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The first day of Bangalore INDIA NANO 2013, Asia's biggest annual nanoscience & nanotech event, organised by the Department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka under the able guidance of the Vision Group on Nanotechnology concluded with the presentation of Bangalore INDIA NANO Innovation Award 2013, Malhotra Weikfield Foundation Nano Science Fellowship Award 2013, Best Exhibitor Award 2013 and Best Poster Awards 2013.

6th Bangalore INDIA NANO Awards Presented

Bangalore, India | Posted on December 5th, 2013

The Award Presentation was presided by Prof. C.N.R. Rao, FRS, National Research Professor; Linus Pauling Research Professor; Honorary President, JNCASR; Chairman, Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India; Chairman, Vision Group on Science & Technology and Nanotechnology, Govt. of Karnataka, the dignitaries included Nobel Laureate Prof. Sir Andre Geim, FRS Kt, Regius and Royal Society Research Professor, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, UK. Mr. Srivatsa Krishna, IAS, Secretary to Government, Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology and (DPAR) e-Governance, Government of Karnataka, Prof. A.K. Sood, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Bangalore INDIA NANO Innovation Award 2013 was presented by Nobel Laureate Prof. Sir Andre Geim, FRS Kt, Regius and Royal Society Research Professor, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, UK, to RESIL CHEMICALS PRIVATE LIMITED represented by Mr. Ganesh Srinivasan and his team for the Technology: Antibacterial nanosilver synthesis technologies for textile products.

Malhotra Weikfield Foundation NanoScience Fellowship Award for the year 2013 was presented by Bharat Ratna Awardee Prof. C.N.R. Rao, FRS, National Research Professor; Linus Pauling Research Professor; which carried a cash prize of ₹.50,000/- each to:

Ali Hossain Khan - Senior Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Materials, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS)

Title: Highly Stable Luminescent Alloyed Nanocrystals for LED Fabrication.

Urmimala Maitra - Ph.D. Student, Chemistry & Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)

Title: O2 Evolution and H2 Evolution Using Simple Inorganic Oxides and Sulphides

K. Purushothaman CSIR - Senior Research Fellow Centre for Nanotechnology & Advanced Biomaterials School of Chemical and Biotechnology SASTRA University

Title: Fabrication and Characterization and Invitro Evaluation of Random and Aligned Nanofibrous Scaffolds for Esophageal Tissue Engineering

Abhijit Hazarika - Senior Research Fellow, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Title: Widely Tunable and Ultra Narrow Emission from Mn2+doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Dr Sunaina Surana - Senior Research Scholar, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR

Title: A DNA Nanomachine Maps Spatiotemporal pH Changes in a Multicellular Living Organism

Best Exhibitor Awardees 2013

Germany Pavilion - for Category: Content & Information

TATA Chemicals Ltd for Category: Interactive & Best Managed

Indian Institute of Technology Madras for Category: Creative Design

Indian Oil R&D for Category: Innovative Display

Best Poster Awards 2013

1st Prize: (₹ 30.000/-) Mr. K. Gopalakrishnan JNCASR

Title: Extraordinary Supercapacitor Performance of Heavily Nitrogenatedgraphene Oxide.

2nd Prize: (₹.20,000/-) Mr. Ranjith Ramachandran from Amrita Centre for Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine

Title: Flexible NANO-FIBROUS Polymeric Implant for Sustained Intracranial DUAL-DRUG Delivery Against Refractory Glioma.

3rd Prize: (₹ 15,000/-) Mr. P. Vineeth Mohanan from Indian Institute of Science

Title: Investigation of Vortex Domain Walls in Magnetic Nanowires with a Geometrical Defect

4th Prize: (₹. 10,000/-) Mr. Deepak Kumar Khajuria Al-Ameen College of Pharmacy

Title: Zoledronate Functionalized Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticle Formulation in Pharmacological Correction of Experimental Osteoporosis

5th Prize: (₹.10,000/-) Mr. Parth Dadhania from Indian Institute of Technology

Title: Development and Evaluation of Surface Modified pH Sensitive Curcumin Loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles for Colon Targeting.