Gurpreet Singh is a professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at ansas State University He is endowed by the Harold O. and Jane C. Massey Neff Professorship in Mechanical Engineering. Singh was born in

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; he currently resides in the

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Education

Singh attended the

College of Engineering, Pune COEP Technological University, is A Unitary Public University of Government of Maharashtra, situated in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Established in 1854, it is the 2nd oldest engineering college in India, after IIT Roorkee (1847). The students and ...

and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2003. He obtained his master's degree in 2006 and his doctoral degree in 2007, both in Mechanical Engineering, from the

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. His doctoral advisor was Roop Mahajan. Singh's doctoral co-advisor was J. Richard McIntosh. Singh, along with J. Richard McIntosh invented the Nanoknife.

Career

Singh worked as a postdoctoral associate at Institute of Critical Technologies and Applied Science at

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, before joining as an assistant professor at

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in 2009.

Research

Singh is the principal investigator of National Science Foundation-Partnerships in International Research and Education-Ceramics project at

. He also heads the NanoScience and Engineering lab at the College of Engineering at K-State. In 2018, Singh was awarded two patents related to polymer-derived ceramics. His first patent is titled, “Aluminum-modified polysilazanes for polymer-derived ceramic nanocomposites” (United States Patent 9908905). His second patent is titled, “Silicon-based polymer-derived ceramic composites comprising H-BN nanosheets” (United States Patent 10093584). In 2017, he was awarded a five year, approximately $5 million grant from the

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Partnerships for International Research and Education. This award is to pursue creation of high-temperature ceramics for use in gas turbine engines. These PDCs can withstand higher temperatures than metal alloys and are designed to replace metallic materials in gas turbines. This would allow gas turbines to operate at higher temperatures, which may result in increasing engine thrust by as much as 25%, while reducing fuel usage by 10%. His research on polymer derived ceramic and carbon nanotube composite thermal absorber coatings has been highlighted in

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(NIST) technical beat. Singh's research on liquid phase exfoliation of 2-D crystals to generate atomically thin sheets of graphene oxide, tungsten and molybdenum disulfide for high capacity metal-ion batteries has appeared in top journals, including

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and ''Nature''. Singh is the recipient of the

National Science Foundation CAREER Awards The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

for his research on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide and graphene materials for rechargeable metal-ion batteries. Singh has more than 140 technical publications (journal papers, conference papers, patents, books and technical abstracts) to his credit. Singh has a google h-index of 29.

Awards

* ASME Fellow (Election Year 2022) * Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Award (2021) * NSF Career Award (2015-2020) * Chairman of the editorial board of the American Ceramic Society Bulletin: 2017-2018 * Member of the Editorial Board, Nature-Scientific Reports (2013–present) * Member of the Editorial Board, American Ceramic Society Bulletin (October 2015 – present) * Member of the Editorial Board (September 2015 – present): Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Journal

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Gurpreet Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Ludhiana 21st-century American inventors Kansas State University faculty Indian expatriate academics in the United States University of Colorado Boulder alumni Indian mechanical engineers American patent holders