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. Many Congratulations!
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. This paper is Nilesh's 4th paper in SCI journals as a first author during his PhD. Many Congratulations!
In 2024, our group's papers have been published in the (i) Materials Characterization, (ii) Materials Science and Technology, and (iii) Materials Today Communications journals. Our group members also contributed to the research by Prof. Rupesh Devan's group, which was published in Electrochimica Acta 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. Many Congratulations!
Shubham Parihar joined our group as a Research Fellow on the SERB Project (on April 04, 2024) and for PhD program at IIT Indore (on January 06, 2025). Welcome to the group!
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)". Many Congratulations!
We received research funding of about Rs. 50 Lakhs for three years (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 2023, our group's two papers were published in Advanced Engineering Materials, one paper in Philosophical Magazine (which is one of the reputed journals in Metallurgy), and one in the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (JMEP).
Our group members, Toni and Sahil Kumar, were awarded B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees, respectively, in the 11th Convocation of IIT Indore held on July 15, 2023. Many Congratulations!
PhD student, Nilesh Kumbhar, got the Research Internship at NIMS, Japan, for three months (2023).
A paper published by Aditya Litoria et al. in Philosophical Magazine (Vol. 100, No. 3, 2020) was cited 40 times within three years, i.e., till November 2023 (Ref.: Google Scholar).
Vikesh Kumar (PhD student) got the second prize in the SEM-Micrograph Contest at the National Conference on “DHARA: Bharatiya Dhatu Shastra”, Organized by IIT Indore during March 20-21, 2023.
Manoj Joshi successfully defended his PhD thesis on March 01, 2023, and the PhD degree was awarded in the 11th Convocation of IIT Indore held on July 15, 2023. Many Congratulations!
Dr. S.S. Hosmani (P.I.) and Dr. R.S. Devan (Co-P.I.) got an IKS research grant (approx. 1.76 million rupees) from the IKS Division of MoE @ AICTE, New Delhi for 2 years (starting from April 2022). Mr. Manoj Joshi joined as a Research Fellow on this project in May 2022.
Mr. Nilesh Kumbhar joined the group for PhD (2022).
Digvijay Singh successfully defended his PhD. thesis on January 04, 2022, and the PhD degree was awarded in the 10th Convocation of IIT Indore held on August 13, 2022. Many Congratulations!
Aditya Kumar Litoria successfully defended his PhD thesis on September 21, 2021, and the PhD degree was awarded in the 9th Convocation of IIT Indore held on November 09, 2021. Many Congratulations!
Mr. Vikesh Kumar continued for PhD in the group after completing his M.Tech. thesis (2019).
PhD student, Digvijay, got a Research Internship at NIMS, Japan, for three months (2019).
Groups of Dr. S.S. Hosmani and Dr. R.S. Devan have successfully organized a TEQIP Sponsored Short Term Course on "Industrial Metallurgy and Quality Control" during February 11-16, 2019, at IIT Indore. Lectures were delivered by 4 experts from industries and 3 faculties from MEMS, IIT Indore. Many participants from other institutes took the benefits of this course.
Mr. Manoj Joshi joined the group as a Research Fellow (May 2018) and registered for the PhD program (December 2018) at IIT Indore.
Dr. S.S. Hosmani got an EMR research grant (approx. five million rupees) from DST-SERB for 3 years (starting from March 2018).
Dr. S.S. Hosmani, Dr. P. Kuppusami, and Dr. R.K. Goyal have written a book on 'An Introduction to Surface Alloying of Metals', which was published by Springer in 2014.
Prof. G. Gupta, Dr. S.S. Hosmani, Dr. S. Sarkar have authored one Book Chapter on "Pack Carburizing". This chapter is published in the ‘Encyclopedia of Iron, Steel and Their Alloys’ in 2016 (Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group).
Dr. S.S. Hosmani got the Best Teacher Award (COEP Star Award) from the ‘College of Engineering, Pune (COEP)’. He was one of the three best faculties of the year 2013.
Some of our papers are cited in the very interesting book titled ‘Fundamentals of Materials Science: The Microstructure – Property Relationship Using Metals as Model Systems’ by Prof. E.J. Mittemeijer.
Some of our papers are cited in the book titled ‘Iron Systems: Phase Diagrams, Crystallographic and Thermodynamic Data’, Springer.