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Welcome to our Alloy3Dlab group page. We work on a range of materials for engineering applications such as aerospace, automobiles, etc. We manipulate structures at the atomic-scale by elemental additions to design new materials with improved properties. The main areas are Superalloys (Co- and Ni-based), Light Metal Alloys (Al- and Mg-based), and other engineering alloys such as Cu-based, High entropy alloys, etc. Additionally, with advanced microscopy characterization methods, we correlate the effect of local structure and compositional changes directly to the material strength and creep properties.

For more details and specific research topics, you can go through our website and publications.

Recent Publications

Design of low mass density γ/γ′ CoNi-based superalloys with promising high-temperature mechanical properties”, Physical Review Materials, 2021

Chemical Heterogeneity enhances hydrogen resistance in high-strength steels”, Nature Materials, 2021

Atom Probe Tomography, Nature Review Methods Primers, 2021.

Precipitation formation on sigma 5 and sigma 7 grain boundaries in 316L stainless steel and their role on intergranular corrosion, Acta Materialia, 2021.

Updates

Suman , Saurav joined as a Ph.D. student in the group.

Sarang joined the group for his UG thesis.

Shashidhar joined the group for their Master's thesis.

Abdulla Samin M V joined the group for his UG thesis.

Dova Kalyan joined the group for his Ph.D. thesis.

Nithin Baler joined the group as NPDF.

RESEARCH

Cobalt-Based Superalloys

Nickel-Based Superalloys

Aluminium-Based Superalloys

Mechanical Behavior

Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)

Magnesium-Based Alloys

Atom Probe Tomography (APT)

Correlative Microscopy (APT/TEM)

Solute-Defect Interactions

New Alloy Design

Deformation Mechanisms

EDUCATION

Projects

2021-2023: ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell (Rs. 20,01,000)

Optimization of heat treatment and characterization of Superalloys

Principal Investigator (PI): Dr. Surendra Kumar Makineni, IISc Bangalore

Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PI): Dr. Govind Bajargan, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram

Dr. Alok Agarwal, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram

2021-2026: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft to establish a MPG-IISc Partner Group ( Approx. Rs. 86,00,000)

Environmental degradation of high-temperature materials in service conditions

: Partner Group Head: Dr. Surendra Kumar Makineni, IISc Bangalore

Partner Collaborators: Professor Dierk Raabe, MPIE, Dusseldorf

Professor Baptiste Gault, MPIE, Dusseldorf

June 2021-June 2026

Head MPG-IISc Partner Group

Department of Materials Engineering

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Bangalore-560012

India

June 2016-December 2019

Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow

Postdoctoral Scientist

Department of Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design,

Max Plank Institute for Iron Research

Dusseldorf-40237

Germany

Surendra Kumar Makineni

Assistant Professor

Department of Materials Engineering

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Bangalore-560012, India

Phone No: +91 80 2293 3706

Email: skmakineni@iisc.ac.in

May 2015-April 2016

Postdoctoral Scientist

January 2010-April 2015

Doctor of Philosophy

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor-48109

USA

Department of Materials Engineering

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Bangalore-560012

India

July 2003-April 2007

Bachelor of Technology

Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Rourkela-769008

India

PROJECTS

GROUP

Our People

Nithin B

Ph.D. - 2020

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras

M.Tech - 2013

Mechanical Engineering, SIT Tumakuru

B.Tech - 2011

Mechanical Engineering, VTU Belgaum

National Post-Doc Fellow

Email: nithinbaler@gmail.com

Hemant Kumar

M.Tech - 2018

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, MNIT Jaipur

B.Tech - 2016

Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, UIET Kanpur

Ph.D. Student

Email: hemantkumar12@iisc.ac.in

Srilekshmi M

M.Tech - 2019

Process Control, GEC Thrissur

B.Tech - 2017

Chemical Engineering, GEC Kozhikode

Ph.D. Student

Email: srilekshmim@gmail.com

Akshat Godha

B.Tech - 2019

Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, NIFFT Ranchi

Ph.D. Student

Email: akshatgodha@iisc.ac.in

Dova Kalyan

M.Tech - 2020

Metallurgical Engineering, IIT-BHU Varanasi

B.Tech - 2017

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, RGUKT Nuzvid

Ph.D. Student

Email: kalyand@iisc.ac.in

Suman Sadhu

M.Tech - 2020

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Kharagpur

B.Tech - 2018

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Jadavpur University

Ph.D. Student

(Jointly with Professor Aloke Paul)

Email: sumansadhu@iisc.ac.in

Saurav Maji

M.Tech - 2021

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Kharagpur

B.Tech - 2020

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, NIT Durgapur

Ph.D. Student

Email: sauravmaji@iisc.ac.in

ShashiDhar G

B.Tech - 2018

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, NIT Warangal

M.Tech Student

Email: sashidharg@iisc.ac.in

Abdulla Samin M V

B.Sc- Ongoing

Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore

Under-Graduate BS Student

Email: abdullasmv@iisc.ac.in

Sarang

B.Sc- Ongoing

Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore

Under-Graduate BS Student

Email: jitendriyap@iisc.ac.in

Jitendriya Praharaj

B.Sc- Ongoing

Materials Engineering, IISc Bangalore

Under-Graduate BS Student

Email: jitendriyap@iisc.ac.in