Selected recent publications:

• Choi D, Kumta PN. Surfactant Based Sol-Gel Approach to Nanostructured LiFePO4 for High Rate Li-ion Batteries, J. Power Sources 163 (2007) 1064-1069.
• Datta MK, Kumta PN. Silicon, Graphite and Resin based Hard Carbon Nanocomposite Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries, J. Power Sources 165 (2007) 368-378.
• Olton D, Li J, Wilson M, Rogers T, Close J, Huang L, Kumta PN, Sfeir C. Nanostructured Calcium Phosphates (NanoCaPs) for Non-Viral Gene Delivery: Influence of the Synthesis Parameters on Transfection Efficiency, Biomaterials 28 (2007) 1267-1279
• Ko H-F, Sfeir C, Kumta PN. In situ synthesis and characterization of porous polymer-ceramic composites as scaffolds for gene delivery, Materials Science and Engineering C 27 (2007) 479-483.
• Rock N and Kumta PN. “Synthesis and Characterization of Electrochemically Active Graphite-Silicon-Tin Composite Anodes for Li-ion Applications”, J. Power Sources 164 (2007) 829-838.
• Sfeir C, Lee D, Li J, Zhang X, Boskey AL, and Kumta PN. “Phosphophoryn Induces Mineral Deposition in Both Mineralizing and non-mineralizing Cells”, J. Biological Chemistry, (2007) in review.
• Choi D and Kumta PN. “Mechanochemical Synthesis and Characterization of Nanostructured β-Tri-calcium phosphate (TCP), Materials Science and Engineering C 27 (2007) 377-381.
• Choi D, Blomgren GE, Kumta PN. Fast and Reversible Surface Redox Reaction in Nanocrystalline Vanadium Nitride Supercapacitors. Advanced Material, 18 (2006)1178-118
• Kumta, PN “Ceramic Biomaterials” in Biomaterials, First Edition, Eds. J.O. Hollinger and           Scott Guelcher, CRC Press, (2006.) [Invited Contribution]
  Maranchi, JP, Hepp AF, Evans AG, Nuhfer T, and Kumta, PN. “Interfacial properties of the a-Si/Cu : active-inactive thin film anode system for lithium-ion batteries” J. Electrochemical Society 153 (6) A1246-A1253 (2006).
• Velikokhatny, OI, Choi D, and Kumta PN. “Effect of Boron on the stability of monoclinic NaMnO2: Theoretical and Experimental Studies”, Materials Science and Engineering B 128 (2006) 115-124.
• Petricca S, Marra KG, and Kumta PN. “Chemical synthesis of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)/hydroxyapatite composites for orthopaedic applications”, Acta Biomaterialia, 2(2006) 277-286.
• Choi D and Kumta PN. “An Alternative Chemical Route for the Synthesis and Thermal Stability of Chemically Enriched Hydroxyapatite”, J. American Ceramic Society 89[2] 444-449 (2006).
• Choi D, Blomgren GE, and Kumta PN. “Fast and Reversible Surface Redox Reaction  in Nanocrystalline Vanadium Nitride Supercapacitors”, Advanced Materials, 18 (2006)1178-1182.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Prashant N. Kumta, Ph.D.
Phone: 412-624-9784
Email: pkumta@engr.pitt.edu