Susmita Sarkar
Assistant Professor
- Phone: (919) 515-7535
- Email: susmita.sarkar@ncsu.edu
- Office: Engineering Building 3 (EB3) 3284
- Website: https://www.sarkar-group.com/
Susmita is an Assistant Professor who started in the Fall of 2024. She is a Schmidt Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. She obtained her PhD from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Her research focuses on a multidimensional approach that reflects a commitment to advancing energy storage technology through innovative design and manufacturing of next-generation energy storage devices. Beyond enhancing the performance, reliability, and yield of existing battery chemistries, her research also delves into polymer materials, exploring their applications to the development of stretchable batteries for emerging applications in healthcare, robotics, etc. Her other research interests include the application of thermally safe batteries in power grids, and electric vehicles and addressing challenges in large-scale energy storage.
Publications
- Electrode-electrolyte interactions dictate thermal stability of sodium-ion batteries
- Sarkar, S., Karmakar, A., Vishnugopi, B. S., Jeevarajan, J. A., & Mukherjee, P. P. (2024, October 14), CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, Vol. 10. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CC03889D
- Probing Asymmetric Plating and Stripping Behavior of Symmetric Sodium Metal Batteries
- Sarkar, S., & Mukherjee, P. P. (2024, January 8), JOM, Vol. 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-023-06359-4
- Fluorinated ethylene carbonate as additive to glyme electrolytes for robust sodium solid electrolyte interface
- Sarkar, S., Lefler, M. J., Vishnugopi, B. S., Nuwayhid, R. B., Love, C. T., Carter, R., & Mukherjee, P. P. (2023), Cell Reports Physical Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101356
- Celebrating Women in Electrochemical Sciences and Engineering (WIESE)
- Sarkar, S., Chatterjee, D., Goswami, N., & Mukherjee, P. (2022), ACS Energy Letters. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c01026
- Multiscale Electrochemomechanics Interaction and Degradation Analytics of Sn Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries
- Sarkar, S., Malabet, H. G., Flannagin, M., Alex, L. A., Shevchenko, P. D., Nelson, G., & Mukherjee, P. (2022), ACS Applied Materials &Amp; Interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c02772
- 3ε–A Versatile Operando Analytics Toolbox in Energy Storage
- Rangarajan, S. P., Sarkar, S., Barsukov, Y., & Mukherjee, P. (2021), ACS Omega. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c05494
- Effect of crystallite geometries on electrochemical performance of porous intercalation electrodes by multiscale operando investigation
- Luo, Y., Bai, Y., Mistry, A., Zhang, Y., Zhao, D., Sarkar, S., … Banerjee, S. (2022), Nature Materials. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01151-8
- Micro-macroscopic modeling of a lithium-ion battery by considering grain boundaries of active materials
- Sarkar, S., Hoffmann, J. A., & Park, J. (2021), Electrochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2021.139052
- Quantifying Sodiation Kinetics in Alloying Tin Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries
- Sarkar, S., Verma, A., & Mukherjee, P. P. (2021), Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 168(9), 090550. https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ac2708
- Synergistic voltage and electrolyte mediation improves sodiation kinetics in µ-Sn alloy-anodes
- Sarkar, S., & Mukherjee, P. P. (2021), Energy Storage Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2021.09.014