Mr. Suman Kundu has been awarded the 'Best Poster Prize' for his poster entitled “Ultrafast Humidity Sensing by Supramolecular Nanofibre for Real-time Breath and Hydration Observation using Smart-Phone or PC” at CNMS, JAIN University, Bengaluru.
On occasion of National Science day, Prof. G. U. Kulkarni received the "SASTRA-CNR Rao Award for Excellence in Chemistry & Materials Sciences" in recognition to his contributions in the development of new strategies for nanodevice fabrication including molecular systems, at SASTRA University, Thanjavur on 28 February 2019.
Prof. G. U. Kulkarni received the MRSI-Distinguished Lectureship Award (2019-20), at the 30th Annual General Meeting of MRSI and the First Indian Materials Conclave held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India during February 12-15, 2019.
Materials Research Society of India(MRSI) has conferred the MRSI medal on Dr. C.V. Yelamaggad on February 12, 2019, in recognition of his significant contribution in the filed of Material Science and Engineering.
The 9th MRS Trilateral conference on Advances in Nanomaterials: Energy, Water and Healthcare, was inaugurated on 22nd October 2018 at the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bengaluru. Prof. G U Kulkarni, Director, CeNS, welcomed dignitaries and delegates from the three participating countries, namely, China, Singapore and India to the three-day event. This was followed by the inaugural remarks by Prof. C N R Rao, FRS, National Research Professor, JNCASR, Bengaluru, who stressed the importance of materials research not only in the energy, water and health sectors but also in the field of environment and climate changes that affect the living conditions in several cities like Delhi and Bejing. Prof. B V R Chowdari, President MRS Singapore, Prof. Suresh Das, President, MRS India and Prof. Hu Zheng, representing MRS China gave opening remarks which set the tone of the conference going. The conference had six sessions with seventeen invited talks and a poster session, wherein about thirty-five delegates presented their works related to the topic of applications of nanomaterials in water desalination and purification, water harvesting, solar cells and batteries for energy generation and storage, water splitting for energy generation, biomedical applications such as controlled drug delivery, treatment of abnormal scars, tissue adhesives etc.
This year the researchers, Dr Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Dr Vivek Ramakrishnan and Mr Anamul Haque represented CeNS at the recently concluded India International Science Festival (IISF)-2018 held during 5-8 October 2018 at Lucknow, UP. They actively participated in the two events, namely, the Young Scientists Conference (5-6 Oct) and the Mega Science, Technology & Industry Expo (5– 8 Oct). At the conference the scientific contributions, “Affordable Smart Windows” by Dr Ashutosh, “Modulating the growth of metallic MoO2 nanostructures with various morphologies enabling it for electrochemical water activation” by Dr Vivek and “Internal Heterostructure of Anion Exchanged Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocubes” by Mr Anamul were presented. They showcased the R&D activities of CeNS through demonstrable prototypes and posters at the Expo. The CeNS stall attracted a large number of visitors from industry and academic institutions, and the prototypes were a great hit especially among the young students.
CeNS participated in the workshop on 'Emerging Trends in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” organized by Jawaharlal Nehru National College for Engineering, Shivamogga. Prof. G U Kulkarni, Director, CeNS was felicitated by the organizers during the inaugural event for his contributions to Nanoscience and technology.
The workshop was sponsored by the Science Academies and three faculty members from CeNS, namely, Prof. G U Kulkarni, Dr. Geetha G Nair and Dr. Neena Susan John delivered lectures to graduate students, research scholars and young faculty of the college.
Researchers from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, have developed a new type of gold in the form of very small crystals — microcystallites. The microcrystal gold has been found to be nobler than gold — it do not dissolve in mercury and Aqua regia (a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid), and showed the least interaction with copper.
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-
Dr. Veena Prasad and Dr. Ramakrishna Matte were invited to be guests of honour for the inauguration of ATAL TINKERING LAB at Sharada Educational Institutions, SKDB campus, Kodialbail, Mangaluru, on 30th July 2018. After the function they conducted V4 - Science programme for high school and PU students of Sharada PU College.
“All that glitters is not gold – but sometimes it really, really is. Researchers have made a new kind of gold crystal that is even more gold-like than regular gold.”, writes Michael Marshall in NewScientist citing the new discovery by Prof. G U Kulkarni, Director, CeNS and his group. For full story click on the link
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2173082-new-form-of-gold-is-much-golder-than-normal-gold/
