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
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
Year: 2024
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
Year: 2023
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
Year: 2022
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
Year: 2022
Implications of Local Cathode Structure in Solid-State Batteries
Author: Dixit, Marm and Amin, Ruhul and Parejiya, Anand and Muralidharan, Nitin and Essehli, Rachid and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: ACS Symposium Series
Volume: 1414
Page: 113 – 132
Year: 2022
The Role of Isostatic Pressing in Large-Scale Production of Solid-State Batteries
Author: Dixit, Marm and Beamer, Chad and Amin, Ruhul and Shipley, James and Eklund, Richard and Muralidharan, Nitin and Lindqvist, Lisa and Fritz, Anton and Essehli, Rachid and Balasubramanian, Mahalingam and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: ACS Energy Letters
Volume: 7
Page: 3936 – 3946
Year: 2022
SolidPAC is an interactive battery-on-demand energy density estimator for solid-state batteries
Author: Dixit, Marm and Parejiya, Anand and Essehli, Rachid and Muralidharan, Nitin and Haq, Shomaz Ul and Amin, Ruhul and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Cell Reports Physical Science
Volume: 3
Year: 2022
Ultrasonic nondestructive diagnosis of lithium-ion batteries with multiple frequencies
Author: Sun, Hongbin and Muralidharan, Nitin and Amin, Ruhul and Rathod, Vivek and Ramuhalli, Pradeep and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Journal of Power Sources
Volume: 549
Year: 2022
Hydrothermal synthesis of Co-free NMA cathodes for high performance Li-ion batteries
Author: Essehli, Rachid and Parejiya, Anand and Muralidharan, Nitin and Jafta, Charl J. and Amin, Ruhul and Dixit, Marm B. and Bai, Yaocai and Liu, Jue and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Journal of Power Sources
Volume: 545
Year: 2022
Enabling Sustainable Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturing via Recycling
Author: Bai, Yaocai and Muralidharan, Nitin and Nanda, Jagjit and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: ACS Symposium Series
Volume: 1412
Page: 551 – 565
Year: 2022
Next-Generation Cobalt-Free Cathodes – A Prospective Solution to the Battery Industry's Cobalt Problem
Author: Muralidharan, Nitin and Self, Ethan C. and Dixit, Marm and Du, Zhijia and Essehli, Rachid and Amin, Ruhul and Nanda, Jagjit and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Advanced Energy Materials
Volume: 12
Year: 2022
Next-Generation Cobalt-Free Cathodes – A Prospective Solution to the Battery Industry’s Cobalt Problem
Author: Muralidharan, Nitin and Self, Ethan C. and Nanda, Jagjit and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Transition Metal Oxides for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Page: 33 – 53
Year: 2022
Valuation of Surface Coatings in High-Energy Density Lithium-ion Battery Cathode Materials
Author: Nisar, Umair and Muralidharan, Nitin and Essehli, Rachid and Amin, Ruhul and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Energy Storage Materials
Volume: 38
Page: 309 – 328
Year: 2021
Probing the electrolyte/electrode interface with vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy: A review
Author: Chowdhury, Azhad U. and Muralidharan, Nitin and Daniel, Claus and Amin, Ruhul and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Journal of Power Sources
Volume: 506
Year: 2021
Nanostructured ligament and fiber Al–doped Li7La3Zr2O12 scaffolds to mediate cathode-electrolyte interface chemistry
Author: Polizos, Georgios and Sharma, Jaswinder and Jafta, Charl J. and Muralidharan, Nitin and Veith, Gabriel M. and Keum, Jong K. and Kukay, Alexander and Sahore, Ritu and Wood, David L.
