Dr. Balachandran received many awards and recognition:[1]
- 2014, Argonne Distinguished Fellow
- 2014, Distinguished Alumni Award, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
- 2006, Fellow, Institute of Physics
- 1999, Fellow of the American Ceramic Society[3]
- 1996, University of Chicago’s Distinguished Performance Award
- R&D 100 Awards – Four Awards (The R&D 100 Awards are internationally recognized as the “Oscars of Innovation.” They have been awarded for the best high-technology inventions in a given year since 1962).
- 2011, R&D 100 Award for the development of advanced ceramic capacitors for power inverters
- 2004, R&D 100 Award for the development of hydrogen transport membranes
- 1995, R&D 100 Award for developing dense ceramic membranes for natural gas conversion
- 1993, R&D 100 Award for developing an efficient new production process for high-Tc powders
- Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer – Two Awards (Awards given by FLC for transferring technology to industry)
- 1996, Award for Excellence in Tech Transfer for transferring the process to manufacture phase-pure high-Tc powders to industry
- 1995, Award for Excellence in Tech Transfer for transferring membrane technology to industry
- FLC Awards of Merit – Two Awards (Awards given by FLC for transferring technology to industry)
- 1994, Award of Merit for transferring the superconductor powder process
- 1992, Award of Merit for transferring the cryogenic current lead technology