Dr. Prasenjit Barick

1) P. Barick*, B.P. Saha, Sintering kinetics and prediction of viscosity of BaO-CaO-Al2O3-

SiO2 glass using heating stage microscope. Accepted in Physics and Chemistry of
Glasses: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part B (2025).

2) P. Barick*, S. Prusty, R. Chary V, B.P. Saha, Effect of B2O3/SiO2 Ratio and Heat-
Treatment Dwell Time on Phase Formation, the Microstructural and Mechanical Property

of Sro-Cao-Al2O3-ZnO-B2O3-SiO2-TiO2 Glass System. Science of Sintering, 57(4) (2025)
531-542.
3) P.Barick*, B.P. Saha, Effect of sintering parameters on the densification, microstructure,
and mechanical properties of SrO-CaO-ZnO-Al2O3-B2O3-SiO2-TiO2 based glass
sealant, Science of Sintering, 55 (2023)353-365.
4) P. Barick*, B.P. Saha, Mixed particle size effect on improvement of mechanical properties
of reaction bonded B4C, Trans. Ind. Ceram. Soc., Vol. 82, No. 1, (2023), pp. 56-64 (2023).
5) P. Barick*, B.P. Saha, Effect of sintering parameters on the densification, microstructure,
and mechanical properties of SrO-CaO-ZnO-Al2O3-B2O3-SiO2-TiO2 based glass sealant,
Science of Sintering, Vol.55(2023) pp. 353-365.
6) P. Barick*, B.P.Saha, Effect of boron nitride addition on densification, microstructure,
mechanical, thermal and dielectric properties of β-SiAlON ceramic, Journal of Materials
Engineering and Performance, Vol.30, (2021), pp.3603-3611.
7) P. Barick*, B.V. Shalini, M. Srinivas, D.C. Jana, B.P. Saha, A facile route for producing
spherical granules comprising water reactive aluminium nitride added composite powders,
Advanced Powder Technology, Vol.31, No.5, (2020), pp. 2119-2127.
8) P. Barick*, R. Mitra, B.P. Saha, Influence of a few important parameters on the
rheological behaviour of silicon carbide nanoparticles dispersed aqueous suspension,
Ceramics International, Vol. 44, No. 8 (2018), 9070-9075.

9) P. Barick*, A. Chatterjee, B. Majumdar, B.P. Saha, R. Mitra, Comparative evaluations
and microstructure - mechanical property relations of sintered silicon carbide consolidated
by various techniques, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A (2018) 49(4) : 1182-
1201.
10) P. Barick*, B.P. Saha, S.V. Joshi, R. Mitra, Spray-freeze-dried nanosized silicon carbide
containing granules: Properties, compaction behaviour and sintering, Journal of European
Ceramic Society, 36(2016) 3863-3877.
11) P. Barick*, D. Chakravarty, B.P. Saha, R. Mitra, S.V.Joshi, Effect of pressure and
temperature on microstructure and mechanical properties of spark plasma sintered silicon
carbide processed with β-SiC nanopowder and sintering additives, Ceramics International
42(2016) 3836-3848.
12) P. Barick*, B.P. Saha, R. Mitra, S.V. Joshi, Effect of concentration and molecular weight
of polyethylenimine on zeta potential, isoelectric point of nanocrystalline silicon carbide in
aqueous and ethanol medium, Ceramics International 41(2015) 4289-4293.
13) P. Barick*, D.C. Jana, B.P. Saha, Load-dependent indentation behavior of β-SiAlON and
α-Silicon carbide, Journal of Advanced Ceramics 2 (2013) 185-192.
14) P. Barick*, D.C. Jana, N. Thiyagarajan, Effect of particle size on the mechanical
properties of reaction bonded boron carbide ceramics, Ceramics International 39 (2013)
763-770.
15) P. Barick*, R. Lodha, R. Pyare, G.N. Agrawal, Zirconia- Part II : A, A review of nanoparticle
synthesis by Sol-Gel, Indoceram, Vol.41, No.3, (2004), pp. 7-11.
* Corresponding author

-(B)- As co-author-
16) Bhaskar Prasad Saha, Dulal Chandra Jana, P. Barick, V. Natarajan, Suresh Venkata, R.

