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2026

Chakradhar, Sahoo; Chakraborty, Suman Kumar; Kousika, A.; Jones, Alfred J. H.; Sharma, Manas; Nielsen, Thomas S.; Jiang, Zhihao; Kolasseri, Ihsan A.; Das, Subhadip; Watson, Matthew D.; Cacho, Cephise; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Chen, Yong P.; Heinz, Tony F.; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Sahoo, Prasana K.; Ulstrup, Søren

Direct Nanoscale Mapping of Band Alignment in Single-Layer Semiconducting Lateral Heterojunctions Journal Article

In: Nano Letters, vol. 26, iss. 15, pp. 5178-5186, 2026.

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Islam, Sk Safikul; Dhondi, Pradeep; Kumari, Anjali; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Bose, Suryasarathi

Architecting stable lyotropic liquid crystal graphene oxide-IPN membranes for ultrasensitive ion sieving Journal Article

In: Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 536, no. 175866, 2026.

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Kumar, Keerthana S; Gogoi, Abhijit; Nampoothiri, Madhavan DK; Acharya, Bhavesh Kumar; Verma, Manvi; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Singh, Akshay

Oxygen as a dual function regulator in MoS2 CVD synthesis: enhancing precursor evaporation while modulating reaction kinetics Online

2026, visited: 30.03.2026.

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Kumar, Vivek; Jangid, Abhishek; Sharma, Manas; Verma, Manvi; Pasyanthi, Jampala; Kumar, Keerthana S.; Sharma, Piyush; Chiglintsev, Emil O.; Panin, Mikhail I.; Punnathanam, Sudeep N.; Chernov, Alexander I.; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Singh, Akshay

Tailored Vapor Deposition Unlocks Large-Grain, Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Growth of 2D Magnetic CrCl3 Journal Article

In: Advanced Materials, no. e14405, 2026.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth; Motamarri, Phani

Atomic-Scale Simulations: A Window into the Nanoscale Journal Article

In: Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 2026.

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Pradeep, Dhondi; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Aqueous chemistry of MoS2 nanopores: how functional groups influence water permeation and ion/boron rejection Journal Article

In: Nanoscale, vol. 18, pp. 9190-9208, 2026.

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Chaturvedi, Shivam; Pathak, Amar Deep; Sinha, Nishant; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Transient Microkinetic Modeling of Electrochemical Reactions: Capturing Unsteady Dynamics of CO Reduction and Oxygen Evolution Journal Article

In: Advanced Theory and Simulations, no. e00799, 2026.

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Marcato, Tommaso; Oh, Jiwoo; Lin, Zhan-Hong; Tian, Tian; Gogoi, Abhijit; Shivarudraiah, Sunil B.; Kumar, Sudhir; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Zeng, Shuangshuang; Shih, Chih-Jen

Scalable nanopatterning of organic light-emitting diodes beyond the diffraction limit Journal Article

In: Nature Photonics, vol. 20, pp. 31-39, 2026.

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2025

Sudhakar, Hari R.; Gupta, Ankur; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Near-electrode anion dehydration and field-dependent dielectric response govern double-layer capacitance Journal Article

In: Physical Review E, vol. 112, no. 055503, 2025.

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Bhowmik, Sayan; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Size and Chemical Environment Control Nanopore Geometry in 2D MoS2 : From Irregular to Triangular Defects Journal Article

In: Small, vol. 21, no. e2504611, 2025.

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Gupta, Ria Sen; Islam, Sk Safikul; Pradeep, Dhondi; Jose, Theres; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Bose, Suryasarathi

Sequential Interpenetrating Polymer Network Confines Shear-Aligned Graphene Oxide Liquid Crystals Enabling Precise Molecular Sieving Journal Article

In: Small, vol. 21, iss. 26, no. e2503746, 2025.

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Sinha, Abhinav; Verma, Manvi; Kumar K M, Nandeesh; Kumar, Keerthana S; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Singh, Akshay

Critical Role of Precursor Flux in Modulating Nucleation Density in 2D Material Synthesis Revealed by Digital Twin Journal Article

In: Nanoscale Advances, vol. 7, iss. 11, pp. 3568-3578, 2025.

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Rajagopalan, R.; Chaturvedi, S.; Chowdhary, N.; Gogoi, A.; Choksi, T. S.; Govind Rajan, A.

Advances in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Bulk and Two-Dimensional Electrocatalysts: From First Principles to Experimental Outcomes Journal Article

In: Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, vol. 51, no. 101668, 2025.

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Verma, A. K.; Atif, S.; Padhy, A.; Choksi, T. S.; Barpanda, P.; Govind Rajan, A.

Robust Oxygen Evolution on Ni-Doped MoO3: Overcoming Activity-Stability Tradeoff in Alkaline Water Splitting Journal Article

In: Chem and Bio Engineering, vol. 2, iss. 4, pp. 241–252, 2025.

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Ghorai, S.; Dhondi, P.; Govind Rajan, A.

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Functionalized hBN Nanopores in Water: Ab Initio Force Field and Implications for Water Desalination Journal Article

In: Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 162, iss. 4, no. 044705, 2025.

