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Venkataraman Thangadurai

Venkataraman Thangadurai

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Materials Science

D-Index
70
Citations
25929
World Ranking
4345
National Ranking
173

Chemistry

D-Index
69
Citations
25518
World Ranking
6078
National Ranking
351

Overview

Venkataraman Thangadurai is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada, focusing research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their body of work encompasses subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Automotive Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, as well as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's research concentrates strongly on advanced energy technologies, with a particular emphasis on battery materials and technologies. Key research topics include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity, Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, and the Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides.

Thangadurai has contributed frequently to various scientific journals and conference proceedings. Notable publication venues where they have multiple papers include ECS Meeting Abstracts, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and ACS Applied Energy Materials.

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts are:

  • Sanoop Palakkathodi Kammampata (13 joint publications)
  • Chengtian Zhou (11 joint publications)
  • Subhajit Sarkar (9 joint publications)
  • Shoaib Muhammad (9 joint publications)
  • Akhil Mammoottil Abraham (9 joint publications)

Recent published papers demonstrate a range of topics within materials and energy research. These include:

  • "Garnet-Type Solid-State Electrolytes: Materials, Interfaces, and Batteries," 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • "Seawater electrolysis for hydrogen production: a solution looking for a problem?", 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
  • "Recent advances, practical challenges, and perspectives of intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell cathodes," 2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • "Critical Current Densities for High-Performance All-Solid-State Li-Metal Batteries: Fundamentals, Mechanisms, Interfaces, Materials, and Applications," 2022, ACS Energy Letters
  • "Ligand-Engineered Metal-Organic Frameworks for Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide," 2021, ACS Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Fast Lithium Ion Conduction in Garnet‐Type Li7La3Zr2O12

    Ramaswamy Murugan;Venkataraman Thangadurai;Werner Weppner

  • Negating interfacial impedance in garnet-based solid-state Li metal batteries

    Xiaogang Han;Yunhui Gong;Kun Kelvin Fu;Xingfeng He

  • Garnet-type solid-state fast Li ion conductors for Li batteries: critical review

    Venkataraman Thangadurai;Sumaletha Narayanan;Dana Pinzaru

  • Electrolyte selection for supercapacitive devices: a critical review

    Bhupender Pal;Shengyuan Yang;Subramaniam Ramesh;Venkataraman Thangadurai

  • Garnet-Type Solid-State Electrolytes: Materials, Interfaces, and Batteries.

    Chengwei Wang;Kun Fu;Kun Fu;Sanoop Palakkathodi Kammampata;Dennis W McOwen

  • Lithium Lanthanum Titanates: A Review

    S. Stramare;V. Thangadurai;W. Weppner

  • Novel Fast Lithium Ion Conduction in Garnet-Type Li5La3M2O12 (M = Nb, Ta)

    Venkataraman Thangadurai;Heiko Kaack;Werner J. F. Weppner

  • Anhydrous proton conduction at 150 °C in a crystalline metal–organic framework

    Jeff A. Hurd;Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan;Venkataraman Thangadurai;Christopher I. Ratcliffe

  • Li6ALa2Ta2O12 (A = Sr, Ba): Novel Garnet‐Like Oxides for Fast Lithium Ion Conduction

    Venkataraman Thangadurai;Werner Weppner

  • A bird's-eye view of Li-stuffed garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12 ceramic electrolytes for advanced all-solid-state Li batteries

    Alfred Junio Samson;Kyle Hofstetter;Sourav Bag;Venkataraman Thangadurai

  • Seawater electrolysis for hydrogen production: a solution looking for a problem?

    M. A. Khan;Tareq Al-Attas;Soumyabrata Roy;Muhammad M. Rahman

  • Recent progress in solid oxide and lithium ion conducting electrolytes research

    V. Thangadurai;W. Weppner

  • Li6ALa2Nb2O12 (A=Ca, Sr, Ba): A New Class of Fast Lithium Ion Conductors with Garnet-Like Structure

    Venkataraman Thangadurai;Werner Weppner

  • Fast Solid-State Li Ion Conducting Garnet-Type Structure Metal Oxides for Energy Storage.

    Venkataraman Thangadurai;Dana Pinzaru;Sumaletha Narayanan;Ashok Kumar Baral

  • Li2CO3: A Critical Issue for Developing Solid Garnet Batteries

    Hanyu Huo;Hanyu Huo;Hanyu Huo;Jing Luo;Venkataraman Thangadurai;Xiangxin Guo

  • Interface in Solid-State Lithium Battery: Challenges, Progress, and Outlook.

    Syed Atif Pervez;Musa Ali Cambaz;Venkataraman Thangadurai;Maximilian Fichtner

  • Critical Current Densities for High-Performance All-Solid-State Li-Metal Batteries: Fundamentals, Mechanisms, Interfaces, Materials, and Applications

    Unknown

  • Li self-diffusion in garnet-type Li 7 La 3 Zr 2 O 12 as probed directly by diffusion-induced Li 7 spin-lattice relaxation NMR spectroscopy

    A. Kuhn;S. Narayanan;L. Spencer;G. Goward

  • Recent Advances, Practical Challenges, and Perspectives of Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes

    Unknown

  • Crystal Structure Revision and Identification of Li+-Ion Migration Pathways in the Garnet-like Li5La3M2O12 (M = Nb, Ta) Oxides

    Venkataraman Thangadurai;Stefan Adams;Werner Weppner

  • Investigations on electrical conductivity and chemical compatibility between fast lithium ion conducting garnet-like Li6BaLa2Ta2O12 and lithium battery cathodes

    V. Thangadurai;W. Weppner

  • Effect of sintering on the ionic conductivity of garnet-related structure Li5La3Nb2O12 and In- and K-doped Li5La3Nb2O12

    Venkataraman Thangadurai;Werner Weppner

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Weppner
Werner Weppner Kiel University
Jagannatha Gopalakrishnan
Jagannatha Gopalakrishnan Indian Institute of Science
Eric D. Wachsman
Eric D. Wachsman University of Maryland, College Park
Viola Birss
Viola Birss University of Calgary
Kunal Karan
Kunal Karan University of Calgary
Liangbing Hu
Liangbing Hu Yale University
Martin Wilkening
Martin Wilkening Graz University of Technology
Jiaqi Dai
Jiaqi Dai University of Maryland, College Park
Gillian R. Goward
Gillian R. Goward McMaster University
Stefan Adams
Stefan Adams National University of Singapore

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