Hyderabad: The Defence Research Development Organisation has given University of Hyderabad a research grant worth Rs 113 crore for research into high energy materials.
The UoH will prepare high energy materials and propellants that can be used in defence and space applications. High energy materials are used as explosives in missiles, while propellants to drive rockets and missiles.
Vice-chancellor Prof. Appa Rao Podile said the UoH would be working on 30 projects, 22 in chemistry and eight in physics, as part of applied research. He said the UoH had collaborated with the DRDO on two projects in 2005 and 2011. He said the university would hire new faculty and admit nearly 50 PhD scholars for the five-year project. It will house a 500 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance unit, a first for a public university, in its study to determine physical and chemical properties of molecules.
