Arumugam Manthiram
{{short description|Indian-American material scientist, solid-state chemist, and professor}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|3|15}}
| birth_place = Amarapuram, Tamil Nadu, India{{cite web |url=https://www.dinamalar.com/nri/details.asp?id=1997&lang=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524132017/https://www.dinamalar.com/nri/details.asp?id=1997&lang=en |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |title=Professor Arumugam Manthiram Delivered the Nobel Prize Lecture |work=Dinamalar}}
| education = Madurai University {{small|(BS, MS)}}
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras {{small|(PhD)}}
| known_for = Lithium ion battery
| awards = Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science {{small|(2014)}}{{cite web |url=https://tmi.utexas.edu/tmi-news/arumugam-manthiram-selected-national-science-fellow/ |title=Arumugam Manthiram Elected as a Fellow of AAAS |work=Texas Materials Institute}}
Fellow, Electrochemical Society {{small|(2011)}}{{cite web |url=https://www.electrochem.org/ecs-blog/manthiram-presents-goodenoughs-nobel-lecture/ |title=Manthiram Presents Goodenough's Nobel Lecture |work=Electrochemical Society|date=13 December 2019 }}
Henry B. Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching, Electrochemical Society {{small|(2020)}}
Fellow, Materials Research Society {{small|(2016)}}{{cite web |url=https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/three-indian-american-professors-named-2016-materials-research-society-fellows/article_31d1f392-f841-11e5-a493-3ffddfa9a826.html |title=Three Indian American Professors Named 2016 Materials Research Society Fellows |work=India West}}
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology Madras {{small|(2015)}}
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry {{small|(2015)}}
| field = Materials Science
| workplaces = Madurai Kamaraj University
University of Oxford
University of Texas at Austin
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| doctoral_advisor = J. Gopalakrishnan{{cite web |url=https://academictree.org/chemistry/peopleinfo.php?pid=204360 |title=Arumugam Manthiram |work=Chemistry Tree}}
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Arumugam Manthiram ({{respell|MUN|thee|rum}};{{YouTube|5D7qVpRb1Rg|Arumugam Manthiram, Challenges and Opportunities of Electrical Energy Storage Technologies)}} born March 15, 1951) is an Indian-American materials scientist and engineer, best known for his identification of the polyanion class of lithium-ion battery cathodes, understanding of how chemical instability limits the capacity of layered oxide cathodes, and technological advances in lithium sulfur batteries. He is a Cockrell Family Regents Chair in engineering, Director of the Texas Materials Institute, the Director of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin, and a former lecturer of Madurai Kamaraj University. Manthiram delivered the 2019 Nobel Lecture in Chemistry on behalf of Chemistry Laureate John B. Goodenough.{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2019/goodenough/lecture/ |title=John B. Goodenough Nobel Lecture |work=Nobel Prize}}
Early life and education
Manthiram was born in Amarapuram, Tamil Nadu, a small village in southern India. He completed his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry at Madurai University. He then received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Career
After working as a lecturer at Madurai Kamaraj University for four years, he joined John B. Goodenough's lab as a Research Associate, first at Oxford University and then at the University of Texas at Austin. Manthiram joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 1991.
