• November 2023

    CARES: Center for Advances in Resilient Energy Storage - Exploring the frontiers of fundamental science toward enabling resilience and safety in next-generation energy storage.

    Read our article on electric aviation published and featured as a cover in Joule.

    Read our recently published papers on energy storage and conversion.


    October 2023

    Prof. Mukherjee gave a keynote talk on Thermo-Electrochemical Interactions in Solid-State Batteries at the 244th ECS Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden.


    September 2023

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar on receiving the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award.


    August 2023

    ETSL welcomes new doctoral students Deep Chatterjee, Ranadip Saha, Anindya Nath, Kausthubharam, Arpan Kumar Sharma, Moonseong Kim and Muhammad Abdun Nafi.


    June 2023

    Congratulations to Kaustubh Naik on being awarded Purdue’s Trailblazers in Engineering (TBE) fellowship.

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!

    Congratulations to Maria Terese for successfully defending her M.S. thesis!



    May 2023

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar on being awarded the 2023 Schmidt Science Fellowship — first student ever from Purdue to achieve this! See the Purdue news feature here.

    Prof. Mukherjee gave a keynote talk on Heterogeneities in Solid-State Battery Interfaces and Architectures at the 243rd ECS Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

    Bairav gave an invited talk (for the H. H. Dow Memorial Student Achievement Award) on Mechanistic Analysis of Interface Stability in Solid-State Batteries at the 243rd ECS Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.


    April 2023

    Congratulations to Bairav Vishnugopi on receiving the Purdue University College of Engineering's Outstanding Research Award for the year 2022-23! See the announcement here.

    Congratulations to Navneet Goswami on receiving the Purdue University College of Engineering's Estus H. And Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching for the year 2022-23! See the announcement here.

    Congratulations to Debanjali Chatterjee on receiving the Purdue University College of Engineering's Outstanding Service Scholarship Award for the year 2022-23! See the announcement here.

    Congratulations to Bairav Vishnugopi for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!


    March 2023

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar for being selected as a 2023 CAS Future Leader.


    January 2023

    ETSL welcomes new doctoral student Pretty Mitra.


    December 2022

    Congratulations to Bairav Vishnugopi on receiving the H. H. Dow Student Achievement Award from the Electrochemical Society.

    Congratulations to Kaustubh Naik on receiving the 2023 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship award for his research on the mechanistic complexations in solid-state battery porous electrode architectures.

    Congratulations to Navneet Goswami on receiving the Perry Teaching Excellence fellowship.


    Novermber 2022

    Prof. Mukherjee gave two invited talks on Mechanistic Role of Heterogeneities and Thermal Stability respectively at the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

    Bairav gave a talk on Mechanistic Analysis of Void Formation in Solid-State Batteries at the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

    Congratulations to Debanjali Chatterjee on receiving 2022 Hommert Engineering Excellence Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding contributions to academic excellence, diversity and outreach.

    Congratulations to Trent Murray for successfully defending his Master's thesis!


    October 2022

    Prof. Mukherjee gave an invited talk on Mechanistic Perspective for Beyond Lithium-ion Batteries at the 2022 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in Bled, Slovenia, organized by the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

    Five research talks by Venkatesh, Navneet, Hanwei, Debanjali and Sourim & six posters by Avijit, Susmita, Bairav, Kaustubh, Julia and Aditya were presented from ETSL at the 242nd ECS Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.


    August 2022

    Congratulations to Chance Norris for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!

    ETSL welcomes new doctoral students Alan Halverson and Pooja Ranganathan.


    July 2022

    Congratulations to Conner Fear for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!

    Congratulations to Fahim Vora for successfully defending his Master's thesis!


    June 2022

    Prof. Mukherjee gave an invited talk on Mechanistic Interactions in Solid-State Batteries at the 2022 Batteries GRC in Ventura, CA.


    February 2022

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar on receiving the Hillberry Scholarship in recognition of her research in the topic of materials.

