Mainul Akhtar

About

Mainul Akhtar is a Battery Researcher with a Ph.D. in energy storage materials with Materials Science and Engineering, and Ceramic Technology background. His present research focuses on low-cost and high-energy layered oxide cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries as a part of Faraday Institution’s NEXTGENNA project. He is very keen to utilize his expertise in rechargeable battery technologies and energy harvesting pertinent to advanced battery materials synthesis and characterizations, electrode engineering, battery fabrications, and electrochemical analyses. He is a committed, energetic, and hardworking individual seeking employment as an Assistant Professor.

Employment

• University of St Andrews Postdoctoral Fellow
  2023 - Present
• University of Bayreuth Postdoctoral researcher
  2022 - 2023
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Project Associate
  2021 - 2021
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Senior Research Fellow
  2020 - 2021

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur M. Tech.
• Govt. College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology B. Tech.

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (10)

• A novel solid-state synthesis route for high voltage Na3V2(PO4)2F3−2yO2y cathode materials for Na-ion batteries
  Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2023 DOI: 10.1039/d3ta04239a
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• Reduced graphene oxide and carbon nanotube anchored NASICON-type NaTi2(PO4)3 nanocomposite anodes for high-rate performance sodium-ion batteries
  Materials Chemistry and Physics 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2023.127733
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• High-Performance and Safe Hybrid Li-Ion Batteries Based on Li4Ti5O12-TiO2(A)-TiO2(R)@C Anode and Na3V2O2(PO4)2F-Na3V2(PO4)3@C Cathode
  ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c06275
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• High-Power and Long-Life Na3V2O2(PO4)2F-Na3V2(PO4)3@C/AC Bimaterial Electrodes for Hybrid Battery-Capacitor Energy Storage Devices
  ACS Applied Energy Materials 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.1c03079
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• Effect of Nickel Doping on the Electrochemical Performances of Carbon-Coated Na3V2(PO4)3Cathodes for Hybrid Lithium-Ion Batteries
  ACS Applied Energy Materials 2021 DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.1c02080
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• A Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Full Cell Using the Flower-like Na3V2(PO4)3@C Cathode and Li4Ti5O12Anode
  ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 2020 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c02609
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• High Power Na3V2(PO4)3@C/AC Bi-material Cathodes for Hybrid Battery-Capacitor Energy Storage Devices
  Journal of the Electrochemical Society 2020 DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/aba36d
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• Hybrid Supercapacitor-Battery Energy Storage
  Handbook of Advanced Ceramics and Composites: Defense, Security, Aerospace and Energy Applications 2020 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16347-1_43
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• 3D microporous Sn-Sb-Ni alloy impregnated Ni foam as high-performance negative electrode for lithium-ion batteries
  Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.02.125
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• High energy density layered-spinel hybrid cathodes for lithium ion rechargeable batteries
  Materials Science and Engineering: B 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2016.04.008
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