
  • Chemical Processes in Heterogeneous Media: Surface photochemical processes, molecular clusters, ultrafast photophysical and photochemical events in oxides and polymers, mechanism and kinetics of photoeffects at semiconductor/electrolyte interface.
  • Environmental Science: advanced oxidation processes for treating organic wastes from water - use of metal oxide semiconductors such as TiO2, SnO2 and ZnO to sense and degrade haloaromatics and azo dyes. Simultaneous sensing and destruction of low level toxic organics.

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Recent Papers

Kamat, P.V., Meeting the Clean Energy Demand: Nanostructure Architectures for Solar Energy Conversion. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007. 111, 2834 - 2860 (Feature Article). Link
Kongkanand, A.; Domínguez, R.M.; Kamat, P.V., Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Scaffolds for Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells. Capture and Transport of Photogenerated Electrons. Nano Lett., 2007. 7, 676-680 Link
Hasobe, T., Fukuzumi, S., Kamat, P. V. Stacked-Cup Carbon Nanotubes for Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells, Angew Chem. 2006, 45, 755-759 Link
Robel, I.; Kuno, M.; Kamat, P.V., Size-Dependent electron Injection from Excited CdSe Quantum Dots into TiO2 Nanoparticles. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007. 129, 4136 -4137. Link
Robel, I., Vaidyanathan Subramanian, V., Kuno, M., Kamat, P. V. Quantum Dot Solar Cells. Harvesting Light Energy with CdSe Nanocrystals Molecularly Linked to Mesoscopic TiO2 Films. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 2385-2393 Link
Girishkumar, G., Rettker, M., Underhile, R., Binz, D., Vinodgopal, K., McGinn, P. and Kamat, P., Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Supports for Portable Direct Methanol Fuel Cells. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2006, 109, 107-114. Link

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