My Name is Vikas Nandwana and currently I am a graduate student in
University of Texas, Arlington. I hail from city of lakes Udaipur, one of the most romantic cities in India. I did my bachelors and masters under Prof. T R Rama Mohan from
IIT Bombay and now pursuing my PhD in UTA under the supervision of Prof.
J. Ping Liu.
Education
2003-Present, Ph.D. candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington.
1998-2003, B.S. and M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Bombay, India.
Research and Technical Skills
• Synthesis of metal and oxide nanoparticles using different synthetic procedure in aqueous and organic solvents.
• Synthesis of hard and soft ferromagnetic nanoparticles with different size, shape and morphologies.
• Compaction of magnetic nanoparticles to produce high energy-product exchange-coupled nanocomposite magnets.
• Structural and magnetic characterization by TEM, SEM, EDX, XRD, AGM, SQUID, Microtrac, Nanotrac instruments.
Membership
• Materials Research Society
• The National Scholars Honor Society
• American Physical Society
• American Society of Metals