Material Sciences

The Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology has been established at IIT Kharagpur, supported by Department of Heavy Industry of Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India, along with a consortium of top industry members in the country. The centre aims to stimulate the innovation to manufacture smart machines in the capital goods sector.

The National Centre for High Pressure Studies (NCHPS) at IISER Kolkata aims to foster interdisciplinary and collaborative research in the field of Natural Sciences, Materials Sciences and Geosciences. NCHPS focuses on fundamental studies of structural changes and novel phase transitions of both naturally occurring and designed materials that occur under extreme conditions, using an integration of theory and experimentThe centre has facilities to achieve megabar pressures and very high temperatures using laser heated diamond anvil cell (LHDAC). 

At IISER, Kolkata, the Centre for Advanced Functional Materials (CAFM) has a special mission to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research and education in the science and technological applications of advanced solid state and soft materials. CAFM lays emphasis on nanoscience and nanotechnology and coordinates to foster advanced research towards synthesis of smart materials, structure-property elucidation, device fabrication, cutting-edge applications and promote technology transfer of developed materials and devices
 

The Centre for Computational Materials Science (CCMS) was established in April 2006. It is supported by the Department of Science and Technology, through its Nano Science and Technology Initiative

Centre of Nanotechnology (CNT) was established in December 2005 as one of the Centres of Excellence. The faculty at the Centre is involved in developing state-of-the-art facilities at the institute and is vigorously pursuing interdisciplinary research on current aspects of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

At Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), an active group of scientists are pursuing research on different aspects of nanoscience, working together in field of synthesis and characterization of a variety of nanoobjects-tubes, wires and particles of different materials, their chemical modification and organization as well as thin films and powders of transition metal oxides showing interesting physical properties. Centre is equipped with several new scientific equipments.