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Gyan Johari
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Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Engineering
M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S. (Canada), D.Hons.Causa (Lyon), Sc.D. (h.c.Dublin)
Research Areas Include:
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Calorimetric, dielectric, mechanical and ultrasonic behaviour of glasses, and other amorphous solids, polymers, shape-memory metals, interstitial-free steel; cryo-preservation and protein-water interactions. Techniques for studying materials. Microwave and high frequency dielectric materials. Materials Science of Pharmaceuticals.
Current Research Projects:
- Dielectric properties of ceramics, glasses, and polymers from sub-audio to microwave frequencies.
- The processing of thermoset polymers, and the effects of physical ageing on their characteristics.
- Materials Science of Pharmaceuticals.
- C and N determination in "interstitials free" steel by internal friction and the effects of strain ageing.
- Deformation of shape-memory alloys.
- Protein-water interactions and cryo-preservation.
- Mechanical relaxation and damping in materials.
- Effect of elastic strain energy on phase transformations.