Professor Kamal K Kar
ACMS 208, ACMS 202
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ACMS 107
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Professor Y. N. Mohapatra
ACMS 110B
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Books in Departmental Library
*NOTE - Books are issued against Institute ID card.
Library In-charge - Mr. Somnath B. Danayak, Materials Science Instructional Laboratory, E-mail ID - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Ph. - 7819.
| S.No. | Book Title | Author | Quantity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Molybdenum Steel Iron alloys | Archer R.S., J.Z. Briggs, C.M. Loeb Jr. | 1 |
| 2 | Electronic processes in Materials | Azaroff L.V. and Brophy James J | 2 |
| 3 | Hi temperature superconductivity and other related topics | Baaquie, Chew, Lai, Oh and Phua | 1 |
| 4 | Alloying elements in steel | Bain E.C. and Harold W. Paxton | 1 |
| 5 | Processing of high Tc Superconductor: Magnetic interections | Bennett Flom and Vezzoli | 1 |
| 6 | Fundamental phenomina in the Materials Science | Bonis L.J., J.J. Duga and J.J. Gilman | 1 |
| 7 | The super 12% Cr steel | Briggs and Parkar | 1 |
| 8 | Applied metallurgy for Engineers | Burton M.S. | 3 |
| 9 | Morphogenesis | Bonner J.T. | 1 |
| 10 | Principles of manufacturing Materials and process | Campbell J.S. | 1 |
| 11 | Magnetism and metallurgy of soft magnetic materials | Chen C.W. | 1 |
| 12 | Molybdenum in stainless steel and alloys | Colombier L. | 1 |
| 13 | The mechanical properties of matter | A.H. Cottrell | 1 |
| 14 | Electrical enginnering materials | Dekker A.J. | 13 |
| 15 | Fundamental of manufacturing processes in Materials | Edger C | 23 |
| 16 | Statistical mechanics and dynamics | Eyring H. | 2 |
| 17 | Introduction to phase transformation in condensed system | Fine M.E. | 2 |
| 18 | Handbook of Chemistry and Physics | George Mahanty | 18 |
| 19 | Electrical transport and optical properties of inhomogeneous mdia | Garland and Tanner | 1 |
| 20 | P.C. interfacing for laboratory, data acquisition and process control | Gupta sanjay and Gupta J.P. | 1 |
| 21 | Hi temperature superconducting materials, preperation properties and processing | Hatfield Miller | 1 |
| 22 | Physics of engineering solids | Hutchinson and Bard | 1 |
| 23 | Helwett Packard (Measurement/Computation, 1982) | 1 | |
| 24 | Engineering Materials | Jastrzebski Z.D. | 7 |
| 25 | Solid State Physics for Metallurgist | Jweiss Richard | 2 |
| 26 | Current topics in Materials Science (Vol. 2) | Kaldis E. | 1 |
| 27 | Introduction to Solid State Physics | Kittel C. | 2 |
| 28 | Physics of low dimenssional systems | Lundquvist, Nesson | 1 |
| 29 | Molybdenum(Less common alloys of mo) | Manzone | 1 |
| 30 | Mechanical behavior of engineering Materials | Marin Joseph | 2 |
| 31 | The Mathematics of Physics and Chemistry | Margenan and Murphy | 4 |
| 32 | Rapidly quenched Materials (Vol 2) | Masumeto and Sujuki | 1 |
| 33 | High Tc superconductor | Mayo E. William | 1 |
| 34 | Mechanical behavior of Materials | Mc Clintok, Argon | 1 |
| 35 | Effective Teaching | Morris C. Fred | 30 |
| 36 | New developments in applied superconductivity | Murakami Y | 1 |
| 37 | Chemistry of high temperature superconductoes Vol II | Nelson George | 1 |
| 38 | Electromagnetic and quantam properties of Materials | Nussbaum A | 2 |
| 39 | Electronic and magnetic behavior in Materials | Nussbaum A | 1 |
| 40 | Materials in Industry | Patton W.J. | 1 |
| 41 | An atomistic approach to the nature and Properties of Materials | Pask | 1 |
| 42 | Physics of high Tc superconductoes | Phillips J.C. | 1 |
| 43 | Phase diagrams of ternary alloys | Raghavan V | 3 |
| 44 | Chemistry of oxide superconductoes | Rao C.N. | 1 |
| 45 | Thermodynamics | Reynolds | 1 |
| 46 | Engineering Materials Science | Richards C.W. | 2 |
| 47 | Introduction to modern Physics | Richtmyer K.L. McGraw Hill | 2 |
| 48 | Introduction to Properties of Materials | Rosenthal | 1 |
| 49 | Fundamentals of the working of metals | Sachs G. | 21 |
| 50 | Constitution of Bianary alloys | Shunk A. Francis | 1 |
| 51 | Chemistry | Sienko and Plane; McGraw Hill | 3 |
