Engineered Interfaces for Sustainable Energy
Publications and Patents
Khan, S., Toparli C., Yildiz, B., and Varanasi, K.K. (2025) “Mitigating Hydrogen Ingress with Thin Cloaking Liquid Barrier Films.” ACS Applied Engineering Materials. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaenm.4c00795.
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Ryu, H.J., Chen, Y., Chen, A., Moeinnia, H., Nemir, O., Khan, S. and Kim, W.S., (2024). A novel compact xerographic system for 3D printing of fluoropolymer powders onto metal surfaces. Flexible and Printed Electronics, 9(4), p.045002. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-8585/ad7e36
Oren, O., McTaggart-Cowan, G. & Khan, S. Enhancing soot oxidation using microtextured surfaces. Sci Rep 14, 4247 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54320-5
Zhang, R., Khan S., Azimi G., 2023. Microstructured silicon substrates impregnated with bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl) phosphinic acid for selective scandium recovery. Applied Surface Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2023.156852
Campbell, D.*, Khan S.*, Menzies K.*, Morgan S.*, Peloquin S.*, Regnier J.*, 2022. Immigration in the Era of Remote Work: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada. Action Canada Annual Policy Papers: Link: https://actioncanada.ca/publications/immigration-in-the-era-of-remote-work-challenges-and-opportunities-for-canada/
Khan, S. Hwang J., Shao-Horn Y., and Varanasi, K.K., 2021. Catalyst-proximal Plastrons Enhance Activity and Selectivity of Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction. Cell Reports Physical Science
Khan, S. and Varanasi, K.K., 2020. Designing Lubricant Impregnated Surfaces for Corrosion Protection. CORROSION (accepted and highlighted as the First Place Winner in the Marcel Pourbaix Corrosion Science Poster Competition held at the NACE Corrosion Conference in Nashville, TN in 2019)
Khan, S., Azimi, G., Paxson, A.T. and Varanasi, K.K., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. Hydrophobic materials incorporating rare earth elements and methods of manufacture. U.S. Patent: US20190177233A1. Issued June 2019. [PDF]
McBride, S.A., Dash, S., Khan, S. and Varanasi, K.K., 2019. Evaporative Crystallization of Spirals. Langmuir, 35(32), pp.10484-10490.
Feature on Langmuir (Front Cover)
Feature on MIT Homepage in July 2019
Girard, H.L., Khan, S., and Varanasi, K.K., 2018. Multilevel robustness. Nature materials, 17(4), pp.298-300.
Khan, S., Azimi, G., Yildiz, B. and Varanasi, K.K., 2015. Role of surface oxygen-to-metal ratio on the wettability of rare-earth oxides. Applied Physics Letters, 106(6), p.061601.
Notzl H.*, Khan S.*, Verbaan N. Hydrometallurgical Plant Design Parameters for the Avalon Rare Earth Extraction Process, Proceedings of the Conference of Metallurgists, Montreal (2013) [PDF]
Azadi, P., Khan, S., Strobel, F., Azadi, F. and Farnood, R., 2012. Hydrogen production from cellulose, lignin, bark and model carbohydrates in supercritical water using nickel and ruthenium catalysts. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 117, pp.330-338.
