Research will be conducted in a team-based approach. Research in The Academy will be truly multi-disciplinary which will allow discoveries to be made at the interface of disciplines.
The Academy’s intention is to organize research into classes of problems that seeks to address a key research-theme or sector-goal.
Six key research themes have been identified:
Project Number
IMURA0257
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Development of microbial fuel cells with improved performance
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Sustainable Societies & Management
Monash University Supervisor
- Samuel Adeloju
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prakash C Ghosh
Project Number
IMURA0620
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on transition metal oxides
Research Themes
Smart Materials, Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Jie Zhang
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Arindam Sarkar
Project Number
IMURA0391
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Electrolyte development based on ionic liquids for eco-friendly sodium-ion battery
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Douglas R. MacFarlane
- Vijay Ranganathan
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Sagar Mitra
Project Number
IMURA0135
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Electrocatalysts for low temperature fuel cells
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Bradley Ladewig
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Manoj Neergat
Project Number
IMURA0300
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Investigations on CO2 sequestration with algae under dry and hot ambient conditions
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- John Beardall
- Sankar Bhattacharya
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Pramod Wangikar
Project Number
IMURA0646
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Development of flexible reformer- based fuel cell technology for small-scale power generation
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Akshat Tanksale
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- S. Srinivas
- Prakash C Ghosh
Project Number
IMURA0301
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Investigations on CCP-enhanced carbon dioxide uptake in aqueous media during flue gas scrubbing
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Sankar Bhattacharya
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- A.K Suresh
Project Number
IMURA0406
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Study of nano-structured interphases to understand structure-property correlation using chemical microscopy
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Kei Saito
- Alison Funston
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Jayesh Bellare
Project Number
IMURA0221(B)
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Techno-economic evaluations of coal and biomass pyrolysis with carbon capture for syngas feedstock to ammonia production
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Infrastructure Engineering
Monash University Supervisor
- Andrew Hoadley
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Sanjay Mahajani
Project Number
IMURA0218
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Assessment of the thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes.
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Wenlong Cheng
- George Simon
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Arup Bhattacharyya
- Ajay S Panwar