Bio-mineral processing including beneficiation and leaching
Biological templates for materials synthesis
Environmental Engineering, including heavy metal ion and toxic element removal
THIN FILMS AND JOINING
Synthesis by laser ablation, decomposition of precursors
Mechanical characterisation and interfacial fracture
Laser welding/alloying of dissimilar materials
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
High temperature creep and superplasticity
Bulk metallic glasses, foams and composites
Smart materials including shape memory alloys
COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND LIGHT ALLOYS
Fabrication of new composites based on light metals, polymers and ceramics
Development of applications in low density structures, electronic packaging, brakes, wear plates
Al and Mg based alloys for automotive applications
Research Profile - II
METASTABLE MATERIALS
Quasicrystalline phases in novel systems
Metastable ceramics from precursors by templating pyrolysis
Mechano-chemical routes to metastability in metallic alloys
Synthesis of bulk Fe and Al based bulk metallic glasses
THERMODYNAMICS
Experimental measurements, Development of models for thermodynamic data in semi-conductors and ceramics with applications in microelectronics, sensors and batteries
NANOSCALE SYSTEMS
Nanometric dispersions of Fe-based compounds for use as soft and hard magnetic materials
Wear properties of embedded soft metals
Consolidation and high temperature deformation of metastable ultrafine grained ceramics
Biological and organic template route to the synthesis of nano and meso porous materials
Combustion synthesis of nano particles
MODELLING
Numerical modelling of fluid flow through porous media, novel metal refining processes
Monte Carlo simulations of phase transformations and coarsening
Solidification, mass and heat transfer modelling of laser processing of materials
New Initiatives in Materials at IISc
Nano materials
Acquisition of state-of-the- art TEM, lithography, AFM
New clean laboratory for electron and ion beam characterisation, AFM/STM, Squid magnetometer
Micro-electromechanical Systems & Smart materials
Coordinating institution for nation-wide effort on Smart materials
New laboratory for design of MEMS
GOALS / SPIN-OFFS
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY INITIATIVE ON ADVANCED MATERIALS AT IISc
