The Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, established at the Institute in November 1976 by Professor C. N. R. Rao, has given a noteworthy push to boondocks zones of Chemistry.

Other than building up its own particular research and showing programs, Unit individuals interface intimately with different offices in the Institute. It likewise has cooperative ventures with a portion of the best labs on the planet and is perceived as a head research focus.

The University Grants Commission has perceived the Unit as a Center for Advanced Study in Solid State Chemistry. The Commission has additionally stretched out backing to the Unit under its Science and Technology Infrastructure Improvement Program.

The Department of Science and Technology has upheld the Unit under FIST (both at Level I and II) and IRHPA programs.

Research:

Exploratory and hypothetical examination sought after in the unit goes for comprehension assorted wonders connected with solids and consolidated stages and additionally fluids at a key level. Aside from basic examination, there is additionally critical accentuation on exploration exercises went for improvement of models for commercialization. Some progressing bleeding edge research regions sought after in the Unit are as per the following:

• Synthesis, structure, electronic and magnetic properties of oxides
• X-ray diffraction and charge density analysis
• Organic solid state and crystal engineering
• Polymers, ionic liquids, plastic crystals
• Semiconductors, high-Tc superconductivity
• Synthesis and structure of non-linear optical materials
• Nanomaterials, clusters, fullerenes
• Open framework solids
• Ionics, materials electrochemistry, renewable energy devices
• Amorphous materials
• Luminescent materials
• Theory of organic non-linear optical materials, molecular magnets
• Many-body quantum chemistry
• Chemical reaction dynamics
• Statistical mechanics of condensed matter and biological systems
• Classical and quantum simulations
• Diffusion in porous solids
• NMR methodology and application

SSCU Instruments:

1. Combined BIS-XPS-UPS Instrument (VSW)
2. ESCA 3 Mark II Spectrometer (VG Scientific)
3. ESCA ThermoFischer Scientific Multilab 2000
4. Heterogeneous Catalytic Reaction System equipped with GC (In-house Fabricated)
5. Siemens X-ray Diffractometer (Cu source) AXS D5005
6. X-ray Diffractometer: Phillips (with X’lerator detector)
7. Oxford Diffraction Single Crystal facility with cryo-cooling attachment (DST/FIST)
8. Olympus SZX12 Polarizing Microscope with Digital Camera
9. Belsorp-Max and Belsorp-Aqua Porosimeter
10. Mettler Toledo Differential Scanning Caloriemeter
11. Mettler Toledo Thermogravimmetric Analyzer & Differential Thermal Analyzer
12. Perkin Elmer UV-Vis Spectrometer (Lambda 35)
13. Perkin Elmer FTIR Spectrometer Spectrum 1000 (Room temperature only)
14. Perkin Elmer Luminescence Spectrometer (LS-55)
15. Thermogravimmetric system (Cahn TG131)
16. Thermal Desorption System (In-house Fabricated)
17. Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AA 200)
18. Dielectric Bridge
19. HP4194A Impedance-Gain Phase Analyzer
20. Novocontrol Apha A Impedance Analyzer
21. DC Arc Furnace (Fabricated)
22. Omicron Low temperature UHV VT-AFM with UHV Chamber
23. Lake Shore Vibrational Sample Magnetometer
24. George Associates DC Faraday Force Magnetometer
25. Locuz Computer Clusters
26. Intel Pentium-IV 3.0 GHz processor based 12 Node cluster with 24 GB RAM (IFCPAR)
27. Intel Xeon 3.0 GHz EM64T processor based 2 node cluster with 4 processors and 8 GB RAM.( IFCPAR)
28. AMD Optron 64 bit 3.2 GHz processor based 9 Node SUN Cluster with 18 processors and 36 GB RAM. (DST)

Contact Detail:

The Chairman
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU)
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560 012 India
Telephone: +91 80 2293 2336,
Fax : +91 80 2360 1310
email :chairman@sscu.iisc.ernet.in