Niraj Mohan Chawake  
		             (PhD, IIT Madras) 
					 Assistant Professor, Department of MSE
					 Email: nchawake@iitk.ac.in
                     Office: Faculty Building 417  
 Phone: +91 512 259 2181  
					 
					 
Specialization:
Creep, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Solid-State Sintering
Areas of Interest:
High-temperature alloys, Severe plastic deformation, Alloy design, in-situ deformation, structure-property correlation
Recent Publications   | 
					- Creep Deformation of a Composite of Dual-Phase Medium Entropy Alloys
					  A Kumar, S Kumar, J Kumari, S Kumari, D Kumar, N ChawakeJOM, 1-9, 2025
 - How Does Powder Metallurgy Facilitate the Preparation of Intermetallics and High-Entropy Alloys?
                      P Sathiyamoorthi, NM Chawake, 2024
 - High entropy alloy design concept enabled emerging novel materials with enhanced mechanical properties
			          P Sathiyamoorthi, N Chawake, A Zargaran, RS KottadaFrontiers in Materials 10, 1162346, 2023
 - Heterogeneous microstructure in nonequiatomic MoNbTaVW refractory high entropy alloy after high pressure torsion: evolution mechanisms and mechanical properties
			          A Raturi, N Chawake, K Biswas, NP GuraoMaterials Science and Engineering: A 864, 144530, 2023
 - Effect of high pressure torsion on crystallization and magnetic properties of Fe73. 9Cu1Nb3Si15. 5B6. 6
			          M Antoni, F Spieckermann, V Soprunyuk, N Chawake, B Sarac, J Zálešák, ...Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials 525, 167679, 2021
 
Awards and Fellowships
- Best paper award, International Symposium for Research Scholars (ISRS) 2014, IIT Madras, India.
 - Best paper award, International Symposium for Research Scholars (ISRS) 2012, IIT Madras, India.
 - Best poster presentation award, National Metallurgists' Day-Annual Technical Meeting (NMD-ATM) 2011, Hyderabad, India.
 
