UTP’s Mohd Khairul Anuar wins National Technologist Science Award 2021

IPOH - Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) researcher Mohd Khairul Anuar Jamaluddin has won the National Technologist Science Award 2021 from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Mosti).

He received a commendation for his research works on Cellulose Nanofibres from Palm Bio-waste as Separator Membrane for Electric Double Layer Capacitor (EDLC) whereby palm bio-waste (empty fruit bunch) is utilised as an alternative to paper to develop separators for the EDLC.

The use of bio-waste helps to reduce or delay the consumption of natural resources and the amount of waste generated, making it a greener and sustainable alternative material for separators in EDLC to replace commercial paper separators made from trees.

For his success, he received a RM10,000 cash prize, a certificate and a trophy from Mosti secretary-general Datuk Zainal Abidin Abu Hassan and Mosti deputy secretary-general (planning and culture of science) Dr Nagulendran Kangayatkarasu.

Mohd Khairul Anuar acknowledged that the research and laboratory facilities in UTP played a major role in his research, notably the research environment and the culture of innovation and creativity in the university which are conducive for new findings and breakthrough inventions.

"This research and accomplishment are a team effort, and I have been extremely fortunate to be working with the great minds in UTP - from the principal investigators, project leaders and academicians, to my fellow technologists. It would not have been possible without all these supporting factors and features,” he said in a statement.

UTP said that the university promotes increased excellence and creativity in addition to intensified efforts to assist the nation's development of research in science and technology. - BERNAMA