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January 2025 - Shriya Mahapatra receives Asha Navani PhD Fellowship. Congratulations !

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Anubhav Jain joins our group as part of IITB-Monash Academy joint PhD program. He is jointly supervised by Prof. Sebastian Thomas from Monash. Welcome!

 

December 2024 - Our collaborative work with Prof. Indradev Samajdar and Prof. Ajay Singh Panwar, "Origin of hydrogen embrittlement in ferrite-martensite dual-phase steel" is published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Congratulations Rasmi Ranjan Tripathy!

 

Rasmi Ranjan Tripathy' work "Cathodic oxygen reduction kinetics at an organic coating/iron interface using a combined hydrogen permeation based potentiometry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy technique" is accepted in Corrosion Science. Link to the published version soon, Congratulations!

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Prof. Vijayshankar Dandapani gave an invited lecture on "Role of surface passive films on electrochemical hydrogen permeation in steels" as part of AWC 2024, Symposium on Water Chemistry and Corrosion in Nuclear Power Plants in Asia, held in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. Sundaresan Chandramohan presented his work on "Alloy 304HCu and Sanicro 25: Tale of the oxidation behaviours of two austenitic stainless steels in Advanced Ultra-Supercritical steam" at the same conference.

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November 2024 - Prof. Vijayshankar Dandapani delivered a lecture on "Hydrogen Permeation based Potentiometry and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy to measure Oxygen Reduction Kinetics" as part of IITB-IoE-SCPP Workshop on Experimental and Machine Learning Aspects of Material Failure under Cyclic Loading and Hydrogen Environments.

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Prof. Vijayshankar Dandapani (PI) with Prof. MP Gururajan (Co-PI) and Prof. NJ Balila (Co-PI) receive funding from Centre of Excellence in Oil, Gas and Energy (CoEOGE), IIT Bombay to work on the Mission Mode project "Quantifying impact of hydrogen permeation through pipeline steel weldments with computational phase field modelling for safe and reliable blended hydrogen gas transport". The work will be in collaboration with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL) and Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL). 

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HSBC-IITB Green Hydrogen Programme granted project in the news - ETNOW, ET.

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October 2024 - Sundaresan Chandramohan presented his work on "Sanicro 25: A promising austenitic stainless steel alloy for Advanced Ultra Supercritical Steam (AUSC) oxidation environments" at the 22nd International Corrosion Congress 2024, Xi'an, China.

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A DST project on "Steam side corrosion studies on Inconel 740 Tube Material for AUSC boilers" with Prof VS Raja as PI has been approved.

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September 2024 - Keerthiga Ganesan and Amal Sibi present their respective work on " Effect of Flow Rate of Simulated Human Physiological Fluid in Corrosion of a Magnesium (Mg) Alloy, ZK60 " and " Investigating stress corrosion cracking of ZK60 Mg alloy in a simulated physiological fluid environment" at EUROCORR '24 held in Paris, France.

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Rasmi Ranjan Tripathy, Sudha Gautam and Sundaresan Chandramohan present contributory talks at the 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Materials Engineering and Technology & Advances in Heat Treatment organized by ASM International India Chapter in Mumbai.

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Sudha Gautam has been selected for the Sakura Science Exchange program to visit University of Tsukuba, Japan during Dec 2024. She will work with Prof. Takahiro Kondo and Prof. Takeaki Sakurai.

 

August 2024 - Prof. Vijayshankar Dandapani receives funding from 6th BRICS STI Framework Programme Call 2023: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation to work on the project "Delamination damages in pipelines transporting hydrogen and CO2-H2O mixtures due to oxide reduction".

 

July 2024 - Sudha Gautam presents a poster/flash presentation of her work on hydrogen embrittlement at the International Conference on Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, IISc Bangalore.

 

Rasmi Ranjan Tripathy presents his work at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Seminar (GRS) - Aqueous Corrosion,  New London, USA.

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Priyam Roy joins the group as a PhD candidate, welcome !

