Nanotechnology and advanced material – Breakout

1. Relevance and strength
Dr. Shehan de Silva
Senior Scientist/
Head – Strategic Planning
National Consultative Workshop on Emerging technologies 2015

2. Why and how do we select a project?
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Macro Trends
Delivery
Technology
Local Strengths
National level support is
best utilized in
developing unique
platform technologies.
The platform technology
in turn can be
commercialized in
various forms through
private enterprise

3. Possible area
Electro active Porous materials
Fundamental mechanisms: Piezo electric, adsorption,
etc
• New class of device
• Sensor
• Actuator
• Electronic storage/sensing mechanism for atoms!
– 10 - 1um electro spun fibres
– 1um – 10nm carbon/ ceramic / latex composite
– <10nm synthetic chemistry, biology
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4. Application areas
• Hydrogen Storage and recovery
• Controlled Breathable garments
• Breathable built environment ( controllable roofing
tiles)
• Water filtration
• Nitrogen sensing, other
crop specific sensors (reversible)
• Electronic drug delivery
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Electro active
porous materials
Global
Grand
Challenge
Example Roadmap for Nano materials
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