Department of Chemical Engineering | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
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Dr. Nitin Muralidharan

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Materials Science(2018) Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

M.S. Materials Science (Transferred)(2014) University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

B.Tech. Chemical Engineering (2012) Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, India

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muralidharan[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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  • Staff Scientist(2021-2023)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States - Dept. Of Energy
  • Post-doctoral Research Associate (2018-2021)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States - Dept. Of Energy

  • Development of novel critical material-free battery materials for next generation Electric Vehicles (EVs) and EVTOL systems.
  • Core areas include: Lithium-ion, Sodium-ion, Metal Batteries, Ca/Mg/Al ion batteries, Solid-State Batteries, Battery Recycling, Operando Evaluations, Post-test Diagnostics, Duty Cycle Assessments, Techno-economic analysis

  1. IITM-Deakin Partnership Collaboration Award, IITM (2023)
  2. Trend Setter Grant Award – Energy Consortium, IITM (2023)
  3. R&D 100 Award for SOLIDPAC: Solid-State Battery Performance Analyzer and Calculator (2022)
  4. Innovation Award – Technology Licensing, ORNL (2020)
  5. R&D 100 Award for Novel Co-Free Cathode development (2020)
  6. Best Lightning Talk Award – Judges Choice, ORNL (2019)
  7. Finalist for Weinberg Distinguished Staff Fellowship, ORNL (2018)
  8. Vanderbilt Travel Grant for Materials Research Society Conference in Spring (2018)
  9. American Vacuum Society Travel Grant (2016)
  10. Best poster award, VINSE Symposium, Vanderbilt University (2015)
  11. Graduate Incentive Award, University of Cincinnati (2014)
  12. University Grants Scholarship, University of Cincinnati (2013)

  1. Ultra-robust Single-Ion Conducting Composite Electrolytes for Stable Li-Metal Batteries

    Author: Song, Zhaowei and Zhao, Sheng and Shan, Xinyuan and Tian, Jia and Muralidharan, Nitin and Zhu, Jiadeng and Zheng, Jackie and Sokolov, Alexei P. and Cao, Peng-Fei

    Journal: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

    Volume: 17

    Page: 5360 – 5369

    DOI/Link:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85214497528&doi=10.1021%2facsami.4c18659&partnerID=40&md5=8756aaf84b161ffb04b318b5a2b4eebb

    Year: 2025

  2. Insights into the Critical Materials Supply Chain of the Battery Market for Enhanced Energy Security

    Author: Dixit, Marm and Witherspoon, Brett and Muralidharan, Nitin and Mench, Matthew M. and Kweon, Chol-Bum M. and Sun, Yang-Kook and Belharouak, Ilias

    Journal: ACS Energy Letters

    Volume: 9

    Page: 3780 – 3789

    DOI/Link:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85198380635&doi=10.1021%2facsenergylett.4c01300&partnerID=40&md5=89f220d0bbc075ae2842c09d998a7fcc

    Year: 2024

  3. Tailoring of the Anti-Perovskite Solid Electrolytes at the Grain-Scale

    Author: Dixit, Marm and Muralidharan, Nitin and Bisht, Anuj and Jafta, Charl J. and Nelson, Christopher T. and Amin, Ruhul and Essehli, Rachid and Balasubramanian, Mahalingam and Belharouak, Ilias

    Journal: ACS Energy Letters

    Volume: 8

    Page: 2356 – 2364

    DOI/Link:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85154031281&doi=10.1021%2facsenergylett.3c00265&partnerID=40&md5=311c39e4e6ecc90cfea73654b9d3b192

    Year: 2023

  4. Electrochemical energy storage systems

    Author: Dixit, Marm and Muralidharan, Nitin and Parejiya, Anand and Essehli, Rachid and Belharouak, Ilias and Amin, Ruhul

    Journal: Emerging Trends in Energy Storage Systems and Industrial Applications

    Page: 259 – 282

    DOI/Link:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85150127401&doi=10.1016%2fB978-0-323-90521-3.00011-9&partnerID=40&md5=1e4b787b543013e67f667ced4523b5b1

    Year: 2022

  5. Differences in the Interfacial Mechanical Properties of Thiophosphate and Argyrodite Solid Electrolytes and Their Composites

    Author: Dixit, Marm and Muralidharan, Nitin and Parejiya, Anand and Jafta, Charl and Du, Zhijia and Neumayer, Sabine M. and Essehli, Rachid and Amin, Ruhul and Balasubramanian, Mahalingam and Belharouak, Ilias

    Journal: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

    Volume: 14

    Page: 44292 – 44302

    DOI/Link:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85139263444&doi=10.1021%2facsami.2c10589&partnerID=40&md5=40ee6f8c80b1762577403c130014fbef

    Year: 2022

  1. Energy harvesting devices and methods of making and use thereof Cary L. Pint and Nitin Muralidharan. U.S. Patent 11,588,418 (2023)
  2. Battery materials scale-up and processes Ilias Belharouak and Nitin Muralidharan. U.S. Patent 11,508,962 (2022)
  3. Cobalt-free layered oxide cathodes Ilias Belharouak, Marissa Wood, Chengyu Mao, Jianlin Li, Jagjit Nanda, and Nitin Muralidharan. U.S. Patent 11,362,333 (2022)