Dr. Reddy's Thesis, Research and Creative Activity

 
Professor Reddy has advised the M.S. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation of nearly 48 graduate students and conducted research work with nearly  32 post-doctoral fellows, research associates and visiting scientists. A detailed list of each is given here:
bulletM.S. Thesis

Student Name

Year Thesis Topic

C. C. Acholonu

1983 Distribution of Metals (copper, cobalt, nickel) Between Alloys and Silica Unsaturated Iron Slags

G. P. Singh

1983 Laboratory Studies of Cleaning of Slags from Copper Smelter

P. Saho

1984 Thermodynamic Activity of Nickel Oxide and Cobalt Oxide in Nickel Smelting Slag

A. R. Narayan

1988 Fundamental Studies on Electrochemical Production of Al-Li Alloys from Oxy-fluoride Melts

H. Hu

1989 Modeling of Viscosities in Liquid Melts and Experimental Determination of Spent Potlining

B. Chen

1990 Modeling of Sulfide Capacities in Binary and Ternary Silicate Slags

K. N. Hebbar

1991 Viscosity Modeling and Glass Formation Characteristics of Oxy-fluoride Melts

S. Shrivastava

1991 Synthesis and Characterization of Glass-Ceramics from SPL Waste

S. Wang

1992 Thermodynamics Studies on Solubility of Nickel, Chromium and Iron in HF-HNO3-H2O Solutions

J.Y. Yen

1992 Fundamental Studies of High Temperature Slags and Glass-Ceramics Melts

P. T. Velu

1995 Electrochemical Studies on Synthesis of Alloys

W. Zhao

1995 Sulfur Reactions in Highly Ordered Liquid Melts

T. P. Gribben

1995 High Temperature Reduction of Metal Oxides in a Simulated Reactor using Oxygen and Hydrocarbon Rich Gases

Z. Cai

1996 Processing of Uranium Contaminated Soils using Zeolites

R. Singareddy

1997 Thermodynamic Properties of Molten Metal Systems (non-thesis)

X. Wen

1997 High Temperature Behavior of Intermetallic Aluminides

Y. Li

1997 High Temperature oxidation of Ti-Al-Nb Intermetallics

S. White

1999 Plasma Processing of Waste materials

S. M. McElroy

2001 Laser and Infrared Processing Aluminides

S. Janakiraman

2001 Studies on the Electrode materials for Capacitance Property in Electrochemical Capacitors

A. Kumar

2002 Bipolar Plate Materials and Single Cell Model for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells

M. Yahya

2002 Sulfide Capacities of Binary and Multicomponent Aluminate Slags

V. Kamavaram

2002 Electrorefining of Aluminum Alloys in Ionic Liquids via Near Room Temperature Electrolysis

K. G. Cook

2003 Structure and Properties of Al-Si Alloy Centrifugal Castings

L. V. Antony

2004 Plasma Processing of High Purity Reactive Metal Powders

V. Palaniyandi

2004 Non-Noble Metals Catalysts for the Production of Hydrogen use in Fuel Cells (non-thesis)

V. V. Nikam

2004 Development of Bipolar Plate Materials for PEM Fuel Cells

A. Joshi

2004 Laser Surface Modification of Titanium Alloy

S. Tyagi

2005 In-situ Processing of Mg Alloys Composites

N. Thakkar

2005 Plasma Processing of Carbide Metal Matrix Composites

Dusti Livingston

2005 High Temperature Oxidation of Ti-Al-X (Nb, Mo, Cr) alloys

Biswa Padhy

2005 Fundamental Studies on Direct Methanol Fuel Cells

Pratheesh George

2006 Thermodynamic Properties of Aluminides

Vinod Namilkonda

2007 In-situ Processing of Al-Si Alloys Composites
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bulletPh. D. Dissertations

Student Name

Year Dissertation Topic

S. Wang

1994 Physico-Chemical Properties of Molten Salt Systems

S. G. Kumar

1994 Synthesis and Phase Equilibria Studies on Intermetallic Aluminides based on Titanium and Niobium

D. Kocherginsky

1995 In-situ Formation of SiC in Al-Si Melt

P. T. Velu

1997 Processing of Reactive and Rear Earth Metals and Alloys from Molten Salts

Z. Zhang

1999 Experimental Studies and Modeling of Viscosities of Borate and Borosilicate Melts

S. Niyomwas

2001 Thermal Plasma In Situ Processing of TiN and TiC Reinforced Fe Alloy Ultra-fine Composites from Ilmenite

Q. Zheng

2003 In-Situ Processing of AlN Particle Reinforced Aluminum Alloy Composites

A. Kumar

2004 Materials, Design, and Modeling for Bipolar/End Plates in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells

V. Kamavaram

2004 Novel Electrochemical Refining of Aluminum Based Materials in low Temperature Ionic Liquid Electrolytes

S. M. McElroy

2005 Development of Molten Zinc resistant Materials

R. Nagireddy

2006 Development of Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors

 L. Tong

2006 Plasma Processing of Nanocomposites

V. Nikam

2008 Development of Materials, Design and Model for Bipolar Plate applications in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells

M. Zhang

  Electrochemical Processing of Aluminum using Ionic Liquids (in progress)
        D. Pradhan   Electrochemical Processing of Reactive Metals using Ionic Liquids (in progress)

Lu Yuhao

  Fabrication of Micro Fuel Cells (in progress)
     
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bullet Research Associates and Scientists

Name

Organization

Dr. M. Blander

Argonne National Laboratories, Argonne, IL

Prof. L. Brewer

University of California, Berkeley, CA

Dr. A. E. Torma

Idaho National Engineering Laboratories, Moscow, ID

Prof. P. K. Rao

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Dr. R. K. Mishra

Pease & Curren, Inc., RI

Mr. E. Morrice, Jr.

US Bureau of Mines, Reno Research Center, Reno, NV

Dr. A. P. Lingras

Gas Research Institute, Chicago, IL

Dr. C. Coekelbergs

Metallurgie Hoboken-Overpelt (MHO), Research Development and Technology Center, BELGIUM

Prof. K.C. Chou

University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, CHINA

Mr. M. N. Ahmad

ETICAM, Fallon, NV

Mr. J. Holthus

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Berkeley, CA

Mr. J. Wu

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Berkeley, CA

Mr. K. Libsch

APTUS, Salt Lake City, UT

Dr. S. G. Kumar

University of Nevada, Reno, NV

Dr. J. U. Ejiofor

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Dr. S. Viswanathan

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN

Dr. R. B. Inturi

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Dr. M. K. Mohan

The University of Alabama,  Tuscaloosa, AL

Dr. N. A. Gokcen

Consultant, Alabany, OR

Dr. B. Wu

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Prof.  I. C. I. Okafor

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Dr. Z. Zhang

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Dr. M. Divakar

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Prof. Sun Kim

Ulson University, Ulson, Korea

Dr. M. F. Arenas

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Mr. C. Bora Derin

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Mr. Jonathan Aerts

Process research and Development, UMICORE, Belgium

Dr. Jonkion C. Font

Institute for Innovation in Mining & Metallurgy- CODELCO, Chile

Dr. Q. Zheng

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Dr. Venkat Kamavaram

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Dr. S. C. Parida

BARC, Bombay, India

Dr. R. R. Nagireddy

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
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