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harpreet singh grewal
Dr. Harpreet
Singh
Grewal
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering (SoE)
harpreet.grewal@snu.edu.in
121C
Block-C, Shiv Nadar University
Gautam Budh Nagar Uttar Pradesh
India
911207170100
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Dr. Harpreet Singh Grewal is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Shiv Nadar University. He obtained his Ph.D. in the area of Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Ropar.  Prior to joining Shiv Nadar University, he worked as a Post-Doctorate Researcher at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea. Thrust areas of his research are Tribology (macro, micro and nano), Biomimetics and Surface Modifications. His research interests include surface modifications for controlling the wear, friction and adhesion using techniques such as thermal spraying, microwave processing and friction stir processing. He is also involved in  developing bio-inspired superhydrophobic self-cleaning surfaces with modulated adhesion and friction and anti-wear surface. He has published more that 50 peer-reviewed Internaitonal Journal papers, several national/International conference papers and sponsered projects from DST-SERB, NRB and CSIR.

Educational Qualifications 
2014
Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
2007
M.Tech in Machine Design
Punjab Technical University
2005
B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering
Punjab Technical University
Work Experience 
07/19 – Present
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
I currently work here
07/15
06/19
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
02/14
07/15
Post-Doctorate,
Center for Biomicrosystems, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea,
Republic of Korea
05/07
12/10
Assistant Professor,
Ludhiana College of Engineering and Technology, (Punjab), India
06/05
05/07
Design Engineer,
Kanwal Gurdeep Engineering Works, (Punjab), India
Teaching & Research Interests: 

Development of self-cleaning surfaces, advanced materials and manufacturing techniques for controlling environmental degradation, wetting phenomenon, and surface engineering. 

Research Areas 
Advanced Materials and Surface Engineering
Bioinspiration and Biomimetic Robotics
Courses Taught(Selected) 
Advanced Tribology (MED514)
Surface Engineering (MED414)
Research Topics in Design Engi (MED525)
Materials Science & Engg. (MED201)
Mech. Engg. Design & Graphics (MED209)
Mechanics of Fluids (MED211)
Advanced Structural Materials (MED223)
Advanced Mfg. Processes (MED316)
Green Tribology (CCC620)
Awards(Selected): 
2016

Early Career Research Award by Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

2014

KIST Young Researcher Award by Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

2014

Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship by State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), Switzerland

2014

Best PhD Thesis Award (2014), Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

2013

TTRF Young Tribologist Award by Taiho Kogyo Tribology Research Foundation, Japan

Scholarly Activity

Projects

2018

Indo-US Joint Center for Development of Durable Advanced Materials for Bio-implants, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) (IUSSTF/JC/00047/2017), 2017, PI- Dr. Harpreet Singh (IIT Ropar) ₹32 Lac, (Ongoing)
Google
2017

Development of Durable Self-Cleaning Surfaces, Extramural Grant (No. 22/0756/17/EMR-II) , Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), 2017, ₹28 Lac (Ongoing)
2017

Modulating Coating Properties for Enhanced Protection from Erosion-Corrosion: A Systematic Approach on Delineating the Effect of Post-Processing Conditions, Grant in Aid Scheme (No. NRB/4003/PG/399), Naval Research Board (NRB), 2017, PI- Dr. Harpreet Singh (SNU) ₹27 Lac, (Ongoing)
2017

Innovative Approach to Energy Savings in New and Existing Indian Habitats: Multilayer System for Energy Efficiency using Phase Change Materials, Initiative To Promote Habitat Energy Efficiency (I-PHEE) (TMD/CERI/BEE/2016/068(G), DST, 2017, PI- Dr. Ghanshyam Pal (SNU), ₹92 lac (Ongoing)
2016

Microwave Derived Bi-modal Composite Coatings For Encountering Erosion-Related Problems, Early Career Research Grant (No. ECR/2015/000106), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), 2016, ₹32 Lac (Ongoing- to be completed in July 2019)

Journal Publications (accepted or published)

2019

A Babu, HS Arora, H Singh, HS Grewal, (2019) “Microwave Synthesized Composite Claddings with Enhanced Cavitation Erosion Resistance”, Wear, Vol. 422-423, pp. 242-251
2019

