{"id":19,"date":"2018-09-05T23:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/siyath-gunewardene\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-10-26T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:43:11","slug":"awards-and-grants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/siyath-gunewardene\/awards-and-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Research Council &#8211; NRC 20-055: Development of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy(SERS) methods for in-situ detection of hazardous pesticides combined with portable technology <\/span><b>(2021-25) Amount: 5 Million LKR (as Principal Investigator)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AHEAD Development Orient Research Grant: Development of a Raman spectroscopy facility for biofluid based disease diagnostics: with an application for early stage detection of CKDu <\/span><b>(2019-23) Amount: 40 Million LKR (as Principal Investigator)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Research Council-NRC 16-094: Metal oxide nanocomposites supported on reduced graphene oxide for enhanced photocatalytic reactions <\/span><b>(2016-19) Amount: 5 Million LKR (as Co-Investigator)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of Colombo Research Grant-AP322014RG08: Fabrication and characterization of nanostructured semiconductor thin films using electrochemical deposition for low cost and high sensitive gas sensing applications.<\/span><b> (2014-17) Amount: 3 Million LKR (as Co-Investigator)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AHEAD ELTA-ELSE, Department of Physics, University of Colombo Grant: <\/span><b>(2019-2023) Amount: 18 Million LKR (as the Coordinator)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of Colombo Infrastructure Development Grant: \u201cDevelopment of office\/lab space for postgraduate research\u201d <\/span><b>(2015) Amount: 3 Million LKR (as the Coordinator)<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Research Council &#8211; NRC 20-055: Development of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy(SERS) methods for in-situ detection of hazardous pesticides combined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/siyath-gunewardene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/siyath-gunewardene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/siyath-gunewardene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/siyath-gunewardene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/siyath-gunewardene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/siyath-gunewardene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/siyath-gunewardene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/siyath-gunewardene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}