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Faculty Details Amartya Mukhopadhyay

Professor

Amartya Mukhopadhyay

Email: amartya_mukhopadhyay[at]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in

Phone: (+91) (022) 2576 7612

Education:

  • PhD ­ Materials Science, University of Oxford ­ 2009 
  • M Tech ­ Matls. & Met. Engg, IIT Kanpur ­ 2006 
  • B E ­ Met, Engg. NIT Durgapur ­ 2003
Research areas

Energy Storage, Electrochemistry & Hydrogen Functional Materials, Thin Films & Electronic Materials

Teaching

Teaches undergraduate courses on 'Electrochemistry of Materials and its Applications', 'Advanced Ceramics', 'Advanced Composites', postgraduate course on 'Structural Characterization of Materials'; have designed an elective course on 'Electrochemical and Materials Perspectives in Energy Storage'

Research profile

Prof Amartya Mukhopadhyay completed his Doctoral in Materials Research from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2009. He did his postdoctoral Research at Brown University, USA, for a couple of years. He is a Young Associate of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and served as the Honorary Secretary of Mumbai Chapter of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM). His research interests include materials for electrochemical energy storage (focusing on alkali metalion batteries) and engineering ceramics. Among his major accomplishments, he has been awarded with the ‘SwarnaJayanti Fellowship 2020­21’, recognized by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) journals as one of the ‘2019 Emerging Investigators’, awarded with the 'IIT Bombay Research Dissemination Award 2018', 'INAE Young Engineer Award 2016', 'ASM­IIM North America Visiting Lectureship 2016', 'IIT Bombay Young Investigator Award 2014' and 'Dr. R. L. Thakur Memorial Award' by the 'Indian Ceramic Society' in 2013.

Research interest
  • Electrode Materials and Electrode/ Electrolyte Interfaces for Li­/Na­/K­ion Batteries 
  • Electro­chemo­mechanical Responses of Electrode Materials 
  • Solid Electrolytes and All­Solid­State Li and Na Metal Batteries 
  • Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices (from materials → electrodes → cell development) 
  • Engineering Ceramics and • Ceramic Composites/Alloys

Revealing the dominant factors/parameters towards addressing air/water- instability and structural- cum­ electrochemical instability of ‘layered’ Na- tran sition metal oxide based cathode materials for Na­ion

Addressing High Voltage Structural and Electrochemical Instability of Ni­containing Layered Transition Metal (TM) Oxide cathodes by ‘blocking’ the ‘TM­migration’ pathway in the Lattice [2]

Designing high Na- containing P2­structured ‘layered’ Na­ transition metal oxides as high- performance cathode materials for Na­ion batteries [3]

References
  1. B. [1] B. S. Kumar, A. Pradeep, V. Srihari, H. K. Poswal, R. Kumar, A. Amardeep, A. Chatterjee and A. Mukhopadhyay: Cation­oxygen bond covalency: A common thread and a major influence towards air/water­stability and electrochemical behavior of 'layered' Na­ transition metal oxide based cathode materials. Adv. Energy Mater. 13 [19] (2023) 2204407: 1­15 (https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202204407) 
  2. A. Sharma, A. Rajkamal, S. Kobi, B. S. Kumar, A. K. Paidi, A. Chatterjee and A. Mukhopadhyay: Addressing the High Voltage Structural and Electrochemical Instability of Nicontaining Layered Transition Metal (TM) Oxide cathodes by blocking the TM­migration pathway in the Lattice; ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13 [22] (2021) 25836–25849 
  3. B. S. Kumar, R. Kumar, A. Pradeep, A. Amardeep, V. Srihari, H. K. Poswal, A. Chatterjee and A. Mukhopadhyay: Fundamental principles toward designing high Na­containing P2­structured "layered" Na­ transition metal oxides as highperformance cathode materials for Na­ion batteries; Chem. Mater. 34 [23] (2022) 10470–10483