| 52 | Mathematics of Physics and modern engineering | Sokolnikaff, Redheffer | 3 |
| 53 | Modern Physics | Sproull R.L. | 5 |
| 54 | Elements of mechanical metallurgy | Tegral | 1 |
| 55 | Strength of materials, Part II | Tomoshenko | 4 |
| 56 | Chemical kinetics and surface and colloidal Chemistry | Trotman Dickeson | 1 |
| 57 | High Tc superconductor | Webber W | 1 |
| 58 | Materials and Energy | Wernick J.H. | 1 |
| 59 | The structure and properties of Materials, Vol II Vol III Vol IV | Woulff Brophy and Rose | 2 |
| 60 | Structure | Moffatt, Pearsall and Woulff | 1 |
| 61 | Transformation and hardenability in steel | Climax Mo Co. & University of Michigan | 2,2,2 |
| 62 | Solid State Physical electronics | Zeiel AVD | 2 |
| 63 | Structure of metals | Bever and Michaeles | 1 |
| 64 | The solis state for Engineers | Maurice J Sinnot Sc.D. | 1 |
| 65 | Structure of metals | Charles S., Barret T.B., massalski | 1 |
| 66 | Phase transformation in Materials | Romesh Chandre Sharma | 2 |
| 67 | Materials Science and Engineering | V. Raghavan | 2 |
| 68 | Zink oxide bulk thin film and nano structures: Processing, Properties and applicant Ions, Elsevier (2006) | C. Jagdish and S. Pearton (Editors) | 1 |
| 69 | Nano crystals forming mesoscopic structures - Elsevier(2006) | Marie - Panle Pileni (Editors) | 1 |
| 70 | Elements of Materials Science and engineering | Van Vlack | 1 |
| 71 | Concise Inorganic Chemistry | Lee | 1 |
| 72 | The Science and engineering of Materials | Askeland and Phule | 1 |
| 73 | Materials Science and Engineering : An Introduction | Callister | 3 |
| 74 | Physical foundation of Materials Science | Gottskein | 1 |
| 75 | Electrical Properties of Materials | Solymar, Walsh | 1 |
| 76 | Solid state electronic devices | Streetman, Banerjee | 2 |
| 77 | The physical principles of Magnetism | Allan H. Morrish | 1 |
| 78 | Elements of X ray diffraction | B.D. Cullity and S.R. Stock | 1 |
| 79 | Mesoscopic electronics in solid state nanostructures (II nd edition, Wiley-VCH) | Heinzel Tho | 1 |
| 80 | Diffusion in solids | Paul Shewmon | 1 |
| 81 | Physics of fundamental Materials | Fredriksson | 1 |
| 82 | Microstructural characterization of Materials (II Edition) | Brandon | 1 |
| 83 | Nanomaterials : An introduction to synthesis properties an application | Vollath Di | 1 |
| 84 | Introduction to magnetic materials | B.D. Cullity and C.S. Graham | 1 |
| 85 | Materials characterization techniques | Zhang, Lin Li and Ashok Kumar | 1 |
| 86 | Nanofabrication Principles, capabilities and limits | Zheng Cui | 1 |
| 87 | Handbook of Batteries/3rd Edi., Mcgraw Hill | Linden Davi | 1 |
| 88 | Lithium Batteries Science and Technology (Springer) | Nazri Ghola | 1 |
| 89 | Inorganic Materials Recent advances | Dhirendra Bahadur, Sabish Vitta and Omprakash | 1 |
| 90 | (a) Handbook of transparent conductors (b) Electronic thin film reliability | (a) Ginday; Springer (b) King Ning Tu | 1,1 |
| 91 | Nanostructures and nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties and applications (II edition) | G Cao and Y Wang | 1 |
| 92 | Titanium Dioxide | Winkler - 2003 (Vincentz) | 1 |
| 93 | Semi Conductor devices | S.M. Sze | 1 |
Experimental facilities in our programme
- UV-VIS double beam spectrophotometer (Hitachi 150-20)
- LCZ Meter (Hewlett Packard Model 4276A)
- Rockwell-type Hardness tester (Buehler Macromet 1)
- Electromagnet (Polytronic model HEM-75)
- Programmable electrometer/source (Keithley 617)
- Null detector/Microvoltmeter (Keithley 155)
- Optical metallography set-up (grinder, electric polisher, specimen mounting press, Leitz metallurgical microscope)
- Digital autoranging microvoltmeter (Keithley 197)
- Debye Scherrer, Oscillation and Laue cameras
- Strain meter
- Differential Thermal Analyzer (Linseis)
- Cryostat (Oxford Instrument )
- Minimet Polisher (Bueheler)
- Precision balance
- Moller interferometer
- Electrophoresis apparatus
- Optical spectrometer
- Gas lasers
- DPSS laser
- Hot and cold microscope stage
- Optical Microscopes
- CCD detector
- UHV e-beam evaporation unit
- RF sputtering unit
- Low temperature and high temperature electrical characterization system.
