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- ഡോ അനന്തകുമാർ എസ്
- ചീഫ് സയന്റിസ്റ്റ് / ഹെഡ്
- ananthakumars@niist.res.in
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Honors and Awards
- Member, Technology Advisory Committee, DSIR, Government of India for Technology Development Board for Women
- National Overseas Scholarship awarded by The Ministry of Welfare, Government of India and visited New York state college of ceramic sciences, Alfred University, USA. (1996)
- CSIR-DAAD Sandwich model fellowship for the year 2001-2002 for doing creep studies of Sol gel Mullite matrix ceramic composites at Materials Physics Group Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. The work was supervised by Prof. Heubner, Materials Physics department (2001).
- Special Invitee to the company M/s Element Six Pvt ltd., Springs, South Africa for giving lecture on Alumina matrix ceramic nano composites and its creep properties (2006)
- Post Doctoral Research Fellowship, CNRS-PMOF, University of Montpellier II, France (2008)
- Invited as Guest faculty for taking series of lectures on the topic, ‘Recent trends in ceramics and nanocomposite advanced materials’ to the post graduate students in University of Concepcion, Chile (2008)
- Nominated as a Member, Technical Advisory Committee [TAC] for Technology Development and Utilization Program for Women [TDUPW/A2K+] by Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India for the period upto March 2020 March 31st.
- Nominated as member for the “Project Review Committee (PRC)” of the A2K+ - TDUPW project entitled “Skill up-gradation of women potters in fabricating fine terracotta Pottery products in Tirunelveli Distt., Tamil Nadu under TDUPW”
Profile
Research Accomplishments [2010 to 2021]
| No Research Projects funded by Government Agencies : | 8 |
| No of Industry funded Projects : | 14 |
| No Publications : | 125 |
| Patent : | 1 |
| International Fellowships : DAAD Fellow; CNRS Fellow | 2 |
| No of Phd Fellows : 17 ( Completed) 2 (On-going) | |
| No Post Doctoral Fellows [Completed] | 2 |
| No Book Chapters: | 4 |
| No of International PhD Fellow under TWAS | 1 |
List of Ph.D thesis Guided [Main supervisor]
- INVESTIGATIONS ON INORGANIC-ORGANIC HYBRID NANOMATERIALS FROM BOEHMITE [ALOOH] GELS FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS thesis submitted by K.A.Suhailath to the Academy of CSIR [June 2021]
- INVESTIGATIONS FOR IMPROVED N2 DOPED TiO2 NANOMATERIALS FOR WATER POLLUTANT DEGRADATION UNDER SUNLIGHT; Thesis submitted to Jimma University, Ethiopia by Mr. Elias Assayehegn, under TWAS-CSIR Sandwich Fellowship [December 2019]. The candidate worked in NIIST for one year as part of the TWAS-CSIR Sandwich Phd Fellow.
- PROCESSING AND APPLICATION STUDIES OF RARE EARTHS AND JAROSITE MINERAL BASED FUNCTIONAL CERAMIC COLOURANTS was awarded to the candidate Mrs. Sheemol by the University of Kerala [19th April 2021]
- SURFACE ENGINEERED POROUS SILICATES AND HYBRID MATERIALS FOR SORPTION APPLICATIONS was awarded to the candidate Mrs. Minju P Ashok by Academy of CSIR [AcSIR] [21st May 2021]
- INVESTIGATIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF Zn DUST INTO ZnO NANOSTRUCTURES, ELLECTROCERAMIC AND POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITE DIELECTIRCS was awarded to the the candidate Mrs. Jeen Maria Mathews Cochin University of Science and Technology [16th March 2019]
- INVESTIGATIONS ON ZnO-GRPAHNE OXIDE NANOMATERIALS AND NANOCOMPOSITES: SYNTHESIS, FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES and APPLICATIONS was awarded to the the candidate Mrs. Babitha K.B by Cochin University of Science and Technology [10th February 2019]
- DESIGN OF NOVEL NANO/MICRO CERAMIC FILLERS FOR THE PROCESSING OF HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTING EPOXY POLYMER DIELECTRICS was awarded to the the candidate Mr. Vaisakh S.S by University of Kerala by [ November 2018]
- RARE EARTH BASED MIXED METAL OXIDES FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS was awarded to the the candidate Mrs. T.H.Gayathri by the Academy of CSIR [AcSIR] [23 March 2018]
- INVESTIGATIONS ON ZNO EMBEDDED POLYMER MATRIX NANOCOMPOSITE COATINGS AND FILMS FOR UV/IR SHIELDING SOLAR THERMAL CONTROL SURFACES was awarded to the the candidate Mrs. Soumya by theUniversity of Kerala [March 2018]
- SOL-GEL NANOASSEMBLY OF ALUMINO-SILOXANE HYBRID GELS AND HIERARCHICALLY POROUS AEROGEL ARCHITECTURES FOR BIOFUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS’ was awarded to Mrs. Linsha Vazhayal by the University of Kerala [11th August 2017]
- MAX PHASE TERNARY CARBIDES: SYNTHESIS, NANOCOMPOSITES AND EXFOLIATED 2D MAXENE / MXENE NANOSTRUCTURES FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS was awarded to Shri. K.V.Mahesh by the University of Kerala [10th October 2017]
- CERAMIC REINFORCED SILICONE ELASTOMER COMPOSITES FOR FLEXIBLE MICROWAVE APPLICATIONS was awarded to Mrs. Namitha L.K by the University of Kerala [Feb 2017]
- ZINC OXIDE NANOSTRUCTURES AND NANOCOMPOSITES FOR FUNCTIONAL AND ‘SMART’ VARISTOR APPLICATIONS was awarded to Shri.Anas Shreef by the University of Kerala [October 2011]
On-going/ forthcoming Ph.D thesis works
- Ms. Angitha Francy [KSCSTE Fellow] Research work on DESIGN OF HYDROPHOBIC NANO-SILICA BY PHYSICAL-IMPREGANTION OF SILICONE OIL FOR ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS [Kerala University] [2019-2023]
- Ms.Ragi [AcSIR Fellow] Research work on NATURAL BIOMOLECULE MODIFIED KAOLIN FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS [2020-2024]
List of Ph.D Thesis worked as Co-Supervisor
- INVESTIGATIONS ON LOW LOSS SILICATE BASED CERAMICS AND THEIR COMPOSITE FOR ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS was awarded to Shri.K.M.Manu by the University of Kerala [December 2014]
- BUTYL-RUBBER CERAMIC COMPOSITES FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS was awarded to Smt. J. Chameswary by the Cochin University of Science and Technology [April 2014]
- ULTRA AND NANO FILTRATION CERAMIC MEMBRANES was awarded to Smt. K.A.Manjumol by the Cochin University of Science and Technology [April 2014]
- SOL-GEL LANTHANUM PHOSPHATE, COMPOSITES AND COATINGS FOR FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS was awarded to Sri. Sankar Sasidharan by the Cochin University of Science and Technology [April 2015]
- CERAMIC-POLYMER FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES FOR EMI SHIELDING MATERIALS was awarded to Smt. Nina Joseph by the University of Kerala [April 2015]