Mainak Saha
Education
2023 M.S. and Ph.D, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India
2018 B.Tech, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, India
Professional Experiences
2023.10 – Postdoctoral research fellow, NIMS
Awards and Honors
2025 Best oral presentation award at the Annual Meeting of the Electron Microscopy Society of India (EMSI), IISc Bangalore, India
2024 Best poster award in Creation of Materials in Superthermal fields symposium, Osaka University, Japan
2022 Best oral presentation award in Technical ceramics and Composites category, in the Annual conference of the Powder Metallurgy Association of India (PMAI), Mumbai, India
2020 Prime Minister Research Fellowship for doctoral research, Govt. of India
2016 Undergraduate Steel Fellowship, Ministry of Steels, Govt. of India
Selected Publications
"Strain partitioning-induced anisotropy in thermomechanically processed magnesium alloys comprised of earth-abundant elements"
J.J. Bhattacharyya, S. Faberman, A. Sullivan, M. Saha, T.T. Sasaki, S.R. Agnew,
Scripta Materialia, 262 (2025) 116659.
"Advancing the hydrogen tolerance of ultrastrong aluminum alloys via nanoprecipitate modification"
Y. Wang, J. Tang,H. Fujihara,N. Adachi, Y. Todaka, Y. Xu, M. Saha,T.T. Sasaki, K. Shimizu, K.Hirayama, A. Takeuchi,M. Uesugi, H. Toda,
Corrosion Science 240 (2024) 112471.
"Revealing the Localization of NiAl-Type Nano-Scale B2 Precipitates Within the BCC Phase of Ni Alloyed Low-Density FeMnAlC Steel"
M. Saha, M.B. Ponnuchamy, M. Sadhasivam, C. Mahata, G. Vijayaragavan, K. Gururaj, K. Suresh, N. Chandrasekaran, D. Prabhu, K. Kumbhar, K. Kumbhar, K.G. Pradeep, JOM. 74 (2022) 3181–3190.
"On the correlative microscopy analyses of nano-twinned domains in 2 mol% zirconia alloyed yttrium tantalate thermal barrier material"
K. Gururaj, M. Saha, S.K. Maurya, R. Nama, A. Alankar, M.B. Ponnuchamy, K.G. Pradeep,
Scripta Materialia, 212 (2022) 114584.
"Additive manufacturing of ceramics and cermets: present status and future perspectives"
M. Saha, M. Mallik, Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences. 46 (2021) 162.