Prashun Gorai
Computationally Guided Materials Discovery
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Materials Science Program
Colorado School of Mines (CSM)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
B.Tech (Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
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Open-Access Research
Our research focuses on utilizing computational tools to accelerate the discovery and design of novel functional materials for various technologically-useful applications. One of the key aspects of our research is to make our computational data free and publicly accessible. To this end, we have developed the Thermoelectrics Design Lab TEDesignLab (www.tedesignlab.org), a thermoelectrics-focused virtual platform that contains thermoelectric performance rankings of materials as well a suite of interactive web-based tools to explore and mine the data. We are also collaborating with Citrine Informatics to create the first-ever database of first-principles defect calculations.
Collaborations
Given the interdisciplinary nature of our research, we collaborate with a number of experimental as well as computational research groups.
- Vladan Stevanovic (Colorado School of Mines, NREL)
- Eric Toberer (Colorado School of Mines, NREL)
- Jeffrey Snyder (Northwestern University)
- Stephan Lany (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
- Adele Tamboli (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
- Tonio Buonassisi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Elif Ertekin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Geoff Brennecka (Colorado School of Mines)
- Anubhav Jain (Berkeley Lab)
- Andriy Zakutayev (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Beyond universities and national labs, we also collaborate with industrial partners with special focus on materials discovery and data informatics.