School of Advanced Materials (SAMAT)

The School of Advanced Materials (SAMat) was founded in 2018 by the esteemed leader, Bharat Ratna Professor C. N. R. Rao, with the goal of uniting all materials researchers at JNCASR (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research) under one organization. SAMat aimed to promote collaborative research and enhance the international visibility of its research activities. The faculty members of SAMat engage in extensive experimental research and theoretical and computational materials science.

Experimental Research

1. Energy Materials and Devices (CNR Rao, KS Narayan and Premkumar Senguttuvan)  
2. Porous Materials (Tapas K Maji, M Eswaramoorthy)  
3. Thermoelectrics (Kanishka Biswas)  
4. Nanomaterials (Ranjani Viswanatha, CNR Rao, Chandrabhas Narayana)  
5. Semiconductor Heterostructures (Bivas Saha, S M Shivaprasad)  
6. Materials for Catalysis (CNR Rao, Sebastian C Peter, Tapas K Maji, M Eswaramoorthy)  
7. Magnetic Materials and Multiferroics (A Sundaresan)  
8. Nanofabrication (G U Kulkarni)  
9. Polymers (Sridhar Rajaram)