Dr. Kundan Kumar

Assistant Professor
Department/School/Unit Name
Department of Ceramic Engineering and Technology
Phone No(s): +91-8676023847
Email: kundan.cer@iitbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: High-Temperature Ceramics, Materials Chemistry, Nanomaterials Synthesis, Processing and Characterization, Materials and Structure-Property Correlations

Patents

1. “A process for obtaining shape and size controlled ceramic nanopowders” (Filled - 2018)

Book Chapters

1.

2021

Title of Book: Encyclopedia of Materials: Plastics and Polymers, Elsevier

Title of Chapter: Nanoscale Heterogeneity in Amorphous and Semi-Crystalline Materials: A Technical Perspective,

K Kumar, A Chowdhury

doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820352-1.00107-3

2.

2020

Title of Book: Encyclopedia of Renewable and Sustainable Materials, Elsevier

Title of Chapter: Use of Novel Nanostructured Photocatalysts for the Environmental Sustainability of Wastewater Treatments, Volume 1, Pages 949-964,

K Kumar, A Chowdhury

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012803581811149X

3.

2020

Title of Book: Handbook on Miniaturization in Analytical Chemistry, Elsevier

Title of Chapter: Pushing the Limits of Analytical Characterization Tools: How Much is too much (Chapter no. 21),

K Kumar, A Chowdhury

doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819763-9.00011-8

International Referred Journals/Proceedings

26.

2022

Monoclinic phase-free, low temperature spark plasma sintering of CeO2-doped ZrO2 ceramics and its associated benefits on mechanical properties

A Arun, K Kumar, A Chowdhury

Journal of the European Ceramic Society (In-press)

doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2022.12.003

25.

2022

Correlation with the Microstructure and Synergistic Physiochemical Etching Resistance of Nanocomposites under Fluorine-Containing Plasma Conditions

HJ Ma, S Hong, HM Oh, K Kumar, MJ Kim, HN Kim, JW Ko, JW Lee, HC Lee, YJ Park

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14 (38), 43771-43782

doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c12311

24.

2022

Influence of a grain-locking morphology on properties of doped ZrO2 ceramics made with ultrafine (~ 3 nm) nanoparticles

A Arun, K Kumar, A Chowdhury

Journal of Materials Research, 1-13

doi.org/10.1557/s43578-022-00792-y

23.

2022

Influence of Ternary Oxide Additives on Thermal Conductivity of Pressureless Sintered Si3N4,

K Kumar, YJ Park, MJ Kim, HN Kim; HJ Ma, JW Lee, JW Ko

Materials Letters 328, 133189

doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2022.133189

22.

2022

Twofold Increase in Weibull Modulus of Hot-pressed Si3N4 Ceramic by Modified Pressing Profile

K Kumar, MJ Kim, YJ Park, HN Kim; HJ Ma, JW Lee, JW Ko

Materials Today Communications, 32, 103979

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352492822008339

21.

2022

Scalable and tunable Y2O3‐MgO composite for infrared transparency applications

K Kumar, HM Oh, MJ Kim, HJ Ma, YJ Park, HN Kim, JW Lee, JW Ko

Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 1–11

https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jace.18353

20.

2022

Fabrication of highly dense Si3N4 via record low‐content additive system for low‐temperature pressureless sintering

K Kumar, MJ Kim, HM Oh, YJ Park, HN Kim, HJ Ma, JW Lee, JW Ko

Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 1-12

https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jace.18467

19.

2022

Crucial dependence of ‘trivial ‘processing factors on the texture-electrical resistivity relationship of La2Ce2O7 ceramic

AK Lakshya, L Kumar, K Kumar, A Chowdhury

Materials Letters 314, 131858

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167577X22002117

18.

2021

Remarkable Plasma-Resistance Performance by Nanocrystalline Y2O3·MgO Composite Ceramics for Semiconductor Industry Applications,

HM Oh, YJ Park, H Kim, K Kumar, JW Ko, CE Lee, HK Lee,

Scientific Reports, 11:10288

doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89664-9

17.

