Dr Vinothini Venkatachalam PhD, AFHEA, MIMMM

School of Metallurgy and Materials
Research Fellow of Ceramic science and Engineering

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 791 823 2397
Email
v.venkatachalam@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Metallurgy and Materials
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Vinothini is a Senior research Fellow in the School of Metallurgy & Materials at the University 麻豆精选, UK, looking at the development of ultra-high-temperature ceramic matrix composites (UHTCMCs) using radio frequency-enhanced chemical vapour infiltration for aerospace applications.

She is an Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy, U.K. She is a member of the European Ceramic Society, the American Ceramic Society, and a professional member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3). She has published and presented several research papers as well as contributed to review many research papers.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Materials, Loughborough university, 2011
  • M.S by research in Metallurgy and Materials, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), 2005
  • B.Tech in Ceramic Technology, Anna university, 2002
  • Associate fellow of Higher Education (AFHEA),
  • Professional member of the institute of metals, minerals, and materials (iom3) (MIMMM),
  • Member of American ceramic society (Acers)
  • Member of European ceramic society (ECers),
  • STEM Ambassador
  • Discover Materials Ambassador (DMA)

Biography

Vinu worked as a Scientist at the National Aerospace Laboratory, India, on ternary carbides and joining of advanced materials for aerospace applications prior to obtaining her PhD from the Department of Materials at Loughborough University. Then she moved to industrial R&D, working at Syfer Technology on developing a new range of capacitor devices, which received an outstanding innovative product of the year at the 10th Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards, 2012. She resumed her academic research, as a Research Fellow, at the Technical University of Denmark, working on high-temperature corrosion & protective coatings in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) / electrolyser cells (SOEC) conditions. Vinu has a wide international experience of ceramic processing, from powders to the product, in academia and industry.

Teaching

Vinu delivers a limited number of lectures within the curriculum of the postgraduate module titled "Materials for Challenging Environments." She also supervises on the numerous Final year undergraduate & post graduate projects.

Postgraduate supervision

Vinu is supervising a PhD project on evaluating the fibre architecture & matrix composition on the performance of ceramic matrix composites for ultra-high temperature applications.

Research

Ceramics & Ceramic Matrix composites (CMCs) processing and Characterization

  • Microwave / Radiofrequency assisted chemical vapour infiltration (MW-CVI/ RF-CVI)
  • Ultra-high temperature ceramic matrix composites (UHTCMCs)
  • Sustainable processing
  • Ceramic protection coatings
  • High temperature oxidation
  • SOFC/ SOEC
  • Nano materials synthesis, Microwave processing
  • Ternary carbides, Joining of dissimilar materials.

Publications

Highlight publications

Venkatachalam, V, Blem, S, G眉lhan, A & Binner, J 2022, '', Journal of Composites Science, vol. 6, no. 1, 24.

Baker, B, Venkatachalam, V, Zoli, L, Vinci, A, Failla, S, Sciti, D & Binner, J 2021, '', Materials and Design, vol. 212, 110199.

Binner, J, Porter, M, Baker, B, Zou, J, Venkatachalam, V, Rubio Diaz, V, D'Angio', A, Ramanujam, P, Zhang, T & Tammana, SRCM 2019, '', International Materials Reviews.

Venkatachalam, V, Vaidhyanathan, B & Binner, J 2020, '', Journal of the European Ceramic Society, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 3974-3983.

Murthy, TSRC, Reeman, L, Zou, J, Venkatachalam, V, Baker, B, Wang, M & Binner, J 2020, '', Open Ceramics, vol. 2, 100018.

Recent publications

Article

Venkatachalam, V, Esser, B & Binner, J 2024, '', Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, vol. 185, 108358.

Murthy, TSRC, Zou, J, Venkatachalam, V, Biroju, RK, Theis, W & Binner, J 2024, '', Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

Galizia, P, Sciti, D, Binner, J, Venkatachalam, V, Lagos, MA, Servadei, F, Vinci, A, Zoli, L & Reimer, T 2023, '', Journal of the European Ceramic Society, vol. 43, no. 11, pp. 4588-4601.

Tammana, SRCM, Venkatachalam, V, Zou, J, Porter, M & Binner, J 2023, '', Open Ceramics, vol. 15, 100385.

Tammana, SRCM, Duan, M, Zou, J, Wade, J, Venkatachalam, V, Baker, B, Nayebossadri, S & Binner, J 2022, '', Open Ceramics, vol. 10, 100270.

Galizia, P, Vinci, A, Zoli, L, Monteverde, F, Binner, J, Venkatachalam, V, Lagos, MA, Reimer, T, Jain, N & Sciti, D 2021, '', Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, vol. 149, 106523.

Venkatachalam, V 2019, '', Journal of Alloys and Compounds.

Silvestroni, L, Melandri, C, Venkatachalam, V, Binner, J & Sciti, D 2019, '', Materials and Design, vol. 183, 108078, pp. 1-12.

Venkatachalam, V 2017, '', Journal of Power Sources.

Vinothini, V, Vaidhyanathan, B & Binner, J 2011, '', Journal of Materials Science, vol. 46, pp. 2155鈥�2161.

Abstract

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Conference contribution

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Other contribution

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