Dr. Dahotre was named a Post-Doctoral Fellow by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Prior to UNT, he was a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Tennessee, as well as chairman and vice-chairman for the Center of Excellence for Laser Applications. Dr. Dahotre has devoted his entire educational and professional career to developing laser-based surface engineering for advanced materials. He has made pioneering contributions to understanding and engineering laser-materials interactions and implementation of high power lasers for materials processing and surface engineering. He is internationally known for his work on fundamentals and applications of laser surface engineering of metals, ceramics, polymers and composites. He received the 2008 Faculty Award for Excellence in Service from the University of Tennessee Department of Materials Science and Engineering; the 2006 Metal Infusion Surface Treatment (MIST) R&D Award; the 2006 University of Tennessee Chancellor’s Research and Creativity Achievement Award; the 2006 University of Tennessee College of Engineering Research Fellow Award; the 2000 American Society for Materials International-Indian Institute of Metal Visiting Lecturer Award; the 1998 Ford Foundation Award; and the 1997 ALCOA Foundation Award. He was also elected to the 2004 Class of Fellows of American Society for Materials International.
Dahotre, N. B., Paital, S. R., Samant, A. N., Daniel, C. (2010) Wetting Behavior of Laser Synthetic Micro Textures on Ti-6Al4V for Bioapplication. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society-A, Vol. 368, pp.1863-1889.
Harimkar, S. P., Paital,S. R., Singh, A., Aaland, R., and Dahotre, N. B. (2009). Microstructure and Properties of Spark Plasma Sintering of Fe-Cr-Mo-Y-B-C Bulk Metallic Glass. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Vol. 355, pp. 2179-2182.
Kurella, A. and Dahotre, N. (2010). Fractal Approach to Laser Processed Surfaces. Advanced Engineering Materials.
Paital, S. R., Cao, Z., He, W., and Dahotre, N. B. (2010). Wetting Effects on In-vitro Bioactivity and In-vitro Biocompatibility of Laser Micro-textured Ca-P Coating. Biofabrication, 2(2), 1-14.
Paital, S. R., He, W., and Dahotre, N. B. (2010). Laser Pulse Dependent Micro Textured Calcium Phosphate Coatings for Improved Wettability and Cell Compatibility. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine.
Paital, S. R., He, W., Daniel, C., and Dahotre, N. B. (2010). Laser Process Effect on the Texture Evolution and Wetting Behavior in Implantable Ti-6Al-4V Alloys. Journal of Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (JOM).
Paital,S., R.Balani, K., Agarwal, A., and Dahotre, N. B. (2009). Fabrication and Evaluation of Pulse Laser Induced Ca-P Coating on a Ti-alloy for Bioapplication. Biomedical Materials.
Samant, A. N. and Dahotre, N.B. (2009). Absorptivity Transition in 1.06 μm Wavelength Laser Machining of Structural Ceramics. Int. J. Appl. Ceramic Technology.
Samant, A. N., Du, B., and Dahotre, N. B. (2010). Three-Dimensional Laser Machining of Structural Ceramics. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Vol. 12, pp. 1-7.
Yang, Y., Paital, S. R., and Dahotre, N. B. (2009). Wetting and in Vitro Bioactivity of Laser Processed CaP Coating with Presence and Variation of SiO2 on Ti-6AI-4V. Materials Technology: Advanced Performance Materials.
