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Layered Materials and Heterostructures
Sweta Das, Niharika Mohapatra, and Hemant Kumar, "Resolving Atomic-Scale Stick-Slip and Sub-Moiré Frictional Modulation in Twisted Bilayers with Variable Tip Sizes" (2025), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 37 275001
Saheb Bera and Hemant Kumar, "Tailoring Contact Properties in Janus TMD Spin-FETs for Enhanced Spin Transport: A Bilayer Interface Approach" (2025), ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 7, 3324-3332
Saheb Bera and Hemant Kumar, "Phase Stability of MXenes: Understanding the Role of Coordination Symmetries, Transition Metals, and Surface Terminations" (2023), Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127, 20734-20741
Drew Edelberg, Hemant Kumar, Vivek Shenoy, Héctor Ochoa, Abhay N Pasupathy, "Tunable strain soliton networks confine electrons in Van der Waals materials" (2020), Nature Physics, 16, 1097-1102
S. Jia, A. Bandyopadhyay, Hemant Kumar, Jing Zhang, Weipeng Wang, Tianshu Zhai, Vivek B Shenoy, Jun Lou, "Biomolecule Sensing by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering of Monolayer Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenide" (2020), Nanoscale, 12, 10723-10729
Nathan C. Frey, Arkamita Bandyopadhyay, Hemant Kumar, Babak Anasori, Yury Gogotsi, Vivek B. Shenoy, "Surface-Engineered MXenes: Electric Field Control of Magnetism and Enhanced Magnetic Anisotropy" (2019), ACS Nano, 13, 2831–2839
Nathan C. Frey, Hemant Kumar, Babak Anasori, Yury Gogotsi, Vivek B. Shenoy, "Tuning noncollinear spin structure and anisotropy in ferromagnetic nitride MXenes" (2018), ACS Nano, 12, 6319-6325
Hemant Kumar, Nathan C. Frey, Liang Dong, Babak Anasori, Yury Gogotsi, Vivek B. Shenoy, "Tunable Magnetism and Transport Properties in Nitride MXenes" (2017), ACS Nano, 11, 7648-7655, Featured on the cover
Liang Dong, Hemant Kumar, Babak Anasori, Yury Gogotsi, Vivek B. Shenoy, "Rational Design of 2-Dimensional Metallic and Semiconducting Spintronic Materials Based on Ordered Double-Transition-Metal MXenes" (2017), J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8, 422-428
Hemant Kumar, Liang Dong, Vivek B. Shenoy, "Limits of Coherency and Strain Transfer in Flexible 2D van der Waals Heterostructures: Formation of Strain Solitons and Interlayer Debonding" (2016), Scientific Reports, 5, 21516
Hemant Kumar, Dequan Er, Liang Dong, Junwen Li, Vivek B Shenoy, "Elastic deformations in 2D van der Waals heterostructures and their impact on optoelectronic properties: predictions from a multiscale computational approach" (2015), Scientific Reports, 5, 10872
Energy Materials
Mohana Sundaram Palvannan, S.K. Vineeth, Soumyashree Das Adhikari, Sanjay Kumar, Sennu Palanichamy, Chhail Bihari Soni, Mahesh Chandra, Sungjemmenla, Hemant Kumar, and Vipin Kumar, "Aluminium doped Sodium manganese hexa cyano ferrate cathode for high-rate safe Na-ion battery" (2025), Chemical Communications, Just Accepted
Sidhant Kumar Barik, Soumyashree Das Adhikari, and Hemant Kumar, "Tailoring Electrochemical Properties of Ether-based Solvents through Fluorination-Driven Solvation Control" (2025), ACS Applied Energy Materials, 8, 7673-7683
Rajesh Rajsekharan, Renjith Nadarajan, Sweta Das, Hemant Kumar, Manikoth M. Shaijumon, "Bifunctional Current Collectors for Lean-Lithium Metal Batteries" (2025), Advanced Functional Materials, 2502473
Ram Sewak, Vishnu Sudarsanan, and Hemant Kumar, "Accelerating discovery and design of high-performance solid-state electrolytes: a machine learning approach" (2025), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 27, 3834-3843
