Dr. MAHENDRA K. SUNKARA
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Interim Director, Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
EDUCATION
Ph. D., (1993) Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Thesis Advisors: Prof. John C. Angus and Prof. J. A. Mann, Jr.
Thesis Title: “Monte-Carlo Simulation of Diamond Nucleation and Growth”
M.S. (1988)
Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
Thesis Advisor: Prof. D-T Chin
Thesis Title: “Selective Pulse Plating of Gold and Tin-Lead Alloys”
B.Tech (1986) Chemical Engineering, Andhra University, Waltair, India
Secured first rank among the graduating class.
EMPLOYMENT
Director, Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research
Interim Director, Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research
Director, Institute for Advanced Materials and Renewable Energy
Professor, University of Louisville, Louisville
Associate Professor, University of Louisville, Louisville
Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, Louisville
Consultant, K-Systems Corp., Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton
Project Engineer, Faraday Technology, Inc., Dayton
Research Assistant, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Graduate Assistant, Clarkson University, Potsdam, N.Y.
Chemical Engineer, Hindustan Polymers Ltd., Waltair
Oct. 13 – Present
Oct ’09 - Present
Apr ’07 – Sept. ‘09
July ’06 - Present
July ’02 – July ‘06
August ‘96 - July’02
June ’96 - August ‘96
May '93 - June 96
Aug. 88 - May 93
Jan. 87 - Aug. 88
Aug. 86 - Dec. 86
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
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Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Advanced Energy Materials, LLC (2010- Present)
Director, Karuturi Global Ltd. (India, Kenya, Ethiopia) (2010- Present)
Founding Director, Chemener Batteries (Pvt) Ltd (2011 – Present)
Editorial board member, Nanotechnology (IOP journal) (Jan 2011 – Present)
Editorial board member, Journal of Nanoenergy and Power Research (2010-Present)
SCIENTIFIC AND HONOR SOCIETIES
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Local Chapter President, Sigma Xi, 2007-2009.
Member, Materials Research Society (MRS), 1999-Present
Member, Electrochemical Society (ECS), 1993 - Present
Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), 1992 - Present
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Member, American Society of Metals (ASM), 1996 –
Member, National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), 1993 - 1996
Member, American Vacuum Society (AVS), 2000 – 2004
Listed in International Who’s Who in Professionals, 1999.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
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Best student award during sophomore and junior years. (1984,1985)
Best paper award at Undergraduate Chemical Engineers’ Conference. (1986)
National Merit Scholar, India. (1982-1986)
NSF CAREER Award, (1999).
Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award in Engineering, ORAU. (1999).
Finalist, Alumni Research Scholar, Speed Scientific School, (2000), (2006).
Top 25 Young Guns in Louisville, Louisville Magazine, (2002).
Nominee for the UofL’s Distinguished Faculty Award, (2007).
University’s Distinguished Faculty Award in Research and Scholarship, 2009
United Phosphorus Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award, CHEMCON 2009, Indian
Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), 2009.
University Scholar, U of L, 2010-2013.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
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“Electrochemical Techniques”, 5-day workshop, U. of Virginia, Charlottsville, VA, 1995.
“Thin Films” Workshop at San Jose, CA organized by Materials Research Society, 1999.
PERSONAL: Married, two daughters
CURRENT RESEARCH GROUP
Ph.D. Students: Alejandro Garcia Martinez, Swathi Sunkara, Maria Carreon, Tu Nguyen, Harry
Russell, Dustin Cummins, Venkat Vendra.
Undergradute Students:
AWARDS FOR MENTORED STUDENTS
E.L. Clark, Goldwater Scholarship (2011)
B.D.Chernomordik, Goldwater Scholarship, Tau Beta Pi Fellowship (2009); NSF Graduate
Fellowship (2009)
B.D. Chernomordik, Outstanding M.Eng Student, Student Commencement Speaker, U. of
Louisville (2009)
Santoshrupa Dumpala, 2nd Prize, AICHE NSEF Poster Competition 2007, Best Paper,
Nanotechnology symposium @ Sullivan University.
Jyothish Thangala, Honorable Mention, MIT’s Energy Nanotechnology Intl conference (2006).
B.D. Chernomordik, Barry Goldwater Scholarship (2006)
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Gopinath Bhimarasetti, 2nd prize, Nanoscale Science and Technology Poster Competition,
AICHE Annual Meeting, Fall 2004.
Gopinath Bhimarasetti, Best Poster, Tristate Catalysis Society Meeting, 2003.
Sally Eaton, John Krawczyk, Timothey Learn and R. Lowe (KY Space Grant Fellowships)
Kevin Krogman, Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Fellowship.
Randall Lowe, Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Fellowship.
Trevor Powers (Christian Academy), First Prize, Engineering,Intel Science Fair, Portland
(2004)
Suhail Malhotra (Manual Student), Fourth place winner, Intel Science Fair, Pheonix (2005).
Santoshrupa Dumpala, Best Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012 (Houchens Prize, U of L)
Vivekanand Kumar, Best Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011 (Houchens Prize, U of L)
Thad Druffel, Guy Stevenson Award (outstanding graduate student), U. of Louisville (2009)
Gopinath Bhimarasetti, Best Ph.D. Dissertation, 2005 (Houchens Prize, UofL)
Shashank Sharma, Best Ph.D. Dissertation, 2003 (Houchens Prize, U of L)
COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES
 Provided monetary help to hometown (Potharlanka, Guntur District, India) to construct a
completely new building for upper primary school.
 Gave many lectures in many engineering colleges during visits to India over last fifteen
years.
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ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS 1
Course Materials and Laboratory Development Activities:
(a) A multi-instructor taught course on “Renewable Energy Challenges”: Developed a multidisciplinary, multi-instructor taught, graduate elective course during summer semester that is
focused on the science of various renewable energy conversion and storage technologies.
Students developed renewable energy exhibits for K-12 students as part of this course and/or
designed and developed solar cars.
(b) A course on “Chemical Vapor Deposition”: Developed a graduate level course on CVD that
includes four main computational exercises on thermodynamics, plasma chemistry, transport
and crystal growth modeling using commercial packages -CHEMKIN III, CFDRC and
SAMPR. CHEMKIN III is licensed from Reaction Design, Inc. SAMPR is licensed from
NASA Ames Research Center. CFDRC is a commercial package licensed from CFDRC, Inc.
The exercises using CHEMKIN III are based on our own research results, i.e., diamond
deposition prediction based on radical species. The exercises using CFDRC and SAMPR
dwell on the reaction kinetics and transport phenomena in plasma reactors. In addition, our
research using kMC simulations are used as illustrations for teaching concepts on surface
chemistry during crystal growth.
(c)A graduate level laboratory course on “Materials Characterization –II”: The lecture and
laboratory curriculum for fifth year (Meng) and graduate students is developed using the UHV
Surface Science Facility and the multi-user materials characterization facilities.
(d) An undergraduate course on “Computer Applications in Chemical Engineering”:
Introduced Spreadsheet Programming using EXCEL and VB as tools) for solving chemical
engineering problems involving algebraic, differential, and partial differential equations.
(e) Multi-user/Multi-Investigator Research Facilities: Using several grants from NSF (EPS
0083103, ECS 9724371, ECS 0216347, ECS 9724371) as a PI or as a co-PI, established multiuser core facilities at U of Louisville necessary for performing research on advanced materials
and nanotechnology. These facilities can be characterized as three new major facilities for
University of Louisville: (a) in-Vacuo surface science research facility (XPS, UPS, LEED,
AES, SPM) and a TEM sample preparation facility (Sunkara as PI). (b) 3-D Nanoimaging
Facility (Cohn as PI): a Park M/5 AFM and a Wyko 2000 white light interferometer, and
complimented with a JEOL 5310 Scanning Electron Microscope and (c) Nanomanipulation
Facility (Cohn as PI). These core facilities serve several faculty (>10), post-doctoral associates
(>5) and students (>40) from various academic and industrial organizations.
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(f) Institute for Advanced Materials and Renewable Energy: Established board of trustees
approved Institute for Advanced Materials and Renewable Energy (IAM-RE) by acquiring
several state of the art instrumentation such as Energy Filtered Field Emission TEM, X-ray
Diffractometer (XRD), etc. and collocating several other instrumentation in to Lutz
009/010/022. In addition, an energy conversion and storage device testing facility is
established in Ernst 306/307.
(g) Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research: Led the development of facilities, space,
recruitment of personnel to build the center for renewable energy research (over 10,000 sq.ft
of new facilities). The Conn Center replaces IAM-RE and expands the focus on renewable
energy research.
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PATENTS
1. M. Menon, M. Sheetz, M.K. Sunkara, C. Pendyala, J. Jasinski and S. Sunkara,
“Photoelectrochemical cell including Ga(Sb)xN1-x semiconductor”, US Patent Application
13/630875, 9/28/2012.
2. M.K. Sunkara and F. Petzold, “Catalyst Compositions and Methods for Desulfurization”, US
Provisional Patent Application 61671384, 7/13/2012.
3. M.K. Sunkara, V. Kumar, J-H. Kim and E.L. Clark, “Methods for Synthesizing Metal Oxide
Nanowires”, US Patent Application 13/183,191, Filed 7/14/2011.
4. M.K. Sunkara, H. Chandrasekaran, and H. Li, “Growth of textured gallium nitride thin films
and nanowires on polycrystalline substrates”, US Patent 7, 819, 974, October 26, 2010.
5. M.K. Sunkara, H. Chandrasekaran, and H. Li, “Bulk synthesis of metal and metal based
dielectric nanowires”, US Patent 7,771,689, August 10, 2010.
6. M.K. Sunkara, S. Sharma, H. Chandrasekaran, H. Li, and S. Vaddiraju, “Synthesis of fibers of
inorganic materials using low-melting metals”, US Patent 7, 713, 352, May 11, 2010.
7. M.K. Sunkara, P. Meduri and G.U. Sumanasekera, “High capacity anode materials for Li Ion
batteries”, US Provisional Patent Application 61/141,502, December 2008.
8. M.K. Sunkara, J-H. Kim and V. Kumar, “A new process and a new reactor for bulk production
of metal oxide nanowires”, US Patent Application 12248731, October 2008 (Provisional Patent
Application 60/978,673 on October 2007).
9. M.K. Sunkara, M. Mozetic, U. Celbar, and S. Vaddiraju, “A method for rapid synthesis of
metal oxide nanowires at low temperatures”, US Patent 7,591,897, September 22, 2009.
10. M.K. Sunkara, S. Vaddiraju, B. Deb and J. Thangala, “Vapor phase synthesis of metal and
metal oxide nanowires”, US Patent Application 20070087470, April 19, 2007
11. M.K. Sunkara and G. Bhimarasetti, “Tubular Carbon Nano/Micro Structures and Method of
Making the Same”, US Utility Patent 7,597,941, September 9, 2009.
12. M.K. Sunkara, S. Dumpala, R.C. Mani, R.D. Lowe, G.U. Sumanasekera, and R.P. Baldwin,
“Conical Carbon Nanopipettes: Methods of Making and Applications”, US Patent Application
12176632, 21 July 2008.
13. M.K. Sunkara, S. Sharma, H. Chandrasekaran, H. Li, S. Vaddiraju, “Synthesis of fibers of
inorganic materials using low-melting metals”, US Patent Application 20070095276, May 3,
2007.
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14. T. Druffel, X. Sun, K. Krogman, M.K. Sunkara, M.C. Lattis, J.T. Foreman, O.M. Buazza, L.C.
Lossman, G. Powers, “Lens forming systems and methods”, US Patent Application
20060065989, March 30, 2006.
15. H. Chandrasekaran, H. Li and M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Synthesis of Metal and Metal Based
Dielectric Nanowires”, U.S. Provisional Patent Application 20040132275, July 8, 2004.
16. M.K. Sunkara, S. Sharma, B.H. Davis and U.M. Graham, “ Formation of metal oxie nanowire
networks (nanowebs) of low-melting metals” , US Patent 7,445,671 November 4, 2008
17. M.K. Sunkara, H. Chandrasekaran and H. Li, “Growth of textured gallium nitride thin films on
polycrystalline substrates”, US Patent 7,238,232, July 3, 2007.
18. S. Sharma and M.K. Sunkara, “Direct synthesis of oxide nanostructures of low melting
metals”, US Patent 7,182,812, February 27, 2007.
19. M.K. Sunkara and S. Sharma, “Low temperature synthesis of semiconductor fibers”, US
Patent 7,241,432, July 10, 2007.
20. M.K. Sunkara and S. Sharma, “Low temperature synthesis of silicon fibers”, US Patent
7,252,811, August 7, 2007.
21. S. Sharma and M.K. Sunkara, “Low Temperature Synthesis Route for Semiconductor Fibers”,
US Patent 6,806,228, October 19, 2004.
22. M. Ueno and M.K. Sunkara, “Method of synthesizing metal doped diamond-like carbon films”,
U.S. Patent No. 6,669,996, Issued December 30, 2003.
23. M. K. Sunkara, “Sealing Ring with Electrochemical Sensing Electrode”, U.S. Patent No.
5,865,971, March, 1999.
24. E.J. Taylor, C-D. Zhou, R.P. Renz, and M.K. Sunkara, “Electrolytic Unit for Recovery of
Heavy Metals”, U.S. Patent No. 5, 599, 437, Feb.4, 1997.
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EXTERNAL GRANTS
1.
“Nanoscale Materials and Architectures for Solar Energy Conversion”, E. Grulke (Leader),
M.K. Sunkara (co-Leader), B.J. Hinds, S. Rankin, M. Menon, G.U. Sumanasekera, R.W.
Cohn, B.Alphenaar, H. Rypkema, G.Willing, F. Zamborini, US Department of Energy,
$1.88M, 09/01/2011-8/30/2014.
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“SOLAR: New Materials Search for Solar Energy Conversion to Fuels”, M.K. Sunkara (PI),
K. Rajan, S. Datta, J. Jasinski and M.Menon, National Science Foundation, $1.1M,
09/15/2011-09/14/2014.
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“Novel Hydro Desulfurization Catalysts”, PI: M.K. Sunkara, KY Commercialization Fund,
$75K, 01/01/2012-4/30/2013.
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“Hematite nanowire array electrodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting”, PI- M.K.
Sunkara, KSGC fellowship support to Harry Russell, $30,000, 01/01/2012-12/31/2012.
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“A reactor and method for production of titania and related metal oxide nanowires”,
subcontract to Advanced Energy Materials, LLC (NSF SBIR Phase I), M.K. Sunkara (PI),
$38K, 01/01/2011-06/30/2011.
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“University of Louisville Research and Energy Independence”, DOE CDP, $2M, 08/01/201007/30/2012, M.K Sunkara (PI). This support was used for building equipment and personnel
infrastructure for Conn Center and expanding research efforts at UofL.
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“Technologies for commercializing biofuels, natural gas and carbon dioxide”, M.K. Sunkara
(PI) along with M. Carreon, E. Berson and P. Ratnasamy, KY DEDI, $250K, 08/01/201007/30/2012.
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“High capacity and durable electrode materials for next generation Li ion batteries”, M.K.
Sunkara (PI) along with G.U. Sumanasekera (co-PI), $225K, Clinical & Translational Science
Pilot Grant Program, Office of Vice President for Research, University of Louisville,
07/01/2010-06/30/2012.
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“A platform technology and reactor for bulk production of nanowires (NanowireX)”, M.K.
Sunkara (PI), $225K, University of Louisville Clinical & Translational Science Pilot Grant
Program, Office of Vice President for Research, University of Louisville, 07/01/201006/30/2012.
10. “A Reactor for Commercial Production of Metal Oxide Nanowires”, Kentucky
Commercialization Fund (KCF), $75,000, M.K. Sunkara (PI), 01/01/2010 – 12/31/2010.
11. “Li Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicle (EV) Applications”, Kentucky Renewable Energy
Consortium (KREC), $199,996, M.K. Sunkara (PI), G.U. Sumanasekera (co-PI),
10/01/2009-4/30/2011.
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12. “Development of a Solid Catalyst-Based Technology for Production of Biodiesel from Waste
Vegetable Oils”, Kentucky Renewable Energy Consortium (KREC), $200,000, M.K.
Sunkara (PI), P. Ratnasamy (co-PI), 10/01/2009-4/30/2011.
