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Shravan Kairy

Shravan Kairy

Higher scientist

Shravan’s current research focuses on understanding the corrosion and environment-induced cracking of materials, and developing standard test methods for material verification in the industrial contexts of carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) and oil and gas.

Biography

Shravan joined the Electrochemistry group in April 2021. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2017-2021 in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University (Australia), where he completed his PhD in 2017. Prior to his PhD, Shravan worked at CSIR-NML (Jamshedpur, India) from 2010-2013, having completed an MTech in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Kanpur (India) in 2010.

Shravan has published 29 peer-reviewed papers (h-index: 16). He received an Early Career Researcher Award from the International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (ICAA), leading to a Plenary lecture at the 17th ICAA in 2020, and previously won the 2019 NACE A.B. Campbell Award as well as the 2015 NACE Marcel Pourbaix Prize. For his PhD thesis excellence, he was awarded the Faculty of Engineering 2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation at Monash University. He is a life member of the Indian Institute of Metals.

Areas of interest

Shravan’s primary research interest lies in understanding relationships between the composition, processing, microstructure, and corrosion behaviour of materials, with the aim to design durable materials. His work utilises his established expertise in the areas of metallurgy, electrochemistry, corrosion, and electron microscopy towards the following specific interests:

  1. Understanding the corrosion of materials in extreme environments.
  2. Developing standard test methods for corrosion and environment induced cracking.
  3. Understanding the local electrochemistry and corrosion behaviour of materials using scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) and spectroscopy techniques, such as XPS and in situ Raman spectroscopy.
  4. Applying advanced microstructural characterisation techniques, such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) and 3D atom probe tomography (APT), to push the boundaries of understanding of the genesis of corrosion to the atomic scale.

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Selected Publications

  1. Clarifying the role of Mg2Si and Si in localised corrosion of aluminum alloys by quasi in situ transmission electron microscopy, S.K. Kairy, N. Birbilis, Corrosion 76, 464-475 (2020)
  2. Simultaneous improvement in corrosion resistance and hardness of a model 2xxx series Al-Cu alloy with the microstructural variation caused by Sc and Zr additions, S.K. Kairy, B. Rouxel, J. Dumbre, J. Lamb, T.J. Langan, T. Dorin, N. Birbilis, Corros. Sci. 158, 108095 (2019)
  3. On the intergranular corrosion and hardness evolution of 6xxx series Al alloys as a function of Si:Mg ratio, Cu content and aging condition, S.K. Kairy, P.A. Rometsch, C.H.J. Davies, N. Birbilis, Corrosion 73, 1280-1295 (2017)
  4. On the electrochemical and quasi in situ corrosion response of the Q-phase (AlxCuyMgzSiw) intermetallic particle in 6xxx series aluminum alloys, S.K. Kairy, P.A. Rometsch, C.H.J. Davies, N. Birbilis, Corrosion 73, 87-99, (2017)
  5. Exploring the electrochemistry of 6xxx series aluminium alloys as a function of Si to Mg ratio, Cu content, ageing conditions and microstructure, S.K. Kairy, P.A. Rometsch, K. Diao, J.F. Nie, C.H.J. Davies, N. Birbilis, Electrochim. Acta 190, 92-103 (2016).