Selected Publications

3D Engineered Dual-Redox Zinc-Iodine Microbatteries for Intrinsically Safe on-Chip Energy Storage

Nibagani Naresh, Sanat Nalini Paltasingh, Yijia Zhu, Xiaopeng Liu, Yujia Fan, Monojit Mondal, Su Jin Heo, Shuhui Li, Mingqing Wang, Shaoliang Guan, Yanzhuo Li, Georgios Nikiforidis, Shahab Akhavan, Ivan P. Parkin, Saroj Kumar Nayak, Michael De Volder, Buddha Deka Boruah*

Advanced Science 2026, doi.org/10.1002/advs.75453

3D Porous Zinc Scaffold Anodes for Enhanced Stability and Performance in Zinc-Ion Energy Storage Systems

Xiaopeng Liu, Ruiqi Wu, Xueqing Hu, Alex M. Ganose, Jingli Luo, Iman Pinnock, Nibagani Naresh, Yijia Zhu, Yujia Fan, Tianlei Wang, Shuhui Li, Ivan P. Parkin, Buddha Deka Boruah*

ACS Nano 2025, 19, 26147–26160

Design of Porous 3D Interdigitated Current Collectors and Hybrid Microcathodes for Zn-Ion Microcapacitors

Yujia Fan, Nibagani Naresh, Yijia Zhu, Mingqing Wang, Buddha Deka Boruah*

ACS Nano 2025, 10.1021/acsnano.5c00917

3D Porous Metal‐Scaffold Interdigitated Micro‐Electrodes for High‐Performance On‐Chip Energy Storage Systems

Nibagani Naresh, Yujia Fan, Yijia Zhu, Tianlei Wang, Shuhui Li, Ivan P Parkin, Michael De Volder, Buddha Deka Boruah*

Advanced Functional Materials 2025, 10.1002/adfm.202507537

Chemically Processed Porous V2O5 Thin-Film Cathodes for High-Performance Thin-film Zn-Ion Batteries

Jingli Luo, Mengjue Cao, Nibagani Naresh, Jnanraj Borah, Shuhui Li, Tianlei Wang, Bimal K. Sarma, Jianfeng Yao, Ivan P. Parkin,* Buddha Deka Boruah*

Advanced Functional Materials 2024, 10.1002/adfm.202417607

Improving Electrochemical Performance in Planar On-Chip Zn-ion Micro-Batteries via Interlayer Strategies

Yijia Zhu, Nibagani Naresh, Xiaopeng Liu, Jingli Luo, Yujia Fan, Mengjue Cao, Bing Li, Mingqing Wang, Buddha Deka Boruah*

Small 2025, 10.1002/smll.202405733

Ferroelectric Interfaces for Dendrite Prevention in Zinc-Ion Batteries

Xueqing Hu, Bastola Narayan, Nibagani Naresh, Iman Pinnock, Yijia Zhu, Xiaopeng Liu, Tianlei Wang, Bing Li, Ivan P. Parkin, Buddha Deka Boruah*

Small 2024, 10.1002/smll.202403555

Advanced 3D Micro-Electrodes for On-Chip Zinc-Ion Micro-Batteries

Nibagani Naresh, Yijia Zhu, Jingli Luo, Yujia Fan, Tianlei Wang, Kumar Raju, Michael De Volder, Ivan P. Parkin, Buddha Deka Boruah*

Advanced Functional Materials 2025, 10.1002/adfm.202413777

Advanced Porous Gold-PANI Micro-Electrodes for High-Performance On-Chip Micro-Supercapacitors

Nibagani Naresh, Yijia Zhu, Yujia Fan, Jingli Luo, Tianlei Wang, Ivan P. Parkin, Buddha Deka Boruah*

Nano Letters 2024, 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c03194

Planar Zn-Ion Microcapacitors with High-Capacity Activated Carbon Anode and VO2 (B) Cathode

Yujia Fan, Iman Pinnock, Xueqing Hu, Tianlei Wang, Yinan Lu, Ruixiang Li, Mingqing Wang, Ivan P. Parkin, Michael De Volder, Buddha Deka Boruah*

Nano Letters 2024, 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c02539

Synergistic Contribution of Activated Carbon and PEDOT:PSS in Hybrid Electrodes for High-Performance Planar Micro-Supercapacitors