Venkateswaran, P. U. Kamath, Roy Johnson , K.V. Shriram, B. Raghavendra Prasad and
G. Padmanbham, Silicon Carbide-based Functional Components in Visible Emission Line
Coronagraph (VELC) on board ADITYA-L1 Mission, Current Science, 125(12)2023,
pp.1323-1327.
17) S. Manivannan, P. Biswas, P. Barick, S. Kumari, B. P. Saha, R. Johnson, Comparative
study on compaction and sintering behavior of spray and freeze granulated magnesium
aluminate spinel powder, Trans. Ind. Ceram. Soc., Vol. 80, No. 2, (2021), pp. 1- 8.

18) D.C. Jana, P. Barick, B.P. Saha, Effect of sintering temperature on densities and
mechanical properties of solid-state sintered silicon carbide ceramics and evaluation of
failure origin, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 27, No. 6 (2018),
2960-2966.
19) S.V. Amrut Raj, D.C. Jana, P. Barick, B. P. Saha, Microstructure evolution in densification
of SiC ceramics by aluminium vapour infiltration and investigation of mechanical
properties, Ceramics International, Vol. 44, No. 8 (2018), 9221-9226.

20) I.Ganesh, N. Thiyagarajan, D.C. Jana, P. Barick, and G. Sundararajan, An aqueous
gelcasting route to dense -Si4Al2O2N6-0.5SiO2 ceramics, Journal of American Ceramic
Society, 91 (2008) 1566 –1571.
21) I.Ganesh, N. Thiyagarajan, D.C. Jana, P. Barick, G. Sundararajan, and J.M.F. Ferreira,
Dense - SiAlON consolidated by a modified hydrolysis assisted solidification route,
Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 28 (2008) 879-885.
22) S.Ghosh, R. Lodha, P. Barick, S. Mukhopadhayay, Improvement of thermal
characteristics of refractory castable by addition of gel-route spinel nanoparticles, Materials
and Manufacturing processes 22 (2007) 81-90.

23) S. Mukhopadhayay, S. Ghosh, M.K. Mahapatra, R. Mazumder, P. Barick, S. Gupta, S.
Chakraborty, Easy-to-use mullite and spinel sols as bonding agents in a high-alumina
based ultra low cement castable, Ceramics International 28(2002) 719-729.

1) Presented a paper on ‘Sintering and Thermal Characteristics of BaO-CaO-Al2O3-SiO2
Based Glass System’ in ‘International Conference on Research Advancements and
Industrial Challenges in Glass and Ceramics (RAICGC 2025)” – 89

th annual session
of Indian Ceramic Society, held on 27-29th December 2025, at IIT Mumbai,
Maharashtra, India.
2) Presented a paper on ‘Lithium Aluminosilicate glass-ceramic : salient properties and
thermal characteristics’ in 16th Pacific rim conference on ceramic and glass
technology including glass & optical materials division meeting (GOMD 2025), on
04-09 May,2025, held at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Organized by The
American Ceramic Society).
3) Presented a paper on ‘Lithium Aluminosilicate low-expansion glass-ceramic –
Composition effect on salient properties, crystallization mechanism’ in 27th International
congress on glass (ICG 2025), on 20-24th January,2025, held at Viswa Bangla
Convention Center, Kolkata, India (Organized by CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata).
4) Presented a paper on ‘Silicon Carbide : processing, properties, and critical applications’
in International conference on frontier in ceramic materials (ICFCM 2024), on 16-18th
December,2024, held at IIT-BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. (INVITED)
5) Presented a paper on ‘A comparative evaluation between densification, microstructure
and mechanical properties of spark plasma sintered and hot-pressed SiC’ in National
symposium on Sintering (NSS-24), on 16-18th May,2024, held at IIT-Patna, Bihar,
India.
6) Presented a paper on ‘sintering parameters and composition dependent densification,
microstructure and mechanical properties of strontium-aluminosilicate glass sealant for

SOFC’ in National symposium on electrochemical science and technology (NSEST-
2023), held on 17-18th December, 2023 at ARCI-Hyderabad, Telangana, India.(INVITED)

7) Presented a paper ‘On the sintering of SrO-CaO-B2O3-Al2O3-ZnO-SiO2-TiO2 glass
system’ in ‘International Conference on Global Trends in Traditional to Space Ceramics
(GT-TSC’22) – 86th Annual session of Indian Ceramic Society, on 08-09th December
2022, held at IIT-BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