HS Arora, A Ayyagari, J Saini, K Selvam, S Riyadh, M Pole, HS Grewal, S Mukherjee (2019) “High tensile Ductility and strength in Dual-phase Bimodal steel through stationary Friction stir processing”, Scientific Reports, Vol. 9(1), pp. 1972
2019

Gopinath Perumal, Amrita Chakrabarti, H S Grewal, Soumya Pati, Shailja Singh, H S Arora, (2019) “Enhanced antibacterial properties and the cellular response of stainless steel through friction stir processing”, Biofouling, DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2019.1584794
2019

J Saini, HS Arora, HS Grewal, G Perumal, A Ayyagari, R Salloom, S Mukherjee, (2019) “Excellent Corrosion Resistance of Dual‐Phase Bimodal Stainless Steel”, Steel Research International, DOI: 0.1002/srin.201800554
2019

R B Nair, H. S. Arora, H. S. Grewal, (2019) “Microwave Synthesized Complex Concentrated Alloy Coatings: Plausible Solution to Cavitation Induced Erosion-Corrosion”, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Vol. 41, pp. 252-260
2019

K Selvam, J Saini, G Perumal, A Ayyagari, R Salloom, R Mondal, S Mukherjee, HS Grewal, HS Arora (2019) “Exceptional cavitation erosion-corrosion behavior of dual-phase bimodal structure in austenitic stainless steel”, Tribology International, Vol. 134, pp. 77-86
2018

R B Nair, H. S. Arora, P. Mandal, H. S. Grewal, (2018) “Complex concentrated coatings: Effect of processing route on microstructural and mechanical properties”, Material Letters, Vol. 230, pp. 100-104
2018

A. Ayyagari, V. Hasannaeimi, H. S. Grewal, H. S. Arora, Sundeep Mukherjee (2018) “Corrosion, Erosion and Wear Behavior of Complex Concentrated Alloys: A Review”, Metals, Vol. 8(8), pp. 603
2018

A. Babu, H. S. Arora, S. N. Behera, M. Sharma, H S Grewal, , (2018) “Towards highly durable bimodal composite claddings using microwave processing”, Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 349, pp. 655-666.
2018

R B Nair, H. S. Arora, P. Mandal, S. Das, H. S. Grewal, (2018) “High‐Performance Microwave‐Derived Multi‐Principal Element Alloy Coatings for Tribological Application”, Advanced Engineering Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adem.201800163
2018

K Selvam, Priya Mandal, H S Grewal, HS Arora, (2018) “Ultrasonic Cavitation Erosion-Corrosion Behavior of Friction Stir Processed Stainless Steel”, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Vol. 44, pp. 331-339
2018

R B Nair, H. S. Arora, Sundeep Mukherjee, S. Singh, H. Singh, H. S. Grewal, (2018) “Exceptionally High Cavitation Erosion and Corrosion Resistance of a High Entropy Alloy”, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Vol. 41, pp. 252-260
2018

R B Nair, H. S. Arora, Sundeep Mukherjee, S. Singh, H. Singh, H. S. Grewal, (2018) “High Entropy Alloys: Prospective Materials for Tribo‐Corrosion Applications”, Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol. 20, pp. 1700946
2017

Gopinath Perumal, Aditya Ayyagari, Amrita Chakrabarti, Deepika Kannan, Soumya Pati, H S Grewal, Sundeep Mukherjee, Shailja Singh, H S Arora, (2017) “Friction Stir Processing of Stainless Steel for Ascertaining its Superlative Performance in Bio-Implant Applications”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 9(42), pp. 36615–36631
2017

R B Nair, H. S. Arora, Sundeep Mukherjee, S. Singh, H. Singh, H. S. Grewal, (2017) “Exceptionally High Cavitation Erosion and Corrosion Resistance of a High Entropy Alloy”, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Vol. 41, pp. 252-260
2017

K Selvam, A Ayyagari, H S Grewal, S Mukherjee, HS Arora, (2017) “Enhancing the Erosion-Corrosion Resistance of Steel through Friction Stir Processing”, Wear, Vol. 386-387, pp. 129-138
2017

