Dr Mashelkar
R. A. Mashelkar Endowment Lecture Series
 
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
The Polymers and Advanced Materials Laboratory (PAML), inaugurated on April 1,2010, has been built by NCL with the vision to support high quality interdisciplinary materials research and education. Students and faculty pursuing active research in organic, inorganic, polymeric, hybrid and bio- inspired materials work together in a collaborative research environment in the 65000 square feet area of the laboratory.
The motto of PAML is to drive large and ambitious research programs that are aligned with the National Agenda, and to partner with industry for successful translation of the science. The building houses modern laboratories that are equipped with state-of- the-art materials characterization facilities such as small angle x-ray scattering, powder diffractometer, 3D-dynamic light scattering, confocal laser scanning microscope, fluroscence microscope, rheometers, chromatography, thermal analysis and spectroscopy techniques. PAML also houses specialized equipments for materials synthesis such as vacuum lines for living polymerization, CVD, high power lasers and micro-fabrication. Research in PAML is also supported by NCL-wide facilities such as the electron microscopy facility, the NMR resource centre, the computational cluster and the digital information resource centre. The laboratory houses a hundred-seat lecture theatre, a conference room equipped with video conferencing and teleconferencing facilities and several smaller meeting rooms to
enable scientific interactions.
 

Dr. Mashelkar is a leading scientist and a visionary science leader of India. A Chemical Engineer by training, his research interests are broadly in the field of polymeric material science and engineering with specific interest in non-Newtonian fluids , polyesters, smart hydrogels and recently in polymeric nanomaterials for smart delivery applications. Dr. Mashelkar served as the Director of National Chemical Laboratory and then as the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He has been championing a culture of innovation and balanced intellectual property rights regime in this country for over a decade. He has been honoured with Padmashri (1991) and Padmabhushan (2000) in recognition of his significant contribution to nation building. He is only the third Indian engineer to have been elected as a Fellow of Royal Society (FRS), London in the twentieth century and only the eight Indian to be elected as a Foreign Fellow of the US National Academy of Engineering. More recently he has also been elected to the prestigious US National Academy of Arts and Science.
 
 


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