SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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Insights into CO Electrolysis at Elevated temperatures for C4+ Product Formation

Nishithan C. Kani, Mohd Riyaz, Carolina I. Elizarraras, Emilia Wessel, Kasper Enemark-Rasmussen, Qamar Nisa, John R. Varcoe, Alexander Bagger*, Brian Seger*

Energy & Environmental Science

Volume 19, Issue 10, 2026, 3249-3260

https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ee00855k

In situ investigation of cation transport across anion exchange membranes in membrane electrode assembly electrolyzers

Nishithan C. Kani, Yu Qiao, Elena P. Mayoral, Andrea Sartori, Jakub Drnec, Brian Seger*

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volume 147, Issue 46, 2025, 43004-43012

https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c16113

Insights into zero-gap CO2 electrolysis at elevated temperatures

Carlos A. Giron Rodriguez, Nishithan C. Kani, Asger B. Moss, Bjørt Oladottir Joensen, Sahil Garg, Wanyu Deng, Terry Wilson, John R. Varcoe, Ib Chorkendorff, Brian Seger*

EES Catalysis

Volume 2, Issue 3, 2024, 850-861

https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ey00224a

Metal Nitride as a Mediator for the Electrochemical Synthesis of NH3

Ishita Goyal**, Nishithan C. Kani**, Samuel A Olusegun, Sreenivasulu Chinnabattigalla, Rajan R. Bhawnani, Ksenija D. Glusac, Aayush R. Singh*, Joseph A. Gauthier*, Meenesh R. Singh*

ACS Energy Letters

Volume 9, Issue 8, 2024, 4188-4195

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c01455

Pathway toward scalable energy-efficient Li-mediated ammonia synthesis

Nishithan C. Kani**, Ishita Goyal**, Joseph A Gauthier, Windom Shields, Mitchell Shields, Meenesh R. Singh*

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Volume 16, Issue 13, 2024, 16203-16212

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c19499

Electrochemical reduction of nitrates on CoO nanoclusters‐functionalized graphene with highest mass activity and nearly 100% selectivity to ammonia

Nishithan C. Kani, Ngoc H. Nguyen, Kyle Markel, Rajan R. Bhawnani, Benjamin Shindel, Kartikey Sharma, Sungjoon Kim, Vinayak P. Dravid, Vikas Berry*, Joseph A. Gauthier*, Meenesh R. Singh*

Advanced Energy Materials

Volume 13, Issue 17, 2023, 2204236

https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202204236

Solar-driven electrochemical synthesis of ammonia using nitrate with 11 % solar-to-fuel efficiency at ambient conditions

Nishithan C. Kani, Joseph A. Gauthier*, Aditya Prajapati, Jane Edgington, Isha Bordawekar, Windom Shields, Mitchell Shields, Linsey C. Seitz, Aayush R. Singh*, Meenesh R. Singh*

Energy & Environmental Science

Volume 14, Issue 12, 2021, 6349-6359

https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ee01879e

Competing Effects of pH, Cation Identity, H2O Saturation, and N2 Concentration on the Activity and Selectivity of Electrochemical Reduction of N2 to NH3 on Electrodeposited Cu at Ambient Conditions

Nishithan C. Kani, Aditya Prajapati, Brianna A. Collins, Jason D. Goodpaster*, Meenesh R. Singh*

ACS Catalysis

Volume 10, Issue 24, 2020, 14592 - 14603

https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c04864