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International webinar on Frontiers in Materials for Technological Applications (FIMTA)
Organized from August 04-06, 2021

CSIR-IMMT organized International Virtual Conference (i) Functional nanomaterials
on “Frontiers in Materials for Technological Applications (ii) Advanced electronic materials
(FIMTA-2021)” from August 4th to 6th, 2021. FIMTA is an (iii) Materials for Energy and Devices
international conference on applications of materials in
various fields. FIMTA has been the premier meeting place This year we invited renowned speakers throughout the
for the researchers, developers and specialists to discuss world including India, United States, UK, Canada, Germany,
new developments and results in the fields for materials France, Belgium, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong,
and their potential applications. and Taiwan. Among these renowned speakers, we had Chief
We combined outstanding researchers to learn the recent Editor, Executive Editor and Associate Editor of reputed
international journals. In addition, we were delighted to
progress in the energy, materials and spectroscopy-related include a Special Lecture Session in FIMTA-2021 where
fields through this conference. The conference covered all the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardees delivered lectures
aspects of nanoscale materials to mesoscale structures, on their respective fields. This year we had also included
functional nanomaterials, advanced electronic materials, e-Poster session for students and researchers and the best
biomaterials, energy materials, and devices. Poster Awards were presented to the most accomplished
The conference highlighted three themes, viz. poster presentations.

National Virtual Conference on “Nucleic Acids Science & Technology” NCNST from
August 10th to 13th, 2021

The National Conference on Nucleic acids and technology and organized NCNST-2021 at CSIR-Institute of Minerals
(NCNST-2021) was organised for celebrating the 150th and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar through virtual
years of discovery of DNA by Prof. Friedrich Miescher in platform. Many participants attended the conference and
the Seyler’s Lab during 10th August to 13th August 2021. made the event a grand success with resourceful lectures.
The 10th August is the death anniversary of Prof. Felix Thus, the scheduled online event was a time to offer our
Hoppe-Seyler and the 13th August is the birth anniversary gratitude for the ground-breaking work which shaped the
of Prof. Friedrich Miescher. Since our group works on bioscience research.
DNA nanotechnology and applications, E&S initiated
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