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Dr. Viswanathan N Nurni

Sajjan Jindal Steel Chair Professor

Office email: head.met[at]iitb.ac.in

Office Tel: +91-22-2576-7600

Email: vichu[at]iitb.ac.in

Tel: +91-22-2576-7611

Research Interests

Blast furnace modeling,

Transport phenomenon,

?Process Metallurgy

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?Prof. Somnath Basu

Email: somnathbasu[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7613

Research Interests
Metal refining Thermodynamics Slag- Metal Interaction Continous casting 
?Prof. Parag Bhargava?

Email: pbhargava[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7628

Research Interests?

Powder Processing, Shape Forming of Ceramics
Rheology of inks, Pastes
Synthesis of weakly agglomerated nanoparticles
Dental Materials
Glasses and glass ceramics
Silver pastes for various applications:Screen printed sensors / devices
Scaling-up and Product development

PDF positions available for researchers with experience in (a) Glasses,

Glass synthesis, and Characterization and (b) Metal-Ceramic Composites

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Prof. Amrita Bhattacharya

Email :?b_amrita[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel (Off.): +91-22-25767620

Research Interests?
Computational materials science
Charge and heat transport
Defects in semiconductors
Strongly correlated materials
Machine learning
?http://www.nt-job.com/mems/sites/www.mems.iitb.ac.in/files/article/images/Arup1.jpgProf. Arup Ranjan Bhattacharya

Email: arupranjan[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7634

Research Interests?
Polymer blends Polymer Nanocomposites
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Prof. Jayasree Biswas

Email ::biswasj[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel (Off.): +9122 2576 7623

Research Interests

Metal recycling from secondary sources (E-waste, batteries, waste solar cells)
Green metal processing (Green steelmaking)
High temperature kinetic studies in ferrous and nonferrous systems
Metal Refining
Process thermodynamics and kinetics.
Process Modelling

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?Prof. Mithun Chowdhury?

Email: mithunc[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7632

Research Interests

Experimental soft matter with emphasis on polymers:
Non-equilibrium phenomena in complex spaces
Droplets and Colloids
Particle tracking probe dynamics
Semicrystalline electroactive & electronic?polymers
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Prof. Tanushree H. Choudhury
Email: tanuhc[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel: 022-2576-7610
Research Interests
Large area of layered materials, like 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) mono-component films, alloys and heterostructures by CVD.
Controlling defects sites to impact nucleation, growth and properties of layered material monolayers and heterostructures.
In-situ and controlled environment study of layered materials to investigate real time evolution of growth and properties.
Synthesizing oxide nanostructure by solution-based techniques with tailored morphology and thermal stability.
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Prof. Vijayshankar Dandapani

Email :? v.dandapani[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel (Off.): +91-022 2576 7617

Research Interests?
Metal-Ceramic interfacial stress corrosion cracking.
Corrosion and organic coating delamination.
Hydrogen permeation to quantify oxygen reduction kinetics.
Non-linear frequency response analysis (NFRA) of Lithium-ion batteries.
Nanorough Silica Coatings.

?Prof. Titas DasGupta?

Email: titas.dasgupta[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7627

Web: https://sites.google.com/view/tmdlab-iitb/home

Research Interests??
Thermoelectric material and devices,
Thermoelectric metrology and instrumentation,
Physics of heavily doped semiconductors
?Prof. A. Durga

Email: a.durga[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel:

Web:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j0KT3VMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Research Interests??
Computational Thermodynamics
Additive Manufacturing
Microstructure Evolution
Phase Transformations
?Prof. Rajiv O. Dusane?

Email: rodusane[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7633

Webpage :http://www.hwcvpiitb.co.in/

Research Interests??

Synthesis and characterization of amorphous and nanocrystalline thin films of semiconductors and

alloys Silicon nanodevices for thin film solar cells and transistors for flat panel displays MEMS devices,

Nuclear detection Plasma processing and surface nano-engineering

?Prof. Ashutosh S. Gandhi?

Email: agandhi[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7614

Research Interests?

