Dr. Brindha Moorthy

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

• Materials Science and Engineering
• Functional Materials for Energy Storage Applications
• Energy storage: High-energy density batteries (Li-ion, Na-ion, Li-Sulfur, metal anodes)
• Electric Vehicles
• Supercapacitors
• Electrocatalysis
• Alternative fuels
• Piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting

Education

• Ph.D, KAIST, South Korea.
• M.S., KAIST, South Korea.
• B.Tech., – CSIR – Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR - CECRI), India.

Latest Publications

• B. Moorthy et al., “Vertically aligned carbon nanotubular structure for guiding uniform lithium deposition via capillary pressure as stable metallic lithium anodes, Energy Storage Materials, 2020, 24, 602-609.
• B. Moorthy et al., “Ice-templated free-standing reduced graphene oxide for dendrite-free lithium metal batteries,” ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2020, 3 (11), 11053-11060.
• B. Moorthy et al., “Tin sulfide modified separator as an efficient polysulfide trapper for stable cycling performance in Li–S batteries.,” Nanoscale Horizon, 2019, 4 (1), 214-222.
• B. Moorthy et al., “Pushing the energy output and cyclability of sodium hybrid capacitors at high power to new limits,” Advanced Energy Materials, 2017, 7 (14), 1602654.
• B. Moorthy et al., “Piezoelectric energy harvesting from a PMN–PT single nanowire,” RSC advances, 2017, 7 (1), 260- 265.