Yujia Fan, Tianlei Wang, Rica Asrosa, Bing Li, Nibagani Naresh, Xiaopeng Liu, Shaoliang Guan, Ruixiang Li, Mingqing Wang, Ivan P. Parkin, Buddha Deka Boruah*

Chemical Engineering Journal 2024, 488, 150672

Polyaniline and Water Pre-intercalated V2O5 Cathodes for High- performance Planar Zinc-ion Micro-batteries

Yijia Zhu, Xiaopeng Liu, Xueqing Hu, Tianlei Wang, Ivan P. Parkin, Mingqing Wang, Buddha Deka Boruah*

Chemical Engineering Journal 2024, 487,150384

Photothermal Enhancement of Prussian Blue Cathodes for Li-Ion Batteries

Lifu Tan, Byung-Man Kim, Arvind Pujari, Ze He, Buddha Deka Boruah, and Michael De Volder*

Nano Letters 2024, DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00752

Dendrite-Free Zinc Anodes Enabled by Exploring Polar-Face-Rich 2D ZnO Interfacial Layers for Rechargeable Zn-Ion Batteries

Xueqing Hu, Joanna Borowiec, Yijia Zhu, Xiaopeng Liu, Ruiqi Wu, Alex M. Ganose, Ivan P. Parkin,* Buddha Deka Boruah*

Small 2024, 20, 2306827

Hydrogenated V2O5 with Improved Optical and Electrochemical Activities for Photo-Accelerated Lithium-Ion Batteries

Yinan Lu, Holly Andersen, Ruiqi Wu, Alex M. Ganose, Bo Wen, Arvind Pujari, Tianlei Wang, Joanna Borowiec, Ivan P. Parkin,* Michael De Volder,* Buddha Deka Boruah*

Small 2024, 20, 2308869

Interrogating the Light-Induced Charging Mechanism in Li-Ion Batteries Using Operando Optical Microscopy

Raj Pandya, Angus Mathieson, Buddha Deka Boruah, Hilton B de Aguiar, Michael de Volder

Nano Letters 2023, 23, 7288-7296

Molybdenum Disulfide - Zinc Oxide Photocathodes for Photo-Rechargeable Zinc-Ion Batteries

Buddha Deka Boruah,* Bo Wen, and Michael De Volder* 

ACS Nano 2021, 15, 16616-16624. 

Light Rechargeable Lithium-ion Batteries Using V2O5 Cathodes

Buddha Deka Boruah, Bo Wen, and Michael De Volder* 

Nano Letters 2021, 21, 3527. 

Vanadium Dioxide Cathodes for High-Rate Photo-Rechargeable Zinc-Ion Batteries

Buddha Deka Boruah,* Angus Mathieson, Sulki Park, Xiao Zhang, Bo Wen, Lifu Tan, Adam Boies, and Michael De Volder* 

 Advanced Energy Materials 2021, 11, 2100115. 

Recent Advances in Off-grid Electrochemical Capacitors

Buddha Deka Boruah* 

Energy Storage Materials 2021, 34, 53-75. 

Photo-Rechargeable Zinc-Ion Capacitors using V2O5-Activated Carbon Electrodes

Buddha Deka Boruah,* Bo Wen, Satyawan Nagane, Xiao Zhang, Samuel D. Stranks, Adam Boies, and Michael De Volder*

ACS Energy Letters 2020, 5, 3132-3139. 

Photo-Rechargeable Zinc-Ion Capacitor using 2D Graphitic Carbon Nitride

Buddha Deka Boruah,* Angus Mathieson, Bo Wen, Changshin Jo, Felix Deschler, and Michael De Volder* 

Nano Letters 2020, 20, 5967-5974. 

Photo-rechargeable Zinc-ion Batteries

Buddha Deka Boruah,* Angus Mathieson, Bo Wen, Sascha Feldmann, Wesely M Dose, and Michael De Volder* 

Energy & Environmental Science 2020, 13, 2414-2421. 

Roadmap of In-plane Electrochemical Capacitors and their Advanced Integrated Systems

Buddha Deka Boruah* 

Energy Storage Materials 2019, 21, 219-239.