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
IMURA0065
Project Status
Candidate completed
R Vivek
Ternary Polymer Blends Involving Self-Reinforcing Liquid Crystalline Polymer Fibrils Containing Carbon Nanotube Reinforcement
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- George Simon
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Arup Bhattacharyya
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
Project Number
IMURA0674
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Akanksha Adaval
Nanofiller Incorporated Co-continuous Binary Polymer Blends: Rheological and Morphological Investigation
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- George Simon
- Terry Turney
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Arup Bhattacharyya
- Mohammad Aslam
Project Number
IMURA0669
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Evaluation of organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites for applications in electrodes for supercapacitors
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Jie Zhang
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Sumit Saxena
Project Number
IMURA0721
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Micro-mechanisms of plasticity and fracture in alloys produced by additive manufacturing
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Chris Davies
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Amber Shrivastava
Project Number
IMURA0070
Project Status
Candidate completed
Muthu Nelson
Multiscale Modelling of Composite Laminates using Meshless Methods
Research Themes
Smart Materials, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Modelling
Monash University Supervisor
- Wenyi Yan
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- S.K Maiti
Project Number
IMURA0403
Project Status
Candidate completed
Ponsubbiah Soundrapandian Nadar
Develop a microkinetic model framework for heterogeneously catalyzed reaction – Direct Aromatization of Methane
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Alan Chaffee
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Debabrata Maiti
- A.K Suresh
Project Number
IMURA0242
Project Status
Candidate completed
Rajesh Deka
Low-coordinate monomeric lanthanoid chalcogenolates
Research Themes
Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Glen Deacon
- David Turner
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Harkesh B. Singh
Project Number
IMURA0468(A)
Project Status
Candidate Allotted
Nano-confined multi component metal hydride system for hydrogen sensing application
Research Themes
Clean Energy, Smart Materials
Monash University Supervisor
- Raman Singh
- Gita Pendharkar
IIT-Bombay Supervisor
- Siddhartha Prakash Duttagupta
- Sankara Sarma V Tatiparti