About

Kwabena Bediako is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in 1986, he completed his B.S. at Calvin College in Michigan in 2008, earned an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013, and obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2015. Following his doctoral studies, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University until 2018. His research focuses on inorganic materials chemistry, electrochemistry, low-dimensional materials, quantum transport, and optoelectronics. His group investigates the mesoscopic aspects of interfacial charge transfer and charge transport in two-dimensional materials and heterostructures, emphasizing the design of materials with modular interfaces at atomically precise scales to address challenges in electrochemical energy conversion and quantum electronics. The group synthesizes and isolates atomically thin inorganic crystals, assembles these into novel multicomponent materials, and employs advanced techniques such as optical spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and quantum magnetotransport probes to study their properties. Current research projects include electrocatalyst discovery for fuel reactions, ion insertion and transport in 2D heterointerfaces for energy storage, and the electrochemical control of light–matter interactions and topological phases in 2D semiconductors and semimetals.

Selected publications

• Encoding multistate charge order and chirality in endotaxial heterostructures

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023-08-04 · 1 citations

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  The uploaded files contain raw datasets used for creating figures in the main text of the paper titled "Encoding multistate charge order and chirality in endotaxial heterostructures".

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• 35+1 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2023

  Matter · 2023-08-01 · 1 citations

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• Encoding multistate charge order and chirality in endotaxial heterostructures

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023-08-04

  datasetOpen accessSenior author

  The uploaded files contain raw datasets used for creating figures in the main text of the paper titled "Encoding multistate charge order and chirality in endotaxial heterostructures".

  PublisherDOI