1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALUMINA AND OTHER FUNCTIONAL CERAMICS
(AOFC-2015), 11-13 March, 2015
Program
Day 1
March 11,
2015
Wednesday
Time (hrs)
9.00-10.00
09:00-09:04
09:04-09:12
09.12-09.20
09.20-09.23
09:23-09.43
09.43-09.54
09-54-09.56
09.56-10.00
Event
Inaugural Session
Presentation of flower bouquets to the dignitaries
Welcome address by Mr Amit Kumar De, President, InCerS
Address by Mr Kamal Dasgupta, Acting Director, CSIR-CGCRI
Lighting of the Ceremonial Lamp
Address by Professor Indranil Manna, Director, IIT Kanpur, Chief Guest
Address by Dr. A. K. Chattopadhyay, Technical Adviser to the Chairman, TRL
Krosaki Refractories Ltd and Guest of Honour
Presentation of Memento to the Chief Guest
Vote of Thanks by Mr S. Chakrabarti, Member Secretary, AOFC-2015
10.00-10.45
Key Note Address
(Chairman: Prof. H. S. Maiti)
KNA
10.45 - 11.15 : High Tea
TS-1:
(Chairman: Dr. A. K. Chattopadhyay)
Parallel
Session
Parallel Session
11.15-13.25
11.15-11.50
11.50-12.25
PT-1
PT-2
12.25-12.55
IL-1
12.55-13.25
IL-2
Functional Ceramic Coatings – Dr. Goutam De, (CSIR-CGCRI, India)
Development of Multifunctional Bioceramics and External Field
Stimulated Cell Functionality Modulation: A New Paradigm – Prof.
Bikramjit Basu (IISc, Bangalore, India)
The Effects of Na2O, SiO2 and MgO on the Sintering Behavior and
Microstructure Evolution of Bayer Processed Alumina – Nils
Rosenberger (Almatis GmbH, Germany)
Precursor Derived Ceramics: Syntheis, Characterization and
Applications/ Adjusting porosity of ceramics for different applications
– Dr. Michaela Wilhelm (Univ. of Bremen, Germany)
13:25 - 14:10 : Lunch
TS-2A: [Venue: Meghnad Saha Auditorium]
(Chairman: )
14:10-15.40
14.10-14.40
IL-3
14.40-15.10
IL-4
15.10-15.40
IL-5
(p,T) parameterization of the proton-phonon coupling in ceramic proton
conducting electrolytes – Dr. Artur Braun (Empa. Swiss Federal
Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland)
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) of TiO2 Inverse Opals for Solar
Applications – Prof. Alfred Tok Iing (NTU, Singapore)
Multifunctional graphene networks with highly ordered structure – Dr.
Cecilia Mattevi, (Imperial College, London, UK)
15:40 - 16:00 : Tea
TS-3A: [Venue: Meghnad Saha Auditorium]
(Chairman: )
16:00-17.20
16:00-16:35
PT-3
16:35-17:05
IL-6
17.05-17.20
CP-1
17.20-18.20
Doping Effect on High Temperature Mass Transport Phenomena
in Alumina and Other Oxide Ceramics – YOSHIDA, Hidehiro (NIMS,
Japan)
Polymer to Carbon Dots and Then to Polymer Composite – Prof. Arun
Chattopadhyay (IIT-Guwahati, Guwahati, India)
Processing and Cytocompatibility of Functionally Graded
Hydroxyapatite Biocomposites – Prof. Kantesh Balani (IIT-Kanpur,
India)
Corporate Presentation
TS-4: Poster Session I (Chairman: Dr K. G. K. Warrier)
19.15 - 20.00 : Cultural Programme
20.00 - 22.30 : Conference Dinner
PT-Plenary Talk, IL-Invited Lecture, CP-Corporate Presentation
Parallel Session
14:10-15.40
TS-2B: [Venue: A.P.C Roy Seminar Hall]
(Chairman: )
14.10-14.40
IL-7
14.40-15.10
IL-8
15.10-15.40
IL-9
Functional Ceramics: A Paradigm with Metal-Glass Nanocomposites –
Dr. B. Karmakar (CSIR-CGCRI, India)
Perovskite Oxide Nanostructures with Enhanced Functionality for
Energy and Non-volatile Memory Applications – Prof. Anuja Datta
(University of South Florida, USA)
Dr. Arup Kumar Chatterjee (Innovation Center for Applied
Nanotechnology, India)
Parallel Session
15:40 - 16:00 : Tea
16:00-17.20
TS-3B: [Venue: A.P.C Roy Seminar Hall]
(Chairman:
Activities of the Light Metals Research Centre and the role of
aluminas in optimising smelter performance – Prof. James
Metson (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
16:00-16:30
IL-10
16:30-17:00
IL-11
17.00-17-20
IL-12
17.20-18.20
TS-4: Poster Session I (Chairman: Dr K. G. K. Warrier)
19.15 - 20.00 : Cultural Programme
20.00 - 22.30 : Conference Dinner
Current Status of Total Hip Replacement: Do we need ceramics? – Dr.
