Chemistry, IIT Kanpur

The Department of Chemistry is one of the premier departments in the country today. Its strength has been and continues to be excellence in research and teaching. The Department has 29 faculties, more than 350 students and about 25 technical and nontechnical staff. The students getting trained in the Integrated M.Sc. programme have a unique background of Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Technical Arts, and Electronics, in addition to Chemistry. They naturally excel in academics and industries. The 2-year M.Sc. programme trains top ranked graduates from all over the country. It imparts a modern orientation to the sound training they have already received. The Department also has a postgraduate programme leading to Ph.D. degree.

The Chemical Society is an activity based group involving all the members of the Chemistry department. It arranges various seminars of general interest including a special seminar series titled Student Hosted Colloqium. The commitment to research is reflected in the large number of projects sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

The Department has excellent laboratory facilities. They include EPR Instrument Facility, Micro- analytical facility, Analytical NMR(JEOL-60), High Field NMR hotometers(ordinary and FT) HPLC and other chromatography, Electrochemical setup for cyclic voltametry, Mossbauer spectrometer, Nanosecond single photon counting fluorimeter, Spectrofluorimeter, Ulta-centrifuge, Magnetic susceptibility measurement instrument, Light scattering Photometer, CHNSO analyser, Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Measurement, and Facility for Environmental and Analytical Testing(FEAT).

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