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Vijayakumar Murugesan

Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
ORCID
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Projects

Structure and Interfaces of Advanced Battery Electrode and Electrolytes

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vijayakumar Murugesan
Project type
Contracted Time
The research undertaken as part of this project will yield fundamental results that will inform electrolyte design and optimization for advanced battery systems, and enhance development of existing,…

Multinuclear NMR Studies of Earth and Energy Systems

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Karl Mueller
A team of researchers at PNNL carries out a number of studies that utilize high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in areas of national need for Basic Energy Sciences (BES). The…

Probing the Mesoscale Structure at Complex Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vijayakumar Murugesan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Molecular interactions at electrode-electrolyte interface are pivotal to the modern energy storage/conversion and microelectronic devices. However, our predictive understanding about the impact of…

Data Science Based Redox Molecule Design for Flow Batteries

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Amity Andersen
Data science methods using large data sets from experimental and computational sources are proposed to predict organic redox molecules that will greatly improve redox flow battery performance…

Understanding the Physico-Chemical Properties of Dendrimers and Branched Polymers for Applications in Sustainable Li-Air (Li-O2) and Li-Sulfur (Li-S) Energy Storage Systems

Lead Institution
University of Dayton Research Institute
Principal Investigator
Priyanka Bhattacharya
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
This project will develop a fundamental understanding of branched polymers as advanced energy storage materials expanding their applications to sustainable high-energy density storage and conversion…

Probing the Mesoscale Structure of Complex Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vijayakumar Murugesan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Molecular interactions at electrode-electrolyte interface are pivotal to the modern energy storage/conversion and microelectronic devices. However, our predictive level understanding about the…

Exploring Advanced Battery Electrolyte Solution Structure and Dynamics

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vijayakumar Murugesan
The detailed investigation of advanced battery electrolyte solution structure and dynamics is critical to the ongoing development and capability expansion of alternative battery technologies for grid…

Multinuclear NMR Studies of and Earth and Energy Systems

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Karl Mueller
A team of researchers at PNNL carries out studies that utilize high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in areas of national need for biological and energy sciences. The…

High-capacity cathode and anode materials for sodium batteries

Lead Institution
Qatar Foundation
Principal Investigator
Hamdi Yahia
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Since the sodium reserves are easily accessible, we decided to investigate sodium ion batteries (NaIBs), as new energy storage systems, for large-scale battery applications. This proposal seeks to…

Multinuclear NMR Studies of and Earth and Energy Systems

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Karl Mueller
A team of researchers at PNNL carries out studies that utilize high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)spectroscopy in areas of national need for biological and energy sciences. The research…

NMR for Catalyst Studies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Peden
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A detailed understanding of the mechanisms involved in a catalytic reaction requires that we identify the nature of the active sites and of reaction intermediates, and that we probe dynamic processes…

Predicting solvent mediated preferential ion pairing in ionic solute mixture

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Vijayakumar Murugesan
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
A comprehensive understanding of solvent mediated ion pair formation between ionic solutes at the molecular- and mesoscale level remains elusive. This knowledge gap prevents the straightforward…

NMR Study of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Z. Gary Yang
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
In the past two years, PNNL has collaborated with the University of Connecticut with aims to develop nanostructured hydrides and to obtain insights into the hydrogen desorption and sorption of the…

Multinuclear NMR Studies of and Earth and Energy Systems

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Karl Mueller
A team of researchers at PNNL carries out studies that utilize high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in areas of national need for Basic Energy Sciences (BES). The research…

Correlated Multimodal in situ Gas-Metal Alloy Surface Reaction Studies

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Arun Devaraj
This project will bring together a technically-diverse group of early career staff scientists across all directorates, for a comprehensive demonstration of PNNL capabilities for multimodal in situ…