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Mission

The mission of this department is to perform high quality basic and technology oriented research in the frontier areas of colloids and functional materials. This department has brought scientist together with different background (ranging from physics, chemistry to metallurgy) to carry out cutting-edge inter-disciplinary research to target the underpinning problems in the area of colloids, bio-materials, energy materials, hierarchical nanostructures, polymers, functional-inorganic materials, hybrid materials and coatings.

Department is well equipped with advanced instruments needed to synthesize, characterize and measure: physico-chemical, mechanical, electrical, optical and catalytic properties etc. of such functional materials. It is also actively involved to offer short courses on colloids & materials chemistry and training courses on instrumentation.

 


 Departmental Achivements

Dr. K.M. Parida awarded "Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence" from Dept. of Science & Technology, Government of Orissa, for his lifetime research contributions in the field of Science & Technology.
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Dr. Yatendra S. Chaudhary awarded "Marie Curie Fellowship" under 7th Framework programme of European Union to undertake research at Oxford University, UK.
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Dr. Sarama Bhattacharjee awarded “INSA-DFG Fellowship” to undertake research at Magdeburg University, Germany.
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Dr. Laxmidhar Besra invited to deliver the lecture in the two day INDO-UK workshop on Fuel Cells, Chennai, 15 – 17 Sept., 2010.