    Congratulations to Bairav Vishnugopi on receiving the Kohr Fellowship in recognition of his research in the topic of modeling and simulation.


    December 2021

    Congratulations to Sobana Rangarajan for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar on receiving the 2022 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship award.


    October 2021

    Read our article on a mechanistic roadmap toward fast charging of solid-state lithium metal batteries that was featured on the cover of the American Chemical Society's Energy Letters.

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar on receiving the Hommert Engineering Excellence Fellowship award for her academic and research excellence and outreach efforts toward promoting diversity in engineering.

    Research talks from ETSL were presented by Bairav, Conner, Susmita, Venkatesh, Debanjali, Kaustabh, Hanwei and Navneet at the 240th ECS Meeting (virtual).


    September 2021

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar on her selection to the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop, organized by MIT.

    Read our research on co-electrodeposition mechanism in rechargeable metal batteries that was among the most read articles of last month in ACS Energy Letters.

    Read our research on lithium plating diagnostics that was featured in Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2021 hot papers collection.


    August 2021

    ETSL welcomes new doctoral students Sourim Banerjee, Anuththara Alujjage, Aditya Singla and Md Toukir Hasan.


    June 2021

    Prof. Mukherjee gave a lecture on "Introduction to Battery Modeling & Analysis" at the Telluride School on Fundamentals for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage held virtually from June 22nd-26th, 2021. Bairav and Navneet were the teaching assistants for the hands-on Practicum session.

    Prof. Mukherjee delivered a talk on "Battery Safety Physics & Analytics" at the MRS OnDemand Webinar Series on Materials Developments in Battery Safety.

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar for the Best Student Presentation Award under the category "Sodium-ion Batteries" in Battery Student Slam at the 239th ECS Meeting.


    May 2021

    Congratulations to Dr. Mukherjee on being named by the Provost as University Faculty Scholar "on an accelerated path of academic distinction". The announcement is here.

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar, Kaustabh Naik and Debanjali Chatterjee for their selection to the Telluride School on Fundamentals for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage.


    April 2021

    Congratulations to Dr. Mukherjee on being promoted to Full Professor. The announcement is here.

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar for her selection to the 23rd National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering, jointly hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.

    Congratulations to Amy Bohinsky for successfully defending her M.S. thesis!

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar, Bairav Sabarish Vishnugopi, Sobana Rangarajan and Debanjali Chatterjee on receiving the Travel Grant Award for the upcoming 239th ECS (virtual) meeting to be held in May.


    March 2021

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar on receiving the Purdue University College of Engineering's Outstanding Service Scholarship Award for the year 2020-2021. The announcement is here.

    Congratulations to Navneet Goswami on receiving the Purdue University College of Engineering's Estus H. And Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching for the year 2020-2021. The announcement is here.

    Research talks from ETSL were presented by Susmita and Bairav at the TMS 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting & Exhibition.


    January 2021

    ETSL welcomes new doctoral candidate Debanjali Chatterjee.


    December 2020

    Dr. Mukherjee delivered a keynote talk on "Alkali Metal Plating and Stripping" at the 2020 MRS Fall Meeting (virtual).

    Our research work related to solid-state batteries was highlighted by Dr. Halle Cheeseman, program director of ARPA-E in his vision for solid-state battery research. Listen to his statement here.


    November 2020

    Research talks from ETSL were presented by Susmita, Hanwei and Venkatesh at the ASME IMECE 2020 (virtual) Conference.


    October 2020

    Five research talks from ETSL were presented by Bairav, Conner, Susmita, Amy and Navneet at the ECS PRiME 2020 (virtual) Meeting.


    September 2020

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar, Amy Bohinsky and Navneet Goswami on receiving the Travel Grant Award for the upcoming ECS PRiME (virtual) meeting to be held in October.

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar on receiving the Travel Grant Award for the upcoming ASME IMECE (virtual) meeting to be held in November.


    August 2020

    Congratulations to Julia Meyer for her team's winning design at the ASME Student Heat Sink Design Challenge as part of ITherm 2020.


