Proceedings Of 29th Annual General Meeting Of Materials Research Society Of India And National Symposium On Advances In Functional And Exotic Materials

29^TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA & NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON “ADVANCES IN FUNCTIONAL AND EXOTIC MATERIALS” organized by the Centre for High pressure research, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 620 024, India in Association with prestigious Materials Research Society of India (MRSI-Trichy Chapter), will be during
14-16, February 2018. It is with great pleasure we welcome you all, on behalf of the Organizing Committee of National symposium.

We thank our Honourable Vice-Chancellor of Bharathidasan University,
Prof. P. Manisankar for his encouragement and support to organize this symposium. We are also very grateful to Prof. G. Gopinath, Registrar, Bharthidasan University for providing administrative and constant scientific support.

The thematic relevance focused more than 30 topics on theoretical, experimental interdisciplinary and applied aspects of various materials chosen for this symposium with meticulous justification. The topics for the conference are chosen so as to strengthen the binding between Academicians and Industrialists.

The program of the National symposium consists of Eighteen Sessions comprising of plenary lectures, Invited lectures, Medal Lectures, MRSI honour lectures, Best thesis award presentations, contributed poster presentations covering the latest works of the Materials Science community of the country. The symposium registered with 300 abstracts sent by delegates from various countries.

National symposium would become a fertile ground for the exchange of high quality scientific results and ideas by the researchers and scientists from Academia, Industry and Technology. It would certainly create a strong platform for cutting edge research and innovation in technology. Ultimately, it can enlighten the fresh researchers and fetch the craved support and collaborations to those who have been in the field for several decades.

We thank the funding agencies, Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, Board of Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli for the financial support to organize this symposium.

The venue for the symposium is SRM Hotel, Tiruchirappalli, India. It is elegantly situated on the centre of the city graciously offering the ambience for peaceful, fruitful, untiring and brainy interaction. We welcome you all to participate in the National symposium and make the event a great success.

S. Arumugam

Editor & Convener