In the Arava group
Ph.D. graduated 2020. Joined the group in January 2015.
Research: Flexible energy devices and lithium–sulfur batteries
Current position
Sr. Energy and Power Devices Research Scientist, Nissan
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical EngineeringWayne State University
August 2020 (Ph.D. studies 2015 – 2020) · Dissertation: Advanced Electrodes and Electrolytes for Long-Lived and High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries · Advisor: Prof. Leela Arava - M.Tech., Nanoscience and NanotechnologyUniversity of Madras, India
2012 - B.Sc., PhysicsUniversity of Calicut, India
2009
Honors
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant award, 2016
Links
Publications with Prof. Arava (5)
- 2021Deepesh Gopalakrishnan, Samia Alkatie, Andrew Cannon, Sathish Rajendran, Naresh Kumar Thangavel, Neha Bhagirath, Emily M. Ryan, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Anisotropic mass transport using ionic liquid crystalline electrolytes to suppress lithium dendrite growth. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 5(5), 1488–1497 (2021). Link ↗
- 2018Leela Mohana Reddy Arava, Deepesh Gopalakrishnan, and Andrew Lee. Electrocatalytically Active Niobium Sulfide Modified Carbon Cloth for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, 15(1), 011005 (2018). Link ↗
- 2018Deepesh Gopalakrishnan, Andrew Lee, Naresh Kumar Thangavel, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Facile synthesis of electrocatalytically active NbS 2 nanoflakes for an enhanced hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2(1), 96–102 (2018). Link ↗
- 2017Naresh Kumar Thangavel, Deepesh Gopalakrishnan, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Understanding Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis of Lithium Polysulfide Redox on Pt and WS2Surfaces. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121(23), 12718–12725 (2017). Link ↗
- 2016Hesham Al Salem, Venkateswara Rao Chitturi, Ganguli Babu, Juan A. Santana, Deepesh Gopalakrishnan, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Stabilizing polysulfide-shuttle in a Li–S battery using transition metal carbide nanostructures. RSC Advances, 6(111), 110301–110306 (2016). Link ↗