Curriculum Vitae

Education

    • 2008 - 2012: Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, Ph.D. in Physics
    • 2003 - 2005: Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India, M.Sc. Applied Physics
    • 2000 - 2003: Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India, B.Sc. Physics

Work History

    • 2018 - Current: John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, Associate Editor
    • 2016 - 2018: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, Postdoctoral Research Associate
    • 2013 - 2015: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, Postdoctoral Research Associate
    • 2012 - 2013: Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, Postdoctoral Research Associate
    • 2008 - 2012: Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, Research Associate / Graduate Student
    • 2006 - 2008: Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M), India, Junior Research Fellow
    • 2005 - 2006: George Sudarshan Centre for Physics and Computer Science, CMS College, Kottayam, India, Post-M.Sc. research training

Achievements

    • Oct 2016: U.S. Permanent Residency (green card) in the category of EB-1A Extraordinary Ability category based on research output and impact
    • Feb 2006: All India Rank: 80, Percentile Score: 97.07, Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) for physics, India
    • Dec 2005: CSIR Junior Research Fellowship & Lectureship in India, UGC-CSIR National Eligibility Test (NET), India

Publications

  1. Lei Liu, Binit Lukose, Pablo Jaque, Bernd Ensing, 2018 “Mini-review: reaction mechanism of hydrogen activation by frustrated Lewis pairs”, Green Energy & Environment, 2019, 4, 1, 20-28, DOI: 10.1016/j.gee.2018.06.001
  2. Lei Liu, Binit Lukose, Bernd Ensing, “A free energy landscape of the capture of CO2 by frustrated Lewis pairs”, ACS Catalysis, 2018, 8, 3376-3381. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b04072
  3. Binit Lukose, Sai Vineeth Bobbili, Paulette Clancy, “Factors affecting tacticity and aggregation of P3HT polymers in P3HT:PCBM blends”, Molecular Simulation, 2017, 43, 743-755. DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2017.1303688
  4. Jingyang Wang, Binit Lukose, Michael O. Thompson, Paulette Clancy, “Ab initio modeling of vacancies, antisites, and Si dopants in ordered InGaAs”, J. Appl. Phys. 2017, 121, 045106. DOI: 10.1063/1.4974949
  5. Lei Liu, Binit Lukose, Bernd Ensing, “Hydrogen activation by frustrated Lewis pairs revisited by metadynamics simulations”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2017, 121, 2046-2051. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b09991
  6. S. Friedländer, Jinxuan Liu, Matt Addicoat, Petko Petkov, Nina Vankova, Robert Rüger, Agnieszka Kuc, Wei Guo, Wencai Zhou, Binit Lukose, Zhengbang Wang, A. Pöppl, M. Ziese, Thomas Heine, Christof Wöll, “Linear chains of magnetic ions stacked with variable distance: ferromagnetic ordering with a Curie temperature above 20 K”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 12683-12687. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201606016
  7. Lei Liu, Binit Lukose, “Geometries and electronic structure of boron clusters: planar-structures and all-boron fullerenes”, JApl Theol, 2016, 1, 5-8. DOI: 10.24218/jatpr.2016.07
  8. Binit Lukose, Paulette Clancy, “A feasibility study of unconventional planar ligand spacers in chalcogenide nanocrystals”, 2016, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 13781-13793. DOI: 10.1039/C5CP07521A
  9. Cheng-Wei Lee, Binit Lukose, Michael O. Thompson, Paulette Clancy, “Energetics of Neutral Si Dopants in InGaAs: an ab initio and Semi-empirical Tersoff Model Study”, Phys. Rev. B, 2015, 91, 094108. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.094108
  10. Benjamin E Treml, Binit Lukose, Paulette Clancy, Detlef-M Smilgies, Tobias Hanrath, “Connecting the particles in the box – creating hexamer nanocrystal clusters within an AB6 binary nanocrystal superlattice”, 2014, Nature – Scientific Reports, 2014, 4, 6731. DOI: 10.1038/srep06731