- Temperature controlled universal testing machine
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Atomic force microscopy
- Optical microscopy
- Two roll mixing mill
- High temperature hydraulic press
- Specimen cutting machine
- Hot isostatic press
- Micro hardness tester
- Chemical vapour deposition unit
- Brabender plastic order
- High temperature furnace
- Environmental controlled high temperature furnace
- Sonicator
- Differential scanning calorimeter
- Differential thermal analyzer
- Dynamic mechanical analyzer
- Goodrich flexometer
- Fatigue tester
Welcome Message
Welcome to the website of the Interdisciplinary Programme on Materials Science at IIT Kanpur. This interdisciplinary initiative was started more than 50 years back to encourage people from varied backgrounds to collaborate and come up with an academic programme to train manpower for harnessing the potential of materials to power our technological growth. The technologies of today use a large variety of materials with tailor-made properties, and stringent demands on performance much beyond that can be obtained from naturally occurring materials. Read More...
Prof. Raj Ganesh S. Pala
Head, Materials Science Programme
Email: headmsp@iitk.ac.in
- Ms. Sarika Yadav, working under the guidance of Prof. Raj Ganesh S. Pala, has been highly commended for presenting a 3-minute video entitled "Artificial Intelligence for Artificial Taste Sensing" in 'WiSe Video Competition' at IEEE BioSensors 2024, Cambridge, U.K.
- Mr. Gaurav Kumar, working under the guidance of Prof. Siddhartha Panda, was awarded "The First Prize" for the oral presentation at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials (ETCEAM-2024), held at Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, Ranchi, from December 13 to December 15, 2024.
- Ms. Namrata Pachauri, working under the guidance of Prof. Sri Sivakumar, was honored with the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Chemical Reaction Engineering Symposium (CRE-2024), held at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, from December 5th to 7th, 2024.
- Ms. Preeti Sati, working under the guidance of Prof. Sri Sivakumar, received an Oral Presentation Prize in the "Young Researcher Award" category at the European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting (E-MRS) 2024 held in Strasbourg, France.
- Ms. Jyoti Yadav Conducted one session on design and fabrication of meta materials for strategic applications as speaker in Hands-on training workshop (Kaaryashala) MechMicroFab-2022 organized by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
- Ms. Jyoti Yadav working under the joint supervision of Prof . J. Ramkumar and Prof. K.V. Srivastava received the best paper award in All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research (AIMTDR 2023). The international conference was organized from December 8 to 10, 2023 at the Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi. The talk was titled "Fabrication Process Development of a Three-Dimensionally Rotated FSS Unit Cell for Wide-Angle Microwave Absorbers."
- Mr. Gaurav Kumar under the supervision of Prof. Siddhartha Panda has received the Best Poster Presentation Prize at SPSI-MACRO-2023 Conference held during 10 to December 13, 2023 at IIT Guwahati.
- Aritra Mukherjee (M.Tech. Student, MSP) working under the supervision of Prof. M. Jaleel Akhtar has received the Academic Excellence Award in M.Tech.( 2022 and 2023)
- Sugandha Singh (Ph.D. Student, MSP) working under joint supervision of Prof. Manas K. Ghorai and Prof. Kamal K. Kar, Journal Back cover selected and published in J. Mater. Chem. A. vol. 11, pp 8406-840, April 2023. DOI: 10.1039/D3TA90074F
- Selected Candidates in Ph. D. programme 2023-24- First Semester Result
- Mr. Harish Kumar (Ph.D. Student, MSP) has received Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF), working under joint supervision of Prof. Rajeev Gupta, Prof. Arunabh Meshram.
