Interface Dynamics and Energetics of Alloys (IDEAs) Laboratory
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News and Spotlight -
2023 January 23: Jhalak successfully defends her thesis proposal on borosilica scale.
2023 January 05: Rudraksha Bharadwaj and Manjeet Singh join the research group as PhD students. Welcome!!
2022 November 25: Our paper on a reduced mathematical model for phase selection is published in Materialia.
2022 November 16: Dishant wins the second prize in NMD-ATM-2022!
2022 November 04: Dishant has been awarded the prestigious PMRF award. Congratulations!!
2022 September 08: Our paper on oxidation of High-Entropy Alloys is published in the journal Entropy.
2022 August 19: New book chapter published by Dishant and Jhalak. (Link)
2022 July 18: Our collaborative work on distilling the physical origins of hardness in High Entropy Alloys is published online in NPJ Computational Materials
2022 July 07: Our paper on the effect of tracer elements on diffusion through oxide scales has been published in Materialia. Read it here.
2022 June 20: Pratik takes over as the new Head of the Department (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering @ IIT Ropar)!
2022 May 18: Santosh defends his thesis proposal successfully. Congratulations!
2022 Apr 19: Pratik awarded the DAE-CSR grant for investigating in-situ high temperature oxidation of Ni-based alloys along with co-PIs Prof. Joysurya Basu (IIT Varanasi) and IDEAs group alumni Dr. Vikas Shivam.
2022 Mar 16: Pratik receives the DST-CRG grant for investigating the reactive element effect in Ni based bond coat materials.
2022 Mar 01: Our paper on glass formation in ternary alloys is published in Materials Today: Proceedings (Special Issue on the proceedings of the AFTMME 2021 conference).
2022 Jan 31: Dr. Vikas Shivam is the recipient of the NPDF fellowship. He moves to the National Metallurgical Laboratory (Jamshedpur) for his new assignment. We wish him all the best for this opportunity!