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I am currently pursuing a PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and I have designed over seven innovative research problems for my colleagues. Our products are patented and we are looking to commercize them. I am co-Founder of the start-up, GitiTech Pvt Ltd.
Nitish Singh - Indian, Asia and the Pacific
2019 Winner | Student | Indian
Our gecko- inspired reusable paper can be used for more than 100 cycles of writing or printing followed by erasing with no change in quality, unveiling a great potential to reduce inefficient use of conventional paper. The surface allows one to write on it using conventional pens, ball-point, sketch pen and marker pen, and even conventional laser jet and inkjet printers. The ink can be removed by wiping with a wet cloth and the paper is all set to be used again. Manufacturing paper requires huge quantities of water: ~5 litres of fresh water for making only 1 A4 sheet. 5,000 hectares of forest is cut down every day to fulfil our requirements of paper.By 2020, global production of A4 sheets is expected to exceed 25 trillion per year, demanding 60 million hectares of forest, equivalent to the area of France, to be destroyed. Our novel rewritable and reprintable surface is made of environmentally benign and degradable material, unlike other paper-replacements till date, possessing serious environmental threat.
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ملحوظة: تمت مشاركة هذا المحتوى عبر الإنترنت لدورة برنامج أبطال الأرض الشباب لعام 2019 ولم يتم تحديثه. لا يدل هذا الإدراج ضمنا على دعم برنامج الأمم المتحدة للبيئة أو تأييده له..
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أبطال الأرض الشباب هي جائزة تطلعية مصممة لتحفيز طموحات دعاة حماية البيئة الشباب اللامعين.