V. K. Balla (CSIR-CGCRI, India)
Application of clay-alumina based ceramic membranes in algal
photobioreactor for bio-sequestration of CO2 and biofuel production –
Dr. Sourja Ghosh, (CSIR-CGCRI, India)
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Parallel Session
Parallel Session
Day 2
March 12,
2015
Thursday
Time (hrs)
09.00-10.10
Session
09.00-09.35
PT-4
9.35-10.10
PT-5
Event
TS-5:
(Chairman: )
Characterization of Microstructure, Composition, Micro Residual
Stresses, and Phase Transformations in Advanced Structural
Ceramics by Raman Spectroscopy – Prof. Ghatu Subhash
(Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida,
USA)
Coatings for spacecraft thermal control applications – Dr. A. K.
Sharma (ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, India)
10.10 – 10.30 : Tea
TS-6A: [Venue: Meghnad Saha Auditorium]
(Chairman:)
10.30-13.10
10.30-11.05
PT-6
11.05-11.40
PT-7
11.40-12.10
IL-13
12.10-12.40
IL-14
12.40-13.10
IL-15
Recent results in arsenide and chalcogenide -based superconductors–
Prof. Ashok K Ganguli (IIT- Delhi, India)
–C. Ganguly (Engineering Staff College of India (ESCI),
Hyderabad, India)
Issues related to processing of composite multiferroic materials –
Prof. Carmen Gallassi (Institute Of Science And Technology For
Ceramics, Italy)
Photocatalysis on TiO2 Surfaces: current efforts for its
characterization and the finding out of practical applications –
Dr. Sudipto Kumar Pal (University of Salento, Italy)
Biomimetic composite materials in tissue repair – Dr. Sanjukta Deb
(King's College London Dental Institute, London, U.K)
13.10 - 14.00 : Lunch
TS-7A: [Venue: Meghnad Saha Auditorium]
(Chairman:)
14:00-16:00
14:00-14:30
IL-16
14:30-15:00
IL-17
15:-00-15:30
IL-18
15.30-16.00
IL-19
Electrochemical injection of nanosilica and nanoalumina particles
into concrete – Dr. Jiri Nemecek (Czech Technical University,
Prague)
Electrospun TiO2 Nanofibres for Solar Energy Harvesting – Prof. It
Meng LOW (Curtin University, Australia)
Dispersants for ceramic nano – and micron sized powders – with a
special focus on alumina – Dr. Thomas Graule (Empa, Swiss
Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology,
Switzerland)
Transparent Polycrystalline Alumina: A new Class of Functional
Ceramics – Dr. Roy Johnson (ARCI, India)
16.00 -16.20 : Tea
16.20-17-15
TS-8:
(Chairman: )
16.20-16.50
IL-20
16.50-17.10
IL-21
17.10-18.10
From Colloids to Capsules: Novel Pathways to Ceramic
Microcapsules – Dr. rer. nat. Michael Maas (Univ. of Bremen,
Germany)
Osteogenic bioceramic materials from sea sources: Potential
bioscaffold in bone tissue engineering – Dr. Biswanath Kundu
(CSIR-CGCRI, India)
TS-9: Poster Session II (Chairman: Prof. F. D. Gnanam)
19.00 - 22..00: Conference Dinner at Club
PT-Plenary Talk, IL-Invited Lecture
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Parallel Session
Day-2
10.30-13.15
TS-6B: [Venue: A.P.C Roy Seminar Hall]
(Chairman:)
10.30-11.00
IL-22
11.00-11.30
IL-23
11.30-12.00
IL-24
12.00-12.30
IL-25
12.30-13.00
IL-26
Advanced Materials for Energy Application – Dr. G. M. Anil Kumar
(R&D Center, Noritake Co., Ltd., Japan))
Nanoceramic Heterostructures for Energy and Environmental
