In the Arava group
Ph.D. graduated Summer 2023. Ph.D. studies from Winter 2018.
Current position
Ford Motor Company · Argonne National Laboratory
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical EngineeringWayne State University
2023 · Dissertation: Designing Interfaces for All-Solid-State Batteries with Garnet-Type Solid Electrolytes - B.Tech., Chemical and Electrochemical EngineeringCSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), India
2017
Honors
- ECS H. H. Uhlig Summer Fellowship, 2021
- Ralph H. Kummler Distinguished Achievement Award, 2021–2022
- Thomas C. Rumble Graduate Fellowship, 2018–2020
Links
Publications with Prof. Arava (14)
- 2024Sathish Rajendran, Veka Sri Ganesan, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Electrochemical instability of room-temperature ionic liquids with LiTFSI at elevated temperature and its consequences in Li/Li-ion based half-cells and full-cells. Electrochimica Acta, 498, 144599 (2024). Link ↗
- 2023Sathish Rajendran, Antony George, Zian Tang, Christof Neumann, Andrey Turchanin, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Regulating Li‐Ion Transport through Ultrathin Molecular Membrane to Enable High‐Performance All‐Solid‐State–Battery. Small, 19(44), 2303625 (2023). Link ↗
- 2021Sathish Rajendran, Aparna Pilli, Olatomide Omolere, Jeffry Kelber, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. An All-Solid-State Battery with a Tailored Electrode–Electrolyte Interface Using Surface Chemistry and Interlayer-Based Approaches. Chemistry of Materials, 33(9), 3401–3412 (2021). Link ↗
- 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 ↗
- 2021Sathish Rajendran, Zian Tang, Antony George, Andrew Cannon, Christof Neumann, Abdulrazzag Sawas, Emily Ryan, Andrey Turchanin, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Inhibition of Lithium Dendrite Formation in Lithium Metal Batteries via Regulated Cation Transport through Ultrathin Sub‐Nanometer Porous Carbon Nanomembranes. Advanced Energy Materials, 11(29), 2100666 (2021). Link ↗
- 2021Sathish Rajendran, Naresh Kumar Thangavel, Samia Alkatie, Yi Ding, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Y, Gd, and Pr tri-doped perovskite-type proton conducting electrolytes with improved sinterability and chemical stability. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 870, 159431 (2021). Link ↗
- 2021All-Solid-State Battery Using Interface Engineering of Garnet-Type Solid Electrolytes. ECS Meeting Abstracts Link ↗
- 2020Jessica C. Jones, Sathish Rajendran, Aparna Pilli, Veronica Lee, Natasha Chugh, Leela Mohana Reddy Arava, and Jeffry A. Kelber. In situ x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of lithium carbonate removal from garnet-type solid-state electrolyte using ultra high vacuum techniques. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, 38(2), 023201 (2020). Link ↗
- 2020Kiran Mahankali, Sudhan Nagarajan, Naresh Kumar Thangavel, Sathish Rajendran, Munaiah Yeddala, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Metal-Based Electrocatalysts for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: A Review. Catalysts, 10(10), 1137 (2020). Link ↗
- 2020Sathish Rajendran, Naresh Kumar Thangavel, Hanping Ding, Yi Ding, Dong Ding, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Tri-Doped BaCeO3–BaZrO3 as a Chemically Stable Electrolyte with High Proton-Conductivity for Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOECs). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12(34), 38275–38284 (2020). Link ↗
- 2020Sathish Rajendran, Naresh Kumar Thangavel, Kiran Mahankali, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. Toward Moisture-Stable and Dendrite-Free Garnet-Type Solid-State Electrolytes. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(7), 6775–6784 (2020). Link ↗
- 2020Engineered Electrode-Electrolyte Interface for Moisture-Stable, Dendrite-Free Garnet-Type Solid-State Electrolytes. ECS Meeting Abstracts Link ↗
- 2019A Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell with Tri-Doping Electrolyte and Three-Phase Conducting Steam Electrode for Sustainable Hydrogen Production. ECS Meeting Abstracts Link ↗
- 2019Proton Conducting Lithium Super Ionic Conductor for Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cell. ECS Meeting Abstracts Link ↗