{"id":7,"date":"2021-08-07T08:37:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T08:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5405\/cgi\/addon_GT.cgi?s=GT::WP::Install::EIG+%28briztech%29+-+10.0.87.62+%5BWordpress%3b+\/var\/hp\/common\/lib\/Wordpress.pm%3b+543%3b+Hosting::gap_call%5D\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-05-19T18:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T18:35:26","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/janith.org\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prakash, Priyanka, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Igor Levchenko, Karthika Prasad, and Katia Alexander. &#8220;Polyimide nanocomposites for next generation spacesuits.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Materials Horizons<\/em>\u00a0(2025).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shalini, M., S. Nanthini, Pandiyarasan Veluswamy, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Igor Levchenko, Katia Alexander, Karthika Prasad, H. Shankar, and Suhasini Sathiyamoothy. &#8220;Facet dependent ultralow thermal conductivity of zinc oxide coated silver fabric for thermoelectric devices.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Scientific Reports<\/em>\u00a014, no. 1 (2024): 27210.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Karthika Prasad, Joice Mathew, Eduardo Trifoni, Oleg Baranov, Igor Levchenko, and Kateryna Bazaka. &#8220;Carbon Nanocomposites in Aerospace Technology: A Way to Protect Low-Orbit Satellites.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Nanomaterials<\/em>\u00a013, no. 11 (2023): 1763.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prasad, Karthika, Syamlal Sasi, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Igor Levchenko, and Kateryna Bazaka. &#8220;Enhanced antimicrobial activity through synergistic effects of cold atmospheric plasma and plant secondary metabolites: opportunities and challenges.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Molecules<\/em>\u00a028, no. 22 (2023): 7481.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prasad, Karthika, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Olha Bazaka, Elena P. Ivanova, Igor Levchenko, and Kateryna Bazaka. &#8220;Conductive adhesive self-healing nanocomposite hydrogels for photothermal therapy in wound healing.&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Functional Nanocomposite Hydrogels<\/em>&nbsp;(2023): 395-427.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wang, Peiyu, Renwu Zhou, Rusen Zhou, Wenshao Li, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Shuxiong Chen, Bernd HA Rehm et al. &#8220;Cold atmospheric plasma for preventing infection of viruses that use ACE2 for entry.&#8221; Theranostics 12, no. 6 (2022): 2811. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thno.org\/v12p2811.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Senadeera, G. K. R., W. I. Sandamali, J. M. K. W. Kumari, T. Jaseetharan, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Prashant Sonar, V. P. S. Perera, J. C. N. Rajendra, N. Karthikeyan, and M. A. K. L. Dissanayake. &#8220;Morphological and structural study on low cost SnO2 counter electrode and its applications in quantum dot sensitized solar cells with polysulfide electrolyte.&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Materials Science and Engineering: B<\/em>&nbsp;286 (2022): 116075. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0921510722004639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sandamali, W. I., G. K. R. Senadeera, T. S. M. Liyanage, J. M. K. W. Kumari, T. Jaseetharan, A. M. <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, V. P. S. Perera, J. C. N. Rajendra, N. Karthikeyan, and M. A. K. L. Dissanayake. &#8220;Efficient triple-layer photoanode incorporated with nitrogen-doped TiO 2 nanocrystals for CdS quantum dot-sensitized solar cells.&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Ceylon Journal of Science<\/em>&nbsp;51, no. 4 (2022): 449-457. <a href=\"https:\/\/cjs.sljol.info\/articles\/10.4038\/cjs.v51i4.8062\/galley\/6509\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sasi, Syamlal, Karthika Prasad, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Olha Bazaka, Elena P. Ivanova, Igor Levchenko, and Kateryna Bazaka. &#8220;Plasma for aquaponics.&#8221; Trends in Biotechnology (2022).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wu, Ziyang, Ting Liao, Sen Wang, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Aaron S. Micallef, Wei Li, Anthony P. O\u2019Mullane et al. &#8220;Conversion of Catalytically Inert 2D Bismuth Oxide Nanosheets for Effective Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalysis via Oxygen Vacancy Concentration Modulation.