Arghya Patra
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Arghya Patra is pioneering the miniaturization of energy storage, tackling one of the most pressing bottlenecks in the Internet of Things (IoT), wearable electronics, and medical devices. His work centers on the fundamental challenge of scaling laws: as electronics shrink, their power sources must follow, yet traditional battery designs fail to deliver sufficient energy in tiny form factors. Patra’s major contribution is a radical "nearly packaging-free" design paradigm for primary microbatteries, which eliminates bulky, non-functional casing to maximize active material. His most cited paper (2021, 37 citations) demonstrates how this approach yields light, powerful, and energy-dense microbatteries that can finally match the performance demands of next-generation microdevices. By rethinking the very architecture of a battery, Patra has opened a new path for powering billions of connected sensors, medical implants, and autonomous microrobots. His work is not just an incremental improvement—it is a conceptual leap that redefines what is possible for energy storage at the microscale, making him a key figure in the future of distributed, low-power electronics.
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