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.

• R. M. Choueiri, A. Klinkova, S. Pearce, I. Manners, E. Kumacheva Self-assembly and Surface Patterning of Polyferrocenylsilane-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles, Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2018, 1700554.

• A. Klinkova, P. De Luna, E. H. Sargent, E. Kumacheva, P. V. Cherepanov Enhanced Electrocatalytic Performance of Palladium Nanoparticles with High Energy Surfaces in Formic Acid Oxidation, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 11582-11585.

• 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.

Please see Anna Klinkova's Google Scholar profile for a current list of his peer-reviewed articles.

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017 - 2019 (declined)
• Connaught Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2015 - 2017
• Canada Research Chair Graduate Prize in Nanochemistry, University of Toronto, 2014 - 2015
• Ontario Trillium Scholarship, Government of Canada, 2011 - 2015

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