Publications

*denotes equal contribution

• Understanding the Effect of Lead Iodide Excess on the Performance of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells
  arXiv:2201.12473 (2022)
  Z. Ahmad, R. A. Scheidt, M. P. Hautzinger, K. Zhu, M. C. Beard, G. Galli
  [arXiv]


• Chemomechanics: friend or foe of the 'AND problem' of solid-state batteries?
  arXiv:2108.10150 (2021)
  Z. Ahmad, V. Venturi, S. Sripad, V. Viswanathan
  [arXiv]


• Observation of Spatially-Resolved Rashba States on the Surface of CH3NH3PbBr3 Single Crystals
  Appl. Phys. Rev. 8, 031408 (2021)
  Z. Huang*, S. R. Vardeny*, T. Wang*, Z. Ahmad*, A. Chanana, E. Vetter, S. Yang, X. Liu, G. Galli, A. Amassian Z. V. Vardeny, D. Sun
  [journal]


• A Sequential Supervised Machine Learning Approach for Cyber Attack Detection in a Smart Grid System
  53rd North American Power Symposium, accepted (2021)
  Y. A. Farrukh, I. Khan, Z. Ahmad, R. M. Elavarasan
  [arXiv]


• Interfaces in Solid Electrolyte Interphase: Implications for Lithium-Ion Batteries
  J. Phys. Chem. C 125, 11301 (2021)
  Z. Ahmad, V. Venturi, H. Hafiz, V. Viswanathan
  [journal]


• Design rules for liquid crystalline electrolytes for enabling dendrite-free lithium metal batteries
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117, 26672 (2020)
  Z. Ahmad, Z. Hong, V. Viswanathan
  [journal]    [arXiv]    [Code]    [Phys.org]


• Universal Chemomechanical Design Rules for Solid-Ion Conductors to Prevent Dendrite Formation in Lithium Metal Batteries
  Nat. Mater., 19, 758 (2020)
  C. Fu, V. Venturi, J. Kim, Z. Ahmad, A. W. Ells, V. Viswanathan, B. A. Helms
  [journal]    [arXiv]    [Phys.org]


• Machine Learning Enabled Discovery of Application Dependent Design Principles for Two-dimensional Materials
  Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 1, 035015 (2020)
  V. Venturi, H. Parks, Z. Ahmad, V. Viswanathan
  [journal]    [Code]


• Design principles for dendrite suppression with porous polymer/aqueous solution hybrid electrolyte for Zn metal anodes
  ACS Energy Lett., 5, 2466 (2020)
  Z. Hong, Z. Ahmad, V. Viswanathan
  [journal]    [Code]


• Machine Learning Enabled Computational Screening of Inorganic Solid Electrolytes for Suppression of Dendrite Formation in Lithium Metal Anodes
  ACS Cent. Sci. 4, 996 (2018)
  Z. Ahmad, T. Xie, C. Maheshwari, J. C. Grossman, V. Viswanathan
  [journal]    [arXiv]    [pdf]    [Techxplore]


• Role of anisotropy in determining stability of electrodeposition at solid-solid interfaces
  Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 055403 (2017)
  Z. Ahmad, V. Viswanathan
  [journal]    [arXiv]    [pdf]


• Stability of electrodeposition at solid-solid interfaces and implications for metal anodes
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056401 (2017)
  Z. Ahmad, V. Viswanathan
  [journal]    [arXiv]    [pdf]


• Synthesis and Measurement of Cohesive Mechanics in Polydopamine Nanomembranes.
  Adv. Mater. Interfaces 4, 170041 (2017)
  L. Klosterman, Z. Ahmad, V. Viswanathan, C. J. Bettinger
  [journal]


• Enhanced strength and temperature dependence of mechanical properties of Li at small length scales and its implications for Li metal anodes.
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114, 57 (2017)
  C. Xu, Z. Ahmad, A. Aryanfar, V. Viswanathan, J. R. Greer
  [journal]    [pdf]    [Green Car Congress]    [Techxplore]


• Quantification of uncertainty in first-principles predicted mechanical properties of solids: Application to solid ion conductors.
  Phys. Rev. B 94, 064105 (2016)
  Z. Ahmad, V. Viswanathan
  [journal]    [arXiv]    [pdf]


• Droplet Formation in a T-Junction Microfluidic Device in the Presence of an Electric Field
  ASME 13th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels (ICNMM), San Francisco, California, USA (2015).
  Z. Ahmad, R. Singh, S. S. Bahga, A. Gupta
  [proceedings]    [pdf]