Category Archives: India
Clean water for everyone: How can nanotechnology help?
Overcoming the difficulties of nanotechnology water treatments means developing innovative solutions to engineer a usable product. One answer could be to develop methods where the nanoparticles need not be suspended in the water. For example, one can stick — or … Continue reading
Posted in General, India
Tagged environment, nanoarticles, nanotechnology, Society, Water
Srirangapatna Gold
Gold has a mesmerising influence on human imagination. Rudyard Kipling immortalised it in his poem ” Gold is for the mistress”. I have always been fascinated by the golden mask that covered the face of the mummy of the young … Continue reading
Goverdhan Mehta Committee Report …
… is now available online. Thanks to Giridhar for posting it; he also has a summary of the key recommendations regarding the salary structure at IISc, IITs, IIMs and IISERs.
Graduate admissions: An interesting initiative at IISc
If you are a student with an interest in joining IISc’s doctoral program in engineering, you may have missed seeing this stuff which appears in some nondescript location in the admission brochure: NOTE: Candidates with BE/ B Tech/ M Sc … Continue reading
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Tagged Entrance Exams, GATE, Grad School, Higher Education, UGC-NET
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A Brief History of Materials:1.Metallurgical Heritage of India
This article was first published as SRINIVASAN, SHARADA and RANGANATHAN, SRINIVASA. 1997. “Metallurgical Heritage of India”,.in Golden Jubilee Souvenir, Indian Institute of Science, pp. 29-36. Bangalore: Indian Institute of Science In spite of being an article in a Souvenir it … Continue reading
Classics in Materials Science 1964 vintage
A citation classic from 1964 I had the good fortune that my very first paper in my research career published in Acta Metallurgica in 1964 became a citation classic. The article by David Brandon, my Ph D Supervisor at Cambridge … Continue reading
Zuihitsu on Phase Diagrams
Rangu 1. The first phase diagram to be established was that of Iron-Cementite. It has an Indian connection. The wootz steel of Karnataka had challenged the best brains of England, France, Sweden and Russia to replicate it. A Swedish chemist … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, India
Tagged phase diagrams, zuihitsu
Twentith Century Materials History 1 The Fashion of X-Ray Analysis
The Fashion of X-ray Line Profile Analysis Rangu Robert Cahn has written a wonderful book on The Coming of Materials Science. His historical insights are truly incisive. In a recent article in Sadhana he has analysed the freedom and fashion … Continue reading
Three materials engineers to become IIT directors
The news report is here. The three materials engineers in the list of directors at the newly created IITs are: Prof. M.K. Surappa (IISc) will lead IIT-Roopnagar, Punjab. Prof. Anil Kumar Bhowmick (IIT-KGP) will lead IIT-Patna, Bihar. Prof. Madhusudan Chakraborty … Continue reading