Chhail Bihari Soni, Sidhant Kumar Barik, Vineeth S.K., Bhupendra Yadav, Mahesh Chandra, Sungjemmenla, Sanjay Kumar, Hemant Kumar, and Vipin Kumar, "Sodium Metal Anode with Multiphasic Interphase for Room Temperature Sodium-Sulfur Pouch Cells" (2025), Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13, 6813-6825
C. Sanjaykumar, Sungjemmenla, Mahesh Chandra, Chhail Bihari Soni, S. K. Vineeth, Sweta Das, Nevo Cohen, Hemant Kumar, Daniel Mandler, and Vipin Kumar, "Tuning the local chemistry of SPAN to realize the development of room-temperature sodium–sulfur pouch cells" (2024), Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13, 1420-1429
Bhupendra Yadav, Chhail Bihari Soni, Saheb Bera, Hemant Kumar, Vipin Kumar, "Direct observation of sodium dendrites to decipher the complicated behavior of electrolyte systems" (2024), Electrochimica Acta, 507, 145212
Chhail Bihari Soni, Saheb Bera, Sungjemmenla, Mahesh Chandra, Vineeth S. K., Sanjay Kumar, Hemant Kumar, Vipin Kumar, "Altering Na-ion solvation to regulate dendrite growth for a reversible and stable room-temperature sodium-sulfur battery" (2024), Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 12, 21853-21863
Chhail Bihari Soni, Saheb Bera, SK Vineeth, Hemant Kumar, Vipin Kumar, "Novel organic molecule enabling a highly-stable and reversible sodium metal anode for room-temperature sodium-metal batteries" (2023), Journal of Energy Storage, 71, 108132
Tawseef Ahmad Wani, Parul Garg, Saheb Bera, Sanchari Bhattacharya, Sanjoy Dutta, Hemant Kumar, Ashok Bera, "Narrow-Bandgap LaMO3 (M = Ni, Co) nanomaterials for an efficient interfacial solar steam generation" (2022), Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 612, 203-212
L Wang, SS Welborn, Hemant Kumar, M Li, Z Wang, V. Shenoy, Eric Detsi, "High‐Rate and Long Cycle‐Life Alloy‐Type Magnesium‐Ion Battery Anode Enabled Through Demagnesiation Induced Near‐Room‐Temperature Solid-Liquid Phase Transformation" (2019), Advanced Energy Materials, 4, 1902086, Cover Article
Eric Detsi, Lin Wang, Samuel S Welborn, Hemant Kumar, Manni Li, Zeya Wang, Vivek B Shenoy, "Magnesium-Ion batteries: High-rate and Long cycle-Life Alloy-Type Magnesium-Ion battery Anode enabled through (De) magnesiation-Induced Near-Room-Temperature solid-Liquid Phase transformation" (2019), Advanced Energy Materials, 9, 1970180
Zeyu Wang, Arkamita Bandyopadhyay, Hemant Kumar, Manni Li, Akshaya Venkatakrishnan, Vivek B Shenoy, Eric Detsi, "Degradation of magnesium-ion battery anodes by galvanic replacement reaction in all-phenyl complex electrolyte" (2019), Journal of Energy Storage, 23, 195–201
Kamalika Ghatak, Swastik Basu, Tridip Das, Hemant Kumar, Dibakar Datta, "Effect of Cobalt Content on the Electrochemical Properties and Structural Stability of NCA Type Cathode Materials" (2018), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20, 22805-22817
Dequan Er, Han Ye, Nathan C. Frey, Hemant Kumar, Jun Lou, Vivek B. Shenoy, "Prediction of Enhanced Catalytic Activity for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenides" (2018), Nano Letters, 18, 3943–3949
Nathan C. Frey, Bryan Byles, Hemant Kumar, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Vivek B. Shenoy, "Prediction of optimal structural water concentration for maximized performance in transition-metal oxide electrodes" (2018), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20, 9480–9487
