ArumugamManthiram

Arumugam Manthiram
ProfessorGeorge T. Gladys H. Abell Endowed Chair of Engineering

Research Areas
Research Interests

Clean energy materials; Electrochemical energy conversion and storage; Lithium ion batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors and solar cells; Nanomaterials

About

Arumugam Manthiram is currently the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Endowed Chair of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). He served as director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Program at UT Austin from 2011 to 2022. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1980 from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. After working as a lecturer in chemistry at the Madurai Kamaraj University for four years and as a postdoctoral fellow both at the University of Oxford and at UT Austin, he became a faculty member at UT Austin in 1991.

His research is focused on batteries and fuel cells. Particularly in the development of low-cost, supply-chain-friendly, durable materials for energy storage (batteries), involving new materials design, novel synthesis, advanced characterization, prototype device fabrication, and fundamental understanding of structure-property-performance relationships. He has authored more than 1,000 journal articles with 144,000 citations and an h-index of 185. He has mentored ~ 300 students and postdoctoral researchers, including the graduation of 81 Ph.D. students, and about 60 of them are faculty around the world. He founded two startup companies, ActaCell Energy Systems in 2007 and TexPower EV Technologies in 2019.

He has received numerous honors and awards, including an elected Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, Materials Research Society, Electrochemical Society, American Ceramic Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. He is an elected Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics. He is an invited member of Sigma Xi.

Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D., Solid-state Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1980

Select Awards & Honors

  • Olin Palladium Award – Electrochemical Society (2025)
  • Yeager Award for Lifetime Achievement – International Battery Materials Association (2024)
  • Inaugural John Goodenough Award – Electrochemical Society (2023)
  • Technology Award, Battery Division – Electrochemical Society (2021)
  • International Battery Materials Association Research Award (2020)
  • Henry B. Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching – Electrochemical Society (2020)
  • Honorary Mechanical Engineer – ME Academy of Distinguished Alumni, UT Austin (2019)
  • Delivered Chemistry Nobel Prize Lecture on behalf of Professor John Goodenough (2019)
  • Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award (2016)
  • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award (one university-wide award/year) – UT Austin (2012)

Select Publications

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