Employee Name
Paramita Mukherjee

Official Address
Material Science and Medical Group
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
1/AF Bidhannagar,
Kolkata 700 064, India.
paramita@vecc.gov.in
Contact Number
+91 33 23182220
Designation
Outstanding Scientist
Qualifications
- PhD (2004) : Jadavpur University, Kolkata, INDIA
- B.E (Metallurgical Engineering)
Field of Work
• Radiation Damage using ion beams on metals and alloys
• X-ray Diffraction techniques for characterisation of defects, Microstructual analysis
Publications
• Microstructure and defect evolution in oxygen ion-irradiated pure nickel – Insights from experimental probes and molecular dynamics simulations, U. Saha, A. Dutta, C. Konkati, S. Chakraborty, S. Dey, A. Chauhan, S. Srivastava, N. Gayathri, P. Mukherjee, Mater. Chem. Phys. 305 (2023) 127916.
• Post irradiated microstructure and mechanical properties of pure V, N.Gayathri, P.Mukherjee, Sudipta Mandal, Apu Sarkar, Uttiyoarnab Saha, S. Dey A.Dutta, T.K.Roy, Suman Neogy, Journal of Nuclear Materials, Volume 564, June 2022, 153648
• A novel approach to analyse combined pre and post strain rate dependent phase transformation in uniaxially deformed AISI 304 stainless steel using XRD and EBSD, S. Dey, N.Gayathri, P. Mukherjee, Argha Dutta, Manoj Kumar Mitra, Philosophical Magazine, Volume 102, - Issue 2, 112-136 (2022)
• Influence of proton irradiation on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Nb-1Zr-0.1C alloy, Argha Dutta, Apu Sarkar, P.Mukherjee, N.Gayathri, Santu Dey, S.Neogy, Archna Sagdeo, Journal of Nuclear Materials, Available online 29 July 2021, Volume 557, 15 December 2021, 153221
• An approach in the analysis of microstructure of proton irradiated T91 through XRDLPA using synchrotron and laboratory source, Argha Dutta, N.Gayathri, P.Mukherjee, Santu Dey, Sudipta Mandal, Tapatee Kundu Roy, Apu Sarkar, S.Neogy, Archna Sagdeo, Journal of Nuclear Materials Volume 514, February 2019, Pages 161-170
• Study of alpha irradiation on the microstructure and the mechanical properties of nanocrystalline Ni, Garima Sharma, P. Mukherjee, A. Chatterjee, N. Gayathri, A. Sarkar, J.K. Chakraborty, Acta Materialia Volume 61, Issue 9, Pages 3257-3266 (2013); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2013.02.014
• Microstructural characterization of recrystallised Zircaloy-2 after pilgering using X-ray diffraction line profile analysis, P. Mukherjee, N. Gayathri, P.S. Chowdhury, M.K. Mitra, Journal of Nuclear Materials,Volume 434, Pages 24-30 (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2012.11.028
Awards / Honours
• DAE Science & Technical Excellence Award – 2011
• DAE Group Achievement Award – 2017, 2019
• Best Paper Award – Indian Institution of Engineers (India) – 2019
• Best paper Award – IIM-ATM – 1990, 1993, 1995