2026

• Nilesh’s paper got accepted in AFM, Congrats !🎉
• Sreelakshmy K J successfully defended her thesis (29. June.2026). Congratulations! 🎉
• Aswathy P successfully defended her thesis (24.June.2026). Congratulations! 🎉
• Ayush and Vipin’s paper got accepted in JMCA. Congratulations! 🎉
• Aswathy P’s paper got accepted in Small. Congratulations! 🎉
• Jahnavi M. Sudharma & Sreelakshmy T’s paper got accepted in Energy Technology. Congratulations! 🎉
• Souvik Ghosh was awarded the Best Presentation Award at MRSI ATM-2026 organized by Materials Research Society of India (MRSI). Congratulations! 🎉

2025

• Aswathy P received the Best Poster Award at IMBRS-2025 organized by BRS. Congratulations! 🎉
• Souvik received the RSC Poster Prize at ICSB-2025 (TCG CREST – RISE, Feb 24–27, 2025). Congratulations! 🎉
• Vipin received the UKIERI fund to visit Surrey Ion Beam Centre, UK National Ion Beam Centre Advanced Technology Institute (Jan 15 – Apr 15, 2025). Congratulations! 🎉
• Aswathy P won the Best Oral Presentation at IECS-2025 (IIT Madras, Jan 27–29). Congratulations! 🎉
• Nilesh Pande won the Best Flash Talk Award at FSP-2025 (IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 17–20). Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Ashwaty joined the group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉

2024

• Renjith N successfully defended his PhD thesis on 2D materials. Congratulations! 🎉
• Sreelakshmy T secured the Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship and will visit SLAC, Stanford University. Congratulations! 🎉
• Bhargav’s paper got accepted in Small. Congratulations! 🎉
• Aswadh, Dileep, and Sanjay’s paper got accepted in ChemCatChem. Congratulations! 🎉
• Sreelakshmy T’s paper on sodium-ion cathodes got accepted in Small. Congratulations! 🎉
• We celebrate the 15th year of our lab journey. Congratulations to Prof. Shaijumon and the team! 🎉
• Rajesh and Renjith’s paper got accepted in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations! 🎉
• Shruti’s paper got accepted in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations! 🎉
• Shruti’s paper got accepted in Chemical Science. Congratulations! 🎉
• The group was recognized by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, for the DST-funded ICMAP project on storage. Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Harish joined the group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Renjith’s paper got accepted in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Congratulations! 🎉
• Bibin P successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations! 🎉
• Sreelakshmy T won the Best Flash Presentation Award at ACS Global Virtual Symposia (Fall 2024). Congratulations! 🎉
• Renjith’s paper got accepted in Chemical Science. Congratulations! 🎉
• Nilesh Pande won the Best Poster Award at NMSB-2024 (IIT Bombay, Oct 4 & 6). Congratulations! 🎉
• Shruti’s paper got accepted in RSC Applied Interfaces. Congratulations! 🎉
• Vipin’s paper got accepted in Materials Today Chemistry. Congratulations! 🎉
• Vardhini successfully defended her thesis (July 4, 2024). Congratulations! 🎉
• Renjith N was selected for the Mehta Rice Engineering Scholars Program (MRESP). Congratulations! 🎉
• Neema PM was selected as Vocational Higher Secondary School Teacher in Chemistry. Congratulations! 🎉
• Bibin’s paper got accepted in Journal of Energy Storage. Congratulations! 🎉
• Sanjay S. and Shruti’s paper got accepted in Journal of Physics: Energy. Congratulations! 🎉
• Prof. M. M. Shaijumon was appointed Head of School of Physics, IISER Thiruvananthapuram. Congratulations! 🎉
• Dileep’s paper got accepted in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations! 🎉
• Vipin’s paper got accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Congratulations! 🎉
• Sreelakshmy K. J. won the Best Flash Talk Award at FSP 2024 (Jan 19–21). Congratulations! 🎉
• Vardhini’s paper got accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations! 🎉
• Jahnavi & Sreelakshmy K. J.’s paper got accepted in Energy Advances. Congratulations! 🎉
• Kartick & Vishnu’s paper got accepted in Journal of Energy Storage. Congratulations! 🎉
• Sreelakshmy T was selected for the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF). Congratulations! 🎉
• Renjith’s paper got accepted in Nanoscale. Congratulations! 🎉

