A/Prof Siva Karuturi

PhD

Craig Building (35A), C2.12

Siva.Karuturi@anu.edu.au

0261253785

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Dr. Siva Karturi is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering. He leads the research group Advanced Conversion Technologies for Hydrogen (ACT-H2) which conducts translational research on developing advanced electrochemical technologies for hydrogen production. His research interests lie primarily in the areas of materials synthesis and device fabrication with extensive experience in electrolysis, electrode engineering, and design of integrated electrochemical systems for hydrogen generation.

He received a PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University in Materials Science and Engineering in 2013. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Photovoltaics & Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales before moving to ANU in 2014. Siva was a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellow during 2015-2018. He was also a recipient of Australia-China Young Scientists Exchange Programme Award from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and Australia–India Strategic Research Fund Early- and Mid-Career Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Science. He collaborates extensively with industry and universities in Australia and overseas.

Design and Engineering of Electrochemical Systems
Catalyst Electrode Fabrication and Characterisation
Alkaline Electrolysis
Green Hydrogen Production

Lead

Refereed Journal Publications

Yonghwan Lee,^* Bikesh Gupta, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Jihun Oh, and Siva Karuturi,^* “Ultrathin Transparent Metal Capping Layer on Metal Oxide Carrier-Selective Contacts for Si Solar Cells”The European Physical Journal Special Topics 2022, accepted.
Astha Sharma1*, The Duong, Peng Liu, Joshua Zheyan Soo, Di Yan, Doudou Zhang, Asim Riaz, Christian Samundsett, Heping Shen, Cheng Yang, Siva Karuturi*, Kylie Catchpole and Fiona J. Beck, “Direct Solar to Hydrogen Conversion Enabled by Silicon Photocathodes with Carrier Selective Passivated Contacts”, Sustainable Energy & Fuels 2022, accepted.
Bikesh Gupta, Md. Anower Hossain, Asim Riaz*, Astha Sharma, Doudou Zhang, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Kylie Catchpole, Bram Hoex, and Siva Karuturi*, “Recent Advances in Materials Design using Atomic Layer Deposition for Energy Applications”, Advanced Functional Materials 2021, accepted.
Wenjie Wang, Jian He,* Di Yan, Wenhao Chen, Sieu Pheng Phang, Christian Samundsett, Siva Karuturi, Zhengping Li, Yimao Wan, Wenzhong Shen,* “Realization and Simulation of Interdigitated Back Contact Silicon Solar Cells with Dopant-Free Asymmetric Hetero-Contacts”, Solar Energy 2021, accepted.
Yonghwan,* Bikesh Gupta, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Jihun Oh, and Siva Karuturi*, “Protocol on the Fabrication of Monocrystalline Thin Semiconductor via Crack-Assisted Layer Exfoliation Method for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting”, STAR Protocols: Cell Press 2021, accepted.
Joshua D. Butson,* Astha Sharma, Hongjun Chen, Yuan Wang, Yonghwan Lee, Purushothhaman Varadhan, Mihalis N. Tsampas, Chuan Zhao, Antonio Tricoli, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, and Siva Karuturi*, “Surface-Structured Cocatalyst Foils Unravelling a Pathway to High-Performance Solar Water Splitting”, Advanced Energy Materials 2021, 2102752.
Doudou Zhang, Haobo Li,* Asim Riaz, Astha Sharma, Wensheng Liang, Yuan Wang, Hongjun Chen, Kaushal Vora, Di Yan, Zhen Su, Antonio Tricoli, Chuan Zhao, Fiona J. Beck, Karsten Reuter, Kylie Catchpole,* and Siva Karuturi*, “Unconventional Direct Synthesis of Ni₃N/Ni with N-Vacancies for Efficient and Stable Hydrogen Evolution”, Energy and Environmental Science 2021, accepted.
Doudou Zhang, Wensheng Liang, Astha Sharma, Joshua D. Boston, Aswani Gopakumar Saraswathyvilasam, Fiona J. Beck, Kylie R. Catchpole, and Siva Karuturi*, Ultrathin HfO₂ Passivated Silicon Photocathodes for Efficient Alkaline Water Splitting” Applied Physics Letters 2021, 119, 193901.
Guanyu Liu, Parvathala Reddy Narangari, Quang Thang Trinh, Wenguang Tu, Markus Kraft, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Tej S. Choksi, Joel W. Ager, Siva Karuturi* and Rong Xu*, “Manipulating Intermediates at the Au-TiO₂ Interface over InP Nanopillar-Array for Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction”, ACS Catalysis 2021, 11, 18, 11416–11428.
