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Sanjaya Senanayake

Assistant Chemist
 

Chemistry Department
Building 555
Brookhaven National Laboratory
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

Phone: (631) 344-4343
Lab Phone: (631) 344-4347
FAX:    (631) 344-5815
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Catalysis on the Nanoscale: Preparation, Characterization and Reactivity of Metal-Based Nanostructures

Education

Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Chemistry, 2006
The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Bachelor of Technology in Materials with Honours (B.Tech (Hons)), 2001
The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
 

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
The Department of Chemistry, Sept 2008 – present.

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Chemical Sciences Division, Aug 2005 - 2008.
 

Research Interests

Surface chemistry / catalysis and the modeling of reactions with well ordered systems and application of this knowledge in engineering real catalytic systems.

Spectroscopic and microscopic characterization of oxide materials including their electronic, chemical and optical properties.

Selected Publications

  1. Lahiri J., Senanayake S.D., Batzill M., Physical Review B, 78, (2008) 155414. ‘Soft X-ray photoemission of clean and sulfur covered polar ZnO surfaces: a view of the stabilization of polar oxide surfaces’.
  2. Senanayake S.D., Mullins D.R., Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112(26), (2008) 9744. ‘Redox pathways of formic acid reaction over cerium oxide surface systems’.
  3. Ruzmetov D., Zawilski K.T., Senanayake S.D., Narayanamurti V., Ramanathan S., Journal of Physics – Condensed matter 20, (2008) 465204. ‘Infra-red reflectance and photo-emission spectroscopy studies across the phase transition boundary in thin film vanadium dioxide’.
  4. Idriss H., Scott M., Llorca J., Chan S.C., Chiu W., Sheng P.Y., Yee A., Blackford M.A., Pas S.J., Hill A.J., Alamgir F.M., Rettew R., Petersburg C., Senanayake S.D., Barteau M.A., ChemSusChem, 1(11), (2008) 905. ‘A phenomenological study of the metal/oxide interface. The role of catalysis in hydrogen production from renewable sources’.
  5. Ruzmetov D., Senanayake S.D., Narayanamurti V., Ramanathan S., Physical Review B, 77 (2008) 195442. ‘Correlation between metal-insulator transition characteristics and electronic structure changes in vanadium oxide thin films ’.
  6. King R.I., Senanayake S.D., Idriss H., Surface Science, 601 (2007) 5690. ‘Reaction of acetone over Uranium oxide surfaces’.
  7. Senanayake S.D., Zhou J., Baddorf A.P., Mullins D.R., Surface Science, 601 (2007) 3215. ‘The reactions of carbon monoxide with palladium supported Cerium dioxide thin films’.
  8. Senanayake S.D., Waterhouse G.I.N, Chan A.S.Y., Mullins D.R., Madey T.E., Idriss H., Physical Chemistry C, 111, (2007) 7963. ‘Probing surface oxidation of reduced Uranium dioxide thin film using synchrotron radiation ‘.
  9. Ruzmetov D., Senanayake S.D., Ramanathan S., Physical Review B, 75, (2007) 195102. ‘X-ray absorption spectroscopy of Vanadium dioxide thin films across the phase transition boundary’.
  10. Senanayake S.D., Waterhouse G.I.N, Chan A.S.Y., Mullins D.R., Madey T.E., Idriss H., Catalysis Today, 120, (2007) 151. ‘The reaction of D2O over Uranium oxides: a high resolution XPS study’.
     

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