MMAE Seminar Series: Partha Mukherjee
The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents the 2024ā2025 seminar series featuring Partha Mukherjee, professor of mechanical engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University, who will present āMechanistic Interactions at Scale in Energy Storage.ā This seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, from 12:45ā1:45 p.m in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center.
Abstract
Advances in electrochemical energy storage systems are critical for vehicle electrification, renewable energy integration into the electric grid, and electric aviation. 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 and advanced battery chemistries. These are complex, dynamical systems that include coupled processes encompassing electronic, ionic, and diffusive transport, electrochemical reactions at electrode/electrolyte interfaces, electrochemical-mechanics interaction, and thermal transport in multi-scale electrode architectures. This presentation will highlight the importance of the underlying mechanistic interactions at scale in fundamental understanding and design of novel paradigms in exemplar energy storage architectures.
Biography
Partha P. Mukherjee is a professor of mechanical engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University. His prior appointments include assistant professor and Morris E. Foster Faculty Fellow of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University (2012ā2017), staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2009ā2011), directorās research fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2008ā2009), and engineer at Fluent India (currently Ansys Inc., 1999ā2003). He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2007. His awards include Scialog Fellowsā recognition for advanced energy storage, University Faculty Scholar and Faculty Excellence for Early Career Research awards from Purdue University, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Young Leaders Award, and invited presentations at the United States National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering symposium and Gordon Research ConferenceāBatteries, to name a few. His research interests are focused on mesoscale physics and stochastics of transport, chemistry, and materials interactions, including an emphasis on the broad spectrum of energy storage and conversion.
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