Prof. Krishanu Biswas
Ranjit Singh Chair Professor

Solidification and Nanomaterials Laboratory
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Kanpur-208016, (UP), India
Phone: (+91) (512) 2596184/2597720
Fax: (+91) (512) 2597505


Announcements

Looking for new Ph.D and M.Tech Students working in the area of nonobstructive high entropy materials, recovery of materials from electronic waste.

Looking for new Institute Post Doc, National Post Doc.

Updates

Taraknath Maity joined ABSTC (Adity Birla Science & Technology Center)

Reshma moved to KIT Karlsruhe, Germany as post Doc.

Fateh Bahadur submitted PhD thesis on Fatigue Behavour of High Entropy Alloys

Pabitra Mohan Nayak joined Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Nirmal Kumar's Perspective got published in Nano Energy (I.f.> 16)

We organized 2 days online Symposium on In-Situ Electron Microscopy (INSITU-2021)

2019

  1. S.Ghosh, V. Meledath , S. G. Suneesh;,T. Maity, K-H Chen, Krishanu Biswas, S. Suwas, R.C. Mallik, Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of In-filled Co4Sb12 with InSb Nanoinclusions, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(1), 2019, 635-646

  1. Tarak Maity, N. Gopinath; S. Janardhanraj, Krishanu Biswas, B. Basu; Computational and Microstructural Stability Analysis of Shock Wave Interaction with NbB2-B4C Based Nanostructured Ceramics, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 50(11), 2019, 47491-47500 (Impact factor: 8.456)

  1. Krishanu Biswas H.J. Ryu, P. Cavaliere, Nanocrystalline High Entropy Materials: Processing Challenges and Properties, J. Mater. Res. 34 (5), 2019, 661-663

  1. F. Bahadur, Krishanu Biswas and N. P. Gurao, Micro-mechanisms of Microstructural Damage due to Low Cycle Fatigue in CoCuFeMnNi High Entropy Alloy, Int. J. Fatigue 130, 2020, 105258

  1. B. Gangwar; P. Phanikumar; Khushubo Tiwari; Krishanu Biswas S.Sharma; P. Deshpande, Dry reforming activity due to ionic Ru in La1.99Ru0.01O3: Role of specific carbonates; Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21, 2019, 16726

  1. N. Subramanian; N.Katiyar; R. Kumar; A.Parui; K.Malviya; K.G.Pradeep; A.Singh; S.S.Sharma; C.S.Tiwary and Krishanu Biswas Nobel Metal Based High Entropy Alloy for Conversion of Carbon-di-oxide (CO2) to Hydrocarbon ; ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (Provisionally accepted)

  1. T. Baidya, T. Murayama, S. Nellaiappan, N. Katiyar, P. Bera, O.Safonova, M.Lin, K.Priolkar, S.Kundu, B.S.Rao, P. Steiger, S. Sharma, Krishanu Biswas S.K. Pradhan, L. Nakka, K. Malviya, and M. Haruta; Ultra-Low Temperature CO Oxidation Activity of Octahedral Site Cobalt Species in Co3O4 based Catalysts: Unravelling the Origin of Unique Catalytic Property , J. Phys. Chem. C, 121, 2019, 15256-15265

  1. A. Raturi, C. Jaya Aditya, N.P.Gurao and Krishanu Biswas ICME Approach to Explore Equiatomic and Non-equiatomic Single Phase BCC Refractory High Entropy Alloys, J. Alloys & Comp., 806, 2019, 587-595

  1. R.Sonkusare, A. Swain, M. R. Rahul, S.Samal, N. P. Gurao, Krishanu Biswas S.S Singh, N. Nayan; Establishing Processing-Microstructure-Property Paradigm in Complex Concentrated Equiatomic CoCuFeMnNi Alloy; Mater. Sc. and Engg A , 2019

  1. M.Manolata Devi, Khushubo Devi and Krishanu Biswas The Size-Dependent Melting Behaviour of Pb-17.5 at%Sb Free Biphasic Alloy Nanoparticles, Mater. Metall. Trans. A,

2018

  1. Krishanu Biswas and Nirmal Kumar, The Effect of Entropy of Mixing on the Design and Development of Novel Materials, Proc. of Indian National Science Academy (PINSA) as a special issue by INYAS (provisionally accepted)

