Revolutionizing Materials and Manufacturing in the age of AI
Dr. Murali Gopal Muraleedharan
About me
My vision is to empower businesses, R&D teams, and academicians achieve full potential by providing them with knowledge, solutions, and tools to solve challenging problems.
My research methods complement my natural talent in theoretical modeling of complex and abstract scientific phenomena, utilizing advanced computing, data-driven methodologies, and AI-leveraged approaches.
At the intersection of materials design and discovery, advanced manufacturing, and sustainability, my work spans a broad range of materials, including metals, alloys, nanomaterials, and minerals. My work has created significant impact in areas such as energy storage, thermal management, additive manufacturing, combustion and propulsion, mining, and carbon capture and storage.
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News
(Jun 11, 2024) New article titled "Alkali cation stabilization of defects in 2D MXenes at ambient and elevated temperatures" accepted for publication at Nature Communications. This paper addresses how and where ions go on MXene structures during intercalation, an important question relevant to energy storage and synthesis been answered with the aid of theory and experimentation.
(Jun 7, 2024) New book chapter "Insights into the Properties of MXenes and MXene Analogs from Atomistic Simulation" published in the book "Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes) Handbook: Synthesis, Processing, Properties and Applications" by Wiley.
(Nov 1, 2022) Dr. Muraleedharan joined Sentient Science as Principal Materials Scientist.
(Oct 4, 2022) New article titled "Importance of Nuclear Quantum Effects on Aqueous Electrolyte Transport Under Confinement in Ti3C2 MXenes" has been published at the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (ACS). This paper discusses the role of NQE in predicting the spatiotemporal correlations in electrolytes using multiple levels of theory - DFTB, Neural Network Potentials, and ReaxFF.
(May 31, 2022) New article titled "Novel boron nitride MXenes as promising energy storage materials" has been published at Nanoscale (RSC). This is the pilot paper in the series dedicated towards novel X-alloy MXene discovery.
(Apr 23, 2021) New publication titled "Interfacial Reactivity and Speciation Emerging from Na-Montmorillonite Interactions with Water and Formic Acid at 200 °C: Insights from Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Infrared Spectroscopy, and X-ray Scattering Measurements" is now online on ACS Earth & Space Chemistry.
Professional Appointments
Sentient Science Corporation, Buffalo, NY, USA
Principal Materials Scientist, Nov 2022 - Present
At Sentient, I develop customer-focused AI-powered SaaS solutions in the domains of Additive Manufacturing, Materials Design and Discovery.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Postdoctoral Associate, Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
Under the mentorship of renowned Computational Physicist Dr. Paul Kent, at the Computational Science and Engineering Division within the Computing and Computational Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, I developed high throughput DFT frameworks and AI-based force field development for MXene nanostructures for energy storage applications.
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
Postdoctoral Associate, Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
Under the mentorship of ReaxFF inventor and renowned Chemist Prof. Adri van Duin, at the Penn State University, I developed advanced force field optimization techniques for Reax force fields of highly complex layered aluminosilicates for carbon capture and storage applications.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
PhD, Aerospace Engineering, 2018
MS, Aerospace Engineering, 2015
National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala, India
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, 2013
Awards and Recognitions
2021 ORNL Your Science in a Nutshell (YSIAN) competition finalist
2020 Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Award by the MUSE Energy Research Frontier Center (EFRC-MUSE)
2016 David Weaver Best Student Paper Award by the AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee
2013 Oil and Natural Gas (ONGC) Scholarship for Academic Excellence, India
2013 University Gold Medal in Mechanical Engineering, NIT Calicut
2011 Rajiv Gandhi Talent Search Scholarship, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research
Contact Me
Email: muraligopal.m@gmail.com