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Nagaland Univ Research Scholar gets Fellowship grant from Norwegian Embassy for battery innovation

Chennai, May 12 (UNI) A Nagaland University Research Scholar Dipankar Hazarika has
won Fellowship Grant from the Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi for his Research on
Battery Technologies.
This innovation could play a critical role in enabling flexible, wearable, and sustainable
electronic devices and support India’s goal for clean and safe energy storage technologies.
IIT Madras’ Energy Consortium will provide mentorship and entrepreneurial guidance from
national experts as part of this Fellowship with focus on technology readiness scaling, product
translation, and real-world deployment, according to IIT-Madras.
Such indigenous innovative solutions that directly empower local communities in Battery and
Energy Technologies are vital for India to achieve its commitment to achieving net-zero emissions
by 2070.
Batteries hold immense potential to transform energy access and resilience at community level,
offering sustainable, scalable solutions for rural development, energy equity and livelihood
enhancement.
His work has already achieved laboratory-scale validation and an Indian patent has been filed to
protect the innovation.
He has already developed a lab-scale prototype, which exhibited excellent physicochemical and
electrochemical performance including high-rate capability, high areal capacitance and a remarkable
cycle life of 51,500 cycles at 2 mAcm-2 in an all-solid-state supercapacitor.
Dipankar Hazarika, who is currently doing his PhD research at the Laboratory for Polymer Materials
and Renewable Energy, Department of Chemistry, Nagaland University, said, “This Fellowship will
significantly strengthen my research by providing access to expert mentorship and opportunities for
industry linkage."
"I believe it will help translate my research into a product that contributes to sustainable energy solutions. Going forward, we are going to conduct performance testing under real-world conditions and seek industry collaborations for scaling up the product and taking it to the market so that country can benefit from this technology”, he said.
Dipankar Hazarika is one of the only 13 innovators in the country to be selected for this Fellowship Grant.
His initiative is being implemented in collaboration with Innovation Norway, NITI Aayog (Government of India), The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), and Atal Incubation Centers (AICs).
The regional host for the North East is AIC-SMUTBI (Atal Incubation Center - Sikkim Manipal University Technology Business Incubation), led by Prof. Tej Chingtham, CEO of AIC-SMUTBI.
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