The 9th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Materials Chemistry, ISMC–2022, is being organized jointly by the Society for Materials Chemistry (SMC) and Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, Mumbai, India, during December 7‐10, 2022. The symposium is supported by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). In this Symposium, it is planned to focus on contemporary research areas of materials chemistry relevant to DAE programmes. Deliberations of the symposium will cover the following topics:

• Nuclear materials
• Nanomaterials
• Carbon based materials
• Materials for energy conversion and storage
• Fuel cell materials and other electro-ceramics
• Materials for healthcare
• Polymers and soft condensed matter
• Thin films and surface chemistry
• Magnetic materials
• Catalysis
• Chemical sensors
• Organic and organometallic compounds
• High purity materials
• Hybrid materials and composites
• Computational materials chemistry