Nanotechnology Research Center (NRC) and Department of Physics and Nanotechnology jointly organized a two-day international workshop on 'Advanced Functional Materials and Devices (AFMD-2019)' at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur. The focus of the workshop is on energy sectors, fuel cell, and hydrogen storage and so on.
Dr. M. Kamruddin, Associate Director, Accelerator & Nanoscience Group MSG, IGCAR, Kalpakkam was the chief guest for the second edition of the event. Prof K Ramasamy, Director (Research), SRMIST presided over. Prof.R.Murugan, Pondicherry University was the guest of honour.
In his presidential address, Prof K Ramasamy said, “We have had three Nobel physicist from India such things should motivate students to take up more research. To facilitate this we should reorganize our approach towards education. Students need to be interactive and subjects should be multi-disciplinary. Students should also realize your deficiency and work towards it. Such workshops will give you a hands on training on the latest technology and expertise that is available. They should also focus on creating new product.”
Dr. M. Kamruddin in his speech said, “New technology and new devices are need to innovate often to meet new demand. The trend is to make small products that are more efficient. I am happy that SRMIST is encouraging research and the facilities here are world class.”
Guest of honour, Prof.R.Murugan said, “Almost all the breakthrough in nanotechnology is related to India. Battery storage devises is the next technology that we are heading to.”
Some of the topics that were covered in the workshop were: Novel Carbon Nanostructures for Energy Storage Application, Solid State Li-metal batteries for high energy density applications, Engineered Nanophotonic Structures for Energy Applications and Application of Ion Accelerators in Defect Studies.
Prof. Mohamed Jouini, Former Director, ITODYS-Paris University, France and Prof. Y. Hayakawa, Chair, Industry and Tenure Track Cell, Shizuoka University, Japan were some of the key resource persons and mentors in the workshop.
About SRM
SRM Institute of Science and Technology is accredited with the highest grade of A++ by NAAC and graded as Category I university with 12 B status. All Engineering, Pharmacy, Architecture, and MBA programs are approved by AICTE. SRMIST has secured the third rank in the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA). SRMIST is ranked globally by QS and rated by QS with ‘4 Star’ globally and awarded India centric QS IGAUGE Diamond rating.
SRMIST carries out cutting edge research in frontier areas with more than 224 government-funded research projects at an outlay of Rs. 115 Crores since 2007. It has 11 international patents also. The institute recently opened Sir C V Raman Research Park at an estimate of Rs 120 crores with state-of-the-art equipment. The facility was opened by Hon’ble Minister of HRD, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’.
SRMIST has over 50,000 students and nearly 3,200 faculty across all the campuses offering a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs in Engineering, Management, Medicine and Health Sciences, Hotel Management, Science and Humanities, Agricultural Sciences and a School of Law.
