Proceedings of the fifth DAE-BRNS national workshop on materials chemistry (nano and composite materials)

It is now widely appreciated that various properties of the materials can be augmented by downsizing the particle size to nano-regime. Various properties of nanomaterials such as mechanical strength, electrical resistivity and optical adsorption, just to name a few, are significantly different from that of the same material at the bulk-scale. Over the last few decades, scientists have been able to capitalise this aspect to develop smart materials having myriad applications in various fields such energy, medical and healthcare, electronics, catalysis, drug delivery etc. A typical example is flexible, bendable, foldable, rollable, and stretchable electronics which had been made possible only due to carbon nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes, graphenes etc. Another vital approach that has been adopted for tailoring of material properties involves composting two or more materials having desired properties to obtain materials that have synergistic or antagonistic amalgamation of characteristics of its constituents as well as new properties originating from the behaviour of interface of the components. The focus of this workshop is on physical basis of functionality, synthesis, processing, characterization, properties of nano and composite materials and their applications in the field of energy, health care, water and environment. Papers relevant to INIS are indexed separately