    May 2020

    ETSL welcomes summer interns Ángel Antonio Encalada Davila, Raul Eduardo Reyna Aldas, KV Mridula, Sourim Banerjee, Nithean Kumaar Pal Vannan, Ege Murat Süer, Andrew Shinnerl, Devendra Sarnaik, Dhruv Tewari and Gaurav Dadlani.


    April 2020

    Congratulations to Dr. Mukherjee for the Early Career Research Award from College of Engineering. Take a look at his testimonials and the full 2020 Purdue Engineering Faculty Excellence Awards event.

    Read about the Faculty Excellence Awards recognizing outstanding contributions from College of Engineering faculty.

    Congratulations to Deepti Tewari for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!


    February 2020

    One research proposal on Self-Healing Interfaces for Solid-State Batteries was funded under the umbrella of Scialog Advanced Energy Storage by Research Corporation for Science Advancement and Sloan Foundation.

    Congratulations to Ankit Verma for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!

    One research poster from ETSL was presented by Ankit at The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Conference (TMS 2020). Ankit chaired mutliple sessions for the 5th Symposium on Advance Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage organized by Prof. Mukherjee.

    Two research posters from ETSL were presented by Ankit at Gordon Research Seminar (GRS 2020) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC 2020).


    November 2019

    Conner presented research from ETSL as part of an invited talk at the 10th Annual Battery Saftey Summit, Alexandria, Virginia.

    A research poster from ETSL was presented by Susmita at the IMECE 2019 Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

    Congratulations to Tanay Adhikary and Akshay Parag Biniwale for successfully defending their M.S. theses!


    October 2019

    Eight research talks and one poster from ETSL were presented by Mukul, Ankit, Deepti, Sobana, Conner, Wenxiu, Susmita, Navneet and Venkatesh at the 236th ECS 2019 Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Congratulations to Daniel Juarez Robles for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!

    ETSL congratulates Feng Hao on becoming a faculty member. He starts his academic career on the faculty of Engineering at Shandong University, China.


    September 2019

    Congratulations to Susmita Sarkar on receiving the Travel Grant Award for the upcoming IMECE 2019 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.


    August 2019

    ETSL welcomes new doctoral candidates Julia Meyer, Kaustubh Girish Naik and Hanwei Zhou.


    March 2019

    Two research proposals on Eutectic Co-deposition Based Rechargeable Anodes and Probing the Mechanistics of a Molecularly Tailored Solid/Solid Interface were funded under the umbrella of Scialog Advanced Energy Storage by Research Corporation for Science Advancement and Sloan Foundation.

    A research talk from ETSL was presented by Ankit at the TMS 2019 Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

    A research talk from ETSL was presented by Aashutosh at the APS 2019 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.


    February 2019

    Read our research in electrodeposition on Mg metal anodes that was among the most read articles in ACS Energy Letters.


    January 2019

    Read our research in electrodeposition on Li metal anodes that was featured in Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2019 hot papers collection.

    Read our Li -sulfur work that was featured in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2018 hot papers collection .


    December 2018

    Congratulations to Ankit Verma on being chosen as a Lambert Teaching Fellow. The Lambert is a 2-semester fellowship that provides apprenticeship and in-class teaching experience for senior graduate students (PhD or Direct PhD) interested in faculty careers.


    November 2018

    Dr. Mukherjee was invited as a Scialog Fellow to the Scialog 2018 Advanced Energy Storage Conference, organized by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, in Tucson, Arizona

    Congratulations to Prathamesh Sankhe on receiving the H. William Bottomley Research Scholarship for Spring 2019. The Bottomley Scholarship empowers undergraduates to conduct engineering research with Purdue ME faculty.

    Three research talks from ETSL were presented by Ankit, Daniel and Conner at the IMECE 2018 Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


    October 2018

    Dr. Mukherjee gave two invited talks on Mesoscale Insights into Electrode Thermal Behavior for Li-Ion Battery Safety and Mesoscale Understanding of Lithium Electrodeposition at the Electrochemical Society 2018 Fall Meeting in Cancun, Mexico.

