Maksym Kovalenko Explained

Maksym V. Kovalenko
Birth Date:1982
Birth Place:Hola Prystan, Ukraine
Alma Mater:Chernivtsi National University, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz (Ph.D.)
Workplaces:ETH Zurich, Empa, University of Chicago (postdoc)
Occupation:Associate Professor of Chemistry
Notable Students:Maria Ibáñez
Awards:Rössler Prize, Werner Prize, Ruzicka Preis
Website:Kovalenko Lab

Maksym V. Kovalenko (born 1982) is a full professor of inorganic chemistry and the head of the Functional Inorganic Materials group at ETH Zurich. A part of the research activities of the group are conducted at Empa (Dübendorf).[1] He is working in the fields of solid-state chemistry, quantum dots and other nanomaterials, surface chemistry, self-assembly, optical spectroscopy, optoelectronics and energy storage.[2]

Early life and education

Maksym Kovalenko was born in 1982 in southern Ukraine. He grew up in the Ukrainian area of Bukovina. He studied chemistry at Chernivtsi National University. In 2007, Kovalenko obtained his Ph.D. at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heiss. During this time, he focused on narrow band gap quantum dots, and published several articles on HgTe,[3] SnTe,[4] PbSe[5] as well as iron oxide[6] nanocrystals. A part of these works was carried out at the Molecular Foundry (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA).

Academic career and research

After the completion of his Ph.D., he moved to the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois as a post-doctoral research assistant in the group of Prof. Dmitri Talapin. In 2009, Kovalenko published an article in Science describing the use of inorganic ligands on colloidal nanocrystals.[7] Such an all-inorganic design of semiconductor nanocrystals had enabled their integration into diverse electronic and optoelectronic devices.[8] [9] [10] [11]

In 2011, Kovalenko accepted an assistant professorship at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. Initially, the research group focused on the development of new synthetic approaches for nanocrystals and their utilization in rechargeable batteries and photodetectors.[12] [13] [14] In 2015, the group introduced highly luminescent nanocrystals of cesium lead halide perovskites[15] and shortly thereafter, in 2016–2017, formamidinium lead halide nanocrystals.[16] [17]

In 2016, Kovalenko received tenure and became an associate professor at ETH Zurich and continued to lead his research group at both ETH Zurich and Empa. Since then, the research group of Kovalenko has focused on understanding and improving colloidal perovskite nanocrystals,[18] [19] their assembly into long-range ordered superlattices and their exploration as quantum light sources.[20] Additionally, the group continues to investigate the surface chemistry of nanocrystals[21] [22] and novel electrode materials for Li-ion and non-Li battery technologies.[23] [24] The group is increasingly active in the discovery of novel semiconductors and light emitters.[25] [26] [27] [28] In 2018, the group received financial support from the ETH+ Initiative to establish a crystal growth and characterization facility for research purposes as well as for education and training of students.[29] The expertise of the group now also includes single-particle spectroscopy,[30] fabrication of light-emitting diodes[31] [32] and testing materials for hard radiation detection.[33] [34]

In August 2020, Kovalenko was promoted to full professor at ETH Zurich.

Additional roles

Kovalenko currently serves as an associate editor for the journal Chemistry of Materials.[35] He has served as the chair of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (LAC) at ETH Zurich from 2018 to 2019.