Linjuan Wang, Siva Karuturi^* and Ling Zan^*, "Bi₂S₃-In₂S₃ Heterostructures for Efficient Photoreduction of Highly-Toxic Cr⁶⁺ Enabled by Facet-Coupling and Z-Scheme Structure", Small 2021, 2101833.
Julie Tournet,* Joshua D. Butson, Parvathala R. Narangari, S. Dontu, Bikesh Gupta, M. Lysevych, Siva Karuturi,* Hark Hoe Tan, and Chennupati Jagadish, “Narrow-Bandgap InGaAsP Solar Cell with TiO₂ Carrier-Selective Contact”, Phys. Status Solidi RRL 2021,15, 2100282.
Parvathala Reddy Narangari*, Joshua Butson, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish and Siva Karuturi*, “Surface-Tailored InP Nanowires via Self-Assembled Au Nano-Dots for Efficient and Stable Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution”, Nano Letters 2021, 21 (16), 6967-6974.
Yuan Wang, Astha Sharma, The Duong*, Hamidreza Arandiyan, Tingwen Zhao, Doudou Zhang, Zhen Su, Magnus Garbrecht, Fiona J. Beck, Siva Karuturi*, Chuan Zhao,* and Kylie Catchpole, “Direct Solar Hydrogen Generation at 20% Efficiency Using Low-Cost Materials”, Advanced Energy Materials 2021, 2101053.
Haijiao Lu, Julie Tournet, Kamran Dastafkan, Yun Liu, Yun Hau Ng, Siva Karuturi*, Chuan Zhao*, Zongyou Yin*, “Noble-Metal-Free Multi-Component Nanointegration for Sustainable Energy Conversion”, Chemical Reviews 2021, 121, 17, 10271–10366.
Yonghwan Lee*, Bikesh Gupta, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Jihun Oh and Siva Karuturi*, “Thin Silicon via Crack-Assisted Layer Exfoliation for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting”, iScience: Cell Press 2021, 24 (8), 102921.
Doudou Zhang, Minyong Du, Pengpeng Wang, Hui Wang, Wenwen Shi, Yuying Gao, Siva Karuturi, Kylie Catchpole, Jian Zhang, Fengtao Fan, Jingying Shi,* and Shengzhong Liu*, “First Hole-Storage Enhanced a-Si Photocathodesfor Efficient Hydrogen Production”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2021, 60(21):11966-11972.
Doudou Zhang,* Joshua Zheyan Soo, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Kylie Catchpole and Siva Karuturi*, "Earth-Abundant Amorphous Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production: A Review”, Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research 2021, 2000071.
Rowena Yew, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish and Siva Karuturi*, “3D ordered macroporous TiO₂- TaOxNy heterostructure for photoelectrochemical water splitting”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2020, 124, 44, 24135–24144.
Wenjie Wang, Jian He*, Lun Cai, Zilei Wang, Hao Lin, Siva Karuturi, Pingqi Gao, Wenzhong Shen*, “Solution-Processed Electron-Selective Contacts Enabling 21.8% Efficiency Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells”, Solar RRL 2020, accepted.
Yonghwan Lee,* Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, and Siva Karuturi*, “Controlled Cracking for Large-Area Thin Film Exfoliation: Working Principles, Status, and Prospects”, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2021, 2021, 3, 145−162.
Linjuan Wang, Siva Karuturi, Ling Zan*, “SnS₂-In₂S₃ core-shell p-n heterojunctions with enhanced Cr⁶⁺ reduction under visible-light irradiation”, Applied Surface Science 2020, 148063.
Jian He*, Wenjie Wang, Lun Cai, Hao Lin, Zilei Wang, Siva Karuturi, and Pingqi Gao, Stable Electron-Selective Contacts for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Enabling Efficiency over 21.6%, Advanced Functional Materials 2020, 2005554.
Wenke Wang, Sandra Elizabeth Saji, Siva Karuturi*, Hong Zheng, Guodong Meng, Yonghong Cheng & Zongyou Yin*, “NIR-plasmon-enhanced Systems for Energy Conversion and Environmental Remediation”, Chemical Research in Chinese Universities 2020, 36, 1000–1005.
Tingwen Zhao, Yuan Wang, Siva Karuturi, Kylie Catchpole, Zhang Qiang, Chuan Zhao*, Design and operando/in situ characterization of precious-metal-free electrocatalysts for alkaline water splitting, Carbon Energy 2020, 1-32.
Yonghwan Lee*, Inseok Yang, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish and Siva Karuturi*, Monocrystalline InP Thin Films with Tunable Surface Morphology and Energy Bandgap, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, 12, 32, 36380–36388.
Siva Karuturi*, Heping Shen,* Astha Sharma, Fiona J. Beck, Purushothaman Varadhan, The Duong, Parvathala Reddy Narangari, Doudou Zhang, Yimao Wan, Jr-Hau He, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish and Kylie Catchpole, Over 17% Efficiency Stand‐Alone Solar Water Splitting Enabled by Perovskite‐Silicon Tandem Absorbers, Advanced Energy Materials 2020, 2000772. (Journal Cover)