13. “Nanostructured Interfaces for Fusion Energy Systems”, DOE SBIR Phase I program, a
subcontract from Technova Corp., M.K. Sunkara (PI), $8K, 07/01/2008-03/31/2009.
14. “A closed loop regenerative energy and fuel system for space exploration”, M.K. Sunkara (PI),
Fellowship support to Boris Chernomordik and Harry B. Russell, $36K, NASA EPSCoR,
07/1/2008-4/30/2010.
15. “Nanoscale materials and architectures for solar energy conversion”, DOE-EPSCoR, Cluster
Leader, $1.95M from DOE and $0.51M from the state EPSCoR, 07/15/2007-03/14/2011.
16. “Photocatalysts for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Production”, $340K, co-PI (G. Willing – PI;
Kentucky Rural Energy Consortium/Department of Energy, 09/01/06-09/31/07.
17. “Self-assembled Coatings for Military Optical Coating Applications”, AFOSR, Co-PI (EGrulke – PI), $60K for UofL Sub (total -$299K), 11/01/05-10/31/08.
18. “Nanowire based photonics”, NASA JRI, $97K, 07/01/06-06/30/08.
19. “Synthesis of Inorganic Nanowires and Integration into Optical Sensing Applications”, NASA
JRI, PI, $37K, 04/15/05-04/14/06.
20. “Institute for Advanced Materials at University of Louisville”, $3.34M, Department of
Energy, P.I. (along with G. Sumanasekera, T.L. Starr, R.W. Cohn and G. Willing), 07/01/0506/31/06.
21. “Scaleable Technology for Hydrogen Production via Photoelectrochemical Splitting of
Water”, $102.5K, P.I., Western Kentucky Energy/Environment Consortium, 10/01/0412/31/05. (State Agency)
22. “Self-Oriented Crystal Growth of Gallium Nitride on Molten Gallium”, Kentucky Science &
Engineering Foundation (KSEF), P.I., $100K, 06/01/04-05/31/06. (State Agency)
23. “High Index Polymers Incorporating Nanoparticles”, P.I., Optical Dynamics Corp., $56K,
10/01/04-08/31/05. (Industry)
24. “Advanced Hydrogen Transport Membranes for Vision 21 Fossil Fuel Plants”, P.I.,
Subcontract from DOE/ELTRON/SUDCHEMIE, INC., $56K (total $80K with $24K of
cost share from UofL), 10/01/04-12/31/05. (Industry/Federal)
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25. “Nanowires with Built-in Heterojunctions”, P.I., Kentcuky Space Grant Consortium
(KSGC) Fellowship for Randall Lowe, $18,000, 09/01/04-07/31/05 and NASA Enhanced
Connections Program (NASA EPSCoR), $25,000, 09/01/04-07/31/05. (State Agency/Federal)
26. “Nanwire Technology for Space Missile Defense”, US Army SMDO, co-PI (R.W. Cohn – PI,
along with five other co-PIs), $7.3 M, 01/15/04-12/31/08. (Federal)
27. "Toward University/Industry Collaborative Research Center in Materials Nanotechnology",
KSTC, Research Collaboration Grant, P.I. (4 co-PIs), $40K, Aug 1, 2003 - July 30, 2005.
(State)
28. “Acquisition of a virtual presence surface-profiling microscope for nanomanipulation and
nanoassembly”, NSF, co-P.I., $153,553, 05/01/02-05/01/05 (with R.Cohn as PI).
29. REU Supplement to CAREER Grant on Nucleation and Growth of Covalent Solids, NSF,
P.I., $12K, 1/01/02-05/01/03.
30. “Nanocrystalline Diamond Films”, KSGC, $16,000, P.I., 09/01/02-08/15/03. Fellowship for
Timothy Learn.
31. “Co-operative Agreement between CAER and UoL regarding the in-vacuo research facility”,
CAER, University of Kentucky, $ 30K, 06/01/02 – 08/30/03.
32. “CORMIT: Corrosion Mitigation in Navy Pipe Flanges”, as a subcontractor to Navy’s
SBIR Phase II program, $57,500, 01/01/01-01/01/03. KBSI is the prime P.I.
33. “Co-operative Agreement between CAER and UoL regarding the in-vacuo research facility”,
P.I., CAER, University of Kentucky, $90K, 06/01/01-06/01/02.
34. “In-Vacuo Research Facility for Characterizing Materials, Processes and Nanostructures”,
P.I., (Co-PIs: R.W. Cohn, R. Miranda, E.C. Dickey and A. Dozier), NSF Non-renewable
Grant Program, $499,999 (plus $250,000 cash as match from the state of KY and U of L),
08/01/00 – 08/01/02.
35. “A Novel Processing Technique for Growing Bulk Gallium Nitride Ingots from Gallium
Melt”, P.I., $305,781 (plus UofL match-$171,386 including $50K for equipment), U.S.
AirForce, 04/01/00-03/30/03.
36. “Large Area Nanolithographic Fabrication of Photonic Components”, co-P.I. (R. Cohn – P.I.,
K.M. Walsh – co-PI), U.S. Army, $101,000, 05/15/00-05/15/03.
37. “Smart ICCP System for Monitoring and Mitigating Crevice Corrosion in Navy’s Pipe
Flanges”, P.I., Knowledge Based Systems, Inc (KBSI), College Station, TX, Mar 01, 2000 –
May 2000. $15,183. Subcontract to Phase I from Navy Carderack Division. (J. Muthusami –
P.I. for SBIR Phase I).
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38. “CAREER: Nucleation and Growth of Covalent Solids”, P.I., National Science Foundation,
CAREER Program, 06/01/99-06/01/03, $459,115 estimated [$285,000 from NSF with
$25,000 support from the State for the first year, $25,000 from UofL toward equipment,
$55,000 toward student tuition from U of L, $119,115 U of L in-kind support.
39. “Electron Cyclotron Resonance Chemical Vapor Deposition (ECRCVD) of Metal and
Nitrogen Doped Diamondlike Carbon Films”, P.I., ORAU – Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty
Award in Engineering for 1999, $10,000 (including $5000 match amount from U of L),
06/01/99-06/01/00.
40. “Synthesis and Tribological Characterization of Functionally Gradient Amorphous Carbon
Films”, P.I., KY-NASA EPSCoR Program, $25,000, 06/01/99-06/01/00. Extended for
another year with $19,171 from NASA-EPSCoR plus $19,171 match from UofL. 08/01/0005/31/00.
41. “Tungsten Doped Amorphous Carbon Films: Synthesis and Tribology Studies”, P.I., $25,000,
KY-NASA EPSCoR Program, 07/01/99-06/01/00.
42. “Novel Amorphous Carbon Films for Wear and Lubrication Related Space Applications”,
$33,254 (including U of L match: $18,286), P.I., Kentucky NASA EPSCoR Program, July
1, 1998 - July 1, 1999.
43. “Vapor Phase Methods for Growing Single Crystal Quality and N-type Doped Diamond
Films”, $20,300 (including U of L contribution: $7, 300), P.I., Kentucky Space Grant
Consortium (KSGC), July 1, 1998 - July 1, 1999.
44. “Diamond AFM Tips”, $2000, P.I., Topometrix Corporation, Feb. 1, 1998 - Mar. 31, 1998.
45. “Identification of Factors to Control the Corrosion of Tool Parts inside Packages”, Vermont
American, $2800, Nov. 15, 1998 – Jan. 15, 1999.
46. “Acquisition of Versatile Non-Contact Surface Profiling Microscopes for Characterizing
Microtopographic Surfaces”, NSF-MRI Program, $150,000 ($104,228 from U of L), Co-P.I.
(R. Cohn -P.I., co-PIs: P. Faguy, K. Pitts, J. Lumpp), Sept. 01, 97 - Sept. 01, 2000.
47. “In-Situ Removal of Heavy Metals from Vadose Zone Contaminated Soils Using Enhanced
Electrokinetics”, P.I., Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), SBIR Phase II, $225,000.
(Oct. 1, 1996 - Oct. 1, 1998). Faraday Technology, Inc., Non-transferrable funding to the
University.
48. “In-Situ Removal of Heavy Metals from Vadose Zone Contaminated Soils Using Enhanced
Electrokinetics”. P.I. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). SBIR Phase I award. Sept.
07, 1995 - March 7, 1996.
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49. “Corrosion Monitoring in Supercritical Water Media”. P.I., National Science Foundation,
SBIR Phase I award. $74, 649, Feb. 02, 1995 - March 31, 1996.
50. “Optimization and Characterization of Thin Polymeric Coatings Used on the In-Mold Labels
Using EIS”, P.I., Kimberly Clark Corp. for $10,000. Jan. 1, 1995 - Nov. 1, 1995.
51. “Advanced Coatings for Rebars”, P.I., Research grant, Federal Highway Administration
(Department of Transportation). $75,000. Aug. 15, 1994 - Aug. 15, 1995.
INTERNALLY FUNDED
1. “Direct Synthesis of Nanowires with Built-in Interfaces”, $20,000, P.I., Competitive
Enhancement Grant (CEG), University of Louisville Research Foundation,Inc., Aug. 1, 2002 –
July 31, 2003.
2. “Processing and Modeling of Novel Amorphous Materials”, $15,000, P.I., Competitive
Enhancement Grant (CEG), University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., July 1, 1998 July 1, 1999.
3. “Novel Metallization and Deposition Schemes for Diamond Films Grown from the Vapor
Phase”, P.I., $4,000, Research Initiation Grant (RIG), June 1, 1997 - June 1, 1998.
4. “Hot-Filament Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition of Advanced Materials”, $2500, P.I.,
Undergraduate Research Grant (URG), January 1, 1998 - December 31, 1998.
5. Minigrant for Faculty Development, $750, April 1997.
GIFTS TOWARD RESEARCH EFFORT
1. AMPLytel Division, $25,000, Two RFCVD reactors (used). (2000).
2. A HFCVD reactor donated by Prof.E.Gulari, University of Michigan (2002).
3. Cash + Equipment Gift - $90,000 from Linde Gases toward boron chemical vapor
deposition, Pending (2012)
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PUBLICATIONS
(H-Index: 28; Citations > 2900; over 95 journal publications; five appeared on covers of
prestigious journals; 1 book); IF = Impact factor of the journal as of Jan 2013; #cit = # of
citations of the published article as of Jan 2013.
BOOK: “Inorganic Nanowires: Applications, Properties and Characterization” by M.
Meyyappan and M.K. Sunkara, CRC Press, ISBN: 978-1-4200-6782-8 (2009).
1. S. Sunkara, V.K. Vendra, J.B. Jasinski, T. Deutsch, A.N. Andriotis, K. Rajan and M.K.
Sunkara, “New Visible Light Absorbing Materials for Solar Fuels, Ga(Sbx)N1-x”, Accepted,
Adv. Mater. (2013).
2. A. Martinez-Garcia, V.K. Vendra, S. Sunkara, P. Haldankar, J. Jasinski, and M.K. Sunkara,
“Tungsten oxide coated copper oxide nanowire arrays for enhanced activity and durability
with photoelectrochemical water splitting”, J. Mater. Chem. A.,1 (48), 15235 - 15241, (2013).
3. V. Vendra, T.Q. Nguyen, T. Druffel, D. Amos and M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire architectures for
iodide free dye-sensitized solar cells”, Revision submitted, J. Mater. Chem. A (2013).
4. T.Q. Nguyen, A.K. Thapa, V.K. Vendra, J.B. Jasinski, G.U. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara,
“ High rate capacity retention of binder free, tin oxide nanowire arrays using thin titania and
alumina coatings”, In press, RSC Adv., (2013).
5. P. Dey, J. Bible, S. Datta, S. Broderick, J. Jasinski, M.K. Sunkara, M. Menon, and K. Rajan,
"Informatics aided band gap engineering for solar materials", Accepted, J. Comp. Mater. Sci.,
(2013).
6. S. Kolli, C. S. Pendyala, M.K. Sunkara, J.B. Jasinski, and B.A. Alphenaar, “Thermally
activated luminescence in InN nanowires”, J. Luminiscence, 141, 162-165 (2013). IF = 2.1;
#cit = N/A.
7. D. R. Cummins, H. B. Russell, J. Jasinski, and M.K. Sunkara, Single Crystal Pyrite Nanowires
and Nanotubes Using Sulfurization of Hematite Nanowires, Nano Lett., 13 (6), 2423-2430
(2013). IF = 13.2; #cit = N/A
8. A. Sherehiy, S. Dumpala, A. Safir, D. Mudd, I. Arnold, R.W. Cohn, M. K. Sunkara, G.U.
Sumanasekera, “Thermionic emission properties and the work function determination of arrays
of conical carbon nanotubes”, Dia. and Relat. Mater., 34, 1-8 (2013). IF = 1.9; #cit = N/A
9. S. Sunkara, V. K. Vendra, J-H. Kim, T. Druffel, and M. K. Sunkara “Scalable synthesis and
photoelectrochemical properties of copper oxide nanowire arrays and films”, Catalysis Today,
199, 27-35 (2013). IF = 3.4; #cit = N/A
10. A. K. Thapa, T.-H. Shin, S. Ida, G. U. Sumanasekera, M. K. Sunkara, T. Ishihara, “Gold-
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Palladium nanoparticles supported by mesoporous β-MnO2 air electrode for rechargeable LiAir battery”, J. Power Sources 220, 211-216 (2012). IF = 4.95; #cit = 0
11. U. Cvelbar and M.K. Sunkara, “Chapter 5: Large Scale Plasma Assisted Growth of
Nanowires”, pp109-146, Book on Plasma Processing of Nanomaterials edited by R.M.
Sankaran, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (2012).
12. F. Petzold, J. Jasinski, E.L. Clark, J-H. Kim, J. Absher, H. Toufar, and M.K. Sunkara, “Ni
supported on ZnO nanowires as advanced hydrodesulfurization catalyst”, Catalysis Today, 198,
219-227 (2012). IF = 4.95; #cit = 0
13. U. Cvelbar, Z. Chen, I. Levchenko, R. M. Sheetz, J.B. Jasinski, M. Menon, M. K. Sunkara, K.
Ostrikov, “Sub-oxide-to-metallic, uniformly-nanoporous crystalline nanowires by plasma
oxidation and electron reduction”. Chem. Comm. 48, 11070-11072 (2012). IF = 6.2; #cit = 0
14. V.K. Vendra, J. Absher, S.R. Ellis, D. Amos, T.L. Druffel, and M.K. Sunkara, “Photoanode
area dependent efficiency, and recombination effects in dye-sensitized solar cells”, J. of the
Electrochem. Soc., 159(8), H728-H733 (2012). IF = 2.6; #cit = 0
15. P. Meduri, E.L. Clark, J-H. Kim, E. Dayalan, G.U. Sumanasekera, and M.K. Sunkara,“MoO3-x
nanowire arrays as stable and high capacity anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries”, Nano Lett.,
12(4), 1784-1788 (2012). IF = 13.2; #cit = 2
16. C. Pendyala, J. B. Jasinski, J. H. Kim, V. K. Vendra, S. Lisenkov, M. Menon and M. K.
Sunkara, “Nanowires as semi-rigid substrates for growth of thick, InxGa1-xN (x>0.4) epi-layers
without phase segregation for photoelectrochemical water splitting”, Nanoscale, 4, 6269-6275
(2012). IF = 5.9; #cit = 0
17. R. LaPierre and M. Sunkara, “Nanowire for energy”, editorial, Nanotechnology, 23 (19),
190201 (2012). IF = 3.98; #cit = 1
18. B. Chernomordik, H. B. Russell, U. Cvelbar, J. B. Jasinski, V. Kumar, T. Deutsch, and M. K.
Sunkara, “Photoelectrochemical activity of as-synthesized, -Fe2O3 nanowire array electrodes
for water splitting”, Nanotechnology, 23 (19), 194009 (2012). IF = 3.98; #cit = 1
19. Z. Chen, D. Cummins, E.L. Clark, B. Reinecke, M.K. Sunkara, and T.F. Jaramillo, “Coreshell MoO3-MoS2 Nanowires for Hydrogen Evolution: A Functional Design for
Electrocatalytic Materials”, Nano Lett., 11 (10), 4168–4175 (2011). IF = 13.2; #cit = 15
20. L. Brockway, C. Pendyala, M.K. Sunkara, and S. Vaddiraju, “ A post-synthesis decomposition
strategy for Group III nitride quantum wires”, Crystal Growth and Design, 11 (10), 4559-4564
(2011). IF = 4.72; #cit = 0.
