- Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Shri D V Sadananda Gowda, presented the 10th National Awards for Technology Innovation in Petrochemicals & Downstream Plastics Processing Industry to the Awardees at a function held on 23 February 2021 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
In 10th National Awards, 273 nominations were received, and finally 04 nominations have been selected as Winners.
Under the category of “Innovation in Polymeric Materials”:
Dr. Samir H Chikkali and Shri Ravindra P Gote, Dr Dipa Mandal, Dr Ketan Patel Shri Krishnaroop Chaudhuri, Dr C P Vinod, Dr Ashish K Lele – CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory, Pune- for “Preparation and scale-up of Disentangled Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene: A material 11 times stronger than steel”
2. Under the category of “Innovation in Polymeric Products”:
Dr. Smita Mohanty and Dr. Akshya Kumar Palai, Shri Sagar Kumar Nayak, Shri Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, CIPET:SARP, LARPM, Bhubaneswar- for “Indigenous development of polymer – ceramic based porous bed for separation of mixed ion-exchange resins”
3. Under the category of “Innovation in Polymer Processing Machinery, Equipments, Robotics & Automation:
M/s Shibaura Machine India Private Limited, Chennai- for “Multi Colour / Material Injection Moulding Machine for Anti-Counterfeit article production”
4. Under the category of “Polymers in Medical and Pharmaceutical Applications”:
Dr. LIZYMOL PHILIPOSE PAMPADYKANDATHIL, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala- for “Development of bio-active, radiopaque, non-cytotoxic, bone cement based on a novel in-situ polymerizable oligomer for orthopedic applications”