Dr. Arumugam Manthiram Receives the Prestigious 2025 Olin Palladium Award

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https://ecs.confex.com/ecs/248/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/207168

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

The Triumph with Oxide Chemistry in Energy Storage

(by Arumugam Manthiram, Ph.D)

Arumugam Manthiram is currently the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Endowed Chair of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). His research focuses on electrochemical energy technologies.

Prof. Manthiram received his PhD in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1981 followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford and UT-Austin. He joined UT-Austin’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1991 and served as Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Program there from 2011 through 2022. The author of more than 1,000 journal articles with 132,000 citations and an h-index of 176, Prof. Manthiram provided training to more than 300 students and postdoctoral fellows, including graduating 77 PhD and 30 MS students. Some 60 of his graduates are faculty; others hold leading battery industry positions around the world.

Dr. Manthiram is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society, National Academy of Inventors, and five other societies, and an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics. ECS awarded him the Battery Division Research Award and Technology Award, Henry B. Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching, and inaugural John Goodenough Award. He received the International Battery Materials Association Research Award and Yeager Award; Indian Institute of Technology Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award; Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award; and a university-wide Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. He delivered Professor John Goodenough’s 2019 Chemistry Nobel Prize Lecture in Stockholm.

After joining ECS in 1995, Prof. Manthiram served the Society in positions including Chair of the ECS Texas Section (2006-2007) and ECS Battery Division (2010-2012), on the ECS Board of Directors (2010-2012), and on ECS committees including the Editorial Advisory Board, Symposium Planning Advisory Board, Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Subcommittee, and various award subcommittees. He founded the ECS UT-Austin Student Chapter in 2006 and continues as its Faculty Advisor today. ECS awarded Prof. Manthiram with Life Membership in 2020.

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