Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
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Balasubramanian

Professor

+91 44 2257 4767

mbala [at] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

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  • Dr. Balasubramanian joined the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT Madras as Assistant Professor in November 2000 and became Associate Professor in April 2006 and Professor in June 2010. Prior to this he was working as a Lecturer in the Department of Ceramic Technology, Anna University, Chennai for five years. Balasubramanian received his PhD in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering from IIT Madras, ME in Materials Science from NIT, Thiruchirapalli and MSc in Chemistry from Madurai Kamaraj University.
  • Balasubramanian's research interest lies in the area of ceramic and composite materials. He has expertise in the development of polymer nanocomposites and natural fibre reinforced composites. His group is also involved in the development of tough SiC composites, mullite membranes and biomorphic oxide and non-oxide ceramics and composites. A book written by him on, Composite Materials and Processing and published by CRC Press is well received by international community.

  • Processing of Ceramic & Composite Materials
  • Biomorphic Ceramics
  • Ceramic Membranes
  • Non-oxide Ceramics
  • Polymer Nanocomposites and Natural Fiber Composites

  • 2000 - 2006
  • 2006 - 2010
  • 2010 - Till date
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor
  • Professor

  1. 2014 - Oral presentation on, Development of ceramic membrane support by centrifugal casting technique, authored by K. Mohammed Rashad and M.Balasubramanian, has received the best paper award at the International symposium for research scholars on metallurgy, materials science & engineering, held at Chennai
  2. 2007 - Oral presentation on, Effect of SiCp on the dry sliding wear behaviour of Al-Si/SiCp composites produced by stir casting, authored by S.Dhanalakshmi, N.Balasubramani, P.Sivakumar, R.Gnanamoorthy and M.Balasubramanian, has received the first prize at the National seminar on Advanced materials for hostile environment-Present scenario and future perspectives held at Thiruvananthapuram
  3. 2005 - Poster presentation on, Sintering and properties of new P/M aluminium alloys and composites, by A.Dudhmande, Th.Schubert, M.Balasubramanian and B.Kieback, has won the best poster award, at Euro PM2005 Congress & Exhibition, held at Prague, Czech Republic
  4. 2004 - Membership of the Indian Institute of Ceramics was awarded in the year
  5. 2004 - Poster presentation on,Extrusion of Alumina fibres by Sol-gel process by J.Chandradass and M.Balasubramanian, has bagged the Second Prize at the International conference on Recent Advances in Composite Materials held at Varanasi

  1. On the formation of alpha-alumina single crystal platelets through eggshell membrane bio-templating

    Author: Sabu, Ummen and Shyam Kumar, C. N. and Logesh, G. and Rashad, Mohammed and Melinte, Georgian and Joy, Anand and Kabel, Christian and Balasubramanian, M.

    Journal: Scripta Materialia

    Volume: 195

    Page: 113716

    Year: 2021

  2. Development of porous mullite and mullite-Al2O3 composite for microfiltration membrane applications

    Author: Rashad, Mohammed and Logesh, G. and Sabu, Ummen and Balasubramanian, M.

    Journal: Separation and Purification Technology

    Volume: 219

    Page: 74--81

    Year: 2019

  3. On correlation between transformation and densification mechanisms in SiC during spark plasma sintering

    Author: Lodhe, Mangesh and Chawake, Niraj and Yadav, Devinder and Balasubramanian, M.

    Journal: Scripta Materialia

    Volume: 115

    Page: 137--140

    Year: 2016

  4. Effect of intermediate heat treatment on mechanical properties of SiCf/SiC composites with BN interphase prepared by ICVI

    Author: Udayakumar, A. and Sri Ganesh, A. and Raja, S. and Balasubramanian, M.

    Journal: Journal of the European Ceramic Society

    Volume: 31

    Page: 1145--1153

    Year: 2011

  5. Tribological behaviour of clay-thermoset polyester nanocomposites

    Author: Jawahar, P. and Gnanamoorthy, R. and Balasubramanian, M.

    Journal: Wear

    Volume: 261

    Page: 835--840

    Year: 2006