The sumner’s club of Biochemistry organized a one-day state level work shop on

“Nanaoparticle Synthesis and their Biological Applications” on 12/07/2023. Dr. Sivakumar

Muthusamy, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, Ariviya Deep Tech Pvt Ltd, Periyar

Technology Business Incubator, Thanjavur was the resource person.

The invited talk started at 11 am. The session starts with the welcome words by the Dr. S. Kanitha,

Head of the Department of Biochemistry, enlightened the audience with his wisdom words on the

importance of the event. Dr. Sivakumar Muthusamy about the field of Nanometer Scale Science and

Technology (NSST) is very broad, ranging from nanoparticles, nanoclusters, mesoscopic systems and

nano constrictions, to individual atoms and molecules and their self-assembly into defined structures

such as nanowires or biomolecules. This is a field where the border between the traditional disciplines

like physics, chemistry and biology is no longer detectable and interesting synergies arise, e.g.,

instruments developed in physics provide the precision and sensitivity to perform specific molecular

recognition experiments in biology. The roots of NSST go back to Feynman. The originator of the

famous sentence “There is plenty of room at the bottom”. His focus was on tools based mainly on

electron microscopes. In the afternoon session all the students attended the training programme and

received hands-on experience in synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials and their application

in food & agriculture, textiles, composites, sensors, pulp & paper and catalysis.

Every student learned about Nanoparticle. Students raised many questions about the

Nanoparticles Synthesis and their Biological Applications and the resource person answered

the queries raised by the students. finally, Ms.xxx, third-year student delivered a vote of

thanks.