Applications – Dr. U. S. Hareesh (CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvanathapuram,
India)
Indian Bauxite: How processing can improve its high temperature
properties – Dr. H. S. Tripathy, (CSIR-CGCRI, India)
Nano-engineering ceramic oxide environments around rare-earth ions
for development of silica glass based specialty optical fibers for
different applications – Dr Mukul Chandra Paul (CSIR-CGCRI,
India)
Surface patterning of sol-gel thin films by soft lithography –
Dr. S. Jana (CSIR-CGCRI, India)
13.10 - 14.00 : Lunch
Parallel
Session
Parallel Session
14:00-16:05
TS-7B: Oral Presentation
[Venue: A.P.C Roy Seminar Hall]
(Chairman:)
14:00-14:20
IL-27
14:20-14:35
OP-01
14:35-14:50
OP-02
14-50-15:05
OP-03
15.05-15.20
OP-04
15:20-15:35
OP-05
15:35-15:50
OP-06
15.50-16:05
OP-07
Development of Alumina Based Ceramic Cores for Single Crystal
Casting of Superalloys – Abhoy Kumar, Venkat, V. V. Bhanu Prasad,
M. A. H. Baig, N. Das and M. Vijayakumar (DMRL, Hyderabad,
India)
Evaluation of sputtered PZT thin films on Ti-substrates upon recrystallization with a thin Pb-overcoat – Ankita Ghatak and M.
Sreemany (CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata)
Cerium oxide nanocrystals and surface modified nanodots for
multifunctional applications – Thadathil S. Sreeremya, Asha
Krishnan, Srividhya J. Iyengar (NIIST-CSIR, Trivandrum, India) and
Swapankumar Ghosh (CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India)
High Strain Rate Dynamic Failure Mechanism of Alumina – Saikat
Acharya, Sandip Bysakh and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay (CSIRCGCRI, Kolkata, India), Venkitanarayanan Parameswaran (IITKanpur, India)
16.05 -16.20 : Tea
TS-7B: Oral Presentation Continued
[Venue: A.P.C Roy Seminar Hall]
(Chairman:)
16.20-18-05
16:20-16:35
Advanced pulsed laser deposition techniques for the fabrication of
ferroelectric thin films and multiferroic heterostructures – Dr.
Devajyoti Mukherjee (University of South Florida, USA)
Nanoparticle-protein interactions: surface modification can prevent
nanoparticle induced damage to essential proteins – Nidhi Joshi, Sujit
Basak, Krishnananda Chattopadhyay, (CSIR-IICB, Kolkata) and
Goutam De, Anindita Mukhopadhyay (CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata)
Inverse prediction of critical dimensions of a ceramic fin using
simulated annealing – Ranjan Das (Indian Institute of TechnologyRopar, Punjab, India)
Solid Liquid Equilibria Predictions of Eutectic Systems comprising
Gun Powder-Propellant’s Mixtures using a Statistical Mechanical
Framework – Debanjan Dey, Ankit Vishnoi, Tamal Banerjee,
Kaustubha Mohanty (Indian Institute of Technology- Guwahati,
Guwahati India)
OP-08
Synthesis,
Optical
and
Electrical
Transport
Properties
of
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16:35-16:50
OP-09
16.50-17:05
OP-10
17.05-17.20
OP-11
17:20-17:35
OP-12
17:35-17:50
OP-13
Nanostructured Bismuth Oxide – S. Bandyopadhyay, S. K. Pradhan
and Abhigyan Dutta (The University of Burdwan, West Bengal,
India)
Effect of Two Different Dispersants on Fabrication of BZT-BCT
Piezoelectric Wafers by Tape Casting Technique – A.Sreeram, R.