  1. Nirmal Katiyar, Krishanu Biswas, C.S. Tiwary, L.D.Machado and R.K. Gupta, Stabilization of Highly Concentrated Colloidal Suspension of Pristine Metallic Nanoparticles, Langmuir (provisionally accepted)

  1. E. Ghassemali, R. Sonkusare, Krishanu Biswas, and N.P.Gurao, Dynamic phase precipitation at elevated temperatures in a dual phase AlCoCrFeNi high entropy alloy: an in-situ study, Philosophical Magazine Letters (in press)

  1. S.Yadav, A.Aggrawal, A.Kumar and Krishanu Biswas, Effect of TiB2 Addition on Wear Behavior of (AlCrFeMnV)90Bi10 High Entropy Alloy Composite, Tribology Int. (in press)

  1. N.Sharma, N. Alam Syed,B. C.Ray, Surekha Yadav, Krishanu Biswas, Alumina-MWCNT Composites: Microstructural Characterization and Mechanical Properties,J.Asian Ceramic Societies (in press): https://doi.org/10.1080/21870764.2018.1552235

  1. R. Sonkusare, N, Khandelwal, P.Ghosh, Krishanu Biswas, and N.P.Gurao, A Comparative Study on the Evolution of Microstructure and Hardness during Monotonic and Cyclic High Pressure Torsion of CoCuFeMnNi High Entropy Alloy, J. Mater. Res. (in press)

  1. N.Sharma, N. Alam Syed,B. C.Ray, Surekha Yadav, Krishanu Biswas, Wear Behaviour of Silica and Alumina-Based Nanocomposites Reinforced with Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Nanoplatelets, Wear (in press): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2018.10.008

  1. Jitesh Kumar, N.Kumar, N.PGurao and Krishanu Biswas, Effect of Al Addition on the Microstructural Evolotion of Equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi Alloy, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 17(11), 2018,2749-2758

  1. R. Agarwal, R. Sonkusare, S.R. Jha, N.P.Gurao and Krishanu Biswas, Understanding Deformation Behavior of Equiatomic CoCuFeMnNi High Entropy Alloy by Investigating Mechanical Properties of Binary, Ternary and Quaternary Alloy Subsets; Materials and Design,157, 2018, 539-550

  1. N. Sharma, S. Alam, B.C. Ray, Surekha Yadav, and Krishanu Biswas, Silica-Graphene Nanoplatelets and Silica-MWCNT Composites: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties, Diamond and Related Mater.,87,2018 ,186-201

  1. Surekha Yadav, A.Bajaj, A.Kumar and Krishanu Biswas, Wear and Mechanical Properties of Novel (CuCrFeTiZn)100-xPbx High Entropy Alloy Composite via Mechanical Alloying and Spark Plasma Sintering, Wear,410,2018,93-109

  1. C. Velmurugan, V. Senthilkumar, Surekha Yadav, and Krishanu Biswas, Densification and microstructural evolution of spark plasma sintered NiTi shape memory alloy, Advanced Powder Technology, 29(10),2018,2456-2462

  1. N.Kumar, C.S.Tiwary and Krishanu Biswas, Unique Strategy to Prepare Nanocrystalline High Entropy Alloys Powder in Large Quantity via Cryomilling of Cast Ingots, J. Mater. Sc 53(19), 2018,13411�13423

  1. M. Manolata Devi, N. Dolai, S.Sreehala, Y. M. Jaques, Douglas S. Galvao ϒ, C.S.Tiwary, Sudhanshu Sharma and Krishanu Biswas, Morphology Controlled Graphene-Alloy Nanoparticles Hybrids with Tunable Catalytic Activity, Nanoscale, 10, 2018 , 8840-8850

  1. T.N.Maity, Krishanu Biswas, and B.Basu, Critical Role of ZrO2 on Densification and Microstructure Development in Spark Plasma Sintered NbB2, Acta Mater.,152,2018, 215-228

  1. Shreyas Rao, P.Ghosh and Krishanu Biswas, Pond ash-kaolinite-fiber based geopolymers: processing and strength Assessment, Waste and Resource Management, 171(3), 2018, 62-70