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)

Selected Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals (150)

2021

  1. N K Katiyar, S Dhakar, Krishanu Biswas, C S Tiwary, S Sharma, Electrooxidation of Hydrazine utilizing High Entropy Alloys: Assisting oxygen evolution reaction at the thermodynamic Voltage, ACS Catalysis (provisionally accepted)

  1. J. Kumar, N. Nayan, R K Gupta, V Ramalingam, Krishanu Biswas, The First Attempt on Industrial Application of High Entropy Alloys in India, Trans. INAE (provisionally accepted)

  1. L Sharma, N Kumar et al., Low-Cost High Entropy Alloy (HEA) for High-Efficiency Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER), Nano Research (in press)

  1. N.Kumar, Krishanu Biswas, S. Sharma, C S Tiwary, A perspective on the catalysis using the high entropy alloys, Nano Energy (in press)

  1. A Bajpai, Krishanu Biswas, N P Gurao, J. Bhatt, Design of Multicomponent Metallic Glasses using Mendeleev Number, Philosophical Magazine (in press)

  1. P Shrivastava, SN Alama, D Panda, SK Sahoo, T Maity, K Biswas, Development and mechanical properties investigation of Cu-MWCNT-graphite nanoplatelets hybrid Nanocomposites, Diamond and Related Materials, 117,108467

  1. T Maity, NK Gopinath, Krishanu Biswas, B Basu, Experimental approach to probe into mechanisms of high‐temperature erosion of NbB2‐ZrO2, J. Amer. Cer. Soc., 104 (7), 3518-3530

  1. K Tiwari, M Paliwal, M Verma, Krishanu Biswas, Solidification behavior of nanoscaled tri-phasic bismuth-indium-tin alloy particles embedded in AlCuFe quasicrystalline matrix, J. Alloys and Compd 867, 159011

  1. A. Raturi, Krishanu Biswas, and N.P.Gurao, A mechanistic perspective on the kinetics of plastic deformation in FCC High Entropy Alloys: Effect of strain, strain rate and temperature, Scripta Mater., 197, 113809

  1. S.Mukhopadhyay, P.Pandey, N. Baler, Krishanu Biswas, S.K. Makineni, K. Chattopadhyay, The role of Ti addition on the evolution and stability of γ/γ′ microstructure in a Co-30Ni-10Al-5Mo-2Ta Alloy, Acta Mater., 208, 116736

  1. B Sagar, Krishanu Biswas, R Mukherjee,A phase-field study on a eutectic high-entropy alloy during solidification, Philosophical Magazine Letters, 101 (4), 160-172

  1. S.S. Mishra, Anurag Bajpai Krishanu Biswas, TiVCrNiZrFex High entropy alloy: Phase evolution, magnetic and mechanical properties, J. Alloys and Compd, 872, 159572

  1. S S Mishra, TP Yadav, Ram Manohar Yadav, Anand B Puthirath, Liangzi Deng, Moein Adnani, Ching-Wu Chu, Robert Vajtai, PM Ajayan, Krishanu Biswas, NK Mukhopadhyay, ON Srivastava, Effect of Ga substitution on structural and magnetic properties of Fe50Mn25Al25-xGax Heusler alloys, J. Alloys and Compd, 854, 156756

  1. S. Sinha, V. K Sahu, V. Beura, R. Sonkusare, R. Kalsar, A. KL Das, J. Basu, N. P Gurao, Krishanu Biswas, Initial texture dependence of nanocrystalline omega phase formation during high pressure torsion of commercially pure titanium , Mater. Sc and Engg. A, 802, 140687

2020

  1. Saumya Jha, Krishanu Biswas, and N.P.Gurao, Achieving high strength and ductility in equimolar FeMnNi medium entropy alloy by Microstructural Entropy, Materialia (provisionally accepted)

  1. Nirmal Kumar and Krishanu Biswas, Easy Scalable Fabrication Route for Nanocomposite-based Coating Containing Ag NPs with Anti-bacterial and Anti-fouling Properties, Mater. Today Comm. (provisionally accepted)

  1. T.N.Maity, N.K. Gopinath, Krishanu Biswas, and B.Basu, Experimental Approach to Probe Mechanistic Insights into High Temperature Erosion of NbB2-ZrO2 Composite, J. Amer. Cer. Soc (in press) (Impact factor: 3.094)

  1. S.Mishra, Krishanu Biswas, et al., Effect of Ga substitution on structural and magnetic properties of Fe50Mn25Al25-xGax,Heusler alloys, J. Alloys and Compounds, 854, 156756 (Impact factor: 4.650)

