AMTRON Foundation Day Video from April 4, 2020
Shri Mahendra Kumar Yadava, Managing Director of AMTRON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei4Mn_YIgXM&t=2240s
Transcript from phone by TedJ
28:00
The third thing which I was thinking about is that how we can actively participate in this moment of Covid crisis as because there is a serious shortage of test kits. There is a serious shortage of personal protective equipment (PPEs) and as you know, we already we have with us our two flow reactors lying with us in the Tech City. So last one week have been trying with this idea. Some progress has been made. We are kind of thinking that why not manufacture here nanoparticles, like gold nanoparticles or silver nanoparticles or carbon nanofibers, which we can make available to our, you know, locally. To make or strengthen the fabric or the meltdown fabric used equipment. We are talking to Health Department also and they have asked that if you can do some treatment using Nano for the polypropylene cloth material, which they are getting, so that either it's life is extended, or it is made more secure.
29:30
I'm thinking that we should take a target of about forty odd days because we already have a reactor. We have almost everything, other than chemicals and couple of other things, which we are lacking right now. We can put all this act together and if you want to do, we can start manufacturing gold and silver and carbon nanofibers. There is some mechanism which is required to be put in place, right now, for example input of one of the reactors, couple of, you know, things like Demineralizing plant and few things probably but these are within reach and if we decide we can contribute and also enrich ourselves in terms of our new experience, starting up actually our new system in the country as because to my knowledge there are not many people in fact what I could learn from one of the previous meetings on this occasion was that there are not more than one or two people who are capable of making uniform Quantum Dots or nanoparticles conforming to say 40 nanometers or 50 nanometers and we are lucky that we already have a reactor with us.
So we have an advantage. We have teamed with people like Quantum Materials Corporation of the USA. They are working on it and they are ready to help us achieve this target.
I am also going to move a proposal to the Mission Director of The National Health Mission Government of Assam that they allow us to start this initiative because we would need government support at this point of time in importing the various goods, machinery, raw materials, testing of these, you know, gold particles of silver particles and things like that. And if it all works out well, again, this is also, you know, a risky venture, but then probably we need to do something about it. We cannot just sit quite at this hour of need. If we can produce some nanoparticles, we will be able to help lot of health workers not only in this state but also elsewhere. So there is a big target, but I do not want to talk about it because this is a time of Crisis. Chances of failure also very high, while we may talk big, but putting even a fraction of that on the ground is going to be challenging.
33:00
The only good thing that I see is that we have already space. We also have part of the technology with us. We have to assemble the rest of it and start working. And in this regard we would like to ensure that some of us who are working on this project, they start putting in serious effort and probably you need to recruit a couple of experts, we are identified already. We have identified a couple of labs in Guwahati. They’re going to help us like IIST. We are also talking to one of the experts we are locally available. So all said and done, we are kind of working on a road map which is achievable and doable, that is one thing. And if you are able to make a mark at a little bit good for company. We will be making history. No doubt about it. But then this is the time when we need to be together regarding the time of Crisis.
Shri Mahendra Kumar Yadava, Managing Director of AMTRON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei4Mn_YIgXM&t=2240s
Transcript from phone by TedJ
28:00
The third thing which I was thinking about is that how we can actively participate in this moment of Covid crisis as because there is a serious shortage of test kits. There is a serious shortage of personal protective equipment (PPEs) and as you know, we already we have with us our two flow reactors lying with us in the Tech City. So last one week have been trying with this idea. Some progress has been made. We are kind of thinking that why not manufacture here nanoparticles, like gold nanoparticles or silver nanoparticles or carbon nanofibers, which we can make available to our, you know, locally. To make or strengthen the fabric or the meltdown fabric used equipment. We are talking to Health Department also and they have asked that if you can do some treatment using Nano for the polypropylene cloth material, which they are getting, so that either it's life is extended, or it is made more secure.
29:30
I'm thinking that we should take a target of about forty odd days because we already have a reactor. We have almost everything, other than chemicals and couple of other things, which we are lacking right now. We can put all this act together and if you want to do, we can start manufacturing gold and silver and carbon nanofibers. There is some mechanism which is required to be put in place, right now, for example input of one of the reactors, couple of, you know, things like Demineralizing plant and few things probably but these are within reach and if we decide we can contribute and also enrich ourselves in terms of our new experience, starting up actually our new system in the country as because to my knowledge there are not many people in fact what I could learn from one of the previous meetings on this occasion was that there are not more than one or two people who are capable of making uniform Quantum Dots or nanoparticles conforming to say 40 nanometers or 50 nanometers and we are lucky that we already have a reactor with us.
So we have an advantage. We have teamed with people like Quantum Materials Corporation of the USA. They are working on it and they are ready to help us achieve this target.
I am also going to move a proposal to the Mission Director of The National Health Mission Government of Assam that they allow us to start this initiative because we would need government support at this point of time in importing the various goods, machinery, raw materials, testing of these, you know, gold particles of silver particles and things like that. And if it all works out well, again, this is also, you know, a risky venture, but then probably we need to do something about it. We cannot just sit quite at this hour of need. If we can produce some nanoparticles, we will be able to help lot of health workers not only in this state but also elsewhere. So there is a big target, but I do not want to talk about it because this is a time of Crisis. Chances of failure also very high, while we may talk big, but putting even a fraction of that on the ground is going to be challenging.
33:00
The only good thing that I see is that we have already space. We also have part of the technology with us. We have to assemble the rest of it and start working. And in this regard we would like to ensure that some of us who are working on this project, they start putting in serious effort and probably you need to recruit a couple of experts, we are identified already. We have identified a couple of labs in Guwahati. They’re going to help us like IIST. We are also talking to one of the experts we are locally available. So all said and done, we are kind of working on a road map which is achievable and doable, that is one thing. And if you are able to make a mark at a little bit good for company. We will be making history. No doubt about it. But then this is the time when we need to be together regarding the time of Crisis.