8) Participated in two (02) days conference in International conference on Functional and
Advanced Materials (ICFAM-2019), held on 09-10th December, 2019 at CSIR-NIIST,
Trivandrum, Kerala
9) Presented a paper on ‘Effect of boron carbide particles size on microstructure and
mechanical properties of reaction bonded boron carbide’ in ‘Innovation and Technologies
for Ceramics (InTec)” - 83rd annual session of Indian Ceramic Society, held on 11-
12 December 2019, at NIIST, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
10) SiAlON radome for missile applications” in International Conference on Advanced
Materials and Processes for Defense Application (ADMAT 2019), 23-25 September,
2019, held at Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
11) Ballistic Performance of Silicon Carbide Armor” in International Conference on
Advanced Materials and Processes for Defense Application (ADMAT 2019), 23-25
September,2019, held at Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
12) Presented a poster on ‘Effect of processing parameters on the characteristics of spray -
freeze - dried silicon carbide granules and its importance on the improvement of
mechanical properties, in ‘81st annual session of Indian Ceramic Society and
International Conference on Expanding Horizons of Technological Applications of
Ceramics and Glasses (EH-TACAG’17)’, on 14 - 16 December, 2017, held at COEP,
Pune, Maharashtra, India.
13) Presented a paper on ‘Microstructure, mechanical properties and Weibull modulus of
reaction bonded boron carbide Ceramics’ in ‘International Conference on Ceramics
(ICC-12)’ on 12-13 December, 2012, held at Bikaner, Rajasthan, India.
14) Presented a paper on ‘Application of alumina bearing sol in no cement alumina based
refractory monolithics’ in ‘National seminar on recent development on monolithic
refractories’ on 5 March 2005, held at IT-BHU, Varanasi, U.P. India.
15) Presented a paper on ‘Synthesis and characterization of nanozirconia powder’ in ‘68th
annual session of Indian Ceramic Society’, on 21-24 December, 2004, held at BARC,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
16) Participated in the 15th Annual General Meeting of Materials Research Society of
India (AGM-MRSI), held on 9-11th February, 2004 in IT-BHU, Varanasi.
17) Presented poster on ‘New additives for castable via sol-gel route” in the national
seminar on Refractories & Furnaces – New options & New Values (REFUR-2000)’,
held at CG&CRI, Kolkata during the period December 21-22, 2000.

(A) Ongoing (Sponsored)
1) Facility establishment and realization of low expansion glass-ceramics (A project funded by
VSSC(ISRO) and RCI(DRDO)). Project value – 44 Crore INR.
2) Development and delivery of SiC tiles to MNIT-Jaipur (nodal point). Project value – 1.11 Crore
INR.(Funded by Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India).
(B) Completed (Sponsored)
3) Development of chemical vapor deposited silicon carbide (CVD-SiC) coated SiC mirror blank
for space optics in satellite (Jointly sponsored by LEOS / ISRO, Bangalore and DST, Govt. of
India). Project value – 40 Crore INR.
4) Development of CVD-SiC coated SiC mirror (M3) and SiC cold finger for the VELC payload
of ADITYA-L1 satellite for solar observation. (A project funded by LEOS (ISRO)-Bengaluru
and IIAP-Bengaluru). Project value – 5.5 Lakh INR.
5) High temperature (2200°C) graphitization of C-C composites blocks for the GAGANYAAN
programme of ISRO. (Funded by VSSC-ISRO, Trivandrum). Project value – 1.75 Crore INR.
6) Development of state-of-the-art silicon carbide, boron carbide based hard ceramic inserts for
protection system (Partially funded by ANTRIX / ISRO, Bangalore). Project value - 1.5 Crore
INR).
7) Development of reaction bonded boron carbide (RBBC) ceramic (A spin-off project of (Sl. 6))
8) Development of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and silica (SiO2) composite for application as
Hall effect thrusters (Sponsored by VSSC/ISRO, Work carried out at CSIR-CGCRI, Kolkata).
(C) In-house :
9) Development of silicon nitride-based ceramic (e.g. SiAlON) for electromagnetic wave
transparent window application (e.g. radome, substrate holder for microwave enhanced
plasma CVD reactor).