Mazumder (NIT, Rourkela, India) and A. Seal, A.Sen (CSIR-CGCRI,
Kolkata, India)
Development of Optical and RF Transparent Protective Alumina
Thin Films for Spacecraft Sun Shield Application – A Carmel Mary
Esther, Yougandar B, Sridhara N, Anand Kumar Sharma and Arjun
Dey (ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, India)
Interface Structure and Kinetics in Doped Alumina – Shantanu K
Behera (NIT, Rourkela, INDIA) and Martin P Harmer (Lehigh
University, Bethlehem, PA, USA)
Development of SERS Substrates for Ultrasensitive Detection of
Biomolecules – Arindam Saha (CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India)
Extremely elastic spark plasma sintered bulk MWCNT structure as
impact energy absorber – Ajitesh Kar, Soumya Sarkar, Manjima
Bhattacharya, Anoop Kr. Mukhopadhyay and Probal Kr. Das
17.50-18:05
OP-14
(CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India)
Effect of lime and rice husk ash on the structural and mechanical
properties of sub-grade soil for road construction – Sandeepan Saha
(Gargi Memorial Institute of Technology, West Bengal, India),
Sankar Chakrabarti (Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India) and
Jiten Ghosh (CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India)
19.00 - 22..00: Conference Dinner at Club
IL-Invited Lecture, OP-Oral Presentation, Each Oral Presentation 15 mins, inclusive of discussion time
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Day 3
March 13,
2015
Friday
Time (hrs)
9.00-11.00
Session
09.00-9.30
IL-28
9.30-10.00
IL-29
10.00-10.30
IL-30
10.50-12.50
Event
TS-10:
(Chairman:)
Probing deformation mechanisms in brittle materials using in-situ
Laue diffraction – Dr. Ayan Bhowmik ( Imperial College, London,
UK)
Process & Application of Specialty aluminas and hydrates with
reference to white hydrate in solid surface manufacturing – Dr. B. K.
Satpathy, (NALCO, India)
Stress and Strain Rate Effects in Static and Dynamic Contact
Damages of Brittle Solids – Dr. Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay
(CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India)
10.30 - 10.50 : Tea
TS-11: Students’ Session [Contributory lecture – each 12 Minutes]
[Venue: Meghnad Saha Auditorium]
Chairman:
10:50-11:02
CL-01
11:02-11.14
CL-02
11:14-11.26
CL-03
11:26-11.38
CL-04
11:38-11.50
CL-05
11:50-12.02
CL-06
12:02-12.14
CL-07
Mesoporous Alumina: Textural Engineering Aspect – Sourav Ghosh,
Somjyoti Basak, Rituparna Das and Milan Kanti Naskar (CSIRCGCRI, Kolkata, India)
Effects ZrO2 on the Nucleation and Crystallization Behavior of SiO2MgO-Al2O3-B2O3-K2O-MgF2 glass: Applicability as SOFC sealing
material – Mrinmoy Garai, Sanjib Samaddar, Basudeb Karmakar
(CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India)
Ablation of ZrB2 based Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Composites
under Plasma-Arc Jet Impact – Ambreen Nisar and Kantesh Balani
(IIT, Kanpur) & T. Venkateshwaran (Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre,
ISRO, Trivandrum, India)
Role of YSZ and CNT addition on thermal conductivity of spark
plasma sintered Al2O3 based composites – Ariharan S and Kantesh
Balani (IIT, Kanpur) & T.Venkateswaran (Vikram Sarabhai Space
Centre, ISRO, Trivandrum, India)
Mesoporous γ-Al2O3 Nanorod/Reduced Graphene Oxide
Composites: A Superior CO2 Adsorbing Material – Koushik
Bhowmik, Amrita Chakravarty and Goutam De (CSIR-CGCRI,
Kolkata, India)
Unique Strain Tolerance of V2O5 xerogel Thin Films – Biswajit Bera,
Manjima Bhattacharyay, Pradip Sekhar Das, and Anoop Kumar
Mukhopadhyay (CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India) & Arjun Dey (ISRO
Satellite Centre, Bangalore, India)
New Dynamic Failure Mechanism of Coarse Grain Alumina –
Manjima Bhattacharya, S.K. Dalui, N. Dey, S. Bysakh and A.K.
