Personal Profile
Name:	Dr. Ashit Kumar Pramanick
Email:	pramanick@nmlindia.org
Gender:	Male
Designation:	Gr.IV/4	DOB:	31-01-1966
Division:	MST	Mobile No.:	9431180406
Phone No.:	0657-2345014	Total Years ofExperience:	9
Address.:	A/IV/18 NML Flats, PO Agrico, Jamshedpur
Academic Qualification:	Exam. passed Board/ start Year End Year Division Remarks University Ph.D. BHU Sept 1993 June 2001 Awarded In Metallurgical Engg., M. Sc. Physics BHU July 1990 June 1992 1st Specialization in Electronics B.Sc. (Hons.) Ranchi July 1988 June 1990 1st Physics (Hons.) Univ. Stood first in the College B.Sc. (Pass) Ranchi June 1985 July 1988 1st Distinction in Univ. Mathematics
Experience Details:	Research Experiences & Employments 1.As Scientist ‘E1’ at NML, Jamshedpur from July 2010 2.As Scientist ‘C’ at NML, Jamshedpur from July 2006 3.As Scientist ‘B’ at NML, with Four increments (Rs/- 9100) Jamshedpur from June 2004 4.Fast Track fellowship at NML Jamshedpur Nov. 2003 to June 2004 5.Joined NML, Jamshedpur in Microgravity project from Dec. 2002 to Nov 2003 6.Extended SRF (CSIR Fellowship): Joined from Dec. 2001 to Nov. 2002 7.Worked as Project Scientist in a consultancy project from DMRL entitled to “Development of CCT Diagram of (given ) steel (March 2001-Nov 2001)” 8.Registered as a research student in the year March 95 at Dept. of Metallurgical Engg., IT-BHU, Varanasi. Recived fellowship from UGC for J. R. F (1997-99), for S. R. F (1999-Feb 2001) 9.Worked as Project Assistant in I.U.C. Project on “Neutron Scattering In Ferroelectric Materials” during Dec. 1993-June 1994.

Professional Profile

Introduction:	Working at CSIR-NML as Sr. Scientist.
Research Area:	Chracterisation by Electron Microscopy & AFM, Biomaterials, New alloys
Major Projects Undertaken:	1. ‘Biomimetic Hydroxyapatite Coating on Zirconium Based Biocompatible Alloys’, Dept. of Science & Technology, New Delhi (under INDO-UKIERI), as Project Leader, Status: ongoing project 2. ‘Al-Si-Zr Alloy Based Material for Biomedical Application’, Dept. of Science & Technology, New Delhi (under INDO-BULGARIAN Project scheme), as Project Leader, Status: ongoing project 3. ‘Strengthening mechanism of V and Nb micro alloyed low C Steel rebars produced through TMT’, , Tata-steel, as Project Leader (completed) 4. Strengthening Mechanism of Nb and V Microalloyed Low C Steel Rebars and Slab- PHASE-II as Project Leader, Status: as Project Leader ongoing project, ongoing project 5. Study on compositional dependency of high strength nb-b bainitic steel as Project Leader, Status: ongoing project 6. ‘Nano-crystallization studies on Cobalt Containing Bulk Metallic Glass’, Fast track project from DST from 2003-2007, as Project Leader (Completed) 7. ‘Geometrical characterization of grain boundaries using Atomic Force Microscopy’, In house project at NML , 2004-2005 as Project Leader (Completed) 8. ‘Phase Transformation in Secondary Reaction Zone (SRZ) in Polycrystalline Gas Turbine Blade made of g/g/ Nickel Base Superalloy’ (In house) Co-PL (2004-2005) 9. ‘In Situ Synthesis of Metallic and Intermetallic Nanoparticles with Controlled Dimensions and Topography for Biomedical Applications’, Dept. of Science & Technology, New Delhi under INDO-BULGARIAN Project scheme, as Co-Project Leader, status: ongoing project 10. Biomimetic synthesis under microgravity’ (2002-2007) Team member 11. Nano-Wires Produced by Borohydride Reduction Process’ Dept. of Science & Technology, New Delhi under Indo-Bulgarian Project scheme, as member (Completed)
