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
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
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- John Sheridan
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Shashikanth Suryanarayana
Project Number
IMURA0286
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Investigation of Thermal Properties of Nanofluids
Research Themes
Smart Materials, Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Wenlong Cheng
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Prakash C Ghosh
Project Number
IMURA0295
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Tanesh Dinesh Gamot
Exploring the Surfactant-like Properties of Graphene/ Graphene-Oxide for Thermal Engineering of Emulsions
Research Themes
Smart Materials, Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Mainak Majumder
- Tam Sridhar
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Arup Bhattacharyya
Project Number
IMURA0222
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Techno-economic evaluations of solar (or other advanced technologies) for splitting water for hydrogen and oxygen feedstock to ammonia and nitric acid production
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Infrastructure Engineering
Monash University Supervisor
- Andrew Hoadley
- Sankar Bhattacharya
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Sagar Mitra
- Santanu Bhandopadhyay
Project Number
IMURA0696
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Micro-structural and Micro Spectroscopic Investigation of Bulk-heterojunciton Organic Solar Cells
Research Themes
Clean Energy
Monash University Supervisor
- Amelia C. Y. Liu
- Christopher Mc Neil
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Dinesh Kabra
Project Number
IMURA0098
Project Status
Student completed
Vikram Vishal
Numerical Simulation of CO2 sequestration and recovery of CH4 from coal seams
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Infrastructure Engineering
Monash University Supervisor
- Ranjith Pathegama
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- T.N Singh
Project Number
IMURA0136
Project Status
Candidate completed
Wasim Feroze
Novel polymer composite membranes for the direct methanol fuel cell
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Bradley Ladewig
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Manoj Neergat
Project Number
IMURA0356
Project Status
Candidate completed
Abhishek Sharma
Computational analysis of Nano porous materials for adsorption and separation applications
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Nikhil Medhekar
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Ateeque Malani