2021

Reviewing the cases of Nanoscale Heterogeneity in Ceramics: Boon or Bane?,

K Kumar, A Chowdhury, Materialia, 16, 101109 (2021)

doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2021.101109

16.

2020

Role of various alcohol washing media in obtaining a remarkable texture for La2Ce2O7 powders and ceramics

K Kumar, S Srivastava, A Chowdhury

Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 103:1563–1574

https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jace.16880   

15.

2020

Phase integrity of zinc oxide doped zirconia under low compacting pressure,

S Mishra, K Kumar, A Patra, A Roy, A Chowdhury

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 843, 155927

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092583882032291X

14.

2019

Stabilization of ZrO2 matrix: Revisiting the ‘archaic’ issue with a peculiar example

K Kumar, H Dutta, SK Pradhan, A Chowdhury

Scripta Materialia, 162, 408-411

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359646218307346

13.

2019

Exceptionally high fracture toughness of carbon nanotube reinforced plasma sprayed lanthanum zirconate coating

A Islam, K Kumar, KK Pandey, B Mukherjee, OSA Rahman, A Chowdhury, AK Keshri,

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 777, 1133-1144

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925838818342488

12.

2019

Structure-property correlations for the surfactant-free faceted nanocrystals of Ce1−xZrxO2 and their bulk ceramics

K Singh, K Kumar, PK Ojha, A Chowdhury

Materials Research Bulletin, 112, 38-45

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025540818326886

11.

2019

Functional properties of LaxCe1−xO2−δ nanocrystals and their bulk ceramics

S Srivastava, K Kumar, K Singh, , PK Ojha, A Chowdhury

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 30(3): 2096–2106

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10854-018-0481-3

10.

2019

Antibacterial and natural room-light driven photocatalytic activities of CuO nanorods

K Kumar, A Priya, A Arun, S Hait, A Chowdhury

Materials Chemistry and Physics, 226, 106-112

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0254058419300240

9.

2018

La3+-doped CeO2 system: Negating the myths with a tailor-made ceramic,

K Kumar, S Srivastava, A Chowdhury

Scripta Materialia, 157, 138-141

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359646218304895

8.

2017

On the peculiarities of phase developments involving Zn2+-doped ZrO2 system,

K Kumar, T Jaroń, A Chowdhury

Scripta Materialia, 138, 71-74

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359646217302920

7.

2017

Facile Synthesis of CuO Nanorods Obtained Without Any Template and/or Surfactant

K Kumar, A Chowdhury

Ceramics International, 43, 13943–13947

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272884217315687

6.

2017

Discrepancies in the hardness data and the role of grinding‐induced surface effects for a porous zirconate ceramic

R Kumar, K Kumar, A Chowdhury

Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 100 (4), 1717-1723

https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jace.14773

5.

2017

Appearance of Fröhlich-like phonon mode and defect dynamics in La3+-doped ceria

B Paul, K Kumar, A Chowdhury, A Roy

Journal of Applied Physics, 122 (13), 135108

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4993522

4.

2017

Effect of rare-earth doping in CeO2 matrix: Correlations with structure, catalytic and visible light photocatalytic properties

K Singh, K Kumar, S Srivastava, A Chowdhury

Ceramics International, 43, 17041-17047

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272884217320461

3.

2017

Structural and Dielectric Properties of the Fluorite-Type LaxCe1−xO2-δ Ceramics

K Singh, K Kumar, S Nayak, DC Joshi, MM Alom, S Thota, A Chowdhury

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 50, 495601

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/aa939d/meta

2.

2017

Process optimisation of SiO2 interface coating on carbon fibre by RF PECVD for advanced composites

R. Pillai, C. Jariwala, K Kumar, S Kumar

Surfaces & Interfaces, 9, 21-27

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468023017300846

1.

 2015

Preparation & characterization of SiO2 interface layer by dip coating technique on carbon fibre for Cf/SiC composites

K Kumar, C. Jariwala, R. Pillai, N. Chauhan, PM. Raole,

AIP Conference Proceedings, 1675, 020046

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4929204