Omprakash Chakrabarti
Chief Scientist
Non-oxide Ceramic Division
central glass and ceramic research institute
India
Biography
Omprakash Chakrabarti is currently a Chief Scientist in the department of Non-oxide Ceramic Division CSIR Central glass and ceramic research institute India. He completed B.Sc. (Hons. in Chemistry, University of Calcutta, Kolkata), B.Tech. (Ceramic Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata), M.Tech. (Ceramic Engineering University of Calcutta, Kolkata) and Ph.D. (Tech.), University of Calcutta. He was awarded Best poster presentation award by Indian Ceramic Society for presentation of the paper named “Cellular Silicon Carbide Ceramics from plant precursor” in its 66th Annual Session held in the year 2003, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) award for research visit in Germany in the year 2003, Certificate of Merit awarded in the Leadership Development Program by CSIR, India, in the year 2008, Centenary Visiting Scientist Award for research stay at the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the year 2011.
Research Interest
Reaction based processing of non-oxide ceramics (Reactive melt infiltration, Reactive gas infiltration, Reaction bonding, Reaction sintering), Porous ceramics and hot gas filtration (Micro and macroporous ceramics, nanoporous ceramics, ceramic hot gas filters, simultaneous separation of particle and gaseous impurities from coal-derived gases, catalytic ceramic filters, coal and bio-mass gasification gas cleaning by catalytic ceramic filters, high efficiency air filters), Innovative processing of ceramics and biomorphic ceramics (Ceramics with hierarchical microcellular morphology, bio-template assisted processing of nano-structured materials), Optimization and future development of non-oxide ceramic process engineering (pressureless sintering, liquid phase sintering, hot-pressing and oxide bonding).
