Mithun Nath Member of refractory and lining technology team

Mithun Nath

General information:

Title: Prof., Dr.

Research Areas: Fundamental, applied research and development on Cr2O3 containing materials

Institution: Wuhan University of Science and Technology

Address: 947 Heping Avenue, Qingshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R.China

E-mail: mithunnathn@gmail.com; mithunnath@wust.edu.cn

Academic degrees:

PH.D.:Jadavpur University & CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute

Scientific Career:

2010-2015 PhD Researcher at CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata

2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata

2017-2019 Postdoctoral at Wuhan University of Science and Technology

2019-2022 R&D Scientist at Vesuvius Global R&D Center for Advanced Refractories, Vizag, India

Since 2022 Distinguished Professor at Wuhan University of Science and Technology

Memberships:

Lifetime membership of the Indian Chemical Society

Lifetime membership of the Indian Ceramic Society

Lifetime membership of the Indian Institute of Materials Research

Lifetime membership of the Indian Electron Microscopy Society

Lifetime membership of the Indian Society of Materials Chemistry

Associate Member of the American Ceramic Society (2022)

Awards:

2021-2024 Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the Transaction of Indian Ceramic Society

2020-2021 International Young Scientist research fund awarded by the National Natural Science Foundation of

China (NSFC), Govt. of China

2019 Visiting Associate Professor, School of Materials & Metallurgy, WUST

2013 CSIR Senior Research Scholarship for the Indian Government

2010 Junior Research Fellowship (Project) by the Board of Research in Nuclear Science (BRNS), Department of

Atomic Energy (DAE), India

Publications (5 of 14):

1. Mithun Nath^*, Shengqiang Song^*, Tengteng Xu, et. al. Effective inhibition of Cr(VI) in the Al₂O₃-CaO-Cr₂O₃ refractory castables system through silica gel assisted in-situ secondary phase tuning. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019, 233: 1038-1046.

2. Mithun Nath^*, Shengqiang Song^*, Hang Liu, et. al. CaAl₂Cr₂O₇: Formation, synthesis, and characterization of a new Cr(III) compound under air atmosphere in the Al₂O₃–CaO–Cr₂O₃ system. Ceramics International, 2019, 45(13):16476-16481.

3. Mithun Nath^*, Pawan Kumar, Hang Liu, et. al. Thermo-mechanical stability of bulk (Al_1–xCr_x)₂O₃ solid solution. Ceramics International, 2019, 45(9): 12411-12416.

4. Mithun Nath, Shengqiang Song^*, Andrie M.Garbers-Craig^*, et. al. Phase evolution with temperature in chromium-containing refractory castables used for waste melting furnaces and Cr(VI) leachability. Ceramics International, 2018, 44(16): 20391-20398.

5. Mithun Nath, Shengqiang Song^*, Yawei Li, et. al. Effect of Cr₂O₃ addition on corrosion mechanism of refractory castables for waste melting furnaces and concurrent formation of hexavalent chromium. Ceramics International, 2018, 44(2): 2383-2389.