Dr. Soupitak Pal

CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute

Senior Scientist

Advanced Ceramics & Composites Division

Contact Information:

Phone: +91-033-2473 3496 Extn. 3475
E-mail: soupitak@cgcri.res.in

Dr. Soupitak Pal joined CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata on May 03, 2021

Research Technologist at Advanced Instrumentation & Nano-Analytics (AINA) group at Luxemburg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxemburg, September 2019-April 2021.
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Materials department of University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA, October 2014 to July 2019.
Lead Application Engineer at Process Diagnostic Control (PDC) division, Applied Materials, Santa Clara, USA, April 2013 to September 2014.

Degree	Discipline	University and Year
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	Materials Engineering	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2013
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)	Ceramic Technology	West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), 2006

Research Interest

Microstructure characterization of metallic, amorphous, ceramic and composite systems using advanced electron microscopy, atom probe tomography (APT), and secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS).
Deformation behaviour of high temperature materials, nanoindentation, mechanical testing, creep and fracture.
Processing of non-oxide ceramics and composites (MAX phase ceramics, SiC, SiAlON, Si₃N₄, ceramic matrix composite) using Spark Plasma and conventional sintering techniques.
Radiation damage study and design of new structural material for advanced nuclear reactors and accident tolerant fuel (ATF) development.
Processing and structure-property correlation development for super hard-tough material design.
Processing, characterization and structure-property correlation development of 2D-nanosheets (graphene, MXenes) and solid-state hydrogen storage materials.
Phase equilibria, thermodynamics and kinetics, microstructure development in ceramic system.
Computational Materials Science- VPSC, TEM image simulation, FEM.

National Scholarship from Govt. of India.
Best Poster Award at RASE conference held in NAL, Bangalore, India on June 2009.
Acting reviewer of Journals: Material Science and Engineering A, Wear, Surface and Coating Technology, Material Science and Technology, Materialia.
Early career invited speaker at the symposium “Mechanical Behavior of Nuclear Materials “, TMS-2019, San-Antonio, USA.

Summary: SCI journal-17, Technical report-7, Book Chapter-2, Conference presenation-19.

Five Selected publications:

“Characterization of Phase Transformation and Microstructural Development of Electroless Ni-B Coating” –S Pal, N Verma, V Jayaram, S K Biswas, and Y Riddle. Material Science and Engineering A, 2011, 528, 8269-8276.
“Texture Evolution and Microcracking Mechanisms in As-Extruded and Cross-Rolled Conditions in a 14YWT Nanostructured Ferritic Alloy”, authors: Pal, M. E. Alam, S. A. Maloy, D. T. Hoelzer, G. R.Odette, Acta Materialia,152( 2018) 1-20.
“Quantification of hydrogen in nanostructured hydrogenated passivating contacts for silicon photovoltaics combining SIMS-APT-TEM: A multiscale correlative approach.”, Soupitak Pal, *, Jenifer Barrirero, Mario Lehmann, Quentin Jeangros, Nathalie Valle, Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, C.N. Shyam Kumar, Frank Mücklich, Tom Wirtz, Santhana Eswara, Applied Surface Science, 555 (2021) 149650.
“Correlative high-resolution imaging of hydrogen in Mg2Ni hydrogen storage thin films, “D Andersen, H Chen, S Pal, L Cressa, O De Castro, T Wirtz, G Schmitz, S Eswara. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.12.216.
“The mechanistic implications of the high temperature, long time thermal stability of nanoscale Mn-Ni-Si precipitates in irradiated reactor pressure vessel steels.” N Almirall, PB Wells, S Pal, PD Edmondson, T Yamamoto, K Murakami, GR Odette, Scripta Materialia, 181, (2020) 134-139.

Research Projects:

“High Entropy Alloys for hydrogen storage application operable at Room Temperature (HEART)”, funding Agency: CSIR, Hydrogen Technology Mission, Status-on-going.
“Development of C_f/SiC ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) for Aircraft Brake Disc Applications”, funding Agency: CSIR, Aerospace Material & Technology Mission, Status-on-going.
“Scalable Synthesis of MAX phase ceramics to 2D – MXene: Molten Salt Synthesis Approach” funding Agency: CSIR-CGCRI, Status-on-going.
“SiAION based Novel Composites for Rock Drilling: A plausible Alternative of Hard WC-Co composite”, funding Agency: Ministry of Mines, Status-Accepted.