Renu Sharma

Dr. Renu Sharma is a Project Leader in the Nanofabrication Research Group. She received a B.S. and B.Ed. in Physics and Chemistry from Panjab University, India, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Solid State Chemistry from the University of Stockholm, Sweden, where she had a Swedish Institute Fellowship. Renu joined the CNST in 2009, coming from Arizona State University (ASU), where she began as a Faculty Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Center for Solid State Science, and most recently served as a Senior Research Scientist in the LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science and as an affiliated faculty member in the School of Materials and Department of Chemical Engineering. Renu has been a pioneer in the development of environment cell transmission electron microscopy (E(S)TEM), combining atomic-scale resolution with dynamic chemical analysis of gas-solid reactions. She has applied this powerful implementation of TEM to characterize the atomic-scale mechanisms underlying the synthesis and reactivity of nanoparticles (including catalysts), nanotubes, nanowires, inorganic solids, ceramics, semiconductors, and superconductor materials. Renu has received a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Faculty Research Fellowship, is a past President of the Arizona Imaging and Microanalysis Society, and has over 140 publications. At the CNST, Renu is establishing advanced TEM measurement capabilities for nanoscience research and overseeing the operation of a new TEM facility in the NanoFab.

• Kinetic Measurements From In Situ TEM Observations, R. Sharma, Microscopy Research and Techniques 72, 144-152 (2009).

• Site-specific Fabrication of Fe Particles for Carbon Nanotube Growth, R. Sharma, E. Moore, P. Rez, and M. M. J. Treacy, Nano Letters 9, 689-694 (2009).

• Ledge Flow Controlled Catalyst Interface Dynamics During Si Nanowire Growth, S. Hofmann, R. Sharma, C. T. Wirth, F. Cervantes-Sodi, C. Ducati, T. Kasama, R. Dunin-Borkowski, J. Drucker, P. Bennett, and J. Robertson,  Nature Materials 7, 372-375 (2008).

• Controlling the Catalyst During Carbon Nanotube Growth, J. Robertson, S. Hofmann, M. Cantoro, A. Parvez, C. Ducati, G. Zhong, R. Sharma, and C. Mattevi, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 8, 6105-6011 (2008).

• Measuring the Redox Activity of Individual Nanoparticles in Cerium-based Oxides, R. Wang, P. A. Crozier, R. Sharma, and J. B. Adams, Nano Letters 8, 962-967 (2008).

• Ferromagnetism Above Room Temperature in Bulk and Transparent Thin Films of Mn Doped ZnO, P. Sharma, A. Gupta, K. V. Rao, F. J. Owens, R. Sharma, R. Ahuja, J. M. Osorio Guillen, B. Johanson, and G. A. Gehring, Nature Materials 2, 673-677 (2003).