Research Area

• Fuel cells
• Carbon nanotubes
• Assistive devices

Experience

• 2003 - 2009

  Assistant Professor

• 2009 - 2013

  Associate Professor

• 2013 - till date

  Professor

About

Prof. Prathap Haridoss works in the areas of Fuel Cells and Carbon Nanomaterials. He has a B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Madras and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Before joining IIT Madras as faculty, he served as a Senior Scientist at Plug Power, a Fuel Cell company in New York.

He has 3 US patents, several International Journal publications, and has published a book titled Physics of Materials, Essential Concepts of Solid State Physics. His online course on Physics of Materials has over 1 million views. Introduction to Research, an online course he coordinated, has several thousand enrolments each semester.

He served as one of the IIT Madras Coordinators for the National Programme for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), one of the world's most extensive online education programmes, with over 1.5 million enrolments each semester. He was also a founding coordinator of the unique IIT Madras programme, BSc in Programming and Data Science, which now has a four-year BS option.

Selected Journal Publications

• Jagannatham, M., Chandran, P., Sankaran, S., Haridoss, P., Nayan, N., Bakshi, S.R, Tensile properties of carbon nanotubes reinforced aluminium matrix composites: A review, Carbon 160, 2020, pp. 14-44.
• Kattamanchi, S., Palakurthi, K., Haridoss, P, Effect of Pore Former on Carbon Black Polytetrafluoroethylene-Based Monolithic Gas Diffusion Media for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Energy Technology 8(7),2020, 2000119 .
• Natarajan, S., Moodakare, S.B., Haridoss, P., Gopalan, R, Concentration Gradient-Driven Aluminum Diffusion in a Single-Step Coprecipitation of a Compositionally Graded Precursor for LiNi0.8Co0.135Al0.065O2 with Mitigated Irreversibility of H2 - H3 Phase Transition, ACS applied materials & interfaces 12(31), 2020, pp. 34959-34970.

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