Prashant V. Kamat

Prashant V. Kamat is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Principal Scientist of Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame. He is also affiliated with in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as a Concurrent Professor . He earned the masters (1974) and doctoral degree (1979) in Physical Chemistry from the Bombay University, and carried out his postdoctoral research at Boston University (1979-1981) and University of Texas at [Austin (1981-1983).

Kamat has made significant research contributions in the area of utilizing nanomaterials for light energy conversion. He has published more than 350 peer-reviewed journal papers, review articles and book chapters. He has edited two books in the area of nanoscale materials. He was a fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science during 1997 and 2003 and was presented 2006 Honda-Fujishima Lectureship award by the Japan Photochemical Society. In 2008 he became a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.

Recent publications

*doi|10.1021/jp066952u Meeting the Clean Energy Demand: Nanostructure Architectures for Solar Energy Conversion J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007. 111 2834-2860
*doi|10.1021/ja0782706 Kongkanand, A.; Tvrdy, K.; Takechi, K.; Kuno, M. K.; Kamat, P. V., Quantum Dot Solar Cells. Tuning Photoresponse through Size and Shape Control of CdSe-TiO2 Architecture. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130 4007 - 4015

External links

* [http://www.chemistry.nd.edu] http://www.chemistry.nd.edu Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame
* [http://www.nd.edu/~pkamat/ Prashant V. Kamat (University of Notre Dame)]