Status of Materials Science Research
in India
B.S. Murty
Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
murty@iitm.ac.in
National Output of Materials Science Research Papers
indexed in Web of Science (2005-2009)
Top ten countries ranked by number of papers
S.No
Country
Papers
1.
China
55,003
2.
USA
38,189
3.
Japan
25,473
4.
Germany
16,832
5.
South Korea
15,261
6.
India
12,693
7.
France
12,344
8.
UK
11,611
9.
Russia
7,927
10.
Taiwan
7,410
Source: Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury - Global Research Report, Materials Science and
Technology, June 2011,, Evidence, Thomson Reuters
Quality aspects of the publications from India and other
leading countries in Materials Science:
Indexed in Web of Science, Ranked by Impact (2005-2009)
S.No
Country
Papers
Citations
Impact
1.
USA
38,189
222,552
5.83
2.
EU-15
53,283
216,712
4.07
3.
Taiwan
7,410
85,866
3.37
4.
Japan
25,473
23,303
3.14
5.
South Korea
15,261
47,334
3.10
6.
China
55,003
143,665
2.61
7.
India
12,693
32,411
2.55
Source: Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury - Global Research Report, Materials Science and
Technology, June 2011,, Evidence, Thomson Reuters
Indian Universities on Global Map in Materials Science Research:
World top 5, Indexed in Web of Science, 2001 - 2011
Institutions
Papers
Institutions
Citations
Institutions
Impact
Chinese Academy
of Sciences
14,019
Chinese Academy
of Sciences
104,104
University of
Washington
30.41
Russian Academy
of Sciences
6,679
Max Planck
Society, Germany
56,720
University of
California Santa
Barbara
27.41
Tohoku University
5,511
Tohoku University
40,135
University of
California
Berkeley
26.58
Tsinghua
University
5,129
NIMS, Japan
36,578
University of
Groningen
25.07
Indian Institute of
Technology
4,522
MIT, USA
35,329
Harvard
University
24.46
No Indian University in Top 20 also, in terms of citations and impact –
Calls for more focus on Quality Aspects
Source: Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury - Global Research Report, Materials Science and
Technology, June 2011,, Evidence, Thomson Reuters
Contribution of Scientific Disciplines from India to
publications in top 1% journals – Top 5
Rank
Discipline
No of papers in Top 1%
impact journal (2006-2010)
No of papers in Top 1%
impact journal (2001-2005)
1.
Engineering
1204
324
2.
Chemistry
797
685
3.
Physics
587
572
4.
Materials Science
454
340
5.
Clinical Medicine
369
155
Source: Bibliometric Study of India’s Scientific Publications Outputs during 2001-2010,
July 2012, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi
Premier Institutes in India for Materials Science Research
 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
 Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad
 Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
 Indian Institutes of Technology
 Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore
 Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
 Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar
 Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
 National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore
 National Institutes of Technology
 Naval Materials Research Laboratory, Ambernath
 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Nano Coatings
Sample
condition
Uncoated
Nano Coated
TiO2 Coated
Number fraction
Un coated
Un coated
TiO2 Coated
Hardness
VHN
48
781
Grain size (nm)
Nano in Extractive Metallurgy
Sintering of Nano Tungsten
%Cr recovery
Recovery from conventional ore: 9%Cr
Recovery from 10h milled ore : 98%Cr
Breakthrough
99% densification at 16000C
High Strength Al based Nanocomposites
100nm
14
Al100-XFeX- 20h MA
12
Ageing time, 2hrs
green compact
473K
573K
673K
Hardness, GPa
10
8
6
4
2
0
0
5
10
15
Composition (at % Fe)
20
High Strength Nanocomposites
HR ratio normalized with OFHC Cu
0. 5 µm
Nanocomposite
Microcomposite
3
2
1
0
5
10
15
20
25
wt.% Tungsten
30
Nanostructured ODS Steels with High Creep Resistance
500 nm
Ti2Y2O7(220)-0.357 nm
5 nm
Nanocrystalline High Entropy Alloys
500 nm
Functional Nanocomposites with Exceptional properties
Magnetisation, M (emu/g)
150
Sm2Co17 - 5% FeCo
(a)
2
100
3
50
1
0
-50
-100
-150
-3
1) as cast Sm2Co17
2) as milled FeCo
3) composite
-2
-1
0
1
Magnetic field (T)
2
3
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