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Rama Srinivas Varanasi
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Rama Srinivas Varanasi

Assistant Professor

rama@msme.iith.ac.in
PhD: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials
Office: MSME 202

Research Interests

Atom Probe Tomography (APT)Electron Channelling Contrast Imaging (ECCI)Structural materials for hydrogen storage & transport, Metal hydrides, Electron Channelling Contrast Imaging (ECCI)Metal hydrides, Steel, Nitrided steels, Si-based anode materials for Li-ion

Selected Publications

Varanasi, R.S., Waseda, O., Syed, F.W., Thoudden-Sukumar, P., Gault, B., Neugebauer, J. and Ponge, D., 2025. Temperature and misorientation-dependent austenite nucleation at ferrite grain boundaries in a medium manganese steel: role of misorientation-dependent grain boundary segregation. Acta Materialia, 296, p.121242

Kakinuma, H., Koyama, M., Varanasi, R.S., Ajito, S. and Akiyama, E., 2025. Semi-quantitative characterisation of coherency-dependent hydrogen diffusion at Σ3 grain boundaries in pure Ni. Materials Research Letters, 13(4), pp.357-364

Varanasi, R.S., Kiranbabu, S., Utsumi, R., Saitoh, H., Schnitzer, R., Akiyama, E. and Koyama, M., 2024. Novel Fe-Mo intermetallic composite synthesized via diffusional-displacive mixed-mode transformation. Materials Characterization, 216, p.114287

Varanasi, R.S., Gault, B. and Ponge, D., 2022. Effect of Nb micro-alloying on austenite nucleation and growth in a medium manganese steel during intercritical annealing. Acta Materialia, 229, p.117786

Varanasi, R.S., Lipińska-Chwałek, M., Mayer, J., Gault, B. and Ponge, D., 2022. Mechanisms of austenite growth during intercritical annealing in medium manganese steels. Scripta Materialia, 206, p.114228

Recent Courses Taught

Physical Metallurgy