12 Dec 2018
Department of Chemistry School applied sciences REVA University and Department of Physics, along with Dr. B.P Divakar, Dean, Research and Innovation visited the Center for Nano and Material Science, Jain University, Bangalore on 12th Dec 2019.
The Jain University is located at the outskirts of Bangalore in the NH at Kanakapura road. CNMS center is located in the main administrative block 4th floor and the center occupies a space of 50000 sq.feet only for chemistry department. Dr. Nagaraju D. H, Associate professor, CNMS had accompanied with us till our visit.
Highlights of the visit are mentioned below:
 A total of 6000 Sq. feet of the block was completely utilized for Faculty wing and research laboratories and another separate building for major instrumental facility.
 25 faculty members and 75 full time research scholars are working.
 17 well established research laboratories with fully equipped general instrumentation facility like, Incubators, Muffle furnaces, hot air ovens, tube furnaces, UV-vis spectrophotometers, UV-chambers in synthetic labs, magnetic stirrers, oil baths, ultasonicators, Centrifugations, Vacuum pumps and incubators, hot plate stirrers, ventilated hoods for synthesis, Digital balances, double distilled water purifying systems, rotatory evaporators, etc.
Following are different research laboratories present in the CNMS division-
Photo and Electro catalysis, Nano bio-interfaces and supramolecular chemistry, Bio-inorganic and clinical chemistry, Sustainable energy materials and processes, Nano engineering and graphene technology, Nano catalysis and drug molecules, Heterogeneous materials, Advanced functional materials, Organic and medicinal chemistry, Carbene chemistry, Membrane Technology, Organometallics, Low dimensional materials, Organo electronics, Physical chemistry, Organic and inorganic chemistry and Applied Nano materials.
 Faculties are involved in M.Sc. teaching and Research activities.
 Each year Rs.5, 00,000 will be allocated for each faculty for research as seed money.
 Scholarship (JRF) for research scholar Rs. 20,000.
 Each faculty is having a separate cabin and separate research laboratories and a separate cabin for individual research scholars.
 Workload is divided as: Professor-32 hr; Associate Prof-48 hr and Assistant Prof-64 hr per academic year respectively.
 The Dept. is having additional 5 attenders and 2 lab instructors per each M.Sc. laboratories.
 The CNMS division works for 5 days/week and every Monday each faculty need to present their research work in presence of all scientists of dept.
 The CNMS is established within 5 years by the internal funding of Rs. 6 crores per annum. This attracts the external funding resources like DST, DBT, DST-Nano mission, CSIR, UGC, BRNS etc. to fund for the research activities to be held in the CNMS.
 The initial salary per assistant faculty is fixed as 70,000-80,000 per month. According to the research and progress salary will be increased and designation will be fixed.
 Apart from the research facilities given to individual scientist, the dept. also has a well-established central instrumentation facility as well which includes the major instruments for material science, Nano science, organic and inorganic chemistry, membrane sciences, photo catalysis etc.
Following are the major instruments available at CNMS are-
• Powdered X-ray Diffractometer
• BET-Surface area instrument
• Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with EDX (FE-SEM)
• Gas Chromatogram Mass Spectrophotometer (GC-MS)
• Fourier-Transform Infra-Red spectrophotometer (FTIR)
• Chemical Vapour Deposition instrument (CVD)
• 2 units of Nitrogen Dry Glove boxes
• Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
• Spectrofluorimeter
• Total organic content
• Solar stimulator (artificial Sun light)
• Spex ball mill, agate vial
• Epi fluorescent microscope with motic CCD camera
• Dip and spin coating machine
• Forward osmosis and cross flow filtration units
• COD/ BOD/ Cr analyzer
• Fluoride analyzer
• Quantum efficiency analyzer
• Electrochemical Workstation (CH, Autolab and other advance instrument)
• Procuring Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrophotometer (NMR)
 Consultancy will be generated by giving the instrumentation facilities to open sources.
 A new Bio-Fuel unit is established in the CNMS by industry collaboration.
 Combustion studies unit is also established in the CNMS division by collaborating with HP to check the combustion resistance of the materials synthesized.
We would like to thank, Dr. Nagaraju D. Hfrom CNMS for escorting with us during the visit. We thank all the scientists and research scholars for their spending their time in explaining us the available research facilities. We thank the Director, Dr. Geetha Balakrishna for extending her support for this visit.
