1. Status of Materials Science Research in India Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India murty@iitm.ac.in B.S. Murty

2. National Output of Materials Science Research Papers indexed in Web of Science (2005-2009) Top ten countries ranked by number of papers S.NoCountryPapers 1.China55,003 2.USA38,189 3.Japan25,473 4.Germany16,832 5.South Korea15,261 6.India12,693 7.France12,344 8.UK11,611 9.Russia7,927 10.Taiwan7,410 Source: Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury - Global Research Report, Materials Science and Technology, June 2011,, Evidence, Thomson Reuters

3. Quality aspects of the publications from India and other leading countries in Materials Science: Indexed in Web of Science, Ranked by Impact (2005-2009) S.NoCountryPapersCitationsImpact 1.USA38,189222,5525.83 2.EU-1553,283216,7124.07 3.Taiwan7,41085,8663.37 4.Japan25,47323,3033.14 5.South Korea15,26147,3343.10 6.China55,003143,6652.61 7.India12,69332,4112.55 Source: Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury - Global Research Report, Materials Science and Technology, June 2011,, Evidence, Thomson Reuters

4. Indian Universities on Global Map in Materials Science Research: World top 5, Indexed in Web of Science, 2001 - 2011 InstitutionsPapersInstitutionsCitationsInstitutionsImpact Chinese Academy of Sciences 14,019Chinese Academy of Sciences 104,104University of Washington 30.41 Russian Academy of Sciences 6,679Max Planck Society, Germany 56,720University of California Santa Barbara 27.41 Tohoku University5,511Tohoku University40,135University of California Berkeley 26.58 Tsinghua University 5,129NIMS, Japan36,578University of Groningen 25.07 Indian Institute of Technology 4,522MIT, USA35,329Harvard University 24.46 No Indian University in Top 20 also, in terms of citations and impact – Calls for more focus on Quality Aspects Source: Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury - Global Research Report, Materials Science and Technology, June 2011,, Evidence, Thomson Reuters

5. Contribution of Scientific Disciplines from India to publications in top 1% journals – Top 5 RankDiscipline No of papers in Top 1% impact journal (2006-2010) No of papers in Top 1% impact journal (2001-2005) 1.Engineering1204324 2.Chemistry797685 3.Physics587572 4.Materials Science454340 5.Clinical Medicine369155 Source: Bibliometric Study of India’s Scientific Publications Outputs during 2001-2010, July 2012, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi

6. Premier Institutes in India for Materials Science Research Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Indian Institutes of Technology Indian Space Research Organization, Bangalore Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore National Institutes of Technology Naval Materials Research Laboratory, Ambernath Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

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8. Nano in Extractive Metallurgy %Cr recovery Recovery from conventional ore: 9%Cr Recovery from 10h milled ore : 98%Cr Sintering of Nano Tungsten Breakthrough 99% densification at 1600 0 C Breakthrough 99% densification at 1600 0 C

9. High Strength Al based Nanocomposites 100nm

10. High Strength Nanocomposites

11. 500 nm Nanostructured ODS Steels with High Creep Resistance 5 nm Ti 2 Y 2 O 7 (220)-0.357 nm

12. Nanocrystalline High Entropy Alloys 500 nm

13. Functional Nanocomposites with Exceptional properties

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