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