Journal: Journal of Power Sources
Volume: 513
Year: 2021
Hollow silica particles: A novel strategy for cost reduction
Author: Spence, Daron and Cullen, David A. and Polizos, Georgios and Muralidharan, Nitin and Sharma, Jaswinder
Journal: Nanomaterials
Volume: 11
Year: 2021
Understanding implications of cathode architecture on energy density of solid-state batteries
Author: Dixit, Marm B. and Parejiya, Anand and Muralidharan, Nitin and Essehli, Rachid and Amin, Ruhul and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Energy Storage Materials
Volume: 40
Page: 239 – 249
Year: 2021
Evaluation of electrochemical performance and redox activity of Fe in Ti doped layered P2-Na0.67Mn0.5Fe0.5O2 cathode for sodium ion batteries
Author: Darbar, Devendrasinh and Muralidharan, Nitin and Hermann, Raphaël P. and Nanda, Jagjit and Bhattacharya, Indranil
Journal: Electrochimica Acta
Volume: 380
Year: 2021
Na1+ xMnx/2Zr2- x/2(PO4)3as a Li+and Na+Super Ion Conductor for Solid-State Batteries
Author: Parejiya, Anand and Essehli, Rachid and Amin, Ruhul and Liu, Jue and Muralidharan, Nitin and Meyer, Harry M. and Wood, David L. and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: ACS Energy Letters
Volume: 6
Page: 429 – 436
Year: 2021
Sustainable recycling of cathode scraps via Cyrene-based separation
Author: Bai, Yaocai and Hawley, W. Blake and Jafta, Charl J. and Muralidharan, Nitin and Polzin, Bryant J. and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Sustainable Materials and Technologies
Volume: 25
Year: 2020
Hybrid hollow silica particles: Synthesis and comparison of properties with pristine particles
Author: Sharma, Jaswinder and Cullen, David A. and Polizos, Georgios and Nawaz, Kashif and Wang, Hsin and Muralidharan, Nitin and Smith, David Barton
Journal: RSC Advances
Volume: 10
Page: 22331 – 22334
Year: 2020
Sustainable Direct Recycling of Lithium-Ion Batteries via Solvent Recovery of Electrode Materials
Author: Bai, Yaocai and Muralidharan, Nitin and Li, Jianlin and Essehli, Rachid and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: ChemSusChem
Volume: 13
Page: 5664 – 5670
Year: 2020
Energy and environmental aspects in recycling lithium-ion batteries: Concept of Battery Identity Global Passport
Author: Bai, Yaocai and Muralidharan, Nitin and Sun, Yang-Kook and Passerini, Stefano and Stanley Whittingham, M. and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Materials Today
Volume: 41
Page: 304 – 315
Year: 2020
Iron-Doped Sodium Vanadium Oxyflurophosphate Cathodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries - Electrochemical Characterization and in Situ Measurements of Heat Generation
Author: Essehli, R. and Maher, K. and Amin, R. and Abouimrane, A. and Mahmoud, Abdelfattah and Muralidharan, N. and Petla, Ramesh Kumar and Yahia, H.B. and Belharouak, I.
Journal: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume: 12
Page: 41765 – 41775
Year: 2020
Research advances on cobalt-free cathodes for Li-ion batteries - The high voltage LiMn1.5Ni0.5O4 as an example
Author: Amin, Ruhul and Muralidharan, Nitin and Petla, Ramesh K. and Ben Yahia, Hamdi and Jassim Al-Hail, Sara Ahmad and Essehli, Rachid and Daniel, Claus and Khaleel, Mohammad A. and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Journal of Power Sources
Volume: 467
Year: 2020
Eutectic Synthesis of the P2-Type NaxFe1/2Mn1/2O2 Cathode with Improved Cell Design for Sodium-Ion Batteries
Author: Li, Mengya and Wood, David L. and Bai, Yaocai and Essehli, Rachid and Amin, Md Ruhul and Jafta, Charl and Muralidharan, Nitin and Li, Jianlin and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume: 12
Page: 23951 – 23958
Year: 2020
LiNixFeyAlzO2, a new cobalt-free layered cathode material for advanced Li-ion batteries
Author: Muralidharan, Nitin and Essehli, Rachid and Hermann, Raphael P. and Parejiya, Anand and Amin, Ruhul and Bai, Yaocai and Du, Zhijia and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Journal of Power Sources
Volume: 471
Year: 2020
New synthesis strategies to improve Co-Free LiNi0.5Mn0.5O2 cathodes: Early transition metal d0 dopants and manganese pyrophosphate coating