  11. Ananth Prakash Kaushik, Binit Lukose, Paulette Clancy, “The role of shape on electronic structure and charge transport in faceted PbSe nanocrystals”, ACS Nano, 2014, 8(3), 2302-2317. DOI: 10.1021/nn405755n
  12. Zhengbang Wang, Jinxuan Liu, Binit Lukose, Zhigang Gu, Peter Weidler, Hartmut Gliemann, Thomas Heine, Christof Wöll, “Nanoporous designer solids with huge lattice constant gradients: Multiheteroepitaxy of metal-organic frameworks”, Nano Lett. 2014, 14(3), 1526-1529. DOI: 10.1021/nl404767k
  13. Suman Chandra, Sharath Kandambeth, Bishnu, P. Biswal, Binit Lukose, Shrikant M. Kunjir, Minakshi Chaudhary, Ravichandar Babarao, Thomas Heine, Rahul Banerjee, “Chemicaly stable multilayered covalent organic nanosheets from covalent organic frameworks via mechanical delamination”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (47), 17853-17861. DOI: 10.1021/ja408121p
  14. Sharath Kandambeth, Digambar Balaji Shinde, Manas K. Panda, Binit Lukose, Thomas Heine, Rahul Banerjee, “Enhancement of chemical stability and crystallinity in porphyrin-containing covalent organic frameworks by intramolecular hydrogen bonds”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 13052-13056. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201306775
  15. Bishnu P. Biswal, Suman Chandra, Sharath Kandambeth, Binit Lukose, Thomas Heine, Rahul Banerjee, “Mechanochemical synthesis of chemically stable isoreticular covalent organic frameworks”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135 (14), 5328-5331. DOI: 10.1021/ja4017842
  16. Binit Lukose, Agnieszka Kuc, Thomas Heine, “Stability and electronic properties of 3D covalent organic frameworks”, J. Mol. Modeling, 2013, 19 (5), 2143-2148. DOI: 10.1007/s00894-012-1671-1
  17. Binit Lukose, Thomas Heine, “Review: Covalently-bound organic frameworks”, 2012, published in PhD thesis
  18. Binit Lukose, Gabriel Merino, Christof Wöll, Thomas Heine, “Linker guided metastability in templated Metal-Organic Framework-2 derivatives (SURMOFs-2)”, 2012, published in Ph.D. thesis
  19. Sharath Kandambeth, Arijit Mallick, Binit Lukose, Manoj V Mane, Thomas Heine, Rahul Banerjee, “Construction of crystalline 2D covalent organic frameworks with remarkable chemical (acid/base) stability via combined reversible and irreversible route”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (48), 19524–19527. DOI: 10.1021/ja308278w
  20. Jinxuan Liu, Binit Lukose, Osama Shekhah, Hasan Kemal Arslan, Peter Weidler, Hartmut Gliemann, Stefan Bräse, Sylvain Grosjean, Adelheid Godt, Xinliang Feng, Klaus Müllen, Ioan-Bogdan Magdau, Thomas Heine, Christof Wöll, “A novel series of isoreticular metal organic frameworks: realizing metastable structures by liquid phase epitaxy”, Nature - Scientific Reports, 2012, 2, 921. DOI: 10.1038/srep00921
  21. Binit Lukose, Mohammad Wahiduzzaman, Agnieszka Kuc, Thomas Heine, “Mechanical, electronic and adsorption properties of porous aromatic frameworks”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2012, 116 (43), 22878-22884 DOI: 10.1021/jp3067102
  22. Binit Lukose, Barbara Supronowicz, Petko St. Petkov, Johannes Frenzel, Agnieszka B. Kuc, Gotthard Seifert, Georgi N. Vayssilov, and Thomas Heine, “Structural properties of metal-organic frameworks within the density-functional based tight-binding method”, Phys. Status Solidi B, 2012, 249, 335–342. DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201100634
  23. Binit Lukose, Agnieszka Kuc, Thomas Heine, “The Structure of Layered Covalent-Organic Frameworks”, Chem. Eur. J., 2011, 17, 2388 – 2392. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201001290
  24. Binit Lukose, Agnieszka Kuc, Johannes Frenzel, Thomas Heine, “On the reticular construction concept of covalent organic frameworks”, Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 60–70. DOI:10.3762/bjnano.1.8