Mohammad Umar Farooq Khan

Profile Information
Name
Dr. Mohammad Umar Farooq Khan
Institution
The Ohio State University
Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Affiliation
The Ohio State University
h-Index
10
ORCID
0000-0002-8401-7373
Biography
Dr. Khan is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Fontana Corrosion Center at The Ohio State University, working on computational and experimental approaches to study localized corrosion in Aluminum alloys. Research Fellow at the University of Michigan and Texas A&M University. His current work area includes Material development and testing in harsh, extreme environments for nuclear and solar power technologies, such as molten salts at high temperatures and salt purification. Before his postdoc, he was a Visiting Researcher at North Carolina State University, where he worked on cold-sprayed metallic coatings on commercial Magnesium alloys to improve wear and corrosion resistance. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Corrosion Engineering from the University of Akron in 2020. His Ph.D. work involved developing nanocrystalline Magnesium alloys with high hardness and corrosion resistance for lightweight applications. However, apart from PhD work, he had an industrial collaboration for corrosion testing of cold-sprayed metallic coating. He completed his bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Raipur, and his master's degree in Corrosion Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. After his master's, he continued at the same institute as a Senior Research Fellow, where he worked on Stress Corrosion Cracking and hot-salt stress corrosion cracking, and on corrosion testing for industrial consulting services.
Expertise
Advanced Characterization, Coatings, Corrosion, Electrochemistry, Energy Storage, Fission, Metal, Microstructure, Molten Salt, Nuclear Materials, solar energy