Summary
Santosh is a visiting researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College and a Beamline Research Associate at Diamond Light Source. Before this, Santosh worked as a PDRA at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College (2019-2021), Energy & Bioproduct Research Institute within Aston University (2014-2018) and University of Bath (2018-2019).
Santosh’s interdisciplinary research expertise and interests include functional materials design & synthesis, surface & interface engineering, Operando XAS/XPS studies, CO2 and biomass utilisation, and photocatalysis for solar fuels, solar biofuels and environmental remediation.
Santosh has published 40 research articles and four book chapter (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1352-9945) with almost 4000 citations (Google Scholar) and 26 h-index, till date.
Santosh completed his PhD degree in the area of functional nanomaterials for clean energy and environment at the National Institute of Technology Warangal (India, 2014). He was also a visiting PhD student at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India). Prior to joining PhD, Santosh was awarded a lectureship by CSIR-UGC (NET) India in June 2008, and then worked as a Lecturer for two years and as a R & D chemist for a year in Industry.
Santosh is a follow of Higher Education Academy United Kingdom and a chair of the SHARE network within Supergen Bioenergy Hub. He is also a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Santosh research expertise has been internationally recognised. He has been invited to talk at the conferences/workshops/seminars/webinars. He is also an active reviewer of many highly reputed journals including Nature Scientific Reports, Applied Catalysis B, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Materials, PCCP and ChemComm (ResearchID).
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Kumar S, Regue M, Isaacs M, et al., 2020, All-Inorganic CsPbBr3 nanocrystals: gram-scale mechanochemical synthesis and selective photocatalytic CO2 reduction to methane, Acs Applied Energy Materials, Vol:3, ISSN:2574-0962, Pages:4509-4522
Sharma N, Das T, Kumar S, et al., 2019, Photocatalytic Activation and Reduction of CO<sub>2</sub> to CH<sub>4</sub> over Single Phase Nano Cu<sub>3</sub>SnS<sub>4</sub>: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study, Acs Applied Energy Materials, Vol:2, ISSN:2574-0962, Pages:5677-5685
Poli I, Hintermair U, Regue M, et al., 2019, Graphite-protected CsPbBr3 perovskite photoanodes functionalised with water oxidation catalyst for oxygen evolution in water, Nature Communications, Vol:10, ISSN:2041-1723, Pages:1-10
Bhosale R, Jain S, Vinod CP, et al., 2019, Direct Z-Scheme g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>/FeWO<sub>4</sub> Nanocomposite for Enhanced and Selective Photocatalytic CO<sub>2</sub> Reduction under Visible Light, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol:11, ISSN:1944-8244, Pages:6174-6183
Tonda S, Kumar S, Bhardwaj M, et al., 2018, g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>/NiAl-LDH 2D/2D Hybrid Heterojunction for High-Performance Photocatalytic Reduction of CO<sub>2</sub> into Renewable Fuels, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol:10, ISSN:1944-8244, Pages:2667-2678
Kumar S, Durndell LJ, Manayil JC, et al., 2018, Delaminated CoAl-Layered Double Hydroxide@TiO<sub>2</sub> Heterojunction Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Reduction of CO<sub>2</sub>, Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, Vol:35, ISSN:0934-0866
Kumar S, Isaacs MA, Trofimovaite R, et al., 2017, P25@CoAl layered double hydroxide heterojunction nanocomposites for CO<sub>2</sub> photocatalytic reduction, Applied Catalysis B - Environmental, Vol:209, ISSN:0926-3373, Pages:394-404
Kumar S, Parlett CMA, Isaacs MA, et al., 2016, Facile synthesis of hierarchical Cu<sub>2</sub>O nanocubes as visible light photocatalysts, Applied Catalysis B - Environmental, Vol:189, ISSN:0926-3373, Pages:226-232
Kumar S, Baruah A, Tonda S, et al., 2014, Cost-effective and eco-friendly synthesis of novel and stable N-doped ZnO/g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub> core-shell nanoplates with excellent visible-light responsive photocatalysis, Nanoscale, Vol:6, ISSN:2040-3364, Pages:4830-4842
Kumar S, Surendar T, Kumar B, et al., 2013, Synthesis of Magnetically Separable and Recyclable g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>-Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> Hybrid Nanocomposites with Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance under Visible-Light Irradiation, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol:117, ISSN:1932-7447, Pages:26135-26143
Kumar S, Surendar T, Baruah A, et al., 2013, Synthesis of a novel and stable g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>-Ag<sub>3</sub>PO<sub>4</sub> hybrid nanocomposite photocatalyst and study of the photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol:1, ISSN:2050-7488, Pages:5333-5340
Chapters
Kumar S, Li W, Lee AF, 2019, Chapter 8: Nanocatalysts for CO<inf>2</inf> Conversion, RSC Catalysis Series, Pages:207-235, ISBN:9781788017237