News and Highlights

• Dr. Shaijumon has been appointed as the Head of School of Physics, IISER Thiruvananthapuram. Congratulations!
• Dileep's paper got accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations!
• Vipin's paper got accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Congratulations!
• Sreelakshmy K.J. won the Best Poster award in the Frontier Symposium In Physics 2024 (FSP 2024) on 19th-21st January 2024, organized by the School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram. Congrats..!
• Vardhini's paper got accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations!
• Jahnavi & Sreelakshmy K.J's paper got accepted for publication in Energy Advances. Congratulations!
• Kartick & Vishnu 's paper got accepted for publication in Journal of Energy Storage. Congratulations!
• Congratulations to Sreelakshmy T for being selected for the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF)
• Renjith's paper got accepted for publication in Nanoscale. Congratulations!
• Vipin Yadav won the Best Poster award in the National Symposium on Electrochemical Science and Technology (NSEST-2023) on 17th & 18th August 2023, organized by the The Electrochemical Society of India (ECSI) and International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad. Congrats..!
• Renjith's paper got accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters. Congratulations!
• Gudla Vardhini won the Best Poster award in the IUMRS-International Conference on Advanced Materials & the 11th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, (ICAM & ICMAT 2023), organized by the Materials Research Society, Singapore, during June 26-30 . Congrats..!
• Bibin's paper got accepted for publication in Journal of Energy Storage. Congratulations!
• SERB SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AWARD TO Prof. M. M. SHAIJUMON, IISER THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. Congratulations!
• Dr. Nubla K has joined the group as a post doctoral fellow, Welcome Nubla!
• Shruti and Bibin's paper got accepted for publication in Advanced Sustainable Systems. Congratulations!
• Shruti's paper got accepted for publication in Batteries & Supercaps. Congratulations!
• Vishnu's paper got just accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations!
• Centre Inauguration: DST-IISER Thiruvananthapuram ICMAP on Storage
•  Aswathy P won the Best Poster award in the Frontier Symposium In Physics (FS-PHY 2023), held at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, during Feb 24-26 . Congrats..!
• Aswathy P won the Best Poster award in the International Conference on advances in Renewable Energy, CARE-2023, held at Harish chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj during   Feb 2-4 . Congrats..! 
• Dileep has successfully defended his thesis, Congratulations! (27th January 2023)
• Vardhini won the Best Poster award in the International Workshop on Nano-Engineered Materials, IWNEM-2023, held at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala during Jan 5-6. Congrats..!
• Shruti S won the Best Poster award in the International Workshop on Nano-Engineered Materials, IWNEM-2023, held at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala during Jan 5-6. Congrats..!
• Noufal M C has joined the group as a post doctoral fellow, Welcome Noufal!
• Aswathy's paper got accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations!
• Indu M S has joined the group as a post doctoral fellow, Welcome Indu!
• Sreelakshmy T has joined the group as a doctoral fellow, Welcome Sreelakshmy!
• Sreelakshmy K J has joined the group as a doctoral fellow, Welcome Sreelakshmy!
• Prasad's paper got accepted for publication in Nanotechnology. Congratulations!
• R. Rajesh has joined the group as a doctoral fellow (Affiliated to CAMRIE), Welcome Rajesh!
• Vishnu's paper got accepted for publication in Batteries & Supercaps. Congratulations!
• Vardhini's paper got accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations!
• Congratulations Prasad, Renjith and team for the new paper in 2D materials!
• Dr. Neema PM has joined the group as a post doctoral fellow, Welcome Neema!
• Open position to work on 'Design and Development of Solid-State Batteries'. (CAMRIE PhD Admission Notification_August 2022)
• Dr. Mullaivananathan V has joined the group as a post doctoral fellow, Welcome Mullai!
• Dr. Anju V Gopinathan has joined the group as a project scientist, Welcome Anju!
• Project kick-off meeting of DST-IISER TVM consortium on Solid-state battery development: Project kick-off meeting of the newly sanctioned DST-IISER Thiruvananthapuram consortium on Solid-state battery development was organized on 6th May 2022 at IISER Thiruvananthapuram. The meeting was attended by PIs and researchers from all the partnering institutes across the country. Prof. J. N. Moorthy, Director, IISER Thiruvananthapuram delivered the inaugural address.
• Congratulations Dileep, Lakshmi and team for the new paper in Applied Materials Today!
• Vishnu Surendran is conferred “BEST ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD” in the "SUPERBATS-2022 Conference"-organized by the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from March 28-30, 2022. Congrats..!
• Dr. Shruti Suriyakumar won the “Suresh Chandra Memorial Award for Best Poster Presentation” in the "SUPERBATS-2022 Conference"-organized by the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from March 28-30, 2022. Congrats..!
• We are looking for a suitable candidate for the post of Junior Research Fellow on an externally funded project.
