Centre for Material Science and Engineering

  National Institute Of Technology , Hamirpur

Centre for   Materials Science and Engineering is established in 2008 .  The main focus of the teaching and research in the department is centred on interdisciplinary  area to achieve worldwide attention and appreciation.

Important mission  of the department is to generate human resource of excellent quality, including Chemists, Physicist, Engineers with high professional competence in interdisciplinary research area  encompassing of   biology, chemistry physics, nanomaterial  and material science  at  international competence level for the need of nation. The department will  start   first batch  PhD degrees from Jan 2010 and  M.Tech from  June 2010 .

This department features  a 3 member faculty with expertise in frontier areas of research. 

Active research areas :

•Functional Oxide materials  High temperature superconductors.,Colossal Magneto resistance materials.Spintronics, Ferrites, Ferroelectrics and multiferroelectric materials 

•Metal/ceramic particulate polymer composite materials, dielectric/electrical properties of materials, composite materials, ceramic processing and characterization, powder metallurgy, physical metallurgy

• Nanodrug delivery systems, microencapsulation, biomineralisation, biomimetics, self assembly processes.

The faculty members have contributed towards the publication of 165  research papers, and, 1 Japanese  patent and 9 books .