Venkat Srinivasan's research interest is in understanding electrochemical systems.  He works with a team of researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as part of the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) program, involved in solving the multitude of problems that prevent lithium-ion batteries from being used in electric-, hybrid-electric, and plug-in-hybrid-electric vehicles. BATT is funded by the US DOE, as part of the Vehicle Technolgies program.  Venkat’s interest is in combining electrochemical experimentation on controlled geometries with continuum models to understand problems. 

Click Srinivasan-Introduction.pdf for a presentation that explains the BATT Program (March 2008). 

Click here for information on the course on batteries that Venkat taught in Fall 2008 along with Ilan Gur (Seeo Inc.) and Paul Albertus (UCB-Chem E.).  Paul championed this course. Click here for a writeup of how the class started and how it evolved. Venkat will be happy to share the class notes for the sections that he taught. 

Click Status_of_Batteries_for_Vehicles.pdf to see a presentation of the present status of batteries for HEV, PHEV, and EV applications.  This is a collection of information from various sources (which are acknowledged).  If you would like me to remove/change something let me know. 

Click Batteries.html for a mindmap of the thought process that one could use to identify problems in vehicular batteries, the goals, and what one can do to address these limitations.  The map was made using Freemind.  As the name suggests, its free. Its Java-based, so it works on a PC, a Mac, and on Linux. 

Please send Venkat a mail if you have any questions