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Yogesh Surendranath

Yogesh Surendranath

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Chemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
21780
World Ranking
7914
National Ranking
2295

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Yogesh Surendranath is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes in research primarily within the fields of Energy and Engineering. Their work spans several related subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Catalysis, Electrochemistry, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to energy conversion and electrochemical processes. Main topics include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Ionic Liquids Properties and Applications
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction

Among their recent publications are notable papers such as:

  • "Using nature's blueprint to expand catalysis with Earth-abundant metals," 2020, published in Science
  • "A pyridinic Fe-N4 macrocycle models the active sites in Fe/N-doped carbon electrocatalysts," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Potentially Confusing: Potentials in Electrochemistry," 2020, published in ACS Energy Letters
  • "Innocent buffers reveal the intrinsic pH- and coverage-dependent kinetics of the hydrogen evolution reaction on noble metals," 2022, published in Joule
  • "Adsorbed cobalt porphyrins act like metal surfaces in electrocatalysis," 2022, published in Nature Catalysis

Frequent co-authors contributing to their research include:

  • Wei Lun Toh
  • Ryan P. Bisbey
  • Bryan Y. Tang
  • Yuriy Román-Leshkov
  • Karl S. Westendorff

Their work appears regularly in highly regarded scientific journals and conferences. The most common publication venues are:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nature Catalysis
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Science
  • ACS Central Science

Yogesh Surendranath was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Solar Energy Supply and Storage for the Legacy and Nonlegacy Worlds

    Timothy R. Cook;Dilek K. Dogutan;Steven Y. Reece;Yogesh Surendranath

  • Mechanistic studies of the oxygen evolution reaction by a cobalt-phosphate catalyst at neutral pH.

    Yogesh Surendranath;Matthew W. Kanan;Daniel G. Nocera

  • Cobalt-phosphate oxygen-evolving compound.

    Matthew W. Kanan;Yogesh Surendranath;Daniel G. Nocera

  • Nickel-borate oxygen-evolving catalyst that functions under benign conditions.

    Mircea Dincă;Yogesh Surendranath;Daniel G. Nocera

  • Structure and valency of a cobalt-phosphate water oxidation catalyst determined by in situ X-ray spectroscopy.

    Matthew W. Kanan;Junko Yano;Yogesh Surendranath;Mircea Dincă

  • Structure–Activity Correlations in a Nickel–Borate Oxygen Evolution Catalyst

    D. Kwabena Bediako;Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser;Yogesh Surendranath;Junko Yano

  • Electrolyte-Dependent Electrosynthesis and Activity of Cobalt-Based Water Oxidation Catalysts

    Yogesh Surendranath;Mircea Dinca;Daniel G Nocera

  • Electrochemical oxygen reduction catalysed by Ni3(hexaiminotriphenylene)2.

    Elise M. Miner;Tomohiro Fukushima;Dennis Sheberla;Lei Sun

  • A Self-Healing Oxygen-Evolving Catalyst

    Daniel A. Lutterman;Yogesh Surendranath;Daniel G. Nocera

  • EPR evidence for Co(IV) species produced during water oxidation at neutral pH.

    J Gregory McAlpin;Yogesh Surendranath;Mircea Dinca;Troy A Stich

  • Using nature's blueprint to expand catalysis with Earth-abundant metals

    R. Morris Bullock;Jingguang G. Chen;Jingguang G. Chen;Laura Gagliardi;Paul J. Chirik

  • Mechanistic studies of the oxygen evolution reaction mediated by a nickel-borate thin film electrocatalyst.

    D. Kwabena Bediako;Yogesh Surendranath;Daniel G. Nocera;Daniel G. Nocera

  • Mesostructure-Induced Selectivity in CO2 Reduction Catalysis.

    Anthony Shoji Hall;Youngmin Yoon;Anna Wuttig;Yogesh Surendranath

  • Cation Exchange: A Versatile Tool for Nanomaterials Synthesis

    Brandon J. Beberwyck;Yogesh Surendranath;A. Paul Alivisatos

  • A pyridinic Fe-N 4 macrocycle models the active sites in Fe/N-doped carbon electrocatalysts.

    Travis Marshall-Roth;Nicole J. Libretto;Alexandra T. Wrobel;Kevin J. Anderton

  • Highly active cobalt phosphate and borate based oxygen evolving catalysts operating in neutral and natural waters

    Arthur J. Esswein;Yogesh Surendranath;Steven Y. Reece;Daniel G. Nocera

  • Inhibited proton transfer enhances Au-catalyzed CO2-to-fuels selectivity.

    Anna Wuttig;Momo Yaguchi;Kenta Motobayashi;Masatoshi Osawa

  • The Nature of Lithium Battery Materials under Oxygen Evolution Reaction Conditions

    Seung Woo Lee;Christopher Carlton;Marcel Risch;Yogesh Surendranath

  • Tuning of Silver Catalyst Mesostructure Promotes Selective Carbon Dioxide Conversion into Fuels

    Youngmin Yoon;Anthony Shoji Hall;Anthony Shoji Hall;Yogesh Surendranath

  • Tracking a Common Surface-Bound Intermediate during CO2-to-Fuels Catalysis

    Anna Wuttig;Can Liu;Qiling Peng;Momo Yaguchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel G. Nocera
Daniel G. Nocera Harvard University
Mircea Dinca
Mircea Dinca Princeton University
A. Paul Alivisatos
A. Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago
Christopher H. Hendon
Christopher H. Hendon University of Oregon
Masatoshi Osawa
Masatoshi Osawa Hokkaido University
Jeffrey R. Long
Jeffrey R. Long Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Junko Yano
Junko Yano Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christopher J. Chang
Christopher J. Chang Princeton University
R. David Britt
R. David Britt University of California, Davis

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