Author: Darbar, Devendrasinh and Self, Ethan C. and Li, Linze and Wang, Chongmin and Meyer, Harry M. and Lee, Changwook and Croy, Jason R. and Balasubramanian, Mahalingam and Muralidharan, Nitin and Bhattacharya, Indranil and Belharouak, Ilias and Nanda, Jagjit
Journal: Journal of Power Sources
Volume: 479
Year: 2020
Perspectives on the relationship between materials chemistry and roll-to-roll electrode manufacturing for high-energy lithium-ion batteries
Author: Wood, David L. and Wood, Marissa and Li, Jianlin and Du, Zhijia and Ruther, Rose E. and Hays, Kevin A. and Muralidharan, Nitin and Geng, Linxiao and Mao, Chengyu and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Energy Storage Materials
Volume: 29
Page: 254 – 265
Year: 2020
Lithium Iron Aluminum Nickelate, LiNixFeyAlzO2—New Sustainable Cathodes for Next-Generation Cobalt-Free Li-Ion Batteries
Author: Muralidharan, Nitin and Essehli, Rachid and Hermann, Raphael P. and Amin, Ruhul and Jafta, Charl and Zhang, Junjie and Liu, Jue and Du, Zhijia and Meyer, Harry M. and Self, Ethan and Nanda, Jagjit and Belharouak, Ilias
Journal: Advanced Materials
Volume: 32
Year: 2020
Rethinking sodium-ion anodes as nucleation layers for anode-free batteries
Author: Cohn, Adam P. and Metke, Thomas and Donohue, Jennifer and Muralidharan, Nitin and Share, Keith and Pint, Cary L.
Author: Muralidharan, Nitin and Teblum, Eti and Westover, Andrew S. and Schauben, Deanna and Itzhak, Anat and Muallem, Merav and Nessim, Gilbert D. and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Scientific Reports
Volume: 8
Year: 2018
Multifunctional Structural Ultrabattery Composite
Author: Meng, Chuanzhe and Muralidharan, Nitin and Teblum, Eti and Moyer, Kathleen E. and Nessim, Gilbert D. and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Nano Letters
Volume: 18
Page: 7761 – 7768
Year: 2018
Solvent mediated hybrid 2D materials: Black phosphorus-graphene heterostructured building blocks assembled for sodium ion batteries
Author: Li, Mengya and Muralidharan, Nitin and Moyer, Kathleen and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Nanoscale
Volume: 10
Page: 10443 – 10449
Year: 2018
High-rate potassium ion and sodium ion batteries by co-intercalation anodes and open framework cathodes
Author: Moyer, Kathleen and Donohue, Jennifer and Ramanna, Neha and Cohn, Adam P. and Muralidharan, Nitin and Eaves, Janna and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Nanoscale
Volume: 10
Page: 13335 – 13342
Year: 2018
A Fully Transient Mechanical Energy Harvester
Author: Muralidharan, Nitin and Afolabi, Jeremiah and Share, Keith and Li, Mengya and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Advanced Materials Technologies
Volume: 3
Year: 2018
Cure monitoring and characterization of epoxy/amine networks, modified with 1-butyl-3-bethylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquid
Author: Prozorovska, Liudmyla and Muralidharan, Nitin and Westover, Andrew and Pint, Cary and Adams, Douglas
Journal: 32nd Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites 2017
Volume: 3
Page: 1570 – 1585
Year: 2017
A Sugar-Derived Room-Temperature Sodium Sulfur Battery with Long Term Cycling Stability
Author: Carter, Rachel and Oakes, Landon and Douglas, Anna and Muralidharan, Nitin and Cohn, Adam P. and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Nano Letters
Volume: 17
Page: 1863 – 1869
Year: 2017
Iron catalyzed growth of crystalline multi-walled carbon nanotubes from ambient carbon dioxide mediated by molten carbonates
Author: Douglas, Anna and Carter, Rachel and Muralidharan, Nitin and Oakes, Landon and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Carbon
Volume: 116
Page: 572 – 578
Year: 2017
Anode-Free Sodium Battery through in Situ Plating of Sodium Metal
Author: Cohn, Adam P. and Muralidharan, Nitin and Carter, Rachel and Share, Keith and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Nano Letters
Volume: 17
Page: 1296 – 1301
Year: 2017
Ultralow Frequency Electrochemical-Mechanical Strain Energy Harvester Using 2D Black Phosphorus Nanosheets
Author: Muralidharan, Nitin and Li, Mengya and Carter, Rachel E. and Galioto, Nicholas and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: ACS Energy Letters
Volume: 2
Page: 1797 – 1803
Year: 2017
