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Hello!
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
Updates
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Suman , Saurav joined as a Ph.D. student in the group.
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Sarang joined the group for his UG thesis.
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Shashidhar joined the group for their Master's thesis.
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Abdulla Samin M V joined the group for his UG thesis.
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Dova Kalyan joined the group for his Ph.D. thesis.
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Nithin Baler joined the group as NPDF.





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
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