&#8221; Nano-micro letters 14, no. 1 (2022): 1-17. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s40820-022-00832-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ekanayake, UG Mihiri, Helapiyumi Weerathunga, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Eric R. Waclawik, Ziqi Sun, Jennifer M. MacLeod, Anthony P. O&#8217;Mullane, and Kostya Ken Ostrikov. &#8220;Sustainable Claisen-Schmidt chalcone synthesis catalysed by plasma-recovered MgO nanosheets from seawater.&#8221; Sustainable Materials and Technologies 32 (2022): e00394. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2214993722000082?casa_token=pCrrrSB7N3oAAAAA:bKZsT4J0f4oqU8aYVflVyK_RE0-fwxSzNPicJaBakP5LnwNdHfXvrosAVUpuRAoys3JAwT2ArkQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Al-Jumaili, Ahmed, Muhammad Adeel Zafar, Kateryna Bazaka, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, and Mohan V. Jacob. &#8220;Bactericidal vertically aligned graphene networks derived from renewable precursor.&#8221; Carbon Trends 7 (2022): 100157. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S266705692200013X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dissanayake, M. A. K. L., K. Umair, G. K. R. Senadeera, T. Jaseetharan, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, and H. W. M. A. C. Wijayasinghe. &#8220;Plasmonic gold nanoparticle incorporated MgO-coated SnO2 photoanode for efficiency enhancement in dye-sensitized solar cells.&#8221; Solar Energy 233 (2022): 363-377. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0038092X22000494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, James Scott, Athukoralalage Don K. Deshan, Dechao Chen, Amandeep Singh, Suvankar Sen, Prashant Sonar, Krasimir Vasilev, Qin Li, and Kostya Ostrikov. &#8220;Monochromatic Blue and Switchable Blue\u2010Green Carbon Quantum Dots by Room\u2010Temperature Air Plasma Processing.&#8221; Advanced Materials Technologies (2021): 2100586. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/admt.202100586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Li, Wenshao, Renwu Zhou, Rusen Zhou, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe<\/strong>, Tianqi Zhang, Alexander Gissibl, Patrick J. Cullen, Robert Speight, and Kostya Ken Ostrikov. &#8220;Insights into amoxicillin degradation in water by non-thermal plasmas.&#8221; Chemosphere (2021): 132757. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S004565352103229X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dissanayake, M. A. K. L., J. M. K. W. Kumari, G. K. R. Senadeera, T. Jaseetharan, <strong>Janith Weerasinghe,<\/strong> and Hafeez Anwar. &#8220;A low-cost, vein graphite\/tin oxide nanoparticles based composite counter electrode for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells.&#8221; Materials Science and Engineering: B 273 (2021): 115440. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0921510721003974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Manawasinghe, I.S., Phillips, A.J., Xu, J., Balasuriya, A., Hyde, K.D., St\u0119pie\u0144, \u0141., Harischandra, D.L., Karunarathna, A., Yan, <strong><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong><\/strong>, J. and Luo, M., 2021. Defining a species in fungal plant pathology: beyond the species level.&nbsp;<em>Fungal Diversity<\/em>, pp.1-16. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13225-021-00481-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zhou, Rusen, Xiaoxiang Wang, Renwu Zhou, <strong><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong><\/strong>, Tianqi Zhang, Yanbin Xin, Hao Wang, Patrick Cullen, Hongxia Wang, and Kostya Ken Ostrikov. &#8220;Non-thermal plasma enhances performances of biochar in wastewater treatment and energy storage applications.&#8221; Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering (2021): 1-9. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11705-021-2070-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Senadeera, G. K. R., D. Balasundaram, M. A. K. L. Dissanayake, B. A. Karunaratne, <strong><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong><\/strong>, C. A. Thotawatthage, T. Jaseetharan, J. M. K. W. Kumari, and D. L. N. Jayathilaka. &#8220;Efficiency enhancement in dye-sensitized solar cells with co-sensitized, triple layered photoanode by enhanced light scattering and spectral responses.&#8221; Bulletin of Materials Science 44, no. 1 (2021): 1-8. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12034-021-02365-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong>, Suvanker Sen, J. M. K. W. Kumari, M. A. K. L. Dissanayake, G. K. R. Senadeera, C. A. Thotawatthage, Mihiri Ekanayake et al. &#8220;Efficiency enhancement of low-cost metal free dye sensitized solar cells via non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma surface treatment.&#8221; Solar Energy 215 (2021): 367-374. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0038092X20313037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kumari, J. M. K. W., G. K. R. Senadeera, <strong><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong><\/strong>, C. A. Thotawatthage, and M. A. K. L. Dissanayake. &#8220;Effect of polyaniline (PANI) on efficiency enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cells fabricated with poly (ethylene oxide)-based gel polymer electrolytes.&#8221; Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 25, no. 2 (2021): 695-705. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10008-020-04841-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zhou, Renwu, Tianqi Zhang, Rusen Zhou, Sen Wang, Danhua Mei, Anne Mai-Prochnow, <strong><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong><\/strong>, Zhi Fang, Kostya Ken Ostrikov, and Patrick J. Cullen. &#8220;Sustainable plasma-catalytic bubbles for hydrogen peroxide synthesis.&#8221; Green Chemistry 23, no. 8 (2021): 2977-2985. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2021\/gc\/d1gc00198a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong>, Wenshao Li, Rusen Zhou, Renwu Zhou, Alexander Gissibl, Prashant Sonar, Robert Speight, Krasimir Vasilev, and Kostya Ken Ostrikov. &#8220;Bactericidal silver nanoparticles by atmospheric pressure solution plasma processing.&#8221; Nanomaterials 10, no. 5 (2020): 874. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2079-4991\/10\/5\/874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Balasundaram, D., R. Senadeera, L. Dissanayake, <strong><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong><\/strong>, C. Thotawatthage, and N. Jayathilaka. &#8220;Performance Enhancement of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells by Cosensitization of Triple Layered Photoanode Consisting of TiO2 Nanofibers.&#8221; (2019). <a href=\"http:\/\/repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk:8080\/ujrr\/handle\/123456789\/2452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bandara, T. M. W. J., <strong><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong><\/strong>, M. A. K. L. Dissanayake, G. K. R. Senadeera, M. Furlani, I. Albinsson, and B-E. Mellander. &#8220;Characterization of poly (vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene)(PVdF-HFP) nanofiber membrane based quasi solid electrolytes and their application in a dye sensitized solar cell.&#8221; Electrochimica Acta 266 (2018): 276-283. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0013468618303104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Senadeera, G. K. R., <strong><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong><\/strong>, M. A. K. L. Dissanayake, and C. A. Thotawatthage. &#8220;A five-fold efficiency enhancement in dye sensitized solar cells fabricated with AlCl 3 treated, SnO 2 nanoparticle\/nanofibre\/nanoparticle triple layered photoanode.&#8221; Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 48, no. 11 (2018): 1255-1264. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10800-018-1247-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><strong>Weerasinghe, Janith<\/strong><\/strong>, M. A. K. L. Dissanayake, G. K. R. Senadeera, V. A. Senaviratne, C. A. Thotawatthage, and J. M. K. W. Kumari. &#8220;Application of electrospun cellulose acetate nanofibre membrane based quasi-solid state electrolyte for dye sensitized solar cells.&#8221; Ceylon Journal of Science 46, no. 2 (2017). <a href=\"https:\/\/cjs.sljol.info\/articles\/abstract\/10.4038\/cjs.v46i2.7433\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janith.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janith.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janith.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janith.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janith.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/janith.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/janith.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janith.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}