Khagesh Kumar

Biography

Khagesh Kumar is a postdoctoral appointee at the ReCell Center. His work currently focused on synthetic methods for cathode materials from end-of-life batteries and recycled sources. He has expertise in using X-ray absorption spectroscopy to characterize CO₂ reduction catalyst and Li-ion battery cathode materials with operando and ex-situ methodogies.

Education 

Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago, 2023
Integrated M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2018

Selected Publications:

Kumar, K.; Jamnuch, S.; Majidi, L.; Misal, S.; Ahmadiparidari, A.; Dato, M. A.; Sterbinsky, G. E.; Wu, T.; Salehi-Khojin, A.; Pascal, T. A.; Cabana, J. Active States during the Reduction of CO₂ by a MoS₂ Electrocatalyst. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14 (13), 3222–3229. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03942
Li, B.; Kumar, K.; Roy, I.; Morozov, A. V.; Emelyanova, O. V.; Zhang, L.; Koç, T.; Belin, S.; Cabana, J.; Dedryvère, R.; Abakumov, A. M.; Tarascon, J.-M. Capturing Dynamic Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer with a Long-Lived Cationic Intermediate for Anionic Redox. Nat. Mater. 2022, 21 (10), 1165–1174. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01278-2.
Wang, S.; Tang, T.; Kumar, K.; Namvar. S.; Kim, S.; Ahmadiparidari, A.; Shahbazi, H.; Singh, S.; Hemmat, Z.; Berry, V.; Cabana, J.; Khalili-Araghi, F.; Huang, Z.; Salehi-Khojin, A.; Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Anisotropic Growth of One-Dimensional Midentropy Nanoribbons. ACS Nano. 2023,17 (15), 15053–15064. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c04178.
Majidi, L.; Ahmadiparidari, A.; Shan, N.; Misal, S. N.; Kumar, K.; Huang, Z.; Rastegar, S.; Hemmat, Z.; Zou, X.; Zapol, P.; Cabana, J.; Curtiss, L. A.; Salehi-Khojin, A. 2D Copper Tetrahydroxyquinone Conductive Metal-Organic Framework for Selective CO₂ Electrocatalysis at Low Overpotentials. Adv. Mater. 2021, 33 (10), e2004393. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202004393.