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Prof Manish CHHOWALLA
Co-Principal Investigator
Prof Manish Chhowalla is the Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are in the fundamental studies of atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In particular, his group studies the optical and electronic properties of different phases of 2D TMDs. He has demonstrated that it is possible to induce phase transformations in atomically thin materials and utilise phases with disparate properties for field effect transistors, catalysis, and energy storage.
Prior to Cambridge, Prof. Chhowalla was a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. He was also the Director of the Institute of Advanced Materials, Devices & Nanotechnology at Rutgers. Before that, he was a doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge and Churchill College. After his doctorate and Royal Academy of Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship, Professor Chhowalla briefly worked in industry where he developed applications for “amorphous diamond”.
Prof Chhowalla was a Co-I on the C4T programme.
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Research Interest
Prof Chhowalla's research interests are in the fundamental studies of atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In particular, studying the electronic and electrochemical properties of 2D TMDs. This involves synthesis by chemical exfoliation or chemical vapor deposition, characterisation using advanced analytical techniques and fabrication of nanoscale devices. He also studies phase transformations in monolayered materials and utilisation of phases with disparate properties for catalysis and energy storage.
- 2D Semiconductors for Transistors
- Microelectrochemical cells for catalysis and energy storage
- Metallic 2D Materials for Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 and N2
Key Publications
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Yan Wang, Jong Chan Kim, Ryan J Wu, Jenny Martinez, Xiuju Song, Jieun Yang, Fang Zhao, Andre Mkhoyan, Hu Young Jeong, Manish Chhowalla "Van der Waals contacts between three-dimensional metals and two-dimensional semiconductors" Nature 568, 70–74 (2019)
Damien Voiry, Hyeon Suk Shin, Kian Ping Loh, Manish Chhowalla "Low-dimensional catalysts for hydrogen evolution and CO2 reduction" Nature Reviews Chemistry 2: 0105 (2018)
Heejun Yang, Sung Wng Kim, Manish Chhowalla and Young Hee Lee "Structural and quantum-state phase transitions in van der Waals layered materials" Nature Physics 13 931-937 (2017)
Manish Chhowalla, Debdeep Jena, and Hua Zhang "Two-dimensional semiconductors for transistors" Nature Reviews | Materials 1 16052 (2016)
Damien Voiry, Raymond Fullon, Jieun Yang, Cecilia de Carvalho Castro e Silva, Rajesh Kappera, Ibrahim Bozkurt, Daniel Kaplan, Maureen J. Lagos, Philip E. Batson, Gautam Gupta, Aditya D. Mohite, Liang Dong, Dequan Er, Vivek B. Shenoy, Tewodros Asefa, and Manish Chhowalla "The role of electronic coupling between substrate and 2D MoS2 nanosheets in electrocatalytic production of hydrogen" Nature Materials, 15, 1003 (2016)
Chhowalla, M., Shin, H., Eda, G. et al. The chemistry of two-dimensional layered transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets. Nature Chem 5, 263–275 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1589
Eda, G., Fanchini, G. & Chhowalla, M. Large-area ultrathin films of reduced graphene oxide as a transparent and flexible electronic material. Nature Nanotech 3, 270–274 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2008.83
Achievements
Prof Chhowalla was the founding Editor in Chief of Applied Materials Today and is now the Associate Editor of ACS Nano. He has been on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers since 2016.
2022 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
2018 UK Royal Society’s Wolfson Merit Award
2017 Fellow of Materials Research Society
2015 Fellow of Institute of Physics
2014 Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry
2009 UK Royal Society’s Wolfson Merit Award