Anna Klinkova

• Nanomaterials synthesis
• Surface chemistry
• Nanocatalysis
• CO2 electroreduction
• Plasmonics
• Self-assembly

Anna Klinkova’s research interests encompass the following areas:

• Development of synthetic routes for nanoparticles with well-defined facets, defects, dopants, and surface chemistry;
• Fundamental understanding of the structure – catalytic performance relationship in nanocatalysis;
• Utilization of plasmonic properties of metal nanoparticles in catalysis and for enhanced light harvesting in plasmonic solar cells.

A. Klinkova, P. De Luna, C. T. Dinh, O. Voznyy, E. M. Larin, E. Kumacheva, E. H. Sargent, Rational Design of Efficient Palladium Catalysts for Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate, ACS Catal., 2016, 6, 8115.

R. M. Choueiri, E. Galati, H. Thérien-Aubin, A. Klinkova, E. M. Larin, A. Querejeta-Fernandez, L. Han, H. L. Xin, O. Gang, E. Zhulina, M. Rubinstein, E. Kumacheva, Surface Patterning of Nanoparticles with Polymer Patches, Nature, 2016, 537, 79.

M. Liu, Y. Pang, B. Zhang, P. De Luna, O. Voznyy, J. Xu, X. Zheng, C. T. Dinh, F. Fan, C. Cao, F. P. G. de Arquer, T. S. Safaei, A. Mepham, A. Klinkova, E. Kumacheva, T. Filleter, D. Sinton, S. O. Kelley, E. H. Sargent, Enhanced Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction via Field-Induced Reagent Concentration, Nature, 2016, 537, 382.

A. Klinkova, E. M. Larin, E. Prince, E. H. Sargent, E. Kumacheva, Large-Scale Synthesis of Metal Nanocrystals in Aqueous Growth Suspensions, Chem. Mater., 2016, 28, 3196.

A. Klinkova, H.Thérien-Aubin, A. Ahmed, D. Nykypanchuk, R. M. Choueiri, B. Gagnon, A. Muntyanu, O. Gang, G. C. Walker, E. Kumacheva, Structural and Optical Properties of Self-Assembled Chains of Plasmonic Nanocubes, Nano Lett., 2014, 14, 6314.

2015 Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Toronto, ON

2011 M.Sc., Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, OH, USA

2009 B.Sc., Chemistry, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia