Dr. CNR Rao To Be Awarded Bharat Ratna Along With Sachin Tendulkar
Rao has made immense contributions to nanomaterials over the last two decades, besides his work on hybrid materials. He has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. His work on transition metal oxides has led to basic understanding of novel phenomena and the relationship between materials properties and the structural chemistry of these materials.
Rao was one of the earliest to synthesize two-dimensional oxide materials such as La2CuO4 and his work has led to a systematic study of compositionally controlled metal-insulator transitions.
Such studies have had a profound impact in application fields such as colossal magneto resistance and high temperature superconductivity. He is the author of around 1,500 research papers and authored and edited 45 books.
Rao is currently is serving as the Head of the Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It has been fame and glory all through for Rao until two years ago when he was involved in a plagiarism related controversy. He had been accused of indulging and allowing plagiarism.
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