{"id":4787,"date":"2026-06-16T07:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/?page_id=4787"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:35:10","slug":"dr-dumidu-siriwardena","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/che\/dr-dumidu-siriwardena\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Dumindu Siriwardena"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dumindu<\/a><\/p>\n

Senior Lecturer<\/strong><\/h4>\n

B.Sc.(Honors), Ph.D.(QUT)<\/p>\n

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Biosketch:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

B.Sc. Special Degree (Chemistry) (Honors) \u2013 University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, 2014<\/p>\n

Ph.D. \u2013 Queensland University of Technology, Australia (2022)<\/p>\n

Divisions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Physical Chemistry\/ Inorganic Chemistry<\/p>\n

Research interest:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Sustainable materials for rechargeable batteries and pollutant removal, Battery material recycling<\/p>\n

Current Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHE 458 1.0 Advanced Surface Chemistry<\/p>\n

List of Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nabil El Mounafia, M. A., Fatima Halloub, Reza Younesi, Dumindu Pasan Siriwardena<\/strong>, Alexandra E. Ulander, Ismael Saadoune. Eco-friendly and sustainable solutions: Optimized LIB recycling for high-performance supercapacitors. Journal of Power Sources 2025, 656.<\/p>\n

(2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jin, Y.; Liu, H.; Yang, H.; Achchige, D. P. S. T<\/strong>.; 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.<\/p>\n

(3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jayasinghe, S.; Munaweera, I.; Perera, C.; Siriwardena, D. P.<\/strong>; Kottegoda, N. Low\u2010Carbon\u2010Footprint Plasma\u2010Functionalized Coconut\u2010Coir\u2010Based Porous Carbon as an Efficient and Sustainable Adsorbent. ChemistrySelect 2024, 9 (13), e202305164.<\/p>\n

(4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hapuarachchi, S. N.; Jones, M. W.; Wasalathilake, K. C.; Marriam, I.; Nerkar, J. Y.; Kirby, N.; Siriwardena, D. P.<\/strong>; Fernando, J. F.; Golberg, D. V.; O’Mullane, A. P. Operando Investigation of Silicon Anodes During Electrochemical Cycling in Li\u2010ion Batteries. Small Methods 2024, 8 (7), 2301199.<\/p>\n

(5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gebert, F.; Gogoi, N.; Siriwardena, D. P.<\/strong>; Naylor, A. J. The Origin of Rapid Capacity Loss in 1, 1, 1\u2010Trifluoroethyl Methyl Carbonate\u2013Based Lithium\u2010Ion Battery Electrolytes. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2024, 11 (36), 2400535.<\/p>\n

(6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lewis, C. E. M.; Fernando, J. F.; Siriwardena, D. P.<\/strong>; Firestein, K. L.; Zhang, C.; von Treifeldt, J. E.; Golberg, D. V. Vanadium\u2010containing layered materials as high\u2010performance cathodes for aqueous zinc\u2010ion batteries. Advanced Materials Technologies 2022, 7 (4), 2100505.<\/p>\n

(7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jayasinghe, S.; Pasan Siriwardena, D.<\/strong>; Munaweera, I.; Perera, C.; Kottegoda, N. Sustainable synthesis of highly functionalized activated carbon using plasma technology. ChemPlusChem 2022, 87 (10), e202200202.<\/p>\n

(8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Siriwardena, D. P.<\/strong>; Fernando, J. F.; Wang, T.; Firestein, K. L.; Zhang, C.; Lewis, C. E.; von Treifeldt, J. E.; Golberg, D. V. Na0.67Mn(1\u2010x)FexO2 compounds as high\u2010capacity cathode materials for rechargeable sodium\u2010ion batteries. ChemElectroChem 2021, 8 (3), 508-516.<\/p>\n

(9)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Siriwardena, D. P<\/strong>.; 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<\/p>\n

(10)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fernando, J. F.; Siriwardena, D. P<\/strong>.; 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.<\/p>\n

(11)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Siriwardena, D. P.<\/strong>; 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.<\/p>\n

Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recipient of the \u00c5Forsk travel grant for young researchers in 2025 by the \u00c5Forsk Foundation<\/p>\n

Recipient of a Faculty of Science Executive Dean’s Commendation for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis for 2022 from QUT, Australia<\/p>\n

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