Friday, October 2 • 2:30 PM
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Mesoscale Physics and Stochastics in Energy
Storage
Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee
School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
pmukherjee@purdue.edu
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ETSL/
Abstract: Advances in electrochemical energy storage are critical toward
enabling vehicle electrification and renewable energy integration into the
electric grid. Recent years have witnessed an urgent need to accelerate innovation toward realizing improved
and safe utilization of high energy and power densities, for example in lithium-ion batteries for electric
vehicles. These are complex, dynamical systems which include coupled processes encompassing
electronic/ionic/diffusive transport in solid/electrolyte phases, electrochemical reactions, diffusion induced
stress generation, and thermal transport in porous electrodes. Fundamental understanding of the underlying
transport, chemistry, microstructure, and interface interactions in porous electrode architectures is of critical
importance. This talk will highlight the role of mesoscale complexations and stochasticity with examples from
different battery chemistries.
Biographical Sketch: Partha P. Mukherjee is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
at Purdue University. Before joining Purdue, he was an Assistant Professor and Morris E. Foster Faculty
Fellow of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU). Prior to starting his academic career at
TAMU in 2012, he worked for four years in the U.S. Department of Energy Labs; a staff scientist (2009-
2011) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a Director’s research fellow (2008-2009) at Los Alamos
National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State
University in 2007. Prior to PhD studies, he worked as an engineer for four years at Fluent India Pvt. Ltd, a
fully-owned subsidiary of Fluent Inc., currently Ansys Inc. He received the Scialog Fellows’ recognition for
advanced energy storage, Purdue University Faculty Excellence Award for Research, visiting faculty
lectureship at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), TMS Young Leaders
Award, emerging investigator distinction from the Institute of Physics, to name a few. His research interests
are focused on mesoscale physics and stochastics of transport, chemistry and microstructure interactions,
including an emphasis in the broad spectrum of energy storage and conversion.
For additional information, please contact Prof. Anna Tarakanova at (860) 486-5463, anna.tarakanova@uconn.edu
or
Tina Barry at (860) 486-2178, tina.barry@.uconn.edu
For more information, contact: Anna Tarakanova at anna.tarakanova@uconn.edu