Susmita Sarkar
Assistant Professor
- Phone: (919) 515-7535
- Email: susmita.sarkar@ncsu.edu
- Office: Engineering Building 3 (EB3) 3284
- Website: http://seergroup.wordpress.ncsu.edu/
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
- Mechanistic Insight into Solid Electrolyte Interphase Interactions for Sodium Metal Electrodes
- Sarkar, S., Vishnugopi, B. S., Singla, A., Ranganathan, P., Wang, Y., Watt, J., … Mukherjee, P. P. (2026, January 22), ACS Applied Energy Materials. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.5c03601
- Role of Anode Composition and Electrolyte Interactions on the Thermo-Electrochemical Stability of Sodium-Ion Batteries
- Ranganathan, P., Vishnugopi, B. S., Karmakar, A., Sengupta, A., Sarkar, S., Kannan, D. R. R., … Mukherjee, P. P. (2026, February 6), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c19946
- Global Voices, Shared Futures: Early-Career Scientists on the Power of Collaboration
- Maslowska-Jarzyna, K., Gomez-Maldonado, D., James, B. D., Christoff-Tempesta, T., Ehrmann, K., Comeo, E., … Zhang, J. (2025, November 26), ACS Central Science. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c01854
- Electrode–electrolyte interactions dictate thermal stability of sodium-ion batteries
- Sarkar, S., Karmakar, A., Vishnugopi, B. S., Jeevarajan, J. A., & Mukherjee, P. P. (2024, January 1), 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, April 1), 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. P. (2022, May 27), 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., Gonzalez-Malabet, H. J., Flannagin, M., Alex, L. A., Shevchenko, P. D., Nelson, G. J., & Mukherjee, P. P. (2022, June 21), ACS Applied Materials & 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. P. (2021). [Review of , ]. 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. (2021, November 25), Nature Materials. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01151-8