21. V. Kumar, J-H. Kim, J.B. Jasinski, E.L. Clark, and M.K. Sunkara, “Alkali assisted,
atmospheric plasma production titania nanowire powders and arrays”, Crystal Growth and
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Design, 11 (7), 2913 (2011). IF = 4.72; #cit = 2
22. P. Meduri, E.L. Clark, E. Dayalan, G.U. Sumanasekera, and M.K. Sunkara, “Kinetically
limited de-lithiation behavior of nanoscale tin covered tin oxide nanowires”, Energy and
Environ. Science, 4, 1695 (2011). IF = 9.61; #cit = 6
23. M K Sunkara, C Pendyala, D Cummins, P Meduri, J. Jasinski, V Kumar, H B Russell, E L
Clark, and J H Kim, “Inorganic nanowires: a perspective about their role in energy conversion
and storage applications”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 44 (17), 174032 (2011). IF = 2.54; #cit = 4
24. J.B. Jasinksi, S. Dumpala, G.U. Sumanasekera, M.K. Sunkara, and P.J. Ouseph,
“Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of Moire Patterns of Few Layer Graphene”, Appl.
Phys. Lett., 99, 073104 (2011). IF = 3.84; #cit = 2
25. S. Dumpala, J.B. Jasinksi, G.U. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara, “Synthesis of Conical
Carbon Nanotube Arrays: Mechanistic Aspects and Growth on Foil Substrates”, Carbon, 49(8),
2725-2734 (2011). IF = 5.38; #cit = 2.
26. R.M. Sheetz, E. Richter, A.N. Andriotis, C. Pendyala, M.K. Sunkara and M. Menon, “Visible
light absorption and large band gap bowing in dilute alloys of gallium nitride with antimony”,
Phys. Rev. B., 84, 075304 (2011). IF = 3.7; #cit = 1
27. K. Ostrikov, I. Levchenko, U. Cvelbar, M.K. Sunkara and M. Mozetic, “From nucleation to
nanowires: a single step process”, Nanoscale, 2, 2012 (2010). IF = 5.9; #cit = 49.
28. C. Pendyala, S. Vaddiraju, J-H. Kim, J. Jasinksi, Z.Q. Chen and M.K. Sunkara, “Self
nucleation and growth of Group III-antimonide nanowires”, Semicond. Sci. and Technol., 25,
024014 (2010). IF = 1.72; #cit = 1
29. P. Meduri, J.H. Kim, H.B. Russell, J. Jasinksi, G.U. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara, "Thin
Walled Carbon Microtubes as High Capacity and High Rate Anodes in Lithium Ion Batteries",
J. Phys. Chem. C., 114, 10621 (2010). IF = 4.8; #cit = 7
30. B. Deb, V. Kumar, T. L. Druffel, and M.K. Sunkara, “Functionalizing titania nanoparticle
surfaces in a fluidized bed plasma reactor”, Nanotechnology, 20, 465701 (2009). IF = 3.98;
#cit = 1
31. Z. Chen, T. F. Jaramillo, T. G. Deutsch, A. Kleiman-Shwarsctein, A. J. Forman, N. Gaillard,
R. Garland, K. Takanabe, C. Heske, M. Sunkara, E. W. McFarland, K. Domen, E. L. Miller, J.
A. Turner, H. N. Dinh, “Accelerating materials development for photoelectrochemical (PEC)
hydrogen production: Standards for methods, definitions, and reporting protocols”, J. Mater.
Res., 25, No. 1, 3-16 (2010). IF = 1.43; #cit = 80.
16
32. V. Chakrapani, J. Thangala, and M. K. Sunkara, "WO3 and W2N Nanowire Arrays for
Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production," Intl. J. Hydrogen Energy, 34, 9050-9059 (2009).
IF = 4.05; #cit = 37
33. S. Gubbala, H. B. Russell, H. Shah, B. Deb, J. Jasinski, H. Rypkema, M. K. Sunkara, “Surface
properties of SnO2 nanowires for enhanced performance with dye-sensitized solar cells”,
Energy Environ. Science, 2, 1302-1309 (2009). IF = 9.61; #cit = 18.
34. S. Dumpala, A. Safir, D. Mudd, R.W. Cohn, M.K. Sunkara and G.U. Sumanasekera, “Field
Emission Characteristics of Conical Carbon Nanotube Arrays”, Diamond and Related
Materials, 18, 1262-1266 (2009). IF = 1.91; #cit = 7
35. U. Cvelbar, K. Ostrikov, I. Levchenko, M. Mozetic, and M. K. Sunkara, “Control of
morphology and nucleation density of iron oxide nanostructures by electric conditions on iron
surfaces exposed to reactive oxygen plasmas”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 94, 211502 (2009). IF = 3.84;
#cit = 25.
36. J. Thangala, Z. Chen, A. Chin, C-Z. Ning and M. K. Sunkara, “Phase Transformation Studies
of Metal Oxide Nanowires”, Crystal Growth & Design, 9, 3177 (2009). IF = 4.72; #cit = 7.
37. J. Thangala, S. Vaddiraju, S. Malhotra, V. Chakrapani and M.K. Sunkara, “ A hot-wire
chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) method for metal oxide and their alloy nanowire arrays”,
Thin Solid Films, 517, 3600-3605 (2009). IF = 1.89; #cit = 3.
38. P. Meduri, V. Kumar, C. Pendyala, G.U. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara, “Hybrid Tin
Oxide Nanowires as Stable and High Capacity Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries”, Nano Lett.,
9(2), 612 (2009). IF = 13.2; #cit = 87.
39. S. Kona, J-H. Kim, C. K. Harnett, and M.K. Sunkara, “Carbon nanotube growth studies using
an atmospheric, microplasma reactor”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 8, 286 (2009).
IF = 2.3; #cit = 2.
40. J-H. Kim, V. Kumar, B. Chernomordik, and M.K. Sunkara, “Design of an efficient microwave
plasma reactor for bulk production of inorganic nanowires”, Informacije MIDEM-J. of
Microelectronics Electronic Components and Materials, 38 (4),237 (2008). IF <1; #cit = 5
41. V. Kumar, J-H. Kim, C. Pendyala, B. Chernomordik, and M.K. Sunkara, “Gas-Phase, Bulk
Production of Metal Oxide Nanowires and Nanoparticles Using a Microwave Plasma Jet
Reactor”, J. Phys. Chem. C., 112, 46, 17750-17754 (2008). IF = 4.81; #cit = 16
42. V. Chakrapani, C. Pendyala, K. Kash, A. Anderson, M.K. Sunkara, and J.C. Angus,
“Electrochemical pinning of the Fermi level: mediation of photoluminescence from gallium
nitride and zinc oxide.”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130(39), 12944-12952 (2008). IF = 9.91; #cit =
13
17
43. U. Cvelbar, Z. Chen, M.K. Sunkara, M. Mozetic, “Spontaneous growth of superstructure αFe2O3 nanowire and nanobelt arrays in reactive oxygen plasma”, Small , 4(10), 1610-1614
(2008). IF = 8.35; #cit =113
44. Z. Chen, U. Cvelbar, M. Mozetič, J. He, and M. K. Sunkara, “Long Range Ordering of
Oxygen Vacancy Planes in a-Fe2O3 Nanowires and Nanobelts”, Chem. of Mater., 20 (9), 32243228 (2008). IF = 7.3; #cit =60
45. S. Gubbala, V. Chakrapani, V. Kumar, and M. K. Sunkara, “Band-edge engineered hybrid
structures for dye sensitized solar cells based on SnO2 nanowires”, Adv. Funct. Mater., 18,
2411-2418 (2008). IF = 10.2; #cit = 110
46. B. Chernomordik, S. Dumpala, Z. Chen and M.K. Sunkara, “Nanodiamond tipped and coated
conical carbon structures”, Chemical Vapor Deposition, 14, 256 (2008). IF = 1.8 ; #cit =5
47. T. Druffel, N. Mandzy, M.K. Sunkara, and E. Grulke, “Polymer Nanocomposite Thin Film for
the Infra-red Region”, Small, 4, 459-461 (2008). IF = 8.35; #cit =13.
48. M. Kozan, J. Thangala, R. Bogale, M.P. Menguc and M.K. Sunkara, “In-situ characterization
of dispersion stability of WO3 nanoparticles and nanowires”, J. Nanopart. Res., 10 (4), 599-612
(2008). IF = 3.3 ; #cit =7
49. P. Meduri, G.U. Sumanasekera, Z. Chen and M.K. Sunkara, “Controlled synthesis and Raman
analysis of Ge-rich SixGe1-x alloy nanowires”, J. Nanosci. and Nanotech., 8(6), 3153–3157
(2008). IF = 1.563; #cit =1
50. H.H. Hassan, M.A. Amin, S. Gubbala and M.K. Sunkara, “Participation of the dissolved O-2
in the passive layer formation on Zn surface in neutral media”, Electrochimica Acta, 52 (24),
6929-6937 (2007). IF = 3.83; #cit =18
51. B. Deb, S. Desai, G.U. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara, “Gas sensing behaviour of mat-like
networked tungsten oxide nanowire thin films”, Nanotechnology, 18 (28), 285501 (2007). IF =
3.98 ; #cit = 26
52. A. H. Chin, T.S. Ahn, H. Li, S. Vaddiraju, C.L. Bardeen, C-Z. Ning and M.K. Sunkara,
“Photoluminiscence of GaN Nanowires of Difference Crystallographic Orientations”, Nano
Lett., 7(3), 626 - 631 (2007). IF =3.84 ; #cit =29
53. J. Thangala, S. Vaddiraju, R. Bogale, R. Thurman, T. Powers, B. Deb and M.K. Sunkara,
“Large Scale Synthesis of Tungsten Oxide and Related Transition Metal Oxide Nanowires”,
Small, 3 (5), 890-896 (2007). IF = 8.35; #cit = 48
54. S. Gubbala, J. Thangala and M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire Based Electrochromic Devices”, Solar
Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 91 (9), 813-820 (2007). IF =4.54 ; #cit =20
18
55. S. Vaddiraju, M.K. Sunkara, A.H. Chin, C.Z. Ning, G.R. Dholakia, M. Meyyappan,
“Synthesis of Group III Antimonide Nanowires”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 111 (20), 7339 -7347
(2007). IF =4.8 ; #cit =20
56. R. Jalilian, G.U. Sumanasekera, H. Chandrasekharan and M.K. Sunkara, “Phonon
confinement and laser heating effects in Germanium nanowires”, Phys. Rev. B, 74 (15), 155421
(2006). IF = 3.691; #cit = 22
57. H. Chandrasekaran, G.U. Sumanasekara and M.K. Sunkara, “Rationalization of Nanowire
Synthesis Using Low-Melting Point Metals”, J. Phys. Chem. B., 110 (37), 18351 – 18357
(2006). IF = 4.54; #cit = 23
58. A.H. Chin, S. Vaddiraju, A.V. Maslov, C.Z. Ning, M.K. Sunkara and M. Meyyappan, “Nearinfrared Semiconductor Subwavelength-wire Lasers”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 88 (16), 163115
(2006). IF = 3.84; #cit =33
59. R. Rao, H. Chandrasekaran, S. Gubbala, M.K. Sunkara, C. Doraio, S. Jin and A.M. Rao,
”Synthesis of low-melting metal oxide and sulfide nanowires and nanobelts”, J. of Electron.
Mater., 35 (5): 941-946 (2006). IF = ; #cit =12
60. R.D. Lowe, R.C. Mani, R.P. Baldwin and M.K. Sunkara, “Nanoelectrode ensembles using
carbon nanopipettes”, Electrochem. and Solid State Lett., 9 (6), H43-H47 (2006). IF = ; #cit =4
61. H. Li, A. Chin, and M.K. Sunkara, “Direction-Dependent Homoepitaxial Growth onto GaN
Nanowires”, Advanced Materials, 18, 216 (2006). (Featured Article). IF = 13.9 ; #cit =32
62. M.K. Sunkara, J. Thangala, S. Vaddiraju, R. Bogale, R. Thurman, B. Deb and T. Powers, “A
Scalable Method for the Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanowires”, ECS Trans., 3 (9), 97 (2006).
IF = ; #cit =
63. M.K. Sunkara, R. Makkena, H. Li and B. Alphenaar, “Direction Dependent Electrical and
Optical Properties of Gallium Nitride Nanowires”, ECS Trans., 3 (5) 421 (2006). IF = ; #cit =
64. S. Vaddiraju, A. Mohite, A. Chin, M. Meyyappan, G. Sumanasekera, B.W. Alphenaar, M.K.
Sunkara, “Mechanisms of 1D Crystal Growth in Reactive Vapor Transport: Indium Nitride
Nanowires” Nano Lett., 5, 1625-1631 (2005). IF = 13.2; #cit =105
65. M. Mozeti , U. Cvelbar, M. K. Sunkara, and S. Vaddiraju, “A Method for the Rapid Synthesis
of Large Quantities of Metal Oxide Nanowires at Low Temperatures”, Adv. Mater., 17, 2138
(2005). IF = 13.9; #cit = 117
66. G. Bhimarasetti and M.K. Sunkara, “Synthesis of sub-20-nm-sized bismuth 1-D structures
using gallium-bismuth systems, J. of Phys. Chem. B., 109(34), 16219-16222 (2005). IF = 3.7;
#cit = 12
19
67. K.C. Krogman, T. Druffel, and M.K. Sunkara, “Anti-reflective optical coatings incorporating
nanoparticles”, Nanotechnology, 16 (7), S338-343 (2005). IF = 3.97 ; #cit =40
68. G. Bhimarasetti, J.M. Cowley, and M.K. Sunkara, “Carbon microtubes: tuning internal
diameters andconical angles”, Nanotechnology, 16 (7), S362-S369 (2005). IF = 3.97; #cit =6
69. R.C. Mani, M.K. Sunkara, R.Baldwin, J.A. Chaney, G. Bhimarasetti, J.M. Cowley, A.M. Rao,
and R.Rao, “Electrochemical Sensing Using Nanocrystalline Graphite Electrode”, J.
Electrochem. Soc., 152 (4), E154-E159 (2005). IF = 2.59; #cit =12
70. S. Vaddiraju, S. Eaton-Magana, J.A. Chaney, and M.K. Sunkara, “UPS of boron-sulfur Codoped, n-type diamond”, Electrochem. and Solid State Lett., 7 (12), G331-G334 (2004). IF = ;
#cit =2
71. J.M. Cowley, R.C. Mani, M.K. Sunkara, M. O’Keefe, and C. Bonnea, “Structures of Carbon
Nanocrystals”, Chem. Mater., 16(24), 4905-4911 (2004). IF = 7.29; #cit = 13
72. S Sharma and M K Sunkara, “Direct Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Silicon Nanowires Using
Molten Gallium and Silane Plasma”, Nanotechnology, 15(1), 130-134 (2004). IF = 3.97; #cit
=55
73. M.K. Sunkara, S. Sharma, H. Chandrasekaran, M. Talbott, K. Krogman, and G. Bhimarasetti,
Invited Paper, “Bulk Synthesis of a-SixNyH and a-SixOy Straight and Coiled Nanowires”, J.