2023

• Vipin Yadav won the Best Poster Award at NSEST-2023 (ARCI, Hyderabad, Aug 17–18). Congratulations! 🎉
• Renjith’s paper got accepted in Applied Physics Letters. Congratulations! 🎉
• Gudla Vardhini won the Best Poster Award at ICAM & ICMAT 2023 (Singapore, June 26–30). Congratulations! 🎉
• Bibin’s paper got accepted in Journal of Energy Storage. Congratulations! 🎉
• Prof. M. M. Shaijumon received the SERB Science & Technology Research Award. Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Nubla K joined the group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Shruti & Bibin’s paper got accepted in Advanced Sustainable Systems. Congratulations! 🎉
• Shruti’s paper got accepted in Batteries & Supercaps. Congratulations! 🎉
• Vishnu’s paper got accepted in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations! 🎉
• DST-IISER Thiruvananthapuram ICMAP on Storage centre inaugurated.
• Aswathy P won Best Poster Awards at FS-PHY 2023 and CARE-2023 (Prayagraj). Congratulations! 🎉
• Dileep successfully defended his thesis (Jan 27, 2023). Congratulations! 🎉
• Vardhini and Shruti S won Best Poster Awards at IWNEM-2023 (Jan 5–6). Congratulations! 🎉
• Noufal M C joined as Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Indu M S joined as Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Sreelakshmy T joined as Doctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Sreelakshmy K J joined as Doctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Prasad’s paper got accepted in Nanotechnology. Congratulations! 🎉
• R. Rajesh joined as Doctoral Fellow (CAMRIE). Welcome! 🎉
• Vishnu’s paper got accepted in Batteries & Supercaps. Congratulations! 🎉
• Vardhini’s paper got accepted in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations! 🎉
• Congratulations to Prasad, Renjith, and team for the new paper in 2D materials!
• Dr. Neema PM joined as Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉

2022

• Open position announced for CAMRIE PhD admission (Solid-State Batteries).
• Dr. Mullaivananathan V joined as Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Dr. Anju V Gopinathan joined as Project Scientist. Welcome! 🎉
• DST-IISER TVM consortium on Solid-State Battery development kick-off meeting held (May 6, 2022).
• Dileep, Lakshmi, and team published in Applied Materials Today. Congratulations! 🎉
• Vishnu Surendran won Best Oral Presentation at SUPERBATS-2022 (IIT Kharagpur). Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Shruti Suriyakumar won Best Poster Award at SUPERBATS-2022. Congratulations! 🎉
• JRF position announced for externally funded project.
• DST-IISER ICMAP officially launched at Mission Innovation (New Delhi, April 4, 2022).
• Vishnu successfully defended his thesis (April 7, 2022). Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Anju V Gopinathan joined as Visiting Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Dr. Pedda Masthanaiah joined as Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Dr. Prasad V Sarma published in EPJ Special Topics. Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Shruti Suriyakumar published in Batteries & Supercaps. Congratulations! 🎉
• Shibu P Varghese, Binson Babu, and team published in Journal of Energy Storage. Congratulations! 🎉
• Vipin Yadav selected for PMRF. Congratulations! 🎉
• Vishnu’s paper accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations! 🎉
• Vipin Yadav joined as Doctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Dr. Prasad awarded Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations! 🎉




2021

• New paper in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Congratulations Dileep! 🎉
• Ranjith successfully defended his thesis (April 16, 2021). Congratulations! 🎉
• Binson published a paper in ChemElectroChem. Congratulations! 🎉
• Vishnu’s paper got accepted in Journal of Energy Storage. Congratulations! 🎉
• Prasad’s paper got accepted in Langmuir. Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Shruti Suriyakumar was awarded the SERB-National Post Doctoral Fellowship (NPDF). Congratulations! 🎉
• Lakshmi’s paper got accepted in Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Congratulations! 🎉
• Ms. Aswathy joined the group as a Doctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Dr. Shruti Suriyakumar joined the group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Dr. Prasad V S joined the group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉

2020

• Lakshmi successfully defended her thesis (July 30, 2020). Congratulations! 🎉
• Vineesh, Anagha, and team published in ChemElectroChem. Congratulations! 🎉
• Ranjith and team published in ChemComm. Congratulations! 🎉
• Prasad’s paper got accepted in ACS Catalysis. Congratulations! 🎉
• Binson’s paper got accepted in Electrochimica Acta. Congratulations! 🎉
• Mr. Renjith joined the group as a Doctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Ranjith won the Best Poster Award at ICONSAT 2020 (Kolkata, March 5–7). Congratulations! 🎉
• The group won Best Poster Award at DST Industry-Academia Conclave on Hydrogen & Fuel Cell (IISER TVM, Feb 27–28). Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Reny T Thomas joined the group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Dileep’s paper got accepted in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Congratulations! 🎉
• Radhika was selected for the Future Research Talent Awards–India 2020. Congratulations! 🎉
• Aslam Villan was selected for the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF). Congratulations! 🎉

