Biography

     Dr. Kolan Madhav Reddy is currently a Tenured Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China. He joined SJTU, as a full-time faculty in 2017. Since then, he has been involved in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. Also, he has been actively conducting research on understanding the behavior of advanced materials at atomic scale, with an emphasis on defense-, space- and sustainable energy applications. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 International peer-reviewed papers (with citations of >2600 and h-index: 30). He has also edited a book on ‘Boron Carbide: Structure, Processing, Properties and Applications’ published by Nova publishers (USA). He is a recipient of Dr. R. L. Thakur Memorial Award (Young Scientist) honored by Indian Ceramic Society in 2017. His teaching course ‘Fundamentals of Materials Science’ was published on a platform Coursera (U. S. based open online course provider) in 2021.

     Dr. Reddy received PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan (2013). He obtained his undergraduate (B. Tech) and postgraduate (M. Tech) degrees, in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering from Mahatma Institute of Technology (MGIT), Hyderabad and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT), India in 2007 and 2010, respectively. In between he had worked as a Junior Research Fellow at International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) Hyderabad, India (2007-2008). He did his postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, USA (2014-2016).

Research Team

Past students: and Dr. Rajamallu KARRE (Postdoc), Mr. Simanta LAHKAR (PhD), Mr. Xinshu ZOU (PhD), Mr. Haibo ZHANG (M.S), Mr. Byeongyun JEONG (M.S), Mr. Tingwei Guo (M.S), Mr. Yen Shawn TAN (B.S).

Present Graduate Students (6): Mr. Yixuan Hu, Ms. Xueyun Wu, Mr. Kanglong Wu, Mr. Jiale ZHANG, Mr. Xianke YUE and Mr. Yiteng XU

Teaching Courses

• Fundamentals of Materials Science (2018-)
• Structure of Materials (2019 & 2020)
• Transmission Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy (2022-)

Research Interests
Advanced Ceramics, High Entropy Materials, Layered Materials, Catalytic Materials, Transmission Electron Microscopy and Atom probe Tomography

Selected Publications

1. X. Wu, Y. Zheng, J. Liang, C. Tian, A. Sun, C. Tang, Y. Liu, S. Zhang, C. Wang, S. Song, C.-C. Chen*, K. M. Reddy*, Synergisitic Effect of Alkylammonium Chlorides to Trigger an Ultrafast Nucleation for Antisolvent-Free Perovskite Solar Cells Processed from 2-Methoxyethanol, Advanced Energy Materials, 2304302 (2024).

2. Y. Hu, M. Anandkumar, J. Joardar, X Wang, A. S. Deshpande, K. M. Reddy*, Effective band gap engineering in multi-principal oxides (CeGdLa-Zr/Hf)Ox by temperature-induced oxygen vacancies, Scientific Reports 13, 2362 (2023). (*Corresponding author).

3. S. Lahkar (1), B. Jeong, X. D. Wang, K. Hemker; K. M. Reddy*, Intrinsic strengthening and toughening in hexagonal boron nitride by ripples, Acta Materialia 229, 117845 (2022)

4. X. Zhou (1), J. Gao (1), Y. Hu (1), Z. Yin, K. Hu, K. M. Reddy*, Q. Yuan*, X. Lin*, H. J. Qiu*, Theoretically Revealed and Experimentally Demonstrated Synergistic Electronic Interaction of CoFe Dual-Metal Sites on N-doped Carbon for Boosting Both Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions, Nano Letters 22, 3392 (2022).

5. X. Zou, H. Liu, H. Xu, X. Wu, X. Han, J. Kang, K. M. Reddy*, A simple approach to synthesis Cr2CTx MXene for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction, Materials Today Energy 20, 100668 (2021).

6. R. Karre, Y. Hu, S. Song, X. Wang, J. Joardar, K. M. Reddy*, Observations of multi-component boride precipitates in ultrahard boron carbide, Materials Characterization 176, 111106 (2021).

7. K. M. Reddy et al, Dislocation-mediated shear amorphization in boron carbide, Science Advances 7, eabc6714 (2021).

8. D. Guo (1), S. Song (1), R. Luo, W. A. Goddard III, M. W. Chen, K. M. Reddy*, Q. An*, Grain boundary sliding and amorphization is responsible for the reverse Hall-Petch relation in superhard nanocrystalline boron carbide, Physical Review Letters 121, 145504 (2018) (*Corresponding author).

9. K. M. Reddy, P. Liu, A. Hirata, T. Fujita, M.W. Chen, Atomic structure of amorphous shear bands in boron carbide, Nature Communications 4, 2483 (2013).

10. K. M. Reddy et al, Enhanced mechanical properties of nanocrystalline boron carbide by nanoporosity and interface phases, Nature Communications 3, 1052 (2012).

Research Projects

• Tuning Structure and Optimizing Properties by Atomic Doping and Particle Reinforcing in Boron, National Science Foundation of China (principal investigator (PI)).
• Atomic-Level Understanding of Engineering Boundaries in Superhard Ceramics, National Science Foundation of China (principal investigator (PI)).
• Novel self-organized superhard carbides for application in cemented carbide composites (SJTU-KTH Partnership Collaboration) (PI).
• Tuning the magnetic properties of nanocrystalline multi-component alloy thin film coatings through a single step electrodeposition for sensor applications, SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) DST, India with IIT Hyderabad (Int’ PI).

Honors & Awards

1. Teaching Award (Lideshuren) from School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (2018).

2. 'National Young Scientist Award (Dr R. L. Thakur Memorial Award)-2017' by Indian Ceramic Society, India

3. People’s Choice Award for Poster Presentation in Mach Conference 2014, Maryland USA

4. JCS Scholarship elected from Tohoku University in 2012, Japan

5. Best Oral Presentation Award in Mettle 2007, NIT Trichy India