Two assistant researchers at NANOTEC received the Poster Award during NanoThailand 2012 in Khon Kaen province. The researchers are Miss Kanpitcha Jitramitmonkon from Organic Nanomaterial Lab for her research paper “Ion Effect of Silver Nanowires Growth” and Miss Sudarat Pookboonmee from Hybrid Nanostructure and Nanocomposite Lab for her research paper on “Studying Efficiency of gas chromatography toward silver-titania-modified bamboo charcoal in the odor removal applications”. The award included cash prize and certificate.

“Among all the nanowires, silver (Ag) nanowires have been used continually in an area of active research due to the high electrical and thermal conductivities of bulk silver” said Kanpitcha. “Therefore, silver nanowires are an important material in many fields, including electronics and catalysis. In this research, the synthetic procedure was developed by using Cu(II), Ni(II), K(I) and Na(I) to control growth of the silver nanowires in the presence of poly(vinylpyrrolidone)(PVP)”.

 “As for me, I am fascinated with the use of gas chromatography (GC) to investigate the decrease of an odor model, isoamyl acetate vapor (banana-like flavor), by the adsorption ability of Ag/TiO2/BC, comparing to those of BC and TiO2/BC is a followup research” said Sudarat. “Prior to this, we combined antibacterial, photocatalyst and adsorption properties to silver and titania-modified bamboo charcoal (Ag/TiO2/BC), which was successfully fabricated. Further studies using dark condition and with or without the as-prepared samples are currently underway”.

NANOTEC encourages upcoming researchers and assistant researchers to submit and participate in scientific poster presentations in order to gain exposures, networks, and opportunity to exchange knowledge with peers.