Thai researchers win awards at Taipei inventions show
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Thai research on a technology that allows rubber products to maintain a fragrance for a year has won gold at an international event.
And Thai research on a paper censor that detects heavy metals won a silver medal at from last week’s 10th Taipei International Invention Show and Technomart.
Both endeavours were sponsored by the Thailand Research Fund.
The annual event, hosted by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council, promotes exchanges of knowledge in intellectual property and technology transferring. The four-day event attracts up to 30,000 visitors.
Its innovation expo attracted over 2,000 entries from the public and private sector while it featured 1,000 booths for companies and leading institutes.
This year over 15 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Poland and Thailand, submitted innovative works to be judged.
Thailand submitted two works, with both from Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Science.
The long-lasting aromatic rubber products was devised by Supasorn Wanichweacharungruang and Porntip Pan-in also received a special award from South Korea and the Leading Innovation award from the International Intellectual Property Network Forum.
The innovative portable censor for heavy metal detection was invented by Orawan Chailapakul and Royal Golden Jubilee programme PhD scholarship recipient Bhumrat Ratana. They also collected the Honour of Invention award from Taiwan.
The paper censors can detect nickel, iron, lead, cadmium, copper and chromium. It can be used in water and air-quality testing in industrial areas.
