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విజ్ఞాన శాస్త్ర సాంకేతిక పరిశోధనా సంస్థ / विज्ञान शास्त्र प्रौद्योगिकी और परिशोधन संगठन
Events
Workshop
National workshop on Surface Analysis of Chemical Materials by BET and SEM techniques
Mar
23
Thursday
10:00
AM
- 04:00
PM
Summary
Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences and Humanities, Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology, and Research organised a national workshop on "Surface Analysis of Chemical Materials by BET and SEM Techniques: Theory and Hands-on Training" on March 23, 2023 organized by. This national workshop is as a part of the scientific social responsibility (SSR) of the DST-SERB project file no. CRG/2019/002217 entitled ‘Pre-embedded Nanoparticle and/or Composite-Cluster Core Metal Organic Framework [MOFs] Based Electro-Catalysts for Efficient Splitting of Water and Carbon Dioxide". The workshop was planned for the morning session with two lectures by eminent speakers, Prof. V. Subramanya Sharma, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Madras, followed by another eminent speaker, Prof. G. Ranga Rao, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras.
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About Workshop
The 1st session was on "Scanning Electron Microscopy and Its Applications" which was delivered by Prof. V. Subramanya Sharma on online mode. Many attendees were impressed by his talk, and a few doubts were also clarified by Prof. Sharma. The 2nd session was held between 11.45 and 1.00 am on "BET (Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller) theory and its applications to materials by Prof. G. Ranga Rao. These topics are also useful to M.Sc. Chemistry students at VFSTR as part of their curriculum in physical chemistry. Later, Prof. Rao also clarified some questions raised by the participants and explained various BET analysis equipment available in IIT Madras. The morning session ended with a group photo near the steps of A-Block. The organizers arranged a free lunch for all the participants at Vignan’s Boys Hostel with a special menu.
Having understood the theory part of the workshop in the morning session, the afternoon was focused on training on the two pieces of equipment planned for this workshop. The 1st equipment, SEM, was trained by Dr. N. Satyavijayakumar, Scientist at CoExAMMPC by making the participants in to 4 batches. Similarly, the BET surface analyzer (Belsorp Mini-X) was trained by Prof. K. Prabhakara Rao, convener, and HoD of Chemistry for the same batches trained by SEM.

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Venue
Sangamam Seminar Hall, A-block
Dept.of Chemistry
About Speakers
Prof. G. Ranga rao
Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras
Prof. V. Subramanya Sarma
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,IIT Madras
Dr. N. Satya Vijaya Kumar
Scientist, CoExAMMPC Department of Chemistry, VFSTR (Deemed to be University)
Event Coordinator
Prof. K. Prabhakara Rao
Professor and HoD Department of Chemistry, VFSTR (Deemed to be University
Contact Us
Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research
(Deemed to be University), Vadlamudi, Guntur-522213
info@vignan.ac.in
0863-2344700 / 701
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