IIT Roorkee wins national award for outstanding research on citizen-centric services – Education News

IIT Roorkee researchers led by Prof. Dharmendra Singh have won the national award called the National Gold Award for e-governance for ‘Outstanding Research on Citizen-Centric Services by Academic/Research Institutions’.

The Covid-19 period has spurred various institutes around the world to come up with many different kinds of solutions for various problems being faced by common people. The IIT Roorkee team won the award for the development of e-waste-based microwave absorbing material for electromagnetic shielding and stealth applications.

“This development has applications in both civilian and military domains. We hope it will contribute towards the goal of Aatmanirbhar Bharat in the area of defence technology,” said Prof Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee.

Radar absorbing materials (RAMs) are indispensably required to control EM pollution and for advanced engineering requirements in military stealth applications.

Shedding light on the technology of this material and its application, Prof. Dharmendra Singh said,“Considering the different applications of Microwave Absorbing Materials (MAMs) in the civil and defence sector, there is a vital need for cost-effective synthesis and fabrication of effective microwave absorbers using low-cost raw materials and less complex fabrication techniques.

“Thereby, the proposed solution is to provide an alternative option to develop wideband (frequency: 1-18 GHz) MAMs using e-waste having the properties defined by the end users,” he said.

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