A daylong National Conference on Smart Materials for Device: Perspective and Research Direction was organized at Rabindranath Tagore University (RNTU) Bhopal here on Tuesday. The workshop was organised for Faculty, Research Scholars and Students of RNTU.
Prasanta Kumar Panda, Chief Scientist, Group Head, Materiel Science Division National Aerospace laboratory, CSIR was present as the chief guest of the programme. Besides, Tata Narsinga Rao Scientist and Associate Director ARCT Hyderabad, Srinibas Satapathy Scientist F laser Materials Section, RRCAT, Indore DAE and. Rupa Das Gupta, Chief Scientist, AMPRI, Bhopal were the keynote speakers of this conference.
While addressing the opening session of the national conference, Prasanta Kumar Panda explained about Piezoelectric Materials (PZT) and how PZT is useful for energy harvesting. He also mentioned the benefits of PZT materials, especially Piezoelectric wind mills sensor applications aerospace.
Then, addressing the conference Rabindranath Tagore University Vice Chancellor Professor A.K. Gwal said RNTU focused on research, and material science is one of the thrust area of center of excellence University. Core Research Group Convener Professor V.K. Verma welcomed the guest and spoke about core research group activities.
Narsinga Rao gave a presentation on the topic indigenizing the materials technologies A National Necessity. He informed Nano Technology based applications. Besides, Srinibas Satapathy and Rupa Das Gupta also presented their lectures on innovative topics of material science and gave important information related to it.
Sudeshna Ray, Associate Professor, RNTU and Prachi Tadge are the convener of this conference. A huge number of research scholars, academicians, students were present in conference.