Mukhopadhyay is moving to beforehand sodium-ion artillery technologies done caller breakthroughs successful materials science. (File Photo)
Professor Amartya Mukhopadhyay from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay is among 3 scientists from India selected arsenic winners of 2024 variation of the Tata Transformation Prize.
While Mukhopadhyay has been selected successful the Sustainability category; different 2 winners are – C Anandharamakrishnan, PhD from CSIR–National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, who was selected successful the class of Food Security, and Raghavan Vardadarajan, PhD from Indian Institute of Science successful Bengaluru, awarded successful the Healthcare category.
Each victor volition person Rs 2 crore (approximately $240,000) and volition beryllium honored astatine a ceremonial successful Mumbai successful December 2024, announced Tata Sons and the New York Academy of Sciences, connected Monday.
The Tata Transformation Prize was established successful 2022 by Tata Sons, and is powered by the NYAS, to enactment innovative technologies that code India’s astir important challenges.
The 3 scientists were selected from 169 entries from 18 Indian states by an planetary assemblage of starring experts including distinguished scientists, clinicians, technologists, and engineers from a divers array of industries, government, and world institutions.
The winners’ works
Mukhopadhyay is moving to beforehand sodium-ion artillery technologies done caller breakthroughs successful materials science.
His artillery prototype is astir 30 per cent cheaper than lithium-ion batteries, operates successful a broader somesthesia range, and is safer to store by creating air-and water-stable sodium-transition metallic oxide cathodes and alloy-based anodes.
Anandharamakrishnan has pioneered a assortment of atom fortified with aggregate indispensable nutrients that simultaneously has a debased glycemic scale (GI) to power humor sweetener levels successful diabetics. He has developed precocious nutrient technologies specified arsenic a three-fluid nozzle spray drying process to efficiently encapsulate and present these nutrients successful reconstituted rice.
Dr. Raghavan is moving to make a cost-effective Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine which volition supply wide and longer-lasting extortion against RSV corruption which causes terrible respiratory illness.