Joint facilities

JOINT FACILITIES

• SEM with a FE tip (DST – FIST)

• High resolution TEM (Institute facility)

• Nanoindenter (DRDO Project)

• 30 KW Induction furnace

• Cold isostatic press

• High stiffness electromechanical testing system

• Scanning probe microscope (Nano Centre)

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

RESEARCH PROFILE - I

• BIO-MATERIALS PROCESSING

• 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

GOALS / SPIN-OFFS

• CROSS-DISCIPLINARY INITIATIVE ON ADVANCED MATERIALS AT IISc