Advancing Materials Science to Address Global Challenges
The three main global challenges for the twenty-first century are energy, water, and air. Sufficient energy is mandate to ensure a reasonable standard of living, clean water is needed to drink, and clean air is fundamental of healthy human life.
In addition, three major focus areas of any developing country are economy, safety, and conservation. Surprisingly, all of these challenges are directly related to the corrosion and embrittlement of metallic materials. Sustainability of materials is uttermost important to serve the purpose for which it is deployed.
My research interest is mainly focused to minimize metallic corrosion and/or embrittlement of metallic materials from adverse circumstances through innovative approaches in materials protection.
The global trend to replace fossil fuels with cleaner and renewable alternatives is boosting the development of hydrogen-based energy sources. In this context, the use of fossil fuels in the automobile industry is totally going to be replaced by hydrogen-based energy resources.
Hydrogen atoms adsorbed on the metal surface diffuse and react to the microstructure causing brittleness, rapidly lowering mechanical properties such as tensile strength, elongation, impact toughness, and fatigue crack propagation rate.
In several industrial processes, acidic solutions are widely used in numerous techniques such as removal of rust, steel pickling, cleaning of boilers, ore processing, oil well acidizing, acid descaling, recovery of ion exchangers, and petroleum processes.
Exploring how the structure, properties, and reactivity of organic molecules influence corrosion inhibition property in adverse medium using:
Approximately 90% of epoxy resin is produced by reaction of bisphenol A with epichlorohydrin. However, exposure of mankind to bisphenol A causes various health hazards.
Development of non-toxic alternatives for coating industry
Curing with suitable amine hardeners for superior protection
Materials capable of withstanding extreme temperatures
Anodization prefers a stable oxide layer on the desired metallic surfaces, which will mitigate the penetration of corrosion ions towards the metallic surface atoms. Detailed understanding of this technique would open up new avenues for corrosion protection.
Using one-step/two-step anodization techniques
Proper modification to improve corrosion inhibition properties
Comprehensive protection from aggressive medium
Synthesis and characterization of functional organic molecules for anticorrosion applications
UV-Vis, FTIR, NMR, Mass Spec, FESEM, XRD, BET, Tensile Testing, and more
Cyclic Voltammetry, Potentiodynamic Polarization, EIS, Hydrogen Permeation
Orca, Dmol3, Material Studio, MD Simulation, Monte Carlo methods