Prashant Pendyala, Hong Nam Kim, H S Grewal, Il-Joo Cho, Eui-Sung Yoon, (2017) “Effect of capillary forces on the correlation between nanoscale adhesion and friction of polymer patterned surfaces”, Tribology International, Vol. 114, pp. 436-444
2017

Karthikeyan Selvam, A Prakash , H S Grewal, H S Arora, (2017) “Structural Refinement in Austenitic Stainless Steel by Submerged Friction Stir Processing”, Materials Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 197, pp. 200-207
2017

H S Grewal, R M Sanjiv, H S Arora, Ram Kumar, A. Ayyagari, Sundeep Mukerjee, H Singh, (2017) “Activation Energy and High Temperature Oxidation Behavior of Multi-Principal Element Alloy”, Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol 19(11), pp. 1700182
2017

H S Grewal, Prashant Pendyala, Hyogeun Shin, Il-Joo Cho, Eui-Sung Yoon, (2017) “Nanotribological Behavior of Bioinspired Textured Surfaces with Directional Characteristics”, Wear, Vol. 384, pp. 151-158
2017

8) B S Rakesh, Karthikeyan Selvam, H S Arora, Sundeep Mukherjee, H Singh, H S Grewal, (2017) “Slurry Erosion Behavior of High Entropy Alloys”, Wear, Vol. 386-387, pp. 230-238
2017

Karthikeyan Selvam, B S Rakesh, H Singh, H S Grewal, H S Arora, (2017) “High Strain Deformation of Austenitic Steel for Enhancing the Erosion Resistance”, Wear, Vol. 376, pp. 1021-1029
2016

Prashant Pendyala, H S Grewal, Hong Nam Kim, and Il-Joo Cho, Eui-Sung Yoon, (2016) “Individual role of the physicochemical characteristics of nanopatterns in adhesion and friction”, ACS Applied Material and Interface, Vol. 8, pp. 30590-30600
2016

H S Grewal, Piao, S., Cho, II-Joo, Jhang, K-Y, and Yoon, Eui-Sung, (2016) " Nanotribological and Wetting Performance of Hierarchical Patterns " Soft Matter, Vol. 12, pp. 859-866
2015

H S Grewal, Kim Hong Nam, Cho, II-Joo, and Yoon, Eui-Sung (2015), "Role of Viscous Dissipative Processes on the Wetting of Textured Surfaces" Nature Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, paper no. 14159
2015

H S Grewal, Singh, H., and Yoon, Eui-Sung (2015), "Interplay Between Erodent Concentration and Impingement Angle for Erosion in Dilute Water-Sand Flows" Wear, Vol. 332-333, pp. 1111-1119
2015

H S Grewal, Cho, II-Joo, and Yoon, Eui-Sung (2015), "The Role of Bio-Inspired Hierarchical Structures in Wetting" Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol. 10(2), paper no: 026009
2014

H S Grewal, Cho, II-Joo, Oh, Jae-Eung, and Yoon, Eui-Sung (2014), “Effect of topography on the wetting of nanoscale patterns: experimental and modeling studies”, Nanoscale, Vol. 6, pp. 15321-15332

Conference/Symposium

2017

Prashant Pendyala, Hong Nam Kim, H S Grewal, Il-Joo Cho, Eui-Sung Yoon, Time scales and dimensionality of wetting transitions on butterfly wing inspired micro-cavity surfaces, 10th International Symposium of Nature Inspired Technology, June 28th to July 1st 2017, Jpark Island Resort and Waterpark, Cebu, Philippine
2016

H S Grewal, Arora, H.S., and Yoon, Eui-Sung “Nanotribological studies of patterned surfaces” Third International Conference on Nanotechnology for Better Living, 25th to 29th May 2016, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India
2016

Arora, H.S., H S Grewal, and Mukherjee S. “Nanomechanical behavior of thermo-plastically formed metallic glass nanostructures” Third International Conference on Nanotechnology for Better Living, 25th to 29th May 2016, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India
2016

