People Prashant N. KumtaEdward R. Weidlein Chair, Department of EducationPhD, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, 1990 Professional InterestsProfessor Kumta obtained his Bachelor of Technology with Honors in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India in 1984. This was followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University following his graduation in 1990 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Full Professor with tenure in 1999. He also held joint faculty appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Department. He joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. Professor Kumta is the author and co-author of more than 150 refereed journal publications and has given more than 200 conference presentations with more than 66 invited presentations. He was also the recipient of the Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation in 1993 and has been continuously listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in American Education since 1999. He was the founding organizer of the first symposium on “Electrochemically Active Materials for Energy Storage and Devices” for the Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society held in Indianapolis in 1995, and has been actively involved in its organization and execution to date. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Materials Science and Engineering, B, Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology, an International Journal by Elsevier Publications. Selected PublicationsD. Choi and Prashant N. Kumta, “Surfactant Based Sol-Gel Approach to Nanostructured LiFePO4 for High Rate Li-ion Batteries”, J. Power Sources 163 (2007) 1064-1069. D. Choi, G.E. Blomgren and Prashant N. Kumta, “Fast and Reversible Surface Redox Reaction in Nanocrystalline Vanadium Nitride Supercapacitors”, Advanced Materials, 18 (2006)1178-1182. M.K. Datta, and Prashant N. Kumta, “Silicon, Graphite and Resin based Hard Carbon Nanocomposite Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries”, J. Power Sources 165 (2007) 368-378. D. Olton, Jinhua Li, Mary E. Wilson, Todd Rogers, John Close, Leaf Huang, Prashant N. Kumta and Charles Sfeir, “Nanostructured Calcium Phosphates (NanoCaPs) for Non-Viral Gene Delivery: Influence of the Synthesis Parameters on Transfection Efficiency”, Biomaterials 28 (2007) 1267-1279. Hsu-Feng Ko, Charles Sfeir and Prashant N. Kumta, “In situ synthesis and characterization of porous polymer-ceramic composites as scaffolds for gene delivery”, Materials Science and Engineering C 27 (2007) 479-483. C.-C. Chang, O. Velikokhatnyi and P.N. Kumta, “Effect of Magnesium Substitution in Lithium Nickel Oxide: An Ab-initio Study, J. Electrochemical Society, 151 (12), J91-J94, (2004). I.S. Kim, G.E. Blomgren and P.N. Kumta, “Si/SiC Nanocomposite Anodes Synthesized using High-energy Mechanical Milling”, J. of Power Sources, 130, 275-280, (2004). Prashant N. Kumta, Charles Sfeir, Dong-hyun Lee, Dana Olton, Daiwon Choi, “Nanostructured Calcium Phosphates for Biomedical Applications: Novel Synthesis and Characterization”, Acta Biomaterialia 1, 65-83, (2005). J. Maranchi, A.F. Hepp and P.N. Kumta, “High Capacity Reversible Thin Film Silicon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries”, Electrochemical and Solid State Letters 6 (9), A198- A201 (2003). J.Y. Kim, S. Narayanan, T. Waldez, and P.N. Kumta, “Sol-Gel Synthesis of High Surface Area Pt-Ru Electrocatalysts for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells”, J. Electrochemical Society 150 (11), A1421-A1431 (2003). |
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