Awards and recognition

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Empa - Thin Films and Photovoltaics - Team. www.empa.ch. 2019-11-03.
  2. Web site: Prof. Dr. Maksym Kovalenko. ethz.ch. 2019-08-12.
  3. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. Kaufmann. Erich. Pachinger. Dietmar. Roither. Jürgen. Huber. Martin. Stangl. Julian. Hesser. Günter. Schäffler. Friedrich. Heiss. Wolfgang. March 2006. Colloidal HgTe Nanocrystals with Widely Tunable Narrow Band Gap Energies: From Telecommunications to Molecular Vibrations. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128. 11. 3516–3517. 10.1021/ja058440j. 16536514. 0002-7863.
  4. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. Heiss. Wolfgang. Shevchenko. Elena V.. Lee. Jong-Soo. Schwinghammer. Harald. Alivisatos. A. Paul. Talapin. Dmitri V.. September 2007. SnTe Nanocrystals: A New Example of Narrow-Gap Semiconductor Quantum Dots. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129. 37. 11354–11355. 10.1021/ja074481z. 17722931. 0002-7863.
  5. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. Talapin. Dmitri V.. Loi. Maria Antonietta. Cordella. Fabrizio. Hesser. Günter. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Heiss. Wolfgang. 2008-04-07. Quasi-Seeded Growth of Ligand-Tailored PbSe Nanocrystals through Cation-Exchange-Mediated Nucleation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. en. 47. 16. 3029–3033. 10.1002/anie.200705604. 18338346. 11370/38065cf6-cf5a-4b78-abcb-9284a14562a7. free.
  6. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Lechner. Rainer T.. Hesser. Günter. Schäffler. Friedrich. Heiss. Wolfgang. May 2007. Fatty Acid Salts as Stabilizers in Size- and Shape-Controlled Nanocrystal Synthesis: The Case of Inverse Spinel Iron Oxide. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129. 20. 6352–6353. 10.1021/ja0692478. 17472378. 0002-7863.
  7. Talapin. Dmitri V.. Scheele. Marcus. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. 2009-06-12. Colloidal Nanocrystals with Molecular Metal Chalcogenide Surface Ligands. Science. 324. 5933. 1417–1420. 10.1126/science.1170524. 0036-8075. 19520953. 21845356.
  8. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Zaumseil. Jana. Lee. Jong-Soo. Talapin. Dmitri V.. 2010-07-28. Expanding the Chemical Versatility of Colloidal Nanocrystals Capped with Molecular Metal Chalcogenide Ligands. Journal of the American Chemical Society. en. 132. 29. 10085–10092. 10.1021/ja1024832. 20593874. 0002-7863.
  9. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. Schaller. Richard D.. Jarzab. Dorota. Loi. Maria A.. Talapin. Dmitri V.. 2012-02-08. Inorganically Functionalized PbS–CdS Colloidal Nanocrystals: Integration into Amorphous Chalcogenide Glass and Luminescent Properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society. en. 134. 5. 2457–2460. 10.1021/ja2087689. 22239647. 0002-7863.
  10. Dolzhnikov. D. S.. Zhang. H.. Jang. J.. Son. J. S.. Panthani. M. G.. Shibata. T.. Chattopadhyay. S.. Talapin. D. V.. 2015-01-23. Composition-matched molecular "solders" for semiconductors. Science. en. 347. 6220. 425–428. 10.1126/science.1260501. 25569110. 0036-8075. free.
  11. Wang. Yuanyuan. Fedin. Igor. Zhang. Hao. Talapin. Dmitri V.. 2017-07-28. Direct optical lithography of functional inorganic nanomaterials. Science. en. 357. 6349. 385–388. 10.1126/science.aan2958. 28751606. 0036-8075. free.
  12. Kravchyk. Kostiantyn. Protesescu. Loredana. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Krumeich. Frank. Yarema. Maksym. Walter. Marc. Guntlin. Christoph. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. 2013-03-20. Monodisperse and Inorganically Capped Sn and Sn/SnO 2 Nanocrystals for High-Performance Li-Ion Battery Anodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. en. 135. 11. 4199–4202. 10.1021/ja312604r. 23414392. 0002-7863.
  13. Dirin. Dmitry N.. Dreyfuss. Sébastien. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Nedelcu. Georgian. Papagiorgis. Paris. Itskos. Grigorios. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. 2014-05-07. Lead Halide Perovskites and Other Metal Halide Complexes As Inorganic Capping Ligands for Colloidal Nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. en. 136. 18. 6550–6553. 10.1021/ja5006288. 0002-7863 . 4524702. 24746226.
  14. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Yakunin. Sergii. Piveteau. Laura. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. December 2015. Host–guest chemistry for tuning colloidal solubility, self-organization and photoconductivity of inorganic-capped nanocrystals. Nature Communications. en. 6. 1. 10142. 10.1038/ncomms10142. 2041-1723 . 4682102. 26647828.