Doudou Zhang, Yuexian Cao, Siva Karuturi, Minyong Du, Mingyao Liu, Chaowei Xue, Ruotian Chen, Pengpeng Wang, Jian Zhang*, Jingying Shi*, and Shengzhong Frank Liu*, Enabling Unassisted Solar Water Splitting by Single-Junction Amorphous Silicon Photoelectrodes, ACS Applied Energy Materials 2020, 3, 5, 4629–4637.
Guanyu Liu,* Siva Karuturi,* Hongjun Chen, Dunwei Wang, Joel W. Ager, Alexandr N. Simonov, and Antonio Tricoli*, Enhancement of the Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation by Perovskite BiFeO₃ via Structural Engineering, Solar Energy 2020, 202, 198-203.
Julie Tournet, Yonghwan Lee, Siva Karuturi*, Hark Hoe Tan, and Chennupati Jagadish, III–V Semiconductor Materials for Solar Hydrogen Production: Status and Prospects, ACS Energy Letters 2020, 5, 2, 611-622.
Jennifer Wong-Leung, Inseok Yang, Ziyuan Li, Siva Karuturi, Lan Fu, Hark Hoe Tan and Chennupati Jagadish, Engineering III-V semiconductor nanowires for device applications, Advanced Materials 2019, 1904359.
Parvathala Reddy Narangari, Siva Karuturi*, Yiliang Wan, Jennifer Wong Leung, Kaushal Vora, Mykhaylo Lysevych, Yimao Wan, H. H. Tan, C. Jagadish and S. Mokkapati*, Ultrathin Ta₂O₅electron-selective contacts for high efficiency InP solar cells, Nanoscale 2019, 11 (15), 7497-7505.
Joshua Butson*, Siva Karuturi*, Parvathala Reddy Narangari, Mykhaylo Lysevych, Jennifer Wong-Leung, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Narrow Bandgap InGaAsP for Photoelectrochemical Solar Water Splitting, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2019, 11, 28.
Jian He, Md. Anower Hossain, Hao Lin, Wenjie Wang, Siva Karuturi, Bram Hoex, Jichun Ye, Pingqi Gao, James Bullock, Yimao Wan, 15% Efficiency Ultrathin Silicon Solar Cells with Fluorine-Doped Titanium Oxide and Chemically Tailored Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):Poly(styrenesulfonate) as Asymmetric Heterocontact, ACS Nano 2019, 136 6356-6362.
Rowena Yew*, Siva Karuturi*, Parvathala Reddy Narangari, Hark Hoe Tan, and Chennupati Jagadish, Exploiting surface defects in TiO₂ for enhanced photoelectrochemical water splitting, Optics Express 2019, 27, 2, 761-773.
Nandini Patra, Siva Karuturi, Nilesh J. Vasa, D .Nakamura, M. Higashihat, Vipul Singh and A. Palani, Influence of Ni, Ti and NiTi alloy nanoparticles on hydrothermally grown ZnO nanowires for photoluminescence enhancement, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2019, 770, 5,1119-1129.
Guanyu Liu, Siva Karuturi, Hongjun Chen, Leone Spiccia, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Dunwei Wang, Alexandr N. Simonov and Antonio Tricoli*, Tuning the Morphology and Structure of Disordered Hematite Photoanodes for Improved Water Oxidation: a Physical and Chemical Synergistic Approach, Nano Energy, 2018, 53, pp 745-752.
Siva Karuturi*, Heping Shen, The Duong, Parvathala Reddy Narangari, Rowena Yew, Jennifer Wong-Leung, Kylie Catchpole, Hark Hoe Tan, and Chennupati Jagadish, Perovskite Photovoltaic Integrated CdS/TiO₂ Photoanode for Unbiased Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Generation, ACS Applied Material & Interfaces, 2018, 10 (28), pp 23766–23773.
Siva Karuturi*, Rowena Yew, Parvathala Reddy Narangari, Jennifer Wong-Leung, Li Li, Kaushal Vora, Hark Hoe Tan and Chennupati Jagadish, CdS/TiO₂photoanodes via solution ion transfer method for highly efficient solar hydrogen generation, Nano Futures 2018, 2 (1), 015004.
Heping Shen, The Duong, Jun Peng, Daniel Jacobs, Nandi Wu, Junbo Gong, Yiliang Wu, Siva Karuturi, Xiao Fu, Klaus Weber, Xudong Xiao, Thomas P. White, Kylie Catchpole, Mechanically-stacked Perovskite/CIGS Tandem Solar Cells with Efficiency of 23.9% and Reduced Oxygen Sensitivity, Energy and Environmental Science 2018, 11, 394-406.
Joshua Butson, Parvathala Reddy Narangari, Siva Karuturi, Rowena Yew, Mykhaylo Lysevych, Hark Hoe Tan, and Chennupati Jagadish, Photoelectrochemical Studies of InGaN/GaN MQW Photoanodes, Nanotechnology 2018 29 045403.
Yimao Wan, Siva Karuturi, Chris Samundsett, James Bullock, Mark Hettick, Di Yan, Jun Peng, Parvathala Reddy Narangari, Sudha Mokkapati, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Ali Javey, and Andres Cuevas, Tantalum oxide electron-selective heterocontacts for silicon photovoltaics and photoelectrochemical water reduction, ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3 (1), pp 125–131. (Equal-First Author)
Parvathala Reddy Narangari, Siva Karuturi*, Mykhaylo Lysevych, Hark Hoe Tan, and Chennupati Jagadish, Improved Photoelectrochemical Performance of GaN Nanopillar Photoanodes, Nanotechnology, 2017, 28 (15), 154001.
