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2022

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123
Citations
111507
World Ranking
431
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society For seminal contributions in elucidating the fundamental role of disorder and structural phases on properties of low dimensional materials such as amorphous carbon films, graphene oxide and 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides.

Overview

Manish Chhowalla is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering in particular.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Chhowalla has a series of recent publications that include the following:

  • "Recent Advances in Design of Electrocatalysts for High-Current-Density Water Splitting" (2021), published in Advanced Materials
  • "Chemical vapour deposition" (2021), published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • "Lithiated metallic molybdenum disulfide nanosheets for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries" (2023), published in Nature Energy
  • "Ultralow-dielectric-constant amorphous boron nitride" (2020), published in Nature
  • "P-type electrical contacts for 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides" (2022), published in Nature

The scientist frequently collaborates with co-authors such as Yan Wang, Soumya Sarkar, Han Yan, Zhuangnan Li, and Yiru Zhu, indicating a collaborative research environment.

Chhowalla's publications appear regularly in several prominent venues including:

  • ACS Nano
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature
  • Nano Letters
  • MRS Energy & Sustainability

In terms of recognition, the scientist was awarded the title of Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2017. This honor was granted for contributions related to understanding the roles of disorder and structural phases on properties of low dimensional materials such as amorphous carbon films, graphene oxide, and 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides.

Best Publications

  • The chemistry of two-dimensional layered transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets

    Manishkumar Chhowalla;Hyeon Suk Shin;Goki Eda;Lain Jong Li

  • Large-area ultrathin films of reduced graphene oxide as a transparent and flexible electronic material

    Goki Eda;Giovanni Fanchini;Manish Chhowalla

  • Photoluminescence from Chemically Exfoliated MoS2

    Goki Eda;Goki Eda;Hisato Yamaguchi;Damien Voiry;Takeshi Fujita

  • Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials

    Valeria Nicolosi;Manish Chhowalla;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis;Michael S. Strano

  • Graphene oxide as a chemically tunable platform for optical applications

    Kian Ping Loh;Qiaoliang Bao;Goki Eda;Manishkumar Chhowalla;Manishkumar Chhowalla

  • High-efficiency solution-processed perovskite solar cells with millimeter-scale grains

    Wanyi Nie;Hsinhan Tsai;Reza Asadpour;Jean Christophe Blancon

  • Metallic 1T phase MoS2 nanosheets as supercapacitor electrode materials

    Muharrem Acerce;Damien Voiry;Manish Chhowalla

  • Enhanced catalytic activity in strained chemically exfoliated WS 2 nanosheets for hydrogen evolution

    Damien Voiry;Hisato Yamaguchi;Junwen Li;Rafael Silva

  • Enhanced Catalytic Activity in Strained Chemically Exfoliated WS2 Nanosheets for Hydrogen Evolution

    Damien Voiry;Hisato Yamaguchi;Junwen Li;Rafael Silva

  • Chemically derived graphene oxide: towards large-area thin-film electronics and optoelectronics.

    Goki Eda;Manishkumar Chhowalla

  • Blue photoluminescence from chemically derived graphene oxide

    Goki Eda;Yun-Yue Lin;Cecilia Mattevi;Cecilia Mattevi;Hisato Yamaguchi

  • Conducting MoS2 Nanosheets as Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Damien Voiry;Maryam Salehi;Rafael Silva;Takeshi Fujita

  • Structural evolution during the reduction of chemically derived graphene oxide

    Akbar Bagri;Cecilia Mattevi;Cecilia Mattevi;Muge Acik;Yves J. Chabal

  • Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Forests

    Kenneth K. S. Lau;José Bico;Kenneth B. K. Teo;Manish Chhowalla

  • Evolution of Electrical, Chemical, and Structural Properties of Transparent and Conducting Chemically Derived Graphene Thin Films

    Cecilia Mattevi;Goki Eda;Stefano Agnoli;Steve Miller

  • Phase-engineered low-resistance contacts for ultrathin MoS2 transistors.

    Rajesh Kappera;Damien Voiry;Sibel Ebru Yalcin;Brittany Branch

  • A review of chemical vapour deposition of graphene on copper

    Cecilia Mattevi;Hokwon Kim;Manish Chhowalla;Manish Chhowalla

  • Two-dimensional semiconductors for transistors

    Manishkumar Chhowalla;Debdeep Jena;Hua Zhang

  • Growth process conditions of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition

    M. Chhowalla;K. B. K. Teo;C. Ducati;N. L. Rupesinghe

  • Atomic and Electronic Structure of Graphene-Oxide

    K. Andre Mkhoyan;Alexander W. Contryman;John Silcox;Derek A. Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

Damien Voiry
Damien Voiry University of Montpellier
Gehan A. J. Amaratunga
Gehan A. J. Amaratunga University of Cambridge
Goki Eda
Goki Eda National University of Singapore
Cecilia Mattevi
Cecilia Mattevi Imperial College London
William I. Milne
William I. Milne University of Cambridge
Aditya D. Mohite
Aditya D. Mohite Rice University
Gautam Gupta
Gautam Gupta University of Louisville
Mingwei Chen
Mingwei Chen Southern University of Science and Technology
Takeshi Fujita
Takeshi Fujita Kochi University of Technology
Andrew T. S. Wee
Andrew T. S. Wee National University of Singapore

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