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Arumugam Manthiram publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arumugam Manthiram sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 1,143 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Arumugam Manthiram D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arumugam Manthiram sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 181 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society For pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding and development of materials for energy conversion and storage, novel chemical syntheses, student education and training and leadership.
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Arumugam Manthiram is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on the broad domain of engineering, with a concentration in electrical and electronic engineering, automotive engineering, and materials chemistry. The scientist's scholarly output encompasses 766 publications in engineering, including 597 in electrical and electronic engineering and 134 related to automotive engineering.

Their main research topics include:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Extraction and Separation Processes
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity

Frequent research collaborators include Zehao Cui, Amruth Bhargav, Jiarui He, Xingwen Yu, and Laisuo Su. The scientist's most common venues for publication are Advanced Energy Materials, ECS Meeting Abstracts, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Functional Materials, and ACS Energy Letters.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Arumugam Manthiram cover key areas of battery technology and materials science, including:

  • A reflection on lithium-ion battery cathode chemistry, 2020, Nature Communications
  • High-nickel layered oxide cathodes for lithium-based automotive batteries, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Attaining the Critical Metrics, 2020, Joule
  • Anode-Free Full Cells: A Pathway to High-Energy Density Lithium-Metal Batteries, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • A review of composite polymer-ceramic electrolytes for lithium batteries, 2020, Energy Storage Materials

The scientist has contributed to academic literature beyond journal articles, including a book published by Springer Nature titled Advances in Rechargeable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries (2022).

Recognition of Manthiram's work includes being named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2016 for contributions to energy conversion and storage materials, chemical syntheses, education, and leadership. Additionally, they were granted Fellowship status in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries.

    Arumugam Manthiram;Yongzhu Fu;Sheng Heng Chung;Chenxi Zu

  • Lithium battery chemistries enabled by solid-state electrolytes

    Arumugam Manthiram;Xingwen Yu;Shaofei Wang

  • Pathways for practical high-energy long-cycling lithium metal batteries

    Jun Liu;Zhenan Bao;Yi Cui;Eric J. Dufek

  • A reflection on lithium-ion battery cathode chemistry

    Arumugam Manthiram

  • Challenges and prospects of lithium-sulfur batteries.

    Arumugam Manthiram;Yongzhu Fu;Yu Sheng Su

  • Lithium–Sulfur Batteries: Progress and Prospects

    Arumugam Manthiram;Sheng Heng Chung;Chenxi Zu

  • An Outlook on Lithium Ion Battery Technology

    Arumugam Manthiram

  • Lithium–sulphur batteries with a microporous carbon paper as a bifunctional interlayer

    Yu Sheng Su;Arumugam Manthiram

  • High-nickel layered oxide cathodes for lithium-based automotive batteries

    Wangda Li;Evan M. Erickson;Arumugam Manthiram

  • High-voltage positive electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries

    Wangda Li;Bohang Song;Arumugam Manthiram

  • Materials Challenges and Opportunities of Lithium Ion Batteries

    Arumugam Manthiram

  • Nickel-Rich and Lithium-Rich Layered Oxide Cathodes: Progress and Perspectives

    Arumugam Manthiram;James C. Knight;Seung Taek Myung;Seung Min Oh

  • Long-life Li/polysulphide batteries with high sulphur loading enabled by lightweight three-dimensional nitrogen/sulphur-codoped graphene sponge

    Guangmin Zhou;Eunsu Paek;Gyeong S. Hwang;Arumugam Manthiram

  • Plating a Dendrite-Free Lithium Anode with a Polymer/Ceramic/Polymer Sandwich Electrolyte.

    Weidong Zhou;Shaofei Wang;Yutao Li;Sen Xin

  • Rapid, Facile Microwave-Solvothermal Synthesis of Graphene Nanosheets and Their Polyaniline Nanocomposites for Energy Strorage

    A. Vadivel Murugan;T. Muraliganth;Arumugam Manthiram

  • A new approach to improve cycle performance of rechargeable lithium–sulfur batteries by inserting a free-standing MWCNT interlayer

    Yu Sheng Su;Arumugam Manthiram

  • A perspective on the high-voltage LiMn1.5Ni0.5O4 spinel cathode for lithium-ion batteries

    Arumugam Manthiram;Katharine Chemelewski;Eun Sung Lee

  • Nanostructured electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion

    Arumugam Manthiram;A. Vadivel Murugan;A. Sarkar;T. Muraliganth

  • Vertical Co9S8 hollow nanowall arrays grown on a Celgard separator as a multifunctional polysulfide barrier for high-performance Li–S batteries

    Jiarui He;Jiarui He;Yuanfu Chen;Arumugam Manthiram

  • Spinel-type lithium cobalt oxide as a bifunctional electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions

    Thandavarayan Maiyalagan;Karalee A. Jarvis;Soosairaj Therese;Paulo J. Ferreira

Frequent Co-Authors

John B. Goodenough
John B. Goodenough The University of Texas at Austin
Sheng Heng Chung
Sheng Heng Chung National Cheng Kung University
Yongzhu Fu
Yongzhu Fu Zhengzhou University
Jiarui He
Jiarui He The University of Texas at Austin
Ashfia Huq
Ashfia Huq Sandia National Laboratories
Paulo J Ferreira
Paulo J Ferreira Instituto Superior Técnico
Yuntian Zhu
Yuntian Zhu City University of Hong Kong
Mariappan Parans Paranthaman
Mariappan Parans Paranthaman Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Arunachala Mada Kannan
Arunachala Mada Kannan Arizona State University
Andrei Dolocan
Andrei Dolocan The University of Texas at Austin

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