  15. Protesescu. Loredana. Yakunin. Sergii. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Krieg. Franziska. Caputo. Riccarda. Hendon. Christopher H.. Yang. Ruo Xi. Walsh. Aron. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. 2015-06-10. Nanocrystals of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites (CsPbX3, X = Cl, Br, and I): Novel Optoelectronic Materials Showing Bright Emission with Wide Color Gamut. Nano Letters. 15. 6. 3692–3696. 10.1021/nl5048779. 1530-6984. 4462997. 25633588.
  16. Protesescu. Loredana. Yakunin. Sergii. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Bertolotti. Federica. Masciocchi. Norberto. Guagliardi. Antonietta. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. 2016-11-02. Monodisperse Formamidinium Lead Bromide Nanocrystals with Bright and Stable Green Photoluminescence. Journal of the American Chemical Society. en. 138. 43. 14202–14205. 10.1021/jacs.6b08900. 0002-7863 . 5799874. 27737545.
  17. Protesescu. Loredana. Yakunin. Sergii. Kumar. Sudhir. Bär. Janine. Bertolotti. Federica. Masciocchi. Norberto. Guagliardi. Antonietta. Grotevent. Matthias. Shorubalko. Ivan. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Shih. Chih-Jen. 2017-03-28. Dismantling the "Red Wall" of Colloidal Perovskites: Highly Luminescent Formamidinium and Formamidinium–Cesium Lead Iodide Nanocrystals. ACS Nano. en. 11. 3. 3119–3134. 10.1021/acsnano.7b00116. 1936-0851 . 5800405. 28231432.
  18. Krieg. Franziska. Ochsenbein. Stefan T.. Yakunin. Sergii. ten Brinck. Stephanie. Aellen. Philipp. Süess. Adrian. Clerc. Baptiste. Guggisberg. Dominic. Nazarenko. Olga. Shynkarenko. Yevhen. Kumar. Sudhir. 2018-03-09. Colloidal CsPbX 3 (X = Cl, Br, I) Nanocrystals 2.0: Zwitterionic Capping Ligands for Improved Durability and Stability. ACS Energy Letters. en. 3. 3. 641–646. 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00035. 2380-8195 . 5848145. 29552638.
  19. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Boehme. Simon C.. ten Brinck. Stephanie. Bernasconi. Caterina. Shynkarenko. Yevhen. Krieg. Franziska. Widmer. Roland. Aeschlimann. Beat. Günther. Detlef. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. Infante. Ivan. 2019-01-11. Rationalizing and Controlling the Surface Structure and Electronic Passivation of Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals. ACS Energy Letters. en. 4. 1. 63–74. 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01669. 2380-8195 . 6333230. 30662955.
  20. Rainò. Gabriele. Becker. Michael A.. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Mahrt. Rainer F.. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. Stöferle. Thilo. November 2018 . Superfluorescence from lead halide perovskite quantum dot superlattices. Nature. en. 563. 7733. 671–675. 10.1038/s41586-018-0683-0. 30405237. 0028-0836. 1804.01873. 53213886.
  21. Piveteau. Laura. Ong. Ta-Chung. Walder. Brennan J.. Dirin. Dmitry N.. Moscheni. Daniele. Schneider. Barbara. Bär. Janine. Protesescu. Loredana. Masciocchi. Norberto. Guagliardi. Antonietta. Emsley. Lyndon. 2018-09-26. Resolving the Core and the Surface of CdSe Quantum Dots and Nanoplatelets Using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enhanced PASS–PIETA NMR Spectroscopy. ACS Central Science. en. 4. 9. 1113–1125. 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00196. 2374-7943 . 6161058. 30276244.
  22. Dirin. Dmitry N.. Benin. Bogdan M.. Yakunin. Sergii. Krumeich. Frank. Raino. Gabriele. Frison. Ruggero. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. October 2019 . Microcarrier-Assisted Inorganic Shelling of Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. ACS Nano. en. 13. 10. 11642–11652. 10.1021/acsnano.9b05481. 1936-0851 . 6812064. 31585035.
  23. Dubey. Romain J.‐C.. Sasikumar. Pradeep Vallachira Warriam. Krumeich. Frank. Blugan. Gurdial. Kuebler. Jakob. Kravchyk. Kostiantyn V.. Graule. Thomas. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. October 2019 . Silicon Oxycarbide—Tin Nanocomposite as a High‐Power‐Density Anode for Li‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Science. en. 6. 19. 1901220. 10.1002/advs.201901220. 2198-3844 . 6774025. 31592424.
  24. Kravchyk. Kostiantyn V.. Walter. Marc. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. December 2019 . A high-voltage concept with sodium-ion conducting β-alumina for magnesium-sodium dual-ion batteries. Communications Chemistry. en. 2. 1. 84. 10.1038/s42004-019-0186-4. 2399-3669. free. 20.500.11850/361670. free.
  25. Benin. Bogdan M.. Dirin. Dmitry N.. Morad. Viktoriia. Wörle. Michael. Yakunin. Sergii. Rainò. Gabriele. Nazarenko. Olga. Fischer. Markus. Infante. Ivan. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. 2018-08-27. Highly Emissive Self-Trapped Excitons in Fully Inorganic Zero-Dimensional Tin Halides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. en. 57. 35. 11329–11333. 10.1002/anie.201806452 . 6175341. 29999575.
