Sourav Sahoo

To be able to harness the knowledge of materials science in researching innovative and efficient technologies, and to be capable of serving industry, academia and scientific organizations

Ph.D. Research Project: Studying the role of two-dimensional coatings on the friction and wear of silica glass surfaces with multi-scale experiments and atomistic simulations.

B.Tech Project: Synthesis of core-shell structured magnetic nano-hybrids for magnetically targeted drug delivery and drug release applications. It comprises of the magnetic cores coated with drug-intercalated Mg-Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) shell, assembled via one step co-precipitation self-assembly method. The magnetic cores used are Magnesium ferrite spinels having varying Fe(2+):Fe(3+) ratios, synthesized in nano-range monosphere morphology. The characterizations include X-ray Diffraction, TEM, FESEM, FT-IR Spectroscopy, Vibrating Sample Magnetometery (VSM), DLS, EDS and UV-Vis Spectroscopy techniques.

Internship Project: Molecular Dynamics simulations of novel NaxV4O10 layered cathode materials for Sodium-ion batteries. Various layered structures, varying by the amount of Na-intercalation (x=0.33, 0.66, 1.00, 1.33), were modelled with Materials Studio 8.0 and MD simulations were carried out with appropriate force-field and module in order to approximate the Mean Square Displacement (MSD) of Na+ ions. The diffusion coefficients of Na+ ions were evaluated from MSD curve as per Einstein’s equation and were correlated with amount of intercalation.

Research Project: Synthesis of Mg-Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanoparticles for the controlled drug delivery of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) anti-cancer drug. The LDH nanoparticles were created with different molar ratios of Mg:Al and the drug was intercalated into those samples by co-precipitation method. The drug-intercalated LDH nanopowder was characterized by X-ray diffraction, FT-IR spectroscopy, Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) and FESEM techniques. The drug release study was performed in PBS buffer medium (pH 7.4) where the drug concentration with time was detected using UV-Vis Spectroscopy.

• Sourav Sahoo, Zuhaa Khan, Sajid Mannan, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, and Nitya Nand Gosvami. Graphene Mitigates Nanoscale Tribochemical Wear of Silica Glass in Water. Small, 2024, 2410040. doi:10.1002/smll.202410040

• Sourav Sahoo, Vernika Gautam, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, and Nitya Nand Gosvami. Macroscale Scratch-Resistant Glasses with Large-Area Graphene Oxide Depositions. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2025, 650, 123375. doi:10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2024.123375 

• Sourav Sahoo, Sajid Mannan, Utkarsh Tiwari, Romit Rajendra Kaware, Zhijiang Ye, Nitya Nand Gosvami, and N. M. Anoop Krishnan. Atomistic Insights into Scratch-Induced Structural Evolution of Silica Glass. Acta Materialia, 2024, 282, 120459. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120459

• Sourav Sahoo, Zuhaa Khan, Sajid Mannan, Utkarsh Tiwari, Zhijiang Ye, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, and Nitya Nand Gosvami. Superlubricity and Stress-Shielding of Graphene Enables Ultra Scratch-Resistant Glasses. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15, 44, 51905–51914. doi:10.1021/acsami.3c09653

• Jagannath Gangareddy, Pratyasha Rudra, Manohar Chirumamilla, Sudheer Ganisetti, S. Kasimuthumaniyan, Sourav Sahoo, K. Jayanthi, Jagannath Rathod, Venugopal Rao Soma, Subrata Das, Nitya Nand Gosvami, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, Kjeld Pedersen, Swastik Mondal, Srabanti Ghosh, and Amarnath R. Allu. Multi-Functional Applications of H-Glass Embedded with Stable Plasmonic Gold Nanoislands. Small, 2023, 20, 1, 2303688. doi:10.1002/smll.202303688

• Mohd Zaki, S. Kasimuthumaniyan, Sourav Sahoo, Jayadeva, Nitya Nand Gosvami, and N. M. Anoop Krishnan. Interpretable Machine Learning Approach for Identifying the Tip Sharpness in Atomic Force Microscopy. Scripta Materialia, 2022, 221, 114965. doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2022.114965

