Jan 16, 2017 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings plc filed its first patent jointly with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India, in the area of energy storage materials, the company said in a statement.
The patent application filed at an Indian patent office in December 2016 is related to a composite nanomaterial which could be used in energy storage.
The composite nanomaterial can be synthesized with raw materials found in Sri Lanka and has biocompatibility and low cost per unit of power stored as major advantages compared to similar materials.
The application was filled following a research project carried out in India at the National Metallurgical Lab (NML) based on an idea generated by John Keells Research (JKR).
NML is one of the research labs of CSIR-India located at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and JKR is the research unit of JKH working in the areas of Nanotechnology and advanced materials, Sustainable Energy and Energy Storage, Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology, Food and Water and Physics and Internet of things (IoT).
Dr. Muditha Senarath-Yapa, Vice President of JKH with a small team of young Sri Lankan scientists, spearheaded the initiative through which JKH has been exploring innovative ways of leveraging novel technologies to create value for the group and the country.
Commenting on this occasion Gihan Cooray, Executive Director JKH stated that he was pleased with the progress made by JKR in achieving this milestone in a short period of time.
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"There is a growing interest in energy storage materials and our research and development is critical to create new solutions that can have a lasting impact on energy storage devices," Susantha Ratnayake, chairman of JKH added.
"JKH endeavors to file and prosecute this patent application in all the relevant markets in the near future.”
Sri Lanka’s JKH files patent on energy storage nanomaterial
