Some Aspects of Nanocrystalline Materials for Electrical and Magnetic Applications

Abstract

Nanocrystalline materials, with grain size in the nanometer range, promise unique applications in a wide variety of areas. Some of the developments in the area of nanocrystalline electrical and magnetic materials, together with their applications have been discussed.

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R K Dube

R K Dube obtained BTech and MTech degrees in Metallurgical Engg from the Banaras Hindu University in 1969 and 1971 respectively. After serving for one year at the same university, he joined University of Wales at Swansea on a Government of India scholarship, from where he was awarded a PhD degree in 1976. He was a Research. Fellow at the University College of Swansea and Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1978, where he is at present Professor in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engg. He has been also the Head of the Department of Materials and Mettalurgical Engg, Advanced Centre for Materials Science and Materials Science Programme at IIT Kanpur.

Dr Dube's research activity includes power rolling, mechanical processing of monolithic and composite power performs, gas atomization of liquid metals and processing of nanocrystalline materials. He has published about 70 research papers in national and international journals. He is a coauthor of a book “Problems in Metallurgical Thermodynamics and Kinetics”, published by Pergamon Press, Oxford, which has also been translated into Spanish. Dr Dube has been a member of several committees of government and semi-government organizations like, DST. AICTE, UGC, INSA, NALCO, ARC International, DRDO, etc. He is also a member of the National Commission on History of Science, INSA.

Dr Dube has received several awards for his achievements. Some of them are: Best Metallurgists' Award (Ministry of Steel and Mines, Govt of India), BHU Gold Medal, IAEC Goden Jubilee Award, Distinguished Alumnus Award, BHU. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Materials, London and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Metals, Kolkata.