Prabhakar Reddy Kasala

Brookhaven National Laboratory

NSLS-II
Bldg. 743, Room C08S
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(803) 745-0123
pkasala@bnl.gov

Expertise | Education | Appointments | Publications

Expertise

Heterogeneous catalysis, models catalysts, powder catalysts, C1 chemistry, In-situ/operando characterization (XPS, UPS, XAFS, DRIFTS) for thermal catalysis. Synthesis and chacterization of metal supported on metal oxides, bimetallic catalysts,  oxides, and general nanomaterials.

Education

PhD., Chemical Sciences, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, India,  2019

Professional Appointments

Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST), USA
Spectroscopy Soft and Tender, NSLS-II, April 2025 - Present

Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Chemistry Division,  March 2023 - March 2025

Post-doctoral Researcher, University of South Carolina, USA
Department of Chemistry and Bio-chemistry, February 2022 - February 2023

Senior Researcher, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
Department of Chemistry, Institute for basic sciences (IBS), June 2019 - January 2022

Selected Publications

• Prabhakar Reddy K, Tian Y, Ramírez PJ, et al (2024) Insights into the Surface Electronic Structure and Catalytic Activity of InOx/Au(111) Inverse Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol. ACS Catalysis 14:17148–17158. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c05837
• Reddy KP, Hong S, Song Y, et al (2024) Enhanced methanol formation in CO2 hydrogenation through synergistic copper and gallium interaction. Journal of Catalysis 437:115643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2024.115643
• Reddy KP, Islam A, Tian Y, et al (2024) MgO Nanostructures on Cu(111): Understanding Size- and Morphology-Dependent CO2 Binding and Hydrogenation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128:7149–7158. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c02049
• Prabhakar Reddy K, Choi H, Kim D, et al (2021) Cu oxide deposited on shape-controlled ceria nanocrystals for CO oxidation: influence of interface-driven oxidation states on catalytic activity. Catalysis Science & Technology 11:6134–6142. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cy01269j
• Reddy KP, Jain R, Ghosalya MK, Gopinath CS (2017) Metallic Cobalt to Spinel Co3O4—Electronic Structure Evolution by Near-Ambient Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121:21472–21481. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b06661
• Xie Z, Huang E, Turaczy KK, et al (2025) Biogas sequestration to carbon nanofibers via tandem catalytic strategies. Nature Chemical Engineering 2:118–129. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44286-025-00182-1
• Islam A, Huang E, Tian Y, et al (2024) Low-Temperature Activation and Coupling of Methane on MgO Nanostructures Embedded in Cu2O/Cu(111). ACS Nano 18:28371–28381. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c10811
• Ghosalya MK, Prabhakar Reddy K, Mhamane NB, et al (2020) Gas–solid interactions with reactive and inert gas molecules by NAPUPS: can work function be a better descriptor of chemical reactivity? Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 22:15528–15540. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cp02456b