Dmitrii Rakov

Dmitrii Rakov

School of Chemical Engineering

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Rakov research focuses on computational and experimental energy storage materials design and characterization, specifically, liquid and polymer electrolytes for alkali-ion batteries, coordination chemistry and electrodics in batteries. His research involves understanding of kinetics of electrochemical reactions at electrified interfaces and nature of interphase evolution. Dr Rakov also works on advancing computational chemistry methods for deeper understanding of electrochemical processess.

Dr Rakov's research interests involve electrochemistry, energy storage, transport phenomena, physical organic chemistry, computational chemistry/physics, green chemistry and process design.

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 Alghamdi, N. S., Rakov, D., Peng, X., Lee, J., Huang, Y., Yang, X., . . . Luo, B. (2025). Tailoring Zn-ion Solvation Structures for Enhanced Durability and Efficiency in Zinc–Bromine Flow Batteries. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 64(27), 11 pages.
    DOI Scopus2
    2024 Rakov, D. A., Ahmed, N., Kong, Y., Nanjundan, A. K., Popov, I., Sokolov, A. P., . . . Yu, C. (2024). Exploring the Impact of In Situ-Formed Solid-Electrolyte Interphase on the Cycling Performance of Aluminum Metal Anodes. ACS Nano, 18(41), 28456-28468.
    DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC1
    2023 Rakov, D. A. (2023). Metal-doped nickel-based chalcogenides and phosphochalcogenides for electrochemical water splitting. Energy Advances, 2(2), 235-251.
    DOI Scopus9
    2023 Rakov, D. A., Sun, J., Cherepanov, P. V., Arano, K., Howlett, P. C., Simonov, A. N., . . . Forsyth, M. (2023). The impact of electrode conductivity on electrolyte interfacial structuring and its implications on the Na⁰⁄⁺ electrochemical performance. Energy and Environmental Science, 16(9), 3919-3931.
    DOI Scopus12
    2022 Pal, U., Rakov, D., Lu, B., Sayahpour, B., Chen, F., Roy, B., . . . Forsyth, M. (2022). Interphase control for high performance lithium metal batteries using ether aided ionic liquid electrolyte. Energy and Environmental Science, 15(5), 1907-1919.
    DOI Scopus107
    2022 Rakov, D., Hasanpoor, M., Baskin, A., Lawson, J. W., Chen, F., Cherepanov, P. V., . . . Forsyth, M. (2022). Stable and Efficient Lithium Metal Anode Cycling through Understanding the Effects of Electrolyte Composition and Electrode Preconditioning. Chemistry of Materials, 34(1), 165-177.
    DOI Scopus37
    2022 Sun, J., Rakov, D., Wang, J., Hora, Y., Laghaei, M., Byrne, N., . . . Forsyth, M. (2022). Sustainable Free‐Standing Electrode from Biomass Waste for Sodium‐Ion Batteries. ChemElectroChem, 9(16), 8 pages.
    DOI Scopus18
    2022 Rakov, D. A., Sun, J., Ferdousi, S. A., Howlett, P. C., Simonov, A. N., Chen, F., & Forsyth, M. (2022). Polar Organic Cations at Electrified Metal with Superconcentrated Ionic Liquid Electrolyte and Implications for Sodium Metal Batteries. ACS Materials Letters, 4(10), 1984-1990.
    DOI Scopus16
    2021 Arano, K., Begic, S., Chen, F., Rakov, D., Mazouzi, D., Gautier, N., . . . Dupre, N. (2021). Tuning the Formation and Structure of the Silicon Electrode/Ionic Liquid Electrolyte Interphase in Superconcentrated Ionic Liquids. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13(24), 28281-28294.
    DOI Scopus29 Europe PMC4
    2021 Pathirana, T., Rakov, D. A., Chen, F., Forsyth, M., Kerr, R., & Howlett, P. C. (2021). Improving Cycle Life through Fast Formation Using a Superconcentrated Phosphonium Based Ionic Liquid Electrolyte for Anode-Free and Lithium Metal Batteries. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 4(7), 6399-6407.
    DOI Scopus21
    2021 Rakov, D., Sun, C., Lu, Z., Li, S., & Xu, P. (2021). NiSe@Ni1−xFexSe2 Core–Shell Nanostructures as a Bifunctional Water Splitting Electrocatalyst in Alkaline Media. Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, 2(11), 7 pages.
    DOI Scopus16
    2020 Rakov, D. A., Chen, F., Ferdousi, S. A., Li, H., Pathirana, T., Simonov, A. N., . . . Forsyth, M. (2020). Engineering high-energy-density sodium battery anodes for improved cycling with superconcentrated ionic-liquid electrolytes. Nature Materials, 19(10), 1096-1101.
    DOI Scopus214 Europe PMC61
    2019 Niu, S., Sun, Y., Sun, G., Rakov, D., Li, Y., Ma, Y., . . . Xu, P. (2019). Stepwise Electrochemical Construction of FeOOH/Ni(OH)2 on Ni Foam for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2(5), 3927-3935.
    DOI Scopus117
    2019 Forsyth, M., Hilder, M., Zhang, Y., Chen, F., Carre, L., Rakov, D. A., . . . Howlett, P. C. (2019). Tuning Sodium Interfacial Chemistry with Mixed-Anion Ionic Liquid Electrolytes. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(46), 43093-43106.
    DOI Scopus46 Europe PMC4
    2018 Rakov, D., Li, Y., Niu, S., & Xu, P. (2018). Insight into Mn and Ni doping of Ni1-xMnxPS3 and Mn1-xNixPS3 nanosheets on electrocatalytic hydrogen and oxygen evolution activity. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 769, 532-538.
    DOI Scopus23
    2018 Ma, Y., Chu, J., Li, Z., Rakov, D., Han, X., Du, Y., . . . Xu, P. (2018). Homogeneous Metal Nitrate Hydroxide Nanoarrays Grown on Nickel Foam for Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. Small, 14(52), 7 pages.
    DOI Scopus63 Europe PMC10
    2018 Li, Y., Niu, S., Rakov, D., Wang, Y., Cabán-Acevedo, M., Zheng, S., . . . Xu, P. (2018). Metal organic framework-derived CoPS/N-doped carbon for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Nanoscale, 10(15), 7291-7297.
    DOI Scopus109 Europe PMC19
    2017 Li, K., Rakov, D., Zhang, W., & Xu, P. (2017). Improving the intrinsic electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity of few-layer NiPS3 by cobalt doping. Chemical Communications, 53(58), 8199-8202.
    DOI Scopus68 Europe PMC15

