School of Materials Science and Technology

School offers a two year M.Tech. degree programme with an annual intake of 16 students and has produced over 130 M.Techs. so far. These students are generally employed in premier R & D organizations, industry and teaching institutions. From the session 2005-06, the school has initiated a new 5 year Dual degree M.Tech. Programme. School runs a very successful Ph.D. degree programme also. Nearly twenty five Ph.D candidates have completed work under the supervision of the faculty members of the School

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Academic Programmes

  • Dual Degree (IDD)
  • The last few decades have witnessed a large scale technological applications of a plethora of novel and complex materials ranging from ceramics to polymers and their composites. Several of these materials possess functional and intelligent characteristics making them useful for designing smart devices and structures. The emergence of biomaterials, high temperature superconductors, carbon cluster compounds, and nanomaterials has further extended the horizons of the field of Materials Science and Technology. The subject areas of Materials Science and Technology has become truly interdisciplinary in nature. The more familiar an engineer or technologist is with the structure, properties and processing of these advanced materials, the more proficient and confident he/she would be in making a judicious selection of materials or even in designing a new material with desired characteristics for particular application. Keeping in view of the ever expanding requirement of the Materials Technology Industry and R & D organizations, a dual degree 5 year Programme, leading to B. Tech. and M. Tech. degrees at the end of the course has been launched at IT, BHU. The courses are so designed that the students develop a comprehensive understanding of the structure, properties, processing and applications of various advanced technology materials and at the same time also acquire specialized skills and understanding in the selected area of materials technology through the various electives. The dissertation work starting from the summer semester of the fourth year through the fifth year will provide the students to develop a flavour of research in frontier areas of advanced materials in a stimulating environment. This course has been initiated from the academic session 2005-06. The admission will be through Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) conducted by IITs.
  • M.Tech
    • This course has been running since 1982 and over 100 students have passed out. All these students are gainfully employed in various R & D organizations, industries and academic institutions. The admission to this program is based on GATE score cum interview and is open to M.Sc. (Physics), M.Sc. (Chemistry) and B.Tech. students
    • Ph.D.
    • Degree in various specialization of School. The school has strong Ph.D. programme and the admission of this programme is through national level examination e.g. NET and GATE.

Recent Achievements

  • S. S.Bhatnagar Prize (1)
  • Fellowships of INSA (2)
  • Fellowships of IASc (2)
  • Membership of APAM(1)
  • Materials Research Society of India Medal(2)
  • ICSC-MRSI Annual Prize in Materials Science (1)
  • Homi Bhabha Fellowship Award (1)
  • UGC Career Award (1)
  • INSA Young Scientist Medal (2)
  • INYAS Membership (2)
  • Young Scientist Award of U.P. C. S.T. (1)
  • Young Engineer Award of I.N.A.E. (1)
  • Young Researcher Award of IUMRS-ICA(1)
  • ISCA Young Scientist Award (1)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1)
  • DAE-Raja Ramanna Award Lecture (1)
  • GE Foundation Scholar Leader Program (2)
  • A process for a development of solid
  • state sensor for Anti HIV drug and sensor for AZT.
  • New Materials for Superior Psuedocapacitors and Electrodes for Reversible Alkali-ion.

Recruitment

The department is currently looking for potential candidates with the expertise, preferably in the following areas - Computational Materials Science

  • Polymer Science & Engineering
  • Physical Metallurgy & Alloy Engineering​
  • Exceptionally good candidate from any area will be considered for recruitment.

Department News

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  • Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh, granted a project, entitled as "Development of High Tc Lead Free Piezoelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting" funded by SERB, India, under Core Research Grant  (2020-2023).
  • Dr. Ashish Kumar Mishra, granted a project, entitled as "Investigation of  Two Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Nanostructures as Effective SERS Substrates" funded by SERB, India,under Core Research Grant (Dec. 2020-Dec. 2023).
  • Jan 25 - Jan 29 | 2021 AICTE Sponsored Short Term Course On “Thin film devices for sensor applications”
  • Sakura Grant to Dr. Shrawan Mishra, A team led by Dr. Shrawan Mishra, (SMST) awarded with Sakura grant, founded by Science and Technology Agency, Government of Japan. With this grant team will collaborate with National Institute of Materials Science Tsukuba, Tokiyo, Japan for magnetic material research.

Visitors

Sl. No. Name Address
1 Dr. Vikram Singh Raghuwanshi
(Post-doctoral Research Fellow) 		Department of Chemical Engineering
Monash University, Australia
2 Dr. Trilok Singh
(Researcher, Former JSPS PD Fellow) 		Graduate School of Engineering
Toin University of Yokohama
Tokyo, Japan
3 Dr. Andy Fitch
(Scientist In-charge) 		ID22 – High Resolution Powder Diffraction Beamline
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
Grenoble, France
4 Dr. Pavan Kumar Challa Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge, UK

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