Awards & Honours
- Venus International Foundation awarded “Outstanding Scientist Award” to Dr. Srinivasan Anandan for his contribution and achievement in the field of Nanomaterials during 3rd Annual Research Meet held at Chennai on 11th November 2017.
- Ms. PM Pratheeksha, Senior Research Fellow won the “Best Poster Award” with a Cash Prize Rs.20,000 at the 9th Bengaluru India Nano Conference held on December 09, 2017.
- Dr. R. Gopalan received the ‘Rashtriya Gaurav Award 2017’ from India International Friendship Society.
- Dr. T.N. Rao was elected as the “Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences (TAS)” in recognition of his contributions to Science & Technology for the year 2017.
- Dr. T.N. Rao was elected as the "Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences” in recognition of his contributions to Science & Technology for the year 2017.
- Dr. Sanjay Bhardwaj was elected as the “Honorary secretary Indian institute of chemical engineers- Hyderabad regional Centre (IIChE-HRC) and Co-Chairman of Industrial Visit Committee, IIChe-HRC for the year 2017-18
- Dr. S. Sakthivel received the ‘Mother Theresa Excellence Award’ for his Meritorious service, outstanding performance & remarkable role in his research field at ‘National Seminar on Economic Growth & National Integration’ held at New Delhi, on May 27, 2017
- Mr. Sumit Ranjan Sahu received the "Best Session Paper" award for the paper presentation on "Synthesis of graphene sheets from single-walled carbon nanohorns" at the ‘In-house Symposium’ held at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai held during July 29-30, 2017.
- Ms. G. Sai Spandana (Dr. Joydip Joardar), received the ‘Best Paper Award’ for presenting a paper on “Development of 2D-Nanolayered WS2 Reinforced Aluminum Nanocomposites” at the ‘3rd International Conference on Recent Challenges in Engineering and Technology (ICRCET-17)’ held at Tirupati during September 12-13, 2017
- Dr. Nitin P. Wasekar was felicitated by Indian Institute of Metals Hyderabad Chapter for EMCR Fellowship during Annual General Body Meeting held at Hyderabad September 14, 2017
- Dr. Manjusha Battabyal received the ‘Outstanding Reviewer Recognition Award from Fusion Engineering and Design journal (Elsevier publication group) during November, 2017
- Dr. Sanjay Bhardwaj received the “Bharat Vikas Award” for loyalty, diligence and outstanding performance in the field of Science and Technology based Entrepreneurship at Bhubhaneshwar on November 19, 2017
- Dr. Srinivasan Anandan was conferred the “Outstanding Scientist Award” for his contribution and achievement in the field of Nanomaterials by Venus International Foundation during ‘3rd Annual Research Meet’ held at Chennai on November 11, 2017
- Dr.N.Rajalakshmi received the “Bharat Vikas Award” for her outstanding performance in the field of Clean Energy Conversion from Institute of Self Reliance at Bhubhaneshwar on November 19, 2017
- P. M. Pratheeksha (Dr.S.Anandan) won the ‘Best Poster Award’ for the poster presentation on “Large Scale Synthesis of High Performance Zero Strain Lithium Titanate for High Energy Density Li-ion Battery Application” at the ‘9th Bengaluru India Nano Conference’ held at Bengaluru on December 08, 2017
- Prithi. J. A, Senior Research Fellow from Centre for Fuel Cell Technology was awarded ‘Best Oral Presentation’ for the paper entitled ‘Nafion based composite electrolytes for PEMFC- Hydrocarbon based membrane’ at International Conference on Membrane Technology and its applications (MEMSEP-2017) held during 21st - 23rd Feb 2017 at NIT, Tiruchirappalli.
- Dr. S. Meenakshi, Middle level Scientist from Centre for Fuel Cell Technology was awarded Best Oral Presentation for the paper entitled ‘Operational experiences of PEMFC stack with combined heat and water – Humidity perspective’ at the International Conference on Membrane Technology and its applications (MEMSEP-2017) held during 21st - 23rd Feb 2017 at NIT, Tiruchirappalli.
- Dr.N.Rajalakshmi, Team leader, Centre for Fuel Cell Technology, received Bharat Vikas Award for her Loyalty, diligence and outstanding performance in the field of clean energy conversion on the occasion of National Seminar Diversity of Culture and social environment, on 19th November 2017, Bhubaneswar, India
- Ms. PM Pratheeksha, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Nanomaterials, won the 'Best Poster Award' with a Cash Prize of Rs. 20,000/- at the 9th Bengaluru India Nano Conference held on December 09, 2017
- Dr. R Gopalan, Associate Director, ARCI has been conferred with 'The Best Citizens of India Award 2017' by International Publishing House.
- Dr. R Gopalan, Associate Director-ARCI has been presented with 'Rashtriya Gaurav Award' for meritorious services, outstanding performance and remarkable role by India International Friendship Society at a Seminar on Economic Growth & National Integration at New Delhi on May 27, 2017.
- Dr. Sanjay Bhardwaj received the 'Bharat Vikas Award' for 'Loyalty, Diligence & Outstanding Performance in the Field of Science & Technology based Entrepreneurship' on November 19, 2017 at Bhubaneswar.
- Dr. Srinivasan Anandan, Scientist 'D', Centre for Nanomaterials, has been conferred upon the award of Outstanding Scientist for the contribution and achievement in the field of Nanomaterials by Venus International Foundation, Chennai on November 11, 2017.
- Aswin Bob Ignatius, M.Tech. Project Student (Dr R. Subasri), Centre for Sol-Gel Coatings, was awarded the Best Paper titled Effect of Shot-Peening on the Adhesion of Chitosan-Based Multifunctional Sol-Gel Coatings on SS 304, authored by Aswin Bob Ingatius, S Pradheebha, V.K. Manoaharan and R. Subasri, for his oral presentation at the "National Conference on Advances in Micro and Nano Electronics " NCAMNE 2017 , PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, 27 th - 28 th April, 2017
- Swapnil H. Adsul Senior Research (Dr. R. Subasri) was awarded the "Best Paper of the Session" for the poster presentation titled "Corrosion Behavior Study of Nanoclay-based Sol-gel Coatings on Mg Alloy AZ91D" in the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (IMME 17) at NIT Trichy held during March 10-12, 2017.
- Mr.T.Ramesh (Dr.N.Rajalakshmi) received the 'Best Oral Presentation Award' for the paper on "Hierarchically Porous Carbon Derived from Agricultural Resource for High Power Super Capacitor Application" at the 'International Conference on Nano Science and Nanotechnology’ held at Allahabad during March 01-03, 2017.
- Dr. Nitin P. Wasekar received the 'Best Paper of the Session Award for Poster Presentation' on "Effect of Silicon Carbide on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Pulsed Electrodeposited Nickel Tungsten Composite Coating" at the 'International Conference on Emerging Trends in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering (IMME17)' held at NIT Tiruchirappalli during March 10-12, 2017
- Dr. Malobika Karanjai was nominated as an 'External Committee Member of Women Complaint Cell' of Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad on March 21, 2017
- Dr. Malobika Karanjai was elected as 'Governing Council Member' of 'Powder Metallurgy Association of India (PMAI)' for the years 2017-2019