The two-day conference on ‘Advances in Smart and Functional Materials’ culminated on Saturday at Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal.
The conference was important in view of the new and smart materials being developed. The conference was organised to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
On the second day, papers were presented on Nano Materials and Smart and Functional Materials.
The participants took keen interest in the topics and discussions took place.
There were in all 48 technical papers presented in the 11sessions.
At the Valedictory Function, DG, MP Council of Science and Technology, CK Patil was the Chief Guest.
Director, CSIR - AMPRI S Das welcomed the guests and discussed the importance of Smart Materials and Shape Memory Alloys in today's world and also highlighted the work being done by AMPRI in these areas.
Chief Scientist, AMPRI, Rupa Dasgupta and the convenor of the conference summed up the happenings at the conference.
Edward Peters and JP Singh received the best
poster awards.
Chief Guest CK Patil said that developing Smart and Functional Materials is the need of the hour.
These materials will make our life much easier and much better in the future.
At the end of the conference, the participants gave feedback about their experience at the conference.
S Das, Director, AMPRI was also felicitated by CSIR - AMPRI and Bhopal Chapters of MRSIJSI and IIM to underline his contributions and achievements in his career of CSIR - AMPRI for the last over 33 years.
At the end, SAR Hashmi, Sr. Principal Scientist proposed the vote of thanks.