Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science,
Indian Institute of Technology Indore,
Khandwa Road, Simrol, Indore-453552, India
Email: sshosmani [AT] iiti.ac.in & santosh.hosa [AT] gmail.com
Ph. (O): 0731-660333 (Ext. 3243) or 731-6603243
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Latest News:
Nilesh Kumbhar successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 01, 2025, and the PhD degree was awarded in the 13th Convocation of IIT Indore held on July 12, 2025. At IIT Indore, Nilesh had a total of 9 publications (8 SCI Journals + 1 Book Chapter), out of which 4 were his first authored publications in SCI journals. Congratulations!
In 2025, our group published a paper on thin hard coatings in the Surface and Coatings Technology (Publisher: Elsevier).
In 2025, our group published a paper in the Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals (Publisher: Springer Nature). This paper is based on our Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Project (P.I.: Prof. Santosh S. Hosmani). We thank AICTE IKS for financially supporting this research.
In 2025, our group (along with our collaborators from the Dept. BSBE (IIT Indore) and NIMS (Japan)) published a paper in the Journal of Alloys and Compounds (Publisher: Elsevier). This paper is Nilesh's 4th paper in SCI journals as a first author during his PhD. Congratulations!
In 2025, our group published a book chapter (Chapter No. 6) in Advances in Materials and Processing (Series: Springer Proceedings in Materials (Vol. 63)).
Our group's PhD student (graduated in 2022), Dr. Digvijay Singh, has been awarded the prestigious Ramanujan Faculty Fellowship in 2025. Congratulations!
Ms. Sheetal and Mohit Tiwari joined our group for PhD program at IIT Indore on January 06, 2025 and July 24, 2025, respectively. Welcome to the group!
Shubham Parihar joined our group as a Research Fellow on the SERB Project (April 04, 2024) and for PhD program at IIT Indore (January 06, 2025). Welcome to the group!
Our research proposal received funding of about Rs. 50 Lakhs (for March 2024 onwards) from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India. We thank SERB for this financial support. (P.I.: Prof. Santosh S. Hosmani and Co-P.I.: Dr. Indrasen Singh)
In 2024, our group's papers have been published in the (i) Materials Characterization (Publisher: Elsevier), (ii) Materials Science and Technology (Publisher: Sage), and (iii) Materials Today Communications (Publisher: Elsevier) journals. Our group members also contributed to the research by Prof. Rupesh Devan's group, which was published in Electrochimica Acta (Publisher: Elsevier) in 2024.
Vikesh Kumar successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 09, 2024, and the PhD degree was awarded in the 12th Convocation of IIT Indore held on July 13, 2024. During PhD, Vikesh had a total of 11 papers in journals (9 SCI + 2 Scopus), out of which 5 were his first authored publications in SCI journals. Congratulations!
Nilesh Kumbhar (PhD student) received financial grant through Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) International Travel Support (ITS) Scheme to attend "16th Biometal 2024, Poland (25 August, 2024 to 30 August, 2024)". Congratulations!