Heping Shen, Daniel A. Jacobs, Yiliang Wu, The Duong, Jun Peng, Xiaoming Wen, Xiao Fu, Siva Karuturi, Thomas P. White, Klaus Weber, and Kylie R. Catchpole, Inverted Hysteresis in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ Solar Cells: Role of Stoichiometry and Band Alignment, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2017, 8 (12), pp 2672–2680.
Guanyu Liu, Siva Karuturi, Alexandr N. Simonov, Monika Fekete, Hongjun Chen, Noushin Nasiri, Nhien H. Le, N Parvathala Reddy, Mykhaylo Lysevych, Thomas R. Gengenbach, Adrian Lowe, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Leone Spicciac and Antonio Tricoli, Robust Sub-Monolayers of Co₃O₄ Nano-Islands: a Highly Transparent Morphology for Efficient Water Oxidation Catalysis, Advanced Energy Materials, 2016, 6, 1600697.
Neeti Gupta, Santosh Shrestha, Binesh Puthen Vettil, Hongze Xia, Siva Karuturi, Gavin Conibeer, Synthesis of Nano-Crystalline Germanium Carbide using Radio Frequency Magnetron Sputtering, Thin Solid Films 2015, 592, 162-166.
Wenbin Niu, Xianglin Li, Siva Karuturi, Derrick Wenhui Fam, Hongjin Fan, Santosh Shrestha, Lydia Helena Wong, and Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, Application of Atomic Layer Deposition in Solar Cells, Nanotechnology 2014, 26, 064001.
Siva Karuturi, Lijun Liu, Liap Tat Su, Wenbin Niu, and Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, Atomic Layer Deposition of Inverse Opals for Solar Cell Applications, Advanced Materials Research 2013, 789, 3-7.
Liap Tat Su, Siva Karuturi, Jingshan Luo, Lijun Liu, Xinfeng Liu, Jun Guo, Tze Chien Sum, Renren Deng, Hong Jin Fan, Xiaogang Liu, and Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, Photon Upconversion in Heteronanostructured Photoanodes for Enhanced Near-Infrared Light Harvesting, Advanced Materials 2013, 25, 1603-1607. (Equal-First Author)
Monan Liu, Xianglin Li, Siva Karuturi, Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, Hong Jin Fan, Atomic Layer Deposition for Nanofabrication and Interface Engineering, Nanoscale 2012, 4(5), 1522.
Siva Karuturi, Jingshan Luo, Chuanwei Cheng, Lijun Liu, Liap Tat Su, Hong Jin Fan, and Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, Three-dimensional Ordered Hierarchical Nanobushes Photoanode for Highly Efficient Photoelectrochemical Cells, Advanced Materials 2012, 24(30), 4157-62.
Jingshan Luo, Siva Karuturi, Lijun Liu, Liap Tat Su, Hong Jin Fan, and Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, Homogeneous Photosensitization of Complex TiO₂ Nanostructures for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion, Scientific Reports 2012, 2, 451. (Equal-First Author)
Siva Karuturi, Chuanwei Cheng, Lijun Liu, Liap Tat Su, and Hong Jin Fan, Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, Inverse Opals Coupled with Nanowires as Photoelectrochemical Anode, Nano Energy 2012, 1(2), 322. (Cover Page)
Liap Tat Su, Jun Ye, Siva Karuturi, Lijun Liu, Yang Zhao, Jun Guo and Alfred I. Y. Tok, High index, reactive facets controlled synthesis of one-dimensional single crystalline rare earth hydroxide nanobelts, CrystEngComm 2011, 13, 5367.
Lijun Liu, Siva Karuturi, Liap Tat Su and Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, Electrochromic Photonic Crystals with Versatile Color Tunability, Electrochemistry Communications 2011, 11, 1163.
Chuanwei Cheng, Siva Karuturi, Lijun Liu, Jinping Liu, Hongxing Li, Liap Tat Su, Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, and Hong Jin Fan, Quantum dots sensitized TiO₂inverse opal for photoelectrochemical water splitting, Small 2011, 8 (1), 37-42. (Equal-First Author) (Cover Page)
Siva Karuturi, Lijun Liu, Alongkarn Chutinan, Liap Tat Su, Taw Kuei Chan, Thomas Osipowicz, Nazir P. Kherani, Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, Gradient inverse opal photonic crystals via spatially controlled template replication of self-assembled opals, Nanoscale 2011, 3, 4951-4954.
Lijun Liu, Siva Karuturi, Liap Tat Su and Alfred Iing Yoong Tok, TiO₂ inverse-opal electrode fabricated by atomic layer deposition for dye-sensitized solar cell applications, Energy and Environmental Science 2011, 4, 209-215.
Siva Karuturi, Lijun Liu, Liap Tat Su, Yang Zhao, Hong Jin Fan, Xiaochen Ge, Sailing He, and Alfred Tok Iing Yoong, Kinetics of Stop-Flow Atomic Layer Deposition for High Aspect Ratio Template Filling through Photonic Band Gap Measurements, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2010, 114, 14843-14848.