    A poster presentation from ETSL was given by Aashutosh and Ankit at the Hawkins Lecture symposium in Purdue University.


    August 2018

    ETSL welcomes new doctoral candidates Daniel Reed, Susmita Sarkar, Venkatesh Kabra and Navneet Goswami.

    Aashutosh Mistry presented a talk at the American Chemical Society 2018 meeting in Boston, Massachusetts


    July 2018

    Aashutosh Mistry presented a talk at the World Congress on Computational Mechanics 2018 meeting in New York.


    June 2018

    ETSL welcomes Richa Naik, Pranjal Jhaveri (PURE program) and Timothy Transue (NEPTUNE program) for Summer 2018 research at Purdue University.

    Congratulations to Aashutosh Mistry on receiving the 2018 Electrochemical Society Edward G. Weston Summer Fellowship Award.

    Congratulations to Daniel Juarez Robles on receiving the best poster award for his presentation at the 233rd ECS 2018 Meeting in Seattle, Washington.


    May 2018

    Explore how three electrode coin cells aid electrodeposition analytics in lithium-ion batteries.

    Read about our research insights into lithium-ion electrode microstructure stochastics featured on MRS Bulletin.

    Dr. Mukherjee gave an invited talk on Stochastics in Energy Storage: Interface to Microstructure at the 233rd ECS 2018 Meeting in Seattle, Washington.

    Five research talks and one poster from ETSL were presented by Aashutosh, Ankit, Feng and Daniel and at the 233rd ECS 2018 Meeting in Seattle, Washington.


    April 2018

    Read about our collaborative research with National Renewable Energy Laboratory on lithium-ion battery electrode microstructure insights into electric vehicle battery performance and lifespan.

    Read about our research on performance and safety of lithium-ion batteries featured on Purdue Mechanical Engineering Bulletin.


    March 2018

    Congratulations to Aashutosh Mistry on receiving the 2018 Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.

    Congratulations to Aashutosh Mistry on receiving the 2018 Electrochemical Society Travel Grant Award.


    February 2018

    Our article on "Secondary Phase Stochastics in Lithium-ion Battery Electrodes" featured on the cover of the 10th anniversary issue of American Chemical Society's Applied Materials & Interfaces.


    December 2017

    Aashutosh Mistry presented a talk at the MRS 2017 meeting in Boston, Massachusetts which was felicitated as a featured communique. Congrats Aashutosh !


    November 2017

    Congratulations to Aashutosh Mistry on being chosen as a Lambert Teaching Fellow. This prestigious and highly competitive fellowship is awarded to ME graduate students with an extraordinary research and academic accomplishment and who hold a potential for a career in academia.

    Dr. Mukherjee was invited as a Scialog Fellow to the Scialog 2017 Advanced Energy Storage Conference, organized by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, in Tucson, Arizona

    Three research talks from ETSL were presented by Aashutosh, Daniel and Ankit at the IMECE 2017 Conference in Tampa, Florida.


    October 2017

    A poster presentation was given by Dr. Mukherjee at the Cooling Technologies Research Center (CTRC) Fall Review Session in Purdue University.

    A poster presentation from ETSL was given by Aashutosh at the Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Applications (ABAA-10) conference in Chicago, Illinois.

    Two research talks and four poster presentations from ETSL were presented by Aashutosh, Daniel, Ankit, Deepti and Sobana at the 232nd ECS Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.


    September 2017

    Two poster presentations from ETSL were given by Aashutosh, Ankit and Daniel at the Hawkins Lecture symposium in Purdue University.



    August 2017

    ETSL moved to Purdue University.

    ETSL congratulates Zhixiao Liu on being the first PhD graduate from ETSL to become a faculty member. He starts his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Hunan University .

    ETSL welcomes Chance Norris and Conner Fear for their PhD studies.



