Perumal Elumalai Editor

Dr. Thandavarayan Maiyalagan received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and completed post-doctoral programs at the Newcastle University (UK), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and at the University of Texas, Austin (USA). Presently he is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India. His main research interests focus on design and development of electrode nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage applications, particularly fuel cells, supercapacitors and batteries. His research and collaborations have resulted in 140 papers in peer-reviewed publications (with 7500 citations and an H-index of 36) and edited a fuel cell book for John Wiley. He received Young Scientist Awards for the year 2017 from Academy of Sciences, Chennai.

Dr. Perumal Elumalai received his PhD from Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He had his post-doctoral research at Kyushu University, Japan for more than six years. He was a recipient of a prestigious JSPS fellowship (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowship). He has won special recognition award for Young Ceramist by Ceramic Society of Japan for his contribution to ceramics applications. He has travelled widely on professional engagements. Presently, he is a Professor at Department of Green Energy Technology, Madanjeet School of Green Energy Technologies, Pondicherry University, India. He has published more than 80 research papers in reputed international journals including book chapters, and holds six patents. Currently, his H-index is 22. His research work concentrates on batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells and automobile emission sensors.