Mater. Chem., 2004, 14, 590-594 (2004). IF = 5.97 ; #cit =22
74. G. Bhimarasetti, M.K. Sunkara, U.M. Graham, B.H. Davis, C. Suh, and K. Rajan,
“Morphological Control of Tapered and Multi-junctioned Carbon Tubular Structures”,
Advanced Materials (Featured on front cover), 15 (19), 1629 (2003). IF = 13.9; #cit =23
75. U.M. Graham, S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, and B.H. Davis, “Nanoweb Formation: 2-D SelfAssembly of Semiconductor Gallium Oxide Nanowires”, Adv. Funct. Mater., (Featured on
front cover) 13 (7), 576-581 (2003). IF = 10.2; #cit = 24
76. G. Bhimarasetti and M.K. Sunkara, “Process Window for Diamond Deposition from the
Vapor Phase with Sulfur in the C-H-O Feed Gas Mixtures”, Thin Solid Films, 440(1-2), 78-86
(2003). IF = 1.89; #cit =3
77. S. Vaddiraju, H. Chandrasekaran, and M.K. Sunkara, “Vapor Phase Synthesis of Metallic
Tungsten Nanowires”, J Am. Chem. Soc., 125 (36): 10792 (2003). IF = 9.61; #cit =49
78. R.C. Mani, M.K. Sunkara, X.Li and K. Rajan, “Carbon Nanopipettes”, Nanoletters 3 (5): 671673 (2003). (Web pub date: April 1, 2003). IF = 13.2; #cit =52
79. R.C. Mani and M.K. Sunkara, “Kinetic faceting of multiply twinned diamond crystals during
vapor phase synthesis”, Diam. and Relat. Mater., 12 (3-7): 324-329 MAR-JUL (2003) IF =
20
1.91; #cit = 13
80. R. C. Mani, S. Sharma, M. K. Sunkara, J. Gullapalli, R. P. Baldwin, R. Rao, A. M. Rao, and J.
M. Cowley, “Synthesis and Electrochemical Characteristics of a Nanocomposite Diamond
Electrode”, Electrochem. and Solid-State Lett., 5 (6) E32-E35 (2002). IF = ; #cit =16
81. S. Sharma and M.K. Sunkara, “Direct Synthesis of Gallium Oxide Tubes, Nanowires, and
Nanopaintbrushes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124 (41), 12289 (2002). IF = 8.35; #cit =137
82. G.D. Lian, E.C. Dickey, M. Ueno, and M.K. Sunkara, “Ru-Doped Nanostructured Carbon
Films”, Diam. and Relat. Mater., 11, 1890-1896 (2002). IF = 1.91; #cit = 6
83. M.K. Sunkara, S. Sharma, E.C. Dickey and R. Miranda, “Bulk Synthesis of Silicon
Nanowires using Low Temperature Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Silicon Nanowires”, Appl.
Phys. Lett., 79(10), 1546-1549 (2001). IF =3.84 ; #cit = 169
84. S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, M. M. Crain, S.F. Lyuksyutov, S. K.M. Walsh, and R.W. Cohn,
“Selective Plasma Nitridation and Contrast Reversed Etching of Silicon”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol.
B., 19(5), 1743-1746 (2001). IF =1.34 ; #cit =3
85. S.C. Eaton, M.K. Sunkara, M. Ueno and K.M. Walsh, “Modeling the effect of oxygen on
diamond deposition from the vapor phase inside trenches”, Diam. and Relat. Mater., 10/12,
2212-2219 (2001). IF = 1.91 ; #cit =6
86. S.C. Eaton and M.K. Sunkara, “Construction of a New C-H-O Ternary Phase Diagram for
Diamond Deposition from the Vapor Phase”, Diam. and Relat. Mater. 9, 1320-1326 (2000). IF
=1.91 ; #cit = 16
87. P. Koduri, M. Sunkara, E.C. Dickey, C. Frasier, and S.V. Babu, Surface Engineering, 15 (5),
pp. 373-376 (1999). IF = ; #cit =3
88. M. K. Sunkara, H. ChandraSekaran and P. Koduri, “Electrochemical Studies of Metal-Doped
Diamondlike Carbon Films”, Invited Paper, New Diamond and Frontier Carbon Technology,
9(6), 407-415 (1999). IF = ; #cit =10
89. X. Fan, E.C. Dickey, S.P. Pennycook, and M.K. Sunkara, “Z-contrast imaging and EELS
analysis of chromium doped diamond-like carbon films”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 75 (18), pp. 27402742 (1999). IF =3.84 ; #cit =26
90. C.V. Srividya, M. Sunkara, and S.V. Babu, “ Resistance of Plasma-Deposited aC:H/Fluorocarbon Films to Anodic Breakdown in Aqueous Electrolytes”, J. of Mater. Res.,
12, 2099 - 2103 (1997). IF = 1.43 ; #cit = 7
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91. C.V. Srividya, M. Sunkara, and S.V. Babu, “Corrosion Protection Ability of Plasma
Deposited a-C:H and Fluorocarbon Films”, J. of Mater. Eng. and Perf., 6, 586 - 590 (1997). IF
= ; #cit =4
92. W. R.Lambrecht, C. H. Lee, B. Segall, J. C. Angus, Z. Li and M. Sunkara,"Diamond
Nucleation by Hydrogenation of Prism Surfaces of Graphite", 12 August, Nature, Vol. 364,
p607 (1993). IF =36.3 ; #cit =207
93. J.C. Angus, A. Argoitia, R. Gat, Z. Li, M. Sunkara, L. Wang, and Y. Wang, "Chemical
Vapor Deposition of Diamond", Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. A 342, 195-208 (1993). IF =2.77 ;
#cit =81
94. J.C. Angus, M. Sunkara, S.R. Sahaida, and J.T. Glass, "Twinning and Faceting in Early stages
of Diamond Growth by Chemical Vapor Deposition", J. Mater. Res. 7, 3001 (1992). IF = 1.34;
#cit =64
95. J.C. Angus, Y. Wang, and M. Sunkara, "Metastable Growth of Diamond and Diamondlike
Phases", Ann. Rev. Mater. Sci. 21, 221-48 (1991). IF =13.07 ; #cit = 102
96. M. Sunkara, J.C. Angus, C.C. Hayman, and F. Buck, "Nucleation of Diamond Crystals",
Carbon 28, 765-766 (1990). IF =5.4 ; #cit =16
97. J.C. Angus, F.A. Buck, M. Sunkara, T.F. Groth, C.C. Hayman, and R. Gat, "Diamond Growth
at Low Pressures", MRS Bulletin XIV 38-47, October (1989). IF = 4.95; #cit =56
98. D-T. Chin, and M. Sunkara, "Selective Pulse Plating of Gold and Tin-Lead Solder", Plat. and
Surf. Fin. 78, 57 (1991). IF = ; #cit =3
99. D-T. Chin, N.R.K. Vilambi, and M. Sunkara, "Current Distribution in Selective Pulse
Plating", Plat. and Surf. Fin. 76, 74 (1989). IF = ; #cit =10
Book Chapters
100. Chapter 22: “Carbon Microtubes and Conical Carbon Nanotubes”,by S. Dumpala, G.
Bhimarasetti, S. Gubbala, P. Meduri, S. Kona and M.K. Sunkara, in the Book entitled “Smart
Materials” edited by Mel Schwartz, ISBN: 978-1-4200-4372-3, Published by CRC Press/Taylor
& Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL (2008).
101. An invited review chapter on “ Synthesis of Inorganic Nanowires and Nanotubes” by S.
Sharma, H. Li, H. Chandrasekaran, R.C. Mani and M.K. Sunkara, in the Encyclopedia of
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol 10, 327-346, Edited by H.S. Nalwa, American
Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, CA (2004).
102. A chapter on “Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond” in the book entitled “Thin Film
Diamond”, edited by A. Lettington and J.W. Steeds, Published by Chapman and Hall, New
York, 1994.
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Refereed Proceedings
103. M.K. Sunkara, H. Li, and A.H. Chin, “Direction Dependent Homoepitaxial Growth and
Bandgap of GaN Nanowires”, Proc. SPIE, vol. 6121, Paper No. 61210I, “Gallium Nitride
Materials and Devices”, Editors: C.W. Litton, J.G. Grote, H. Morkoc, A. Madhukar, Published
by the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Bellingham WA, February, 2006.
104. H. Li, H. Chandrasekaran, M. K Sunkara, R. Collazo, Z. Sitar, M. Stukowski, K. Rajan, SelfOriented Growth of GaN Films on Molten Gallium, MRS Symposium Proceedings 831,
E11.34, 2005.
105. M. K. Sunkara, S. Vaddiraju, G. Bhimarasetti, H. Chandrasekaran, H. Li, R. Bogale, T.
Powers, R. Thurman, “Chemical design of inorganic nanowires, nanotubes and nanowire
networks”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5593: Nanosensing: Materials and Devices, M. Saif Islam, Achyut
K. Dutta; Eds. p. 173-184, Published by SPIE, USA (Dec 2004)
106. R. C. Mani, G. Bhimarasetti, R. Lowe, and M. K. Sunkara, “Carbon nanopipettes and
microtubes for electrochemical sensing and microfluidics”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5593:
Nanosensing: Materials and Devices, M. Saif Islam, Achyut K. Dutta; Eds. p. 123-134,
Published by SPIE, USA (Dec 2004).
107. H. Li, H. Chandrasekaran, M. K. Sunkara, M. Stukowski, and K. Rajan, “Self Oriented
Growth of GaN Films on Molten Gallium”, Proceedings of the 206th Electrochemical Society
Meeting to be held Honolulu, HI, (2004).
108. G. Bhimarasetti and M. K. Sunkara, “Controlled Growth and Networking of Tapered Carbon
Tube Morphologies”, NATO-ASI Nanoengineered and Nanofibrous Materials Proceedings,
Antalya, Turkey, (September 1-11 2003), Edited by S. Guceri, V. Kuznetsov, Y. Gogotsi,
Kluwer Press, Dordrecht, NL (May 2004).
109. R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara, and R. P. Baldwin, “Carbon Nanopipettes: Synthesis and
Electrochemical properties”, NATO-ASI Nanoengineered and Nanofibrous Materials
Proceedings, Antalya, Turkey, (Sep. 1-11 2003), Edited by S. Guceri, V. Kuznetsov, Y.
Gogotsi, Kluwer Press, Dordrecht, NL (May 2004).
110. M. K. Sunkara, S. Vaddiraju, and G. Bhimarasetti, “Bulk synthesis strategies for inorganic
nanowires and nanotubes”, in Role of Chemical Engineering in Processing of Minerals and
Materials, Ed: J.N. Mohanty, S.K. Biswal, S.R. Reddy, P.V.N. Misra, Allied Publishers, New
Delhi, India, 134-144 (Dec. 2003).
111. J. Xie, M. K Sunkara, A. Ibragimov, R. Mayer, K. V. Akella, P. Koola, R. Bardsley, "Crevice
Corrosion Mitigation Using Impressed Currents", Proceedings of the Tri-Service Corrosion
Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, November 17 - 21, 2003, pp 198-209, Published by
Navmar Applied Science Corp., Chester, PA, (Nov. 2003).
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112. G. Bhimarasetti, M. K. Sunkara, U. M. Graham, B. H. Davis, C. Suh and K. Rajan,
“Controlled growth of novel carbon tubular structures with built-in junctions”, 220C,
Proceedings of the 2003 AICHE annual meeting, San Francisco, USA (Nov. 2003).
113. R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara and R. P. Baldwin, “Carbon Nanopipettes: Electrochemical
Sensors for neurological fluids”, Proceedings of the 2003 AICHE annual meeting, Paper 198f,
San Francisco, USA (Nov. 2003).
114. G. Bhimarasetti, R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara, K. Rajan, X. Li, “Novel Carbon Nanostructures:
Nanopipettes and Nanonozzles”, Proceedings of the Seventh Applied Diamond
Conference/Third Frontier Carbon Technology Joint Conference (ADC/FCT 2003), Editors:
M. Murakawa, K. Miyoshi, Y. Koga, L. Schaefer, Y. Tzeng, Y. Report Number: NASA/CP003-212319/SUPPL1 E-13906-1/SUPPL1 NAS 1.55:212319/SUPPL1, Published by NASA
Glenn Research Center, OH, Paper A 15, (August 2003).
115. H. Li, H. Chandrasekaran, and M. K. Sunkara, “Growth of Oriented Gallium Nitride Films on
Amorphous Substrates by Self-Assembly”, MRS Symposium Proceedings, Vol 743, L3.11,
(2003).
116. H. Li and M. K. Sunkara, “Self-oriented Growth of Gallium Nitride Films on Amorphous
Substrates”, Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Non-Stoichiometric III-V Compounds held
at Asilomer Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, Published by Physik Mikrostrukturierter
Halbleiter, Vol 27, p 105, Edited by P. Specht, T. R. Weatherford, P. Kiesel, T. Marek, S.
Malzer, 105, Published at Erlange, Germany (2002)
117. S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, and E.C. Dickey, “Direct Synthesis of Silicon Nanowires using
Silane and Molten Gallium”, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Vol 737, F6.2.1 (2002).
118. S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, U.M. Graham, and B.H. Davis, “Nucleation and Growth of
Gallium Oxide Tubes, Nanopaintbrushes and Nanowires from Molten Gallium”, Mat. Res.
Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 755, DD9.4.1 (2002).
119. S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, G.D. Lian, and E.C. Dickey, “Bulk Synthesis of Silicon Nanowires
from Molten Gallium using Silane Gas Phase Precursors”, Proc. AIChE Fall Meeting, pp. 16
(2002).
120. H. Chandrasekaran and M. K Sunkara, "Growth of Gallium Nitride Textured Films and
Nonowires on Polycrystalline Substrates at sub-stmospheric Pressures", MRS Symp. Proc. Vol.
693, pg 159-164 "GaN and related alloys-2001", Editors J. E. Northrup, J. Neugebauer, D. C
Look, S. F Chichibu, H. Riechert, published by the Materials Research Society, PA (2002).
121. M.K. Sunkara, M. Ueno, G. Lian and E.C. Dickey, “Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
of Ruthenium Doped Diamondlike Carbon Films”, proceedings of the sixth Applied Diamond
Conference/Second Frontier Carbon Technology joint conference held at Auburn University,
Auburn, AL., Y. Tzeng, K. Miyoshi, M. Yoshikawa, M. Murakawa, Y. Koga, K. Kobashi, and
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G.A.J. Amaratunga, editors, published by NASA Glen Research Center, NASA/CP – 2001210948, Hanover, MD., pp 466- 472 (2001).
122. S. Sharma, M. K. Sunkara, R. Miranda, G. Lian and E. C. Dickey, “A Novel Low
Temperature Synthesis Method for Semiconductor Nanowires”, MRS Proccedings Volume
676: Synthesis, Functional Properties and Applications of Nanostructures, Edited by H. W.
Hahn, D. L. Feldheim, C. P. Kubiak, R. Tannenbaum, R. W. Siegel, Materials Research
Society publications, PA., Y 1.6 (2001).
123. S.C. Eaton and M.K. Sunkara, “Examination of Hexagonal Platelet Diamond Growth by
Atomic Force Microscopy”, Diamond Materials VI: the Electrochemical Society Proceedings
Volume 99-32, Editors: J. L. Davidson, W.D. Brown, A. Gicquel, B.V. Spitsyn and J.C.
Angus, Published by the Electrochemical Society, Pennington, NJ, pp103-109 (1999).
124. M.K. Sunkara, P. Koduri, E.C. Dickey and X. Fan, “Behavior of Redox Reactions on MetalDoped Diamondlike Carbon Films”, Diamond Materials VI: the Electrochemical Society
Proceedings Volume 99-32, Editors: J. L. Davidson, W.D. Brown, A. Gicquel, B.V. Spitsyn
and J.C. Angus, Published by the Electrochemical Society, Pennington, NJ, pp 448- 457
(1999).
125. R. A. Stroud, M. Bensing, M. K. Sunkara, and M.M. David, “Nucleation of Diamond from the
Vapor Phase on to Dielectric Substrates”, Proceedings of 12th Intl. Symp. On Surface
Modification Technologies, edited by T.S. Sudarshan, K.A. Khor and M. Jeandin, pp 351-356,
Inst. of Materials and American Society of Metals (ASM), London, U.K. (1998).
126. P. Koduri, M. Sunkara, E.C. Dickey, C. Frasier, S.V. Babu, “Structural and Electrochemical
Characterization of Metal-Doped Diamondlike (Me-DLC) Films”, Proceedings of 12th Intl.
Symp. On Surface Modification Technologies, edited by T.S. Sudarshan, K.A. Khor, and M.
Jeandin, Inst. of Materials and American Society of Metals (ASM), pp 357-364, London, U.K.
(1998).
127. M. Sunkara, E. Yeap, S.V. Babu, V.G. Ralchenko, B.N. Pypkin, and B.L. Shubekin,
“Electrochemical Behavior of Metal-Doped Diamondlike Carbon (Me-DLC) Films”, in
Electrochemical Society Proceedings Volume 97-32: Diamond Materials V., J.L. Davidson et.
al., ed., Published by the Electrochemical Society, pp. 297 – 308, Pennington, NJ, (1997).
