Amity Institute of Nanotechnology organized FDP on ‘Recent Advances, Trends and Challenges in field of Nanotechnology’ between 12th July – 16th July 2021.
The main aim of the FDP is to understand different concepts of Nanobiotechnology in terms of Biosensors.Furthermore, there will be joint research activities, exchange of faculty members for research, lectures, and discussions and there will be encouragement of the exchange of graduate and undergraduate students for research, learning and internship.
16 external eminent speakers from the diverse fields of Nanotechnology and around 80 participants from National and International Universities participated in the FDP. This FDP encouraged the teachers to become a change agent by adopting 21st-Century Knowledge and Character skills so that they should be at par on various aspects of Nanotechnology with national and global standards.
Prof Agnishwar Girigoswami, CARE, Chennai, India focused on the use of different biomaterials for nano drug delivery. His talk started with the basic information about normal/targeted drug delivery, its delivery route, transdermal drug delivery systems and concept of sustained release and controlled release drug delivery patterns.
Dr. Sunil K Kushvaha, Principal Scientist, NPL, India mainly talked about the research in the area of Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM), its applications which was followed by a brain storming session. He started his talk by explaining the basics of nanoparticle synthesis, their characterization using different microscopic techniques.
Prof SVS Rana, CCSU, Meerut talked about nanotoxicology present and future perspectives. His talk mainly focused up on role of quantum dots in nanotechnology and their role in daily usage and role of nanomaterials in the treatment of immune disorders, male infertility problems etc.
Dr Vinod Singh, DTU, New Delhi talked about gas phase synthesis of different nanoparticles. He started his talk by showing the instrumentation part of gas phase synthesis and consists of two steps: 1. Particles Generation 2. Particle’s deposition. In this instrumentation set up, DMA (Differential mobility analyzer) classifies the particles because of their electrical mobility.
Dr. Ratesh Revendran, Director of CMET, Hyderabad discussed on about indigenous development of miniaturized antennas for navigation with Indian constellation (NAVIC).
Dr Sanjay Kashyap, Thapar University, Punjab spoke on Situ real time nucleation and growth studies of protein template magnetic nanocrystals. He started his talk with the introduction of magnetotactic bacteria and explained its use in the development of magnetic nanoparticles by using a protein.
Dr M S Mehta, DTU talked about Production of Fluorescent Nanoparticles and their Applications.
Dr R S Dhaka from IIT – D, New Delhi elaborated on about electrode materials for Na-ion Batteries. He emphasized on green energy, storage, management and its usage. He preferred Na ion batteries over Li ion just because of Na is highly abundant and uniformly distributed in earth crust. So, he is preparing Na ion batteries by synthesizing the electrode materials using solid state, hydrothermal and sol gel methods.
Dr. Manika Khanuja, JMI, Delhi talked about advanced nanostructured materials for clean science and technology. She started her talk by giving the introduction about overload of antibiotics and their side effects up on human health as well as on water bodies. Use of antibiotics has drastically increased especially in the Corona time that is affecting our environment.
Dr Paresh Patel, Uka Tarsadia University, Gujarat spoke on green and sustainable approach for nanomaterial synthesis: their applications in chemical science. These green nanoparticles are very much stable, nontoxic and proved the test for catalytic heterogeneity.
Dr Dhruv Pratap Singh, IIT Bhilai elaborated on about Design and Applications of Nanomotors. He started his talk by giving the introduction of nanomotors, use of nanomotors and the application part of nanomotors.
Prof Ravi Kumar from NIT, Hamirpur talked about development of p type transparent conducting oxides. He started his talk by giving a introduction about ion implantation and irradiation, metastable structure and synthesis of nano-clusters. His talk also enlightened about optical wave guide, non-linear optics, magneto-optic device, magnetic memories and photonic devices.
Dr. Khusboo Aggarwal from Lanchester University, UK talked about thermal transport and thermo electricity in 2D based nanocomposites. She started her talk with the introduction of thermoelectric effect, Seeback effect and thermoelectric performance. She also explained about the enhancement process of ZT value and how alloying can improve the thermoelectric properties. She also focused on nanocomposites and their role in the modification of electron and proton transport.
Prof. R. P Tandon, Delhi University spoke on Nanotechnology for Sustainable Development. He started his talk with the introduction of Nanotechnology, nanomaterials, evolution of materials over time and advance materials like ceramic materials, ferroelectric materials, thermoelectric materials and carbon nanotubes.
Dr. Raghunath Bhattacharya from IIEST, Kolkata talked about some recent advances about Nanomaterials Based Devices for Renewable Energy and Sensing Applications. He is currently working on solar photovoltaic based on silicon, sensors, biogas, microgrid based on renewable energy and solar PV based systems. He also talked about nano agriculture and plasmonics that based on nanostructured materials to control light.
Total 81 students and faculties attended the session.