Mukhopadhyay (CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India)
12:14-12.26
CL-08
Ceramic Supported Palladium Membrane: A clean energy initiative
towards hydrogen separation – Debaleena Bhattacharjee, Trilochan
Prasad Sahoo, Kaustab Mandal and Subrata Dasgupta (CSIRCGCRI, Kolkata, India)
12:26-12.38
CL-09
12:38-12.50
CL-10
Synthesis of nanocrystalline alpha-alumina (α-Al2O3) through
pulsed electric current heating – Bobu Manuel Jolly and S.S.
Bhattacharya (IIT-Madras, Chennai, India)
Performance of Al doped ZnO in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells –
Partha Pratim Das, Anurag Roy and P. Sujatha Devi (CSIRCGCRI, Kolkata, India) & Shruti Agarkar (CSIR-NCL, Pune,
India)
12.50-13.40 : Lunch
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TS-11: Students’ Session [Contributory lecture – each 12 Minutes] Continued
[Venue: Meghnad Saha Auditorium]
Chairman:
13:40-13.52
CL-11
13:52-14.04
CL-12
14:04-14.16
CL-13
14:16-14.28
CL-14
14:28-14.40
CL-15
Effect of C/Ti ratio on densification and mechanical properties of
reactive spark plasma sintered TiCx – K. Vasanthakumar, B. S. Murty
and Srinivasa Rao Bakshi (IIT- Madras, Chennai, India)
Phase transition studies in the formation of β-Al2O3 using feldspar and
hydroxides – Tarun Bhatnagar (Mewar University, Chittrogarh,
India) and Balwan Singh & Rahul Lodha (College of Engineering &
Technology Bikaner, India)
Improved Mechanical Response of Spark Plasma Sintered CNT
reinforced Alumina Ceramics – Prabaha Sikder and Santanu Das
(Kalyani Govt Engineering College, Kalyani, West Bengal, India) &
Soumya Sarkar and Probal Kr. Das (CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India)
Mechanical Properties Of Spark Plasma Sintered SiC-TiB2 And
SiC-TiB2-TaC Composites At Different Temperatures – D. Debnath,
S. Chakraborty and P. K. Das (CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata, India) & H.K.
Pant and M. F. Wani (NIT Srinagar, Srinagar, India)
Hierarchical Macroporous Conducting Zinc Indium Oxide SolGel Thin Film – Susanta Bera and Sunirmal Jana (CSIR-CGCRI,
Kolkata, India)
14.40-16.10
TS-12: Miscellenenoues
Chairman:
14.40- 15.10
IL-31
15.10-15.40
IL-32
15.40-16.10
16.10-17.10
IL-33
Pulsed Laser Deposited Manganite-based Heterostructures: Cation
Stoichiometry, Microstructure and Properties – Prof. Dong Zhili
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Alumina Nanoparticles as an effective constituent in Surface
engineered Self cleaning Titania Composite Nano coatings – Dr.
K.G.K. Warrier (CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram, India)
Dr. Abhijit Das Sharma (CSIR-CGCRI, India)
Valedictory Session
17.10 - 18.00 : High Tea
IL-Invited Lecture, CL-Contributory Lecture, Each Contributory Lecture 12 mins, inclusive of discussion time
GOOD BYE
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