Phone 0114 225 3469
Email Y.Purandare@shu.ac.uk
Dr Yashodhan Purandare joined the Nanotechnology Centre for PVD Research in October 2006 as a post-doctoral researcher. Yashodhan has obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. His PhD project involved aqueous erosion-corrosion studies of superlattice CrN/NbN PVD coatings.
Prior to his PhD, he has obtained engineering degrees - a Diploma (D.Met) from Government Polytechnic Pune (1998) and a Bachelor degree (BE) in Metallurgical-Sandwich Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Pune (2001). He has gained valuable industrial experience in the field of fabrication and manufacturing technology of pressure vessels by working for Thermax Ltd and Thermax Babcock & Wilcox Ltd, India, total for a period of two years. He also has research experience in the field of foundry and welding which he carried out during his academic and professional career. His pioneering work of mapping the effect of impact angle and velocity on the erosion-corrosion mechanisms for the superlattice CrN/NbN PVD coatings was awarded with the R.F. Bunshah Award -best paper presented in Session E -ICMCTF, San Diego, USA 2004 and with runners up prize in the Bodycote prize paper competition, Canada 2005.
Currently he is involved in the process development for deposition of application tailored nanoscale multilayer structured PVD coatings using a variety of deposition methods such as Unbalanced Magnetron Sputtering (UBM) and High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS). He is also responsible for the development of research for high temperature and aqueous corrosion and tribo-corrosion studies.
All of Yashodhan's papers can be accessed at SHURA.