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Takat B. RawalPostdoctoral Research Associate Email: rawaltb@ornl.gov Address: |
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Website
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AbWRTFgAAAAJ&hl=en |
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Education / Biography
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL M.S. in Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL B.Sc. in Physics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal |
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Research Interests
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18. S. V. Pingali, M. D. Smith, S.-H. Liu, T. B. Rawal, Y. Pu, R. Shah, B. Evans, V. Urban, B. Davison, C. Cai, A. J. Ragauskas, H. M. O’Neill, J. C. Smith, and L. Petridis, “Local complementarity of amphiphilic co-solvents and biopolymers augments biomass pretreatment”, submitted to Sci. Adv., (2019). 17. T. B. Rawal, A. Ozcan, S.-H. Liu, S. V. Pingali, O. Akbilgic, L. Tetard, H. O’Neill, S. Santra, L. Petridis, “Interaction of zinc oxide nanoparticles with water: Implications for catalytic activity”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2, 4257 (2019). 16. S.-H. Liu, T. B. Rawal, M. Soliman, B. Lee, T. Maxwell, P. Rajasekaran, H. Mendis, N. Labbé, S. Santra, L. Tetard, and L. Petridis, “Antimicrobial Zn-based "TSOL" for citrus greening management: Insights from spectroscopy and molecular simulation”, J. Agric. Food Chem., 67, 6970 (2019). 15. P. Galhenage, H. Yan, T. B. Rawal, D. Le, A. J. Brandt, T. D. Maddumapatabandi, N. Nguyen, T. S. Rahman, and D. A. Chen, “MoS2 nanoclusters grown on TiO2: Evidence for new adsorption sites at edges and sulfur vacancies”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, 7185 (2019). 14. K. Almeida, P. Peña, T. B. Rawal, W. C. Coley, A-A Akhavi, M. Wurch, K. Yamaguchi, D. Le, T. S. Rahman, and L. Bartels, “A single-layer of MoS2 activates gold for room temperature CO oxidation on an inert silica substrate”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, 6592 (2019). 13. K. Almeida, K. L. Chagoya, A. Felix, T. Jiang, D. Le, T. B. Rawal, P. E. Evans, M. Wurch, K. Yamaguchi, P. A. Dowben, L. Bartels, T. S. Rahman, and R. G. Blair, “Towards higher alcohol formation using a single-layer MoS2 activated Au on Silica: Methanol carbonylation to acetaldehyde”, ChemRxiv, (2019). 12. T. B. Rawal, M. Smerieri, J. Pal, S. Hong, M. Alatalo, L. Savio, L. Vattuone, T. S. Rahman, and M. Rocca, “Deciphering complex features in STM images of O/Ag(110) system”, Phys. Rev. B, 98, 035405 (2018). 11. T. B. Rawal, S. R. Acharya, S. Hong, D. Le, Y. Tang, F. F. Tao, and T. S. Rahman “High catalytic activity of Pd1/ZnO(10-10) toward methanol partial oxidation: A DFT+KMC study”, ACS Catalysis, 8, 5553 (2018). 10. P. E. Evans, H. K. Jeong, Z. Hooshmand, D. Le, T. B. Rawal, S. N. Alvillar, L. Bartels, T. S. Rahman, and P. A. Dowben, “Methoxy induced defects on MoS2”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 122, 10042 (2018). 9. C. S. Merida, D. Le, E. M. Echeverría, A. E. Nguyen, T. B. Rawal, S. N. Alvillar, V. Kandyba, A. Al-Mahboob, Y. Losovyj, K. Katsiev, M. D. Valentin, C.-Y., Huang, M. J. Gomez, I-H., Lu, A. Guan, A. Barinov, T. S. Rahman, P. A. Dowben, and L. Bartels“Gold dispersion and activation on the basal plane of single-layer MoS2”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 122, 267 (2018). 8. T. B. Rawal, D. Le, and T. S. Rahman, “Effect of single-layer MoS2 on the geometry, electronic structure and reactivity of transition metal nanoparticles”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 121, 7282 (2017). 7. J. Pal, T. B. Rawal, M. Smerieri, S. Hong, M. Alatalo, L. Savio, L. Vattuone, T. S. Rahman, and M. Rocca, “Adatom extraction from pristine metal terraces by dissociative oxygen adsorption: combined STM and density functional theory investigation of O/Ag(110)”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 118, 226101 (2017). 6. A. Gupta, T. B. Rawal, C. Neal, S. Das, T. S. Rahman, and S. Seal, “Molybdenum disulfide for ultra-low detection of free radicals: electrochemical response and molecular modeling”, 2D Materials, 4, 025077 (2017). 5. T. B. Rawal, D. Le, and T. S. Rahman, “MoS2-supported gold nanoparticle for CO hydrogenation”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matt., 29, 415201 (2017). 4. I. Tanabe, T. Komesu, D. Le, T. B. Rawal, E. F. Schwier, M. Zheng, Y. Kojima, H. Iwasawa, K. Shimada, T. S. Rahman, and P. A. Dowben, “The symmetry-resolved electronic structure of 2H-WSe2(0001)”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matt., 28, 345503 (2016). 3. T. B. Rawal, S. Hong, A. Pulkkinen, M. Alatalo, and T. S. Rahman, “Adsorption, vibration, and diffusion of oxygen on Ag(110)”, Phys. Rev. B, 92, 035444 (2015). 2. D. Le, T. B. Rawal, and T. S. Rahman, “Single-layer MoS2 with sulfur vacancies: structure and catalytic application”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 118, 5346 (2014). 1. T. B. Rawal, V. Turkowski, and T. S. Rahman, “Complementary roles of benzylpiperazine and iodine 'vapor' in the strong enhancement of orange photoluminescence from CuI(111) thin film”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matt., 26, 185005 (2014). |
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