Background

Education

Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, B.E. Chemical Engineering (2014 - 2018)
Purdue University, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2018 – Present)

Experience

• Jacobs Engineering, Design Summer Intern (2017)
• Vanguard Industrial Hygiene Services, Summer Intern (2016)
• Institute of Chemical Technology, Vortex Organizing Head (2016)

Project Description

Strong Metal Support Interaction. (SMSI)

Recent Publications

• Kaustubh Sawant, Zhenhua Zeng, Jeffrey Greeley, Origin of Stability and Activity Enhancements in Pt-based Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts via Defect-Mediated Dopant Adsorption, Angew Chem Int Ed e202312747, 2023.
• Kaustubh Sawant, Zhenhua Zeng, Jeffrey Greeley, Universal properties of metal-supported oxide films from linear scaling relationships: elucidation of mechanistic origins of strong metal–support interactions, Chemical Science 2023,14, 3206-3214.
• Junxian Gao*, Kaustubh Sawant*, Jeffrey Miller, Zhenhua Zeng, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Jeffrey Greeley, Structural and Chemical Transformations of Zinc Oxide Ultrathin Films on Pd(111) Surfaces. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13 (29), 35113–35123. (* Co first authors)