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Silk-based Biomaterials for Wound Care and Tissue Regeneration
For most individuals, wound healing is a highly organized, straightforward process. However, there are instances where external intervention becomes necessary to support the body’s innate healing mechanism. In this thesis, ... -
Smart textiles with Tuneable Architectures for Multifunctional Applications
Innovations in electronics and the rapid developments in communication systems have been unprecedented and made life easier. One such advancement is wireless electronics, where gadgets operate in gigahertz frequencies – ... -
Solving The Unsolved In Multicomponent Diffusion: The Concept Of Constrained Diffusion Couple Methods
Quantitative diffusion analysis in multicomponent metallic systems has been a formidable task historically and despite decades of research, most of the diffusivity estimations were limited to interdiffusion and some intrinsic ... -
Some aspects of synthesis, structure and stability of quasicrystals.
The celebrated discovery of quasicrystals has broadened our outlook towards the various possibilities of atomic arrangements in the solid state. Many fascinating problems in the field of quasicrystals have emerged, which ... -
Some Critical Issues Pertaining To Deformation Texture In Close-Packed Metals And Alloys : The Effect Of Grain Size, Strain Rate And Second Phase
(2013-05-20)Crystallographic texture in polycrystalline materials are known to play an important role in tailoring suitable properties for various technological applications. In addition, the evolution of texture provides a profound ... -
Some Mechanical Properties of Ti-6Al-4V-B Alloys
(2017-09-27)The alloys of Ti are extensively used in a number of industries with the α+β alloy Ti-6Al-4V (referred to as Ti64 hereafter) being the most popular. Recently, it was demonstrated that the addition of a small amount of B ... -
Some Processing and Mechanical Behavior Related Issues in Ti-Ni Based Shape Memory Alloys
(2017-11-30)Shape memory alloys (SMAs) exhibit unique combination of structural and functional properties and hence have a variety of current and potential applications. The mechanical behaviour of SMAs, in particular the influence ... -
Strain Controlled Low Cycle Fatigue and Creep-fatigue interaction behaviour of A type 316(L) Stainless Steel
Type 316L(N) stainless steel (SS) is the currently favored structural material for several high temperature components in the primary side of the liquid metal cooled fast breeder reactor. The choice of this material is ... -
Strain controlled low cycle fatigue and creep-fatigue interaction behaviour of a type 316L(N) stainless steel
Type 316L(N) stainless steel (SS) is the currently favored structural material for several high-temperature components in the primary side of the liquid metal-cooled fast breeder reactor. The choice of this material is ... -
Strain Hardening in Extruded Pure Magnesium
There has been a surge in interest in wrought magnesium alloys for structural applications in automotive industry. However, the application of wrought alloys is limited by its poor plasticity, due to its inherent strong ... -
Structural, Ferroelectric, Piezoelectric and Phase Transition Studies of Lead Free (Na0.5Bi0.5)TiO3 Based Ceramics
(2018-04-23)Ferroelectric materials, especially the polycrystalline ceramics, are very promising material for a variety of applications such as high permittivity dielectrics, ferroelectric memories, piezoelectric sensors, piezoelect ... -
Structure and Polar Properties of SrTiO3-xNa0.5Bi0.5TiO3 Ferroelectric System
Ferroelectric materials exhibit interesting dielectric and piezoelectric properties. While for over six decades, lead-zirconate titanate (PZT) has been the most sought after piezoelectric material for actuator, transducer, ... -
Structure property correlation studies on Ca-modified Ba(Ti, Zr/Sn)O3 piezoceramics
In this thesis we have investigated the structure, property correlation of the lead-free piezoelectric ceramic of (Ba,Ca) (Ti,Zr/Sn)O3 system. A self-consistent set of experimental techniques such as X-ray powder diffraction, ... -
Structure, Microstructure and Magnetic Properties of Fe-Ga and R-Fe based Magnetostrictive Thin Films
(2018-02-27)Magnetostrictive materials belong to an important class of smart magnetic materials which have potential applications as ultrasonic transducers, sensors, actuators, delay lines, energy harvesting devices etc. Although, ... -
Structure-Property Correlation in Additively Manufactured High-Temperature Materials: Insights from Nickel-Based Superalloy IN718 & Nickel-Based Eutectic High Entropy Alloy AlCoCrFeNi2.1
High-temperature alloys are technically very important materials that possess higher resistance toward mechanical and chemical degradation at 0.4-0.6 TM for a constant/cyclic load. These attributes make them candidate ... -
Structure-Property Correlation in Binary Immiscible Polymer Blends Compatibilized by Mutually Miscible Homopolymer and Carbonaceous Nanoparticles
The thesis systematically studies the various morphology, mechanical properties, crystallization kinetics and compatibilization effects of homopolymers, carbonaceous nanoparticles such as multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs), ... -
Structure-Property correlation in epoxy composites containing carbonaceous nanoparticles
Epoxy is widely used as thermosetting materials in carbon fiber composites due to its combined superior thermal and mechanical properties which makes them a potential candidate for myriad applications. But epoxy suffers ... -
Structures, Thermodynamics and Phase Relations in Selected Oxide Systems
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-02-08)Understanding of the interrelationship between structure, thermodynamic properties and phase diagrams is very useful for rationalizing the behavior of materials and development of predictive models, which can be used to ... -
Structure–Property Correlation in the Lead-Free K0.5Bi0.5TiO3-Based Piezoceramics
Ferroelectric materials with a perovskite (ABO₃) structure exhibiting enhanced electromechanical properties are widely used in actuators, pressure sensors, electro-optic devices, and transducers across sectors such as ... -
Studies Of Glass Formation In Al-La-Ni And Mg-TM-RE Alloys With A Structure Mapping Approach
(2010-07-14)The glass-forming composition ranges in Al-La-Ni and Mg-TM (Cu, Zn)-Y alloys were predicted using Miedema’s model. Glass-forming abilities of Al-La-Ni alloys and Mg-Cu-RE alloys were studied in terms of reduced glass ...