Sponsored Projects Completed & Research Experience

(1). Post-graduate (M.Tech./Ph.D.) Level:

Materials Characterization (ML6L001)

Powder Materials and Processing (ML6L014)

Materials Characterizaton Laboratory (ML6P001)

(2). Under-graduate Level:

Mineral Processing (ML3L001)

Physical Metallurgy Laboratory (ML2P003)

1. Abhigyan Ojha, Rama Krushna Sabat, Sivaiah Bathula; Exploring the thermoelectric performance of NiFeMnAl and ZnFeVAl as novel quaternary Heusler compounds; Materials Science and Engineering: B; Volume 311, January 2025, 117789.

2. Abhigyan Ojha, Unanda Nanda, Abhishek Pradhan, Sivaiah Bathula; Enhancement of mechanical performance and reduction in thermal conductivity of Mg₂Si-based thermoelectric nanocomposites through rGO addition; Applied Physics A, Volume 130, Article number 905, November 2024

3. Abhigyan Ojha, Sivaiah Bathula; Achieving enhanced power factor using dual substitution at Cu and S sites in tetrahedrites thermoelectric materials Cu₁₂Sb₄S₁₃; Solid State Sciences, Volume 157, November 2024, 107729.

4. C Prajapati, S Muthiah, NK Upadhyay, Sivaiah Bathula, DK Kedia, SR Dhakate, Nanostructured inclusions enhancing the thermoelectric performance of Higher Manganese Silicide by modulating the transport properties, Ceramics International, Volume 50, Issue 20, Part B, 15 October 2024, Pages 40087-40095

5. P Swarnakar, A Ojha, PS De, Sivaiah Bathula, A Roy; n-Type AlCuFeMn Medium-Entropy Alloy with Reduced Thermal Conductivity: A Prospective Thermoelectric Materials; Electron. Mater.; September 2024; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-024-11518-7

6. Abhigyan Ojha, R Anirudh, Sivaiah Bathula; Augmentation in the thermoelectric performance by integrating the natural minerals with synthetic tetrahedrite compounds; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing; Volume 180, September 2024, 108562

7. Debasis Saran, Anil Daliprasad Pathak, David Klaumünzer, Sivaiah Bathula, Kisor Kumar Sahu; Novel perspectives on the mechanism of phosphate conversion coating on magnesium alloys; Results in Surfaces and Interfaces; Volume 16, 1, August 2024, 100243

8. Abhigyan Ojha, Rama Krushna Sabat, Sivaiah Bathula; Advancement in half-Heusler thermoelectric materials and strategies to enhance the thermoelectric performance; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing; Volume 171, 1, 107996, March 2024

9. Abhigyan Ojha, Ramakrushna Sabat, Sivaiah Bathula; Thermoelectric and mechanical performance of NiTiAl Heusler compound; Vacuum, Volume 219, Part B, 112772, January 2024

10. Abhigyan Ojha, Rama Krushna Sabat, Sivaiah Bathula, Low lattice thermal conductivity of novel NiVSn with 19 valence electron count contrasted to 18 of NiVAl and NiAlSb Half-Heusler compounds, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Volume 187, April 2024, 111854

11. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kriti Tyagi, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori; Exploration of synthesis route and effect of Ni-doping on thermoelectric performance of CoSb3; Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Available online 5, 111835, December 2023

12. Abhigyan Ojha, Rama Krushna Sabat, Sivaiah Bathula; Recent trends of ternary, quaternary half-Heusler thermoelectric materials and contact resistance effect power output efficiency; Materials Letters, 347, 134647, (2023).

13. Abhigyan Ojha, Rama Krushna Sabat, Appala Naidu Gandi, Sivaiah Bathula; Effect of Aliovalent Doping on the Thermoelectric Performance of Double Half-Heusler Alloys; Journal of Electronic Materials, 52, 5473–5484 (2023).

14. Debasis Saran, Atul Kumar, Sivaiah Bathula, David Klaumünzer, Kisor K Sahu; Review on the phosphate-based conversion coatings of magnesium and its alloys; International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, 29, 1435–1452 (2022)

15. Kajari Chatterjee, Sutanuka Mohanty, Chandra Prakash, Atul Kumar, Debasis Saran, Sivaiah Bathula, Soumyabrata Basak, Kisor Kumar Sahu; Hydrogen storage in metal powder; Metal Powder Report https://doi.org/10.12968/S0026-0657(22)70015-X; (2022)

16. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Ajay Kumar Verma, Kishor Kumar Johari, Nagendra S. Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, S.R. Dhakate, Ajay Dhar, Bhasker Gahtori; CoSb₃ based thermoelectric elements pre-requisite for device fabrication; Solid State Sciences, 129, 106900, (2022).