    December 2016

    Congratulations to Michael for winning first prize for the M.S. 3 Minute Thesis Competition hosted by Texas A&M University.


    November 2016

    An invited talk from ETSL was presented by Aashutosh at the Annual Lithium Battery Power Conference in Bethesda, Maryland.

    ETSL welcomes Peifeng Huang as a visiting Ph.D. student from the University of Science and Technology of China.

    A research talk was presented by Daniel at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) in Phoenix, Arizona.


    October 2016

    Congratulations to Kelsey for receiving the Outstanding Engineering Graduate Student Award from the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M.

    ETSL welcomes Sindy Tarazona-Cárdenas as a visiting M.S. student from University of Guanajuato, Mexico.

    ETSL welcomes Dr. Zhixiao Liu as a Post-doctoral Research Associate.


    September 2016

    Congratulations to Kelsey for winning first prize for her poster presentation at the Mechanical Engineering Poster Competition sponsored by the Mechanical Engineering Leadership Council.

    Congratulations to Darren for winning the Best Poster Presentation award at the Texas A&M Conference on Energy.

    Several research talks and poster presentations were given by Kelsey, Michael, Robert, Neha, Hanumanth, Dickens, Darren, Don and Karan at the Texas A&M Conference on Energy in College Station, Texas.


    August 2016

    An invited talk from ETSL was presented by Dr. Mukherjee at the XXV International Materials Research Congress (IMRS), Cancun, Mexico.


    July 2016

    Two invited talks by Dr. Mukherjee and a poster presentation by Aashutosh were presented at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.

    Congratulations to Ankit for his summer internship at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado.


    June 2016

    An invited talk by Dr. Mukherjee and a poster presentation by Aashutosh were presented at the Indo-US Workshop on Energy Storage at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai, India.

    Congratulations to Kelsey and Michael for their summer internships at Oak Ridge National Lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

    ETSL welcomes Akash Verma, Maricarmen del Toro, and Chance Norris for summer research at ETSL.


    May 2016

    Four research talks from ETSL were presented by Aashutosh, Daniel, and Zhixiao at the 229th ECS Conference in San Diego, California.

    An invited talk from ETSL was presented by Aashutosh at the 2016 InterPore Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio.

    Congratulations to Zhixiao Liu and Chien-Fan Chen for successfully defending their Ph.D. theses!


    April 2016

    Two research talks were presented by Aashutosh at the 2016 Material Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy Conference (MCARE) in Clearwater, Florida.


    March 2016

    An invited talk from ETSL was presented by Chien-Fan at the 2016 International Battery Seminar and Exhibit in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

    Deepak, Nihar, and Seshendra presented their graduate work at Texas A&M's Student Research Week.

    Congratulations to Nihar, Deepak and Seshendra for successfully defending their M.S. theses!

    Congratulations to Srivatsa for his upcoming internship with Cummins.


    Feburary 2016

    Dr. Mukherjee is named Morris E. Foster Faculty Fellow.

    Dr. Mukherjee is a recipient of the TEES Young Faculty Award. 

    Dr. Mukherjee received the TMS Young Leaders Award of the Functional Materials Division.  


    January 2016

    An invited talk from ETSL was presented by Zhixiao at the Energy Storage symposium in the International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites.

    Dr. Mukherjee attended, as a protégé, the 2016 Annual Conference on “Materials for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities” of TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas).  

    ETSL welcomes Kelsey Rollag, Robert Minter, Michael Kalan, Darren Law, Dickens Law, Don Vu, Srivatsa Chakravarthy, Hanumanth Palle and Karan Narula for graduate studies.


    December 2015

    AggiE Challenge students showcased their research on "Fabrication and Electrochemical Analysis of Hierarchical Electrode" for the AggiE Challenge Video Competition. Learn about their work here.


    November 2015

    Zhixiao, Chien-Fan, Aashutosh, Daniel and Deepak from ETSL presented their work at the ASME IMECE in Houston.

