SMITA Funding  

The SMITA group, estd.in 2000, has significant funding from both government and Indian industry. We gratefully acknowledge the following partners for their financial support under various R&D projects and assignments.

 Government of India funding agencies:

• Department of Science and Technology (DST)
• DRDO
• CSIR
• MHRD

Industry funding:      

• Resil Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
  
• Pluss Polymers, Gurgaon
• Mahle Filter Systems (India) Ltd., Gurgaon
  
• SRF Ltd., Chennai
• Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai
• Sterilite Optical Technologies Ltd., Aurangabad
• Aditya Birla Management Corperation Ltd., Mumbai
• Thai Acrylic Ltd., Thailand    
• Century Enka, Pune       

  R & D projects carried out by SMITA group

• Instrument for generating atmospheric pressure uniform glow discharge plasma suitable for applications in textile.
• Research program on Smart and Innovative Textile (SMITA).
• Development of auto functional clear/cloud glazing windows using stimuli sensitive polymers suitable for desert environment.
•  Feasibility study on the development of encapsulated phase change materials (PCM) at near body temperature for use in protective clothing. 
• Process Simulation of solution spinning processes in man-made fibre manufacturing.
• Development of Reinforced laminates using Bhindi Fibres.  
• Smart membranes for protective clothing.
• Electrospinning of nanofibers.
• Development of fibres based on nylon clay nano-composite and studying the structure & properties of those fibres.
• Improvement of S&T infrastructure in the area of high performance clothing & speciality textile.
• Environmentally responsive Textile materials.  
• Project on Extreme Winter Clothing.   
• Development of a process for plasma treatment of tyre cord fabrics.
• Plasma treatment of polyester substrates and their evaluation.
• Optical Fibre Manufacturing based on PMMA.
•  Atmospheric pressure glow plasma treatment of cellulosic textiles.   
• Feasibility of polymerizing modified PAN for acid dye-able acrylic fibers.  
• Polymer web development by electrospinning for automotive filters.
• Product and process development in nylon-6.    
• Development of wound antimicrobial dressing material.
• Development of polymeric floaters.
• PAN Precursor Yarns.
• Development of new generation softener.   
• Development of modified POY PET filament yarns.