Science Faculty Academics win Presidential and NRC awards

Eight academics from the Faculty of Applied sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura was awarded with Presidential and NRC Merit Awards for Scientific Publication. This is selected by the National Research Council (NRC) of Sri Lanka and it is considered as the most prestigious award for a research publication in Sri Lanka

President’s Awards for Scientific Publication which started in 2001 focuses on  recognizing scientists whose work reached international standards and to increase national scientific production. This scheme covers all the “hard science” journal titles (excluding the social sciences), with a Sri Lankan institutional affiliation against at least one Sri Lankan author.

List of award winners 

Mr. P. Dias – Presidential Award
Dr. Lokupitya – Presidential Award
Dr. Ms. D.C.T. Dissanayaka – Presidential Award

Prof. M. M. Pathmalal NRC – Merit Award
Prof. Nissanka De. Silva – NRC Merit Award
Prof. L. Karunanayake NRC – Merit Award
Prof. N. Salim – NRC Merit Award
Dr. Ms. D.C.T. Dissanayaka – NRC Merit Award
Dr. Ms. M.N.S. Kottegoda – NRC Merit Award

Details of Research

Prof. L. Karunanayake NRC

Merit award was awarded from NRC for the following paper appeared in a science citation index cited journal

1. Synthesis,characterization, and metal adsorption properties of tannin-phenol
   formaldehyde resins produced using tannin from dried fruit of Terminalia
   chebula (Aralu), Araseratnem, S. and Karunanayake, L. J.App.Polym.Sci.,115(2): 1081 – 1088 (2010)
2. This paper has been cited in following papers already.
   1. Adsorption and desorption behavior of silver ions onto valonia tannin resin,
      Yurtsever, M., Şengil, A.I.,Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition) 22(11), 2846 – 2854, 2012
   2. Cytotoxic effect of tridham (TD) against human HepG2 Cell line: Isolationand characterization of 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid from aqueous extract of TD,Vijaya Ravinayagam, Ravindran Jaganathan, Sachdanandam Panchanadham, Shanthi Palanivelu, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG DISCOVERY AND HERBAL RESEARCH (IJDDHR),2(2): (2012), 371-385
   3. Synthesis and Characterization of Pyrogallol-Formaldehyde Nano Resin and Its Usage as an Adsorbent; Mustafa Can, Emrah Bulut, and Mahmut Ö zacar; J. Chem. Eng. Data 2012, 57, 2710−2717
   4. Synthesis and Characterization of Gallic Acid Resin and Its Interaction with Palladium(II), Rhodium(III) Chloro Complexes; Mustafa Can, Emrah Bulut and Mahmut Ö zaca; Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2012, 51, 6052−6063
   5. Bark extractives-based phenol–formaldehyde resins from beetle-infested lodgepole pine; Yong Zhao, Ning Yan andMartin W. Feng; Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology (Impact Factor: 1.09). 01/2012; DOI: 10.1080/01694243.2012.697689
   6. Synthesis and characterization of valonea tannin resin and its interaction with palladium (II), rhodium (III) chloro complexes; Mustafa Can, Emrah Bulut, Ahmet Örnek, and Mahmut Özacar; Chemical Engineering Journal 221 (2013) 146–158
   7. Removal of cations using ion-binding terpolymer involving 2-amino-6-nitro-benzothiazole and thiosemicarbazide with formaldehyde by batch equilibrium technique;  Mohamed A Riswan Ahamed, Duraisamy Jeyakumar, Abdul R Burkanudeen; Journal of hazardous materials (Impact Factor: 4.33). 01/2013; 248-249C:59-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.12.047.