Specialization:	Well versed in Electron Microscopy, Scanning probe microscopy (AFM, DFM, MFM, STM, VE-DFM etc.), X-ray diffraction technique, Rapid Solidification Processing of Intermetallic and Quasicrystals, Biomim
Patents/ Copyrights:	Parents 1. Title: A Biomimetic Process for the Synthesis of Aqueous Ferrofluids for Biomedical Applications Inventors: Suprabha Nayar, Arvind Sinha, Ashit Kumar Pramanick 2. Title: A Process for the Synthesis of Injectable Biomimetic Hydroxupatite as Bone Graft Material Inventors: Arvind Sinha, Suprabha Nayar, Ashit Kumar Pramanick, Satish Kumar Sinha(2010) 1710/DEL/2011 16.05.2011, Technology Transferred 1. Biphasic calcium phosphate nanobioceramic, Arvind Sinha, Suprabha Nayar, Ashit Kumar Pramanick
Publications:	1. ‘Effects of Composition on the Streaking and Diffuse intensity in Decagonal Phase in Al70-xCo15Cux+yNi15-y System’ by A. K. Pramanick, R. K. Mandal and G. V. S. Sastry. Materials Science and Engineering A. 294-296 (2000) 173-176. 2. ‘Nature of Streaking and Ordering in Rapidly Solidified Al-Co-Cu-Ni System’ by A. K. Pramanick, R.K. Mandal and G. V. S. Sastry, Material Science and Engineering A. 304-306 (2001) 818-821. 3. ‘Special Diffraction Effects in Al70-xCo15Cux+yNi15-y Decagonal Alloys’ by A. K. Pramanick , R. K. Mandal and G. V. S. Sastry. Ferroelectrics. 250 (2001) 273-279. 4. ‘Aperiodic 2000’, By A. K. Pramanick and N. K. Mukhopadhyay, Current Science 79(2000)12. Meeting Report. 5. ‘Unique Indexing Scheme of Decagonal Phase Based on a Six Dimensional Model’ by A. K. Pramanick, R. K. Mandal and G. V. S. Sastry. (Mat. Res. Soc. Sym. Proc. 805(2003)LL1.6.1-LL1.6.11 6. ‘Structural stability of Al-Co-Cu-Ni decagonal phase’ by A. K. Pramanick, R.K. Mandal and G. V. S. Sastry. J. Non-crystalline solids, 334&335(2004)234-237 7. ‘Synthesis of Nano-crystalline/Quasicrystalline Mg32(Al,Zn)49 by Melt-spinning and Mechanical Milling’ N. K. Mukhopadhyay, Jatin Bhatt, A. K. Pramanick and B. S. Murty, P. Paufler,. Jr. Material Science 39 (2004)5155-51598. 8. ‘Microstructure, Tensile Strength of Severely Deformed Al-2Si Alloy’ K Venkateswarlu, G. Das, A.K. Pramanik, A. K. Ray, Naveen T, Cheng Xu and T.G. Langdon. Int. Conf. on advanced Mat. Goa, India, (2005) pp 16-19 (conf. Proceeding ) 9. ‘Hydroxyapatite Coating on Stainless Steel Pre-Coated with Bovine Serum Albumin at Ambient Conditions’ S. Nayar, A. K. Pramanick B. K. Sharma, R. K. Mishra, S. K. Bansal, A. Prajapati, K. K. Sahu, S. K. Das, L.C. Pathak and A. Sinha, Colloids and surface B: Biointerfaces 48(2006)183-187 10. ‘Microstructural Examination Of Severely Deformed Al-2Si-0.2Sc Alloy’, K. Venkateswarlu, V. Rajinikanth, A.K. Pramanik, M. Ghosh, T.G. Langdon, Inter. Conf. on Recent advances in materials and processing, RAMP-2006, Coimbatore , pp 11.4, 1-6 (Conf. Proceeding) 11. ‘Using Ball Indentation to Evaluate the Properties of an Ultra Fine Grained Al-2%Si Alloy Processed By ECAP’ K. Venkateswarlu, Naveen T., G. Das, A. K. Pramanick, Cheng Xu and T.G. Langdon, Material science and Engineering A, 427, 1-2, ( 2006)188 12. ‘Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) – Hydroxyapatite Biomimetic Scaffold for Tissue Regeneration’, A. Sinha, G. Das, B. K. Sharma, R. P. Roy, A. K. Pramanick and S. Nayar, Materials Science & Engineering C 27(2007) 70. 