• DST-IISER Thiruvananthapuram integrated clean energy material acceleration platform on storage, set up by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has been officially launched at the Mission Innovation annual gathering session held at New Delhi on 4th April 2022. Dr. M. M. Shaijumon, Associate Professor, School of Physics, and the Centre head, received the citation from the Hon’ble Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh. The consortium at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, consisting of a core team of researchers from 15 partnering institutes, aims to accelerate the development of Solid-State Battery technology using Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence through automated processes. Congratulations to Dr. Shaijumon and team! IISER TVM. We are certain that the new initiative will pave way for innovations in solid-state battery research.
• Vishnu has successfully defended his thesis, Congratulations! (7th April 2022)
• Dr. Anju V Gopinathan has joined the group as a visiting fellow, Welcome Anju!
• Dr. Pedda Masthanaiah has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow, Welcome Masthan!
• Dr. Prasad V Sarma published paper in The European Physical Journal Special Topics. Congratulations!
• Dr. Shruti Suriyakumar published paper in Batteries & Supercaps. Congratulations!
• Congratulations to Dr. Shibu P Varghese, Dr. Binson Babu and team for the new paper in Journal of Energy Storage!
• Congratulations to Vipin Yadav for being selected for the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF)
• Vishnu's paper got accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations!
• Mr. Vipin Yadav has joined the group as a doctoral fellow, Welcome Vipin Yadav!
• Dr. Prasad has been awarded the 2021-2022 Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
• New paper in ACS Applied Nano Materials ! Congratulations Dileep
• Ranjith has successfully defended his thesis, Congratulations! (16th April 2021)
• Binson published paper in ChemElectroChem. Congratulations!
• Vishnu's paper got accepted in Journal of Energy Storage. Congratulations!
• Prasad's paper got accepted in Langmuir. Congratulations!
• Dr. Shruti Suriyakumar has been awarded SERB-National Post Doctoral Fellowship (NPDF). Hearty Congratulations!
• Lakshmi's paper got accepted in Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Congratulations!
• Ms. Aswathy has joined the group as a doctoral fellow, Welcome Aswathy!
• Dr. Shruti Suriyakumar has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow, Welcome Shruti!
• Dr. Prasad V S has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow, Welcome Prasad!
• Lakshmi has successfully defended her thesis, Congratulations! (30th July 2020)
• Congratulations to Dr. Vineesh, Anagha and team for the new paper in ChemElectroChem!
• Congratulations Ranjith and team for the new paper in ChemComm!
• Prasad's paper got accepted in ACS Catalysis. Congratulations!
• Binson's paper got accepted in Electrochim. Acta. Congratulations!
• Mr. Renjith has joined the group as a doctoral fellow, Welcome Renjith!
• Ranjith won the Best Poster award in 'International Confernce on Nanoscience And Technology (ICONSAT 2020'- under the aegis of DST Nanomission - Govt. of India, Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, New Town, Kolkata (5-7 March 2020) Congrats..!
• We have been awarded Best Poster award for our project "Noble metal free advanced catalysts for hydrogen generation and fuel cell applications" in "DST sponsored Industry Academia conclave on Hydrogen and Fuel cell' held at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (27-28 February 2020) !
• Dr. Reny T Thomas has joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow, Welcome Reny!
• Dileep's paper got selected for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations!
• Radhika has been selected for Future Research talent Awards-India 2020. Hearty Congratulations!
• Aslam Villan has been selected for Prime Ministers Research Fellowship (PMRF). Hearty Congratulations!
• Dileep won the Best Poster award in 'National Conference on Nanomaterials for Energy, Environment and Health care (NEEHCON'19), NIT Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala. (27-28 December 2019) Congrats..!
• Dileep won the Best Oral Presentation award in 'International Conference on Frontiers of Material Science (FOMS-19) held at St. Joseph's College(Autonomous), Devagiri, Kozhikode, Kerala. (16-18 December 2019), Congratulations..!
• Congratulations to Dr. Prasad and team for the new paper on Spiral WS2 accepted for publication in ACS Nano (Cover Page).
• Dileep won the Best Poster award in 'ICAM 2019' held at Nirmalagiri College, Kannur, Kerala, Congrats..! (12-14 June 2019)
• Congratulations to Lakshmi and Janas for the new paper on Chloride ion batteries accepted for publication in Journal of Power Sources.
• Dr. Binson Babu has joined Prof. Andrea Balducci's group, University of Jena, Germany, as postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations!
• Dr. Dijo Damien has moved to Prof. Shirley Meng's group at University of California, San Diego, USA, as Fulbright postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations.
• Ranjith won the Best Poster award in 'Nano India 2019' held at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, Congrats..! (26-27 April 2019)
• Binson has successfully defended his thesis, Congratulations! (25th March 2019)
• Prasad has successfully defended his thesis, Congratulations! (21st March 2019)
• Dr. Shaijumon has been selected for the prestigious MRSI medal 2019. Hearty Congratulations!
• Congratulations to Shibu, Binson and team for the new paper accepted for publication in Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
• Hearty congratulations to Ranjith, Vineesh and team for the new paper published in ACS Nano.
• Prasad's paper got published in Nanoscale, Congratulations!
• Congratulations to Binson for the new paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
• Lakshmi's paper got accepted for publication in 'Carbon', Congratulations!
