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
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
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
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
2004 - Membership of the Indian Institute of Ceramics was awarded in the year
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
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
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
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
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
Tribological behaviour of clay-thermoset polyester nanocomposites
Author: Jawahar, P. and Gnanamoorthy, R. and Balasubramanian, M.