17. Kishor Kumar Johari, Durgesh Kumar Sharma, Ajay Kumar Verma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Nagendra S Chauhan, Sudhir Kumar, Manvendra Narayan Singh, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori;
    In Situ Evolution of Secondary Metallic Phases in Off-Stoichiometric ZrNiSn for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance; ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 17, 19579–19593 (2022).

18. Ajay Kumar Verma, Kishor Kumar Johari, Kriti Tyagi, Durgesh Kumar Sharma, Pawan Kumar, Sudhir Kumar, Sivaiah Bathula, SR Dhakate, Bhasker Gahtori; Role of sintering temperature on electronic and mechanical properties of thermoelectric material: A theoretical and experimental study of TiCoSb half-Heusler alloy; Materials Chemistry and Physics,281, 125854, (2022)

19. Kishor Kumar Johari, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori; The role of magnetic interaction on the thermoelectric performance of ZrNiSn half-Heusler alloys; physica status solidi (a); https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.202100765; (2022)

20. Rakshita, Anjaly Babu, K. Jayanthi, Sivaiah Bathula, K. Uday Kumar, D. Haranath; Studies on contact angle measurements in superoleophobic aluminum hydroxide nanoflakes; Materials Letters, 315, 131938, (2022)

21. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Parul R. Raghuvanshi, Sanjay R. Dhakate, Sivaiah Bathula, Amrita Bhattacharya, Bhasker Gahtori; Synergistic Optimization of Electronic and Thermal Transport Properties for Achieving High ZT in Ni and Te Co-substituted CoSb₃; ACS Applied Energy Materials 4 (12), 142 (2021)

22. Kishor Kumar Johari, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Nagendra S. Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Sushil Auluck, S. R. Dhakate, and Bhasker Gahtori; High Thermoelectric Performance in n‑Type Degenerate ZrNiSn-Based Half-Heusler Alloys Driven by Enhanced Weighted Mobility and Lattice Anharmonicity; ACS Applied Energy Materials, 4 (4), 3393-3403 (2021).

23. Sonam Perween, A Rathi, Parul Rani Raghuvanshi, Amrita Bhattacharya, PV PrakashMadduri, PK Rout, Sivaiah Bathula, Ajay Dhar, RP Pant, B Gahtori, GA Basheed; Formation and magnetic properties of spark plasma sintered Mn3−δGa (δ = 0, 1) Heusler alloys: Experiment and theory; Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids; Volume 154, Page 110050, (2021)

24. Ranita Basu , Mandava Srikanth , Bayikadi Khasimsaheb , Sivaiah Bathula , V. Sai Muthu Kumar , Ajay Singh and Neeleshwar Sonnathi; A synergistic approach to achieving the high thermoelectric performance of La-doped SnTe using resonance state and partial band convergence, Materials Advances, 2, 4352-4361, (2021)

25. Avinash Vishwakarma, Nagendra S. Chauhan, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Sanjay R. Dhakate, Bhasker Gahtori and Sivaiah Bathula; Melt-Spun SiGe Nano-alloys: Microstructural Engineering towards High Thermoelectric Efficiency; Journal of Electronic Materials (2021), 50, 364.

26. Priyabrata Das, Sivaiah Bathula, Srikant Gollapudi; Evaluating the effect of grain size distribution on thermal conductivity of thermoelectric materials; Nano Express (2020), 1(2); 020036.

27. Avinash Vishwakarma, Nagendra S. Chauhan, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Sanjay R. Dhakate, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula; Compositional modulation is driven by aliovalent doping in n-type TiCoSb based half-Heuslers for tuning thermoelectric transport; Intermetallics (2020), 125, 106914

28. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Bhasker Gahtori, Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, SR Dhakate, Sushil Auluck, Ajay Dhar; Optimization of electrical and thermal transport properties of Fe₂₅Co_0.75Sb₃ Skutterudite employing the isoelectronic Bi-doping; Intermetallics (2020), 123, 106796

29. Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Parul R. Raghuvanshi, Kriti Tyagi, Kishor Kumar Johari, Lavi Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Amrita Bhattacharya, Subhendra D. Bhanu Mahanti, Vidya Nand Singh, Yury V. Kolen’ko, Ajay Dhar; Defect Engineering for Enhancement in Thermoelectric Performance of (Zr, Hf)NiSn based n-type Half-Heusler Alloys; Phys. Chem. C(2020), Vol. 124, Issue 16, page 8584-8593.