Science of Ceramics,
High-Temperature Protective Coatings (TBCs and EBCs),
Multicomponent Equimolar (High Entropy) Ceramics,
Phase Transformations,
Metastable and Amorphous Materials

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Prof. Abhinandan Gangopadhyay

Email ::abhinandan.g[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel (Off.): +9122 2576 7603

Research Interests

Defects and interfaces in advanced functional materials
Transmission electron microscopy

?Prof. Dipti Gupta?

Email: diptig[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7608

Research Interests??
Flexible/Plastic Electronics based on Organic semiconductors, 
metal oxides and Graphene,
Devices for Energy and Biomedical applications,
Devices under focus: Solar Cells,
Thin film transistor and sensors,
Printed Electronics
?Prof. M P Gururajan?

Email: guru.mp[at]iitb.ac.in / gururajan.mp[at]gmail.com
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7631

Research Interests??
Modelling of microstructural evolution Atomistic
(Monte Carlo and Molecular dynamics) and continuum (phase field modelling)
models Phase transformations Deformation and
phase transformation induced microstructural changes
?Prof. Nirdosh K. Khosla?

Email: n.khosla[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7618

Research Interests???
Mineral processing, Instrumentation 
?Prof. Ajit R. Kulkarni?

Email: ajit.kulkarni[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7636

Research Interests??
Lead free ceramics and piezoelectrics: Bulk, nanostructured and thin films,
Impedance spectroscopy for material characterization,
Solid electrolyte for sensor and battery (glass, glass-ceramics, polymers and gels),
Synthesis-Structure-Property correlation in materials
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Prof. Deepoo Kumar

Email :?deepook[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel: +91-022-25767647

Research Interests?
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Metallurgical Processes
Mass transport in Pyrometallurgical process
Inclusion characterization

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Prof. Sudhanshu Mallick?

Email: mallick[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7641

Research Interests???

Dye sensitized solar cells
Electroceramics
Photovoltaics
Semiconductors
Electroceramics
Powder Metallurgy
Recycling

?Prof. Amartya Mukhopadhyay?

Email: amartya_mukhopadhyay[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7612

Research Interests?

Materials for electrochemical energy storage
Electrode materials and electrode/electrolyte interfaces for Li/Na/K-ion batteries
Electro-chemo-mechanical responses of electrode materials
Solid electrolytes and all-solid-state Li-ion and Na-ion batteries
Electrochemical energy storage devices
Advanced structural ceramics/composites
Development of bulk polycrystalline ‘ceramic alloys’
Carbon nanotube reinforced ceramic composites
Ultra-high temperature ceramics/composites

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?Prof. Triratna Muneshwar

Email: tmuneshwar[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel:? +91-22-2576 7640

Web: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=vryvM14AAAAJ

Research Interests??
Materials for semiconductor logic/memory device applications
Modeling of vacuum thin film deposition processes
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes for oxides, nitrides and metal depositions
Atomic layer etching (ALE) of metals
Lab-to-Fab ALD/ALE process solutions
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Prof. Prasanna Kumar S Mural

Email : prasannamural[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel: (+91-22) 2572 6975

Research Interests

Polymer nanocomposites,
Antibacterial membranes,
Piezotribo-electric materials,
Electrospinning

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Prof. Nagamani Jaya Balila

Email :?jayabalila[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel: +91-022-28767626

Research Interests?
Mechanical behavior of materials
Nanoindentation and micro-mechanics of advanced high strength steels
Interface engineering and design of damage tolerant composites through additive manufacturing
Fracture mechanics of thin films, hard coatings and multilayered structures.

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Prof. K. Narasimhan?

Email: nara[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7630

Research Interests
Sheet metal forming,
Superplasticity,
Modelling and Simulation

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Prof. Avradeep Pal

Email :? avradeep[at]iitb.ac.in

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/qmdlab/home
Tel (Off.): +91-022 2576 7629

Research Interests?
Josephson junctions
Superconductor-ferromagnet interactions (Superconducting Spintronics)
Tunneling spectroscopy
Growth of thin films, UHV systems and nano-fabrication
Graphene mesoscopics

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Prof. Manish M. Pande

Email :? manish.pande[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel (Off.): 022 25767609

Research Interests?
Steelmaking
Steel Cleanness
High-Temperature Experimentation and Metallic Foams

?Prof. Prita Pant

Email: pritapant[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7616

Research Interests??
Mechanical behaviour of thin films,
Dislocation dynamics simulation of deformation,
Nanoindentation studies of heterogenous deformation in metals,
Ni- Ti based shape memory materials
?Prof. Ajay S. Panwar?