128. C. Srividya, M. Sunkara, and S.V. Babu, “Resistance of a-C:H and a-C:H,F films to anodic
dissolution in aqueous electrolytes”, in the Electrochemical Society Proceedings Volume 9732: Diamond Materials V., J.L. Davidson et. al., ed., Published by the Electrochemical
Society, pp. 324 – 339, Pennington, NJ (1997).
129. M. Sunkara, A.K. Rawat, P.J. Moran, R.A. Hays, and E.J. Taylor, “Detection Method for Sites
of Localized Corrosion Applicable to Pipe Lines”, the Proceedings of the Electrochemical
Society Symposium Series: “Critical Factors in Localized Corrosion II”, Edited by P.M.
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Natishan, R.G. Kelly, G.S. Frankel, and R.C. Newman. Pages 413-424. Published by the
Electrochemical Society, Pennington, NJ., (1996).
130. M. Sunkara, A.K. Rawat, and P.J. Moran, “Corrosion Monitoring in Supercritical Water
Media”, in “New Techniques for Characterizing Corrosion and Stress Corrosion”, Edited by
R.H. Jones and D.R. Baer. Pages 305-315. Published by the Materials, Minerals, and Metals
Society, Warrendale, PA. (1996).
131. C.-D. Zhou, E.J. Taylor, R.P. Renz, and M.K. Sunkara, “Electrolytic Metal Recovery With a
Packed-Bed Cathode”, Proceedings of AESF Sur/Fin’94, Indianapolis, June 17-24, (1994).
132. J. C. Angus, Z. Li, M. Sunkara, C. Lee, W.R.L. Lambrecht, and B. Segall, in “Diamond
Materials”, Proceedings Volume 93-17, edited by K. E. Spear, J. P. Dismukes, K. V. Ravi, B.
Lux, and N. Setaka, Electrochemical Society, Pennington, N.J. (1993).
133. J. C. Angus, Z. Li, M. Sunkara, Y. Wang, C. Lee, W. R.L. Lambrecht and B. Segall,
"Nucleation and Growth in the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond," pp. 159-68,
Proceedings Second International Conference on the Applications of Diamond Films and
Related Materials, Omiya, Saitama, Japan, August 25-27, 1993.
134. J. C. Angus, Z. Li, M. Sunkara, C. Lee, W. R.L. Lambrecht, B. Segall, "Diamond
Nucleation," in Diamond Materials, Proc. Vol. 93-17, p. 128, Electrochemical Society,
Pennington, N.J., 1993.
135. J. C. Angus, R. Gat, Z. Li, M. Sunkara, S. Mehandru, A. B. Anderson and M. W. Geis,
"Nucleation and Growth Processes in Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond,"Proceedings
Vol. 91-8, pp 125-41, Electrochem. Soc., Pennington, N.J., 1991.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
1. M. Sunkara, Syed Karim, and E.J. Taylor “In-Situ Remediation of Vadose Zone Soils
Contaminated with Heavy Metals Using Enhanced Electrokinetics”, Final Report, SBIR
Phase I Contract #68D50109, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Research Triangle
Park, NC, 1996.
2. M. Sunkara, “Advanced Coatings for Rebars”, Final Report, R&D Grant No. DTFH61-94-X00022, Department of Transportation (DoT), McLean, VA, 1995.
3. M. Sunkara, “Corrosion Monitoring in Supercritical Water Media”, Final Report, SBIR
Phase I program, National Science Foundation, Grant No. DMI-9460194, Arlington, VA,
1995.
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4. M. Sunkara, E.J. Taylor, and P.J. Moran, "Remote Sensing of Crevice Corrosion", Final
Report, ONR Contract No. N00013-93-C, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, 1993.
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INVITED PRESENTATIONS
1. S. Sunkara, M. Menon, J.B. Jasinski, T. Deutsch, K. Rajan, and M.K. Sunkara, ‘New
Semiconductor Alloys, GaSbxN1-X for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting: Computations and
Experiments”, 223 Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Toronto, Canada, May 11-16 (2013)
2.
M.K. Sunkara, “Gallium Nitride Alloys and Nanowire Architetcures for Solar Fuels”, First
Symposium on Solar Fuels, 222nd Meeting of the Fall Meeting of the Electrochemical Society,
Honolulu, HI, October 9 (2012).
3.
M.K. Sunkara, “Scalable Production of Nanowire Based Materials and their Use in Energy
Conversion and Storage”, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, August 28 (2012).
4.
M.K. Sunkara and M. Menon, “Nanoscale Materials and Architectures for Energy Conversion
and Storage”, Poster Presentation, PIs Meeting, Materials Chemistry Program, US Department
of Energy, Annapolis, MD, July 15-18 (2012).
5.
M.K. Sunkara, “Semiconductor Nanowires for Solar Fuels”, Invited Talk, 221st Meeting of the
Electrochemical Society, Seattle, WA, May 6-11 (2012).
6.
M.K. Sunkara, “Manufacturing R&D for Renewable Energy Sector @ Conn Center”, Invited
Talk, Annual Meeting of Kentucky Association of Manufacturers, Louisville, KY, June 12 (2012).
7.
M.K. Sunkara, Invited Talk, “Scalable Manufacturing of Nanowire Based Materials for Energy
Conversion and Storage, First International Conference on Advanced Materials, Science and
Engineering (ICAMSE), Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 1-4 (2012).
8.
M.K. Sunkara, “Scalable production of nanowire arrays and powders using plasmas”, Third
International Symposium on Plasma Nanosciene (iPlasmaNano-III), Pulai Desaru Beach Resort,
Johor, Malaysia, March 1, (2012).
9.
M.K. Sunkara, Plenary Talk, “Semiconductor Nanowires for Solar Fuels”, International
Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN), IIT Guwahati, Dec
(2011)
10.
M.K. Sunkara, Invited talk, “The role of inorganic nanowires for energy conversion and storage
applications”, Electrochemical Society Spring Meeting, Montreal, May (2011)
11.
M.K. Sunkara, Invited talk, “Hetero-epitaxial growth of ternary nitride alloys on gallium nitride
nanowire substrates”, Nanowires 2011 workshop, Lesvos, Greece, June (2011)
12.
M. K. Sunkara, J. H. Kim, E. L. Clark, V. Kumar, J. Absher, Invited Talk, “Nanowire Based
Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries and Their Scalable Manufacturing”, Annual meeting of
NATBATT, Louisville, KY, October (2011).
13.
M.K. Sunkara, “Alkali Metal Assisted Plasma Oxidation for Metal Oxide Nanowires”, Keynote
Speaker, Plasma Nanoscience II, Murramarang Resort, NSW, Australia, December 12-15, 2010.
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14.
M.K. Sunkara, C. Pendyala, J.B. Jasinksi, J-H. Kim, D.R. Cummins, H.B. Russell, “New
materials search using nanowires for solar hydrogen”, Invited Paper, Solar Nanotechnology
Symposium, SPIE Photonics West, San Diego, CA, August 3-6, 2010.
15.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire Based Materials for Solar Electricity, Solar Hydrogen and Li Ion
batteries, Colloqium Speaker, Physics Department, IIT Bombay, July 9 (2010).
16.
M.K. Sunkara, C. Pendyala, D. Cummins, B. Chernomordik, V. Kumar, H. Russell, V.
Chakrapani and J. Thangala, “Materials Search for Solar Hydrogen Using Nanowires”, Invited
Presentation, ECS Spring Meeting, April 25-30, Vancouver, Canada (2010).
17.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire Based Materials for Solar Electricity, Solar Hydrogen and Li Ion
batteries, Colloqium Speaker, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice
University, February 4 (2010), Houston, TX.
18.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire Based Materials for Solar Electricity, Solar Hydrogen and Li Ion
batteries”, CHEMCON Distinguished speaker, December 27-30, 2009, IICHE annual meeting,
Visakhapatnam, A.P., India.
19.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire based materials for solar cells and Li Ion batteries”, Symposium on
Chemical Applications of Nanomaterials, FACSS (Federation of Analytical Chemistry and
Spectroscopy Societies) Conference, October 18-22, Louisville, KY. 2009.
20.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nitride based materials and nanowire based assemblies for photolysis of
water”, Solar Nanotechnology Symposium, SPIE Conference, San Diego, CA, August 17, 2009.
21.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire based materials for solar energy conversion and energy storage
applications”, Department of Chemical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO.,
April 2009.
22.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire based materials for solar cells and batteries”, IIT Madras, Chemical
Engineering, December 12, 2008.
23.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire based materials for solar energy conversion and storage
applications”, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Nevada-Reno,
NV, October 6, 2008.
24.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire Based Hybrid Structures for Solar Cells and Batteries”, Plenary
Lecture, MIDEM Conference, Fiesa, Slovenia, 17-19 September 2008.
25.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Conversion and Storage Challenges”,
Professor GJVJ Raju Endowment Lecture organized by the A.P. Akademi of Sciences,
Visakhapatnam, A.P., India, January 1, 2008.
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26.
M.K. Sunkara, “Current Status and Future Directions in Nanotechnology R&D”, Invited
Lecture, CHEMCON 2007, Annual Meeting of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers,
Kolkata, Dec 27-30, 2007.
27.
M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Production and Modification of Inorganic Nanowires for Solar Energy
Conversion Applications”, Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, OH, November 15, 2007.
28.
M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Production and Modification of Inorganic Nanowires for Solar Energy
Conversion Applications”, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University,
College Station, PA, October 18, 2007.
29.
M.K. Sunkara, “Inorganic Nanowires: Novel Synthesis Approaches and Applications”, 2006
MRS Fall Meeting, November 27 - December 1, 2006, Boston, MA, USA.
30.
M.K. Sunkara, S. Vaddiraju, J. Thangala, S. Gubbala, B. Deb, S. Desai and G. Sumanasekera, A
Scalable Method for the Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanowires, Invited Presentation, 210th ECS
meeting, Cancun, Mexico October 29, 2006 - November 3, 2006.
31.
M.K. Sunkara, “Inorganic Nanowires and Carbon Microtubes: New Synthesis Approaches And
Applications”, NANO-2006, Eighth International Conference On Nanostructured Materials,
August 20-25, 2006, IISc Bangalore, India.
32.
M.K. Sunkara, “Inorganic Nanowires: Novel Synthesis Approaches and Applications:, NASA
Ames Research Center, March (2006).
33.
M.K. Sunkara, H.Li, and A. Chin, Oral Invited Presentation, “Direction-dependent Homoepitaxial Growth of GaN Nanowires”, Photonics West, SPIE Conference, San Jose, Jan (2006).
34.
M.K. Sunkara, Invited Talk, “Nanowires versus Nanoparticles”, ICCES, Madras, India, Dec 16 (2005)
35.
M.K. Sunkara, Invited Talk, “Energy Nanotechnology”, KMSA Conference, Elizabethtown,
KY, October (2005).
36.
M.K. Sunkara, “Controlled Synthesis of Inorganic Nanowire, Nanowire Networks and Carbon
Microtubes”, Invited Talk, ICON 2005, First Symposium on 1-Dimensional Materials, Taipei,
Taiwan, Jan 8-15, 2005.
37.
M.K. Sunkara, “Inorganic Nanowires and Carbon Microtubes”, Invited Lecture, Indo-US Joint
Chemical Engineers Conference to be held Mumbai, India, Dec. 27-29, 2004.
38.
M.K. Sunkara, “New Process Concepts for Inorganic Nanowires and Novel Carbon Tubular
Structures”, Invited Talk, Department of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam,
NY, November (2005).
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39.
M.K. Sunkara, “New Process Concepts for Inorganic Nanowires and Novel Carbon Tubular
Structures”, Invited, the Nanoscale Engineering Seminar Series, University of Kentucky,
November 4, 2004.
40.
M.K. Sunkara, “Chemical Design of Inorganic Nanowires, Nanotubes and Nanowire Networks”,
Invited Paper, Optics East, SPIE Conference to be held in Philadelphia, PA, 25-28 Oct. 2004.
41.
R.C. Mani, G. Bhimarasetti, and M.K. Sunkara, “Carbon Nanopipettes and Micropipes for
Electrochemical Sensing and Microfluidics”, Invited Paper, Optics East, SPIE Conference to be
held in Philadelphia, PA, 25-28 Oct. 2004.
42.
M.K. Sunkara, “Materials Nanotechnology – A Chemical Engineer’s Perspective”, Invited
Lecture, May 12, 2004, Joint Meeting of ACS and AIChE local chapters, Louisville, KY.
43.
M.K. Sunkara, “Buk Synthesis of Inorganic Nanowires, Nanotubes and Nanowire Networks”,
Invited Keynote Lecture, Particles 2004, Orlando, March 2004.
44.
M.K. Sunkara, “Chemical Design of Nanostructures”, Invited Presentation, TMS Annual
Meeting, Charlotte, NC, March 2004.
45.
M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Synthesis of Inorganic Nanowires, Nanotubes and Nanowire Networks”,
Invited Lecture, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, India, December 2003.
46.
M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Synthesis Strategies for Inorganic Nanowires, Nanotubes and Nanowire
Networks”, Invited Presentation, CHEMCON 2003, Annual Meeting of Indian Institute of
Chemical Engineers held in Bhubaneswar, India, December 2003.
47.
M.K. Sunkara, “Carbon Micro- and Nano-Pipettes: Drug Delivery and Neurological Sensing”,
Invited Presentation, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, Nov. 2003.
48.
M.K. Sunkara, “Paradigm Shift in Bulk Synthesis of Inorganic Nanowires and Nanotubes”,
Invited Presentation, Flexilec Workshop, Max-Planck Institute (MPI-Halle), June 2-4, 2003,
Halle, Germany.
49.
M.K. Sunkara, “Nanopipettes: Synthesis and Applications in Opthmology”, Invited
Presentation, Opthmology and Visual Sciences, University of Louisville, KY, May 2003.
50.
M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Synthesis of Nanostructures”, Invited Presentation, SMEC 2003, March
24-27, Miami, Florida.
51.
M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Synthesis of Inorganic Nanostructures”, Invited Presentation, National
Conference on Nanostructured Materials, IIT Delhi, Dec 5-6, 2002, India.
52.
M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Synthesis of Inorganic Nanowires”, Invited Presentation, Department of
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Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, SC, March 2002.
53.
M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanowires”, CAMP Seminar, Clarkson
University, Potsdam, NY, Summer 2001.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Speakers are indicated in bold)
1.
S. Sunkara, V. Vendra, J. Jasinski, M. Menon, T. Deutsch, K. Rajan, M. K. Sunkara, “New
Semiconductor Alloys, GaSbxN1-x for Photo-electrochemical Water Splitting: Computations
and Experiments”, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 1-5 (2013).
2.
H. B. Russell; U. Cvelbar; J. Jasinski; T. Deutsch; M. Sunkara, Plasma Oxidation of Iron Foils
to Synthesize Hematite Nanowire Arrays for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Z2.10,
Oral, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 1-5 (2013).
3.
A. Martinez-Garcia; M. K. Sunkara,. Hot-wire CVD of CuWO4 Films for Photoelectrochemical
Water Splitting, S12.35, Poster Presentation,
MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA,
April 1-5 (2013).
4.
A. M. Garcia; S. Kolli; J. B. Jasinski; B. Alphenaar; T. Deutsch; M. K. Sunkara,
Photoelectrochemical Characterization of InxGa1-xN Alloys Grown on GaN Nanowire
Substrates Z4.04, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 1-5 (2013).
5.
H. B. Russell, U. Cvelbar, J. B. Jasinski, T. G. Deutsch and M.K. Sunkara,
“Photoelectrochemical Activity of Hematite Nanowire Arrays Synthesized Using Plasmas for
Poster presentation in Renewable Energy and Fuels, 222nd meeting of the Electrochemical
Society, Oct. 7-12,2012,Honolulu,Hawaii
6.
V. Vendra, A. Thapa, S. Sunkara, T. Nguyen and M.K. Sunkara, “Production of Manganese
Oxide Nanowire Powders and Their Characterization for Li Ion Batteries and Capacitors for
cathodes III in Lithium –Ion batteries,222nd meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Oct. 712,2012,Honolulu,Hawaii
7.
A.K. Thapa, T. Nguyen, V. Vendra, G. Sumanasekara and M.K. Sunkara, “Large Scale
Production of Titanate and Tin Oxide Nanowire Powders and Arrays for Anodes in Lithium
Ion Batteries, 222nd meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Oct. 7-12,2012, Honolulu, Hawaii
8.
