Anil Kumar,A.Dr.

Area of Expertise

Polymer Science and Technology; Quality Assurance

Research Interests

Polymer Composites, Processing and Testing; High Performance Thermoplastic Composites; Nanocomposites; Composites Recycling; Development of Cost Effective Composite Processing Technologies

Academic_Qualification

"Ph.D. (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Field: Physical Chemistry / Polymer Science"

Professional Experience

"2006 - Till date: Scientist at Advanced Composites Division, CSIR-NAL Bangalore
2004-2006: Research Associate at ECE Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2001-2004: PhD student, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, BAM Berlin Germany
Oct.2000-Dec.20000: Guest Scientist, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, BAM Berlin Germany
1998-2000: Research Assistant at ECE Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore"

Publication (ORCID ID/ Googal Scholar ID/ IRINS ID/ Vidwan ID

"ORCID iD: 0009-0008-5701-5429

1) 'Cure cycle optimization for the resin infusion technique using carbon nanotube additives', A. Anil Kumar, Ramesh Sundaram; CARBON, Volume 96, January 2016, Pages 1043-1052
2) 'Studies on electroless nickel polyalloy coatings over carbon fibers/CFRP composites', J.N.Balaraju, Praful Radhakrishnan, V.Ezhilselvi, A.Anil Kumar, Zhong Chen, K.P.Surendran; Surface and Coatings Technology, Volume 302, 25 September 2016, Pages 389-397
3) 'Challenges in Processing of PPS-Glass Thermoplastic Composites', A Anil Kumar, BL Dinesh, Kotresh M Gaddikeri and Ramesh Sundaram; ICEMP2014, CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Feb 2014, Bhubaneswar
4) 'Amending the thermo-mechanical response and mechanical properties of epoxy composites with silanized chopped carbon fibers', Subhankar Das, Sudipta Halder, Jialai Wang, M.S. Goyat, A Anil Kumar, Yi Fang, Composites: Part A, Vol. 102, 2017, P 347-356"

Awards and Honors

"1) CSIR’s Diamond Jubilee Technology Award 2020 for “Successful Commercialization of Indigenously Developed State of the Art Composite Technologies for Series Production of LCA (Tejas Aircraft)”. Awarded to CSIR-NAL and M/s TASL, Bangalore.

2) CSIR Technology Award for Business Development and Technology Marketing 2020 presented to CSIR-NAL for “Successful Commercialization of Composite Technology Development towards LCA-Tejas IOC Series Production"""