Materials Innovations

for a Sustainable Future

Dr Shankar Venugopal
Vice President – Technology Innovation
Mahindra Research Valley
Vice President Technology Innovation & KM
Mahindra & Mahindra
Dean, Mahindra Technical Academy

 Physicist & Materials Scientist

 Ph.D at IISc
 EGMP - IIM Bangalore

 GE, Dow, Honeywell, Cummins

 10+ Patented Inventions (US)

 Award winning New Products
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I dedicate my talk to Max Born, the Guru of Quantum Physics on his 135th Birthday
Renewable

Energy
Materials Innovations are the key to a Sustainable Future

Photovoltaic Wind Turbines Vehicles

Materials Coatings Magnets Magnets & Batteries
Indium
Gallium
Tellurium
Dysprosium
Praesodymium
Neodymium
Lanthanum
Cobalt
Manganese
Nickel
Lithium
Cost of Solar PV

has reduced by
85 %

since 2000
Solar PV

price
reduces
with more
installations
Solar

Roofs
Urban

Mobility
Vehicular

Pollution
Avoidable

Accidents
Traffic Jams

Gridlocks
 Urban Mobility Challenges

Clean ? Safe ? Fast ?

 Urban Mobility – Clean, Safe & Fast

Electric Autonomous Connected

Electric Car
Reducing
cost of
Lithium ion
Battery
Lowering
Battery Price
will make

Electric Vehicles
Competitive
Fast

Charging
Supercapacitor

Ultracapacitor
Electric
Motors

Strong
Magnets
Critical

Materials

5 – 15
years
Cobalt
Supply of

Rare Earth

Materials
Mining of
Rare
Earths
Miner
problem –

a major
problem
Autonomous Vehicles
LIDAR
LIDAR
Automotive

Sensors
 Sustainable Future

Sustainable Energy Sustainable Mobility

Renewables Electric Autonomous Connected

Solar PV Storage

Ultracapacitors SS Battery Motor LIDAR Sensors

Polymers, Carbon, Rare Semiconductors

Silicon, Glass Metal Oxides
Lithium
Earths