National Conference on “Current Trends in Advanced Materials”

Scope :

Multifunctional materials are of today’s quest. Miniaturization, i.e. development of these materials in the form of nanomaterials is of primary need considering their application in devices. Moreover, if these are obtained in nanostructured form, they can bring wonders. Miniaturization of devices has always been a challenging task for the scientific community and in the same pursuit ‘Nanotechnology’ has come up after its latency with the novel fabrication methods of nanomaterials and advanced characterization techniques.

With this view, activities in VECC have been initiated for developing multifunctional nanostructured materials by simple techniques. The ion beam irradiation facility at our centre has boosted up research in other directions like irradiation induced growth and characterization of nanostructures. In addition, particle irradiation can also simulate the radiation damage experienced by structural materials in nuclear power plant and extensive studies are being carried out for microstructural characterization. With this background, the national conference entitled “Current trends in Advanced Materials” is being organized with the view of close interaction among the scientists and intellectuals.

The broad areas of the conference include, but are not limited to Nanomaterials, Surface & Interface, Multifunctional Materials and Irradiation Effects in materials.