Prashant Pendyala1, H S Grewal, Shin Hyogeun, Cho, II-Joo, and Yoon, Eui-Sung, “Characteristics of wetting on butterfly-wing inspired cavity surfaces", 9th International Symposium on Nature Inspired Technology, 13th to 15th Jan. 2016, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. (poster)
2015

H S Grewal, Shin Hyogeun, Cho, II-Joo, and Yoon, Eui-Sung, "Biomimicking Butterfly Wing Surface Texture for Improved Tribological Performance", 31st European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-31), Aug. 31 to 4th Sept. 2015, Barcelona, Spain
2015

H S Grewal, and Yoon, Eui-Sung, "Nanotribological aspects of the hierarchical patterns", 20th Wear of Materials (WOM) Conference, April 12th to April 16, 2015 Toronto, Canada (poster)
2015

H S Grewal, and Yoon, Eui-Sung, " Role of Surface Topography on Wettability And Tribological Properties", The 6th International Conference on Manufacturing, Machine Design and Tribology (ICMDT 2015), The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, April 22nd to April 25th, Okinawa, Japan 2015
2013

H S Grewal, Arora, H.S., Agrawal, A., Singh, H., and Mukherjee, S. “Slurry erosion of thermal spray coatings: Effect of sand concentration”, Malaysian International Tribology Conference 2013 (MITC2013), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, 18-20 Nov. 2013

Conference Publications

2017

H S Grewal, Prashant Pendyala, Hyogeun Shin, Il-Joo Cho, Eui-Sung Yoon, Nanotribological Behavior of Bioinspired Textured Surfaces with Directional Characteristics, 21st Wear of Materials (WOM) Conference, March 26th to March 30th 2017, Long Beach, California, United States
2017

B S Rakesh, Karthikeyan Selvam, H S Arora, Sundeep Mukherjee, H Singh, H S Grewal, Slurry Erosion Behavior of High Entropy Alloys, 21st Wear of Materials (WOM) Conference, March 26th to March 30th 2017, Long Beach, California, United States

Patent

2016

H S Grewal, H Singh, and A Agrawal, "Simplified Liquid Droplet Erosion Tester", Application No.: 201611026820 (filed)
2017

Jaskaran Singh, Karthikeyan Selvam, H S Arora, and H S Grewal, “A Method for Modifying Surface Grain Structure of the Material and Apparatus Thereof” Application No.: 201711025562 (filed)
2017

H S Arora, H S Grewal, Shailja Singh, Soumya Pati, Gopinath Perumal, “An Apparatus and a Method for Processing Stainless Steel and an Improved Stainless Steel for Bioimplants Thereof”, Application No.: 201711025604 (filed)
2018

H S Grewal, H S Arora, Abhishek Babu, “Erosion Resistance Bimodal Composite Coating Composition And Method Thereof”, 201811031399 (filed)
2018

H S Arora, H S Grewal, Gautam T, Kashish Vijay, Karthikeyan Selvam “An Improved Powder Refining Device And Method Thereof”, 201811034959 (filed)
2019

H S Grewal, H S Arora, Abhijith Nambiar, Abhishek Babu “Facile Physiochemical treatment for Developing Non-fluorinated Self-cleaning Surface”, Application No: 201911002740 (filed)
2019

H S Arora, H S Grewal, Sundeep Mukherjee, H Singh, Gopinath Perumal “A Stationary Friction Processing System For Minimizing Segregation In A Metallic Work Piece And Method Thereof”, Application No: 201911007802 (filed)

Books & Book Chapters

Arora, H. S., Grewal, H. S., Singh, H., Dhindaw, B. K., and Mukherjee, S. (2014) "Corrosion behaviour of friction stir processed and welded materials" in Advances in Friction-Stir Welding and Processing, Edited by M-K Besharati-Givi and P Asadi, Published by Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, U.K. ISBN: 9780857094544

Grewal, H. S., Singh, H., (2015) "Slurry Erosion Behavior of Thermal Spray Coatings" in Thermal Sprayed Coatings and Their Tribological Performances, Edited by Manish Roy and J. Paulo Davim, Published by IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA. ISBN: 9781466674899