V. Vendra, T. Nguyen, D. Amos, T. Druffel and M. Sunkara, “Tin Oxide Nanowires and Their
Hybrid Architectures for Kinetically Fast Redox Couples in Dye-Sensitzed Solar Cells in Dye
Sensitized Solar Cells I, 222nd meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Oct. 7-12,2012,
Honolulu, Hawaii
9.
M.K. Sunkara, J. Kim, E. Clark and J. Absher, “Scalable Manufacturing of Metal Oxide
Nanowire Powders and Arrays in Thermal and Plasma CVD of Nanaowires and Thin Films,
221st meeting of the Electrochemical Society, May. 6-10,2012, Seattle, WA
10. S. Sunkara, J-H Kim, J. Jasinski, M.K. Sunkara, “Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition
of GaSbxN1-x Ternary Alloys and Their Characterization for Solar Fuels”, 2012 MRS Fall
Meeting, Symposium E; November 25-30, 2012; Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA.
(poster presentation)
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11. S. Dumpala, S.K. Suram, M.K. Sunkara and K. Rajan, “Specimen Preparation Procedure for
Free-standing Atom Probe Tips by Chemical Vapor Deposition”, 53rd International Field
Emission Symposium (IFES) 2012, May 21-25, 2012, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, AL
12. M. L. Carreon, J.B. Jasinksi and M. K. Sunkara. "Low temperature synthesis of silicon
nanowire arrays", 2012 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit. November 25-30, 2012, Boston, MA.
13. D. Cummins, H. Russell, J. Jasinski, M. Sunkara, "Transformation of Hematite Nanowires
into One-Dimensional Pyrite Nanostructures", 2012 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting,
Nov. 25-30, 2012, Boston, MA.
14. D. Cummins, H. Russell, J.Jasinski, and M. Sunkara, "Synthesis of Phase Pure Pyrite
Nanowires/Nanotubes for Solar Energy Applications", PRiME 2012, Oct 7-12, 2012,
Honolulu, HI.
15. J. Kim, P. Meduri, E. Clark, V. Vendra, J. Absher and M.K. Sunkara,
“Nanowire/Nanoparticle Hybrid Structures for Anodes in Lithium Ion Batteries, 220nd meeting
of the Electrochemical Society, Oct. 9-14, 2011, Boston, MA.
16. Z. Chen, D. R. Cummins, B. Reinecke, E. Clark, M. K. Sunkara and T. F. Jaramillo, “MoS2
Nanostructures As Efficient, Stable, and Earth-Abundant Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution In
Acid”, Oct. 17-24, Annual Meeting of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE),
2011.
17. V. K. Vendra, D. A. Amos, M. K. Sunkara and T. Druffel, “A Fundamental Investigation of
Electron Transport and Recombination Characteristics of Titania Nanowire/Nanoparticle
Hybrid Structures”, Oct. 17-24, Annual Meeting of American Institute of Chemical Engineers
(AICHE), 2011.
18. V. K. Vendra, J. Absher, S. Ellis, T. Druffel, D. A. Amos and M. K. Sunkara, “Photoanode
Area Dependent Efficiency and Recombination In Dye Sensitized Solar Cells”, Oct. 17-24,
Annual Meeting of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), 2011.
19. L. Brockway, C. Pendyala, M. K. Sunkara and S. Vaddiraju, “Post-Synthesis Decomposition
of III-Nitride Nanowires Into Quantum Wires”, Oct. 17-24, Annual Meeting of American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), 2011.
20. C. Pendyala, J. H. Kim, J. Jasinski and M. K. Sunkara, “Homo- and Hetero-Epitaxial Growth
On Nanowire Substrates”, Oct. 17-24, Annual Meeting of American Institute of Chemical
Engineers (AICHE), 2011.
21. C. Pendyala, J. Jasinksi, and M.K. Sunkara, “Growth mechanism and properties of ternary
InxGa1-xN alloys on GaN nanowires”, 2010 Fall Annual Meeting of AICHE, Salt Lake City,
UT, November 11-17 (2010).
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22. L. Brockway, C. Pendyala, M.K. Sunkara, and S. Vaddiraju, “A post-synthesis decomposition
strategy for Group-III nitride quantum wires”, 2010 Fall Annual Meeting of AICHE, Salt Lake
City, UT, November 11-17 (2010).
23. V. Kumar, J-H. Kim, J.B. Jasinksi, and M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk production of titania nanowires
in a plasma reactor”, 2010 Fall Annual Meeting of AICHE, Salt Lake City, UT, November 1117 (2010).
24. D.R. Cummins, J.B. Jasinksi, and M.K. Sunkara, “ Phase transformation of Iron
oxide nanowires to Iron sulfide”, 2010 Fall Annual Meeting of AICHE, Salt Lake City, UT,
November 11-17 (2010).
25. V. Kumar, J. Kim, and M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk production of metal oxide nanowires using an
atmospheric plasma reactor”, ECS Spring Meeting, April 25-30, Vancouver, Canada (2010).
26. C. Pendyala, S. Vaddiraju, J. H. Kim, J. B. Jasinski, Z. Chen and M. K. Sunkara,
"Controlling the Nucleation and Growth of III-V Semiconductor Nanowires", AIChE Annual
Meeting, November 8-13, 2009, Nashville, TN.
27. S. Dumpala, A. Safir, D. Mudd, R.W. Cohn, G. U. Sumanasekera and M. K. Sunkara,
"Conical Carbon Nanotube Arrays: Large Area Synthesis, Field Emission Characteristics”,
AIChE Annual Meeting, November 8-13, Nashville, TN.
28. V. Kumar, J. H. Kim, M. K. Sunkara, "Bulk Production of Metal Oxide Nanowires Using a
Novel Microwave Plasma Reactor", AIChE Annual Meeting, November 8-13, 2009,
Nashville, TN.
29. S. Gubbala, H. Russell, H. Shah,B. Deb, J. Jasinski, H. Rypkema, and M.K. Sunkara,
“Surface Properties of SnO2 Nanowires forEnhanced Performance with Dye-sensitized Solar
Cells”, 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Vienna, Austria, October 4-9, 2009.
30. P. Meduri, C. Pendyala, V. Kumar, G.U. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara, “Hybrid
nanostructured tin anodes for Li ion batteries”, 216th Electrochemical Society Meeting,
Vienna, Austria, October 4-9, 2009.
31. M.K. Sunkara, B. Chernomordik, V. Chakrapani, C. Pendyala, D. Cummins, J. Kim, P.
Meduri and J. Thangala, “Nitride based materials and nanowire based assemblies for
photolysis of water”, Gordon Conference on Solar Fuels, February 2-6, 2009, Ventura, CA.
32. P. Meduri, G.U. Sumanasekera, and M.K. Sunkara, “Hybrid Tin Oxide Nanowires as Stable
and High Capacity Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries”, Advanced Automotive Battery
Conference, June 8-12, 2009, Long Beach, CA.
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33. V. Kumar, J.H. Kim and M.K. Sunkara, “Gas Phase Production of Metal Oxide Nanowires
and Nanoparticles Using a Microwave Plasma Reactor”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November
2008, Philadelphia.
34. C. Pendyala and M.K. Sunkara, “Self-Catalysis Schemes for Group III-Antimonide
Nanowires: Antimony Versus Group III Metal”, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 2008,
Philadelphia. Also presented at Sullivan University Symposium in Oct. 2008.
35. S. Dumpala, D. Mudd, A. Safir, R.W. Cohn, G.U. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara,
“Conical Carbon Nanotube Arrays: Large Area Synthesis, Electrochemical and Field Emission
Characteristics”, AICHE Annual Meeting, November 2008, Philadelphia. Also presented at
Sullivan University symposium in Oct. 2008.
36. P. Meduri, G.U. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara, "Nanowire based hybrid materials as
anodes for lithium ion batteries", AIChE Annual Meeting, November 2008, Philadelphia.
37. B. Chernomordik, U.Cvelbar, M. Mozetic, V. Chakrapani and M.K. Sunkara, 2008 AIChE
Annual Meeting, "alpha-Fe2O3 Nanowire based electrodes for self-driven photoelectrochemical cells." Philadelphia, PA. Nov. 2008.
38. B. Chernomordik, U. Cvelbar, M. Mozetic, V. Chakrapani and M.K. Sunkara, 2008 Nano
Symposium, "alpha-Fe2O3 Nanowire based electrodes for self-driven photoelectrochemical
cells”, Sullivan University, Louisville, KY. Oct. 2008
39. B. Chernomordik, U. Cvelbar, M. Mozetic, V. Chakrapani and M.K. Sunkara, Poster
presentation, Efficient Conversion of Solar Energy to Electricity and Fuels Workshop 2008,
"alpha-Fe2O3 Nanowire based electrodes for self-driven photoelectrochemical cells." Boulder,
CO. Aug. 2008.
40. B. Chernomordik, U. Cvelbar, M. Mozetic, V. Chakrapani and M.K. Sunkara, Poster
presentation, Department of Energy EPSCoR Program Review, "alpha-Fe2O3 Nanowire based
electrodes for self-driven photoelectrochemical cells." Oak Ridge, TN. Jul. 2008.
41. V. Chakrapani, J. Thangala, Z. Chen, and M. K Sunkara, "Band Gap modification of oxide
nanowires for solar hydrogen production," AIChE annual meeting, Nov-16, 2008,
Philadelphia, PA.
42. S. Gubbala, V. Chakrapani, V. Kumar, H. A. Rypkema and M. K Sunkara, "Band-edge
engineered hybrid SnO2 nanowires electrodes for dye sensitized solar cells," AIChE annual
meeting, Nov-16, 2008, Philadelphia, PA.
43. V. Chakrapani, J. Thangala, and M. K. Sunkara, “WO3 and W2N nanowire arrays for
photoelectrochemical hydrogen production,” Poster presentation in Workshop on Efficient
Conversion of Solar Energy to Fuels, August 13-15, 2008, University of Colorado - Boulder.
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44. S. Gubbala, V. Chakrapani, V. Kumar, H. A. Rypkema and M. K Sunkara, "Band-edge
engineered hybrid SnO2 nanowires electrodes for dye sensitized solar cells," Poster
presentation in Workshop on Efficient Conversion of Solar Energy to Fuels, August 13-15,
2008, University of Colorado - Boulder.
45. V. Kumar, J. H. Kim, B. D. Chernomordik, and M. K. Sunkara, ” Bulk Production of Metal
Oxide Nanowires Using A Novel Microwave Plasma Reactor”, AICHE annual meeting, Salt
Lake City, UT, November 5-9, 2007.
46. S. Kona, C.K. Harnett and M.K. Sunkara, “Catalyst Aided Nanomaterial Growth in
Microreactor Chamber Under Extreme Conditions”, AICHE annual meeting, Salt Lake City,
UT, November 5-9, 2007.
47. P. Meduri, G.U. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowires as Anode Materials for
Lithium Ion Batteries”, AICHE annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 5-9, 2007.
48. S. Dumpala, B.D. Chernomordik, Z. Chen and M.K. Sunkara, “Nucleation and Growth Of
Diamond On Carbon Nanopipettes”, AICHE annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November
5-9, 2007
49. S. Gubbala, V. Kumar, U. Cvelbar and M.K. Sunkara, “Tin Oxide and Niobium Pentoxide
Nanowire Based Dye Sensitized Solar Cells”, AICHE annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT,
November 5-9, 2007
50. J. Thangala, C. Pendyala, Z. Chen, A. Chin, C-Z. Ning and M.K. Sunkara, “Synthesis of
Transition Metal Oxide and Ill-Antimonide Nanowires”, AICHE annual meeting, Salt Lake
City, UT, November 5-9, 2007.
51. P. Meduri, G. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire Based Anodes for Lithium Ion
Batteries”, 212th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Washington, DC, Oct. 7-12, 2007.
52. S. Dumpala, B. Chernomordik and M.K. Sunkara, “Diamond Nano-Tip Array Electrodes”,
212th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Washington, DC, Oct. 7-12, 2007.
53. M.K. Sunkara, S. Gubbala, V. Kumar, U. Cvelbar, M. Mozetic, J. Thangala and C. Pendyala,
“Nanowire Based Photoelectrochemical Systems for Energy Conversion”, 212th Meeting of
the Electrochemical Society, Washington, DC, Oct. 7-12, 2007.
54. M.K Sunkara, R. Dumpala and B. Chermomordik, “Nano Diamond Tip Array Electrodes”,
2006 MRS Fall Meeting, November 27 - December 1, 2006, Boston, MA, USA.
55. S. Gubbala, S. Vaddiraju, J. Thangala, B. Deb, R. Dumpala and M.K. Sunkara “Nanowire
based Dye Sensitized Solar cells and Electrochromic Devices”, Energy Nanotechnology
International conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA,
USA, June 26-28, 2006.
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56. J. Thangala, S. Vaddiraju, R. Bogale, R. Thurman, T. Powers, B. Deb and M. K. Sunkara,
“Large Scale Synthesis and dispersion behavior of Tungsten Oxide Nanowires”, Eastern
Regional Chemical and materials Engineering Graduate Symposium (ERCGS) 2006,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA, October 14, 2006.
57. S. Gubbala, S. Vaddiraju, J. Thangala, B. Deb, R. Dumpala and M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire
based Dye Sensitized Solar cells and Electrochromic Devices”, Eastern Regional Chemical
and materials Engineering Graduate Symposium (ERCGS) 2006, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY, USA, October 14, 2006.
58. M.K. Sunkara, R. Makkena, H. Li and B. Alphenaar, Direction Dependent Homo-Epitaxial
Growth and Properties of Gallium Nitride Nanowires, 210th ECS meeting, October 29November 3, 2006, Cancun, Mexico.
59. S. Gubbala, S. Vaddiraju, J. Thangala, B. Deb, M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire Based Dye
Sensitized Solar Cells and Electrochromic Devices”, AIChE 2006 Annual Meeting,
November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA
60. J. Thangala, M.K. Sunkara, C. Ratnasamy, “Sulfur Tolerance of Precious Metals Supported
on Ceria-Zirconia Catalyst Supports”, AIChE 2006 Annual Meeting, November 12-17, 2006,
San Francisco, CA, USA
61. P. Meduri, M.K. Sunkara and G.U. Sumanasekera, “Synthesis of Silicon-Germanium Alloy
Nanowires Using Vapor-Liquid-Solid Method, P AIChE 2006 Annual Meeting, November 1217, 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA
62. J. Thangala, M. K. Sunkara, C. Ratnasamy and J. P. Wagner, "Sulfur Tolerant Palladium
Copper Membrane System", 146j, Poster Presentation, 2005 AICHE Annual Meeting,
Cincinnati, USA (Oct 2005).
63. H. Chandrasekaran, A. Chin and M.K. Sunkara, “Nanowire synthesis using low-melting
metal melts”, Annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE),
Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 30-Nov. 4, 2005.
64. M.K. Sunkara, R. Mulpuri, and R.K. Ragade, “Kinetic Monte-Carlo Simulations of
Nanowire Growth”, Annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
(AIChE), Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 30-Nov. 4, 2005.
65. S. Vaddiraju, Cun-Zheng Ning, A. Chin, M. Meyyappan, M. K. Sunkara, “Mechanisms of
nucleation and growth of nanowires in self-catalysis schemes: Indium Nitride”, SPIE
Symposium on Optoelectronics (part of Photonics West), San Jose, CA, Jan. 21-26, 2006.
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66. S. Vaddiraju, Cun-Zheng Ning, M. Meyyappan, M. K. Sunkara, “Mechanisms of nucleation
and growth of nanowires in self-catalysis schemes: III-V compound semiconductors”, Fall
meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS), Boston, MA, Nov. 28- Dec. 2, 2005.
67. S. Vaddiraju, M. Meyyappan, M. K. Sunkara, “Nucleation and growth mechanisms in selfcatalysis schemes for nanowire synthesis: Indium nitride”, Annual meeting of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 30-Nov. 4, 2005.
68. S. Vaddiraju, M. Meyyappan, M. K. Sunkara, “Mechanisms of nucleation and growth of
nanowires in self-catalysis schemes: Indium nitride”, 208 th meeting of the electrochemical
Society, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 16-21, 2005.
