• Padaikathan defended his thesis titled "Development of High Temperature Aluminium alloys through Microstructure Control".

• Saurabh defended his thesis titled "Study on development of aluminium based Metal Matrix Composite using Friction Stir Processing (FSP) technique".

• Prof. Chattopadhyay celebrated his 66^th birthday with the group.
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• Surendra defends his thesis titled "Improvement in high temperature strength of Al and Co alloys with L1₂ type coherent precipitates".
• Dhanalakshmi defends her thesis titled “Synthesis and phase transformation studies of Al₄₅Mn₅₅ ferromagnetic Heusler alloy”.

• Prafull's entry was awarded the 2^nd prize in Metallography Contest under the TEM category in the 29^th Annual Students Symposium held on 21^st and 22^nd January 2016 in the department.
  
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• The lab group went to a one day trip to Mekedatu.
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• Kartik joins the group for his bachelor's project.

• Femi defended his thesis titled "Microstructure design and interfacial effect on thermoelectric properties of Bi-Sb-Te ternary system".

• Sukla defended her thesis titled "Improving high temperature strength of 2219 aluminium alloy by minor alloying additions".

• Khushbu joins the group as a research associate.

• Prof. Chattopadhyay has been awarded the IIM Platinum Medal by the Indian Institute of Metals during the 53^rd National Metallurgist Day celebrations held in Coimbatore from 13^th to 16^th November 2015.
  

• Our group's article features in the 50^th anniversary special issue of the Journal of Materials Science. Click here for the link.
  

• Rima Paul joins the group as a Research Associate. She is here as a UGC-Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow.
  

• Our alumni and present collaborator, Dr. Chandan Srivastava has been awarded the NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award for the year 2015 by the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). Click here for the notification.
  

• Our collaborator Prof. Vikram Jayaram succeeds Prof. Chattopadhyay as the Chair of Mechanical Sciences Divison at the institute.
• Another of our collaborator Prof. T. A. Abinandanan has been appointed as the chairman of our department.

• Our alumni, Dr. Chitralekha Jacob, visited the group.
  
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• Prof. Chattopadhyay has been conferred the Honourary Professorship at the institute.
• Armanda Shanmukha Kiran joins the group for his PhD. He will be jointly supervised by Prof. Chattopadhyay and Dr. Abhik N Chaudhury.
  
• Mahander Pratap Singh joins the group for his PhD (registered at ICER). He will be jointly supervised by Prof. Chattopadhyay, Dr. Vijay A Sethuraman and Prof. Bikramjit Basu.
• Sarvesh joins the group for his PhD.

• Prof. Chattopadhyay superannuates from the institute upon attaining 65 years of age.
  

• Prafull clears his comprehensive examination.
  

• Hema clears her comprehensive examination.
  
• The department organised a felicitation ceremony on occasion of Prof. Chattopadhyay's superannuation on 31^stJuly 2015.
  
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• Saurabh finishes his thesis colloquium.
  

• Our group's work features on www.materials360online.com, a website dedicated to materials science news maintined jointly by the Materials Research Society and Cambridge University Press. (Click here for details).
  

• A two day symposium titled "Metastable Microstructures and Electron Microscopy", was organised in honour of Prof. Chattopadhyay by his former and current students. Click here for details.
  
• The current students of the group prepared a video titled "a Metallurgist's Diary" on this occasion encompassing Prof. Chattopadhyay's journey over the years. (Click here for a direct link)

• Suman finishes his thesis colloquium.
  

• Our group's work features on Nature India's website (Click here).
  

• Namrata Majumdar, a second year undergraduate student of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad joins us for her summer internship.
  

• Semanti Mukhopadhyay, a third year undergraduate student of Department of Materials Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur joins us as a Indian Acadamy of Science Summer Research Fellow.
  

• Our group's work features on the institute website's Research Highlight section (Click here). Leading science magazines Scientific American and Popular Science also covered the work in their latest issues (Click here and here).

• Our group's work features in May issue of Connect, institute's bimonthly newsletter.

• Dhanalakshmi finishes her thesis colloquium
• Surendra took the lab group out for dinner.
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• Dulal defends his thesis titled "Dense and Porous SiC Ceramics processed through Aqueous Gel-Casting and Studies of Densification Kinetics".

• Sanjay joins the group as a Research Associate.

• Our group's work was featured on the institute website's Research Highlights section (Click here).

• Mrs and Prof Chattopadhyay invited the group to their residence for new year's lunch.
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• Chaitali joins the group for her ME.

• Chandrasekhar's farewell treat to the group.
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• Surendra presented at Future of Materials Research: Way Ahead, a symposium held at Orange County, Coorg, Karnataka from 3^rd December to 5^th December 2014. Dhanalakshmi, Sukla, Saurabh, Prafull and Abhishek also attended the symposium.

• Prof Chattopadhyay has been awarded the Honarary Membership of the Indian Institute of Metals.

• Chandrasekhar defended his thesis titled "Study of Microstructural, Mechanical and Oxidation Behaviour of Ni-Al-Zr alloys"

• Vilas finishes his thesis colloqium.