• Congratulations to Swetha and Binson for the new paper published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
• Dr. V Selvamani join the group as postdoctoral research fellow and Dileep N P join the group as doctoral research fellow, Welcome!
• Video abstract of work on organic electrodes (Harish et al., Adv. Energy Mater. 2017) has been released.
• Dr. Vineesh T V and Dr. Dijo Damien join the group as postdoctoral research fellows, Welcome!
• Harish's paper got accepted to Adv. Energy Mater., Congratulations (29 May 2017)
• Dijo has successfully defended his thesis, Congratulations! (3rd April 2017)
• Dijo's paper got accepted to J. Mater. Them. A, Congratulations! (March 2017)
• Binson's paper on Na-ion hybrid capacitor got accepted to Journal of power Sources, Congratulations! (March 2017)
• Aswathi has successfully defended her thesis, Congratulations ! (January 2017)
• Our work on Li-Sulphur battery has been published in Electrochim. Acta (August 2016)
• Our recent work on Li-ion hybrid capacitor has been published in Electrochem. Acta (June 2016)
• Dr. Shaijumon to give invited talk at 'International Conference in Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2015)' at IIT Mumbai (15-17 Dec 2015)
• Dr. Shaijumon invited to speak at the National conference on Solid State Ionics (NCSSI-11) at Tezpur University, Assam (21-23 Dec 2015)
• Dr. Shaijumon presented the work on "Electrochemical synthesis of MoS2 Quantum dots' at the 2015 Materials Research Society Fall meeting at Boston, USA (3rd Dec 2015)
• Dr. Shaijumon has been shortlisted to present at the National Core Committee meeting for the Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2015 (November 2015)
• Our recent work on '3-Dimensionally Interconnected Networks of Graphene and Flower-like Cobalt Oxide Microstructures with improved Lithium storage' has been accepted for publication in Advanced Materials Interfaces (September 2015)
• Mr. Ramasubramonian won the best poster award at the National Conference on Materials Science & Technology (NCMST-15), Congrats..! (8 July 2015)
• Two papers got accepted in RSC Advances and Electrochimica Acta (June 2015)
• 2nd Indo-US workshop on 'Nanoengineered carbons for electrochemical energy storage' was held in CSIR-CECRi, Karaikudy, India (20 June 2015)
• Mr. Harish Banda, Mr. Prasanna Patil and Mr. D. Ramasubramonian graduate with BS-MS degree from IISER TVM, Congrats..! (May 2015)
• Our work on organic electrodes for Na-ion battery got published in J. Mater. Chem. A (April 2015)
• Ms. Swetha Bhat joined as postdoctoral fellow, welcome to the group! (March 2015)
• Our recent paper on 'Electrochemical synthesis of MoS2 quantum dots' got published in Chemical Communications (Jan 2015).
• Mr. Deepesh Gopalakrishnan won the best poster award at the 10th JNC conference on 'Chemistry of Materials' (Oct.2014), Congrats!
• Mr. A. G. Ashish won the best poster award at the National Conference on Materials Science & Technology (NCMST-14), Congrats..!
• Two papers got accepted in J. Porous Mater. and J. Nanoscience & Nanotech.
• Research on 'MoS2 quantum dot interspersed MoS2 nanosheets' featured as news in Nature India
• Our recent paper on 'MoS2 quantum dot interspersed MoS2 nanosheets' got published in ACS Nano
• Mr. Dijo Damien won the best poster award at the Indo-US workshop (April, 2014), Congrats!
• First Indo-US workshop on 'Engineered Electrodes for Electrochemical Energy Storage' was held in Chennai, India (3-4 April, 2014)
• IISER TVM partners in Indo-US Joint Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage -read more
• New review article on 'Hybrid Nanostructures for Energy Storage Applications' has been published in Advanced Materials, July 2012
• Dr. Shaijumon has been awarded the DAE (Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India) Young Scientist Award, April 2012
• New Featured article on '3d Li-ion batteries - from fundamentals to fabrication" has been published in J. Mater. Chem, May, 2011
• New article on 'Nanoarchitectured 3-dimensional cathodes for Li-ion microbatteries' has been published in Advanced Materials, September 2010
• Designer nanobatons could be used to trap oil, deliver drugs" Science Daily, May 29, 2008 [PDF]
• "Nanoparticles assemble by millions to encase oil traps" Physorg.com, May 29, 2008 [PDF1, Rice news]
• "Paper thin batteries offer new options, applications" news @ Voice of America (2007) [PDF] [VIDEO]
• "Flat battery? Try a bit of paper power.." CNN International, Sept 20, 2007 [PDF]
• "Paper battery offers future power" BBC News, August 14, 2007 [PDF]
• "Indians, key to Nanotech battery breakthrough" article in 'The Hindu' daily (India) August 19, 2007 [PDF]
• Article on invention of 'paper battery' in 'Mathrubhumi' daily (India), August 14, 2007 [PDF]
• Article on paper battery appeared in 'The Business Review' August 2007 [PDF]
• "Hybrid structures combine the strengths of carbon nanotubes and nanowires" Science Daily, January 11, 2007 [PDF]
• "New techniques pave way for carbon nanotubes in electronic devices" PhysOrg.com, November 06, 2006