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Tewodros Asefa is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, focusing primarily on energy, engineering, and materials science. The subfields of interest include renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and catalysis.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, emphasizing electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced battery technologies research, fuel cells and related materials, advanced photocatalysis techniques, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, catalytic processes in materials science, and crystallization and solubility studies.

Among the recent published papers are:

  • Active Site Engineering in Porous Electrocatalysts, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Optimization of Active Sites via Crystal Phase, Composition, and Morphology for Efficient Low-Iridium Oxygen Evolution Catalysts, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Nonprecious Bimetallic Sites Coordinated on N-Doped Carbons with Efficient and Durable Catalytic Activity for Oxygen Reduction, 2020, Small
  • Single Co-Atoms as Electrocatalysts for Efficient Hydrazine Oxidation Reaction, 2021, Small
  • Co8FeS8/N,S-Doped Carbons Derived from Fe-Co/S-Bridged Polyphthalocyanine: Efficient Dual-Function Air-Electrode Catalysts for Rechargeable Zn-Air Batteries, 2020, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tewodros Asefa include Belvin Thomas, Xingquan He, Chaoyun Tang, Jeffrey M. Boyd, and Viktor Dubovoy, with collaboration counts ranging from 9 to 13 joint publications.

The primary publication venues where their work regularly appears are The Cambridge Structural Database, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Small, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and Angewandte Chemie.

Best Publications

  • Cu and Cu-Based Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications in Catalysis.

    Manoj B. Gawande;Anandarup Goswami;François Xavier Felpin;Tewodros Asefa

  • 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

  • Conducting MoS2 Nanosheets as Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Damien Voiry;Maryam Salehi;Rafael Silva;Takeshi Fujita

  • Periodic mesoporous organosilicas with organic groups inside the channel walls

    Tewodros Asefa;Mark J. MacLachlan;Neil Coombs;Geoffrey A. Ozin

  • High-index faceted Ni3S2 nanosheet arrays as highly active and ultrastable electrocatalysts for water splitting.

    Liang Liang Feng;Guangtao Yu;Yuanyuan Wu;Guo Dong Li

  • Cobalt‐Embedded Nitrogen‐Rich Carbon Nanotubes Efficiently Catalyze Hydrogen Evolution Reaction at All pH Values

    Xiaoxin Zou;Xiaoxi Huang;Anandarup Goswami;Rafael Silva

  • Core–shell nanoparticles: synthesis and applications in catalysis and electrocatalysis

    Manoj B. Gawande;Anandarup Goswami;Tewodros Asefa;Huizhang Guo

  • The role of electronic coupling between substrate and 2D MoS2 nanosheets in electrocatalytic production of hydrogen.

    Damien Voiry;Raymond Fullon;Jieun Yang;Cecilia de Carvalho Castro e Silva

  • Coupling Mo2C with Nitrogen‐Rich Nanocarbon Leads to Efficient Hydrogen‐Evolution Electrocatalytic Sites

    Yipu Liu;Guangtao Yu;Guo Dong Li;Yuanhui Sun

  • Removal of tetracycline by NaOH-activated carbon produced from macadamia nut shells: Kinetic and equilibrium studies

    Alessandro C. Martins;Osvaldo Pezoti;André L. Cazetta;Karen C. Bedin

  • Covalent functionalization of monolayered transition metal dichalcogenides by phase engineering

    Damien Voiry;Anandarup Goswami;Rajesh Kappera;Cecilia de Carvalho Castro e Silva

  • Efficient metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction: polyaniline-derived N- and O-doped mesoporous carbons.

    Rafael Silva;Damien Voiry;Manish Chhowalla;Tewodros Asefa

  • Active Site Engineering in Porous Electrocatalysts.

    Hui Chen;Xiao Liang;Yipu Liu;Xuan Ai

  • Overall Water Splitting Catalyzed Efficiently by an Ultrathin Nanosheet-Built, Hollow Ni3S2-Based Electrocatalyst

    Yuanyuan Wu;Guo Dong Li;Yipu Liu;Lan Yang

  • Biocompatibility of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles

    Tewodros Asefa;Zhimin Tao

  • N-, O-, and S-Tridoped Carbon-Encapsulated Co9S8 Nanomaterials: Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting

    Senchuan Huang;Yuying Meng;Shiman He;Anandarup Goswami

  • Efficient noble metal-free (electro)catalysis of water and alcohol oxidations by zinc-cobalt layered double hydroxide.

    Xiaoxin Zou;Anandarup Goswami;Tewodros Asefa

  • Highly Active, Nonprecious Electrocatalyst Comprising Borophene Subunits for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Yanli Chen;Guangtao Yu;Wei Chen;Yipu Liu

  • Efficient electrocatalysis of overall water splitting by ultrasmall NixCo3−xS4 coupled Ni3S2 nanosheet arrays

    Yuanyuan Wu;Yipu Liu;Guo Dong Li;Xu Zou

  • Periodic mesoporous organosilicas, PMOs: fusion of organic and inorganic chemistry ‘inside’ the channel walls of hexagonal mesoporous silica

    Chiaki Yoshina-Ishii;Tewodros Asefa;Neil Coombs;Mark J. MacLachlan

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaoxin Zou
Xiaoxin Zou Jilin University
Geoffrey A. Ozin
Geoffrey A. Ozin University of Toronto
Damien Voiry
Damien Voiry University of Montpellier
Neil Coombs
Neil Coombs University of Toronto
Manish Chhowalla
Manish Chhowalla University of Cambridge
Mark J. MacLachlan
Mark J. MacLachlan University of British Columbia
Michal Kruk
Michal Kruk City University of New York
Mietek Jaroniec
Mietek Jaroniec Kent State University
Adley F. Rubira
Adley F. Rubira State University of Maringa
Dejun Wang
Dejun Wang Jilin University

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