Pulickel Ajayan is the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor of Engineering at Rice University. His research focuses on nanomaterials, advanced materials, and applied physics, with recent work spanning self-assembled ZnS@CNT composites for supercapacitors, hard carbon anodes for multivalent-ion batteries, ternary metal sulfides for Na/K-ion storage, and the synthesis and properties of borophene and other Xenes. He has published extensively in venues such as *Science Advances*, *Chemical Reviews*, and *Advanced Materials*, and leads the NSF-funded Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC). His extensive international collaborations span institutions across the US, China, India, Japan, Brazil, Germany, France, the UK, Canada, and Singapore.
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