30. Kishor Kumar Johari, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Sushil Auluck, Sanjay R Dhakate; Band structure modification and mass fluctuation effects of isoelectronic Ge-doping on thermoelectric properties of ZrNiSn; ACS Appl. Energy Mater.(2020), Vol. 3, Issue 2, page 1349-1357 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b01740.

31. Naval Kishor Upadhyay, Nagendra S. Chauhan, A. Kumaraswamidhas, Kishor K. Johari, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Rajesh Reddy, Yury V. Kolen’ko, Sanjay R. Dhakate and Ajay Dhar, Facile bulk synthesis of high performance β-Zn₄Sb₃ for thermoelectric applications; Materials Letters (2020), Volume 265, 127428; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.127428.

32. Muni Raj Maurya, Vijaykumar Toutam, Sivaiah Bathula, Prabir Pal and Bipin Kumar Gupta, Wide spectral photoresponse of template assisted out of plane grown ZnO/NiO composite nanowire photo detector; Nanotechnology(2020), 31(2).

33. Nagendra S. Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori, Yury V. Kolen’ko, Radhey Shyam, N. K. Upadhyay and Ajay Dhar, Spinodal decomposition in (Ti, Zr)CoSb Half-Heusler: A nanostructuring route toward high efficiency thermoelectric materials; Journal of Applied Physics(2019),ADVTHRM2019, 125110; doi: 10.1063/1.5109091

34. Nagendra Singh Chauhan; Sivaiah Bathula; Bhasker Gahtori; Subhendra D. Bhanu Mahanti; Amrita Bhattacharya; Avinash Vishwakarma; Ruchi Bhardwaj; Ajay Dhar; Compositional tailoring for realizing high thermoelectric performance in Hafnium free n-type ZrNiSn half-heusler alloys; ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces(2019), 11, 51, 47830-47836, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b12599

35. S Kaur, AS Rao, M Jayasimhadri, Sivaiah Bathula, D Haranath; Synthesis optimization, photoluminescence and thermoluminescence studies of Eu³⁺ doped calcium aluminozincate phosphor; Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2019), Volume 802, 25, Pages 129-138.

36. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Amrita Bhattacharya, Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Avinash Vishwakarma, Kishor Kumar Johari, Sivaiah Bathula, Sushil Auluck, Ajay Dhar; Enhancement in thermoelectric performance of single step synthesized Mg doped Cu₂Se: An experimental and theoretical study; Intermetallics (2019), 112, 106541

37. MR Maurya, V Toutam, P Singh, Sivaiah Bathula; Optimization of electroless plating of gold during MACE for through etching of silicon wafer; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 100, 140-144, (2019).

38. NS Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, B Gahtori, YV Kolen’ko, A Dhar; Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Hf-Free p-Type (Ti, Zr) CoSb Half-Heusler Alloys; Journal of Electronic Materials (2019); Vol 48, pages 6700–6709.

39. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Amrita Bhattacharya, Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Sushil Auluck, Ajay Dhar; Tin doped Cu₃SbSe₄: A stable thermoelectric analogue for the mid-temperature applications; Materials Research Bulletin 113, 38-44, (2019).

40. A Rathi, PD Babu, PK Rout, VPS Awana, Vikash K Tripathi, R Nagarajan, Sivaiah Bathula, RP Pant, GA Basheed; Anomalous nano-magnetic effects in non-collinear spinel chromite NiCr₂O₄; Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 474, 585-590, (2019).

41. Srashti Gupta, Dinesh Chandra Agarwal, Sivaiah Bathula, Sankarakumar Amrithpandian, Kandasami Asokan, Ajay Dhar, Binaya Kumar Panigrahi, Devesh Kumar Avasthi, Vinay Gupta; Enhancement in thermoelectric properties due to Ag nanoparticles incorporated in Bi₂Te₃ matrix; Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 10 (1), 634-643, (2019).

