Post by Vinayak Raghunath Malik

🚗🔬 Turning Stainless Steel Waste into Crashworthy Foams — A Sustainable Leap Forward I’m delighted to share that our latest work on SS-316L metal foams, innovatively developed from machining waste via microwave sintering, has been published in a Q2-ranked journal (Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies, Taylor & Francis). 🔗 DOI: https://lnkd.in/gXJBwUb8 🌟 Highlights of this breakthrough research: ✅ Pioneered the use of industrial SS-316L turning chips to fabricate energy-absorbing foams ✅ Adopted microwave sintering for faster, energy-efficient and sustainable processing ✅ Developed foams show excellent crashworthiness, with potential to enhance the safety ratings of entry-level Indian vehicles ✅ Recognized with accolades at IMTEX 2024 – one of India’s premier industry-academia platforms ✅ The proposed technique is now protected by a granted patent, affirming its novelty and industrial relevance ✅ Aligned with multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals: • SDG 7 – Affordable & Clean Energy • SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure • SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption & Production This journey would not have been possible without the collective effort of our dedicated team: 🙌 Undergraduate students: Vimleshwar Revankar, Viraj Deshpande, Vaibhav Pachange & Vaibhav Haval 🎓 PhD researchers: Sanket Shinde, Siddharama Adi & Padmakumar 🙏 A heartfelt thanks to KLS Management, KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, Belagavi, Karnataka, India and Enerzi Microwave Systems Pvt. Ltd. for their continued support and the state-of-the-art facilities made available through the Center of Excellence on Industrial Microwave Heating Applications Development. This work exemplifies how academic ingenuity and industrial need can converge to solve real-world problems in automotive safety, sustainable manufacturing and material circularity — all crucial for India's sustainable development. Let’s continue engineering purposeful, planet-friendly solutions! 🌍⚙️ #Q2Publication #TaylorAndFrancis #SustainableManufacturing #Crashworthiness #MetalFoams #MicrowaveSintering #CircularEconomy #VehicleSafety #SDGs #WasteToWealth #MaterialsScience #PatentGranted #IMTEX2024 #AcademicInnovation #AutomotiveEngineering