Email: panwar[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7644

Research Interests?
Multiscale molecular modelling of self-assembly in macromolecular systems, 
Macromolecular transport in micro and nano scale channels,
High performance computing for macromolecular and composite systems
?Prof. Smrutiranjan Parida

Email: paridasm[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7643

https://sites.google.com/view/sparida/home

Research Interests?
Corrosion and mitigation, 
Electrochemical nanostructuring,
Functional application of nanostructured metals and alloys
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Prof. Anirban Patra

Email :?anirbanpatra[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel (Off.): +91-22-25767622

Research Interests?
Computational materials
Mechanics
Crystal plasticity

?Prof. N Prabhu

Email: nprabhu[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7624

Research Interests?
Phase transformations, 
Structure Property relationships,
Electron Microscopy
?Prof. M.J.N.V. Prasad

Jindal Stainless Chair Professor

Email: mjnvprasad[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7642

Research Interests?

Mechanical behaviour of materials including Indentation, Fatigue, Creep and Superplasticity
Thermo-mechanical processing of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys
Electrodeposition and Alloy development
Material joining (Diffusion bonding)
Severe plastic deformation (HPT, FSP)
Protective coatings and Oxidation behaviour

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?Prof. T. R. S. Prasanna

Email: prasanna[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7639

Research Interests??
Materials for solid oxide fuel cells, 
composite electrolytes,electrode materials,
Theoretical materials science,
Role of thermal vibrations in phase transitions
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 Prof. V. S. Raja

Email: vsraja[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7892

Research Interests???
Structure-processing-corrosion property relation,
Light metals, Graded coatings, Failure analysis Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy,
Stress corrosion cracking, High temperature and pressure aqueous corrosion, Weld related corrosion
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 Prof.Abhijeet L. Sangle 

Email : alsangle[at]iitb.ac.in
Tel:? (+91) 222159 6742
Web : https://homepages.iitb.ac.in/~alsangle/Home.html

Research Interests???
Thin films of functional materials
Pulsed Laser Deposition and RF/DC/Pulsed DC Sputter Deposition
Self-assembled vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) thin films
Ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, photoelectrochemical green hydrogen generation,
thermoelectrics, Resistive random access memory (ReRAM)

?Prof. Indradev Samajdar

Email: indra[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7621

Research Interests???
Crystallographic texture,
Microstructural engineering,
Thermomechanical processing
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Prof. Sumit Saxena

Email: sumit.saxena[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7615

Research Interests???
Ab-initio calculations of electronic and structure properties of materials, 
Nanostructured materials and their applications, Carbon based materials such graphene,
nanotube and graphite intercalated materials,
Time dependent ab-initio calculations for photovoltaic applications
?Prof. Shobha Shukla

Email: sshukla[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7607

Research Interests???
Nanophotonic devices Nanomaterials, 
Metamaterials,
Plasmonic devices
?Prof. Aparna Singh

Email: aparna_s[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7605

Research Interests??
Fracture, fatigue and tribology Synthesis methods of nanostructured
materials in bulk Nanostructured coatings Microstructure characterization
Damage tolerance of materials used in renewable energy technologies Biomedical implants,
prosthetics and polymer encapsulation Back-end processing in microprocessor fabrication.
?Prof. Aswani Yella

Email: aswani.yella[at]iitb.ac.in?
Tel:?+91-22-2576-7619

Research Interests?
Nanostructured materials for photovoltaic applications,
Hybrid materials for light harvesting,
Molecular electronics,
Dye/semiconductor sensitized solar cells
Photoelectrochemical cells for H2 generation
Perovskite Photoferroics

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