42. Sonam Perween, A Rathi, PD Babu, Govind Gupta, Sivaiah Bathula, RP Pant, B Gahtori, GA Basheed; Enhanced hard magnetic properties in partially-doped Mn_3−xGd_xGa (x⩽03); Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 473, 278-283, (2019).

43. Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Avinash Vishwakarma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Bhasker Gahtori, Ajay Dhar; Enhanced thermoelectric performance in p-type ZrCoSb based half-Heusler alloys employing nanostructuring and compositional modulation; Journal of Materiomics 5 (1), 94-102; (2019)

44. C Goswami, IK Bhat, Sivaiah Bathula, T Singh, A Patnaik; Physico-mechanical and Surface Wear Assessment of Magnesium Oxide Filled Ceramic Composites for Hip Implant Application; Silicon 11 (1), 39-49, (2019).

45. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Bhasker Gahtori, Kishor Kumar Johari, Sivaiah Bathula, Nagendra S Chauhan, Avinash Vishwakarma, SR Dhakate, Sushil Auluck, Ajay Dhar; Collective Effect of Fe and Se To Improve the Thermoelectric Performance of Unfilled p-Type CoSb₃ Skutterudites; ACS Applied Energy Materials 2 (2), 1067-1076, (2019).

46. Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Avinash Vishwakarma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Bhasker Gahtori, Muthiah Saravanan, Ajay Dhar, Compositional tuning of ZrNiSn half-Heusler alloys: Thermoelectric characteristics and performance analysis; Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 123, 105-112, (2018)

47. Avinash Vishwakarma, Sivaiah Bathula, Nagendra S Chauhan, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Bhasker Gahtori, Avanish K Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; Facile synthesis of nanostructured n-type SiGe alloys with enhanced thermoelectric performance using rapid solidification employing melt spinning followed by spark plasma sintering; Current Applied Physics 18 (12), 1540-1545, (2018)

48. Naval Kishor Upadhyay, LA Kumaraswamidhas, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Saravanan Muthiah, Radhey Shyam, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Ajay Dhar; Enhancement in thermoelectric performance of bulk CrSi₂ dispersed with nanostructured SiGe nanoinclusions; Journal of Alloys and Compounds 765, 412-417, (2018).

49. MK Sahu, M Jayasimhadri, K Jha, Sivaiah Bathula, AS Rao, D Haranath; Synthesis and enhancement of photoluminescent properties in spherical shaped Sm³⁺/Eu³⁺ co-doped NaCaPO₄ phosphor particles for w-LEDs; Journal of Luminescence 202, 475-483, (2018).

50. Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Avinash Vishwakarma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Bhasker Gahtori, Ajay Dhar, Facile fabrication of p-and n-type half-Heusler alloys with enhanced thermoelectric performance and low specific contact resistance employing spark plasma sintering; Materials Letters 228, 250-253, (2019).

51. AK Chaubey, Rajat Gupta, Rohit Kumar, Bharat Verma, Shailesh Kanpara, Sivaiah Bathula, SS Khirwadkar, Ajay Dhar; Fabrication and characterization of W-Cu functionally graded material by spark plasma sintering process; Fusion Engineering and Design 135, 24-30, (2018).

52. Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Avinash Vishwakarma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Bhasker Gahtori, Avanish K Srivastava, M Saravanan, Ajay Dhar; A nanocomposite approach for enhancement of thermoelectric performance in Hafnium-free Half-Heuslers; Materialia 1, 168-174, (2018)

53. P Singh, SK Srivastava, B Sivaiah, P Prathap, CMS Rauthan; Enhanced photovoltaic performance of PEDOT: PSS/Si solar cells using hierarchical light trapping scheme; Solar Energy 170, 221-233, (2018).

54. NS Chauhan, B Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, SD Mahanti, A Dhar, A Bhattacharya; Modulating the lattice dynamics of n-type Heusler compounds via tuning Ni concentration; Applied Physics Letters 113 (1), 013902; (2018).

55. P Singh, SK Srivastava, Sivaiah Bathula, S Laxmi, P Prathap, CMS Rauthan; Light intensity dependent characteristics of micro-textured Si/PEDOT: PSS heterojunction solar cell; Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 29 (6), 5087-5097, (2018).

56. Naval Kishor Upadhyay, LA Kumaraswamidhas, Bhasker Gahtori, Saravanan Muthaiah, Sivaiah Bathula, Radhey Shyam, Ajay Dhar; Facile synthesis of earth-abundant and non-toxic p-type Si₉₆B₄/SiC_p nanocomposites with enhanced thermoelectric performance; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 75, 234-238, (2018).