Book Chapters

Bikesh Gupta, Han Li, Julie Tournet, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Shaowen Cao, Siva Karuturi*, “Van der Waals Heterostructures in Photocatalytic Energy Conversion”, Atomic and Nano Scale Materials for Advanced Energy Conversion 1, 225-274.
Bikesh Gupta, Julie Tournet, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Siva Karuturi*, "2D Materials-based Heterostructures for PEC Energy Conversion", Atomic and Nano Scale Materials for Advanced Energy Conversion 1, 361-388.
Rowena Yew, Siva Karuturi*, Hark Hoe Tan and Chennupati Jagadish, “Template assisted fabrication of photoelectrodes”, Semiconductors and Semimetals, chapter 8, 97, 289-313, academic press.

Patents

“Method of depositing gradient films on a substrate surface by atomic layer deposition”, US Provisional Patent 61/450,724.
“Electrochromic photonic crystals with versatile colour tunability”, US provisional patent 61/571, 150.
“Method of photosensitization based on atomic layer deposition and ion exchange reaction for solar energy harvesting applications”, Technology Disclosure, TD/191/11, Nanyang Technological University.
“Method of fabricating photoelectrodes using cocatalyst foils”, Australian Provisional Patent Application No. 2021902172.
"Method of fabricating catalysts and catalytic electrodes for water electrolysis”, Innovation Disclosure, Australian National University.