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Ph.D. Student

Veka Sri Ganesan

since Winter 2022 · Arava Research Group, Wayne State University

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Research interests

  • Lithium–sulfur batteries
  • Electrolyte additives and anion receptors
  • Thermally safe Li-ion electrolytes
  • Advanced electrolytes for high-loading lithium–sulfur batteries under lean electrolyte conditions
  • Li-metal electrolytes and solvation chemistry

Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical EngineeringWayne State University
    Jan 2022 – present · Advisor: Prof. Leela Arava
  • B.Tech., Chemical and Electrochemical EngineeringCSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), India
    2017 – 2021

Honors & credentials

  • Ralph H. Kummler Distinguished Achievement Award for Graduate Student Research, 2026
  • NSF Regional I-Corps participant
  • Contributor to a patent filing on thermally stable electrolytes

Publications (5)

  • 2026NGenE 2025: Electrochemistry for Energy Abundance. ACS Energy Letters 11(6), 4190–4196 Link ↗
  • 2025Veka Sri Ganesan, Sudhan Nagarajan, and Leela Mohana Reddy Arava. A Boron-Based Anion-Receptor Additive for High-Loading Lithium–Sulfur Batteries under Lean Electrolyte Conditions. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 8(5), 2810–2818 (2025). Link ↗
  • 2025Electrolyte Design Using a Boron-Based Anion Receptor Additive for Practical Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. ECS Meeting Abstracts Link ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • 2023Electropolymerized melamine on electrochemically reduced graphene oxide. Langmuir 39(9), 3512–3525 Link ↗

News

2026

Congratulations, Veka Sri Ganesan: Kummler research award

Wayne State Engineering named Arava group Ph.D. student Veka Sri Ganesan among the recipients of the 2026 Ralph H. Kummler Distinguished Achievement Award for Graduate Student Research. Veka was recognized for dissertation work on advanced electrolytes for high-loading lithium–sulfur batteries under lean-electrolyte conditions, a patent filing on thermally stable electrolytes, and NSF Regional I-Corps participation.

Wayne State Engineering news ↗
October 2025

Two presentations at the 248th ECS Meeting

Dr. Sudhan Nagarajan and Hari Nivin Kumaresan present “Mechanistic understanding of the interfacial evolution using advanced X-ray techniques in a cylindrical cell,” and Veka Sri Ganesan and Dr. Sudhan Nagarajan present “Electrolyte design using a boron-based anion receptor additive for practical lithium–sulfur batteries.”

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