Sri. C.Sreekumaran Nair, Consultant, Department of Chemistry, IIST received the 6th National Award from Sri.Ananth Kumar, Hon’ble Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India on 20th January, 2016 at FICCI, New Delhi for Technology Innovation in Petrochemicals and Downstream Plastic Processing Industry (2015-2016) for Innovation of Polymer Processing Machinery & Equipment, “ Novel Technique to Evaluate Biaxial Tensile Properties of Filled Polymeric Materials like Composite Solid Propellant”.