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Material Science for IT
Material Science for IT

October 5, 2020

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Introduction

Material Science, as a discipline, provides an insight into what the material is made of and how it can be applied to various areas of Science and Technology. According to DSCI, Material Science for IT includes elements of applied physics and chemistry, as well as chemical, mechanical, civil and
electrical engineering. Material Science has a huge impact on societal challenges including advanced manufacturing, environment and climate change, renewable and sustainable energy, healthcare, materials efficiency, aerospace and transport, biotechnology, and communications and information
technology.

In recent times, the Government and the private sector have realized the importance of material science to fight COVID-19 pandemic. In IT, material science plays an important role in the development of new knowledge-based materials and heterostructures such as computer memories, sensors, actuators, magnetoelectronic and optoelectronic devices.

Material Science for IT – Understanding from India’s context

Material Science for IT, specifically Nanotechnology came under Government’s attention way back when the Government of India launched a Nano Science and Technology Initiatives (NSTI) in the early 2000s, that later paved the way for a Mission on Nano Science and Technology (Nano Mission) in May 2007.

Nano Mission was launched as a 5-year program with the total funding of USD 250mn. The initial objective of the Nano Mission was to develop R&D capabilities in Nanotechnology and to develop infrastructure and human capital in this field. Many leading academic institutes in India worked
towards achieving the same objectives. According to the Center for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), under IISc Bangalore, this
initiative met great success. India had published 23,000 papers until 2018 and was ranked 3rd among other countries to have invested in research, after USA and China.

Some of the recent activities undertaken by the Government of India in this field include –

  • Establishing Nanoelectronics Centers of International Standards at various premier institutes across India
  • Launching the Indian Nanoelectronics Users Programme (INUP), initiated by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and implemented at the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (CEN) at IISc Bangalore and IIT Bombay Institutes such as IISc-Bangalore, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Bombay, National Physical Lab (NPL)-Delhi, Center for Materials for Electronics Laboratory (C-MET)-Pune, Jadavpur University-Kolkata, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI)-Pilani, Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO)-Chandigarh, Pratap College-Amalner, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT)- Nagpur, are some of the examples that have worked closely with MeitY3 in this field.

Material Science for IT – TechSagar Context

TechSagar is a platform to discover India’s cybertech capabilities through a platform that offers business and research findings of various entities from the IT industry, start-ups, academia, and R&D institutes. This platform also lists individual researchers with the scope of their past and future research. TechSagar be accessed at www.techsagar.in. Material Science for IT is one of the 25 technology areas featured on TechSagar platform. DSCI has identified 57 capabilities within Material Science. Some of the notable ones are Nanotechnology, Nanoparticles, Quantum dots, Nanoengineering, Carbon nanotubes, Material science properties, MEMs, magnetic properties, and so on. Below figure provides the exhaustive list of capabilities defined in TechSagar.

Application areas of Material Science for IT

Material Science for IT has found its use in various application areas such as Healthcare, Biotechnology, Agriculture, Automotive sector, and many others. Additionally, the Government of India has also realized its use in fighting COVID-19, especially for its application in developing PPEs.

Key reasons for varied application use that this field finds are its chemical and magnetic properties of nanoparticles and nanomaterials.

To explain the application of material and to understand the variation within those materials, the following figure summarizes the use cases for some of the materials such as Graphene, Nanowires, Transitional Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDS), Nanoribbons, Nano-devices, Brophene, Synthetic 2D materials, Topological materials and so on.

Read TechSagar paper: https://www.techsagar.in/whitepapers


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