Role of carbon defects in the reversible alloying states of red phosphorus composite anodes for efficient sodium ion batteries
Author: Li, Mengya and Carter, Rachel and Oakes, Landon and Douglas, Anna and Muralidharan, Nitin and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume: 5
Page: 5266 – 5272
Year: 2017
Tunable Mechanochemistry of Lithium Battery Electrodes
Author: Muralidharan, Nitin and Brock, Casey N. and Cohn, Adam P. and Schauben, Deanna and Carter, Rachel E. and Oakes, Landon and Walker, D. Greg and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: ACS Nano
Volume: 11
Page: 6243 – 6251
Year: 2017
Sustainable Capture and Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Valuable Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Using Metal Scrap Materials
Author: Douglas, Anna and Muralidharan, Nitin and Carter, Rachel and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
Volume: 5
Page: 7104 – 7110
Year: 2017
Isothermal Sulfur Condensation into Carbon Scaffolds: Improved Loading, Performance, and Scalability for Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cathodes
Author: Carter, Rachel and Oakes, Landon and Muralidharan, Nitin and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Volume: 121
Page: 7718 – 7727
Year: 2017
Polysulfide Anchoring Mechanism Revealed by Atomic Layer Deposition of V2O5 and Sulfur-Filled Carbon Nanotubes for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Author: Carter, Rachel and Oakes, Landon and Muralidharan, Nitin and Cohn, Adam P. and Douglas, Anna and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume: 9
Page: 7185 – 7192
Year: 2017
Catalyst morphology matters for lithium-oxygen battery cathodes
Author: Oakes, Landon and Muralidharan, Nitin and Cohn, Adam P. and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Nanotechnology
Volume: 27
Year: 2016
Durable potassium ion battery electrodes from high-rate cointercalation into graphitic carbons
Author: Cohn, Adam P. and Muralidharan, Nitin and Carter, Rachel and Share, Keith and Oakes, Landon and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume: 4
Page: 14954 – 14959
Year: 2016
From the Junkyard to the Power Grid: Ambient Processing of Scrap Metals into Nanostructured Electrodes for Ultrafast Rechargeable Batteries
Author: Muralidharan, Nitin and Westover, Andrew S. and Sun, Haotian and Galioto, Nicholas and Carter, Rachel E. and Cohn, Adam P. and Oakes, Landon and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: ACS Energy Letters
Volume: 1
Page: 1034 – 1041
Year: 2016
Surface oxidized mesoporous carbons derived from porous silicon as dual polysulfide confinement and anchoring cathodes in lithium sulfur batteries
Author: Carter, Rachel and Ejorh, Dennis and Share, Keith and Cohn, Adam P. and Douglas, Anna and Muralidharan, Nitin and Tovar, Trenton M. and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Journal of Power Sources
Volume: 330
Page: 70 – 77
Year: 2016
Electrically Conductive Hierarchical Carbon Nanotube Networks with Tunable Mechanical Response
Author: Davis, Benjamin F. and Yan, Xingyi and Muralidharan, Nitin and Oakes, Landon and Pint, Cary L. and Maschmann, Matthew R.
Journal: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume: 8
Page: 28004 – 28011
Year: 2016
Ultrafast triggered transient energy storage by atomic layer deposition into porous silicon for integrated transient electronics
Author: Douglas, Anna and Muralidharan, Nitin and Carter, Rachel and Share, Keith and Pint, Cary L.
Journal: Nanoscale
Volume: 8
Page: 7384 – 7390
Year: 2016
Strain engineering to modify the electrochemistry of energy storage electrodes
Author: Muralidharan, Nitin and Carter, Rachel and Oakes, Landon and Cohn, Adam P. and Pint, Cary L.
Author: Davis, Benjamin and Muralidharan, Nitin and Maschmann, Matthew R. and Pint, Cary
Journal: ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)
Volume: 2
Year: 2016
Noncovalent Pi-Pi Stacking at the Carbon-Electrolyte Interface: Controlling the Voltage Window of Electrochemical Supercapacitors
Author: Li, Mengya and Westover, Andrew S. and Carter, Rachel and Oakes, Landon and Muralidharan, Nitin and Boire, Timothy C. and Sung, Hak-Joon and Pint, Cary L.
