Electrolytes for Energy Storage Applications: Fundamentals and Advances

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Ramesh K. Guduru (Ph.D. in Nanomaterials at NC State University) is a member of faculty at Pandit Deendayal Energy University India and founded a start-up GreenXcel Technologies that specializes in circular economy with a focus on green energy solutions. Prior to that he was a full-time member of faculty at Texas State University for five years and also worked as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan and as a Chief Scientist at CSquared Innovations LLC. Dr Guduru has more than 12 years of experience in rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors has published more than 110 articles seven book chapters and holds four international patents and has two Indian patents pending and has served on review panels for NSF-USA QNRF-QATAR Skolkovo Foundation-RUSSIA and SNF-Switzerland.Saravanakumar Balasubramaniam is a Junior Scientist at SARP-LARPM Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology (CIPET) Bhubaneswar Odisha India. He received a doctoral degree from Jeju National University Jeju Republic of Korea. His research focuses on developing new materials and fabrication techniques for energy harvesting applications as well as new types of self-powered devices. Similarly he is working in the field of energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and batteries in the area of and aqueous-based electrolytes. He published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals with approximately 4100 citations and an H-index of 37.Venkateswarlu Manne MSc M.Phil Ph.D. served as a Director at Customized Energy Solutions India leading cutting-edge storage technology development for E-Mobility and ESS and is presently working as CTO Kushmanda Power Ltd at Chandigarh. Prior to that he worked with Amara Raja Batteries Ltd Electrotherm HBL and conducted post-doctoral research on next-gen lithium-ion batteries at NTUST Taiwan. His areas of expertise include solid electrolyte research advanced batteries technology licensing project management and pilot-scale production. Collaborating closely with research institutions he optimizes resource utilization to deliver groundbreaking solutions in the energy domain. As a co-author of numerous articles he significantly contributes to electrochemical and power sources research. He has received prestigious awards including Best Research Scientist Industrial Researcher of the Year and Leadership in Clean Mobility awards for his unwavering dedication to advancing Li-ion battery tech for e-mobility and ESS applications.Ananthakumar Ramadoss is a Scientist (Jr) at the CIPET: SARP-ARSTPS Chennai India. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jeju National University South Korea. He was a Scientist (Jr) at LARPM Bhubaneswar a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Konstanz Germany a Postdoctoral fellow at KAIST Korea and a research fellow at CECRI India. His research interests focus on developing nanostructured materials and their applications in supercapacitors nanogenerators self-powered systems thin films& corrosion. He has published over 90 research articles >15 book chapters and 1 patent. Also he has received various awards and a prestigious fellowship.Rambabu Bobba is a professor of physics at Southern University and A&M College Baton Rouge (SUBR). He earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 1982 from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras/Chennai. After completing his post-doctoral assignments at the University of Minnesota and the University of New Orleans he became a faculty member in the Department of Physics at SUBR in 1986. During his tenure at SUBR he published 125 papers and several extended abstracts and successfully completed visiting professor assignments in AT&T Bell Laboratories Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dow Chemical Company University of West Indies US-DOD Office of Naval Research and finally as USIEF-Fulbright Fellow in India. His research encompasses the design and development of low-cost more efficient nanoionics materials that can facilitate widespread commercialization of electrochemical energy storage and conversion technologies such as lithium batteries supercapacitors fuel cells (HT-PEMFCs and LT-SOFCs) and solar hydrogen to address the world's energy and environmental challenges.