• Shyam took the lab group out for dinner.
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• Surendra finishes his thesis colloquium.

• Femi finishes his thesis colloquium.

• Kirtiman defends his thesis titled "Synthesis of multiphase nanoparticles by laser ablation in liquid medium and their characterization"
• Sidharada took the lab group out for dinner.
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• Prof. Chattopadhyay took the lab group out for dinner.
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• Sidharada defends his thesis titled "Synthesis and characterization of Intermetallic and Quasi approximants coatings processed by laser Cladding and Novel ball milling approach"

• Saurabh Mohan Das joins the group for his PhD.
• Shriparna Mukherjee joins the group for her PhD. She will be jointly supervised by Prof. Chattopadhyay and Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mallik, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science.

• Shailesh defends his thesis titled "Study on Friction Welding of Thixocast A356 Aluminium alloy"

• Sravani Pappu, a third year undergraduate student of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from NIT Warangal joins us for her summer internship.
  
  
• Sandhya Susarla, a third year undergraduate student of Metallurgical Engineering from IIT (BHU) joins us as a Indiian Acadamy of Science Summer Research Fellow.
  
  

• Althaf defends his thesis titled "Phase Transformation Behaviour of Embedded Bimetallic Nanoscaled Alloy Particles in Immiscible Matrices"

• Sukla finishes her thesis colloqium.

• Indian National Science Academy has chosen Mithun for its INSA Medal for Young Scientists 2014. Clich here for the notification.

• Lab trip to Club Cabana on occaassion of Convocation of Mithun, Chandan and Madhawan.

• Prof. Chattopadhyay celebrated his 64^th birthday with the group.
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• Shyam defended his thesis titled "Synthesis and transformation of AuCu intermetallic nanoparticles"

6^th January 2014

• Amit joins the group for his ME.

4^th October 2013

• Dulal presented his thesis colloquium.

27^thSeptember 2013

• Prof. Bikramjit Basu, an alumunus of the group and currently Associate Professor, Materials Research Center has been awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Sciences for the year 2013. Click here for the notification.
  

• In house symposium cum Lab group picnic was organized by the lab group from 16th August to 18th August 2013 at Akasa Getaways, Biligiriranga Hills, Karnataka.
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• Chandan defended his thesis titled "Evolution of Texture and its Correlation with Microstructure and Mechanical Property Anisotropy in AA7010 aluminium alloy"

• Professor Chattopadhyay has been appointed the President of the Indian Institute of Metals for the year 2013-2014.
• Prafull rejoins the group for his PhD.

• Shalini clears her comprehensive exam.

• Sherine clears her comprehensive exam.

• Swapnil Agarwal from IIT Kanpur joins us for her summer internship.
• Sharan Kishore from SASTRA University, Thanjavur joins us for his summer internship.
  
  

• Mithun defended his thesis titled "An Investigation on effect of structural and microstructural attribute on magnetostriction of Tb- Dy-Fe and Fe-Ga alloy". Click here for his thesis.
• Shivangi Sahu from National Institute of Technology Rourkela joins us for her summer internship as a Science Academies' Summer Research Fellow.
  

3^rd May 2013

• Shailesh presented his thesis colloquium.

2^ndMay 2013

• Dr. V. A. Ravi, Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, and an alumni of the group has been chosen to receive the third annual Provost's Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activites. Click here for details.
  

26^th April 2013

• Padaikathan presented his thesis colloquium.

• Shyam presented his thesis colloquium.

• Chandrasekhar presented his thesis colloquium.

• Sidharda presented his thesis colloquium.

• Surendra was awarded the 1^st prize in TEM category and Kirtiman was awarded 1^st prize in SEM category in the Metallography contest during the 26^th Student's Symposium held in the department from 17^th-18^th January 2013.
  
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• Mrs and Professor Chattopadhyay invited the group for lunch at their residence.
  
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2^nd January 2013

• Chandan joins the group for his Masters of Engineering.
  

• Professor Chattopadhyay has been appointed the Convenor of the the newly eshtablished Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Research at the institute.
  

• Prof N. Ravishankar, an alumnus of the group and present collaborator has been awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Sciences for the year 2012. Click here for the notification.
  

• The XI^th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials (NANO 2012) was held at Rhodes Island, Greece from 26^th to 31^st August 2012. While Professor Chattopadhyay was an invited speaker, Surendra, Kirtiman, Shyam and Padaikathan also presented their work at the conference.
  
  
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• P. Sireesha joined the group as a Doctoral student.

1^st August 2012

• Chandan has been awarded the annual Acta Student award for his paper (Formation of a single, rotated-brass {110}<556> texture by hot-cross rolling of an Al-Zn-Cu-Mg-Zr alloy, Scripta Materialia, Vol 64, Issue 5, March 2011, Pages 446-449). Click here for the public announcement.

• Saurabh clears his comprehensive exam.
• Chandan finishes his thesis colloqium.

• Dhanalakshmi clears her comprehensive examination