  • Preprint
    Year Citation
    2023 Rakov, D., Sun, J., Cherepanov, P., Arano, K., Howlett, P., Simonov, A., . . . Forsyth, M. (2023). Impact of the electrode conductivity on the electrolyte interfacial structuring and its implications to the Na0/+ electrochemical performance.
    DOI
    2021 Pathirana, T., Rakov, D., Chen, F., Forsyth, M., Kerr, R., Howlett, P., & A. Rakov, D. (2021). Improving Cycle Life Through Fast Formation Using a Super-Concentrated Phosphonium Based Ionic Liquid Electrolyte for Anode-Free and Lithium Metal Batteries.
    DOI
    2021 Pathirana, T., Rakov, D., Chen, F., Forsyth, M., Kerr, R., & Howlett, P. C. (2021). Improving Cycle Life Through Fast Formation Using a Super-Concentrated Phosphonium Based Ionic Liquid Electrolyte for Anode-Free and Lithium Metal Batteries.
    DOI
    2021 Pal, U., Rakov, D., Lu, B., Sayahpour, B., Chen, F., Roy, B., . . . Forsyth, M. (2021). Interphase Control in Lithium Metal Batteries Through Electrolyte Design.
    DOI
    2020 Rakov, D., Chen, F., Ferdousi, S., Li, H., Pathirana, T., Simonov, A., . . . Forsyth, M. (2020). Engineering High Energy Density Sodium Battery Anodes for Improved Cycling with Superconcentrated Ionic Liquid Electrolytes.
    DOI

Awarded grants:

2024, Funding source: Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne, Australia. Australian Synchrotron Beamline grant (ID: 21151).

2023, Funding source: ARC Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA), Australia Research grant for design of commercial rechargeable aluminium battery prototype (Project ID: AE230100223)

2023, Funding source: National Computational Infrastructure, Canberra, Australia HPC simulation grant from NCI Adapter scheme Q2 (ur31 project)

2023, Travel grant for the 243rd Electrochemical Society meeting, Boston, MA, USA

2022, Funding source: National Computational Infrastructure, Canberra, Australia HPC simulation grant from NCI Adapter scheme Q4 (ur31 project)

2022, Travel grant for the 242nd Electrochemical Society meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA

MAT ENG 7101 - Materials Characterisation (Teaching assistant)

Connect With Me
External Profiles