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Progna Banerjee, Ph.D.
My Aim: "Nanomaterial design for batteries using wet chemistry, physics, and machine learning"
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
19) P. Banerjee*, S. Toso, R. Schaller, N. A. Kotov, L. Manna, & E. V. Shevchenko, Oriented attachment in halide perovskite nanoplatelets with functional chiral organic ligands, to be submitted in Feb 2024.
• Corresponding author
18) K. Omotosho, V. Gurung, P. Banerjee, V. E. V. Shevchenko, & D. Berman, Self-Cleaning Highly Porous TiO2 Coating Designed by Swelling-Assisted Sequential Infiltration Synthesis (SIS) of a Block Copolymer Template, Polymers, 16(3), 308, 2024
DOI: doi.org/10.3390/polym16030308
17) P. Banerjee*, V. B. Prakapenka, S. Chariton, & E. V. Shevchenko, Newly Discovered B1->B2 Phase Transformations in Cation Exchanged Copper Selenides Under High Pressure, Nano Letters, submitted, 2023.
Unconventional crystalline phases discovered in cation exchanged copper selenide nanocrystals and nanoplatelets under high pressures
• Corresponding author
16) P. Banerjee*, A. S. Filatov, X. Zuo, B. T. Diroll, & E. V. Shevchenko, Mechanistic Insights into Copper (I) and Copper (II) Cation Exchange Reactions in CdSe Nanoplatelets, Chemistry of Materials, 35, 21, 8872–8882 (2023).
• Corresponding author
15) J. M. Deng*, E. Awoonor-Williams‡,
P. Banerjee‡, M. Barecka‡, L. Bickerton‡, S. Di Pietro‡, S. Dorn‡, O. Harper Wilkins‡, K. Jablonka‡, G. Laudadio‡, E. Kreidt‡, H. Mannochio-Russo‡, J. Terra‡, S. S. Yerneni‡, M. Yusuf‡, Prioritizing Mentorship as Scientific Leaders, ACS Central Science, 2023.
DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.3c00500
‡ equal contribution
14) P. Banerjee*, G. R. Burks, S. B. Bialik, M. Nassr, E. Bello, M. Alleyne, B. D. Freeman, J. E. Barrick, C. M. Schroeder, and D. J. Milliron, Structure derived anti-reflectivity at the nanoscale in leafhopper brochosomes, Advanced Photonics Research, 2023.
DOI:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adpr.202200343
Preprint DOI:
10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-g1h5x.
• Corresponding author
13) B. T. Diroll, P. Banerjee, E. V. Shevchenko, Optical Anisotropy of CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets, Nano Convergence, 10, 18 (2023).
DOI: https://nanoconvergencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40580-023-00367-5
Argonne's highlight: https://www.anl.gov/cnm/article/perovskite-nanoplatelets-show-optical-properties-conducive-to-lightemitting-technolog
12) A. Kim, T. Vo, H. An, P. Banerjee, L. Yao, S. Zhou, C. Kim, D. J. Milliron, S. C. Glotzer, Q. Chen, Symmetry-breaking in patch formation on gold nanoprisms via supramolecular “bandwagoning”, Nature Communications, 13, 6774 (2022)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34246-0
• Selected for Nature Communications “Editor’s Highlight” section https://www.nature.com/collections/eecgdgijhh
11) J. Hachtel, N. Borodinov, K. Roccapriore, S. H. Cho, P. Banerjee, D. Milliron, O. Ovchinnikova, M. Ziatdinov, S. Kalinin, R. Vasudevan, Beyond NMF: Advanced Signal Processing and Machine Learning Methodologies for Hyperspectral Analysis in EELS, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 27, S1, 322-324, 2021.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927621001720
10) N. Borodinov, P. Banerjee, S. H. Cho, D. J. Milliron, O. S. Ovchinnikova, R. K. Vasudevan, J. A. Hachtel, Enhancing Hyperspectral EELS Analysis of Complex Plasmonic Nanostructures with Pan-Sharpening, Journal of Chemical Physics, 154, 014202, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0031324
9) J. Heo, D. D. Torres, P. Banerjee, P. K. Jain, In-situ electron microscopy mapping of an order-disorder transition in a superionic conductor, Nature Communications, 10, 1505, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09502-5
8) P. Banerjee, P. K. Jain, Mechanism of sulfidation of small zinc oxide nanoparticles, RSC Advances, 8, 34476-34482, 2018. DOI: 10.1039/C8RA06949B
7) P. Banerjee, P. K. Jain, Lithiation of copper selenide nanocrystals, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 57 (30), 9315-9319, 2018. DOI:10.1002/anie.201803358
FEATURED IN HOT TOPIC: BATTERIES AND SUPERCAPACITORS
6) P. Banerjee‡ (co-first), H. Nguyen (co-first)‡, D. Nguyen, J. W. Lyding, M. G. Gruebele, P. K. Jain, STM imaging of localized surface plasmons on individual gold nanoislands, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 9 (8), 1970-1976, 2018. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00502
5) D. D. Torres, P. Banerjee, S. Pamidighantam, P. K. Jain, A non-natural wurtzite polymorph of HgSe: A potential 3D topological Insulator, Chemistry of Materials, 29 (15), 6356-6366, 2017. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01674
4) P. Banerjee‡ (co-first), S.L. White (co-first)‡, P.K. Jain, Liquid-Like Cationic Sub-Lattice in Copper Selenide Clusters, Nature Communications, 8, 14514, 2017. DOI:10.1038/ncomms14514. link
UIUC NEWS BUREAU PRESS RELEASE: TINY NANOCLUSTERS COULD SOLVE BIG PROBLEMS FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES link
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE STORY: CHARGING AHEAD: THE FUTURE OF BATTERIES link
R&D MAGAZINE HIGHLLIGHT: NANOCLUSTERS HELP IMPROVE LITHIUM ION BATTERIES link
AZONANO STORY: NANOCLUSTERS AND THE FUTURE OF LITHIUM BATTERIES link
HIGHLIGHTED ON CEMAG LAYERED GRAPHENE, IMAGING NEMATODES, PREVENTING BATTERY EXPLOSIONS link
ALSO FEATURED ON PHYSORG, EUREKALERT, AND OTHER SCIENCE MEDIA OUTLETS
3) S.L. White, P. Banerjee, I. Chakraborty, and P. K. Jain, Ion Exchange Transformation of Magic-sized Clusters, Chemistry of Materials. 28 (22), 8391-9398, 2016. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b03882.
ACS AUTHOR CHOICE ARTICLE
2) K-K. Liu, S. Tadepalli, G. Kumari, P. Banerjee, L. Tian, P.K. Jain, S. Singamaneni, Polarization-Dependent Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Activity of Anisotropic Plasmonic Nanorattles, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120 (30), 16899-16906, 2016. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00955
1) J.Panda, P. Banerjee, T.K. Nath, Electrical Spin Extraction and giant positive junction magneto-resistance in Fe3O4/MgO/n-Si diode-like hetero-structure, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 47 (41), 415103, 2014
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