Nanostructured Ceramic Oxides for Supercapacitor Applications

Dr. Avinash Balakrishnan joined as faculty at Nanosolar Division in 2010, following a post doctorate at Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble-INP) France. He received his PhD and MS in materials engineering from Paichai University, South Korea. He is an alumnus of National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, where he completed his bachelor's in metallurgical engineering. He is actively leading five government-funded projects related to high-energy density supercapacitors. He is currently the associate editor to Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He has coauthored more than 70 research publications, and has filed eight Indian Patents in the area of energy storage.

Dr. K. R. V. Subramanian is currently working as associate professor with Amrita Centre for Nanosciences, Kochi, India. He obtained his PhD from Cambridge University, England, in 2006. His previous alma mater for his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering include the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He also worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He continued his postdoctoral research at IISc, Bangalore. Dr. Subramanian has 62 journal publications and 29 conference presentations to his credit. He is also a reviewer for many prestigious journals. He researches actively in the areas of high performance supercapacitors, Li batteries, photovoltaics, nanofabrication, nanomaterials for cancer therapy, nanodevices.