S. Vishnu Sharma
IIT Madras Faculty 2020, it is a moment of pride for the prestigious institution as its faculty Professor T. Pradeep has been chosen for the Nikkei Asia Prizes 2020 in ‘Science and Technology’ category.
IIT Madras Faculty was accorded this honour in recognition of his pioneering work in nanotechnology-based water purification. It must also be remembered that Professor Pradeep is also a Padma Shree awardee.
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More than one crore Indians have benefited from the research undertaken by the Research Group led by IIT Madras Faculty Professor Pradeep and Deepak Parekh Institute Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras.
It is interesting to note that Professor T. Pradeep is credited with developing nanotechnology-enabled water filters. This has helped to deliver clean water for at a cost of just 2 paisa per litre in India.
IIT Madras Faculty 2020
Nikkei Asia Prizes are conferred on individuals who have contributed to the region’s sustainable development and to the creation of a better future in Asia.
They are awarded annually in three areas – Economic and Business Innovation, Science and Technology and Culture and Community.
Praising IIT Madras Faculty, IIT Madras Director Bhaskar Ramamurthi said Professor Pradeep has brought laurels to himself, his research team, the Institute and the country.
Apart from the excellent scientific research pursued by the group led by him, Professor Pradeep is making a huge contribution in the very critical area of clean water.
The Institute is proud of the excellent work done by him and his team, said Ramamurthi. Thanking the Institute for nominating him, Professor T. Pradeep said his work is because of the intense devotion of his students.
The environment we have at IIT Madras, my funding agencies and my country. It has been my dream to do something for my country, he said.
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The prize includes a cash component of 3 Million Yen and an award certificate and is scheduled to be awarded in Tokyo later this year. First presented in 1996, Nikkei Asia Prizes has entered its 25th edition.
In the past, Dr. Manmohan Singh, Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy, Professor C.N.R. Rao, Ms. Kiran Majumdar-Shaw, Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, Mr. Nandan Nilekani and Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak were those to received this award in the past.
IIT Madras Faculty 2020 – IIT Madras Faculty has now joined the list of eminent personalities to win the prestigious award. Professor Pradeep and his team have developed affordable and safe drinking water solutions using nanomaterials, from bench scale science to commercial products, creating knowledge, technology and wealth for social good, simultaneously.
IIT Madras Faculty Pradeep has demonstrated that completely home-grown nanotechnology, from excellent science to relevant technology is possible in our institutions, with limited resources available from research grants, in the process transforming students to entrepreneurs.
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To expand the reach of these technologies globally and to conduct additional research, multiple companies have been incubated, which secured venture funding.
Besides these activities, IIT Madras Faculty is an outstanding researcher and has won many of the coveted recognition of the country and abroad for contributions to science.
The most recent one is The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize in Chemistry for 2018. He is an author of over 470 scientific papers in journals and is an inventor of 110 patents or patent applications.
In addition to the work on advanced materials, he is involved in the development of affordable technologies for drinking water purification and some of them have been commercialized.
IIT Madras Faculty’s pesticide removal technology is estimated to have reached about 9 million people. Along with his associates, he has incubated five companies and three of them have production units.
His arsenic removal technology, approved for national implementation, is delivering arsenic free water to about one million people every day.
IIT Madras Faculty 2020 – Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) was established in 1959 by the Government of India as an institute of national importance. The activities of the Institute in various fields of Technology and Science are carried out in 16 academic departments and several advanced interdisciplinary Research Academic Centres.
The Institute offers undergraduate and post – graduate programmes leading to the B.Tech., M.Sc., M.B.A., M.Tech., M.S., and Ph.D., degrees in a variety of specialisations. IITM is a residential institute with more than 580 faculty and 9,500 students. Students from 18 countries are enrolled here.