Nripan Mathews
Assistant Professor
School of MSE, NTU
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nripan/
Email: Nripan@ntu.edu.sg
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dr. Nripan Mathews is an Assistant Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering and
the Energy Research Institute@ NTU (ERIAN). He obtained his first degree in Materials Engineering
(First Class Honors) from NTU (2003) and his MSc under the Singapore-MIT alliance on advanced
materials for micro and nano systems (2004). He pursued his PhD at a joint Commissariat à l'énergie
atomique (CEA) - Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)- Universite de Pierre et Marie
Curie (Paris VI University) laboratory in the area of molecular crystals, studying the signatures of
optical excitations within them (2008). He was also a visiting scientist at Prof. Michael Graetzel’s
laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), working on a pan-european project
on photoelectrochemical hydrogen production.
In his research career, he has focused on a wide variety of novel materials (metal oxides, organic semiconductors, graphene, carbon nanotubes,
sulfides, selenides) and novel morphologies (One dimensional structures such as nanowires and nanotubes, thin films as well as two dimensional
nanosheets) produced through a range of fabrication procedures. He has focussed primarily on the electronic and optical properties of these materials and how they can be adapted for practical applications. His primary research interests are photovoltaics, field effect transistors and
photoelectrochemical systems. His research work has been published (~75 publications) in many high impact factor journals such as Science, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials etc.
RESEARCH INTEREST
• Electronic materials and devices
• Solar energy conversion through photovoltaics and photoelectrochemical means
• Opto-electronic properties of organic and molecular semiconductors
• Self-assembled monolayers and supramolecular systems
• Surface plasmon resonance
• Low temperature fabrication techniques
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
1. Xing, G., Kumar, M. H., Chong, W. K., Liu, X., Cai, Y., Ding, H., Asta, M., Grätzel, M., Mhaisalkar, S., Mathews, N. and Sum, T. C. (2016), Solution-Processed Tin-Based Perovskite for Near- Infrared Lasing. Adv. Mater.. doi:10.1002/adma.201601418
2. Bhaumik, S.; Veldhuis, S. A. ; Ng, Y. F. ; Li, M. ; Muduli, S. K. ; Sum, T. C. ; Damodaran, B. ;Mhaisalkar, S.; Mathews, N. * Highly stable, luminescent core
shell type methylammoniumoctylammonium lead bromide layered perovskite nanoparticles. Chemical Communications 2016, 52, 7118-7121. I.F.: 6.567