• S. Kasimuthumaniyan, Sourav Sahoo, Morten M. Smedskjaer, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, and Nitya Nand Gosvami. Quantifying the Densification and Shear Flow under Indentation Deformation in Borosilicate Glasses. International Journal of Applied Glass Science, 2022, 13, 4, 526-538. doi:10.1111/ijag.16598

• Sourav Sahoo, Om P. Khatri, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, and Nitya Nand Gosvami. Graphene Oxide Tribofilms Enhance the Scratch Resistance of Silica Glasses. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022, 5, 4, 4812–4822. doi:10.1021/acsanm.1c04364

• Vineeth Venugopal, Sourav Sahoo, Mohd Zaki, Manish Agarwal, Nitya Nand Gosvami, and N. M. Anoop Krishnan. Looking through Glass: Knowledge Discovery from Materials Science Literature Using Natural Language Processing. Patterns, 2021, 100290. doi:10.1016/j.patter.2021.100290

➤ ACerS Glass & Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting 2024 (GOMD 2024), Las Vegas, NV, USA – Oral Presentation:

• • "Revealing the Superior Scratch Resistance of CVD-Grown WS2-Coated Silica Glasses"

Symposium: Unconventional Glass Surfaces

➤ Seventh International Indentation Workshop (IIW7), University of Hyderabad, India – 

Oral Presentation:

• "Integrating Indentation Technique with AFM in the Estimation of the Deformation Mechanisms in Borosilicate Glasses",

Symposium: Glasses and Amorphous Materials 

Poster Presentation: 

• "Atomic-Scale Structural Evolution Accompanying the Indentation and Scratch of Silica Glasses"

➤ Indo-UK School on Glass in Nuclear Extremes (SGNE-2023), BARC, Mumbai, India – Oral Presentation:

• • "Investigating the Tribochemical Wear of Glass Surfaces in Aqueous Conditions"

➤ ACerS Glass & Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting 2023 (GOMD 2023), New Orleans, LA, USA – Oral Presentations:

Oral Presentation:

• "Elucidating the Influence of Graphene Sheets on the Scratch Response of Silica Glass Surfaces",

Symposium: Sorption, Coatings, and Mechanics of Glass Surfaces

• "Insights into the Structural Evolution of Silica Glass under Scratch",

Symposium: Sorption, Coatings, and Mechanics of Glass Surfaces

➤ 11th International Conference on Industrial Tribology (IndiaTrib-2022), New Delhi, India –  

Oral Presentation:

• "Minimizing the Scratch Damage of Silica Glasses via In Situ Deposition of Graphene Oxide Tribofilms",

Symposium: Surface Treatment & Coatings

Poster Presentation: 

• "A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Scratch-Induced Damage in Graphene-Coated Silica Glass",

Symposium: Nanotribology

➤ 26th International Congress on Glass (ICG), Berlin, Germany – Oral Presentations:

• "Studying the Scratch-Induced Damage of Silica Glass by Molecular Dynamics Simulations",

Symposium: Glass Surfaces and Durability

• "Enhancing Scratch Resistance of Silica Glass via Self-Generated Tribofilms from Graphene Oxide Aqueous Dispersions",

Symposium: Glass Surfaces and Durability

➤ 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology (PACRIM) with 2021 Glass & Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting (GOMD), Vancouver, Canada – Oral Presentation:

• “Dispersion-Derived Tribological Coatings to Enhance Scratch Resistance of Glasses”,

Symposium: Surfaces and Coatings II

➤ Materials Science & Technology 2021 (MS&T21), Columbus, Ohio, USA – Poster Presentation:

• “Self-Generated Tribo-Coatings on Glass from Nano-Dispersions in Aqueous Medium”,

Symposium: Coatings to Protect Materials from Extreme Environments

Sourav Sahoo, 

Department of Materials Science and Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,

Hauz Khas-110016, New Delhi.

e-mail: sourav.sahoo@mse.iitd.ac.in

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