The Department of Science & Technology is pleased to announce the call for proposals under the scheme “Advanced Materials” under National Program for Nano Science and Technology (NPNST) to promote the basic research activities on the thrust research areas of advanced materials, R&D infrastructure/facilities confined to advanced materials research for meeting-up the highly increasing demand of these materials towards various sectors in the coming years. Considering the important role of advanced materials, this scheme encourages and supports to proposals on the basic, applied research and translational research for the development of products.

Thematic research areas of the call for proposal:

• Affordable and sustainable materials processing
• Engineered low dimensional materials for optical and electronic applications
• Structural materials for mobility applications
• Bio-inspired materials for sensing and diagnostics
• High performance materials for energy conversion
• Theory/computational design of materials for the above verticals

For more details please visit: https://onlinedst.gov.in/

Important Dates:

Call Opening Date: 1^st September 2024  
Call Closing Date:   30^th September 2024