Arumugam Manthiram

Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair in Engineering

Dr. Manthiram graduated from Madurai University, India, with a B.S. degree in 1974 and a M. S. degree in 1976. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, with a Ph.D. degree in Solid State Chemistry in 1980. After his doctoral degree, Dr. Manthiram worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore for one year, as a Lecturer at the Madurai Kamaraj University in Madurai for four years, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford in England for one year. He joined the University of Texas at Austin as a postdoctoral researcher in 1986 and became Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1991. He was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2000 and he currently holds the Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair in Engineering. He is also currently the Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program. Dr. Manthiram directs a large, productive research group in electrochemical energy technologies with 27 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. His current research is focused on lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, and supercapacitors. Specifically, his group is engaged in developing new, low-cost, efficient materials for these clean energy technologies, novel chemical synthesis and processing approaches for nanomaterials, and a fundamental understanding of their structure-property-performance relationships. He is the Co-Founder of ActaCell, a startup company that is engaged in commercializing novel materials developed in his laboratory for high power lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Manthiram has authored more than 420 publications, including more than 340 archival journal articles. He has also been awarded 7 patents. He has given more than 200 presentations including more than 120 invited talks and has edited 6 books. His published work has been cited more than 8,000 times with an h-index of 47. Dr. Manthiram received the Engineering Foundation Faculty Excellence Award in 1994, Mechanical Engineering Department Faculty Leadership Award in 1996, and Mechanical Engineering Department Outstanding Teaching Award in 2011. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society in 2004 and a Founding Fellow of the World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering in 2006. He was awarded the Charlotte Maer Patton Centennial Fellowship in Engineering in 1998, the Ashley H. Priddy Centennial Professorship in Engineering in 2002, the BF Goodrich Endowed Professorship in Materials Engineering in 2006, the Jack S. Josey Professorship in Energy Studies in 2008, and the Joe C. Walter Chair in Engineering in 2009.

Most Recent Publications

1. Z. Q. Deng and A. Manthiram, "Influence of Cationic Substitutions on the Oxygen Loss and Reversible Capacity of Lithium-rich Layered Oxide Cathodes," The Journal Of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 115, (2011), pp. 7097-7103
2. Y.-N. Kim and A. Manthiram, "Layered LnBaCo2-xCuxO5+d (0 ≤ x ≤ 1.0) Perovskite Cathodes for Intermediate-Temperature Solid Oxides Fuel Cells," Journal Of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 158, (2011), pp. B276-B282
3. Y. Zhu, S. Zieren, and A. Manthiram, "Novel Crosslinked Membranes Based on Sulfonated Poly(ether ether ketone) for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells," Chemical Communications, Vol. 47, (2011), pp. 7410-7412
4. Y. Zhu and A. Manthiram, "Synthesis and Characterization of Polysulfone-containing Sulfonated Side Chains for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells," Journal Of Power Sources, Vol. 196, (2011), pp. 7481-7487
5. Y. N. Kim, J.-H. Kim, and A. Manthiram, "Characterization of (Y1-xCax)BaCo4-yZnyO7 as cathodes for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells," International Journal Of Hydrogen Energy, (2011)
6. Y. N. Kim and A. Manthiram, "Electrochemical Properties of Ln(Sr,Ca)3(Fe,Co)3O10 + Gd0.2Ce0.8O1.9 Composite Cathodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells," Journal Of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 158, (2011), pp. B1206-B1210
7. X. Zhao, W. Li, and A. Manthiram, "Effect of Conditioning Procedures on the Electrochemical Behaviors of Membrane-electrode Assemblies in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells," Journal Of Power Sources, (2011)
8. W.C. West, J. Soler, M.C. Smart, B.V. Ratnakumar, S. Firdosy, V. Ravi, M.S. Anderson, J. Hrbacek, E.S. Lee, and A. Manthiram, "Electrochemical Behavior of Layered Solid Solution Li2MnO3-LiMO2 (M=Ni, Mn, Co) Li-Ion Cathodes with and without Alumina Coatings," Journal Of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 158, (2011), pp. A883-A889
9. T. Cochell and A. Manthiram, "Pt@PdxCuy/C Core-Shell Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cells," Langmuir, (2011)
10. S. Yoon and A. Manthiram, "Nanostructured Sn-Ti-C Composite Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries," Electrochimica Acta , Vol. 56, (2011), pp. 3029-3035