Curriculum Vitae of Devika Sil, Ph.D. 130 Beury Hall N.13 th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122

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1 Contact Information Curriculum Vitae of Devika Sil, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry Temple University 130 Beury Hall N.13 th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Education History M.A,Ph.D., Chemistry Department of Chemistry Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Thesis title: Synthesis and Application of Surfactant Free Plasmonic Structures for Sensing and Catalysis Advisor: Dr. Eric Borguet GPA: 3.83 / 4 Master of Technology, Chemical Engineering, Major :Environmental Science Department of Applied Chemistry University of Calcutta, India, Thesis title: Photocatalytic Degradation of ZnO Doped Poly Viynl Chloride Using Artificial And Solar Irradiation Advisor: Dr. Sampa Chakrabarti Percentage: (1 st Class 1 st Division) B. Tech., Chemical Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India Degree Grade Point Average: 8.29/10 Research Experience 1. Research Assistant at Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA. Advisor: Dr. Eric Borguet Detection of high frequency bands of interfacial OH species using vibrational second harmonic and sum frequency generation, awarded ECS Summer Fellowship Nanomaterials by Design: Synthesis of Au, Pd and Au- Pd nanoparticles using femtosecond laser irradiation Application of Au, Pd, Au-Pd, Cu, Au-Cu nanoparticle thin films in optical nanoplasmonic gas sensing Synthesis and application of Pd nanoparticles to surface acoustic hydrogen sensing 2. Junior Research Fellow at Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute Kolkata, India (Full-time position)

2 Government funded project, Patterning of Sol Gel Thin Films by Capillary Force Assisted Soft Lithographic Technique and Their Applications in Photovoltaics, Sensing and Optical Coatings 3. Graduate Research Assistant at University of Calcutta Kolkata, India. Advisor: Dr. Sampa Chakrabarti Government funded project: Photocatalytic degradation of polymers using artificial and solar irradiation 4. Research Intern at West Bengal Pollution Control Board Summer 2007 Kolkata, India Standard and advanced techniques related to instrumental analysis of various pollutants of waste water and air at Central Laboratory 5. Research Intern at Paharpur Cooling Towers Summer 2005 Kolkata, India (Paid Internship, only awarded to top students) Fundamentals of cooling tower technology Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant at Temple University Department of Chemistry, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Duties: Taught recitations, held office hours, graded examinations and homework Courses: Chemistry 3301: Physical Chemistry Lecture I; Chemistry 1033: General Chemistry I; Chemistry 1034 General Chemistry II Leadership Experience Team leader in plasmonics and sensor research in the Borguet group, Temple University Responsibilities: Developed ideas, planned and conducted experiments, maintained lab in compliance with standard EPA procedures, initiated and managed, collaborations, trained undergraduate and graduate students, analyzed experimental data, prepared reports and SOPs, published research findings and presented in international conferences. Awards and Achievements Department of Energy, EERE Post Doctoral Fellowship 2015 Finalist Electrochemical Society (ECS) Colin Garfield Fink Summer Fellowship (Summer 2012) Travel Award (2012 Spring Meeting) (Declined) Electrochemical Society American Chemical Society Younger Chemist s Committee Philadelphia Honorable mention (February 2012) Department of Science and Technology (DST), India Junior Research Fellowship ( ) Professional Affiliations Materials Research Society, American Chemical Society 2

3 Publications 1. D. Sil, J. Hines, U. Udeoyo, and E. Borguet, Palladium Nanoparticle-Based Surface Acoustic Wave hydrogen Sensor, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 7(10), 5709 (2015). 2. E. Menumerov, B. A. Marks, D. A. Dikin, F. X. Lee, R.D. Winslow, S. Guru, D. Sil, E. Borguet, P. Hutapea, R. A. Hughes, and S. Neretina, Sensing hydrogen Gas from Atmospheric Pressure to a Hundred Parts per Million with Nanogaps Fabricated Using a Single-Step Bending Deformation, ACS Sensors Article ASAP 3. K.D. Gilroy, A. Sundar, M. Hajfathalian, A. Yaghoubzade, T. Tan, D. Sil, Transformation of truncated gold octahedrons into triangular nanoprisms through the heterogeneous nucleation of silver, Nanoscale 7 (15), 6827 (2015). 4. D. Sil, K. D. Gilroy, A. Niaux, A. Boulesbaa, S. Neretina, and E. Borguet, Seeing Is Believing: Hot Electron Based Gold Nanoplasmonic Optical hydrogen Sensor, ACS Nano, 8, 7755 (2014). 5. O. Isaienko, S. Nihonyanagi, D. Sil, and E. Borguet, Observation of the Bending Mode of Interfacial Water at Silica Surfaces by Near-Infrared Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of the [stretch+ bend] Combination Bands, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4, 531 (2013). 6. D.Sil, "Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy of High Frequency Bands of Interfacial Species." Electrochemical Society Interface, 21, 91(2012). 7. R. Deb Roy, D. Sil, S. Jana, N. Bhandaru, S.K. Bhadra, P.K. Biswas, R. Mukherjee, Creation of Self-Organized Complex Meso Patterns in Sol Gel Thin Films by Confined Capillary Dynamics, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 51, 9546 (2012) 8. R. Deb Roy, D. Sil, S. Jana, P. Biswas, S. Bhadra, Experimental Study of Perfectly Patterned Silica-Titania Optical Waveguide, Photonic Sens, 2, 81 (2012) 9. D. Sil, R. Deb Roy, S. Jana, R. Mukherjee, S. Bhadra, P. Biswas, Patterning of Sol Gel Thin Films by Capillary Force Assisted Soft Lithographic Technique, J Sol-Gel Sci Technol, 59, 117 (2011). 10. D. Sil, S. Chakrabarti, Photocatalytic Degradation of PVC ZnO Composite Film under Tropical Sunlight and Artificial UV Radiation: A Comparative Study, Solar Energy, 84, 476 (2010). Publications in Preparation 1. Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) Based Optical Detection of Ions in Aqueous Solution Using Surfactant-Free Au Nanostructures D. Sil.; K.D. Gilroy; R. Hughes; E.Borguet and S. Neretina 2. Ultrafast Overtone Vibrational Energy Redistribution In Interfacial Water A. Boulesbaa; D. Sil. and E.Borguet. 3. How does Atomic Hydrogen Interact with Au under Optical Excitation? D. Sil.; K.D. Gilroy; E. Glor; Z. Fakhraai; C.Lane; B. Barbiellini; A. Bansil; S. Neretina and Borguet, E. 3

