Biography
Prof. Gurumurthy Hegde
Prof. Gurumurthy Hegde
Centre for Nano-materials and Displays (CND), India
Title: WASTE TO WEALTH BASED CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES AND THEIR EXCITING APPLICATIONS
Abstract: 
Due to ever growing industry revolution left tonnes of wastes into the society. Biowaste is one such waste which is abundantly available and needs to be tackled in the coming days. Lot of technology is devoted to converting biowastes to composts, electricity etc in place but converting biowaste into nanotechnology is always a fascinating field of research. Here in this talk, I am going to explain how to finetune the biowastes and then to convert them into porous carbon nanostructures. Emphasis is given to tuning the porosity and surface area of such structures. Special attention is given to applications like suypercapacitors, water purification, composite structures, catalysis using such porous nanostructures.
Biography: 
Dr Gurumurthy Hegde is working as a Professor CNR Rao Chair at Centre for Nano-materials and Displays, funded by BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru. He has published over 170 high quality publications with h-index 25 and more than 2000 citations. He also obtainbed ~20 patents and more than 2.1 million USD grant in his name. He received more than 60 International awards from various countries like USA, Japan, Germany, UK, South Korea, Malaysia, India, Indonesia etc. His area of research is mainly on carbon nanospheres obtaibned from biorenewable/biowaste precursors which can be utilized in the applications of energy/water/health. He also worked on liquid crystal displays related phenomena and photoinduced studies. He guided 3 post docs, 4 PhD students, guiding 6 PhD students, and several undergraduate and graduate students. He has vast experience of converyuign laboratory products into commercial products and he runs the startup company called ADINDISTECH PRIVATE LIMITED.