Venkat Viswanathan
Venkat Viswanathan's research focus is on identifying the scientific principles governing material design, inorganic, organic and biomaterials, for novel energy conversion and storage routes. The material design is carried out through a suite of computational methods being developed in the group validated by experiments. Some key research thrusts include identifying principles of electrolytes design (organic material) that can tune electrode catalysis, identification of new anode, cathode (inorganic materials) and electrolyte materials for next generation batteries, new electrocatalysts (inorganic) and biomaterials for energy storage and separation applications. In addition to material design, our group is involved in several cross-cutting areas such as battery controls, electric vehicle security and GPU accelerated computing.
Research interests:
- Computational material design
- Density functional theory simulations
- Phase-field modeling
- Next generation batteries, fuel cells
- Electrocatalysis for energy conversion and storage
- Data-driven material discovery
- Bio-inspired and bio-mimetic materials
- Controls for energy systems
- GPU accelerated computing
Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Babar, Mohammad | Graduate Student | mbabar@andrew.cmu.edu |
| Krishnamurthy, Venkatesh | Postdoctoral Fellow | venkatek@andrew.cmu.edu |
| Venturi, Victor | Graduate Student | vventuri@andrew.cmu.edu |
Affiliation:
Mechanical EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University
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Venkatesh Krishnamurthy
Postdoctoral Fellow
venkatek@andrew.cmu.edu
5109 Scott Hall, Pittsburgh PA, 15213
Affiliation:
Materials Science & EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University
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Affiliation:
Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of Pittsburgh
Websites:
- "The Twin Problems of Interfacial Carbonate Formation in Non-aqueous Li-O 2 Batteries." Bryan D McCloskey, Angela Speidel, Rouven Scheffler, Dolores C Miller, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Jens Strabo Hummelshøj, Jens K Norskov, Alan C Luntz. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
- "Solvating additives drive solution-mediated electrochemistry and enhance toroid growth in non-aqueous Li–O2 batteries." Nagaphani B Aetukuri, Bryan D McCloskey, Jeannette M García, Leslie E Krupp, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Alan C Luntz. Nature Chemistry.
- "Electrical conductivity in Li2O2 and its role in determining capacity limitations in non-aqueous Li-O2 batteries." V Viswanathan, KS Thygesen, JS Hummelshoj, JK Norskov, G Girishkumar, BD McCloskey, AC Luntz. Journal of Chemical Physics.
- "Universality in Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis on Metal Surfaces." Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Heine Anton Hansen, Jan Rossmeisl, Jens K Nørskov. ACS Catalysis.
- "Practical challenges hindering the development of solid state Li ion batteries." Kian Kerman, Alan Luntz, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Yet-Ming Chiang, Zhebo Chen. Journal of The Electrochemical Society.
- "Benchmarking conductivity predictions of the Advanced Electrolyte Model (AEM) for aqueous systems." Adarsh Dave, Kevin L Gering, Jared M Mitchell, Jay Whitacre, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan. Journal of The Electrochemical Society.
- "The Future of Vehicle Electrification in India May Ride on Two Wheels." Shashank Sripad, Tarun Mehta, Anil Srivastava, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan. ACS Energy Letters.
- "An Autonomous Electrochemical Test stand for Machine Learning Informed Electrolyte Optimization." Jay F Whitacre, Jared Mitchell, Adarsh Dave, Sven Burke, Venkatasburamanian Viswanathan. J. Electrochem. Soc..
- "Uncertainty Quantification of DFT-predicted Finite Temperature Thermodynamic Properties within the Debye Model." Pinwen Guan, Gregory Houchins, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan. arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07891.
- "Computational Screening of Current Collectors for Enabling Anode-Free Lithium Metal Batteries." Vikram Pande, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan. ACS Energy Letters.
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My research interests span a variety of problems in High Energy Physics Theory and Condensed Matter Physics Theory. In recent years, there has been a great deal of successful and promising interactions between physicists working in these two fields. My current research focuses on two major topics. The first can generally be called Twistronics; this includes understanding of physical properties of different Moiré superlattices and particularly the Twisted Bilayer or Multilayer Graphene. The second topic I'm actively working on is Critical phenomena.
Dr. Youngblood will join the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh as a tenure-track assistant professor in September 2019. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota where his research focused on integrating 2D materials with silicon photonics for high-speed optoelectronic applications. From 2017 to 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford developing phase-change photonic devices for integrated optical memory and computation.
My research interests centers on the strong and weak interactions of the Standard Model. In particular, I use effective field theory techniques to study heavy quarks as a probe of these interactions, and to try to uncover physics beyond the Standard Model. I am also interested in gravitational waves, the physics of extra dimensions, supersymmetry, in matter at extreme densities, and on physics relevant to the Large Hadron Collider.