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Majumdar, J.; Mandal, S.; Govind Rajan, A.; Maiti, P. K.

Similar Structure but Different Thermodynamic, Dielectric, and Frictional Properties of Confined Water in Twisted 2D Materials: MoS2 vs. Graphene Journal Article

In: Nanoscale, vol. 17, iss. 4, pp. 2354–2364, 2025.

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Sharma, Bharat Bhushan; Kedara, Anjana; Muralidharan, Girish; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Understanding the Effects of Surface and Edge Functionalization on the Mechanical Properties of Graphene and Graphene Oxide Journal Article

In: ChemPhysChem, vol. 26, iss. 5, no. e202400919, 2025.

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2024

Sharma, Piyush; Thomas, Sneha; Nair, Mahika; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Machine Learnable Language for the Chemical Space of Nanopores Enables Structure-Property Relationships in Nanoporous 2D Materials Journal Article

In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, iss. 44, pp. 30126–30138, 2024.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth

Resolving the Debate between Boltzmann and Gibbs Entropy: Relative Energy Window Eliminates Thermodynamic Inconsistencies and Allows Negative Absolute Temperatures Journal Article

In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 15, iss. 36, pp. 9263–9271, 2024.

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Paliwal, Shubhani; Li, Wei; Liu, Pingwei; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Generalized Model of Inhibitor-Modulated 2D Polymer Growth to Understand the Controlled Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks Journal Article

In: JACS Au, vol. 4, iss. 8, pp. 2862–2873, 2024.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth

Pedagogical Approach to Microcanonical Statistical Mechanics via Consistency with the Combined First and Second Law of Thermodynamics for a Nonideal Fluid Journal Article

In: Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 101, iss. 6, pp. 2448–2457, 2024.

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Arturo, Steven G.; Broadbelt, Linda J.; Dauenhauer, Paul. J; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Materials Design: The Next Paradigm in Chemistry and Engineering Journal Article

In: ACS Engineering Au, vol. 4, iss. 3, pp. 293–294, 2024.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth; Martirez, John Mark P.; Carter, Emily A.

Strongly Facet-Dependent Activity of Iron-Doped β-Nickel Oxyhydroxide for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction Journal Article

In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 26, pp. 14721-14733 , 2024.

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Kumar, Shiv; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Predicting Quantum-Mechanical Partial Charges in Arbitrarily Long Boron Nitride Nanotubes to Accurately Simulate Nanoscale Water Transport Journal Article

In: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol. 20, iss. 8, pp. 3298–3307, 2024.

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Ghorai, Sagar; Govind Rajan, Ananth

From Molecular Precursors to MoS2 Monolayers: Nanoscale Mechanism of Organometallic Chemical Vapor Deposition Journal Article

In: Chemistry of Materials, vol. 36, iss. 6, pp. 2698–2710, 2024.

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2023

Lal, Dhruv; Konnur, Tanmay; Verma, Anand Mohan; Shaneeth, M.; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Unraveling Low Overpotential Pathways for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to CH4 on Pure and Doped MoS2 Edges Journal Article

In: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 62, iss. 49, pp. 21191–21207, 2023.

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Seal, Aniruddha; Tiwari, Utkarsh; Gupta, Ankur; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Incorporating Ion-Specific van der Waals and Soft Repulsive Interactions in the Poisson-Boltzmann Theory of Electrical Double Layers Journal Article

In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 25, pp. 21708-21722 , 2023.

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John, Anwin; Verma, Anand Mohan; Shaneeth, M; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Discovering a Single-Atom Catalyst for CO2 Electroreduction to C1 Hydrocarbons: Thermodynamics and Kinetics on Aluminum-Doped Copper Journal Article

In: ChemCatChem, vol. 15, iss. 14, no. e202300188, 2023.

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Warner, Jamie H.; Bhowmik, Sayan; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Role of Chemical Etching in the Nucleation of Nanopores in 2D MoS2: Insights from First-Principles Calculations Journal Article

In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 127, iss. 14, pp. 6873–6883, 2023.

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Thomas, Sneha; Silmore, Kevin S.; Sharma, Piyush; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Enumerating Stable Nanopores in Graphene and their Geometrical Properties Using the Combinatorics of Hexagonal Lattices Journal Article

In: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, vol. 63, iss. 3, pp. 870–881, 2023.

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Kozawa, D.; Li, S. X.; Ichihara, T.; Govind Rajan, A.; Gong, X.; He, G.; Koman, V. B.; Zeng, Y.; Kuehne, M.; Silmore, K. S.; Parviz, D.; Liu, P.; Liu, A. T.; Faucher, S.; Yuan, Z.; Warner, J.; Blankschtein, D.; Strano, M. S.

Discretized hexagonal boron nitride quantum emitters and their chemical interconversion Journal Article

In: Nanotechnology, vol. 34, iss. 11, pp. 115702, 2023.

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2022

Verma, Ankit Kumar; Verma, Anand Mohan; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Theoretical understanding of electrochemical phenomena in 2D electrode materials Journal Article

In: Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, vol. 36, pp. 101116, 2022.

