Progression from CLCR to CeNS: a journey from 1991 to 2015

The Centre for Liquid Crystal Research founded in 1991 is now come to known as Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) widening the scope of its research to embrace the basic as well as applied aspects of nanoscience/technology and soft matter. Being a premier institute under DST, Govt. of India, the Centre is engaged in materials research encompassing length scales from the nano to meso levels focussing on a variety of metal and semiconductor nanostructures, liquid crystal materials, gels, membranes and hybrid systems.