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Science & Technology Research labs team up for carbon nanotube, composites research Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Nov. 24 A consortia of Indian academic institutes and industry will be involved in a major national initiative to develop prototypes and technologies from carbon nanotubes and composites, which find a vast range of commercial applications. Driven by the defence laboratories, the consortia would have the Indian Institute of Technologies , the National Physical Laboratories, the International Centre for Advance Research in Powder Metallurgy and two major private industries. The Rs 50-crore initiative has begun and would accelerate during the 11th Plan. From the common tennis racquets to aircraft body to medical implants, composites (especially the carbon-carbon composites) are finding increasing use, said Dr G. Balasubramanyam and Dr G. Rohini Devi, experts in composite materials and part of the organising committee of the National Conference on Composites told newspersons here on Thursday. More than a dozen Indian industries are already into fabricating products using the carbon-carbon composites, which have been indigenously developed. In the next five years, a major switchover from metal to composites is expected to happen, throwing up big opportunities for the Indian industry, said Dr Avinash Chander, Director of the Advanced Systems Laboratory, here. The Defence Research and Development Organisation is aiming to make an all-composite material missile in the future. Slowly, DRDO wants to emerge as the designer of composites and the industry should produce the materials, he said.
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