  1. N. Sharma, A. Bajpai, P. Yadav, S. Nellaiappan, S. Sharma, C.S. Tiwary, Krishanu Biswas, A Green Route for Beneficiation of Metallic Materials from Electronic Waste for Selective Reduction of CO2, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 8(32) 12142-12150 (Impact factor: 7.632) Appeared as cover page of the journal

  1. S. Mukhopadhyay et al. ; The role of Ti addition on the evolution and stability of gamma/gamma′ microstructure in a Co-30Ni-10Al-5Mo-2Ta alloy, Acta Materialia (provisionally accepted) (Impact factor: 7.293)

  1. Krishanu Biswas, J.-W.Yeh, P. Bhattacharya and J.T.M. de Hosson, High Entropy Alloys: key issues under passiona debate, Editorial for VP set on High Entropy Alloys, Scripta Materialia 188, 54-58 (Impact factor: 5.079)

  1. A, Bajpai, J. Bhatt, N.P.Gurao and Krishanu Biswas, A New Perspective to Thermodynamical Designing of High Entropy Bulk Metallic Glasses (HE-BMGs), Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter, 595,412350

  1. T. Baidya et al., Low-Temperature Propylene Epoxidation Activity of CuO-CeO2 Catalyst with CO+O2 Mixture: Role of Metal-Support Interaction on Reducibility and Catalytic Property of CuO Species, J. Phys. Chem. C, 124, 26, 14131-14146

  1. P.Bera, R. V. Lakshmi,B. H. Prakash, K. Tiwari, A. Shukla, A. K.Kundu, Krishanu Biswas, H. C. Barshilia, Solution combustion synthesis, characterization, magnetic and dielectric properties of CoFe2O4 and Co0.5M0.5Fe2O4 (M = Mn, Ni and Zn), PCCP, 22, 20087-20106

  1. Urs. Kusuma; Nirmal Kumar Katiyar ; R. Kumar; Krishanu Biswas, A. Singh; C.S. Tiwary and V. Kamble, Multi-component (Ag-Au-Cu-Pd-Pt) Alloy Nanoparticles Decorated p-type 2D-Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) for Enhanced Hydrogen Sensing, Nanoscale 12, 11830-11841 (Impact factor: 6.907)

  1. S. Nellaiappan, Nirmal Kumar Katiyar, R. Kumar, A. Parui, K. D. Malviya, K. G. Pradeep, A.K. Singh, S. Sharma, C.S. Tiwary and Krishanu Biswas, High-Entropy Alloys as Catalysts for the CO2 and CO2 Reduction Reactions: Experimental Realization, ACS Catalysis 10(6), 2020, 3658-3663 (Impact factor: 12.22)

  1. K. Tiwari, Krishanu Biswas, M. Palliwal, B. Majumdar, H. -J. Fecht, Melting behaviour of tri-phasic Bi44In32Sn23 alloy nanoparticle embedded in icosahedral quasicrystalline matrix. J. Alloys and Compounds, 834, 2020, 155160

  1. R. Sonkusare, Krishanu Biswas, N. Al-Hamdany, H.G.Brokmeier, R. Kalsar, N.P.Gurao , A critical evaluation of microstructure-texture-mechanical behavior heterogeneity in high pressure torsion processed CoCuFeMnNi high entropy alloy, Mater. Sc. & Engg. A, 782, 2020, 139187

  1. N. Katiyar et al., Formic acid and Methanol Electro-oxidation and Counter Hydrogen Production Using Nano High Entropy Catalyst, Materials Today Energy, 16, 2020, 100393

  1. P. Shrivastava, S.N. Alam, D.Panda, S.K.Sahoo. T.Maity and Krishanu Biswas, Effect of addition of multiwalled carbon nanotube/graphite nanoplatelets hybrid on the mechanical properties of aluminium, Diamond & Related Mater., 104, 2020, 107715

  1. S. S. Mishra, T. P. Yadav, O. N. Srivastava,, N. K. Mukhopadhyay, and Krishanu Biswas, Formation and stability of C14 type Laves phase in multi component high-entropy alloys, J. Alloys and Compounds, 832, 2020, 153764

  1. R. Sonkusare, R. Jain, Krishanu Biswas, and N.P.Gurao, High strain rate compression behaviour of single phase CoCuFeMnNi high entropy alloy, J. Alloys and Compounds, 823, 2020, 153763

  1. B. Sagar, R. Mukherjee and Krishanu Biswas, Comprehensive Experimental and Computational Study on Microstructural Evolution in Equiatomic Ti-Fe-Co-Ni-Cu Eutectic High Entropy Alloy, Philosophical Magazine Letters (provisionally accepted)