Anna Klinkova

Professor Anna Klinkova's current research focuses on understanding the formation mechanisms and the structural behavior of inorganic nanoparticles with geometric complexity in various applications ranging from catalysis to quantum optics.

The ability to finetune nanoparticle geometry and create unusual nanoparticle shapes enables unprecedented control over their chemical and physical properties, e.g., enable new catalytic pathways for converting waste molecules such as carbon dioxide or urea to valuable products such as fuels, or an emergence of new quantum modes for applications in quantum computing. This research is highly interdisciplinary and involves synthetic materials chemistry, molecular and surface chemistry, a broad range of analytical and material characterization techniques, and, depending on a project, may involve electrochemistry, catalysis, self-assembly techniques, and computational methods (e.g., multiphysics simulations or ab initio calculations).

• Nanoparticle Synthesis

• Surface Chemistry

• Nanocatalysis

• Plasmonics

• Self-Assembly

• Quantum Properties

• Smart and Functional Materials

• Synthetic Chemistry and Catalysis

• Next Generation Energy Systems

• Renewable Energy

• Protection of Surface and Groundwater Resources

• 2015, PhD, Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada

• 2011, MSc, Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, USA

• 2009, BSc, Chemistry, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

• 2024, University Research Chair

• 2023, Nanoscale (RSC) Emerging Investigator

• 2022, Nano Ontario Outstanding Early-Career Achievements Award

• 2022, International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists Emerging Investigator Award

• 2022, University of Waterloo Excellence in Science Research Award

• 2017, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Declined)

• 2015-2017, Connaught Postdoctoral Fellowship

• 2014-2015, Canada Research Chair Graduate Prize in Nanochemistry

• 2011-2015, Ontario Trillium Scholarship

• NANO 600 - Introduction to Nanotechnology
  • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024
• NE 222 - Organic Chemistry for Nanotechnology Engineers
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
• NE 225 - Structure and Properties of Nanomaterials
  • Taught in 2024
• NE 453 - Special Topics in Nanotechnology Engineering
  • Taught in 2021
• NE 499 - Special Topics in Nanostructured Materials
  • Taught in 2020

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• View all Anna Klinkova's publications on Google Scholar.

• J. Kim, X. V. Medvedeva, J. J. Medvedev, C. Bae, J. Kim, A. Klinkova The Effect of Tensile Strain in Pd-Ni Core-Shell Nanocubes with Tuneable Shell Thickness on Urea Electrolysis Selectivity, Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 5181-5187. Part of 2023 “Nanoscale Emerging Investigators” themed issue, featured on the front cover.

• M. Temnikova, J. Medvedev, X. Medvedeva, N. H. Delva, E. Khairullina, E. F. Krivoshapkina, A. Klinkova Electrochemical Hydrodimerization of Furfural in Organic Media as an Efficient Route to Jet Fuel Precursor, ChemElectroChem, 2023, 10, e202200865. Invited, special issue “Early Career Women in Electrochemistry”, featured on the front cover.

• F. Li, Z. Ce, A. Klinkova Simulating Electric Field and Current Density in Nanostructured Electrocatalysts, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022, 24, 25695. Part of 2022 PCCP HOT Article Collection, featured on the front cover.

• S. W. Tatarchuk, J. J. Medvedev, Y. Tobolovskaya, F. Li, A. Klinkova Nickel-Catalyzed Urea Electrolysis: from Nitrite and Cyanate as Major Products to Nitrogen Evolution, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 134, e202209839.

• A. Ahmed, R. Gelfand, D. S. Storm, A. Lee, A. Klinkova, J. Guest, M. Pelton Low-Frequency Oscillations in Optical Measurements of Metal Nanoparticle Vibrations, Nano Lett., 2022, 22, 5365.

• F. Li, X. V. Medvedeva, J. J. Medvedev, E. Khairullina, H. Engelhardt, S. Chandrasekar, Y. Guo, J. Jin, A. Lee, H. Thérien-Aubin, Y. Pang, A. Ahmed, A. Klinkova Interplay of Electrochemical and Electrical effects Induces Structural Transformations in Electrocatalysts, Nature Catal., 2021, DOI: 10.1038/s41929-021-00624-y (featured on the front cover; read behind the paper post).

• X. V. Medvedeva, J. J. Medvedev, S. W. Tatarchuk, R. M. Choueiri, A. Klinkova Sustainable at Both Ends: Electrochemical CO2 Utilization Paired with Electrochemical Treatment of Nitrogeneous Waste, Green Chem., 2020, 22, 4456-4462.