Argonne National Laboratory

Rajesh Pathak

Postdoctoral Appointee

Biography

Rajesh Pathak is a postdoctoral appointee at functional coating group in the applied materials division (AMD) at Argonne National Laboratory.

Education

  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, South Dakota State University.   
  • M.Sc. Physics, GoldenGate Int. College, Tribhuvan University.

Awards, Honors and Memberships

  • 2023 Outstanding Postdoctoral Performance Award Argonne National Laboratory.
  • Finalist Walter Massey Fellowship-Argonne National Laboratory.- FY21/FY22.
  • Reviewer DOE-SBIR/STTIR FY22/FY23. 
  • Judge-Poster Presentation-Argonne’s Postdoctoral Symposium FY22.
  • Lead Investigator, SWIFT-LDRD FY22 Argonne National Laboratory.
  • Lead Investigator, SEED-LDRD FY21 Argonne National Laboratory.
  • DEI Council representative (AET-AMD) ; Sep. 2021- Aug. 2022.
  • Entrepreneur Lead - DOE Energy I- Corps Cohort 13.
  • Guest Editor, Sustainability.
  • Winner of Sigma Xi Award-2020, South Dakota State University.
  • SPS chapter research award-2020, South Dakota State University.
  • Outstanding reviewer for Nanotechnology-2019.
  • Young investigator invited talk-Symposium E01-Electrodeposition for Energy Applications 5 ECS PRiME meeting 2020.
  • ECS/MRS Member 2019-2024.

Selected Publications

  • Rajesh Pathak, Vepa Rozyyev, Rahul Shevate, Anil U. Mane, and Jeffrey W. Elam. ​“Controlling Nanoscale Pore Size and Wall Composition in Polycarbonate Membranes via Atomic Layer Deposition and Sequential Infiltration Synthesis: Implications for High Water Permeance.” ACS Applied Nano Materials (2023).
  • Rajesh Pathak, Ke Chen, Fan Wu, Anil U. Mane, Ratnakumar V. Bugga, Jeffrey W. Elam, Quinn Qiao, and Yue Zhou. ​“Advanced Strategies for the Development of Porous Carbon as a Li Host/Current Collector for Lithium Metal Batteries.” Energy Storage Materials (2021), 41: p. 448-465.
  • Rajesh Pathak, Ke Chen, Ashim Gurung, Khan Mamun Reza, Behzad Bahrami, Jyotshna Pokharel, Abiral Baniya, Wei He, Fan Wu, Yue Zhou, Kang Xu, Qiquan (Quinn) Qiao. ​“Fluorinated Hybrid Solid Interface for Dendrite-Free Lithium Deposition”. Nature Communications, 11, 93 (2020).
  • Rajesh Pathak, Ke Chen, Ashim Gurung, Khan Mamun Reza, Behzad Bahrami,Fan Wu, Ashraf Chaudhary, Nabin Ghimire, Bin Zhou, Wen-Hua Zhang, Yue Zhou, Qiquan Qiao. ​‘Ultrathin Bilayer of Graphite/SiO2 as Solid Interface for Reviving Li Metal Anode’ Advanced Energy Materials, 9, 36, (2019).
  • Rajesh Pathak, Ashim Gurung, Hytham Elbohy, Ke Chen, Khan Mamun Reza, Behzad Bahrami, Sally Mabrouk, Raju Ghimire , Matthew Hummel, Zhengrong Gu, Xiaoming Wang, Yucheng Wu, Yue Zhou, Qiquan Qiao. ​“Self-recovery in Li-metal hybrid lithium-ion batteries via WO3 reduction.” Nanoscale 10, no. 34 (2018): 15956-15966.
  • Chen, Ke, Rajesh Pathak, Ashim Gurung, Khan Reza, Nabin Ghimire, Jyotshna Pokharel, Abiral Baniya, Wei He, James J. Wu, Qiquan (Quinn) Qiao, Yue Zhou. ​“Copper-clad Lithiophilic Current Collector for Dendrite-Free Lithium Metal Anode.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A 8, no. 4 (2020): 1911-1919.
  • Chen, Ke, Rajesh Pathak, Ashim Gurung, Ezaldeen A. Adhamash, Behzad Bahrami, Qingquan He, Hui Qiao, Alevtina L.Smirnova, James J. Wu, Qiquan Qiao, Yue Zhou. ​“Flower-Shaped Lithium Nitride as a Protective Layer via Facile Plasma Activation for Stable Lithium Metal Anodes.” Energy Storage Materials 18 (2019): 399-396.