Over 160 leading international and Indian Companies such as Indian Oil, GE Global Research, Sun Group, Dabur Research Foundation, HLL Lifecare, IBM India, Reliance Industries, will be participating in Bangalore Nano 2012.

This year the Bangalore Nano national award will be presented to Prof G U Kulkarni, chemistry and physics of materials unit and DST Unit on Nanoscience, JNCASR, at the inauguration function on December 6, 2012, for his tremendous contribution in the field of Nanotechnology. The selection was done by a special jury under the chairmanship of Prof CNR Rao. The previous recipients of the award have been Prof CNR Rao in 2007, Prof Dipankar Chakravorty in 2008, Prof Ajay K Sood in 2009 and Dr G Sundararajan in 2011.