A. R&D of Engineered/Hybrid Nanomaterials for Healthcare, Scientific and Engineering Applications

       Objective: The goal of this work is to develop novel hybrid nanomaterials for clinical, scientific and engineering applications.
       Materials have traditionally been classified into the two broad categories of inorganics and organics. Each class has its own particular merits in relation to its applications. Efforts to combine the advantages of each category of materials and to eliminate the shortcomings of vastly different materials have included studies of nanoparticles with chemically functionalized surfaces either encapsulated or embedded in various inorganic/organic or polymer matrices. The resulting hybrid nanomaterials enhance advantageous chemical, electrochemical, magnetic or electronic characteristics and at the same time to reduce or wholly suppress undesirable properties. Given the growing maturity of such materials, it is becoming increasingly important and possible to study the interactions of these materials on the nanoscale. The hybrid nanomaterials is an exciting new frontier that has captured the imagination of people worldwide. Attaining these advantages will often require preparing the inorganic-inorganic or inorganic-organic components in nanoparticulate form and controlling the interactions and spatial arrangement of the materials on nanometer length scales. By adding a new dimension to nanoscale science and technology, hybrid nanomaterials provide challenges for fundamental research and creates opportunities for new technologies. Current focus of the research at IIT Bombay is positioned to create and use structures, devices and systems that have unique and often contradictory properties as well as enhanced functions in clinical and scientific applications because of their small size.

       A1. Healthcare Applications:
       A2. Engineering Applications:
       A3. Novel Preparation Techniques
       A4. Nanocrystalline Thin Films and Multilayers
       A5. Quantum Spin Chains
       A6. Nanophotonics
       A7. Nickel and Cobalt Nanorods and Nanowires using Carbon Nanotubes as Templates
       A8. Polymer Nanocomposites
       A9. Aerosol routes for pulmonar delivery and the synthesis of drug nanoparticles
       A10.Novel ultrathin film coatings for high throughput screening systems
       A11.Magnetic and Magneto-optic garnet materials (thin films)