2011 Erudite Visiting Professor from Mahathama Gandhi University-Kottayam (B.V.R. Tata)
2010 Best Thesis Award: Indian Laser Association (J. Brijitta)
2010 Best Paper Award: Int. Conf. on Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSAT-2010), Feb. 17-20 (2010), IIT Mumbai, India (J. Brijitta)
2009 Visiting Professorship at ISSP, Tokyo University (A.K. Arora)
2009 MRSI Medal for significant contributions to the field of materials science (B.V.R. Tata)
2008 Prof. O. Prabhakar Endowement Prize in ISRS, IIT Chennai (J. Brijitta)
2007 Best Poster Award in the 52nd DAE Solid State Physics Symposium (B.V.R. Tata)
2005 Prof. Y.T. Thathachari Prestigious Research Award for Science for providing
"Explanation of pressure-induced amorphization” (A.K. Arora)
2002 Kalpakkam Science & Technology Award in Basic Sciences for a unified model of
"Pressure- induced amorphization and decomposition” (A.K. Arora)
2001 Invited for lecture at International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" in the Course147) on
'High Pressure Phenomena' at Verrenna Italy (A. K. Arora)
1998 Tamilnadu Scientists Award in chemical sciences for
"Collodial crystal properties leading to optical devices" (R. Kesavamoorthy)
1998 IUMRS-ICA-98 Young Research Award in the Int. Conf. in Asia (B.V.R. Tata)
1995 Kalpakkam Science and Technology award in basic sciences for
"Instability of colloidal crystal at air-water interface" (R. Kesavamoorthy, C. Babu Rao)
1993 Kalpakkam Science & Technology Award in basic Science for the discovery of
"Vapour liquid condensation in charged colloids" (B.V.R. Tata, M .Rajalakshmi & A.K. Arora)