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• Young Scientist Fast Track Project received from the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, 2012.

 

• Best Poster Award – 1st prize for the technical paper “Spark plasma sintering of Fe-Cr-Mo-P-B-C-Si amorphous alloy”, presented in the Poster Interactive Session at “ICAMPS – 2012”, Trivandrum, India.

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• Fluidity of aluminum alloys and composites: A review, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 456, Issue 1-2, May 2008, Pages 201-210

  Ravi, K.R.; Pillai, R.M.; Amaranathan, K.R.; Pai, B.C.; Chakraborty, M. 

      Ranked 9th among Materials Science > Journal of Alloys and Compounds, January to March 2010

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• Synthesis of in-situ NiAl-Al2O3 nanocomposite by reactive milling and subsequent heat treatment, Intermetallics, Volume 18, Issue 3, March 2010, Pages 353-358, Udhayabanu, V.; Ravi, K.R.; Vinod, V.; Murty, B.S, 

      Ranked 18th among Materials Science > Intermetallics, January to March 2010

     

• Best Technical Paper Award for the paper presented in the Poster Interactive Session at “ICAMC – 2007”, Trivandrum, India.

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• Research Fellow of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India (2002)

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• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (2002)  

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Muthuraja C

 

• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “Thermodynamic Designing of Thixoformable Mg-Zn-Y Alloy in the Mg-rich region” at ICSSP 2018, jointly organized by NIIST Trivandrum and IIT Madras at Trivandrum on December 2018.

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• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “Microstructural evolution of thixoformable Mg-9Al-4Sr alloy during isothermal heat treatment” at ISRS 2016, organized by IIT Madras, December 2016.

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• Best Technical Paper Award – 2nd prize for the paper entitled “Thermodynamic Modelling and Experimental Validation of Mg-Sn-Y system” at NMD ATM 2015, organized by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, November 2015.

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Jayakrishnan Nampoothiri

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• Best Poster Award for the paper entitled “In-situ Generation of MgAl2O4 particles in Al-Mg alloy using H3BO3 addition for grain refinement under ultrasonic treatment” at ICAMMM-2017, organized by GCE Salem, March 2017.

 

• Best Poster Award for the paper entitled “Porosity Alleviation and Mechanical Property Improvement in Sr modified A356/TiB2 in-situ composites” at ICAMMM-2017, organized by GCE Salem, March 2017.

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• Best Poster Award for the technical paper “Effect of Ultrasonic Treatment on Microstructure and Mechanical property of Al-TiB2 nanocomposites”, presented in the Poster Interactive Session at “ICAMPS – 2015”, Trivandrum, India.

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• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “Ultrasonic assisted improvement in kinetics of in-situ reaction in Al-Mg-Si-O system” at ISRS 2014, organized by IIT Madras, December 2014.

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Ramendra

 

• Best TEM micrograph - 1st prize for "Metallography Contest" at NMD ATM 2018 organized by IIM Kolkata, November 2018.

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• Best Technical Paper Award for the paper entitled “Ultrasonic Assisted Synthesis of Al-4.4Cu-Grp composites and its Characterization” at NMD ATM 2017, organized by BITS, Goa, November 2017.

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Shalini H

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• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “Environmental durability studies on alumina based superhydrophobic coating for self-cleaning applications”, i-SET 2018, June 2018. Organized by Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli.

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• Best Poster Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “Mechanical and Environmental Durability of Super hydrophobic Aluminium Oxide Thin Film Coatings” at NMD ATM 2017, organized by BITS, Goa, November 2017.

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Deepa Binosh

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• Best Technical Paper  Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “A study on the influence of age hardening treatment on in- vitro degradation behaviour of Mg-4Zn alloy” at ICAMMM-2017, organized by GCE Salem, March 2017.

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• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “Improved corrosion resistance of Mg-Zn alloy by alkali heat treatment for biomedical applications” at ISRS 2016, organized by IIT Madras, December 2016.

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• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper “Understanding the parameters influencing bio corrosion of Mg-Ca-Zn alloy in simulated body fluid”, Oral Session at “NCAMP - 2013”, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.

 

• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper “Study on the bio corrosion properties of Mg-Ca-Zn alloy with polymer coating”, presented in the Oral Session at “NCMN - 2013”, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.

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​Ramya M

 

• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “In-vitro corrosion and biocompatibility of Mg-Zn-Ca metallic glasses” at ISRS 2014, organized by IIT Madras, IIM & Material Advantage, December 2014.

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• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “Thermodynamic modeling of biodegradable glass forming alloys” at CALM 2014, organized by SRM University & IIM, December 2014.

 

• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “Thermodynamic evaluation of Mg-Zn-Ca based bulk metallic glass forming alloys for biomedical applications” at the International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials (ICAFM 2014), organized by CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, February 2014.

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• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper “Influence of Ca, Al and Zn addition on the biocorrosion behavior of magnesium alloys”, presented in the Oral Session at “NSAMPA - 2012”, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India.

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Sri Harini

 

• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper entitled “Ultrasonic assisted grain refining of Al-Si alloy” at the ISRS 2014, organized by IIT Madras, IIM & Material Advantage, December 2014.​

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• Best Technical Paper Award – 2nd prize for the paper entitled “Ultrasonic assisted in-situ grain refinement in Al-Mg alloy” at CALM 2014, organized by SRM University & IIM, December 2014

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​​Vignesh

 

• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the poster on “Effect of Cu on Glass forming ability, Strength and bio corrosion of   Mg66Zn30Ca4 BMG” at ‘SYLLOGIC’17’ held by Kongu enginnering College, Perundurai. 2017

 

Gangadharan

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• Best Technical Paper Award – 1st prize for the paper “Grain refinement of Mg-3Al alloy using Al-Si/Al4C3 master alloy”, presented in the Oral Session at “AMALGAM – 2012”, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

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Velayutham

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• Best Poster Award – 2nd prize for the paper “Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Commercial Pure Al Processed by Repetitive Upsetting-Extrusion for 1–10 cycles”,   at “AMALGAM – 2012”, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

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