=Research=
Manthiram identified the polyanion class of cathode materials for lithium ion batteries, which are widely used in commercial applications.{{Cite journal | last1 = Manthiram | first1 = A. | last2 = Goodenough | first2 = J. B. | doi = 10.1016/0378-7753(89)80153-3 | title = Lithium insertion into Fe2(SO4)3 frameworks | journal = Journal of Power Sources | volume = 26 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 403–408 | year = 1989 | bibcode = 1989JPS....26..403M }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Manthiram | first1 = A. | last2 = Goodenough | first2 = J. B. | doi = 10.1016/0022-4596(87)90242-8 | title = Lithium insertion into Fe2(MO4)3 frameworks: Comparison of M = W with M = Mo | journal = Journal of Solid State Chemistry | volume = 71 | issue = 2 | pages = 349–360 | year = 1987 | bibcode = 1987JSSCh..71..349M | doi-access = free }} This is a class which includes lithium iron phosphate. He demonstrated that positive electrodes containing polyanions, e.g., sulfates, produce higher voltages than oxides due to the inductive effect of the polyanion. These polyanion cathodes are also used in sodium ion batteries.{{Cite journal | last1 = Masquelier | first1 = Christian | last2 = Croguennec | first2 = Laurence | doi = 10.1021/cr3001862 | title = Polyanionic (Phosphates, Silicates, Sulfates) Frameworks as Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Li (or Na) Batteries | journal = Chemical Reviews | volume = 113 | pages = 6552–6591 | year = 2013 | issue = 8 | pmid = 23742145 }}
Manthiram discovered that the capacity limitations of layered oxide cathodes is a result of chemical instability that can be understood based on the relative positions of the metal 3d band relative to the top of the oxygen 2p band.{{Cite journal | last1 = Chebiam | first1 = R. V. | last2 = Kannan | first2 = A. M. | last3 = Prado | first3 = F. | last4 = Manthiram | first4 = A. | doi = 10.1016/S1388-2481(01)00232-6 | title = Comparison of the chemical stability of the high energy density cathodes of lithium-ion batteries | journal = Electrochemistry Communications | volume = 3 | pages = 624–627 | year = 2001 | issue = 11 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Chebiam | first1 = R. V. | last2 = Prado | first2 = F. | last3 = Manthiram | first3 = A. | doi = 10.1021/cm0102537 | title = Soft Chemistry Synthesis and Characterization of Layered Li1−xNi1−yCoyO2−δ (0 ≤ x ≤ 1 and 0 ≤ y ≤ 1) | journal = Chemistry of Materials | volume = 13 | pages = 2951–2957 | year = 2001 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Manthiram | first1 = Arumugam | doi = 10.1038/s41467-020-15355-0 | pmc=7096394 | title = A reflection on lithium-ion battery cathode chemistry | journal = Nature Communications | volume = 11 | year = 2020 | issue = 1 | page = 1550 | pmid = 32214093 | bibcode = 2020NatCo..11.1550M | doi-access = free }} This discovery represents the theoretical underpinnings of the anion-redox energy storage mechanism and has had significant implications for the practically accessible compositional space of lithium-ion batteries, as well as their stability from a safety perspective.
He has identified the critical parameters needed for transitioning lithium sulfur batteries towards commercial use.{{Cite journal | last1 = Bhargav | first1 = Amruth | last2 = Jiarui | first2 = He | doi = 10.1016/j.joule.2020.01.001 | title = Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Attaining the Critical Metrics | journal = Joule | volume = 4 | pages = 285–291 | year = 2020 | issue = 2 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2020Joule...4..285B }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Manthiram | first1 = Arumugam | last2 = Fu | first2 = Yongzhu | last3 = Chung | first3 = Sheng-Heng | last4 = Zu | first4 = Chenxi | last5 = Su | first5 = Yu-Sheng| doi = 10.1021/cr500062v | title = Rechargeable Lithium–Sulfur Batteries | journal = Chemical Reviews | volume = 114 | pages = 11751–11787 | year = 2014 | issue = 23 | pmid = 25026475 }} Specifically, lithium sulfur batteries need to achieve a sulfur loading of >5 mg cm−2, a carbon content of <5%, electrolyte-to-sulfur ratio of <5 μL mg−1, electrolyte-to-capacity ratio of <5 μL (mA h)−1, and negative-to-positive capacity ratio of <5 in pouch-type cells. Key technological advances for lithium sulfur batteries developed by Manthiram include the use of microporous carbon interlayers{{Cite journal | last1 = Su | first1 = Yu-Sheng | last2 = Manthiram | first2 = Arumugam | doi = 10.1038/ncomms2163 | title = Lithium–sulphur batteries with a microporous carbon paper as a bifunctional interlayer | journal = Nature Communications | volume = 3 | pages = 1166 | year = 2012 | pmid = 23132016 | bibcode = 2012NatCo...3.1166S | doi-access = free }} and the use of doped graphene sponge electrodes.{{Cite journal | last1 = Zhou | first1 = Guangmin | last2 = Paek | first2 = Eunsu | last3 = Hwang | first3 = Gyeong | last4 = Manthiram | first4 = Arumugam | doi = 10.1038/ncomms8760|pmc=4518288 | title = Long-life Li/polysulphide batteries with high sulphur loading enabled by lightweight three-dimensional nitrogen/sulphur codoped graphene sponge | journal = Nature Communications | volume = 6 | pages = 7760 | year = 2015 | pmid = 26182892 | bibcode = 2015NatCo...6.7760Z | doi-access = free }}
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External links
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