Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute

Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (formerly Central Salt Research Institute) is a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India.^[1] The institute was inaugurated by Jawahar Lal Nehru on 10 April 1954 at Bhavnagar, in Gujarat.^[2]

Technology developed

• Preparations of nutrient-rich salt of plant origins
• Electrodialysis domestic desalination system
• Preparation of novel iodizing agent
• "Clean Write" writing chalk
• Preparation of low sodium salt of botanic origin
• Plastic Chip Electrodes^[3][4]

Research activity

• Molecular sensors for selective recognition of cations/anions
• Recognition of analytes and neutral molecules in physiological condition
• Supramolecular metal complexes to study photo-induced energy/electron transfer processes
• Nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC)
• Smart Materials
• Tailored and modified electrodes.
• Green Chemistry
• Polymer Chemistry and development of novel drug delivery system
• Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Natural products
• Recovery of precious metal ions from natural sources
• Crystal engineering
• Computational Study
• Electrochemical/chemical value addition processes
• Development of polyethylene based inter polymer membranes and design of electrodialysis units

References

1. "List of CSIR laboratories and their important research programmes" (PDF). csirhrdg.nic.i. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
2. "Genesis of CSMCRI". csmcri.org. Archived from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
3. Polymer–graphite composite: a versatile use and throw plastic chip electrode; Mosarrat Perween, Dilip B. Parmar, Gopala Ram Bhadu, Divesh N. Srivastava; Analyst, 139 (2014) 5919-5926.
4. An improved next generation off-laboratory polymer chip electrode USA [US20170082576; A1]

External links

1. About CSMCRI