Parans Paranthaman
Group Member, Nanomaterials Chemistry Group
Bio
Dr. Parans Paranthaman is a Corporate Fellow in the Chemical Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Paranthaman is also a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Materials Research Society, AAAS, American Physical Society, American Ceramic Society, ASM International and the Institute of Physics, London, UK. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Solid State Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with 2019 Chemistry Nobel prize winner Professor John Goodenough at the University of Texas, Austin and a Research Associate with Professor Allen Hermann at University of Colorado, Boulder. He joined the Chemistry Department at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in May 1993. He has authored or co-authored more than 446 journal publications with > 20,510 citations and an “h-index” of 68 and a total of >75 inventions including 54 issued U.S. Patents related to his research. He has licensed his technologies to seven industries for commercialization. His present research focuses on the Development of Additive Manufacturing of N95 Fabrics and Antiviral Coatings, Additive Manufacturing of Permanent Magnets and Motors, Lithium Separation From Geothermal Brine, Recovery of Carbon From Recycled Tires For Clean Energy Applications, and Development of Electrode Materials for Energy Storage Applications.
Publications
1. P. Wagh, S. Z. Islam, V. G. Deshmane, P. Gangavarapu, J. Poplawsky, G. Yang, R. Sacci, S. F. Evans, S. Mahajan, M. P. Paranthaman, B. A. Moyer, S. Harrison, and R. Bhave, “Fabrication and characterization of Composite Membranes for the Concentration of Lithium Containing Solutions using Forward Osmosis”, Advanced Sustainable Systems, 4 (12) 2000165 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202000165
2. Z. Hood, Y. Cheng, S. F. Evans, and M. P. Paranthaman, “Unraveling the structural properties and dynamics of sulfonated tire-derived solid acid carbon catalysts with neutron vibrational spectroscopy,” Catalysis Today, 358, pp 387-393 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2019.10.033
3. T. N. Lamichhane, L. Sethuraman, A. Dalagan, H. Wang, and J. Keller, “Additive manufacturing of soft magnets for electrical machines – a review,” Materials Today Physics 15, 100255 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtphys.2020.100255
4. Mihee Ji, Neil R. Taylor, Ivan Kravchenko, Pooran Joshi, Tolga Aytug, Lei R. Cao, and M. Parans Paranthaman, “Demonstration of Large-size Vertical Ga2O3 Schottky Barrier Diodes,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, 36 (1) pp. 41-44 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2020.3001530
5. G.S. Larsen, Y. Cheng, L.L. Daemen, T.N. Lamichhane, D.K. Hensley, K. Hong, H.M. Meyer, S.J. Monaco, A.M. Levine, R.J. Lee, E. Betters, K. Sitzlar, J. Heineman, J. West, P. Lloyd, V. Kunc, L. Love, M. Theodore, M.P. Paranthaman, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 3 (2) pp. 1022-1031 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.0c01294
6. C. J. Jafta, X.-G. Sun, H. Lyu, H. Chen, B. P. Thapalia, W. T. Heller, M. J. Cuneo, R. T. Mayes, M. P. Paranthaman, S. Dai and C. A. Bridges, Insight into the Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation in Bis(fluorosulfonyl)Imide Based Ionic Liquid Electrolytes’” Adv. Func. Mater. 2008708 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202008708
7. Xubo Liu, Kinjal Gandha, Ikenna C. Nlebedim, and M. Parans Paranthaman, Alignment of Magnetic Particles in Anisotropic Nd-Fe-B Bonded Magnets, J. Phys. D. Appl. Phys. 54, 315004, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/abfbf7
8. T. N. Lamichhane, T. Charlton, B. Andrews, A. K. Pathak, M. Doucet, V. Lauter, J. Katsaras, V. Kunc, and M. P. Paranthaman, “Additive Manufacturing of PPS bonded NdFeB Magnets to design nested Halbach arrays to generate variable magnetic field, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Published online 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2020.0340
9. Ange-Lionel Toba, Ruby Nguyen, Carson Cole, Ghanashyam Neupane, Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, “US lithium resources from geothermal and extraction feasibility” Resources, Conservation & Recycling 169, 105514 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105514
10. Peter L Wang, Alex Roschli, M. Parans Paranthaman, Merlin Theodore, Corson Cramer, Chris Zangmeister, Yuepeng Zhang, Jeff J Urban, and Lonnie Love, Recent Developments in Filtration Media and N95 Mask Technology in Response to COVID-19, MRS Bulletin 46 (9) 822-831 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-021-00173-6
11. K. Jayanthi, G. Neilsen, P. F. Rosen, C. I. Anderson, M. S. Dickson, S. F. Evans, M. P. Paranthaman, B. F. Woodfield, and A. Navrotsky, “Thermodynamic analysis of lithium aluminum layered double hydroxides (LDHs) with intercalated chloride, American Mineralogist, in press, 2021.
12. Tai-Yuan Huang, Jesus Ramon Perez-Cardona, Fu Zhao, John W. Sutherland, and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, “Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-economic Analysis of Lithium Recovery from Geothermal Brine” ACS Sustainable Chem. Engg. 9, 6551-6560, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c08733
13. L. Sethuraman, G. Vijayakumar, S. Ananthan, M. P. Paranthaman, J. Keller, R. King, MADE3D: Enabling the next generation of high-torque density wind generators by additive design and 3D printing. Forsch Ingenieurwes 85, 287-311, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10010-021-00465-y
14. Neil R. Taylor, Mihee Ji, Praneeth Kandlakunta, Lei Pan, Ivan Kravchenko, Pooran Joshi, Tolga Aytug, M Parans Paranthaman, Lei R. Cao, Large Area Vertical Ga2O3 Schottky Diodes for X-Ray Detection, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1013, 165664, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2021.165664
15. S. Jolly, M. P. Paranthaman, M. Naguib, Synthesis of Ti3C2Tz MXene from low-cost and environmentally friendly precursors, Materials Today Advances, 10, 100139 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2021.100139
16. C. A. Bridges, M. L. Martins, C. J. Jafta, X. G. Sun, M. P. Paranthaman, J. Liu, S. Dai, E. Mamontove, Dynamics of Emim(+) in [Emim][TFSI]/LiTFSI Solutions as Bulk and under Confinement in a Quasi-liquid Solid Electrolyte, J. Phys. Chem. B 125 (20) 5443-5450 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c02383
17. Abhishek Sarkar, M. Parans Paranthaman, and Ikenna C. Nlebedim, “In-situ magnetic alignment model for additive manufacturing of anisotropic bonded magnets,” Additive Manufacturing 46, 102096, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2021.102096
18. K Mungale, T. N. Lamichhane, B. C. Sales, M. P. Paranthaman, and U. K. Vaidya, Compression molding of anisotropic NdFeB bonded magnets in a polycarbonate matrix, Materialia 19, 101167, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2021.101167
19. Kinjal Gandha, Ikenna C. Nlebedim, M. Parans Paranthaman, et al., 3D printing of anisotropic Sm-Fe-N bonded permanent magnets, Engineering Reports, e12478, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/eng2.12478
Awards
2019 ORNL Director’s Award: Top Scientist of the Year Award
2019 Mentor of the Year at ORNL, Awards Night
2019 ORNL Technology Commercialization Award
2019 TechConnect Innovation Award, Boston MA
2019 Cited in Frontiers of Materials Research (National Academy of Sciences Report)
2018 ORNL Technology Commercialization Award
2018 American Physical Society (APS) Fellow
2017 National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow