Faculties
Dr. Vinod Kumar
Dr. Parasharam M. Shirage
Dr. Rupesh Devan
Dr. Santosh Hosmani
Dr. Mrigendra Dubey
Dr. Eswara Prasad Korimilli
Dr. Jayaprakash Murugesan
Dr. Sumanta Samal
Dr. Ajay Kumar Kushwaha
Dr. Dhirendra Kumar Rai
Dr. Abhijit Ghosh
Dr. Hemant Borkar
Dr. Sunil Kumar
Dr. Ram Sajeevan Maurya
Dr. Dudekula Althaf Basha
Reseach topics
Nanomaterial
High Entropy Alloys
Magnetic Materials
Corrosion and coating
Structure-Property Correlations,
Microstructural Characterization,
Thermo-mechanical Processing of Light metal alloys and Steels
Failure Analysis
Building Materials
Energy Materials
Nanostructured Materials for Energy Generation, Storage and Electronic Devices
Superconductors Single Crystal Growth and Understanding the Basic Mechanism
Humidty and Gas Sensor
Supercapacitors and Solar Cells (Including Pervoskite type)
Photocatalysis ( Hydrogen generation and storage: Materials and mechanism)
Biosensors ( Metal Oxide and Polymer based)
Piezoelectric Devices: Construction and Testing
Nano-hetero-architectures
Materials for energy storage/conversion
Photo-active materials
Polymers for energy applications
Physical Metallurgy
Heat treatment of Metals and Alloys
Surface Engineering: Surface Alloying, Surface Deformation
Microstructure-Properties correlations
Development of Conductive and Fluorescent Metallogel,
Gel as battery Electrolyte,
Superabsorbent Materials,
Structural Supramolecular Materials Chemistry (Coordination, Crystallography, Chiro-
optical effect) based on chiral ligands
Development of Fluorescent Quantum Dots.
Corrosion Engineering and Electrochemistry
Mechanical behavior of materials
High strain rate deformation
Deformation behavior at small length scales
Indentation mechanics
Mechanical Metallurgy Joining of Materials
Solidification: Experiments and Simulation
Processing-Structure-Property correlation in multicomponent/high entropy alloys
Material design for high temperature applications
Phase equilibria: Materials for the future
Design and synthesis of nanomaterials
2-D Materials (Graphene and Mxenes)and Electronic Devices
Thin Films and Multifunctional Coatings
Optical and transport properties of semiconductors
Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Metallurgy
Energy Conversion Devices: New Generation Solar Cell, Solar Driven Water
Splitting, Solar hydrogen Energy and Piezoelectric
Dye Degradation
CO2 Capture
Energy conversion and storage devices
Computational modelling and simulation
Crystallographic texture and grain boundary
Physical Metallurgy of Steel
Fracture mechanics and Micro-mechanism
Computational Material Science
Materials and manufacturing, product realization
Process-structure-property relationships in metals
Lightweight components for transport applications
Casting of light metals (Al and Mg), casting defects, casting simulation and
experimental studies
Deformation processing including extrusion, rolling, forming etc, deformation
mechanisms
Electron back scattered diffraction, in-situ deformation studies, crystallographic
texture
Solid Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries
Cathode Materials for Li/Na ion Batteries
Lead-free Piezoelectric Materials
Electrocaloric Effect and Energy Storage Phenomenon in Polar Materials
Polymer-Ceramic Composites
Solid State Ionics
Bulk Metallic glass (BMG) nanocomposites - Understanding the effect of multi-phase
microstructure
Oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloys – Understanding the effect of addition of
alloying elements
High entropy alloys (HEAs) – Specially eutectic HEAs, Addition of various elements on
the mechanical and microstructural properties
Materials synthesis by powder technology route – Mechanical alloying, Spark plasma
sintering
Deformation behaviour of magnesium alloys.
Phase transformation behaviour of alloy nanoparticles.
Crack propagation behaviour study through in-situ microscopy techniques