Hooman Yaghoobnejad Asl, Jintao Fu, Hemant Kumar, Samuel S. Welborn, Vivek B. Shenoy, Eric Detsi, "In-situ Dealloying of Bulk Mg2Sn in Mg-Ion Half Cell as an Effective Route to Nanostructured Sn for High-Performance Mg-Ion Battery Anodes" (2018), ACS Chemistry of Materials, 30, 1815-1824, Cover Article
Hemant Kumar, Eric Detsi, Daniel Abraham, Vivek B. Shenoy, "Fundamental Mechanisms of Solvent Decomposition Involved in SEI Formation in Sodium-Ion Batteries" (2017), ACS Chemistry of Materials, 28 (24), 8930–8941
D. Er, Eric Detsi, Hemant Kumar, Vivek B. Shenoy, "Defective Graphene and Graphene Allotropes as High Capacity Anode Materials for Mg-ion Batteries" (2016), ACS Energy Letters, 1, 638–645
Soft Matter Physics
Swayamshree Senapati, Innayat Irshad, Ajeet K Sharma, Hemant Kumar, "Predicting Gene Expression Changes from Chromatin Structure Modification" (2025), npj Systems Biology and Applications, 11, 34
Swayamshree Senapati, Innayat Irshad, Ajeet K Sharma, Hemant Kumar, "Fundamental insights into the correlation between chromosome configuration and transcription" (2023), Physical Biology, 20, 051002
Hemant Kumar, Saheb Bera, Subhadeep Dasgupta, A Sood, Chandan Dasgupta, Prabal Maiti, "Dipole Alignment of Water Molecules Flowing Through a Carbon Nanotube" (2023), Physical Review B, 107, 165402
Pratik Mishra, Kalipada Chatterjee, Hemant Kumar, Rajan Jha, "Flexible and wearable photonic-crystal fiber interferometer for physiological monitoring and healthcare" (2023), ACS Applied Optical Materials, 1, 569-577
P Mishra, H Kumar, S Sahu, R Jha "Human Pulse and Respiration Monitoring: Reconfigurable and Scalable Balloon‐Shaped Fiber Wearables" (2023) Advanced Materials Technologies 8, 2300429
Pratik Mishra, Hemant Kumar, Subrat Sahu, Rajan Jha, "Flexible and Wearable Optical System Based on U-shaped Cascaded Microfiber Interferometer" (2023), Advanced Materials Technologies, 8, 2200661
Vandana Yadav, Inayat Ullah Irshad, Hemant Kumar, Ajeet K Sharma, "Quantitative Modeling of Protein Synthesis Using Ribosome Profiling Data" (2021), Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 8, 537
Hemant Kumar, Chandan Dasgupta, Prabal K. Maiti, "Phase Transition in Monolayer Water Confined in Janus Nanopore" (2018), Langmuir, 34 (40), 12199–12205
Sudip Chakraborty, Hemant Kumar, Chandan Dasgupta, Prabal K. Maiti, "Confined Water: Structure, Dynamics and Thermodynamics" (2017), Accounts of Chem. Res., 50 (9), 2139–2146
Hemant Kumar, Chandan Dasgupta, Prabal K. Maiti, "Driving Force for water entry in hydrophobic carbon nanotube: Energy or Entropy" (2015), Molecular Simulation, 41, 504-511
Hemant Kumar, Chandan Dasgupta, Prabal K. Maiti, "Structure, Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Single-file Water Under Confinement: Effects of Polarizability of Water Molecules" (2014), RSC Adv., 5, 1893–1901
R. Shivanna, D. Pramanik, Hemant Kumar, et al., "Confinement Induced Stochastic Sensing of Charged Coronene and Perylene Aggregates in alpha-Hemolysin Nanochannel" (2013), Soft Matter, 9, 10196-10202
Hemant Kumar, Yves Lansac, Matt. Glaser, Prabal K. Maiti, "Biopolymers in nanopores: challenges and opportunities" (2011), Soft Matter, 7, 5898–5907
Hemant Kumar, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Chandan Dasgupta, A.K. Sood, S.T. Lin, Prabal K. Maiti, "Thermodynamics of water entry in hydrophobic channels of carbon nanotubes" (2011), J. Chem. Phys., 134, 124105
Hemant Kumar, Prabal K. Maiti, "Introduction to molecular dynamics simulation" (2011), Computational Statistical Physics: Lecture Notes, Guwahati SERC School, 298, Book Chapter