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June 2024 - Vivek presents his Master' thesis "Development of Line Pipe Steel Grades for Hydrogen Transportation Pipeline". Aarushi and Dwij present their DD projects titled "Effect of Cathodic Polarisation on External Corrosion of Coated Pipeline Steel Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscospy" and "Interface Characterization of Coated Pipeline Steel" respectively. Congratulations on successful completion!

 

Prof. Vijayshankar Dandapani receives funding from IITB HSBC Green Hydrogen Programme to work on damage resistant coatings for hydrogen transport.

 

Sundaresan publishes in Corrosion Science, Congratulations!

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Shriya visits French Corrosion Institute and University of Brest as part of the Indo-French CEFIPRA project.

 

March 2024 - Rasmi Ranjan Tripathy awarded AMPP EMERG India scholarship, Congratulations!

 

November 2023 - Vijayshankar Dandapani gave an invited lecture online as part of CORR Seminar Series organised by Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH.

 

September 2023 - Cover feature of the published work on "Revealing the Impact of Particle Size Distribution on Ageing of Lithium-Ion Batteries with Frequency Response Analysis" in Batteries & Supercaps. News featured.

 

August 2023 - Sundaresan presents his work "Study of the Oxidation Behavior of Alloy 304HCu in Advanced Ultra-Supercritical Steam Environment" at the National Symposium on Electrochemical Science and Technology at ARCI Hyderabad.

 

Sundaresan Chandramohan and Rasmi Ranjan Tripathy present their respective work on "Oxidation Behaviour of Austenitic Stainless Steel 304HCu in Advanced Ultra Supercritical Steam" and "Organic Coating/Metal Interfacial Degradation Kinetics Study by Using Combined Novel Hydrogen Permeation Potentiometry & Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Technique" at EUROCORR '23 held in Brussels, Belgium.

 

July 2023 - Vivek, Aarushi and Dwij join the group to work on their Master's and Dual degree projects respectively.

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Rasmi Ranjan Tripathy' work is presented as a research highlight and picked up by coating industry news - Paint Square, Special Chem.

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Vijayshankar Dandapani' work in collaboration with TU Braunschweig and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, "Revealing the Impact of Particle Size Distribution on Ageing of Lithium-Ion Batteries with Frequency Response Analysis" is published in Batteries & Supercaps.

 

June 2023 - Keerthiga publishes "Polymeric Coatings for Magnesium Alloys for Biodegradable Implant Application: A Review " in Materials, MDPI. Nominated for Best Paper Award by Materials MDPI. Congratulations!

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Uday and Lavakumar defend their M.Tech thesis successfully. Goodluck in your future endeavors.

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As part of the Indo-French CEFIPRA grant, Vijayshankar Dandapani visited the French Corrosion Institute and University of Brest, France.

 

April 2023 - Rasmi Ranjan Tripathy' work "Combined Hydrogen Potentiometry and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Approach for Quantification of Oxygen Reduction Kinetics at Buried Metal/Organic Coating Interfaces" is accepted in Journal of the Electrochemical Society (JES). Link to the published version soon !

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March 2023 - Keerthiga receives AMPP EMERG India scholarship. Congratulations !

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Jan 2023 - Keerthiga presented her work "Grain size distribution in ZK60 Mg alloy affects corrosion rate in passivating and non-passivating conditions", at Advances in Structural Alloys and Their Manufacturing (ASATM) conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

 

Nov 2022 - Vijayshankar Dandapani gives an Invited Talk on "Organic Coating Degradation Kinetics Quantified using a Novel Hydrogen Permeation Potentiometry and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Approach" at the International Conference and Exhibition on Materials Engineering and Technology & Advances in Heat Treatment organized by ASM International India Chapter in Mumbai.

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July 2022 - Vijayshankar Dandapani chairs the session on Corrosion of Magnesium alloys at the 2nd Corrosion and Materials Degradation Web Conference organised by the MDPI open access journal Corrosion and Materials Degradation (CMD).

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Lavakumar and Uday join our group to pursue their Master' theses. Welcome!

 

June 2022 - Akhil and Aditya defend their Dual-Degree theses on "Localised corrosion behaviour of aluminium containing Cantor alloys" and "Magnetic field enhanced electro catalytic water oxidation using zinc-iron oxides" respectively. Archit defends his Master' thesis on "Prediction of organic coating delamination using machine learning". Congratulations to each one of you!