57. R Kumar, AK Chaubey, Sivaiah Bathula, KG Prashanth, A Dhar; Al2O₃-TiC Composite Prepared by Spark Plasma Sintering Process: Evaluation of Mechanical and Tribological Properties; Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 27 (3), 997-1004, (2018)

58. Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Avinash Vishwakarma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Bhasker Gahtori, Anil Kumar, Ajay Dhar; Vanadium-doping-induced resonant energy levels for the enhancement of thermoelectric performance in Hf-free ZrNiSn half-Heusler alloys; ACS Applied Energy Materials, 1 (2), 757-764, (2018).

59. S Prasad, A Rao, B Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, A Dhar, CC Chang, YK Kuo; Low-temperature thermoelectric properties of Pb doped Cu₂SnSe₃; Physica B: Condensed Matter 520, 7-12, (2017).

60. VV Jaiswal, S Bishnoi, G Swati, P Singh, N Lohia, Sivaiah Bathula, D Haranath; Luminescence properties of yttrium gadolinium orthovanadate nanophosphors and efficient energy transfer from VO₄³⁻ to Sm³⁺ via Gd³⁺ ions; Arabian Journal of Chemistry, 13,1, 474-480 (2020)

61. KS Prasad, A Rao, K Tyagi, NS Chauhan, B Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, A Dhar; Enhanced thermoelectric performance of Pb doped Cu₂SnSe₃ synthesized employing spark plasma sintering; Physica B: Condensed Matter 512, 39-44, (2017).

62. B Khasimsaheb, Niraj Kumar Singh, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori, D Haranath, S Neeleshwar; The effect of carbon nanotubes (CNT) on thermoelectric properties of lead telluride (PbTe) nanocubes; Current Applied Physics 17 (2), 306-313, (2017).

63. Sivaiah Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, B Gahtori, A Kumar, AK Srivastava, A Dhar; Enhancement in thermoelectric performance of SiGe nanoalloys dispersed with SiC nanoparticles; Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19 (36), 25180-25185, (2017).

64. SK Pradhan, J Kalidoss, R Barik, Sivaiah Bathula, A Dhar, S Bajpai; Development of high density tungsten based scandate by Spark Plasma Sintering for the application in microwave tube devices, International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials 61, 215-224, (2016)

65. S Prasad, A Rao, B Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, A Dhar, JS Du, YK Kuo, The low and high temperature thermoelectric properties of Sb doped Cu₂SnSe₃, Materials Research Bulletin 83, 160-166, (2016).

66. NK Singh, Sivaiah Bathula, B Gahtori, K Tyagi, D Haranath, A Dhar; The effect of doping on thermoelectric performance of p-type SnSe: Promising thermoelectric material; Journal of Alloys and Compounds 668, 152-158, (2016).

67. Savvi Mishra, G Swati, B Rajesh, Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, N Vijayan, MK Dalai, A Dhar, S Auluck, M Jayasimhadri, D Haranath, Luminescence and advanced mass spectroscopic characterization of sodium zinc orthophosphate phosphor for low‐cost light‐emitting diodes, Luminescence 31 (2), 348-355, (2016).

68. Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Niraj Kumar Singh, Swati Bishnoi, S Auluck, AK Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; Electrical transport and mechanical properties of thermoelectric tin selenide; RSC Advances 6 (14), 11562-11569, (2016)

69. R Kumar, AK Chaubey, Sivaiah Bathula, BB Jha, A Dhar; Synthesis and characterization of Al₂O₃–TiC nano-composite by spark plasma sintering; International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials 54, 304-308, (2016)

70. Sivaiah Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, A Dhar; Mechanical properties and microstructure of spark plasma sintered nanostructured p-type SiGe thermoelectric alloys; Materials & Design 87, 414-420, (2015).

71. Prashant Singh, Sanjay K Srivastava, M Yameen, Sivaiah Bathula vaiah, Vijay Prajapati, P Prathap, Subha Laxmi, BP Singh, CMS Rauthan, PK Singh; Fabrication of vertical silicon nanowire arrays on three-dimensional micro-pyramid-based silicon substrate, Journal of materials science 50 (20), 6631-6641, (2015)

72. V Toutam, P Jain, R Sharma, Sivaiah Bathula, A Dhar; Radius ratio rule for surface hydrophilization of polydimethyl siloxane and silica nanoparticle composite; Applied Surface Science 349, 196-199, (2015).

73. Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, Niraj Kumar Singh, Sakshi Sharma, D Haranath, AK Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; Enhanced thermoelectric performance of spark plasma sintered copper-deficient nanostructured copper selenide Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 81, 100-105, (2015)

74. G Swati, S Chawla, S Mishra, B Rajesh, N Vijayan, Sivaiah Bathula, A Dhar, D Haranath; Investigation on luminescence enhancement and decay characteristics of long afterglow nanophosphors for dark-vision display applications; Applied Surface Science 333, 178-185, (2015)

75. Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Kriti Tyagi, M Jayasimhadri, AK Srivastava, Sukhvir Singh, RC Budhani, Ajay Dhar; Giant enhancement in thermoelectric performance of copper selenide by incorporation of different nanoscale dimensional defect features; Nano Energy 13, 36-46, (2015)

76. Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, Sakshi Sharma, Niraj Kumar Singh, D Haranath, AK Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; Crystal structure and mechanical properties of spark plasma sintered Cu₂Se: An efficient photovoltaic and thermoelectric material; Solid State Communications 207, 21-25, (2015).

77. Amit K Vishwakarma, Kaushal Jha, M Jayasimhadri, A Srinivasa Rao, Kiwan Jang, Sivaiah Bathula, D Haranath; Red light emitting BaNb₂O₆: Eu³⁺ phosphor for solid state lighting applications; Journal of Alloys and Compounds 622, 97-101, (2015)

78. Amit K Vishwakarma, Kaushal Jha, M Jayasimhadri, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori, D Haranath; Emerging cool white light emission from Dy³⁺ doped single phase alkaline earth niobate phosphors for indoor lighting applications; Dalton Transactions 44 (39), 17166-17174; (2015)

79. Sivaiah Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, Bhasker Gahtori, Niraj Kumar Singh, Kriti Tyagi, AK Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; The role of nanoscale defect features in enhancing the thermoelectric performance of p-type nanostructured SiGe alloys; Nanoscale 7 (29), 12474-12483, (2015)

80. Anil Kumar, Avanish Pratap Singh, Saroj Kumari, AK Srivastava, Sivaiah Bath Sivaiah Bathula ula, SK Dhawan, PK Dutta, Ajay Dhar; EM shielding effectiveness of Pd-CNT-Cu nanocomposite buckypaper; Journal of Materials Chemistry A 3 (26), 13986-13993, (2015).

81. K Tyagi, B Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, V Toutam, S Sharma, NK Singh, A Dhar; Thermoelectric and mechanical properties of spark plasma sintered Cu₃SbSe₃ and Cu₃SbSe₄: Promising thermoelectric materials; Applied Physics Letters 105 (26), 261902, (2014)

82. K Tyagi, B Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, S Auluck, A Dhar; Band structure and transport studies of copper selenide: An efficient thermoelectric material; Applied Physics Letters 105 (17), 173905, (2014).

83. Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori, M Jayasimhadri, SK Tripathy, Kriti Tyagi, AK Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; Microstructure and mechanical properties of thermoelectric nanostructured n-type silicon-germanium alloys synthesized employing spark plasma sintering; Applied Physics Letters 105 (6), 061902, (2014).

84. M Saravanan, Sivaiah Bathula, AK Srivastava, A Dhar; Ultrafine grain structure features in spray-formed AZ31 magnesium alloy; Materials & Design 60, 21-25, (2014)

85. P Prathap, AS Dahiya, M Srivastava, SK Srivastava, B Sivaiah, D Haranath, Ritu Srivastava, CMS Rauthan, PK Singh; Anti-reflection In₂O₃ nanocones for silicon solar cells; Solar Energy 106, 102-108, (2014).

86. Dinesh K Misra, Rajib K Rakshit, Manju Singh, PK Shukla, KM Chaturvedi, Sivaiah Bathula, B Gahtori, Ajay Dhar, SW Sohn, WT Kim, Do Hyang Kim; High yield strength bulk Ti based bimodal ultrafine eutectic composites with enhanced plasticity; Materials & design 58, 551-556, (2014)

87. Saravanan Muthiah, Sivaiah Bathula, B Gahtori, K Tyagi, AK Srivastava, BD Pathak, Ajay Dhar, RC Budhani; Double-Doping Approach to Enhancing the Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit of n-Type Mg₂Si Synthesized by Use of Spark Plasma Sintering; Journal of Electronic Materials 43 (6), 2035-2039, (2014)

88. H Kaur, L Sharma, S Singh, Sivaiah Bathula, GB Reddy, TD Senguttuvan; Enhancement in Figure of Merit (ZT) by Annealing of BiTe Nanostructures Synthesized by Microwave-Assisted Flash Combustion; Journal of Electronic Materials 43 (6), 1782-1789, (2014).

