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Thursday, September 30, 2010

NIT PROFESSOR WINS JAPANESE AWARD

Tiruchi: Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the National Institute of Technology-Trichy, S. Anandan, has been conferred the 'Young Leaf Award" instituted by the Hiyoshi Corporation of Japan. He was presented the award in Chennai recently Tomonori Minowa,Consul,Consulate-General of Japan, Chennai.

Dr. Anandan is attached to the Nanomaterials and Solar Energy Conversion Lab at the Chemistry department of the institute. He has been actively engaged in research as well as training in areas such as environmental degradation of pollutants using solar energy and nanomaterials. 

The professor has published over 60 articles in internationally reputed journals and three chapters in books on environmental research.

Apart from Anandan, three researchers were also chosen for the Hiyoshi Environmental Award-2009 by the Tamil Nadu Centre of ABK AOTS Dosokai and Hiyoshi Corporation, Japan. 

The winners of the environmental awards included P.K. Bhattacharya of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur who won the 'Think of Ecology" Award and Dinesh Mohan of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, who received the 'Environmental Award'. Further details…..

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