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Rasmi Ranjan Tripathy presented a talk on "Novel combined hydrogen potentiometry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy approach for quantification of oxygen reduction kinetics at buried metal/organic coating interfaces" at the National Symposium on Electrochemical Science and Technology (NSEST) held at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

 

April 2022 - Keerthiga publishes her work "Electrochemical Corrosion Resistance of Mg Alloy ZK60 in Different Planes with Respect to Extrusion Direction" in Metals. Editor's choice. Congratulations ! 

 

March 2022 - First publication for our group "Oxidation Behaviour of Ni-Base Superalloys in Supercritical Water: A Review" by Sundar in collaboration with Prof. VS Raja and his group. Congratulations!

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Sundaresan receives AMPP NACE Foundation's India scholarship, Congratulations !

 

Feb 2022 - An Indo-French proposal on "Impact of hydrogen permeation in steel on polymer adhesion" in collaboration with Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (Labsticc), Brest and the French Corrosion Institute, Brest has been accepted.

 

Dec 2021 - Sudha Gautam joins our group as a PhD candidate to work on the effect of stress and microstructure on hydrogen diffusion in dual phase steel.

 

Nov 2021 - Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India funds our Startup Research Grant (SRG) proposal on "Hydrogen Diffusion during Deformation of Dual Phase Steel with Different Martensite Content: Novel Tensile Testing under In-situ Electrochemical Hydrogen Charging". 

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Oct 2021 - Dr. Vaibhav Kathavate joins our group as an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF). Welcome!

 

Aug 2021 - Amal Sibi joins our group under the IITB Monash Academy program as a joint PhD candidate with Prof. MJNV Prasad and Prof. Raman Singh (Monash). He will work on the stress corrosion cracking behaviour of magnesium alloys for bio-implant applications. Welcome !

 

June 2021 - Our group's first M.Tech student Ashok has successfully defended his thesis on "Corrosion behaviour of Aluminium containing Cantor alloys". Congratulations and best of luck for your career at Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL).

 

Nov 2020 - Vijayshankar Dandapani receives a successful nomination for Max Planck-India Mobility Grant 2020. 

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Oct 2020 - A joint DST project on "Development of guidelines for corrosion prevention of water pipelines" with Prof VS Raja and Prof V Jothiprakash (Civil Engg. Dept., IITB) has been approved. 

 

Aug 2020 - Keerthiga Ganesan joins our group as a IITB Monash Academy PhD candidate. She will be working on biocompatible coatings for magnesium alloys in biomedical implant application. She is jointly supervised by Prof. MJNV Prasad (IITB) and Prof. Raman Singh from Monash University. Welcome!

 

Sundaresan Chandramohan also  joins our group as a PhD candidate this Fall 2020. He is jointly supervised by Prof VS Raja and will work on oxidation behaviour of austenitic steels in Advanced Ultra Supercritical Steam (AUSC) conditions.

 

Feb 2020 - Our group's first postdoctoral fellow Dr. Chiranjit Poddar joins. He brings expertise in high temperature corrosion.

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Jan 2020 - Our group's first PhD student Mr. Rasmi Ranjan Tripathy, M.Sc, joins. He will be working on understanding interfacial reactivity at tailored organic coating/metal (oxide) interfaces using novel potentiometric approach.   

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Nov 2019 - Seed grant funding from IRCC, IITB approved

 

July 2019 - A short introduction in the IITB newsletter - http://www.iitb.ac.in/alumni/en/newsletter-article/2019-07/introducing-prof-vijayshankar-dandapani

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May 2019 - Joined the Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science Dept. IIT Bombay

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Dec 2016 - Short article about study culture at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany. https://www.thehindu.com/education/colleges/Basic-sciences-beyond-boundaries/article16938191.ece

 

August 2016 - Doctoral student selected to give a talk at the Gordon Research Conference 2016 on Aqueous Corrosion in New London, USA. https://www.mpie.de/3494005/dandapani-gordon-conference

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