Advanced Nanomaterials for Clean Energy and Health Applications
30 high school students visited the laboratory for a demonstration and explanation on the emerging solar technology and research. Students were given demonstrations on supercapacitors using activated charcoal made by coconut shell, all kind of solar cells and its applications, fuel cell technology. The occasion was used to encourage the students to take up further studies in clean energy applications.
On the 19th October 2018, ANCEHA conducted a half-day research seminar at HVL. PhD Research fellows, visiting exchange students and two visiting professors from Sri Lanka and one post-doctoral fellow from CET participated in the seminar along with Professor Dhayalan Velauthapillai. Students, PhD research fells and the post-doctoral fellow made presentations of their research. Lively and stimulating discussion followed each presentation.
ANCEHA research group on the 18th October 2018 conducted a half a day workshop on clean energy technologies for the third year undergraduate students of the HVL. Prof Dhayalan Velauthapillai gave introductory lecture on the basic principles of the clean energy with special focus on the photovoltaic devices. Prof. Ravirajan Punniamoorthyn who was visiting from University of Jaffna gave a presentation on their research on clean energy technologies with special focus on third generation solar cells and the ongoing research collaboration with HVL under the ANCEHA project. PhD Research Fellow Håkon Eidsvåg followed it up with his work on computer simulations and basic principles about solar driven waters splitting mechanisms. Finally, Prof. G. Rajanya Asoka Kumara, visiting from NIFS, Kandy, Sri Lanka did a presentation with practical demonstrations on solar cell applications and super capacitors made from coconut shell.
PhD Research Fellow Haja Sherief attended the ‘Lean innovation in Life Sciences’ workshop held on the 17th to 18th October 2018 at Oslo Science park, Oslo (Norway) organised by Centre for Digital Life Norway collaboration with The Life Science Cluster, Catapult Life Science and Share Lab, Science for Society and Digital Life Norway Research School.
Professor Ravirajan Punniamoorthy and Professor G. Rajanya Asoka Kumara were invited by Professor Dhayalan Velauthapillai to HVL. Both Scholars arrived at Bergen on the 16th October 2018. Both of them took part in a seminar conducted for Undergraduate students and the students were given demonstrations on solar cells. The scholars also the met the Rector of the HVL and also participated in a half a day research seminar conducted for the ANCEHA group including research fellows, exchange students, and scholars from CIT.
Bi-Monthly ANCEHA meeting took place on the 12th October. Gz. MeeNilankco Theiventhran presented a revised version of his paper, which he presented at the Regional Innovation Conference 2018. The tile of his presentation was ‘Dynamics of energy transition and innovation: The question of equity’. The presentation is attached herewith.
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Prof. Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Coordinator of the ANCEHA instructed all the members to submit an abstract for the upcoming International Conference in Jaffna. He also informed that a delegation from Sri Lanka will visit Norway next week and instructed everyone to prepare a presentation for 10 minutes on his or her progress on the 19th October.
The presentation on 27th of September was done by Asitha Udayanga Malikaramge on the topic of “Preperation and characterization of Photon upconversion catalyst for photo water splitting hydrogen production” .In this presentation the current progress , the problems occurred and the future works were discussed .
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Later MeeNilankco Theiventhran shared his experiences and thoughts from his visit to the University of South Eastern Norway. Prof. Dhayalan introduced the flayer for the conference and requested everyone to share the information widely.
MeeNilankco Theiventhran (Ph.D. Research Fellow) delivered a talk at the Research seminar on human rights in Sri Lanka organised by the University of South Eastern Norway on the 25th of
September at the Drammen Campus. The title of the talk was ‘Rights-based questions: Technology transfer in transitional societies’. The talk based three fundamental questions. First, why we should ask rights based questions in technology transfer. Second Why transitional societies need special attention when it comes to technology transfer and the final question was can the gap between rights and needs bridged since transitional societies have a lot of needs and fulfilling the needs creates rights based questions.
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PhD candidates and the Project leader had their first meeting after the summer vacation. It was decided to host the meeting every two weeks and discuss the progress individually and collectively.
The upcoming International conference in Jaffna, Sri Lanka were discussed and the roles and responsibilities were shared. The website for the project group is in progress and everyone was
asked to contribute to building the website and Thamilselvan was given the overall responsibility to oversee the website.
Three Sri Lankan students have been undergoing research training at HVL. Siva Uthayaraj from the Department of Physics, University of Jaffna arrived on the 24th July, Asitha Udayanga Malikaramge from the Post Graduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya arrived on 14th August, Rajaramanan Tharmakularasa, Department of Chemistry, University of Jaffna arrived on 5th of October 2018. They are conducting research at HVL under Professor Dhayalan Velauthapillai.