List of Publications

List of Publications:

2025

17. Young Chan Kim, Pranav Kulkarni, Sun-Sik Kim, Hee-Jun Kim, Hyun Young Jung, Hybrid Interfacial Modulation for Stabilizing Anode-Less Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Guided Lithium Nucleation and Polysulfide Regulation, Small Methods (2025): e01183. https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202501183 

2024

16. Hemanth Kumar Beere, Naveen S. Reddy, Pranav Kulkarni, Ketaki Samanta, Hyun Young Jung, and Debasis Ghosh, Compositionally complex ball-in-ball type metal oxide anode via laser-induced fast fabrication for binder-free high-capacity Li-ion batteries, Journal of Energy Storage. Volume 80, 1 March 2024, 110325. 

2023

15. Hemanth Kumar Beere,  Pranav Kulkarni, Uday Narayan Maiti, R Geetha Balakrishna, Priyam Mukherjee, Hyun Young Jung, Ketaki Samanta, Debasis Ghosh, High Entropy-driven Favourable Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalytic Activity of Compositionally Complex Metal Molybdates, Accepted, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2023, 7, 4303-4316.

14. Pranav Kulkarni, Sun-Sik Kim, and Hyun Young Jung, Chemical Surface Tuning of Zinc Metal Anode Toward Stable, Dendrite-less Aqueous Zinc-ion Batteries, Journal of Energy Chemistry. 86, 2023, 1-8 

13. Pranav Kulkarni and Hyunyoung Jung, In situ construction of barium-induced cathode electrolyte interphase to enable thermostable high-performance zinc-ion batteries, Submitted, Materials Today Energy.32, 2023, 101254. 

12.  Pranav Kulkarni, Hyunyoung Jung. Debasis Ghosh, Mohammed Jalalah, Mabkhoot Alsaiari, Farid A.Harraz, R. Geetha Balakrishna A,  comprehensive review of pre-lithiation/sodiation additives for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries, Journal of Energy Chemistry,  76,  2023,  479-494.

2022

11. Pranav Kulkarni, Hemanth Kumar Beere, Mohammed Jalalah, Mabkhoot Alsaiari, R. Geetha Balakrishna, Farid A. Harrazb, and Debasis Ghosh Developing a high-performance aqueous zinc battery with Zn2+ pre-intercalated V3O7.H2O cathode coupled with surface engineered metallic zinc anode, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Volume 924, 1 November 2022, 116851.

10.  Vishal Kandathil*, Akshay Moolakkil*, Pranav Kulkarni, Alaap Veetil, Manjunatha Kempasiddaiah, Sasidhar Somappa, Geetha Balakrishna, Siddappa Patil, Pd/Fe3O4 supported on bio-waste derived cellulosic-carbon as a nanocatalyst for C-C coupling and electrocatalytic application, Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 16, pages1514–1525 (2022).

2021

9.   Pranav Kulkarni, R. Geetha Balkrishna, Debasis Ghosh, R.S.Rawat, Rohit Medwal, B.V.R. Chowdari, Zaghib Karim, M.V.Reddy, Molten salt synthesis of CoFe2O4 and its energy storage properties, Materials Chemistry and Physics, Volume 257, 1 January 2021, 123747.

8.   Pranav Kulkarni, D Ghosh, G Balakrishna, Recent Progress in ‘Water-in-Salt’ and ‘Water-in-Salt’- Hybrid Electrolytes Based High Voltage Rechargeable Batteries, Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2021, Advance Article, 5 (6), 1619-1654.

7.   Puttaswamy, Rangaswamy*; Nagaraj, Radha*; Pranav Kulkarni; Beere, Hemanth; Upadhyay, Shrish; Balakrishna, R. Geetha; Sanna Kotrappanavar, Nataraj; Pakhira, Srimanta; Ghosh, Debasis, "Constructing a High-Performance Aqueous Rechargeable Zinc-ion Battery Cathode with Self-assembled Mat-like Packing of Intertwined Ag(I) Pre-inserted V3O7.H2O Microbelts with Reduced Graphene Oxide Core", ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2021, 9 (11), 3985-3995. 

2020 

6.  Pranav Kulkarni, Chung-Hsin Lu, S. Balaji, and P.Senthil Kumar, Exploration of electrochemical and lithium transport properties of BaNb3.6O10 as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries, Journal of alloys and compounds, Volume 830, 25 July 2020, 154306. 

2019 

5. Pranav Kulkarni, Debasis Ghosh, R.Geetha Balakrishna, RS Rawat, S Adams, MV Reddy, Investigation of MnCo2O4/MWCNT composite as anode material for lithium-ion battery, Ceramics International, 2019. 45 (8), 10619-10625.

4.  Pranav Kulkarni, Debasis Ghosh, R. Geetha Balakrishna, R.S. Rawat, M.V. Reddy and Stefan Adams, Facile high yield synthesis of MgCo2O4 and investigation of its role as anode material for lithium-ion batteries Ceramics International, 2019 45 (12), 14775-14782. 

3.  Pranav Kulkarni, Chepurthy Varnika, Beverly Low Ying Tong, Debasis Ghosh, R. Geetha Balakrishna, R.S.Rawat,  S.Adams, M.V.Reddy, Investigating the role of precipitating agents on the electrochemical performance of MgCo2O4, Journal of electroanalytical Chemistry, 851, 2019, 113403.

2017

2.   Pranav Kulkarni, N. Sanna Kotrappanavar, R. Geetha Balakrishna, D. H. Nagaraju, and M. V. Reddy, Nanostructured binary and ternary metal sulfides: synthesis methods and their application in energy conversion and storage devices, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 22040-22094

1.   P Nithyadharseni, KP Abhilash, Shaikshavali Petnikota, MR Anilkumar, Rajan Jose, KI Ozoemena, R Vijayaraghavan, Pranav Kulkarni, R. Geetha Balakrishna, BVR Chowdari, Stefan Adams, MV Reddy, Synthesis and lithium storage properties of Zn, Co, and Mg-doped SnO2 nanomaterials, Electrochimica Acta, Volume 247, 1 September 2017, Pages 358-370.

Book Chapters: 

1.  Biomass-Derived Carbon Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications. Elesvier publications (2023)

Chapter-7: Biomass-derived carbon materials for batteries,  Pranav Kulkarni*.