- Mr. Jitendra Tahalyani (Ph.D. Student, MSP) working under joint supervision of Prof. M. Jaleel Akhtar and Prof. Kamal K. Kar has received the Best Student Paper Award (Male Category) at the IEEE Microwave, Antennas, and Propagation Conference, held during December 12-14, 2022 at Bangalore.
- Mr. Jitendra Tahalyani (Ph.D. Student, MSP) working under joint supervision of Prof. M. Jaleel Akhtar and Prof. Kamal K. Kar has received the First Prize in Ph.D. Student Initiative Category at the IEEE International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), held during December 17-19, 2021 at IIT Kanpur.
- MSP Brochure
- Admission Notice for PhD and M. Tech Programmes 2025-26-I Semester New
- List of shortlisted candidates for Ph. D. Admission Interview: 2024-25-II sem
- Result of walk-in Interviews/ Online Interview Held on 01/07/2024.
- Ph.D. Admissions: Walk-in Interviews/online Interview (2024-2025-I Semester)
- Selected Candidates in Ph. D. programme 2024-25- First Semester
- List of Applicants shortlisted for the Ph. D. Personal Interview
- List of Candidates who submitted their fees within the stipulated date for the Ph. D./ M. Tech. programme 2023-24- First Semester
- Selected Candidates in Ph. D. programme 2023-24- First Semester Result
- Admission Notice for PhD/MTech/MDes/MS(By Research)/DIIT Programmes 2022-23-I Semester
- For all admission enquiry:
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- A. Choudhary, J. Tahalyani and M. J. Akhtar, “Barium strontium titanate and exfoliated graphite nanocomposite integrated with frequency selective surface for enhanced radar absorption,” Mater. Today Commun. Vol 42, no. December 2024, p.11494, 2025,
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2025.111494 - J. Yadav, Kajal Chaudhary, K. V. Srivastava, and J. Ramkumar, "Fabrication Process Development of a Three Dimensionally Rotated FSS Unit Cell for Wide-Angle Microwave Absorbers," All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR), Varanasi, India, December 8-10,2023.
Offline printing of proceedings - J. Yadav, M. Saikia, K. V. Srivastava, and J. Ramkumar, "Three-Dimensional Rotation of FSS Unit Cell in Broadband Microwave Absorber for Large Oblique Incidence Response," IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 1320-1328, Oct. 2023.
DOI:10.1109/TEMC.2023.3288351. - J. Yadav, M. Saikia, K. V. Srivastava, and J. Ramkumar, "Miniaturized Metamaterial Absorber Using Lossy Effective Dielectric-Medium and Resistive Metasurface," International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META), Paris, France, July 18-21, 2023.
Offline printing of proceedings - J. Yadav, M. Saikia, K. V. Srivastava, and J. Ramkumar, "Design and Material Selection of Hexagon Inspired Dielectric Resonator Based Microwave Metamaterial Absorber," International Conference on Precision, Micro, Meso and Nano Engineering, COPEN-12, IIT Kanpur, India, December 8-10, 2022.
Offline printing of proceedings - J. Yadav, R. Vishwakarma, M. Saikia, K. V. Srivastava, and J. Ramkumar, "Enhancement of Oblique Incidence Performance of a Microwave Absorber Using Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator," IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON), Bengaluru, India, December 12-15, 2022.
DOI: 10.1109/MAPCON56011.2022.10047224 - R. Vishwakarma, J. Yadav, M. Saikia, A. Verma, and K. V. Srivastava, "Low-Cost Polarization Insensitive L Band FSS Absorber Based on Screen Printing Technique," IEEE Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation Conference (MAPCON), Bengaluru, India, December 12-15, 2022.
