Pushan Ayyub
TIFR, India
Biography
Pushan Ayyub is a Senior Professor and Chair in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. He has over 160 publications in the general area of nanoscience. He was a Member of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials (1998-2008) and is currently a Member of the Nano Mission Council of the Government of India. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. His research interests include the size dependence of superconductivity and ferroelectricity. He is particularly interested in size-induced structural phase transitions and stabilization of novel crystal structures.
Abstract
Abstract : The microscopic origin of size-dependent lattice contraction and expansion