People
Sanjeevi Jayakumar
Title
Research Fellow
Degree
PhD
Research Interests
Direct Air Capture (DAC), CO₂ Capture & Conversion, Functional Porous Materials
Research Group
Office Location
E3A-07-09
Biography
Sanjeevi Jayakumar works on direct air capture (DAC), CO₂ capture, and functional porous materials: Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) & Porous Organic Polymers (POPs). He was awarded the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022) prior to joining NUS.
Selected Publications
- Zekai Ji, Sanjeevi Jayakumar, Carlos Maria Alava Limpo, Aravind Madhav, Maxim Trubyanov, Pengxiang Zhang, Daria V. Andreeva, Jong Hak Lee, Barbaros Özyilmaz. 3D interconnected pore networks enable superior volumetric CO₂ uptake in amine-functionalized nanoporous carbon for direct air capture. Carbon Capture Sci. Technol. 2026, 19, 100600.
- Sanjeevi Jayakumar, Kazuki Tanifuji, Hitoshi Izu, Ryo Takahata, Masaki Saruyama, Toshiharu Teranishi, Yoshihiro Shimoyama, Shinji Inagaki, Yumiko Nakajima, Yasuhiro Niwa, Ken-Ichi Kimijima, Yasuhiro Ohki. Conversion of CO into hydrocarbons catalyzed by an [Fe₄S₄] cluster immobilized on bipyridine-functionalized periodic mesoporous organosilica. Coord. Chem. Res. 2026, 3, 100021
- Miao Guo, Sanjeevi Jayakumar, Xiangtao Kong, Chunzhi Li, He Li, Jian Chen, Meng-Fei Luo, Qihua Yang. The promotion effect of π-π interactions in Pd NPs catalyzed selective hydrogenation. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 1770.
- Lina Liu, Sanjeevi Jayakumar, Jian Chen, Lin Tao, He Li, Qihua Yang and Can Li. Synthesis of Bifunctional Porphyrin Polymers for Catalytic Conversion of Dilute CO₂ to Cyclic Carbonates ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, 13, 29522.
- Sanjeevi Jayakumar, He Li, Lin Tao, Chunzhi Li, Lina Liu, Jian Chen, Qihua Yang. Cationic Zn-porphyrin immobilized in mesoporous silica as bifunctional catalyst for CO₂ cycloaddition reaction under co-catalyst free conditions ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2018, 6, 9237.
- Sanjeevi Jayakumar, He Li, Jian Chen, and Qihua Yang. Cationic Zn−Porphyrin Polymer Coated onto CNTs as a Cooperative Catalyst for the Synthesis of Cyclic Carbonates ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2018,10, 2546.
- Sanjeevi Jayakumar, Arindam Modak, Miao Guo, He Li, Xiangping Hu, Qihua Yang. Ultrasmall Platinum Stabilized on Triphenylphosphine-Modified Silica for Chemoselective Hydrogenation Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 7791.
- Sanjeevi Jayakumar, He Li, Yaopeng Zhao, Jian Chen, Qihua Yang. Co-catalyst-Free Hybrid Ionic Liquid (IL)-Based Porous Materials for Efficient Synthesis of Cyclic Carbonates through a Cooperative Activation Pathway Chem. -Asian J, 2017, 12, 577.
- Gnanamani, E.; Someshwar, E.; Sanjeevi, J.; Ramanathan, C. R. Conformationally Rigid Chiral Bicyclic Skeleton Tethered Bipyridine N, N′-Dioxide as Organocatalyst: Asymmetric Ring Opening of meso-Epoxides, Adv. Synth. Catal., 2014, 356, 2219.