Publications

K. Akkiraju, D. -Y. Kuo, C. J. Eom, R. R. Rao, J. N. Nelson, E. Crumlin, K. M. Shen, D. G. Schlom, J. Suntivich, and Y. Shao-Horn. Low-temperature Oxidation of  Methane and Methanol on Iridium Oxides. Cell Reports Physical Science 6,  103023(2025) [link]

K. Akkiraju, and N.D. Rao. Higher income is associated with greater life satisfaction, and more stress. Communications Psychology 3,  27 (2025) [link]


K. Akkiraju, J. Hwang, R. Rao, L. Giordano, X. R. Wang, E. Crumlin, and Y. Shao-Horn. Regulating oxygen activity of perovskites to promote selectivity and activity during methanol oxidation. ACS Catalysis 14 (10), 7649 (2024) [link]


K. Ummel, M. Poblete-Cazenave, K.Akkiraju, N. Graetz, H. Ashman, C. Kingdon, S. H. Tenorio, A. S. Singhal, D. A. Cohen, and N.D. Rao. Multidimensional well-being of US households at a fine spatial scale using fused household surveys: fusionACS. Scientific Data 11 (1), 142 (2024) [link]


P. Santiago, S. P. Raju, K. Akkiraju, S. Yuan, D. Zanchet, Y. Shao-Horn, and P. S. Fernandez. Perovskite oxides as an opportunity to systematically study the Electro-oxidation of alcohols and Polyols on materials based on abundant elements: Learning from the experience using pure metals and metallic oxides in (Electro-)catalysis. ACS Applied Energy Materials 6, 13, 7025 (2023) [link]


J. Peng, D. Schwalbe-Koda, K. Akkiraju, T. Xie, L. Giordano, Y. Yu, C. J. Eom, J. R. Lunger, D.J. Zheng, R.R. Rao, S. Muy, J. C. Grossman, K. Reuter, R. Gomez-Bombarelli, and Y. Shao-Horn. Human- and machine-centred designs of molecules and materials for sustainability and decarbonization. Nature Reviews Materials 7, 991–1009 (2022) [link]


Z. Ren, L. Ruan, L. Yin, K. Akkiraju, L. Giordano, Z. Liu, S. Li, Z.Ye, S. Li, H. Yang, Y. Wang, H. Tian, G. Liu, Y. Shao-Horn, and G. Han. Surface Oxygen Vacancies Confined by Ferroelectric Polarization for Tunable CO Oxidation Kinetics. Advanced Materials, 34, 2202072 (2022) [link]


S. Yuan, B. Cai, L. Giordano, Z. Huang, A. T. Garcia-Esparza, D. Sokaras, Y. Zhang, J. Peng, K. Akkiraju, Y. Zhu, R. Hubner, X. Zou, Y. Roman-Leshkov, and Y. Shao-Horn. Tunable Metal-Hydroxide-Organic Frameworks for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. Nature Materials, 21(6), 673-680 (2022) [link]


L. Giordano, K. Akkiraju, R. Jacobs, D. Vivona, D. Morgan, and Y. Shao-Horn. Using oxygen electronic structure of oxides to design catalytic activity. Accounts of Chemical Research, 55 (3), 298–308 (2022) [link]


J. Hwang, R. Rao, L. Giordano, K. Akkiraju, X. R. Wang, E. Crumlin, H. Bluhm, Y. Shao-Horn. Regulating oxygen activity of perovskites to promote NOx oxidation and reduction kinetics. Nature Catalysis 4 (8), 663 (2021) [link]


S. Yuan, Y. Li, J. Peng, Y. M. Questell-Santiago, K. Akkiraju, L. Giordano, D. J. Zheng, S. Bagi, Y. Román-Leshkov, and Y. Shao-Horn. Conversion of Methane into Liquid Fuels—Bridging Thermal Catalysis with Electrocatalysis. Advance Energy Materials 10, 2002154 (2020) [link]


B. Cai, K. Akkiraju, W. P. Mounfield III, Z. Wang, X. Li, B. Huang, S. Yuan, D. Su, Y. Roman-Leshkov, and Y. Shao-Horn. Solid-state gelation for nanostructured perovskite oxide aerogels. Chemistry of Materials 31 (22), 9422 (2019) [link]


J. Hwang, K. Akkiraju, J. Corchado-Garcia, and Y. Shao-Horn. A Perovskite Electronic Structure Descriptor for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction and the Competing H2 Evolution Reaction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123 (40), 24469 (2019) [link]


K. Akkiraju, S. Kashyap, Ajeet K. Srivastav, Niraj Chawake, L. Bichler, and B. S. Murty. Coalescence Driven Grain Growth of Nanocrystals during Spark Plasma Sintering of NiO. Journal of European Ceramic Society 37 (15), 4973 (2018) [link]


O. E. Femi, K. Akkiraju, B. S. Murthy, N. Ravishankar, and K. Chattopadhyay. Effect of processing route on the bipolar contribution to the thermoelectric properties of n-type eutectic Bi22.5Sb7.5Te70 alloy. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 682, 791 (2016) [link]


N. Chawake, L. D. Pinto, A. K. Srivastav, K. Akkiraju, B. S. Murty, and R. S. Kottada. Joule Heating in Spark Plasma Sintering. Scripta Materialia 93, 52 (2014) [link]


K. D. Robles Arellano, L. Bichler, K. Akkiraju, R. Fong, and K. Mondal. Densification behavior of Spark Plasma Sintered La2O3-YSZ ceramic composites. Ceramics International 40, 715 (2014) [link]


K. D. Robles, K. Akkiraju, L. Bichler, and K. Mondal. Densification behavior of novel (5,10,15 mol%)CeO2 + YSZ ceramic composites by spark plasma sintering. Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly 53, 169 (2014) [link]