Advanced Materials for Strategic and Societal Applications

Recently, the demand of the material manipulation with specific design is highly required for several strategic and societal applications such as in defence, nuclear, security, space, waste management, renewable energy generation and storage. To address these challenges, it is important to design the materials synergetically fit according to their demand in different applications. The impact of such materials is directly related to our daily life from health, wealth, energy and environment. In this direction, CSIR-NPL is designing new materials to indigenize the several new technologies such as luminescent security ink to curb against counterfeiting of passport, Indian currency note and protect secrete documents, carbon materials for fuel cell and battery applications, carbon composite fuel tubes for nuclear reactor applications, carbon fibre polymer composite to replace steel Ilizarov fixator for biomedical applications, lightweight carbon nanotubes polymer composites as EMI shielding materials etc. Moreover, in spite of this, CSIR-NPL is also developing the different technologies to manage the reuse of plastic, electronic, PV module and agriculture waste to ensure safeguard of environment and fully recycling of material for the societal applications. Hence, the central aim of CSIR-NPL is to design and develop the materials with metrological grade to convert into all laboratory research invention to innovation, which will directly help all industrial sectors to promote their quality products with world class infrastructure.