69. B. Deb, S. Desai, R. Thurman, S. Vaddiraju, G. Sumanasekera and M.K. Sunkara, “The Gas
Sensing Characteristics of Tungsten Trioxide Nanowires and Nanoparticles”, 208th Meeting
of The Electrochemical Society, October 16-21, 2005.
70.G. Bhimarasetti, M.K. Sunkara and J. Butler, “Origin of Spiral Growth Patterns During
Homoepitaxial Growth of Diamond on {100} Surfaces”, Oral Presentation, Applied Diamond
Conference, Chicago, IL May 16-20 2005.
71.R.Lowe, R.C. Mani, M.K. Sunkara and R.P. Baldwin, “Nanoarray Electrochemical Sensing
for the Rapid Detection of Neurological Solutes”, Poster presentation, Applied Diamond
Conference, Chicago, IL May 16-20 2005.
72.R.Lowe, R.C. Mani, M.K. Sunkara and R.P. Baldwin, “Nanoarray Electrochemical Sensing
for the Rapid Detection of Neurological Solutes”, Oral Presentation, 208th Meeting of the
Electrochemical Society, Los Angeles, CA Oct. 17 - 21 2005.
73.R.Lowe, R.C. Mani, M.K. Sunkara and R.P. Baldwin, “Nanoarray Electrochemical Sensing
for the Rapid Detection of Neurological Solutes”, AIChE 2005 Annual Meeting, Cincinnati,
OH Oct. 31 - Nov.4 2005
74.H. Li, M. K. Sunkara, A. Chin, “Direct Synthesis of GaN Nanowires with Control on Growth
Directions”, AIChE 2005 Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, Oct., 2005
75.H. Li, M. K. Sunkara, “Determination of GaN Nanowires Growth Directions through
Homoepitaxial Studies”, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2005.
76.S. Vaddiraju, H. Chandrasekeran, H. Li and M. K. Sunkara, “Controlled synthesis of gallium
nitride and tungsten nanowires using nucleation from molten gallium”, AIChE Annual 2004
Meeting, Austin, TX, Nov. 2004. (Oral).
77.H. Chandrasekaran, H. Li, M. K. Sunkara, “Self-Oriented Crystal Growth of Gallium Nitride
on Molten Gallium”, AIChE Annual 2004 Meeting, Austin, TX, Nov. 2004. (Oral).
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78.R. C. Mani, J. M. Cowley, M. K. Sunkara, M. O'Keeffe, C. Bonneau, "Structures of the Vapor
Phase Grown Carbon Nanocrystals", the ECS 2004 Joint International Meeting in October
2004, Honolulu, HI. (Oral)
79.R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara, and R. P. Baldwin, "New Electrode Materials for Neurological
Solutes: Nanocrystalline Graphite and Carbon Nanopipettes", the ECS 2004 Joint
International Meeting in October 2004, Honolulu, HI. (Oral).
80.R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara, Richard P. Baldwin, "Nanocrystals of Graphite and Carbon
Nanopipettes: New Electrode Materials for Neurological Fluids", the AIChE Annual meeting
in November 2004, Austin, TX. (Oral).
81.R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara, J. M. Cowley, M. O'Keeffe, and C. Bonneau, "Structures of CVD
Grown Carbon Nanocrystals", the AIChE Annual meeting in November 2004, Austin, TX.
(Oral).
82.H. Li, H. Chandrasekaran, M. K. Sunkara, “Self-oriented GaN film Directly on Molten
Gallium”, 2004 International Workshop on Namomaterials, Lexington, KY, Sep. 2004.
(Poster).
83.G. Bhimarasetti and M. K. Sunkara, “Carbon Micro Tubes: Tuning Internal Diameters and
Conical Angles”, Naval Research Laboratory, June 2004. (Invited talk).
84.R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara, “Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations for star-decahedral diamond
crystals”, AIChE Annual 2003 Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2003. (Oral).
85.R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara, R. P. Baldwin, “Carbon Nanopipettes: Electrochemical sensors
for neurological fluids”, AIChE Annual 2003 Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2003. (Oral).
86.G. Bhimarasetti, M. K. Sunkara and O. Monteiro, “Diamond deposition domain in the
presence of dopants in the gas phase”, AIChE Annual 2003 Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov
2003. (Oral).
87.S. Vaddiraju, H. Chandrasekeran and M. K. Sunkara, “Vapor phase synthesis of tungsten and
tungsten trioxide nanowires and nanotubes”, AIChE Annual 2003 meeting, San Francisco,
CA, Nov. 2003. (Oral).
88.G. Bhimarasetti, M. K. Sunkara, C. Suh and K. Rajan, “Controlled growth of novel carbon
nanotubular morphologies and tubular structures with built-in junctions”, AIChE Annual
2003 Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov 2003. (Oral).
89.
H. Li, S. Vaddiraju, H. Chandrasekaran and M. K. Sunkara, “Direct synthesis of gallium
nitride nanowires and micro tubes”, 8th Wide-Bandgap III-Nitride Workshop, Richmond, VA,
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Sep. 2003. (Poster).
90.H. Li, M. K. Sunkara, H. Chandrasekaran and S. Vaddiraju, “Self-oriented gallium nitride
film growth”, 8th Wide-Bandgap III-Nitride Workshop, Richmond, VA, Sep. 2003. (Poster).
91.G. Bhimarasetti, M. K. Sunkara, U. M. Graham, C. Suh, R. Dove and K. Rajan, “Controlled
growth of novel hollow carbon structures with built-in junctions”, Nanoengineered
Nanofibrous Materials conference sponsored by NATO-Advance Study Institute, Turkey, Sep
2003. (Oral).
92.G. Bhimarasetti, M. K. Sunkara, U. M. Graham and B. H. Davis, “Tuning internal diameters
of carbon tubes: Carbon Micro-tubes for nano/micro-fluidics and Li intercalation Electrodes”,
KY Nano-Materials 2nd Meeting, Louisville, Sep 2003. (Poster)
93.S. Vaddiraju, H. Chandrasekaran and M. K. Sunkara, “Vapor phase synthesis of tungsten and
tungsten trioxide nanowires”, KY Nano-Materials 2nd Meeting, Louisville, KY, Sep. 2003.
(Poster).
94.H. Li, S. Vaddiraju, H. Chandrasekaran and M. K. Sunkara, “Direct synthesis of gallium
nitride nanowires and micro tubes”, KY Nano-Materials 2nd Meeting, Louisville, KY, Sep.
2003. (Poster).
95.H. Chandrasekaran, K. Krogman, M.K. Sunkara, and M. Talbott, “Bulk Synthesis of aSixNyH and SiOx nanowires for Tunable Refractive Index Films“, KY Nano-Materials 2nd
Meeting, Louisville, KY, Sep. 2003. (Poster).
97.R. C. Mani, G. Bhimarasetti, M. K. Sunkara, R. P. Baldwin, C. Paterson, “Nanopipettes and
micropipes: Durg delivery patches, ink-jet heads and neurochem electrodes”, KY NanoMaterials 2nd Meeting, Louisville, KY, Sep. 2003. (Invited Oral Talk by the Student).
98.R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara, R. P. Baldwin, “Carbon nanopipettes; Synthesis and
electrochemical properties”, the NATO-ASI meeting, Antalya, Turkey, Sep. 2003. (oral).
99.G. Bhimarasetti, R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara, X. Li and K. Rajan, “Novel Carbon
Nanostructures: Nanopipettes, Funnels & Nozzles”, Applied Diamond Conference, Japan,
Aug. 2003. (Poster).
100. O. Monteiro, G. Bhimarasetti and M. K. Sunkara, “Chemical Vapor Deposition of CVD
Diamond on High Aspect Vias”, 14th European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-like
Materials, Carbon Nanotubes, Nitrides and Silicon Carbide, Salzburg, Austria 2003. (Oral).
101. G. Bhimarasetti, M. K. Sunkara, U. M. Graham and B. H. Davis, “Morphology control of
hollow tubular carbon nano-structures”, Tri-state catalysis symposium, Lexington, KY, May
2003. (Poster).
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102. S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, U.M. Graham and B.H. Davis, “Nucleation and Growth of
Gallium Oxide Tubes, Nanopaintbrushes and Nanowires from Molten Gallium”, MRS Annual
Fall 2002 meeting, Boston, MA, Dec. (2002). (Oral).
103. H. Li, H. Chandrasekaran, and M. K. Sunkara, “Self-oriented GaN Crystal Growth”, MRS
Annual Fall 2002 meeting, Boston, MA, Dec. 2002. (Poster)
104. S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara and E.C. Dickey, “Direct Synthesis of Silicon Nanowires using
Silane and Molten Gallium”, MRS Annual Fall 2002 meeting, Boston, MA, Dec. (2002).
(Oral).
105. R. C. Mani and M. K. Sunkara, “Kinetic Faceting of Multiply Twinned Diamond Crystals
during Vapor Phase Synthesis”, MRS Annual Fall 2002 meeting, Boston, MA, Dec. 2002.
(poster)
106. R. C. Mani, M. K. Sunkara, J. Gullapalli, R. P. Baldwin, “A novel nanocomposite diamond
electrode for electrochemical sensing of neurological fluids”, AIChE Annual Fall 2002
Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 2002. (Oral).
107. S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, G.D. Lian and E.C. Dickey, “Bulk Synthesis of Silicon
Nanowires from Molten Gallium using Silane Gas Phase Precursors”, AIChE Annual Fall
2002 Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 2002. (Oral).
108. S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, G.D. Lian and E.C. Dickey, “Bulk Synthesis of Gallium Oxide
Tubes, Nanowires, and Nanopaintbrushes”, AIChE Annual Fall 2002 Meeting, Indianapolis,
IN, Nov. 2002. (Oral).
109. H. Li, H. Chandrasekaran, and M. K. Sunkara, “Oriented GaN Thin Film Growth on
Amorphous and Crystalline Substrates”, AIChE Annual Fall 2002 Meeting, Indianapolis, IN,
Nov. 2002. (Oral).
110. R. C. Mani and M. K. Sunkara, “Kinetic Faceting of Multiply Twinned Diamond Crystals
during Vapor Phase Synthesis”. AIChE Annual Fall 2002 Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Nov.
2002. (Oral).
111. R. C. Mani, S. Sharma, M. K. Sunkara, J. Gullapalli, R. P. Baldwin, R. Rao, A. M. Rao,
and J. M. Cowley, “Nanocomposite films and free-standing whiskers containing diamond and
graphite phases”, AIChE Annual Fall 2002 Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 2002. (Oral).
112. R. P. Baldwin, J. Gullapalli, R. C. Mani and M. K. Sunkara, “A novel, nanocomposite
diamond electrode for electrochemical sensing of neurological fluids”, AIChE Annual Fall
2002 Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 2002. (Oral).
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113. M.K. Sunkara and H. Li, “Self-Oriented Growth of Gallium Nitride”, 4th Asilomer
Symposium on Non-Stoichiometric III-V Compounds, Asilomer Conference grounds, Pacific
Grove, CA, Oct., 2002. (Oral).
114. R. C. Mani, S. Sharma, M. K. Sunkara, J. Gullapalli, R. P. Baldwin, K. McGuire, R. Rao,
A. M. Rao, J. M. Cowley, “Nanocomposite Films and Free-standing Whiskers Containing
Diamond and Graphite phases”, Diamond 2002 European conference, Granada, Spain, Sep.
2002. (Poster).
115. R. C. Mani, and M. K. Sunkara, “Kinetic Faceting of Multiply Twinned Diamond Crystals
during Vapor Phase Synthesis”, Diamond 2002 European Conference, Granada, Spain Sep.
2002. (Poster).
116. G. Bhimarasetti and M. K. Sunkara, “Predictability of diamond deposition domain with
dopants in the gas phase”, AICHE Annual Fall 2001 Meeting, Reno, NV, Nov. 2001. (Oral).
117. H. Chandrasekaran and M.K. Sunkara, “Growth of Gallium Nitride Textured Films and
Nanowires on Amorphous Substrates”, AICHE Annual Fall 2001 Meeting, Reno, NV, Nov.
2001. (Oral).
118. The above is also presented as a poster at MRS Annual 2001 meeting, Boston, Nov. 2001.
(Poster).
119. S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, R. Miranda, G. Lian and E.C. Dickey, “Low Temperature, Bulk
Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanowires”, AICHE Annual Fall 2001 Meeting, Reno, NV, Nov.
2001. (Oral).
120. The above is also presented as a poster at MRS Annual 2001 meeting, Boston, Nov. 2001.
(Poster).
121. S. Sharma and M.K. Sunkara, “Plasma Enabled Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth”, AICHE
Annual Fall 2001 Meeting, Reno, NV, Nov. 2001. (Oral).
122. G. Bhimarasetti, R. C. Mani and M. K. Sunkara, “The role of boron on the deposition
domain for vapor phase synthesis of diamond films”, Carbon 2001, July 2001. (Oral).
123. M.K. Sunkara, “Low Temperature, Bulk Synthesis of Silicon Nanowires”, Poster
Presentation, Gordon Conference, Williamstown, MA. July 2001. (Poster).
124. M.K. Sunkara, S. Sharma, H. Chandrasekaran, E.C. Dickey, G. Lian and R. Miranda,
“Bulk Synthesis of Silicon, Carbon and Gallium Nitride Nanowires”, Colloqium on Nanoscale
Science, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., May 2001. (Poster).
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125. M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanowires”, University of CaliforniaRiverside, Spring 2001.
126. M.K. Sunkara, “Bulk Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanowires”, Ohio University, Athens,
OH, Spring 2001.
127. M.K Sunkara, K.M. Walsh, R. Miranda, E.C. Dickey, and S. Sinnott, “CVD and Thin
Film Technology: A Proposal for a Certificate Program for Chemical Engineers”, AICHE
Annual Fall 2000 Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, Nov., 2000. (Oral).
128. S.Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, E.C. Dickey, and R. Miranda, “A Novel Low Temperature
Synthesis Route for Silicon Nanowires”, 47th International Symposium, American Vacuum
Society, Boston, MA, Oct., 2000. (Poster).
129. M.K. Sunkara and S.C. Eaton, “Construction of a New C-H-O Ternary Diagram for
Diamond Deposition from the Vapor Phase”, 129th Annual Meeting of The Minerals, Metals &
Materials Society (TMS), Nashville, TN, p. 113, Meeting Abstracts, March 2000. (Oral).
130. M.K. Sunkara, P. Koduri, and M. Ueno, “Behavior of Redox Reactions on Metal-Doped
Diamondlike Carbon Electrodes”, Abstract No. 832, Vol. 99-2, p. 832, Meeting Abstracts, The
1999 Joint International Meeting of the Electrochemical Society and the Electrochemical
Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawai, Oct. 17-22, 1999, Published by the Electrochemical
Society, Pennington, NJ. (Oral).
131. S.C. Eaton and M.K. Sunkara, “The Role of Oxygen on the Faceting of Vapor Grown
Diamond Crystals”, Abstract No. 788, Vol. 99-2, p. 788, Meeting Abstracts, The 1999 Joint
International Meeting of the Electrochemical Society and the Electrochemical Society of Japan,
Honolulu, Hawai, Oct. 17-22, 1999, Published by the Electrochemical Society, Pennington,
NJ. (Oral).
132. S.C. Eaton and M.K. Sunkara, “Role of Oxygen and Impurities on the Kinetic Faceting of
Vapor Grown Diamond”, Abstract 188h, p. 105, Meeting Abstracts, AICHE Annual Fall 1999
Meeting, Dallas, TX, Oct.-Nov. 1999 (Oral).
133. S. Sharma, M.K. Sunkara, R.W. Cohn, K.M. Walsh, M.M. Crain, S.F. Lyuksyutov, and
E.C. Dickey, “Selective Nitridation of Silicon Substrates Using Microwave Nitrogen Plasma”,
Abstract 191i, p. 106, AICHE Annual Fall 1999 Meeting, Dallas, TX, Oct.-Nov. 1999. (Oral).
134. R. W. Cohn, S. F. Lyuksyutov, M. M. Crain, S. Sharma, P. Koduri, K. M.Walsh, and M.
K. Sunkara, "Nanolithography Considerations for Multi-passband Grating Filters,"
Symposium on Trends in Guided Wave Devices. Optical Society of America Annual Meeting,
Santa Clara, CA, paper WJ6., Sep. 1999.
