Senior Lecturer
B.Sc.(Honors), Ph.D.(QUT)
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Biosketch:
B.Sc. Special Degree (Chemistry) (Honors) – University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, 2014
Ph.D. – Queensland University of Technology, Australia (2022)
Divisions:
Physical Chemistry/ Inorganic Chemistry
Research interest:
Sustainable materials for rechargeable batteries and pollutant removal, Battery material recycling
Current Teaching
CHE 458 1.0 Advanced Surface Chemistry
List of Publications:
(1) Nabil El Mounafia, M. A., Fatima Halloub, Reza Younesi, Dumindu Pasan Siriwardena, Alexandra E. Ulander, Ismael Saadoune. Eco-friendly and sustainable solutions: Optimized LIB recycling for high-performance supercapacitors. Journal of Power Sources 2025, 656.
(2) Jin, Y.; Liu, H.; Yang, H.; Achchige, D. P. S. T.; Subasi, Y.; Gond, R.; Wang, Y.; Asfaw, H. D.; Chen, S.; Shi, Z. Development of biomass pyrolysis bio-oil as a renewable surface engineering agent for bio-based hard carbon production. Journal of Power Sources 2025, 641, 236824.
(3) Jayasinghe, S.; Munaweera, I.; Perera, C.; Siriwardena, D. P.; Kottegoda, N. Low‐Carbon‐Footprint Plasma‐Functionalized Coconut‐Coir‐Based Porous Carbon as an Efficient and Sustainable Adsorbent. ChemistrySelect 2024, 9 (13), e202305164.
(4) Hapuarachchi, S. N.; Jones, M. W.; Wasalathilake, K. C.; Marriam, I.; Nerkar, J. Y.; Kirby, N.; Siriwardena, D. P.; Fernando, J. F.; Golberg, D. V.; O’Mullane, A. P. Operando Investigation of Silicon Anodes During Electrochemical Cycling in Li‐ion Batteries. Small Methods 2024, 8 (7), 2301199.
(5) Gebert, F.; Gogoi, N.; Siriwardena, D. P.; Naylor, A. J. The Origin of Rapid Capacity Loss in 1, 1, 1‐Trifluoroethyl Methyl Carbonate–Based Lithium‐Ion Battery Electrolytes. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2024, 11 (36), 2400535.
(6) Lewis, C. E. M.; Fernando, J. F.; Siriwardena, D. P.; Firestein, K. L.; Zhang, C.; von Treifeldt, J. E.; Golberg, D. V. Vanadium‐containing layered materials as high‐performance cathodes for aqueous zinc‐ion batteries. Advanced Materials Technologies 2022, 7 (4), 2100505.
(7) Jayasinghe, S.; Pasan Siriwardena, D.; Munaweera, I.; Perera, C.; Kottegoda, N. Sustainable synthesis of highly functionalized activated carbon using plasma technology. ChemPlusChem 2022, 87 (10), e202200202.
(8) Siriwardena, D. P.; Fernando, J. F.; Wang, T.; Firestein, K. L.; Zhang, C.; Lewis, C. E.; von Treifeldt, J. E.; Golberg, D. V. Na0.67Mn(1‐x)FexO2 compounds as high‐capacity cathode materials for rechargeable sodium‐ion batteries. ChemElectroChem 2021, 8 (3), 508-516.
(9) Siriwardena, D. P.; Fernando, J. F.; Wang, T.; Firestein, K. L.; Zhang, C.; Brand, H. E.; Jones, M. W.; Kewish, C. M.; Berntsen, P.; Jenkins, T. Probing the effect of Mg doping on triclinic Na2Mn3O7 transition metal oxide as cathode material for sodium-ion batteries. Electrochimica Acta 2021, 394, 139139
(10) Fernando, J. F.; Siriwardena, D. P.; Firestein, K. L.; Zhang, C.; von Treifeldt, J. E.; Lewis, C.-E. M.; Wang, T.; Dubal, D. P.; Golberg, D. V. Enriched pseudocapacitive lithium storage in electrochemically activated carbonaceous vanadium (iv, v) oxide hydrate. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2020, 8 (26), 13183-13196.
(11) Siriwardena, D. P.; Fernando, J. F.; Wang, T.; Firestein, K. L.; Zhang, C.; von Treifeldt, J. E.; Golberg, D. V. Effect of Fe3+ for Ru4+ substitution in disordered Na1.33Ru0.67O2 cathode for sodium-ion batteries: Structural and electrochemical characterizations. Electrochimica Acta 2019, 325, 134926.
Awards:
Recipient of the ÅForsk travel grant for young researchers in 2025 by the ÅForsk Foundation
Recipient of a Faculty of Science Executive Dean’s Commendation for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis for 2022 from QUT, Australia