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Intensify research on nanotechnology, says VC

Staff Reporter

It has potential for creating employment opportunities

“Knowledge of material science is important”
“It will be helpful to well-being of the people”

KARAIKUDI: The Vice-Chancellor, Alagappa University, P. Ramasamy, has urged scientists and research scholars to intensify research on nanotechnology, as it has immense potential not only for creating employment opportunities but also for the well-being of the people.

Inaugurating a one-day national workshop on ‘Recent advancements in material science,’ organised by the Department of Physics, Alagappa University, he said that the knowledge of material science was very important for developing new technologies and experiments and for obtaining long life materials.

More employment opportunities were available in different engineering and research institutions in the field of material science, he said. Nanotechnology was one of developing technologies in recent trends in the field of material science. As the size of the nano level devices was very small, it could be easily injected in human bodies and accurate measurement of diseases could be found.

Mr. Ramasamy said nano-technology provided a number of applications in different fields like medical, engineering, electronics and semiconductor. It would occupy a better place in the history of 21st century.

Nanotechnology might provide new solutions for the millions of people in developing countries, who lacked access to basic services, such as safe water, reliable energy, health care, and education.

So it was optimum for a country like India to reorient our research on this highly beneficial area of science to boost the economy as well as the health of our fellow citizens.

Thus, the field of material science had high potential to decide the quality of life, industrial and military competitiveness and the global environment.

Subject experts and researchers discussed topics such as carbon nano tubes, nano crystalline thin films of transparent conducting oxides, nano science and technology, electrochemical sensors, space geomagnetism, etc.

About 250 teachers, research scholars, postgraduate students from various universities and colleges participated in the workshop.

C. Sanjeeviraja, Professor and Head, Department of Physics, welcomed the gathering.

G. Ravi, Coordinator of the workshop, proposed a vote of thanks.

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