The priorities of this area for the last ten years are to carry out research and development on the materials surfaces to mitigate the environmental challenges and extend the life of the components. Development of advanced coatings on this direction is one of the prime interest and it has led to fabrication of several innovative processes and coatings
A forefront area to extract strategic and critical metals from primary ores, secondary wastes and urban raw materials, by the process of hydrometallurgy and interdisciplinary routes.
Waste utilization activities involve the use of fly ash, red mud and blast furnace slag for the production of cheap and useful products for use by the industry and society at large.
Expertise, experience and capability to characterize the material, evaluate damage due to various factors (from high temperature deformation ‑ fatigue ‑ corrosion) or even to propose and develop a better alternate material for the intended application. It has capability to simulate, model and predict material performance, assess the damage through advanced NDE methods