2019

• Dileep won the Best Poster Award at NEEHCON 2019 (NIT Calicut, Dec 27–28). Congratulations! 🎉
• Dileep won the Best Oral Presentation Award at FOMS-19 (Devagiri, Dec 16–18). Congratulations! 🎉
• Prasad and team published a paper on Spiral WS₂ in ACS Nano (Cover Page). Congratulations! 🎉
• Dileep won the Best Poster Award at ICAM 2019 (Kannur, June 12–14). Congratulations! 🎉
• Lakshmi and Janas published in Journal of Power Sources. Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Binson Babu joined Prof. Andrea Balducci’s group (University of Jena, Germany) as Postdoctoral Fellow. Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Dijo Damien joined Prof. Shirley Meng’s group (UC San Diego, USA) as Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow. Congratulations! 🎉
• Ranjith won Best Poster Award at Nano India 2019 (Kottayam, April 26–27). Congratulations! 🎉
• Binson successfully defended his thesis (March 25, 2019). Congratulations! 🎉
• Prasad successfully defended his thesis (March 21, 2019). Congratulations! 🎉
• Dr. Shaijumon received the prestigious MRSI Medal 2019. Congratulations! 🎉
• Shibu, Binson, and team published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Congratulations! 🎉
• Ranjith, Vineesh, and team published in ACS Nano. Congratulations! 🎉
• Prasad’s paper published in Nanoscale. Congratulations! 🎉
• Binson published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Congratulations! 🎉
• Lakshmi’s paper got accepted in Carbon. Congratulations! 🎉
• Swetha and Binson published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations! 🎉

2018–2017

• Dr. V Selvamani joined as Postdoctoral Fellow; Dileep N P joined as Doctoral Fellow. Welcome! 🎉
• Video abstract of organic electrode work (Harish et al., Advanced Energy Materials 2017) released.
• Dr. Vineesh T V and Dr. Dijo Damien joined as Postdoctoral Fellows. Welcome! 🎉
• Harish’s paper got accepted in Advanced Energy Materials (May 29, 2017). Congratulations! 🎉
• Dijo successfully defended his thesis (April 3, 2017). Congratulations! 🎉
• Dijo’s paper got accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry A (March 2017). Congratulations! 🎉
• Binson’s paper on Na-ion hybrid capacitor accepted in Journal of Power Sources (March 2017). Congratulations! 🎉
• Aswathi successfully defended her thesis (January 2017). Congratulations! 🎉

2016

• Work on Li–Sulphur batteries published in Electrochimica Acta (August 2016).
• Work on Li-ion hybrid capacitor published in Electrochimica Acta (June 2016).

2015

• Dr. Shaijumon delivered invited talk at ICAER 2015 (IIT Mumbai, Dec 15–17).
• Dr. Shaijumon invited to NCSSI-11 (Tezpur University, Dec 21–23).
• Presented work at MRS Fall Meeting (Boston, Dec 3, 2015).
• Shortlisted for Swarnajayanti Fellowship Core Committee presentation (Nov 2015).
• Paper accepted in Advanced Materials Interfaces (Sept 2015).
• Ramasubramonian won Best Poster Award at NCMST-15 (July 8). Congratulations! 🎉
• Papers accepted in RSC Advances and Electrochimica Acta (June 2015).
• 2nd Indo-US workshop held at CSIR-CECRI (June 20).
• Harish Banda, Prasanna Patil, and D. Ramasubramonian graduated (May 2015). Congratulations! 🎉
• Organic electrode work published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A (April 2015).
• Swetha Bhat joined as Postdoctoral Fellow (March 2015). Welcome! 🎉
• MoS₂ quantum dot work published in Chemical Communications (Jan 2015).

2014

• Deepesh Gopalakrishnan won Best Poster Award at 10th JNC Conference (Oct 2014). Congratulations! 🎉
• A. G. Ashish won Best Poster Award at NCMST-14. Congratulations! 🎉
• Papers accepted in Journal of Porous Materials and Journal of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology.
• MoS₂ quantum dot research featured in Nature India.
• Paper published in ACS Nano.
• Dijo Damien won Best Poster Award at Indo-US Workshop (April 2014). Congratulations! 🎉
• First Indo-US workshop held in Chennai (April 3–4, 2014).
• IISER TVM partnered in Indo-US Joint Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage.

2012–2010

• Review article on Hybrid Nanostructures published in Advanced Materials (July 2012).
• Dr. Shaijumon awarded DAE Young Scientist Award (April 2012). Congratulations! 🎉
• Featured article on 3D Li-ion batteries published in Journal of Materials Chemistry (May 2011).
• Article on nanoarchitectured 3D cathodes published in Advanced Materials (Sept 2010).

2008–2006

• “Designer nanobatons…” featured in Science Daily (May 29, 2008).
• “Nanoparticles assemble…” featured in PhysOrg (May 29, 2008).
• “Paper thin batteries…” featured in Voice of America (2007).
• “Flat battery? Try paper power…” featured in CNN (Sept 20, 2007).
• “Paper battery offers future power” featured in BBC News (Aug 14, 2007).
• Coverage in The Hindu, Mathrubhumi, and Business Review (2007).
• “Hybrid nanostructures…” featured in Science Daily (Jan 11, 2007).
• “Carbon nanotube techniques…” featured in PhysOrg (Nov 6, 2006).