The CoEN will include the following components:

1. CoEN Instrumentation Centre – A Centre for housing a variety of analytical instruments and technological tools with clean and semi-clean rooms (to be set up at the university’s Panikhaiti campus)

2. CoEN Research and Development Laboratories to conduct cutting edge research in Nanomaterial synthesis and applications

3. CoEN Business Incubator – incubate early-stage entrepreneurial ventures based on nano science & nano technology innovations

4. Nanotechnology Exhibition Centre – promote awareness and generate interest in Nanotechnology by organizing events for school and college students.

The mission of the proposed Business Incubation Centre is to contribute to the local economy growth by supporting newly established small companies and venture companies to attain their own business goals. The primary objective is to enable high quality research and developmental activities and to assist young entrepreneur in sustaining their growth beyond the early-stage start-up to become well-structured enterprises with an above average growth and survival rate.

The proposed centre would offer low-cost business-creation space (rental R&D rooms and workshop rooms) with high-speed broad band connectivity, other communication facility and various business support services to give impetus for entrepreneurial development in Nanotechnology.

R&D labs in the proposed Business Incubation Centre will be well equipped with advanced analytical equipment and instruments of large or medium sizes, which are fundamental to design, produce and evaluate nano materials. Equipment and instruments that could be considered for installation in the proposed Incubation Centres are: Cross section polisher, Spin Coater, Optical Microscopes, Surface Profiler, Transmission Electron Microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope, Micro Raman Spectrometer Transmission Electron Microscope, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FT-ICR-MS), Precision Ion Polishing System, Ion Sputter Coating Machine, Dimple Grinder, four axis X-ray crystallography, XPS, 300kV TEM, RBS, STM, AFM, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer, Raman spectrometer, DNA and peptide sequencers, and so on.

Details of some of the instruments and equipments required for Nanotechnology
Incubation Centre are given in Annexure –

1. As these instruments and equipment are quite expensive, they could be installed in a phased manner in the proposed Incubation Centre. In this context, an expert committee with scientists, researchers and senior officers could be constituted to prioritize the purchase of the equipment/ instruments based on the immediate need.