13. ‘Characterization of Different Samples by Atomic Force Microscopy’ A. K. Pramanick, A. Sinha, S, Nayar and I. Dragieva (Nanoscience and Nanotechnoly-8, pp. No. 257, 2008, Eds. By E.Balabanova, I. Dragieva, Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, Sofia, 14. ‘Biomimetically Synthesized Polymer-Hydroxyapatite Sheet Like Nano- Composite’, S.Nayar, A.K. Pramanick, B. K. Sharma, G. Das, N.Ravishankar and A. Sinha, J. Materials Science in Medicine, 19 (2008) 301 15. ‘Biomimetic Synthesis of Hybrid Nanocomposites Scaffold by Freeze-Thawing and Freeze Drying’ S. Nayar, A. K. Pramanick, A. Guha, B. K. Mahato, M. Gunjan and A. Sinha, Bull. Mater. Sci, , 31(2008) 429 16. ‘Mimcking Biomineralization Under Microgravity’, A. Sinha, A. Gupta’, A. K. Pramanick, S. Nayar, M. K. Gunjan, T. Mishra, N. C. Bhatt, N. Viswanath and S. Das, Mater. Sci. & Engg. C, 29 (2009) 779–784 17. ‘Near-Grain-Boundary Characterization by Atomic Force Microscopy’, A. K. Pramanick, A. Sinha, G. V. S. Sastry and R. N. Ghosh Ultramicroscopy 109 (2009) 741–747 18. ‘Silicon and Silicon Oxide Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Structural and Photoluminescence Characteristics’, M. Ray, N. R. Bandyopadhyay, S.M. Hossain and A. K. Pramanick, Jl. of Appl. Phys. 105 (2009) 074301 19. ‘The Effect of Cobalt Addition on Microstructural Variation in Melt Spun Zr-Al-Cu-Ni Alloys’, A. K. Pramanick, No. 60, In the Proceeding of ‘ Metal Science and New Materials’ 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria. 20. ‘Characterization of Cobalt Precipitation Tube Synthesized Through “Silica Garden” Route’, K. Parmar, Hema T. Chaturvedi, M. W. Akhtar, S. Chakravarty, S. K. Das, A. K. Pramanick, M. Ghosh, A. K. Panda, N. R. Bandyopadhya and S. Bhattacharjee (Materials Characterization, 60, (2009) 863 21. ‘Hybrid and Nanomaterials–2009’, A. K. Pramanick and S. Nayar, Current Science, 96 ( 2009)1, 22. ‘Composition Dependent Structural Modulations in Transparent Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Hydrogels’, S. Gupta, A. K. Pramanick, A. Kailath, T. Mishra, A. Guha, S. Nayar and A. Sinha, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 74 (2009) 186–190, 23. ‘Synthesis and Characterization of Fe(III)-Silicate Precipitation Tubes’, K. Parmar, A. K. Pramanick, N. R. Bandyopadhya and S. Bhattacharjee (Materials Research Bulletin, 45 , 9 (2010) 1283-1287 24. ‘Luminescent Core-Shell Nanostructures of Silicon and Silicon Oxide: Nanodots and Nanorods’, M. Ray, T. S. Basu, A. Jana, N. R. Bandyopadhyay, S. M. Hossain, A. K. Pramanick and R. F. Klie, Jl. of Appl. Phys. 107, (2010) 064311 25. ‘Influence of Zr on Structure Development in Rapidly Solidified Al-Si Alloys’ N. Stoichev, A. K. Pramanick, S. Yaneva, S. Giurov, M. Lazarova, D. Setman & G. Stefanov, Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 10, page 10 Eds. E. Balabanova, I. Dragieva, Sofia (2010). Heron Press, Sofia, Bulgaria, ISSN:1313 – 8995 26. ‘Synthesis and Characterization of an Aqueous Nanometric Iron Hydroxide Suspension Suitable for the Removal of As(III) and As(V)’, Senchoudhury, S and Bandyopadhyay, N R and Pramanick, A K and Bhattacharjee, S Journal of Metallurgy and Materials Science, 52 (3) (2010) 215-229 27. ‘Development of Conversion Coating on Mild Steel Prior to Sol Gel Nanostructured Al2O3 Coating for Enhancement of Corrosion Resistance’, S. K. Tiwari, R. K. Sahu, A. K. Pramanick, R. Singh, Surface & Coatings Technology 205 (2011) 4960–4967 28. ‘New Ternary Mixed Oxides of Fe, Ni and Mo for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution’, M. Kumar, R. Awasthi, A. K. Pramanick, R.N. Singh, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, (International J o u r n a l of Hydrogen Energy 3 6 ( 2 0 1 1 ) 1 2 6 9 8 29. ‘Topographical Heterogeneity in Transparent PVA Hydrogels Studied by AFM’, A. K. Pramanick, S. Gupta and A. Sinha, Submitted in Materials Science and Engineering C (Article in press 2011) 30. ‘Temperature Dependent Photoluminescence from Porous Silicon Nanostructures: Quantum Confinement and Oxide Related Transitions’, M. Ray, S. M. Hossain, N. R. Bandyopadhyay, R. F. Klie, A. K. Pramanick, S. Das and S. K. Ray, Jl. of Appl. Phys. (JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 094309 (2011) 31. ‘Thermal Behavior of Ferromagnetic Bio-Compatible Nanoparticles: A Comparative DSC Study’ Dragieva I, Pramanick A K, Sinha A, Nano Sci. and Nano Tech. