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Two of the faculty members of SRM University-AP have been awarded research grants by the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
In a statement on Saturday, the university authorities said the duo, Ranjit Thapa, Professor of Physics, and Mahesh Kumar Ravva, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, have received the first year grants of ₹28 lakh and ₹19.92 lakh respectively to work on their projects.
Prof. Thapa’s project titled ‘Catalysts for CO2 Reduction to C2 Product: Descriptor to Database’, is about searching the best catalyst to convert CO2 into useful product and thus solve the problem of climate change due to large-scale production of CO2, through different sources.