    Congratulations to Zhixiao Liu, Chien-Fan Chen, Aashutosh Mistry, and Dr. Mukherjee for winning the first prize for their poster titled "Investigating Chemical and Electrochemical Interactions during Discharge of a Lithium Sulfur Cell" presented at the Texas A&M Energy Institute’s Non-fossil based Technologies for Energy - Research Workshop on October 20, 2015.


    October 2015

    Dr. Mukherjee presented an invited talk at the ECS meeting in Phoenix. He was also a recipient of the ECS Young Faculty Travel Grant Award of the Battery Division.

    Congratulations to Pallab Barai for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!

    ETSL welcomes Dr. Rajib Mukherjee as a Research Fellow.


    September 2015

    Dr. Mukherjee’s work in Lithium-air batteries featured in the Fall 2015 edition of Texas A&M Energy Institute Energy Matters Newsletter: “Mesoscale Interactions in Li-Air Batteries.”  

    ETSL hosts a short workshop on energy storage for the visiting students from University of Guanajuato, Mexico.


    August 2015

    ETSL welcomes Ankit Verma and Yuting Luo for their PhD studies.

    Dr. Mukherjee was an invited participant at the NSF Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing: Urgent Research Needs and Multidisciplinary Collaboration.

    Dr. Mukherjee was awarded the “Young Faculty Travel Grant Award of the Battery Division of the Electrochemical Society". He will present an invited talk at the Fall ECS meeting in Phoenix.


    July 2015

    Leigha S. Lewis, Aditya Tiwari and Mohit Singhal successully completed their summer internship at ETSL.


    June 2015

    Dr. Mukherjee co-organized a symposium on energy storage at the American Ceramic Society’s CMCEE conference in Vancouver, Canada and delivered two talks, which included one invited talk.

    Congratulations to Chien-Fan Chen for the Texas A&M Energy Institute ConocoPhillips Fellowship award! 


    May 2015

    ETSL presented their work as 3 talks at the ECS meeting in Chicago.

    Dr. Mukherjee presented an invited talk at the International Conference on Computational Heat Transfer at Rutgers University.

    Congratulations to Guanglian Li for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!

    Congratulations to Carlos Lopez and Malcolm Stein IV for successfully defending their M.S. thesis!

    ETSL welcomes Neha Gada for her graduate studies.

    ETSL welcomes Fernando Cano from University of Guanajuato, Mexico for his MS thesis research.

    ETSL welcomes Robert Minter as an undergraduate researcher.

    ETSL welcomes Leigha S. Lewis, Mohit Singhal, and Aditya Tiwari for Summer 2015 research at Texas A&M.


    February 2015

    ETSL was invited to present their work at the ACS 2015 annual meeting in Denver.

    ETSL was invited to present their work at the TMS 2015 annual meeting in Orlando.


    January 2015

    ETSL welcomes Aashutosh N. Mistry and Daniel R. Juarez for their PhD studies!

    Congratulations to Deepak for the upcoming summer internship with MathWorks.

    ETSL was invited for 2 talks at the American Ceramic Society’s ICAC conference in Daytona Beach.


    December 2014

    Congratulations to Pallab for the prestigious Texas A&M University Dissertation (Graduate) Fellowship for 2015. 


    November 2014

    Work from ETSL was presented at the ASME IMECE.


    October 2014

    Work from ETSL was presented at the ECS meeting.


    August 2014

    ETSL welcomes Nihar Kotak and Deepak Bhatia for their graduate studies!

    Dr. Mukherjee interviewed for Fortune magazine article on “The Next Big Battery Disruption Isn't Coming Next Year”.  

    Dr. Mukherjee is a guest editor for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society special issue on "Mechano-Electrochemical Coupling in Energy Related Materials and Devices."  


    June 2014

    Congratulations to Pallab for the Graduate Research Position at NREL (Energy Storage Group). He will be working through the summer and fall semesters at NREL.

    Congratulations to Chien-Fan for the summer research position at ORNL (Computational Energy Science Group).

