Dr Otakar Frank
Materials for energy storage and conversion
- 2023 - 2026 Role of Localized Defects in 2D Materials: From Nanoscale Structure to Macroscale Properties (with Freie Universitat Berlin and Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)
- 2021 - 2023 Elastic nanosilicon for advanced Li-ion batteries (with Institute of Physics, Prague)
- 2018 - 2022 Carbon allotropes with rationalized nanointerfaces and nanolinks for environmental and biomedical applications, WP3
- 2010 - present JHINST - Department of Electrochemical Materials; head of the department since 2022
- 2008 - 2010 Institute of Chemical Engineering and High-Temperature Processes, Patras, Greece; post-doc
- 2005 - 2008 JHINST - Department of Electrochemical Materials; post-doc
- 2005 - 2008 Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague; post-doc
- 2001 - 2005 Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague; PhD. student
- 1995 - 2001 Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague; undergraduate student
- 2016 Neuron Impulse
- 2012 Czech Learned Society Award for Young Researchers
- 2011 Otto Wichterle Award by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Rodríguez Á., Varillas J., Haider G., Kalbáč M., Frank O. Complex Strain Scapes in Reconstructed Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Moiré Superlattices. ACS Nano ASAP (2023).
Rodriguez A., Krayev A., Velicky M., Frank O., El-Khoury P.Z. Nano-optical Visualization of Interlayer Interactions in WSe2/WS2 Heterostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13(25), 5854-9 (2022).
Jindra M., Velický M., Bouša M., Abbas G., Kalbáč M., Frank O. Localized Spectroelectrochemical Identification of Basal Plane and Defect-Related Charge-Transfer Processes in Graphene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13, 642-8 (2022).
Rodriguez A., Kalbac M., Frank O. Strong localization effects in the photoluminescence of transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers. 2D Materials 8(2), 025028 (2021).
Velický M., Rodriguez A., Bouša M., Krayev A.V., Vondráček M., Honolka J., Ahmadi M., Donnelly G.E., Huang F., Abruña H.D., Novoselov K.S., Frank O. Strain and Charge Doping Fingerprints of the Strong Interaction between Monolayer MoS2 and Gold. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11(15), 6112-8 (2020).
Alvarez M. P., del Corro E., Morales García Á., Kavan L., Kalbac M., Frank O. Single Layer Molybdenum Disulfide under Direct Out-of-Plane Compression: Low-Stress Band-Gap Engineering. Nano Letters 15(5), 3139-3146 (2015).
Frank O., Dresselhaus M.S., Kalbac M. Raman spectroscopy and In-situ Raman spectroelectrochemistry of isotopically engineered graphene systems. Accounts of Chemical Research 48(1), 111-118 (2015).
Frank O., Bouša M., Riaz I., Jalil R., Novoselov K.S., Tsoukleri G., Parthenios J., Kavan L., Papagelis K. and Galiotis C. Phonon and structural changes in deformed Bernal stacked bilayer graphene. Nano Letters 12(2), 687-693 (2012).
Frank O., Tsoukleri G., Riaz I., Papagelis K., Parthenios J., Ferrari A.C., Geim A.K., Novoselov K.S. and Galiotis C. From Graphene to Carbon Fibres: Mechanical Deformation and Development of a Universal Stress Sensor. Nature Communications 2, 255 (2011).
Frank O., Mohr M., Maultzsch J., Thomsen C., Riaz I., Jalil R., Novoselov K.S., Tsoukleri G., Parthenios J., Papagelis K., Kavan L. and Galiotis C. Raman 2D-Band Splitting in Graphene: Theory and Experiment. ACS Nano 5(3), 2231–2239 (2011).
Frank O., Tsoukleri G., Parthenios J., Papagelis K., Riaz I., Jalil R., Novoselov K.S. and Galiotis C. Compression Behavior of Single-layer Graphenes. ACS Nano 4(6), 3131-3138 (2010).
