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0491 209 2013 (Office) | info@iitpkd.ac.in

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PALAKKAD
Kanjikode | Palakkad | Kerala - 678623

0491 209 2001 (Office) | info@iitpkd.ac.in

Dr. Aramanda Shanmukha Kiran

Assistant Professor

Materials and Metallurgical Engineering

askiran@iitpkd.ac.in

+91 491 209 1553

Research Area: Physical Metallurgy; Microstructures; Materials characterization

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Biosketch
Education qualifications
- B.E. (Metallurgical Engineering) at Andhra University College of Engineering.
- M.Tech. (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering), at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
- Ph.D. (Materials Engineering), at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  (Gold Medal (Prof. K P Abraham Medal) for the outstanding Ph.D. thesis)
Postdoctoral research experience:
- Postdoctoral research fellow, at Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
- ANRF National Postdoctoral Fellow at Beamline-4, Indus-2, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore
Research
- Solidification science and phase transformations
- Microstructure evolution and microstructure engineering
- Advanced materials characterization techniques and analysis:
  - In-situ characterization of materials behavior
  - 3D/4D materials science
  - Multi-modal correlative microscopy (Electron microscopy and X-ray based techniques)
  - Computational Imaging and Computed tomography
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Selected Publications
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1. Shanmukha Kiran Aramanda, et. al. "In situ observation of faceted and branched eutectic growth patterns during directional solidification of thin Al–Si samples." Acta Materialia 317, 122572 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2026.122572

2. Shanmukha Kiran Aramanda, et. al. "Emergence of complex-regular eutectic patterns in Al–Ge: Observations from correlative nano-imaging." Acta Materialia 310, 122072 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2026.122072

3. Shanmukha Kiran Aramanda, et. al. "Nanolamellar pattern formation in a rapidly solidified peritectic alloy." Materials Research Letters 14, 493–500 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2026.2647980

4. Paul Chao, Shanmukha Kiran Aramanda, et. al. "From irregular to regular eutectic growth in the Al–Al₃Ni system: In-situ observations during directional solidification." Acta Materialia 280, 120314 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120314

5. Aaron Gladstein*, Shanmukha Kiran Aramanda*, et. al. "Direct evidence of the formation mechanisms of TiC nanoparticles and Al₃Ti intermetallics during synthesis of an Al/TiC metal-matrix nanocomposite." Acta Materialia 277, 120189 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120189

6. George R. Lindemann*, Shanmukha Kiran Aramanda*, Ashwin J. Shahani. "Peritectic solidification patterns in the Zn–Ag system captured in three- and four-dimensions." Acta Materialia 274, 119992 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2024.119992

7. Shriparna Mukherjee*, Shanmukha Kiran Aramanda*, et. al. "Anisotropy of microstructure and its influence on thermoelectricity: The case of Cu₂Te–Sb₂Te₃ eutectic." ACS Applied Energy Materials 4(10), 11867–11877 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c02664

8. Shanmukha Kiran Aramanda, et. al. "Exotic three-phase microstructures in the ternary Ag–Cu–Sb eutectic system." Acta Materialia 221, 117400 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117400

9. Shanmukha Kiran Aramanda, et. al. "Exotic colony formation in Sn–Te eutectic system." Acta Materialia 197, 108–121 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.07.036

10. Shanmukha Kiran Aramanda, et. al. "Crystallographic and morphological evidence of solid–solid interfacial energy anisotropy in the Sn–Zn eutectic system." Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 51, 6387–6405 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-020-06007-5

*Equal contribution or co-first authors.