    Congratulations to Carlos for the summer research position at NASA JSC (Battery Group).

    Congratulations to Malcolm for the summer research position at Lynntech (Battery Group).

    Dr. Mukherjee co-organized a symposium on "Mechano-Thermo-Electrochemical Interactions in Energy Storage: Perspective toward Safety and Life," at the 17th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

    ETSL welcomes visiting graduate student Felix Nimtz from Mechanical Engineering, Cooperative State University Mannheim, Germany for summer research!


    May 2014

    ETSL welcomes Walter Reed, Physics major from Angelo State University, for his summer research as a REU student!

    Carlos Lopez was featured in this year’s Mechanical Engineering Magazine!  

    ETSL welcomes Seshendra Palakurthy for his graduate studies!

    Pallab, Mohammed, Zhixiao, and Carlos successfully presented their work at the 225th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Orlando, FL.


    April 2014

    Dr. Mukherjee was a nominee and invited participant at the American Ceramic Society Future Leaders Program.  

    Congratulations to our undergrads Dion Hubble (Chemical Eng. major) and Deepak Bhatia (Electrical Eng. major) for their 1st Prize for Poster presentation at the Engineering Showcase today based on their work as part of the AggiE Challenge Project on Battery Electrodes. Keep up the good work!

    Congratulations to Carlos Lopez for winning two graduate poster awards at Student Research Week 2014! His poster, “Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Management for Space Applications,” was awarded First Place in Engineering/Architecture and Second Place for the Sigma Xi Symposium Theme Award among graduate students.  


    March 2014

    Pallab Barai’s recent journal paper entitled “Stochastic Analysis of Diffusion Induced Damage in Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes” is now a featured article on Renewable Energy Global Innovations!

    Dr. Mukherjee interviewed for ASME feature on “Lengthening the Life of Lithium-Ion Batteries”.  

    Congratulations to Mohammed Hasan for successfully defending his M.S. thesis!


    February 2014

    Congratulations to Malcolm Stein for winning first place in the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Organization’s Research Poster Competition at the Pi Tau Sigma National Convention!

    Dr. Mukherjee featured in ASME video on “Nanoengineering for Energy and Sustainability”.  

    Dr. Mukherjee, Malcolm Stein, and Carlos Lopez were interviewed for the Rethinking Green community outreach broadcast hosted by the SEAD Gallery in Bryan, Texas.

    ETSL welcomes Dr. Bitta Mondal for a 1-year research stay as Indo-US Science & Technology Forum Fellow. Dr. Mondal is a scientist at the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, a CSIR Lab in India.


    December 2013

    Seongkoo Cho and Kai An graduate with M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering.


    November 2013

    Congratulations to Pallab for the NSF travel grant award to attend the ASME 2013 IMECE in San Diego, CA.

    Dr. Mukherjee invited to speak at the "Nano-Engineering for Energy Storage" panel at the ASME 2013 IMECE. Dr. Mukherjee was also featured in an interview for the ASME network.

    Dr. Mukherjee organized a session on electrochemical energy storage at the ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE).


    October 2013

    Malcolm, Seongkoo, and Pallab presented their work at the 224th ECS Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Great work!

    Dr. Mukherjee chaired a session on battery modeling at the 224th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

    Congratulations to Seongkoo Cho and Kai An for successfully defending their M.S. theses!

    Undergraduates Ben Powell, Deepak Bhatia, and Dion Hubble awarded the prestigious Research Opportunities for Engineers (ROE) scholarship.

    Guanglian Li selected to participate in the Math Workshop on Batteries and Fuel Cells held by IPAM at UCLA this November.


    September 2013

    Carlos Lopez awarded the prestigious NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Graduate Fellowship! His research focuses on thermal safety and management aspects of Lithium-Ion batteries.

    We are happy to welcome Chien-Fan Chen to the ETSL for his graduate studies!

    Dion Hubble awarded a travel scholarship to attend the Big Ten+ Graduate School Expo this October at Purdue University.

