Materials Engineering (MatEng): Recent submissions
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Studies on Internal Reforming Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Renewable energy becomes inevitable for future energy needs. Accordingly, researchers are exploring possible alternatives to conventional fuel based internal combustion engines. In recent years, Bio-fuel (methane/ethanol) ... -
Effect of Copper on Strength of Super 304H Austenitic Stainless Steel
Super 304H is a copper-containing austenitic stainless steel with potential applications in advanced thermal power plants owing to its superior corrosion, oxidation, creep resistances and cost affordability. The addition ... -
Insights into the Influence of Electric Field on the Structural Evolution and its Correlation with the Properties in the Lead-based BiScO3-PbTiO3 and the Lead-free Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 based Piezoceramics
Advanced piezoelectric ceramics are widely used as piezoelectric sensors, transducers, actuators, etc. Among the commercially viable piezoelectric systems, lead zirconate titanate, PbZr1-XTiXO3 (PZT) has dominated the ... -
Bioremediation of Lead from Aqueous Solutions using Pseudomonas Species - Mechanisms & Biosensor Applications
Industrialization, urbanization and technological developments have improved the standard of living for humans on the one hand, but they also have resulted in the generation of wastes containing toxic heavy metals that are ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Intermetallic Coatings by Laser Cladding and Novel Ball Milling Approach
The aim of the present work is to engineer a new kind of coating material with superior quality and reliability in a cost effective way by laser cladding and ball milling process. Non equilibrium processing methods were ... -
Synthesis and Phase Transformation Studies of Al45Mn55 Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloy
The aim of the present thesis work was to synthesize and explore the phase transformation behavior of a binary Heusler alloy based on AlMn system. The intermetallic phase with the stoichiometry AlMn, which is usually termed ... -
Mapping the Transient Morphologies and Demixing Behavior of Polystyrene/ Poly(vinyl methyl ether) Blend in the Presence of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes
Multiphasic materials with precise structures are essential in designing materials for applications in various diverse areas like sensors, photovoltaics, porous membranes, etc. The transient morphology developed during ... -
Theoretical and Numerical Study of Microstructure Formation in Multi-component Alloys
The length scale, composition, orientation of the phases in a material constitutes its microstructure. In order to appreciate the whole gamut of microstructures observed in multi-component alloys, an identification of the ... -
Electric Field Driven Structural Transformations in BaTiO3 and Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) based Piezoceramics
Ferroelectrics are important class of functional materials that finds application in transducers, actuators, memory devices, electro-optics and position sensing devices. Until recently, the high performance piezoelectrics ... -
Microstructural Evolution of Directionally Solidified Ni-Al-Re/Ru Alloys
Nickel based superalloys are high temperature materials which find application as blade and disc components of jet engines due to their ability to retain their mechanical properties at temperatures close to 0.8 of their ... -
Nano Surface Modifications for Anti-Corrosive and Anti-Biofouling Applications
Microbially Induced Corrosion (MIC) of materials is a major concern of marine industry. Various ferrous and non-ferrous materials used in industry are prone to MIC. Bio-fouling or formation of bio-film on material surface ... -
Dynamic Strain Aging and Creep in near-α Ti Alloy, IMI834
IMI 834 is a near- Ti alloy used in high temperature applications such as compressor discs and blades of aero engines. Titanium alloys including IMI 834 are known to exhibit dynamic strain aging (DSA) over the temperature ... -
Diffusion-Controlled Growth of Phases in Metal-Tin Systems Related to Microelectronics Packaging
(2018-08-28)The electro–mechanical connection between under bump metallization (UBM) and solder in flip–chip bonding is achieved by the formation of brittle intermetallic compounds (IMCs) during the soldering process. These IMCs ... -
Precipitate Growth and Coarsening in Ternary Alloys
(2018-08-20)We have studied precipitate growth and coarsening in ternary alloys using two different phase held models. The first one is a ternary extension of the classical Cahn-Hilliard (C-H) model in which both the phases are ... -
Influence of Electric Field on the Global and Local Structure in the Ferroelectric Ceramic Na1/2Bi1/2TiO3 and its Solid Solutions with BaTiO3 and K1/2Bi1/2TiO3
(2018-08-14)Ferroelectric ceramics are very promising materials for a variety of piezoelectric applications such as high permittivity dielectrics, piezoelectric sensors, piezoelectric/electrostrictive transducers, actuators, electro-optic ... -
On the Factors Influencing the Stability of Phases in the Multiferroic System BiFeO3-PbTiO3
(2018-08-11)Rhombohedral perovskite BiFeO3 is a single phase multiferroic compound exhibiting both magnetic (Neel temperature ~370˚C) and ferroelectric (Curie point ~840˚C) ordering well above the room temperature. Ferroelectricity ... -
Diffusion Controlled Growth of A15-Based Nb3Sn and V3Ga Intermetallic Compounds
(2018-08-09)The A15-based Nb3Sn and V3Ga superconducting compounds are an integral part of synchrotrons and magnetic fusion reactor technology, especially where a magnetic field higher than 10 T is required, which lies beyond the limit ... -
Hyaluronic Acid Based Biodegradable Polyelectrolyte Nanocapsules and Modified Protein Nanoparticles for Targeted Delivery of Anticancer Agents
(2018-08-02)Targeted delivery aids in minimizing most of the drug-originated systemic toxic effects as well as improving the pharmacokinetic properties of anticancer therapeutics. Tumor targeting using hyaluronic acid (HA) as the ... -
A Physico-Chemical Approach in Binary Solid-State Interdiffusion
(2018-07-28)A physico-chemical approach (theory of dissociation and reaction) is developed, which can be used in binary diffusion couple to determine diffusion parameters of the product phases with wide homogeneity range, as well as ... -
Development of High Temperature Aluminium Alloys through Microstructure Control
(2018-07-27)A large number of advanced structural materials are based on metallic materials where alloying additions play a key role in imparting the required properties. Most of the commercially important aluminium alloys are classified ...