A two-day national conference on ‘Advances in Smart and Functional Materials (ASFM)’ was inaugurated on Friday at CSIR Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal.
The conference is being organized by CSIR- AMPRI, Bhopal and Bhopal chapters of The Indian Institute of Metals, Materials Research Society of India & Tribology Society of India.
AMPRI’s Director S Das welcomed the guests during the inaugural day on Friday. He said that AMPRI has achieved a respectable status amongst the CSIR labs. Its name has made an important place in the broad area of materials.
Convener of the conference and Chief Scientist, CSIR – AMPRI, Rupa Dasgupta briefed the gathering about the conference being organized in the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of CSIR and said that the conference is a platform for the possible future collaborations in research and teamwork.
Guest of Honor and the Professor of University of Wisconsin- Stout, USA, Rajiv Asthana expressed pleasure on being a part of the conference.
Another guest of Honor, Professor, IIT Madras, V Sampath appreciated the good work being done at CSIR – AMPRI and said that AMPRI will be on the world map of Advanced Materials soon.
Chief Guest and the Director, IIT Indore, P Mathur said that the topic covered in the conference is timely and significant. It embodies the interdisciplinarity as it involves a large number of branches during the process, bringing people of various domains together. He expressed that CSIR-AMPRI and IIT, Indore will be collaborating more for expanding the scope of research and development. Chief Scientist, CSIR – AMPRI, SS Amritphale proposed the vote of thanks.
The inaugural function followed by four technical sessions on Thermo Responsive Materials and Applications, Cellular Materials, Composite Materials and Functional Crystalline Materials.
The technical sessions of Saturday will be taking up the topics of Shape Memory Polymers, Functional Nano Materials and Smart & Functional Materials.