2021

• 04/23/2021: Our article on "Defect dynamics in two-dimensional black phosphorus under argon ion irradiation" got published in Nanoscale. This is also Saransh's first paper. Congrats Saransh!

• 04/23/2021: Saransh and Badri presented our works on a) defect dynamics in phosphorene under ion radiation (Poster: Saransh), and (b) solid-state electrolytes for Li-S batteries (Talk: Badri) at the Virtual MRS 2021

• 03/09/2021: Our patent with scientists at AFRL on "A Method for growing two-dimensional materials from one to many layers thick through heterogeneous pyrolysis” was issued (U. S. Patent No. 10,941,505)

• 03/08/2021: Badri's collaborative work on BLAST toolkit for bridging scales in materials modeling got published in MRS Advances.

• 03/03/2021: Badri gave a seminar on computationally guided design of battery electrolytes at the Department of Chemical Engineering in the University of New Hampshire. Thanks Dr. Xiaowei Teng for the invitation!

• 01/14/2021: Meghnath publishes a collaborative article in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter on high-temperature stability, metallic character and bonding in planar Si2BN.

• 01/07/2021: Ranga Pidathala joins the group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!

• 01/01/2021: Dr. Mirza Galib joins the group as a postdoctoral scholar. Dr. Galib has previously held postdoc appointments at University of California Berkeley and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Welcome Mirza!

2020

• 12/18/2020: Badri gave an invited (virtual) seminar at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India on "Atomic-scale engineering of reactive interfaces for energy applications"

• 12/15/2020: Varun and Devang passed their Ph.D. qualifying exam. Congrats Varun and Devang!

• 11/17/2020: Our patent with scientists at Argonne National Laboratory on "Machine learning technique to identify grains in polycrystalline materials samples" got issued.

• 09/17/2020: Badri is selected as one of the 36 recipients of 2020 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (Announcement by ORAU; Speed School Press Release)

• 09/01/2020: Sabina Chertmanova joins the group as a M.S. student. Welcome!

• 09/01/2020: Devang Bhagat joins the group as a Ph.D student. Welcome!

• 07/09/2020: PMML receives funding from US Department of Energy, EPSCoR for a project investigating defect dynamics in strongly correlated oxides for novel computer memory devices. Thanks DOE! (Announcement by DOE, Speed School Press Release)

• 07/09/2020: PMML receives funding from US Department of Energy, EPSCoR for a collaborative project (with Prof. Hui Wang's group) on solid-state sodium batteries. Thanks DOE! (Announcement by DOE, Speed School Press Release)

• 06/15/2020: Dr. Meghnath Jaishi joins the group as a postdoctoral scholar. He joins us after completing a post-doc appointment at Colorado School of Mines. Welcome Meghnath!

• 04/01/2020: Badri got selected to attend the ENG NSF CAREER Workshop. The workshop was conducted virtually due to the pandemic.

• 02/25/2020: Badri gave an invited seminar at Research Opportunities in Petroleum, Energy and Natural Gas (ReOPEN-2020) at Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy.

2019

• 10/17/2019: Badri gave an invited talk on our atomic scale insights into dissolution of lithium manganese oxide cathodes in lithium ion batteries at 236th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Atlanta

• 10/15/2019: PMML receives a gift from Lam Research Inc. to perform collaborative research (with Dr. Prakash Periasamy) on computational design of materials guided by artificial intelligence through the 2020 Unlock Ideas Program. Thanks Lam Research Inc.!

• 08/26/2019: Badri gave an invited talk at Spring Meeting of American Chemical Society in San Diego on predictive design of reactive interfaces for energy applications. He also gave a contributed talk on ligand dynamics in nanoparticle superlattices.

• 08/18/2019: Badri served as the lead organizer for a symposium on "Artificial intelligence for materials design, synthesis, and characterization" at International Materials Research Congress at Cancun, Mexico. He also gave a talk on our recent research on developing interatomic potentials using machine learning approaches.

• 08/16/2019: PMML is selected to lead a collaborative research program on interfacial phenomena in solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries. The program will receive funding of $1,000,000 over three years from Office of Energy, Efficiency, and Renewable Energy (Vehicle Technology Office). The project involves three other groups from University of Louisville led by Prof. Hui Wang, Prof. Gamini Sumanasekera, and Dr. Jacek Jasinski. Thanks VTO @DOE for selecting us! (Official Announcement, Speed School Press Release)

• 08/15/2019: Varun Shreyas joins the group as second Ph.D. student. Welcome Varun!

• 05/15/2019: Saransh passes his Ph.D. qualifying exam. Congrats Saransh!

• 01/04/2019: PMML receives internal seed funding from the Office of Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation at UofL for a project on "Rational Design of Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries". Thanks EVPRI office for selecting us!

2018

• 11/9/2018: Badri presented a talk on "Computational design of electrolytes for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries" in the Physics Colloquium series at UofL

• 09/26/2018: Badri attends the DOE Battery Materials Research Meeting at Argonne National Laboratory

• 09/25/2018: Badri's co-authored paper on strongly-correlated perovskite lithium ion shuttles got published in PNAS.

• 08/20/2018: Saransh Gupta, our first PhD student, joins the group. Welcome!

• 08/13/2018: Badri's co-authored paper on Li-S batteries got published in Nature Energy.

• 08/03/2018: Our collaborative paper exploring defect dynamics in 2D MoS2 is published in Nano Letters. This work was done in collaboration with groups of Dr. Sankaranarayanan (Argonne) and Prof. Das (Penn State)

• 08/01/2018: PMML is established!