    Pallab Barai awarded his second NSF travel grant to present at ASME-MECE 2013 conference in November.

    Dr. Mukherjee’s work in PEM Fuel Cell featured in the September 2013 edition of ASME Magazine in an article: “Cars without Combustion.”


    August 2013

    Pallab featured as the August 2013 Texas A&M Energy Institute Fellow!


    July 2013

    Carlos and Pallab presented at the 2013 Summer ASME Fuel Cell Conference held in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Mukherjee was a track organizer for the session on Fuel Cell Modeling.

    Welcome visiting professor, Dr. Amaresh Dalal, from the Indian Institute of Technology to the ETSL! Learn more about Dr. Dalal and his work here.

    Dr. Mukherjee invited to speak at the “Nano-structured Materials for Rechargeable Batteries and for Supercapacitors” Symposium in the TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society) 2014 143rd Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.


    June 2013

    Pallab Barai selected for the 2013-2014 Texas A&M Energy Institute ConocoPhillips Fellowship! Congratulations Pallab!

    Carlos Lopez and Malcolm Stein continue their graduate studies with ETSL!

    Dr. Mukherjee is the co-organizer of the "Mechanical-Electrochemical Coupling in Energy Related Materials and Devices" Symposium at the Spring 2014 ECS (Electrochemical Society) Meeting in Orlando, FL. A tentative call for papers is available here.


    May 2013

    Congratulations to Carlos for winning the J. George H. Thompson Outstanding Senior Award! Only three students are selected each year to receive this prestigious award!

    Dr. Mukherjee presented an ASME Nanotechnology Institute Webinar on "Electrodics: Multiscale Electrode Physics in Energy Storage". More information can be found here.


    April 2013

    AggiE-Challenge students won 2nd Place out of 31 teams at the TAMU Engineering Project Showcase for their poster on "A Promising Composite Anode for Enhanced Li-Ion Battery Performance"! Learn more about their work here. Congratulations to the students and mentors for their accomplishment.

    Dr. Mukherjee presented an invited talk at the "Advances in Batteries" Symposium in the 245th ACS (American Chemical Society) National Meeting in New Orleans, LA.


    March 2013

    Congratulations to Carlos for winning 2nd Place Poster in Engineering at the Student Research Week Competition. His poster entitled "The Effect of Vortex Generators on Active Battery Thermal Management" draws from his Undergraduate Thesis research to be published in May.


    January 2013

    We are happy to welcome Kai An and Mohammed Hasan to the ETSL for their graduate studies!


    November 2012

    Pallab Barai received a NSF Student Travel Grant for the ASME IMECE 2012 Conference where he will present his poster entitled "Mechano- Electrochemical Interaction in Li-Ion Battery Electrodes".


    October 2012

    Pallab Barai, Seongkoo Cho, and Dr. Mukherjee attended ECS meeting in Hawaii. Pallab presented on "Modeling of Fracture Initiation and Propagation in Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes".


    September 2012

    Congratulations to Malcolm for being awarded the prestigious Research Opportunities for Engineers (ROE) scholarship.

    We are happy to welcome Zhixiao Liu to the ETSL for his graduate studies!


    June 2012

    We are happy to welcome Pallab Barai to the ETSL for his graduate studies!


    March 2012

    Michael Martin successfully defended his Master's Thesis on "Modeling of Transport in Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes".

    Michael Martin awarded ECS travel grant to present research findings at the 221st Electrochemical Society Conference in Seattle, WA, on May 6-8th.

    ETSL welcomes undergraduates Benjamin Powell and Malcolm Stein for the summer of 2012 to conduct research under the USRG program. They will complete a UG thesis by May of 2013.

    Benjamin Powell and Malcolm Stein received the prestigious Undergraduate Scholars Research Grant to conduct undergraduate research during the summer of 2012.


    February 2012

    We are happy to welcome Seongkoo Cho to the ETSL for his graduate studies!


    January 2012

    The Energy and Transport Science Laboratory was established by Dr. Partha Mukherjee.