DOI: 10.1109/MAPCON56011.2022.10047504 - Sugandha Singh, Manas K. Ghorai, Kamal K. Kar, Cobalt Nanoparticle-Modified π-Conjugated Mesoporous Polymers for Electrocatalysis, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2023, 6, 15, 14011–14018, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.3c01849
- Sugandha Singh, Manas K. Ghorai, Kamal K. Kar, A cobalt harnessed phenanthroline and triphenylamine-based conjugated mesoporous polymer designed by a donor-acceptor approach for trifunctional electrocatalysis, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023, 11, 20290-20301, DOI: 10.1039/D3TA02847J
- Sugandha Singh, Manas K. Ghorai, Kamal K. Kar, Exploration of Cobalt (II) modification in Phenanthroline-based conjugated organic polymer towards trifunctional electrocatalysis, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024, 12, 2400-2412, DOI:10.1039/D3TA04961B
- A tri-functional electrocatalyst and a process for preparing the same. Manas K. Ghorai, Kamal Krishna Kar, Sugandha Singh, Manish Kumar, Debabrata Samanta, Indian Patent, Application no: 202211022868 A, 19 April 2022, Patent number: 452907, Granted.
- A trifunctional electrocatalyst and process for synthesis thereof. Manas K. Ghorai, Kamal Krishna Kar, Sugandha Singh, Manish Kumar, Debabrata Samanta, Indian Patent, Application no: 202211035408, 21 June 2022, Patent number: 462768, Granted.
- Sugandha Singh, Manas K. Ghorai, Kamal K. Kar, Front cover selected and published in Royal Society of Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023, 11, 20275-20275, DOI: doi.org/10.1039/D3TA90208K
- Sugandha Singh, Manas K. Ghorai, Kamal K. Kar, Supplementary cover selected and published in American Chemical Society, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2023, 6, 15, 13732-14620, https://pubs.acs.org/toc/aanmf6/6/15#
Alumni Messages
I was admitted in the Material Science Programme Department (MSP), IIT Kanpur as a PhD student in December2013. My work has been started in the direct supervision of Prof. M. Jaleel Akhtar and finished the thesis entitled “Development of Efficient RF Energy Harvesting Circuits for Low Power Applications” in October 2019.
With the vibrant, robust, and inclusive environment and world class research facilities, the MSP department has made research-intensive roots in the career of students. There is nowhere better place than IIT Kanpur to research the unknown and the unanswered prospects. Apart from the research, involvement of students in the extracurricular activities makes them move forward by engaging in respectful position at some reputed organisation.
Joining IIT Kanpur was one of the best decisions that I took. Material Science Programme provided me the exposure to inter disciplinary subjects and a plethora of knowledge to gain from them. The department aims at providing students with problem solving skills while working on real life challenges, which was the crux of my thesis work. The faculty is very helpful for all and any queries and believes in directing the students to reach their objective, rather than simply spoon feeding the solution. They have helped in strengthening my academic rigour and persistence for finding a solution instead of giving up.
“MSP is the culmination of ideas of basic sciences and engineering principles which makes it unique. It has flavours of physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, electronics/electrical engineering. It helps one to move beyond their comfort zone and dive into an interdisciplinary field of study, which is very much the need of the time. With programs like DAAD one can also get an international exposure and I was lucky to be the recipient of such an award.”
I had a great time at MSP, IIT Kanpur. The support that I received from the faculties and staff helped me shape my career. The best part about MSP is its interdisciplinary nature where we get to learn about different streams in one course.
My experience in the IIT Kanpur, MSP was tremendous. I found the course curriculum to be very challenging but rewarding. My degree in Material Science provided an ideal blend to develop analytical thinking and play around with data. I had many professors in the college who inspired my best efforts and who helped me a lot. The great emphasis on practical learning had helped me to sharpen my skills.
“I had joined the Master’s Program at IIT Kanpur in 2K14 immediately after completing my graduation. MSP being an interdisciplinary department not only offered diversity in learning but also enabled me on a personal level to meet some of the brilliant minds of India as course mates. Be it the guidance of professors or inputs from the course mates, each and every discussion added value to my skill-set which helped me evolve as an individual and assisted me with my professional journey since then. I started off my professional journey with Reach Ivy as Innovation Officer (Campus Placement), then joined a Noida based start-up MGINNE as Marketing and Product Manager and then joined Byjus where initially I was working in Business Development segment and lately started looking after Strategy and Operations of state UP for Byjus. For each milestone I have achieved, I owe my journey of learnings I had as a postgrad student at IIT Kanpur. Foremost I am immensely thankful to all the professors and my batch mates. MSP offers you everything you aspire for. It certainly is one of the best departments across IITs.”
“Two years at IITK were delightful as well as a great learning experience. The education and the vision provided by faculties at MSP are still turning out to be crucial for my current tenure. My time with my friends at IITK was memorable, developing into long-standing friendships.”
