Publications

• In situ Raman spectroscopy for probing solar fuels reactions. Topics in Current Chemistry:

Solar Fuels 2015, Springer, (Invited)

• Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. Book: Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Fundamentals, Materials, and Applications. Vipin Kamboj and Chinmoy Ranjan. Elsevier (invited)

• Operando Studies on Solid Oxide Ceria Electrodes during CO2 Electroreduction Vipin Kamboj, Soham Raychowdhury, Chinmoy Ranjan*, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2024.124880 

• Unusual Hydrogen-mediated Oxidation in Doped Ceria Systems: Operando Insights. Vipin Kamboj, Soham Raychowdhury, Chinmoy Ranjan*. Chemrxiv: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-m46zg 

• Ni-doped Cu oxides catalysts for ORR: Suppressing H2O2 formation by engineering chemical strain. Sekhar Kumar Biswal and Chinmoy Ranjan*.ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2024, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.4c01535 

• Diving deep into solid oxide-based CO2 electrolysis: Operando insights Vipin Kamboj, Soham Raychowdhury & Chinmoy Ranjan*. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, Volume 46, August 2024, 101514. (Invited Article), DOI: 10.1016/j.coelec.2024.101514 

• Cu infiltrated Ni-YSZ cathode in CO2 (+H2) stream: Reverse Water Gas Shift vs. CO2 electrolysis. Vipin Kamboj and Chinmoy Ranjan*. Journal of Power Sources, 614 (2024) 234985 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2024.234985

• Operando Studies on Solid Oxide Ceria Electrodes during CO2 Electroreduction. Vipin Kamboj, Soham Raychowdhury, Chinmoy Ranjan* Chemrxiv DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-b3lvx 

• Enhancement in CO2 Electroreduction upon Pr Infiltration of Ceria Electrodes .Vipin  Kamboj, Soham Raychowdhury, Shivam and Chinmoy Ranjan*  Chemrxiv 2024 DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-swljj 

• Enabling pure CO2 reduction on Ni{Cu}x-YSZ electrode via an oxide-mediated mechanism. Vipin  Kamboj, Soham Raychowdhury, and Chinmoy Ranjan* Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2024, 344, 123631

• Enabling pure CO2 reduction on Ni-YSZ electrodes: Operando studies indicate an oxide-mediated mechanism.  Vipin  Kamboj, Soham Raychowdhury and Chinmoy Ranjan* Chemrxiv 2022 DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-1nntq

• • • ·Suppressing H2O2 formation in oxygen reduction reaction using Co-doped Cu electrodes. Authors: Sekhar Kumar Biswal and Chinmoy Ranjan*. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022,10, 22042-22057

• • • Electronic Effect or Underpotentially Deposited Hydrogen? Insights into the effect of Pb on formic acid electro-oxidation on Pt. Authors: Dwaipayan Roychowdhury, Veenu, Chinmoy Ranjan*. ChemCatChem 2022, (doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202200115).

    • Promotion of Electrochemical Water Oxidation Activity of Au Supported Cobalt Oxide upon Addition of Cr: Insights using in situ Raman Spectroscopy Abhinaba Das, Bapuji Mohapatra, Vipin Kamboj, Chinmoy Ranjan*. ChemCatChem 2021, 13(8), 2053-2063

    • ·Mechanistic aspects of the comparative oscillatory electrochemical oxidation of formic acid and methanol on platinum electrode. Nickson Perini*, Marcelo V. F. Delmonde, Chinmoy Ranjan & Hamilton Varela. Journal of Solid-State Electrochemistry, 2020, 24, 1811 -1818

    •  The active site for the water oxidising anodic iridium oxide probed through in situ Raman spectroscopy. Zoran Pavlovic, Chinmoy Ranjan*, Maurice van Gastel, Robert Schloegl. Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 12414-12417

• • • Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Stable and Highly Active Ir-oxohydroxides for Electrochemical Oxidation of Water Cyriac Masseue, Xing Huang, Andrey Tarasov, Chinmoy Ranjan, Sebastian Cap, Robert Schloegl Chem.Sus.Chem. 2017

• • • Probing the structure of water oxidising anodic Iridium oxide catalyst using Raman spectroscopy. Zoran Pavlovic, Chinmoy Ranjan*, Qiang Gao, Maurice van Gastel, Robert Schloegl. ACS Catalysis 2016, 6 (12), 8098-8105

• • • Characterization of Platinum and Iridium Oxyhydrate Surface Layers from Platinum and Iridium Foils. Benjamin Johnson, Chinmoy Ranjan, Mark Greiner, Rosa Arrigo, Manfred, Erwin Schuster, Britta Hoepfner, Mihaela Gorgoi, Iver Lauermann, Marc Willinger, Axel Knop-Gericke, and Robert Schloegl. Chem.Sus.Chem. 2016,9,1634-1646

• • • Enhancement of stability and activity of MnOx/Au electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution through adequate electrolyte composition. Qiang Gao, Chinmoy Ranjan*, Zoran Pavlovic, Raoul Blume, Robert Schloegl. ACS Catalysis 2015, 5, 7265-7275.

• • • Electrochemical degradation of multi wall carbon nanotubes at high anodic potential for oxygen evolution in acidic media. Youngmi Yi, Julian Tornow, Elena Willinger, Marc Willinger, Chinmoy Ranjan, Robert Schloegl. ChemElectroChem. 2015, 2, 1929 - 1937

• • • In Situ Study of the Gas-Phase Electrolysis of Water on Platinum by NAP-XPS. Rosa Arrigo, Michael Haevecker, Manfred E. Schuster, Chinmoy Ranjan, Axel Knop-Gericke, Robert Schloegl. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2013, 125(44), 11874-11879.

• • • Catalyst supports for polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Chinmayee Subban, Qin Zhou, Brian Leonard, Chinmoy Ranjan, Heather M. Edvenson, F. J. DiSalvo, Semeret Munie, and Janet Hunting. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2010 368, 3243-3253.

                                                                     Publication in the area of Solids State Chemistry

• • • · Synthesis, crystal and electronic structures of La3Cr2N6. Francois Chevire, Chinmoy Ranjan, Francis J. DiSalvo. Solid State Communications 2009, 149(7-8), 273-276

• • • ·       Two novel Zintl compounds Na12Ge8Sn and Na15Ge8SnP: Single crystal and electronic structures. Yong K. Dong, Chinmoy Ranjan, Francis J. DiSalvo. Solid State Sciences 2008, 10(5), 525-532.

• • • ·       Two polymorphs of Ba3Sn2P4 : Single crystal and electronic structures. Yong K. Dong, Chinmoy Ranjan, Francis J. DiSalvo. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2007, 430(1-2), 54-59.

• • • ·       Cu4Mo6Se8: Synthesis, crystal structure and electronic structure of a new Chevrelphase polymorph. Michael A. Maguire, Chinmoy Ranjan, and Francis J. DiSalvo. Inorganic Chemistry 2006, 45(6), 2718-2726.