Pradeep Guduru

About

Pradeep Guduru is a Professor of Engineering and Co-Director of the Mechanics of Undersea Science and Engineering Center at Brown University. His research interests include experimental mechanics at micron and nanometer scales, micro-sensors, dynamic deformation, and fracture. He has been recognized for pioneering contributions to the mechanics of dynamic failure, electromechanics of batteries, and the development of high-speed diagnostics and instrumentation. Guduru has received notable awards such as the 2026 B.J. Lazan award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics and has been ranked among the top two percent of scientists worldwide. His work also involves undersea vehicle science and technology, supported by significant research grants, including a supplemental $5.5 million award for related projects.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Composite material
• Mechanics
• Chemical engineering
• Nanotechnology

Selected publications

• Measurement of mechanical and fracture properties of solid electrolyte interphase on lithium metal anodes in lithium ion batteries

  Energy storage materials · 2019-10-13 · 107 citations

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• Access to Stereoblock Polyesters via Irreversible Chain-Transfer Ring-Opening Polymerization (ICT-ROP)

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024-04-09 · 14 citations

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  Precise control over polymer microstructure can enable the molecular tunability of material properties and represents a significant challenge in polymer chemistry. Stereoblock copolymers are some of the simplest stereosequenced polymers, yet the synthesis of stereoblock polyesters from prochiral or racemic monomers outside of “simple” isotactic stereoblocks remains limited. Herein, we report the development of irreversible chain-transfer ring-opening polymerization (ICT-ROP), which overcomes the…

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• Dynamic Shearing Resistance of an Energetic Material Simulant: Sucrose

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2021-08-29 · 14 citations

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• Highly Efficient AuPd Catalyst for Synthesizing Polybenzoxazole with Controlled Polymerization

  Matter · 2019-10-09 · 12 citations

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• Dendrite suppression in garnet electrolytes via thermally induced compressive stress

  Joule · 2025-12-15 · 9 citations

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Recent grants

• PECASE: Mechanics of Biological Adhesion, Friction and Engineered Surfaces

  NSF · $406k · 2006–2012

• Nanoscale Sculpting of Ferromagnetic Surfaces with Magnetic Configurational Forces

  NSF · $180k · 2005–2009

• Fundamental Investigations of Adiabatic Shear Localization in Materials with Mesoscale Heterogeneities

  NSF · $441k · 2018–2022

Frequent coauthors

• Vijay A. Sethuraman

  Faraday Technology (United States)

  70 shared

• Julie F. Waters

  Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

  42 shared

• Allan F. Bower

  Providence College

  31 shared

• Siva Nadimpalli

  Michigan State University

  28 shared

• Andrew A. Peterson

  Providence College

  26 shared

• Michael J. Chon

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  26 shared

• Eric Chason

  Brown University

  25 shared

• Brett L. Lucht

  University of Rhode Island

  23 shared

Awards & honors

• 2026 B.J. Lazan award (2025)
• Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) award (2025)
• Supplemental $5.5M for undersea vehicle science and technolo…
• W. M. Keck Foundation award for ultra-high-speed microscope…

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