Dr. Mitun Das

CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute

Senior Principal Scientist

Biomaterials and Medical Devices Division

Phone: +91-033-23223270
E-mail:mitun@cgcri.res.in

Joined CSIR-CGCRI on 27^th April, 2005

Institution	Position	Period
CGCRI, Kolkata	JRF (GATE)	2002 - 2003
CGCRI, Kolkata	Scientist	2005 - Till date

Degree	Discipline	University; Year
B.E.	Metallurgical Engineering	Jadavpur University
M.Tech	Materials & Metallurgical Engineering	IIT, Kanpur
Ph.D	Metallurgical and Materials Engineering	IIT, Madras

Patents: Indian : 01

M. Das, A. K. Basu, S. Ghatak, Patent in India: An improved process of making boron nitride coated carbon fiber (Ref No. 0205NF2007)

Received Tata Trusts-Tel-Aviv University Scholarship for 2019 – 20
2^nd Best poster award in Indo-German Bilateral workshop on Additive Manufacturing of Metals (AMM-2019), 04-06 February 2019
“IEI Young Engineers Award 2013-2014” in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering discipline
Best poster award in National Seminar on Recent Advances on Multifunctional Materials (RA2M), HIT, Haldia, India, February 3 -4, 2017
Received International travel support (ITS) grant from SERC (DST) in 2013 for paper presentation in an International conference (ABMC4) at Hong Kong
Best poster presentation award from Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs (India) during International Conference on Design of Biomaterials (IISc Bangalore), 2012
Best Young Researcher award from CSIR-CGCRI, 2011
Best poster presentation award in BIO2011, July 21-23, 2011, CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata
Best oral presentation award in International Conference on Ceramics, CERATEC-07 at Visakhapatnam
Selected for CSIR Junior Research Fellowship (GATE), 2002

Landmark Research Contribution:

Development of novel ceramic reinforced composites for biomedical applications.
Develop a much cheaper and less toxic synthesis process of boron nitride (BN) coating on carbon fiber carbon matrix (C/C) composite to improve the oxidation resistance of carbon fibers.

Summary – SCI Journal Papers: 72, Book chapters: 06, Conference Proceedings: 50
Selected Papers:

Mitun Das, V. K. Balla, T. S. Sampathkumar, I. Manna, Tribological, electrochemical and in vitro biocompatibility study of SiC reinforced composite coatings, Materials & Design 95 (2016) 510-517
Mitun Das, K. Bhattacharya, S. A. Dittrick, C. Mandal, V. K. Balla, T. S. Sampath Kumar, A. Bandyopadhyay and I. Manna “In situ synthesized TiB-TiN reinforced Ti6Al4V alloy composite coatings: Microstructure, Tribological and In-vitro Biocompatibility” Journal of Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 29 (2014) 259 – 271
Mitun Das, V. K. Balla, D. Basu, I. Manna, T. S. Sampath Kumar, Amit Bandyopadhyay, “Laser processing of in situ synthesized TiB-TiN reinforced Ti6Al4V alloy coatings” Scripta Materialia 66 (2012) 578–581
Mitun Das, V. K. Balla, D. Basu, S. Bose and A. Bandyopadhyay, “Laser processing of SiC particle reinforced coating on titanium”, Scripta Materialia 63 (2010) 438–441
Mitun Das, A. K. Basu, S. Ghatak, Amish G. Joshi, “Carbothermal synthesis of boron nitride coating on PAN carbon fiber” Journal of the European Ceramic Society 29 (2009) 2129 – 2134

Summary: Ph.D.: 02 (ongoing, Jointly); M.Tech: 08 (completed)