A) Name: Dr. J. A. Sekhar

B) Title: Professor 

Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati , College of Engineering, Cincinnati, OH 45221- 0012  &

Director:  International Center for Micropyretics

C) Address:  496 Rhodes Hall, ML-12, Cincinnati, OH, 45221-0012

D) Phone:  513-556-3105

 
E) Fax: 513-556-2653

F) E-mail: jainagesh.sekhar@uc.edu

1991 Research Group
 

Professor Sekhar (on the right) flies twin engine airplanes and takes students to the annual Oshkosh EAA event.
 

Research and Technology Interest Summary:

·        New product commercialization and entrepreneurial companies.

·        Manufacturing related to nano crystals, micro-solidification and combustion/micropyretically synthesized engineered microstructures of metal/intermetallic composites,

·        Productivity, energy and environmental issues which impact plant productivity.

·        Nano-crystalline aluminum and oxide materials.

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Funding:

>$5,000,000

NSF, DOE, DOD, Private Industry
 
Materials for ultra high temperature active use.

·        Heating element materials and device technology.

·        Nano-crystalline aluminum and oxide materials,  processing and property development,

·        Intellectual property and rapid commercialization of materials technology (see industrial activity description in the resume)

·        Solidification and casting of complex face-centered cubic alloys such as nickel aluminides, superalloys, aluminum lithium alloys, high strength aluminum alloys,

·        Rapid solidification processing and rapidly solidified crystalline alloys,

·        Rapid Thermal processing of GaN

·        Development of multi-dimensional many moving boundary computer programs to model three-dimensional rapid solidification and two dimensional combustion synthesis,

·        Icosahedral crystals,

·        Faceted crystals,

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Directional solidification,  

·        Environmentally sensitive manufacturing technologies,

·        Laser materials interaction and processing,

·        Solidification of composite materials including high temperature niobium aluminides,

·        Applications and technology transfer of alloys made by micropyretic synthesis,

·        Ultra high pressure solidification,

·        New materials for use in the Hall-Heroult cell for producing aluminum.

 

An All Round Successful Innovator And Scientist.

 

Professor Sekhar is a unique innovator, having not only discovered new technologies in materials and devices, but also having ensured that a majority of these have successfully entered the marketplace.  Many of his new discoveries and products are being used in over sixteen countries worldwide. The discoveries have brought substantial energy and environment benefit and the potential for energy savings alone is greater than 1014Kwh/year.  Innovation is the one word which clearly describes Professor Sekhar's work.  He has been granted over 65 Patents in the past few years.  The perceptive, innovative quality of Professor Sekhar's effort has always been noted in his uncanny ability to quickly recognize research and marketing opportunities which lead to new discoveries or scientific understanding. 

 

Professor Sekhar has published in premier scientific journals, creates usable relevant technology and also directs the marketing and sales of products.  The impact and innovative quality of his work is apparent from the products described below which have been discovered or innovated by him, primarily on account of his deep understanding of processing science for new materials synthesis.(over 130 scientific publications in journals like Nature, Acta Metallurgica, etc.).  Professor Sekhar’s research has been funded by NSF, DOE, DOD, AFOSR,EMTEC and a wide range of companies in the US and Europe.

 

Simultaneously, he has also led the company, Micropyretics Heaters International Inc., as President and Chairman from inception to a leadership position in its field, placing the USA in a pre-eminent position of possessing the capability of producing key engineering materials, including those which may be used in air beyond 1900°C. 

 

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Publications (click on link)

Funding  (click on link)

Full Resume/Biodata  (click on link)

Awards  (click on link)

 

 

·        R&D100 Award 2001.

·        Fellow ASM International.

·        Community Elected President Board of Directors of the Academy of Greater Cincinnati.

·        Elected, University of Cincinnati Fellow, 2001.

·        Reviewer for various journals and NSF Panels.

·        R&D100 Award 1999.

·        …………..click on link for detailed award listl

 

 

The discovery of high emissivity MoSi2

The creation of a TiB2 composite with nano- alumina additions for grain growth control (Ti is the metal and B is the metalloid). 

 

…………………………………………………………………………………………and many more discoveries and inventions.