  26. Nazarenko. Olga. Kotyrba. Martin R.. Yakunin. Sergii. Wörle. Michael. Benin. Bogdan M.. Rainò. Gabriele. Krumeich. Frank. Kepenekian. Mikaël. Even. Jacky. Katan. Claudine. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. 2019-03-26. Guanidinium and Mixed Cesium–Guanidinium Tin(II) Bromides: Effects of Quantum Confinement and Out-of-Plane Octahedral Tilting. Chemistry of Materials. en. 31. 6. 2121–2129. 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b00038. 0897-4756 . 6438322. 30930536.
  27. Morad. Viktoriia. Shynkarenko. Yevhen. Yakunin. Sergii. Brumberg. Alexandra. Schaller. Richard D.. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. 2019-06-26. Disphenoidal Zero-Dimensional Lead, Tin, and Germanium Halides: Highly Emissive Singlet and Triplet Self-Trapped Excitons and X-ray Scintillation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141. 25. 9764–9768. 10.1021/jacs.9b02365. 31244134. 0002-7863. free. 20.500.11850/353692. free.
  28. Yakunin. Sergii. Benin. Bogdan M.. Shynkarenko. Yevhen. Nazarenko. Olga. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Dirin. Dmitry N.. Hofer. Christoph. Cattaneo. Stefano. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. August 2019 . High-resolution remote thermometry and thermography using luminescent low-dimensional tin-halide perovskites. Nature Materials. en. 18. 8. 846–852. 10.1038/s41563-019-0416-2. 31263225. 1476-1122. 1905.08727. 160009781.
  29. Web site: ETH+. ethz.ch. en. 2019-11-03.
  30. Rainò. Gabriele. Landuyt. Annelies. Krieg. Franziska. Bernasconi. Caterina. Ochsenbein. Stefan T.. Dirin. Dmitry N.. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. 2019-06-12. Underestimated Effect of a Polymer Matrix on the Light Emission of Single CsPbBr 3 Nanocrystals. Nano Letters. en. 19. 6. 3648–3653. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00689. 31117751. 1530-6984. free. 20.500.11850/349224. free.
  31. Ochsenbein. Stefan T.. Krieg. Franziska. Shynkarenko. Yevhen. Rainò. Gabriele. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. 2019-06-19. Engineering Color-Stable Blue Light-Emitting Diodes with Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. en. 11. 24. 21655–21660. 10.1021/acsami.9b02472. 31117429. 162181731 . 1944-8244.
  32. Shynkarenko. Yevhen. Bodnarchuk. Maryna I.. Bernasconi. Caterina. Berezovska. Yuliia. Verteletskyi. Vladyslav. Ochsenbein. Stefan T.. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. October 2019 . Direct Synthesis of Quaternary Alkylammonium-Capped Perovskite Nanocrystals for Efficient Blue and Green Light-Emitting Diodes. ACS Energy Letters. 4. 11. en. 2703–2711. 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b01915. 31737780. 6849336. 2380-8195. free.
  33. Yakunin. Sergii. Dirin. Dmitry N.. Shynkarenko. Yevhen. Morad. Viktoriia. Cherniukh. Ihor. Nazarenko. Olga. Kreil. Dominik. Nauser. Thomas. Kovalenko. Maksym V.. September 2016 . Detection of gamma photons using solution-grown single crystals of hybrid lead halide perovskites. Nature Photonics. en. 10. 9. 585–589. 10.1038/nphoton.2016.139. 1749-4885.
  34. Nazarenko. Olga. Yakunin. Sergii. Morad. Viktoriia. Cherniukh. Ihor. Kovalenko. Maksym V. April 2017 . Single crystals of caesium formamidinium lead halide perovskites: solution growth and gamma dosimetry. NPG Asia Materials. en. 9. 4. e373. 10.1038/am.2017.45. 1884-4049. free. 20.500.11850/130696. free.
  35. Web site: Chemistry of Materials. pubs.acs.org. en. 2019-11-03.
  36. News: Sein Forschungsziel: Farbenpracht. Laukenmann. Joachim. 2019-06-07. Tages-Anzeiger. 2019-08-08. de. 1422-9994.
  37. Web site: Maksym Kovalenko receives Rössler Prize. ethz.ch. 2019-08-08.
  38. Web site: Maksym V Kovalenko's Publons profile. publons.com. en. 2019-11-26.
  39. Web site: Highly Cited Researchers - The Most Influential Scientific Minds. HCR. 2019-08-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20190220122703/https://hcr.clarivate.com/. 2019-02-20. dead.
  40. Web site: Prof. Kovalenko and Prof. Leroux among the Highly Cited Researchers 2018. chab.ethz.ch. 2019-08-08.
  41. Web site: ERC FUNDED PROJECTS. ERC: European Research Council. 2019-08-08.
  42. Web site: Werner Prize. scg.ch. 2019-08-08.
  43. Web site: Ruzicka-Preis. chab.ethz.ch. de. 2019-08-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20190426144439/https://chab.ethz.ch/outreach/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/ruzicka-preis.html. 2019-04-26. dead.
  44. Web site: ERC FUNDED PROJECTS. ERC: European Research Council. 2019-08-08.

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