Dr. Ananya Banik is a solid-state inorganic chemist working on understanding the structure-property correlation of energy materials. She received her M.S. and PhD in Chemical Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, in thermoelectrics. Afterwards, she joined the University of Giessen for postdoctoral research in solid-state batteries. She received Humboldt Research Fellowship to continue her work as a post-doctorate at the University of Münster. There, she worked on designing solid electrolytes, considering various critical aspects of solid electrolyte-electrode interface design, including ionic transport and electrochemical stability. Her research at TCG CREST focuses on the design of cost-effective solid electrolytes and solid-state battery design.
Further details of her research can be found here.
Research Interests
- Solid-state chemistry of thiophosphates, halides, chalcogenides
- Designing ion conducting solids
- Electronic and thermal transport of solids
- Solid-state batteries
Email: ananya.banik@tcgcrest.org
Personal homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/ananyabanik/home
Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=eJY5FOEAAAAJ&hl=en
Publications
Selected Publications
- Banik, A.; Liu, Y.; Ohno, S.; Rudel, Y.; Jiménez-Solano, A.; Gloskovskii, A.; Vargas-Barbosa, N.; Mo, Y.; Zeier. W. Can substitutions affect the oxidative stability of lithium argyrodite solid electrolytes? ACS Energy Mater. 2022, 5, 2045–2053.
- Banik, A.; Famprikis, T.; Ghidiu, M.; Ohno, S.; Kraft, M. A.; Zeier. G. On the underestimated influence of synthetic conditions in solid ionic conductors. Chem. Sci.2021, 12, 6238-6263.
- Schlem, R.; Banik, A.; Ohno, S.; Suard, E.; Zeier. G. Insights into the lithium sub-structure of superionic conductors Li3YCl6 and Li3YBr6. Chem. Mater. 2021, 33, 327-337.
- Ohno, S.; Banik, A.; Dewald, G. F.; Kraft, M. A.; Krauskopf, T.; Minafra, N.; Till, P.; Weiss, M.; Zeier, W. G. Materials design of ionic conductors for solid state batteries. Energy2020, 2, 022001.
- Banik, A.; Ghosh, T.; Arora, R.; Dutta, M.; Pandey, J.; Acharya, S.; Soni, A.; Waghmare, U. V.; Biswas, K. Engineering ferroelectric instability to achieve ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance in Sn1−xGex Energy Environ. Sci., 2019, 12, 589-595.
- Banik, ; Shenoy, U. S.; Saha, S.; Waghmare, U. V.; Biswas, K. High power factor and enhanced thermoelectric performance of SnTe-AgInTe2: Synergistic effect of resonance leveland valence band convergence. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 13068-13075.