Prashant V. Kamat

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Radiation Laboratory and
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN 46556-0579
Email: pkamat@nd.edu Tel.(574) 631-5411 Fax (574)631-8068

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Prashant V. Kamat

A native of Binaga, India, 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). He joined Radiation Laboratory in 1983 as a Junior Scientist and initiated the study of semiconductor nanoparticles. Since then he has established many collaborative research projects with researchers in the Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemistry and Physics departments of University of Notre Dame and other national and international institutions. He is currently working as a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Senior Scientist at Radiation Laboratory (a DOE funded laboratory on the campus of Notre Dame) and Concurrent Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame. He has written 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. He was a fellow of Japan Society for promotion of Science during 1997 and 2003 and was awarded Honda-Fujishima Lectureship award by the Japanese Photochemical Society in 2006. He was elected as a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2008.

Teaching

Dr. Kamat has supervised several undergraduate and graduate students and taught them fundamentals of nanomaterial and renewable research in laboratory. He has graduated 10 PhD students and more than 20 undergraduates during his academic career. He has given many invited lectures at the meetings and departmental colloquia. He is invlved in the development of advanced academic curriculum in nanoscale materials and renewable energy.

Research

Dr. Kamat’s research has made significant contributions to four areas : (1) fundamental understanding of photoinduced catalytic processes in semiconductor and metal nanoparticles, nanostructures and composites, (2)  inorganic-organic hybrid assemblies for designing next generation solar cells, (3) Utilization of carbon nanostructures (carbon nanotubes and graphene oxide) as scaffolds to capture and transport charge in solar cells, and (4) environmental remediation using advanced oxidation processes and chemical sensors. He has directed DOE funded solar photochemistry research for more than two decades. In addition to large multidisciplinary interdepartmental, center programs he has actively worked with industry-sponsored research. He has served on many national panels on nanotechnology and energy conversion processes. The research on simultaneous sensing and destruction of organics was featured as one of the 50 major highlights of the National Nanoscience Initiative (2002). He has many ongoing collaborative research projects and has published more than 350 papers and edited two books on nanomaterials. With an h-factor of 72 and more than 16500 citations, he has motivated a number of young researchers to expand their research in the area of renwable energy,  environmental remediation, photoelectrochemistry and nanoscience.

Professional Activities

Dr. Kamat is currently serving as a Deputy Editor of Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (a new publication of the American Chemical Society). He assumed the position of Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry in 2004 and became Executive Editor (JPC A/B/C) in 2008. He is a member of the advisory board of scientific journals, Langmuir, Research on Chemical Intermediates, Interface, Electrochemical and Solid State Letters and International Journal of Photoenergy. He served as a Chairman of the Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures Division of the Electrochemical Society, 2000-2004. He has organized and chaired numerous technical sessions at the Electrochemical Society and American Chemical Society meetings, and served on many national level exploratory panels in the area of nanoscience, energy conversion and environmental remediation.

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