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 10, page 10 Eds. E. Balabanova, I. Dragieva, Sofia (2011) (Accepted) will publish by Heron Press, Sofia, Bulgaria 32. ‘XPS study on the correlation of magnetic properties and site occupancy of Al doped SrFe12O19’R. K Sahu, O. Mohanta, A.K. Pramanick, Journal of Alloys and Compounds(2011) Accepted 33. Performance enhancement of crystalline silicon solar cell by coating with luminescent silicon nanostructures, T. S. Basu, M. Ray, N. R. Bandyopadhyay, A. K. Pramanick and S. M. Hossain, Journal of Electronic Materials, DOI: 10.1007/s11664-012-2369-y
Conferences/Workshops /Seminars Organized:	NA
Conferences/Workshops /Seminars Attended:	More than 40 conference/ workshop/ seminer attended
Books Published:	NA
Awards:	First prize in Metallography: On AFM imaging-2012
Memberships:	Membership of Professional Societies 1.Life member of MRSI – LM B296 2.Life member of India Crystallographic Association- LM-185 3.Life member of Indian Institute of Ceramics- JC/2009/1080/M 4.Life member of Indian Ceramic Society- EL-511[FC,CC]/2008 5.Life member of Indian Institute of Metals- 45991 6.Life member of Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI) LM838
Others:	Visited Abroad (i) Attend the Conference “Aperiodic 2000” and presented invited a paper in at department of Theoretical Physics, university of Nijmegen, The Netherlands during July 4-8,2000. Delivered invited lecture on ‘Special Diffraction Effects in Al70-xCo15Cux+yNi15-y Decagonal’ Alloys in the international conference of ‘Aperiodic-2000’during 4-8th July 2000 as Ph. D student. Travelling support: Received from CSIR as Ph. D student (ii) For Indo-Bulgarian joint project work and to delivered invited lecture in the 9th Workshop on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 2007, during 24 Nov. to 08 Dec. 2007 Delivered invited lecture on ‘Characterization of samples by Atomic Force Microscopy’, in the 9th Workshop Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Sofia, November 28 - 30, 2007 Travelling support: from Indo- Bulgarian Project entitled ‘Nano-Wires Produced by Borohydride Reduction Process’ (iii) To present paper on in the ‘First International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials’during 15-19 March 2009, organized by Elsevier at Tours, France Presented paper on ‘Synthesis of Biomimetic Silver Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery’ A. K. Pramanick, & S. Nayar Travelling support: from CSIR (iv) In joint collaborative project under DST-UKIERI from 19-05-10 to 01-06-10. Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, UK Delivered invited lecture on ‘Biomaterial Application of Zr-based BMG and Metal Ion Toxicity’ Travelling support: from DST-UKIERI project -‘Biomimetic Hydroxyapatite Coating on Zirconium Based Biocompatible Alloys’ (v)In the joint collaborative project under DST-UKIERI from 28-11-11 to 03-12-11. Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, UK Travelling support: from DST-UKIERI project -‘Biomimetic Hydroxyapatite Coating on Zirconium Based Biocompatible Alloys