4 Selected Conference Presentations (Oral) MRS Fall Meeting December 2015 Boston, MA, USA Mechanism of Hot Electron Mediated Optical Detection of Hydrogen 2. ACS National Meeting Denver, CO, USA March 2015 Localized Surface Plasmon (LSPR) Based Optical Detection of Ions in Aqueous Solution Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) Optical Detection of Hydrogen Ultrafast laser induced synthesis of narrowly distributed sub-5 nm surfactant-free Au-Pd nanoparticles 3. ACS National Meeting Philadelphia, PA, USA August 2012 Nonlinear Vibrational Spectroscopy of Overtones of Interfacial Species Sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of the combination band vibrations of water molecules at silica surfaces 2. ECS Meeting Seattle, Washington, USA, May 2012 Preparation of Pd Thin Films and their Application in Surface Acoustic Wave Devices for Sensing Hydrogen Selected Poster Presentations MRS Fall Meeting Boston, MA, USA December 2014 Shape Engineering Periodic Arrays of Substrate-Based Plasmonic Nanostructures 2. Plasmonics Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Newry, Maine, USA July 2014 Hot Electron Based Gold Nanoplasmonic Optical Hydrogen Sensing 3. Plasmonics Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) Newry, Maine, USA July 2014 Hot Electron Based Gold Nanoplasmonic Optical Hydrogen Sensing 4. Vibrational Spectoscopy Gordon Research Conference (GRC) University of New England, ME,USA August 2014 IR-Second Harmonic Generation Spectroscopy of Mineral-Water Interfaces Probing Overtones 5. MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit Boston, MA, USA December 2013 The application of Au, Au-Pd nanoparticle films to Hydrogen sensing 6. ACS National Meeting Philadelphia, PA, USA August 2012 Thin Films of Organic Semiconductors for Hydrazine Detection Invited Talks National Institute of Standards and Technology May 2015 Centre of Nanoscale Science and Technology 4

5 Energy Research Group Leveraging Hot Electrons for Optical Detection of Hydrogen and Methane Sustainable Technologies Seminar February 2015 Brookhaven National Lab Surfactant Free Synthesis of Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Their Application in Optical Detection of Explosives and Ions Department of Chemistry August 2014 University of Pennsylvania Surfactant Free Synthesis of Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Their Application in Optical Detection of Hydrogen Experimental Expertise 1. Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA Materials Science a. Cyclic voltammetry b. Vacuum deposition of metal thin films on sapphire and glass substrates c. Electroless deposition of metals d. Synthesis of metallic nanoparticles using wet chemical techniques and ultrafast lasers e. Sol-gel synthesis of titania precursors f. Characterization of nanoparticles and thin films i. Electron microscopy- SEM, TEM, HRTEM with EDS ii. Scanning probe microscopy-afm iii. Powder x-ray diffraction iv. Thermo-gravimetric analysis Lasers and Spectroscopy a. Operation and maintenance of Ultrafast Lasers, expert in ultraviolet, infrared and Raman spectroscopy 2. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Kolkata, India Sol gel synthesis of silica, titania, zirconia, indium tin oxide (ITO) and alumina precursors Characterization of thin films for photovoltaic applications Using soft lithography to pattern silica, titania films for creation of plasmonic waveguides Characterization of waveguides using scanning probe microscopy and ellipsometry Relevant Instrumental expertise 1. Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA a. Optical Microscope (Olympus) b. Atomic Force Microscope (Agilent 5500) c. Scanning Tunneling Microscope (Agilent 5500) 5

6 d. Scanning Electron Microscopy with EDS e. Transmission Electron Microscopy (JEOL JEM-1400 TEM) with EDS f. Vacuum Deposition (University of Pennsylvania, shared facility) g. Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer h. Sputter coaters i. Quartz crystal microbalance j. I-V measurements with preamplifier of scanning probe microscopes k. Cyclic voltammetry l. Chromatography (GC, HPLC) 2. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Kolkata, India Thin Film preparation a. Dip Coating Unit (Chemat 200) b. Spin coater (Laurell) c. Atomic Force Microscope (Nanonics) d. High temperature programmable furnaces in different environments (O 2, H 2, Ar and N 2 ) e. Photocatalytic Reactor (solar reactor and artificial UV reactor) f. Cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical measurements Thin Film characterization a. Profilometry (Dektak) b. Ellipsometer (Gaertner l116 B) c. FTIR Spectrometer (Nicolet 5700) d. UV-vis spectrometer 3100 and 3600 (Shimadzu) and JASCO V e. I-V, Hall Voltage Measurements (Keithley) Computer Software Experience Igor, Origin, Matlab, Finite Difference Time Domain Software (Lumerical), MS Office, Image J, Gwyddion,WSxM, Labview. References Available upon request 6