MME KUMAR Kavita

Chargée de recherche CNRS
LEPMI, 1130 rue de la piscine, BP75 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères
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Teaching activities:
  • Electrochemistry (basics; interfaces; electrocatalysis; corrosion; materials)
  • Chemistry (organic, physical and analytical)


Research interests:
  • Electrochemistry; Electrocatalysis at solid-liquid interfaces
  • Oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution in acidic and alkaline electrolyte
  • Degradation mechanisms of PEMFC/AEMFC and PEMWE/AEMWE electrocatalysts

Education:

  • Since October 2023: Associate Researcher at CNRS
  • 2022 - 2023: Postdoctoral researcher at HIERN, Erlangen, Germany
  • 2018 - 2022: Postdoctoral researcher at LEPMI, Grenoble, France
  • 2014 - 2017: PhD in electrocatalysis at IC2MP, Poitiers, France

Activités / CV

Selected Papers:

  1. K. Kumar, L. Dubau, F. Jaouen, F. Maillard, Review on the Degradation Mechanisms of Metal-N-C Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acid Electrolyte: Current Understanding and Mitigation Approaches, Chem. Rev., 2023, 123, 9265, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00685, ⟨hal-04160691⟩.  
  2. R. Sgarbi, K. Kumar, V. A. Saveleva, L. Dubau, V. Martin, M. Mermoux, R. Chattot, P. Bordet, P. Glatzel, E. A. Ticianelli, F. Jaouen, F. Maillard, Electrochemical Transformation of Fe-N-C catalysts into Iron Oxides in Alkaline Medium and Its Impact on Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity Cells, Appl. Catal. B, 2022, 311, 121366. DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.121366, ⟨hal-03641899⟩.
  3. J. Li, M-T. Sougrati, A. Zitolo; J. Ablett, I. C. Oguz, T. Mineva, I. Matanovic, P. Atanassov, A. D. Cicco, K. Kumar, L. Dubau, F. Maillard, F. Jaouen, Identification of Durable and Non-Durable FeNx Sites in Fe-N-C Materials for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Nat. Catal., 2021, 4, 10. DOI: 10.1038/s41929-020-00545-2, ⟨hal-02931434v2⟩.
  4. K. Kumar, L. Dubau, M. Mermoux, J. Li, A. Zitolo, J. Nelayah, F. Jaouen, F. Maillard, On the Influence of Oxygen On the Degradation of Fe‐N‐C Catalysts, Angew. Chem., 2020, 132, 3261-3269. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201912451, ⟨hal-02464078⟩.