Collaborative research facility mooted

Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsThe Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) hopes to establish a collaborative research facility for co-ordinating interdisciplinary research in Raman Spectroscopy, a technology based on the path-breaking work by C V Raman. The proposed facility will act as a bridging platform for academia and R&D sector, KSCSTE joint director Dr Ajit Prabhu said.He was addressing a workshop on Raman Spectroscopy organised by KSCSTE and EduWorld Foundation here as a precursor to the biennial International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS) beginning in Bangalore on Sunday.“Raman Spectroscopy is being applied by the science and technology community all over the world for a wide range of inter-disciplinary applications. But the Indian scientific community is yet to apply this potential at the higher level,” Dr Prabhu was quoted as saying.Raman Spectroscopy has wide-ranging applications in areas including space science, medicine, bio-science, geology, material science and gemmology.Dr A E Muthunayagam, founder director of LPSC/ISRO and former secretary, Department of Ocean Development, said Raman Spectroscopy techniques are highly sophisticated and require huge expenditure on infrastructure and facilities. The key, he said, is to develop effective utilisation of common facilities.Inaugurating the event, Dr E D Jemmis, director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, said Kerala must take advantage of its high levels of literacy to pull ahead of the other states in higher education and advanced research.The one-day workshop brought together leading experts on Raman Spectroscopy. They included Prof Anant K Ramdas of the Purdue University, who was a student of C V Raman; Prof Shiv K Sharma of Hawaii University and Prof Fernando Rull from the University of Valladolid, Spain, who is developing the Raman Instrument for the ExoMars 2018 Mission.KSCSTE member secretary Dr K K Ramachandran and Prof V S Jayakumar also spoke. Prof V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Executive Vice-President, KSCSTE, and Principal Secretary, Science & Technology Department, chaired a brainstorming session.first published:January 01, 1970, 05:30 ISTlast updated:January 01, 1970, 05:30 IST 
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