ADVANCED MATERIALS LABORATORY (AML)Nikhil Koratkar joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in January 2001 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and to Full Professor in 2009. In 2011, Koratkar was also appointed a Full Professor in the Department of Materials Science at RPI. In 2012, Koratkar was appointed the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Chair Professor in Engineering at RPI.
Professor Koratkar is a winner of the NSF CAREER Award (2003), RPI James M. Tien '66 Early Career Award (2005), the Electrochemical Society's SES Young investigator Award (2009), American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award (2015), IIT-Bombay Distinguished Alumnus Award (2019) and RPI's William H. Wiley '1866 Distinguished Faculty Award (2021). In 2016, Koratkar was elected ASME Fellow and in 2021, he was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has published a book on graphene as an additive in composite materials and over 230 archival journal papers and 5 Patents (>27,000 Citations, H-Index = 79). In 2018 and 2021, Clarivate Analytics named him in their highly cited researchers list. Koratkar has obtained over $11 Million in research grants from federal/state goverments and industry. Since 2010, Koratkar has served as an Editor of Carbon and since 2015, he has served on the Editorial Board of Energy Storage Materials.
Professor Koratkar's research has focused on the synthesis, characterization, and application of nanostructured materials. This includes graphene, carbon nanotubes, transition metal dichalcogenides, hexagonal boron nitride, phosphorene, tellurene, perovskites as well as metal and silicon nanostructures produced by a variety of techniques
such as mechanical exfoliation, chemical vapor deposition, and oblique angle sputter and e-beam deposition. He is studying the fundamental mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical properties of these one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) materials and developing a variety of composites, coating and energy storage device applications of these low dimensional materials. He also serves on the advisory board of a start-up aimed at commercializing next-generation energy storage solutions.
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