The 500MHz Bruker solid-state NMR, funded by DST-FIST has been recently installed in the CIF and inaugurated by our honourable director Prof. J.N.Moorthy. The 500 MHz has the latest console with three RF channels, capable of double and triple resonance solid-state NMR experiments. The probes can be tuned to multiple heteronuclei, including 13C,15N,31P, 29Si, 51V etc.