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Verma, Ashutosh Kumar; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Surface Roughness Explains the Observed Water Contact Angle and Slip Length on 2D Hexagonal Boron Nitride Journal Article

In: Langmuir, vol. 38, no. 30, pp. 9210–9220, 2022.

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Sheshanarayana, Rahul; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Tailoring Nanoporous Graphene via Machine Learning: Predicting Probabilities and Formation Times of Arbitrary Nanopore Shapes Journal Article

In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 156, pp. 204703, 2022.

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Bhowmik, Sayan; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Chemical Vapor Deposition of 2D Materials: A Review of Modeling, Simulation, and Machine Learning Studies Journal Article

In: iScience, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 103832, 2022.

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Sharma, Bharat Bhushan; Govind Rajan, Ananth

How Grain Boundaries and Interfacial Electrostatic Interactions Modulate Water Desalination Via Nanoporous Hexagonal Boron Nitride Journal Article

In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 126, no. 6, pp. 1284-1300, 2022.

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2021

Seal, Aniruddha; Govind Rajan, Ananth

Modulating Water Slip Using Atomic-Scale Defects: Friction on Realistic Hexagonal Boron Nitride Surfaces Journal Article

In: Nano Letters, vol. 21, no. 19, pp. 8008-8016, 2021.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth; Martirez, John Mark P.; Carter, Emily A.

Coupled Effects of Temperature, Pressure, and pH on Water Oxidation Thermodynamics and Kinetics Journal Article

In: ACS Catalysis, vol. 11, no. 18, pp. 11305–11319, 2021.

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Yuan, Zhe; Govind Rajan, Ananth; He, Guangwei; Misra, Rahul Prasanna; Strano, Michael S.; Blankschtein, Daniel

Predicting Gas Separation through Graphene Nanopore Ensembles with Realistic Pore Size Distributions Journal Article

In: ACS Nano, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1727-1740, 2021.

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2020

Gupta, Ankur; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Carter, Emily A.; Stone, Howard A.

Thermodynamics of Electrical Double Layers with Electrostatic Correlations Journal Article

In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 124, no. 49, pp. 26830-26842, 2020.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth; Carter, Emily A.

Microkinetic Model for pH- and Potential-Dependent Oxygen Evolution During Water Splitting on Fe-Doped β-NiOOH Journal Article

In: Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 13, pp. 4962-4976, 2020.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth; Carter, Emily A.

Discovering Competing Electrocatalytic Mechanisms and their Overpotentials: Automated Enumeration of Oxygen Evolution Pathways Journal Article

In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 124, no. 45, pp. 24883-24898, 2020.

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Gupta, Ankur; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Carter, Emily A.; Stone, Howard A.

Ionic Layering and Overcharging in Electrical Double Layers in a Poisson-Boltzmann Model Journal Article

In: Physical Review Letters, vol. 125, no. 18, pp. 188004, 2020.

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Dong, Juyao; Lee, Michael A.; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Rahaman, Imon; Sun, Jessica H.; Park, Minkyung; Salem, Daniel P.; and Michael S. Strano,

A synthetic mimic of phosphodiesterase type 5 based on corona phase molecular recognition of single-walled carbon nanotubes Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, no. 43, pp. 26616-26625, 2020.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth; Martirez, John Mark P.; Carter, Emily A.

Why do we use the materials and operating conditions we use for heterogeneous (photo)electrochemical water splitting? Journal Article

In: ACS Catalysis, vol. 10, no. 19, pp. 11177-11234, 2020.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth; Martirez, John Mark P; Carter, Emily A

Facet-Independent Oxygen Evolution Activity of Pure β-NiOOH: Different Chemistries Leading to Similar Overpotentials Journal Article

In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 142, no. 7, pp. 3600–3612, 2020.

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2019

Drahushuk*, Lee W; Govind Rajan, Ananth*; Strano, Michael S

Fundamental Scaling Laws for the Direct-Write Chemical Vapor Deposition of Nanoscale Features: Modeling Mass Transport Around A Translating Nanonozzle Journal Article

In: Nanoscale, 2019.

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Cardellini, Annalisa; Alberghini, Matteo; Govind Rajan, Ananth; Misra, Rahul Prasanna; Blankschtein, Daniel; Asinari, Pietro

Multi-scale approach for modeling stability, aggregation, and network formation of nanoparticles suspended in aqueous solutions Journal Article

In: Nanoscale, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 3979–3992, 2019.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth; Silmore, Kevin S; Swett, Jacob; Robertson, Alex W; Warner, Jamie H; Blankschtein, Daniel; Strano, Michael S

Addressing the isomer cataloguing problem for nanopores in two-dimensional materials Journal Article

In: Nature materials, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 129, 2019.

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Govind Rajan, Ananth; Strano, Michael S; Blankschtein, Daniel

Liquids with Lower Wettability Can Exhibit Higher Friction on Hexagonal Boron Nitride: The Intriguing Role of Solid-Liquid Electrostatic Interactions Journal Article

In: Nano letters, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1539–1551, 2019.

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