07/2022 Ajmal joined Arava Research Group as a Ph.D student in Fall 2022
06/2022 Sudhan has been awarded ECS F.M becket summer fellowship for summer 2022. This summer fellowship is awarded annually to four graduate
students around the world .
https://www.electrochem.org/press-room/2022-ecs-summer-fellowships/
05/2022 Congratulations Kiran Mahankali on completing
your dissertation and receiving your Ph. D!
04/2022 Sudhan’s work on high temperature cathode electrolyte
interphase chemistry was accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials, congratulations!
03/2022 Sathish Rajendran announced as the winner of 2021-2022 Ralph H Kummler Distinguished Achievement Award in Graduate
Student Research.
01/2022 Veka Sri joined Arava Research Group
10/2021 Sudhan attended 240th ECS digital meeting on Advancing Solid State & Electrochemical Science & Technology
09/2021 Sudhan’s work on anionic redox chemistry cathodes was accepted for publication in
Journal of the American Chemical Society, congratulations!
08/2022 Prof. Leela Arava received an NSF grant to explore chalcogen redox chemistry for Li-ion cathodes.
08/2021 Congratulations to Sathish and team for cover letter publication
Advanced Energy Materials,
Vol.11, No.29, 2021.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/
16146840/2021/11/29
08/2021 Sudhan was awarded Thomas Rumble graduate fellowship by Wayne State University, USA. (August 2021)
07/2021 Sudhan was selected for participating 23rd National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, organized
by Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. July 2021
04/2021 Sathish Rajendran awarded with ECS 2021 H. H. Uhlig Summer Fellowship. This is a prestigious annual fellowship from the Electrochemical
Society (ECS) awarded to four recipients from around the world. https://www.electrochem.org/press/2021-ecs-summer-fellowships/
https://www.newswise.com/articles/
krishnakanth-sada-derrick-butler-wesley-chang-and-sathish-rajendran-receive-2021-ecs-summer-fellowships
03/2020 Sathish Rajendran and Prof. Leela Arava awarded with competitive Graduate Research Assistantship
by the graduate school for the year 2020-2021.
10/2019 Sudhan attended 235th ECS meeting on Advancing Solid State & Electrochemical Science & Technology held in Atlanta, GA.
08/2019 Sudhan joined Arava Research Group
05/2019
Congratulations to Leela Arava on his news article posting on Crain's Detroit Business
04/2019 Sathish
Rajendran awarded with Thomas C. Rumble Graduate Fellowship for the years 2019-2020
04/2019 Congratulations to Leela Arava, associate professor of mechanical engineering, for receiving a Career Development Chair at the Academic Recognition Ceremony
8/2018 Wayne State research team creating millimeter-scale lithium-ion battery for autonomous applications
05/2018 Sathish
Rajendran awarded with Thomas C. Rumble Graduate Fellowship for the years 2018-2019
2/2018
Prof. Arava receives the NSF CAREER Award.
10/17 Congratulations to Nirul, Praveen and Sundeep “Micro Buoy” team for winning “Technology Innovation Award” with $15,000 prize money at ‘Internet of H2O’ national level competition organized by Cleveland Water alliance,
Digital C and USignite at Sandusky OH, 2017!!!
5/17 Congratulations to Nirul, Praveen, Sundeep and Chad “Micro Buoy” team for winning grand prize of $50,000 at the ErieHack Water Innovation Summit finals today!!!
6/2017
Highlighted in “International Joint Commission/Great Lakes Connection” Newsletter
5/2017
Wayne State University team wins Erie Hack competition
5/2017 Jeff Hoffman, co-founder of Priceline.com talks about ErieHack technology challenge winner Micro Buoy
5/2017
Erie Hack grand prize goes to Wayne State team
5/2017 Wayne State Engineering team takes Grand Prize at Erie Hack
4/2017
Research team led by Wayne State engineering personnel advances to Erie Hack finals
6/2016 Andrew, Ann, Justone and Vincent joins the group for undergraduate research, welcome!
6/2016 We have successfully launched “Mobile Energy Lab” outreach program.
6/2016 Congratulations to Nirul for
receiving ‘Rumble Fellowship’ for the year 2016-2017!
5/2016 Khalid’s paper on Si anodes for high-temperature battery gets accepted in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Congratulations!
5/2016 Dr.
Thangavel joins the group as post-doctoral researcher, welcome!
4/2016 Congratulations to Deepesh for receiving ‘Outstanding Teaching Assistant’ award!!!
3/2016 We have successfully demonstrated Li-ion
battery operating up to 150 oC for the first time. Congratulations to entire team for their publication in Advanced Energy Materials journal!
2/2016 Our collaborative work with Prof. Gedanken’s
group at Bar-Ilan University (Israel) on “Utilization of solar energy for continuous bioethanol production for energy applications” gets accepted in RSC advances journal
1/2016 Congratulations to Hesham for
successfully defending his Ph.D. theses!