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135. R. A. Stroud, M. Bensing, M. K. Sunkara, and M.M. David, “Nucleation of Diamond
from the Vapor Phase on to Dielectric Substrates”, 12th International Symposium on Surface
Modification of Materials, American Society of Metals (ASM), Rosemont, IL, Oct. 12-16,
1999 (Oral).
136. P. Koduri, M. Sunkara, E.C. Dickey, C. Frasier, S.V. Babu, “Structural and
Electrochemical Characterization of Metal-Doped Diamondlike (Me-DLC) Films”, 12th
International Symposium on Surface Modification of Materials, American Society of Metals
(ASM), Rosemont, IL, Oct. 12-16, 1999 (Oral).
137. M. Sunkara, M. Wadsborn, B.N. Pypkin, M. L. Shubekin, V.G. Ralchenko, and S.V.
Babu, “Electrochemical Behavior of Metal-Doped Diamondlike Carbon (Me-DLC) Films in
Aqueous Solutions”, 192nd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Paris, France, Aug. 28 –
Sep. 05, 1997. (Oral).
138. M. Sunkara, “Corrosion Protection Applications of Vapor Grown Diamond and
Diamondlike Carbon”, ASM Local Chapter Dinner Meeting, Louisville, KY, June 1997.
Invited.
139. M. Sunkara, “Vapor Grown Diamond and Diamondlike Carbon Films for
Electrochemical and Corrosion Protection Applications”, International Conference on
Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF), San Diego, CA, April 21-25, 1997. (Oral).
140. M. Sunkara, “Vapor Grown Diamond and Diamondlike Carbon Films for
Electrochemical and Corrosion Protection Applications”, Department of Chemical and
Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Jan. 15, 1997. Seminar
Series.
141. M. Sunkara, C.V. Srividya, and S.V. Babu, “ Corrrosion Resistance of a:CH/Fluorocarbon Films”, Presented at Materials Week’96, Organized by American Society of
Metals, Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 6 -9, 1996. (Oral).
142. M. Sunkara, S. Karim, and E.J. Taylor, “In-Situ Removal of Heavy Metals from Vadose
Zone Contaminated Soils Using Enhanced Electrokinetics”, to be presented at 28th Central
Regional ACS Meeting to be held at Dayton Convention Center, Dayton, OH, June 9-12,
1996. (Oral).
143. M. Sunkara, A. K. Rawat, P.J. Moran, “Corrosion Protection Ability of Vapor Grown
Thin Diamond Films”, Presented at Session 8D, AICHE Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL,
November 12-17, 1995. (Oral).
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144. M. Sunkara, A.K. Rawat, P.J. Moran, V.H. Desai, R.A. Hays, and E.J. Taylor, “Remote
Sensing of Crevice Corrosion”, Presented at TMS/ASM Materials Week, Cleveland, OH, Oct.
29 - Nov. 2, 1995. (Oral).
145. M. Sunkara, A.K. Rawat and P.J. Moran, “Corrosion Monitoring in Supercritical Water
Media”, Presented at TMS/ASM Materials Week, Cleveland, OH, Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, 1995.
(Oral).
146. M. Sunkara, E. Stortz, R. P. Renz, A. K. Rawat, and P. J. Moran, “ Vapor Grown
Diamond Films for Corrosion Protection”, the 188th Annual Meeting of the Electrochemical
Society held in Chicago, Oct 8-13, 1995. (Oral).
147. M. Sunkara, A.K. Rawat, P.J. Moran, R.A. Hays, and E.J. Taylor, “ Detection Methods
for Sites of Localized Corrosion Applicable to PipeLines”, Presented at the 188th meeting of
the Electrochemical Society, Chicago, Oct. 8-12, 1995. (Oral).
148. M. Sunkara, J.C. Angus and J.A. Mann, Jr., “Morphology and Growth Kinetics of
Diamond Crystals”, AICHE Annual Meeting, St. Louis, M.O., Nov. 8-12, 1993. (Oral).
149. M. Sunkara, J.C. Angus, and J.A. Mann, Jr., "Morphology and Growth Kinetics of
DiamondCrystals”, DIAMOND 92, , Heidelberg, Germany, Sept 4, 1992. (Poster).
150. M. Sunkara, J.C. Angus et. al., Gordon Conference, “Monte-Carlo Simulation of Diamond
Nucleation and Growth Kinetics”, Plymouth, New Hampshire, June 1992. (Poster).
151. M. Sunkara, Diamond Workshop, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI., March 1992.
(Oral).
152. M. Sunkara, J.C. Angus, C.C. Hayman, and F.A. Buck, “Nucleation of Diamond
Crystals”, 2nd International Meeting on Vapor Grown Diamond” held at Concord, OH, June
1990. (Poster).
153.
M. Sunkara and D-T. Chin, 2nd Annual CAMP, Potsdam, NY, Nov. 1987. (Oral).
DISSERTATIONS AND THESES DIRECTED
Ph.D.
1. Ms. Santoshrupa Dumpala finished Ph.D. in January 2012 and joined Iowa State University
as Post-doctoral Scholar.
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Nanoscale diamond and carbon materials and architectures for
field emission and thermionic energy conversion”
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2. Mr. Chandrashekhar Pendyala finished Ph.D in November 2011 and joined Intel as process
engineer
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition of InGaN alloys on GaN
nanowire substrates”
3. Mr. Vivekanand Kumar finished Ph.D. in February 2011 and joined Intel as process
engineer
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Novel scalable manufacturing techniques for metal oxide
nanowire powders and arrays”
4. Mr. Praveen Meduri finished Ph.D. in December 2010 and joined PNNL as research
associate.
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Nanowire based materials and architectures as anodes for Li-ion
batteries”
5. Mr. Jothish Thangala finished Ph.D. in May 2010 and joined an engineering college in
India as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Phase transformation studies within one-dimensional metal oxide
nanowires”
6. Mr. Theodore Druffel finished his Ph.D. in May 2009 and continued working with ODC
Ph.D. dissertation title: “ The engineering of optical filters from inorganic-organic
nanocomposites”
7. Mr. Suresh Gubbala finished his Ph.D in November 2008 and joined Intel.
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Nanowire based dye sensitized solar cells and electrochromic
devices”
8. Mr. Hari ChandraSekaran finished his Ph.D. in May 2006 and joined Intel.
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Rationalizing Nucleation and Growth of Nanowires in Vapor
Liquid-Solid Methods”.
9. Mr. Sreeram Vaddiraju finished Ph.D in October 2006 and joined Texas A&M University
as Assistant Professor after a Post-doctoral stint at MIT,
Ph.D. dissetation title: “Chemical and Reactive Vapor Transport Methods for Bulk
Nanowires and Nanowire Arrays”.
10. Mr. Gopinath Bhimarasetti, Finished Ph.D. in 2005 and joined Intel Corp., Hillsdale, OR.
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Multi-Scale Experimental Studies on Diamond Crystal and
Carbon Tubular Growth”.
11. Mr. Hongwei Li, Finished Ph.D. in 2005 and joined Lehigh University as a Post-Doc.
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Novel Processes for Large Size Gallium Nitride Single Crystal
and Controlled Nanowire Growth”
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12. Ms. Radhika C. Mani, Finished Ph.D. thesis in 2004 and joined UC Santa Barbara as a
Post-doctoral fellow under Prof. Eray Aydil and is currently at Applied Materials
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Nucleation and Growth Studies of Crystalline Carbon Phases at
Nanoscale”
13. Mr. Shashank Sharma, Finished his Ph.D. in 2003 and joined HPLabs in Palo Alto, CA.
Ph.D. dissertation title: “Bulk Nucleation and Growth of Inorganic Nanowires and
Nanotubes”.
M.Eng/M.S
1. Mr. Harry Russell finished M.Eng thesis in 2011 and pursuing Ph.D. degree in chemical
engineering in our group.
M.Eng. thesis title: “Photoelectrochemical activity of plasma grown hematite nanowire
arrays”
2. Mr. Dustin Cummins finished M.Eng thesis in 2009 and pursuing Ph.D. degree in chemical
engineering in our group.
M.Eng thesis title: “Synthesis of Molybdenum Oxide Nanowires and Their Facile
Conversion to Molybdenum Sulfide”.
3. Mr. Boris Chernomordik, Finished M.Eng thesis and joined U. Minnesota as Ph.D. student in
chemical engineering
M.Eng thesis title: “Comparison of α-Fe2O3 electrodes grown by direct plasma and
thermal oxidation of iron for photoelectrochemical water splitting”
4. Mr. Ryan Thurman, Finished M. Eng. thesis in 2006 and joined Dow-Corning.
M. Eng. thesis title: “Scale-up of Metal Oxide Nanowire Production”
5. Mr. Randall Lowe, Finished M.Eng thesis in 2005 and joined Stanford University to pursue
PhD in Chemical Engineering.
M.Eng. thesis title: “Nanoelectrode Ensembles Using Conical Carbon Nanopipettes for
Electrochemical Sensing”
6. Ms. Rahel Bogale finished M.Eng. in 2005 and Joined Lexmark.
M.Eng. thesis title: “Dispersion Behavior of Nanowires Compared to Nanoparticles for
Metal Oxides”
7. Mr. Kevin Krogman, Finished M.Eng thesis in 2004 and joined MIT to pursue Ph.D. in
Chemical Engineering..
M.Eng. thesis title: “Anti-Reflective Coatings Incorporating Nanoparticles”
8. Ms. Jieru Xie, Finished M.S. thesis in 2004 and joined the graduate program in Biostatistics
and Bioinformatics at UofL.
M.S. thesis title: “Crevice Corrosion Monitoring and Mitigation”
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9. Mr. Timothy Learn, Finished M.Eng thesis in Dec 2003 and joined Lexmark.
M.Eng. thesis title: “Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond-Like
Carbon Films”
10. Mr. Hari Chandrasekaran, Finished M.S. thesis in 2002 and joined as a Ph.D. student
pursuing research on self-oriented growth of GaN films.
M.S. thesis title: “Substrate Independent Oriented Crystal Growth of Gallium Nitride”
11. Ms. Mayumi Ueno finished M.S. in 2000 and is currently working at EPSON, Japan. M.S.
thesis title: “Electron Cyclotron Resonnance Chemical Vapor Deposition of Precious
Metal Doped Diamondlike Carbon Films”.
12. Mr. Shashank Sharma finished M.S. in 2000 and joined UofL for PhD (finished in 2003).
M.S. thesis title: “Selective Nitridation of Silicon Substrates Using Microwave Nitrogen
Plasma”
13. Mr. Russell Stroud finished M.Eng. in August1998 and joined Technimet, Inc., CT.
M. Eng. thesis title: “Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond Films on
to Quartz Substrates”,
14. Mr. Michael Bensing finished M.Eng. in 1998 and joined Lexmark.
M.Eng. thesis title: “Selective Metallization of Chemical Vapor Deposited Diamond
Films”
15. Ms. Sally C. Eaton finished M. Eng. in 1999 and joined CWRU to pursue PhD in
Chemical Engineering. She finished PhD and joined NRL as a NRC postdoctoral fellow.
M.Eng. thesis title: “Role of Oxygen in CVD Diamond Growth”, August 1999.
16. Mr. Prabhakar Koduri finished M.S. in 1999 and joined Lexmark.
M.S. thesis title: “Structural and Electrochemical Studies of Metal Doped Diamondlike
Carbon Films”
UNDERGRADUATE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
UG Students
1. Ms. Elaine Yeap (1997), 2. Ms. Maria Wadsborn (1997), 3. Ms. Sally Eaton (1998), 4. Ms.
Sofia Strandval (1998), 5. Ms. Priya Alexander (1999), 6. Mr. Ketan Patel (2000), 7. Ms.
Charlotte Abrahamson (2000), 8. Ms. Jamie Warnick (2003), 9. Mr. Matt Houston (20022003), 10. Mr. Kevin Krogman (2003). 11. Mr. Mark Milling (2005), 12. Mr. Matt Cummins
(2005), 13. Mr. Boris Chernomordik (2007-2009), 14. Mr. Harry Russell (2008-2009), 15. Ezra
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Clark (2010-2011), 16. Jason Absher(2010-2011), 17. Ms. Amelia Gondara(2011), 18. Mr.
Gailen Bridges (2012)
High School Students
1. Ms. Priya Alexander –Manual (1997) 2. Mr. Harish Srinivasan-Manual (2002/2003), 3. Mr.
Trevor Powers-Christian Academy (2003-2005), 4. Mr. Richard Bolli-Ballard (2004/2005) 5.
Mr. Suhail Malhotra-Manual (2004-2005), 6. Mr. David -Ballard 7. Mr. Jozef-Ballard 8.
Karthik Malhotra, 9. Megan Mercer 10. Llyod Croft, 11. Rohan, 12. David Becker, 13. Sahiba
Chopra, 14. Asif Rehman, 15. Maggie Chang, 16. Jasmine, 17. Sam Sprawls.
JOURNAL REVIEWER
IEEE Transactions in Nanotechnology
Nano Letters
Energy and Environmental Science
J. Crystal Growth
Crystal Growth and Design
Chemical Vapor Deposition
J. Physical Chemistry B & C
Chemical Physics Letters
J. Crystal Growth & Design
Acta Chimica Analytica
Diamond and Related Materials
Nanotechnology
Advanced Materials
Applied Physics Letters
Langmuir
Small
J. Physics D
J. Electrochemical Society
Electrochemical and Solid State Letters
J. American Chemical Society
Electrochemica Acta
J. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
SMT Conference & MRS annual meeting proceedings.
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
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Symposium Organizer – Photovoltaics for the 21st Century, 222nd Meeting of the
Electrochemical Society, Oct. 7-12, 2012.
Symposium Organizer for “Rechargeable Batteries”, 220th Fall Annual Meeting of the
Electrochemical Society, held in Boston, MA from Oct 9-14, 2012.
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Conference Organizer – KY Workshop on “Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency”,
March 2011.
Session Chair, “Dye Sensitized Solar Cells I&II”, Photovoltaics for the 21st Century
Symposium”, 216th ECS meeting, Vienna, Austria, 2009.
Session Chair, “New Materials I&II”, Photovoltaics for the 21st Century Symposium, 216th
ECS meeting, Vienna, Austria, 2009.
Conference Organizer, KYNANOMAT 2008, Louisville, KY.
Session Chair, “Nanowires I: Synthesis”, Fall Annual Meeting, AICHE 2008.
Session Vice-Chair, “Nanomaterials for Photovoltaics I”, Fall Annual Meeting, AICHE
2008.
Symposium Organizer, “Thermal and Plasma CVD of Nanostructures, ECS Spring
Meeting, May 2008.
Session Organizer, “Nanotechnology”, CHEMCON 2007, Kolkata, India, Dec 27-30, 2007.
Session Vice-Chair, “Nanomaterials for Photovoltaics”, Fall Annual Meeting, AICHE
2007.
Session Chair, “Nanowires I: Synthesis”, Fall Annual Meeting, AICHE 2007.
Session Chair, “Nanowires I: Synthesis”, Fall Annual Meeting, AICHE 2006.
Topical Chair, 1st Topical Symposium on Nanowires, Fall Annual Meeting, AICHE 2005.
Session Chair, “Plasma Processing of Nanostructures”, Fall Meeting of ECS, 2005 & 2007.
Session Chair, Nanowires I & II, Fall Annual Meeting, AICHE (2004).
One of the founders of annual state-wide workshop: KYNANOMAT held 2003 and 2004
during September. (See further details below)
Session Chair, “Nanowires”, Fall Annual Meeting, AICHE, 2003.
Session Chair, “Chemical Vapor Deposition”, Fall Annual Meeting of AICHE, 2003
Session Chair, “Inorganic Nanowires”, Fall Annual Meeting, AICHE 2002.
Session Vice-Chair, “Materials Issues in Nanoelectronics”, Fall Annual Meeting, AICHE
2002.
Session Chair, “Chemical Vapor Deposition”, Annual Meeting of AICHE, 2002.
Session Chair, “Chemical Vapor Deposition”, American Institute of Chemical Engineers,
Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, Nov. 3 –10, 2001.
Session Chair, “Characterization of Coatings” – Ultra Hard Coatings and Non-Metallic
Coatings, Surface Modification and Materials Week ’96, American Society of Metals
(ASM), October 2-6 (1996) Cincinnati, OH.
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