Arumugam Manthiram

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Arumugam Manthiram
Born (1951-03-15) March 15, 1951 (age 73)
Amarapuram, Tamil Nadu, India [1]
Education Madurai University (BS, MS)
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (PhD)
Known for Lithium ion battery
Awards Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2014) [2]
Fellow, Electrochemical Society (2011) [3]
Henry B. Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching, Electrochemical Society (2020)
Fellow, Materials Research Society (2016) [4]
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2015)
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (2015)
Scientific career
Fields Materials Science
Institutions Madurai Kamaraj University
University of Oxford
University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisor J. Gopalakrishnan [5]

Arumugam Manthiram (MUN-thee-rum; [6] born March 15, 1951) is an Indian-American materials scientist and engineer, best known for his identification of the polyanion class of lithium ion battery cathodes, understanding of how chemical instability limits the capacity of layered oxide cathodes, and technological advances in lithium sulfur batteries. He is a Cockrell Family Regents Chair in engineering, Director of the Texas Materials Institute, the Director of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin, and a former lecturer of Madurai Kamaraj University. Manthiram delivered the 2019 Nobel Lecture in Chemistry on behalf of Chemistry Laureate John B. Goodenough. [7] [3]

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Early life and education

Manthiram was born in Amarapuram, Tamil Nadu, a small village in southern India. [1] He completed his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry at Madurai University. He then received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Career

After working as a lecturer at Madurai Kamaraj University for four years, he joined John B. Goodenough's lab as a Research Associate, first at Oxford University and then at the University of Texas at Austin. Manthiram joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 1991.

Research

Manthiram identified the polyanion class of cathode materials for lithium ion batteries, which are widely used in commercial applications. [8] [9] This is a class which includes lithium iron phosphate. He demonstrated that positive electrodes containing polyanions, e.g., sulfates, produce higher voltages than oxides due to the inductive effect of the polyanion. These polyanion cathodes are also used in sodium ion batteries. [10]

Manthiram discovered that the capacity limitations of layered oxide cathodes is a result of chemical instability that can be understood based on the relative positions of the metal 3d band relative to the top of the oxygen 2p band. [11] [12] [13] This discovery represents the theoretical underpinnings of the anion-redox energy storage mechanism and has had significant implications for the practically accessible compositional space of lithium ion batteries, as well as their stability from a safety perspective.

He has identified the critical parameters needed for transitioning lithium sulfur batteries towards commercial use. [14] [15] Specifically, lithium sulfur batteries need to achieve a sulfur loading of >5 mg cm−2, a carbon content of <5%, electrolyte-to-sulfur ratio of <5 μL mg−1, electrolyte-to-capacity ratio of <5 μL (mA h)−1, and negative-to-positive capacity ratio of <5 in pouch-type cells. [14] Key technological advances for lithium sulfur batteries developed by Manthiram include the use of microporous carbon interlayers [16] and the use of doped graphene sponge electrodes. [17]

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  17. ↑ Zhou, Guangmin; Paek, Eunsu; Hwang, Gyeong; Manthiram, Arumugam (2015). "Long-life Li/polysulphide batteries with high sulphur loading enabled by lightweight three-dimensional nitrogen/sulphur codoped graphene sponge". Nature Communications. 6: 7760. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.7760Z. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8760 . PMC   4518288 . PMID   26182892.
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