GEMS - Applying to IIT Ropar

Applying to the PhD program in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

A doctoral research program in Materials Engineering is truly a gateway to the world of high-end technology. From nanomaterials to devices, materials engineers are at the forefront. Materials Engineering can become a melting pot of ideas and a truly interdisciplinary sphere of research where students from any discipline can join. The advertisement for the PhD program will be floated in March 2024. Keep watching this space for further updates and details.

Key Research Areas in the Department

High Temperature Materials (Superalloys, Titanium and Nickel Aluminides, Refractory Metal Silcides, MAX phases, Ceramic coatings, Ultra High Temperature Ceramics, High Entropy Alloys and Ceramics, Creep and Creep crack growth, Oxidation and Corrosion). Faculty: Bibhanshu, Gopalan, Kumar, Prasad, Ray, Sardana, Tiwari
Steels (Nanobainite, Advanced High Strength Steels, Automotive Steels, TRIP and TWIP Steels, Green Steel Technology, Modeling of Steel Making). Faculty: Lavakumar, Rakha, Singh, Tiwari
Nanomaterials (Plasmonics, Mxenes, Metamaterials, Polymer Derived Ceramics, Ice-templating). Faculty: Gopalan, Sardana, Prasad, Ray
Advanced Ceramics (Ceramic Processing, MAX phases and Mxenes, Ultra-High Temperature ceramics, Polymer-derived ceramics). Faculty: Gopalan, Prasad, Ray
Energy Materials (Batteries, Hydrogen Storage, Nanomaterials for Energy Harvesting, Mxenes). Faculty: Prasad, Rakha, Sardana
Biomaterials and Polymers (Soft and Hard biomaterials, wound healing, polymer derived ceramics, bone mechanics, biocompatible implants and surfaces). Faculty: Poundarik, Prasad, Rakha, Tiwari

Mechanical Behavior of Materials (Creep and Creep crack growth, Fracture Mechanics, dislocations, in-situ deformation, nanoindentation). Faculty: Bibhanshu, Gopalan, Lavakumar, Tiwari
Materials Processing (Rolling and Texture, Sintering, Casting and Solidification, Ice-templating, Chemical Synthesis Methods). Faculty: Bibhanshu, Gopalan, Kumar, Prasad, Ray
Extractive Metallurgy and Recycling (Steel Making and Metal Extraction, Recycling of industrial waste). Faculty: Singh
Corrosion (Aqueous corrosion, High Temperature Oxidation, Gas-Metal reactions, Coatings, Non-Destructive Testing). Faculty: Kumar, Prasad, Ray
Phase Transformations (Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phase Transformations, Bainitic Transformations, Heusler Phases). Faculty: Rakha, Ray, Kumar
Advanced Characterization (Scanning Electron Microscopy, EBSD, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Atom Probe Tomography, Raman Scattering, High-Energy X-Ray Diffraction and in-situ characterization). Faculty: Bibhanshu, Lavakumar, Rakha, Prasad, Sardana, Ray
Computational Materials Engineering (DFT, Molecular Dynamics, Computational Thermodynamics, Cellular Automata, FEM and Computational Fracture Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics and Finite Volume Methods, Materials Informatics and Machine Learning). Faculty: Ray, Sardana, Singh, Tiwari, Bibhanshu,