89. D Yadav, D Dwivedi, S Mishra, Sivaiah Bathula, A Dhar, V Shanker, D Haranath; Investigation of local field enhancement and hot electron injection in carbon nano-tube doped phosphor nano-composite for ultra-bright electroluminescence; Science of Advanced Materials 6 (2), 413-418, (2014).

90. Dongwei Xu, D Haranath, Haiying He, Savvi Mishra, Isha Bharti, Deepika Yadav, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori, N Vijayan, A Dhar, Jiajie Zhu, V Shanker, Ravindra Pandey; Studies on phase stability, mechanical, optical and electronic properties of a new Gd₂CaZnO₅ phosphor system for LEDs; CrystEngComm 16 (9), 1652-1658, (2014)

91. K Tyagi, B Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, AK Srivastava, AK Shukla, S Auluck, A Dhar; Thermoelectric properties of Cu₃SbSe₃ with intrinsically ultralow lattice thermal conductivity; Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2 (38), 15829-15835, (2014)
92. Sivaiah Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, Nidhi Singh, AK Srivastava, Jiji Pulikkotil, Ajay Dhar, RC Budhani; Enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit in spark plasma sintered nanostructured n-type SiGe alloys; Applied Physics Letters 101 (21), 213902, (2012).
93. Sivaiah Bathula, RC Anandani, A Dhar, AK Srivastava; Microstructural features and mechanical properties of Al 5083/SiCp metal matrix nanocomposites produced by high energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering; Materials Science and Engineering: A 545, 97-102, (2012)
94. Sivaiah Bathula, M Saravanan, D Ajay, Nanoindentation and wear characteristics of Al5083/SiC_p nanocomposites synthesized by high energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering, Mater. Process. Technol. 28, 969-975, (2012)
95. Sivaiah Bathula, SP Gupta; Diffusion induced grain boundary migration in the Cu–Zn system; Materials Characterization 59 (9), 1141-1151, (2008)

1. P Singh, SK Srivastava, V Prajapati, Bathula Sivaiah, CMS Rauthan, PK Singh Low reflecting hierarchically textured silicon by silver assisted chemical etching for potential solar cell application (2018), International Conference on Advances in Energy Research 2015 (ICAER-2015), IIT Bombay, India, Materials Today: Proceedings, Elsevier, Netherlands, Volume 5, Issue 11, Part 2, Pages 23258-23267
2. Prashant Singh, Rohan Nakra, Bathula Sivaiah, Sanjay K. Sardana, P. Prathap, C. M. S. Rauthan et al. Effect of ethylene glycol doping on performance of PEDOT: PSS/µT-n-Si heterojunction solar cell , 2018, International Conference on Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications: (NECSA 2018), Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, knowledge corridor, raisan, Gandhinagar, India, American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings, Vol.1961, Pages 020003
3. Bathula Sivaiah, M. Jayasimhadri, Ajay Dhar, M Saravanan, D. K. Misra, Nidhi Singh, A. K. Srivastava, R. C. Budhani Enhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit in nanostructured n-type Si80Ge20 alloy employing high energy ball milling and subsequent spark plasma sintering, 2013, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Vol. 1490 © 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS, USA),Vol. 1490; DOI: 10.1557/opl.2012.1731
4. Bathula Sivaiah, R.C. Anandani A.K Srivastava and Ajay Dhar, Synthesis and characterization of Al-alloy/SiCp nanocomposites employing high energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering, 15-18 December, 2011;Twentieth International Symposium on processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM XX), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, Vol. 410, pp 224-227

Institute Name                                                                                  Designation                                                                                 Period 

Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar                          Associate Professor                                                                 12-10-2023 – Till Date

Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar                        Assistant Professor                                                                 05-07-2019 – 11-10-2023

CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi                 Scientist & Senior Scientist                                                    27-02-2007 to 04-07-2019

ARCI, Hyderabad                                                                        Junior ARCI Fellow                                                                                 2003 – 2004