Background and capability

The Centre has a very strong research capability in the theory of mass transport in a wide variety of materials ranging from disordered and ordered multicomponent alloys to cation-mixed oxides, from metal/ceramic composites to fast ion conductors. The engineering technologies that have been addressed range from nuclear fuels to low temperature batteries, from high temperature aircraft engine alloys to high temperature fuel cells.  Infrastructure for the Centre’s research activities include a $0.35M computational laboratory with 160 highly networked state-of-the-art high-performance processors (with supercomputer performance) and a large suite of in-house developed and commercial software.